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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Masahiro Fujita, Saitama, JP;
Kazufumi Oyama, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 1/9418 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 1/9418 ;
Abstract
A robot is provided which comprises a body unit, plural component units connected to the body unit, a memory mounted on the body unit for storing unit information of each of the component units and a basic operation program, a control unit mounted on the body unit for controlling the action of the robot, and a memory unit detachably mounted on the body unit for storing application program of the robot. The control unit reads out (i) the unit information, (ii) the basic operation program and (iii) the application program, and controls the component units in accordance with the read unit information, basic program, and application program.