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The present invention allows a robot to operate accurately while canceling an affect of pitch-axis, roll-axis, and yaw-axis moments, these moments being applied on the robot body during a leg-moving operation such as walking. First, by calculating a pitch-axis moment and / or a roll-axis moment generated on the robot body at a preset ZMP by set motions of upper limbs, a trunk, and lower limbs, motions of the lower limbs and the trunk for canceling the pitch-axis moment and / or the roll-axis moment are obtained. Then, by calculating a yaw-axis moment generated on the robot body lying at the preset ZMP by the calculated motions of the lower limbs and the trunk, a motion of the upper limbs for canceling the yaw-axis moment is obtained.

A landing shock absorbing device 18 disposed in a foot mechanism 6 of a leg of a robot, wherein an inflatable bag-like member 19 (variable capacity element) is provided at a bottom face side of the foot mechanism 6. The bag-like member 19 is constructed of an elastic material such as rubber. The air in atmosphere may flow into and out of the bag-like member 19 by inflow / outflow means 20 equipped with a solenoid valve 27, and the like. In a lifting state of the foot mechanism 6, inflow of the air into the bag-like member 19 is controlled, thereby controlling the final height of the bag-like member 19 in an inflated state to the height in response to a gait type of the robot. While properly reducing an impact load during a landing motion of the leg of a legged mobile robot depending on the gait type of the robot, stability of a posture of the robot may easily be secured, resulting in allowing a configuration to be lighter in weight.

A dynamic hip stabilizer utilized to reduce the risk of postoperative and recurrent traumatic hip dislocations. The hip stabilizer includes a pelvic girdle, at least one thigh cuff, and one or more elements for generating an elastic tensile force between the girdle and cuff. The girdle has an upper portion configured for defining an upper opening for the wearer's waist, a lower portion configured for defining a lower opening for the wearer's hips, and a posterior portion configured for engaging the wearer's lower back. The hip stabilizer further includes one or more elements for engaging the wearer's shoulders to limit movement of the girdle toward the thigh cuffs caused by the elastic tensile force, and one or more elements for stiffening the posterior portion of the girdle.

An illumination device for use with a firearm and a method of using the same are disclosed. The illumination device can include a gun grip cover configured to attach to a gun grip. The illumination device can have a first illumination element extending to the left of the gun grip cover and a second illumination element extending to the right of the gun grip cover. The illumination elements can deliver a spread of light to illuminate a large area. The illumination elements can be laterally adjacent to the barrel. The illumination elements can be controlled by a control switch positioned below the trigger.

An approach is disclosed that involves creating an updated master dental model of a patient's mouth after an implant surgery by aligning new postoperative oral scan data to pre-existing preoperative oral scan data that is more comprehensive (e.g., it includes bite registration). Before surgery a multi-piece stackable surgical guide set is created using the preoperative oral scan data. The surgical guide set is used to facilitate the surgery. After the surgery at least one piece of the surgical guide set is placed back in a patient's mouth and may act as a reference marker because it was created using the preoperative oral scan data, but is also part of the postoperative mouth configuration since it was used to facilitate the surgery. The affected portion of the mouth may then be digitally scanned directly or indirectly by way of a physical impression with the reference marker in place to determine the new characteristics resulting from the surgery such as new implant installation locations and orientations. The new postoperative oral scan data may be combined with the pre-existing preoperative oral scan data by way of the reference marker (since it is a constant between the two sets of scan data) without having to do such things as take a new bite registration, on which a new implant restoration can be easily created.

Method and system for synchronization of base stations in a mobile communications network, in particular for the purpose of a seamless handover, time information is transmitted, possibly on request, to the base stations from a time information server via a local area network. Since base stations which are involved in a seamless handover are generally adjacent, and the respective propagation times and / or propagation time fluctuations of time information differ only slightly in the local area network between the time information server and the base station when the base stations are adjacent, highly accurate synchronization may be achieved, especially for a seamless handover.

The invention provides automatic adhesive sticking equipment. The automatic adhesive sticking equipment comprises a frame, a front adhesive sticking mechanism, an overturning mechanism of an overturning core and a reverse adhesive sticking mechanism, wherein the front adhesive sticking mechanism, the overturning mechanism of the overturning core and the reverse adhesive sticking mechanism are sequentially arranged on the frame; the front adhesive sticking mechanism comprises an extruding device, a stepping conveyor belt, a secondary locating device and a daubing device, wherein the extruding device is used for transmitting a double faced adhesive tape and peeling off a backing paper of the double faced adhesive tape, the stepping conveyor belt is used for transmitting a core, and the secondary locating device is arranged on the stepping conveyor belt and is used for precisely locating the core; the daubing device used for laminating the double faced adhesive tape and the core is arranged outside a connector between the stepping conveyor belt and the extruding device, and the reverse adhesive sticking mechanism has the same structure as the front adhesive sticking mechanism. According to the equipment provided by the invention, the full automation of sticking the adhesive on the front and reverse surfaces of a lithium battery can be realized, and the production efficiency can be improved; furthermore, the precision of the equipment can be further improved by a color mark sensor, a secondary positioning device and the like; meanwhile, all parts can be precisely cooperated to realize the precise process of automatically sticking the double faced adhesive tape; in addition, the double faced adhesive tape and the core can be laminated by adopting a roll-sticking way, therefore bubbles can be effectively prevented in an adhesive sticking process, and the production quality can be ensured.

A liquid material is placed on a substrate as a droplet to form a film on the substrate. At least either one of a concentration of solids in the liquid material and a drying rate of the droplets is used as a parameter to control a form of a dried film of the droplets. Moreover, a first droplet is placed on a substrate, the first droplet is dried to form a dried film of a form in which a thickness of an edge is larger than that of a central part, and a second droplet is placed in a region surrounded by the edge section of a dried film of the first droplet to form a dried film of the second droplet. Furthermore, the liquid material is placed on the substrate as a droplet to form a film on the substrate, and a dried film of the droplet is formed by contracting the droplet.

In order to accurately and stably estimate the conditions of a running tire, a vehicle is equipped with a sensor-incorporating tire having, at an equal distance from the center in the axial direction of the tire, pressure sensors (11A, 11B) buried in a tread rubber positioned on the outer side in the radial direction of the tire belt layer of a tire tread portion and on the inner sides in the radial direction of tread blocks, the contact length LA of the car body side and the contact length LB of the opposite side of the center in the axial direction of the tire are detected by using the duration times of pressure values from the pressure sensors (11A, 11B) and a wheel speed from a wheel speed sensor (14), and the ratio R=LA / LB of the contact length LA to the contact length LB is computed to estimate lateral force generated by the tire, or the average contact length LAB which is the average value of the contact lengths LA and LB is computed to determine a load applied to the tire.

To synchronize communications system components coupled via a communications network, a time information transmitter is provided which is used to transmit time information, possibly on request, relating to the communications system components. The communications system components each have a clock generator, which needs to be synchronized, and a real time clock, where the clock generator both determines the transmission rate for communications data which are to be transmitted and prescribes the time base for the real time clock. In addition, the communications system components each have a comparison device for comparing received time information with a current time value indicated by the real time clock, and a clock frequency controller for regulating the clock frequency of the clock generator on the basis of the comparison result.

A wrapper folding apparatus of a packaging machine has a second wheel (10) for use as a folding turret. The second wheel (10) is supplied with a cigarette bundle and an aluminized sheet (S) in an inlet position. As this is done, the aluminized sheet (S) is folded around the periphery of the cigarette bundle, and lug portions formed by the peripheral folding are folded by the use of primary lug folding guides (36). Since the lug protions are kept folded by the use of holding guides (38) thereafter, they cannot be freed until an outlet position is reached. When the cigarette bundle is discharged in the outlet position of the second wheel (10), the lug portions on the end-flap side are folded by the use of secondary lug folding guides (46). After the folding, side flaps continue to be folded without allowing the lug portions to be free.

A method and reinforcing materials are developed for repairing underground water pipeline without excavation. The reinforcing materials, which have forcibly rolled to form a cylindrical shape is inserted into the pipeline. Then, it will be expanded to tightly seal the damaged or cracked inner wall areas of the pipeline. A series of guiding belts are employed for circumferentially mounting on the outer surface of the reinforcing materials to form a sleeve. Thus, it is smoothly inserted into the water pipeline by pulling one end. Once the sleeve is inserted into the pipeline, the sleeve is steadily expanded to seal and tighten the damaged area. Accordingly, the repair work is easily facilitated to seal the damaged area of the pipeline without excavation. The repair materials have formed as a simple sleeve with smooth inner surface for minimizing the finishing process, such as a cutting. Thereby, the leakage is efficiency prevented without disconnecting the water supply.

This method controls an automatic finishing machine using a robot with a tool through a model storage step, a data acquisition step, a calculation step, an error derivation step, a correction step and a machining step. In the model storage step, shape data of an unfinished work or data of a three-dimensional model is stored in a memory. In the data acquisition step, the tool is brought into contact with the unfinished work W, thereby obtaining measurement data. Then, in the calculation step, actual-position data on a comparative object point is calculated based on the measurement data. Subsequently, in the error derivation step, a data difference between the calculated actual-position data and position data on the comparative object point in the three-dimensional model is obtained. Thereafter, in the correction step, teaching data indicative of the position of the tool corresponding to the shape data of the three-dimensional model is corrected, based on the data difference. Finally, in the machining step, the finishing process is performed, while the robot (11) is controlled, based on the corrected teaching data.

A flexure mechanism for an interface device that interfaces a user with a computer system. An interface device includes a manipulandum physically contacted by the user. A five-bar closed-loop mechanism is coupled to the manipulandum to provide two rotary degrees of freedom to the manipulandum. The mechanism includes members coupled to each other by flexible couplings allowing rotation of the members. In preferred embodiments, four or five of the members are coupled together by flexible couplings that allow bending, thereby forming a unitary piece, where the couplings are oriented along axes of rotation of the mechanism. A senor senses a position of the manipulandum outputs a sensor signal, and in some embodiments actuators are coupled to the mechanism to output a force to the manipulandum in particular degrees of freedom. The manipulandum can be a joystick handle or portion of a sphere, where the device in one embodiment can be a handheld gamepad or similar controller.

A positioning system having a node (subject to positioning) transmitting a positioning signal; a reference station transmitting a reference signal; at least three base stations having a receiving part receiving the aforementioned positioning signal and the aforementioned reference signal; and a server connected to the base stations by a network;wherein the aforementioned server measures, using a clock signal and a signal shifting the concerned clock signal, the time difference with which the aforementioned positioning signal and the aforementioned reference signal are received by the aforementioned plurality of base stations as well as the frequency deviation with the aforementioned base stations;decides whether to carry out a correction with respect to the aforementioned measured time difference, on the basis of the measurement result of the aforementioned positioning signal; andcomputes the position of the aforementioned node, based on the aforementioned time deviation for which appropriate processing has been performed.

Provided is a broadhead for an arrow having a shaft with a shaft bore. The broadhead comprises a ferrule and a plurality of blade members. The ferrule has a mating end and a tip end with a plurality of convex ridges being equiangularly spaced around the ferrule such that the ferrule has a tri-oval cross section. Each one of the ridges has a blade groove formed therein for receiving one of the blade members. The blade members each have a base portion that is shaped complementary to the blade groove so that the blade member may be axially insertable into the blade groove. The broadhead includes a shank extending outwardly from the mating end and which is threadably engagable into the shaft bore. An O-ring mounted on the shank is captured between the shank and the shaft bore when the broadhead is secured to the arrow at the mating end.

A fiber laser beam processing apparatus is configured by a fiber laser oscillator, a laser power source unit, a laser beam injecting unit, a fiber transmission system, a laser beam irradiating unit, a processing table, etc. A portion of a fiber laser beam oscillated and outputted by the fiber laser oscillator is received by a photo diode for monitoring the power through a beam splitter. An output signal of the photo diode is sent to a laser power source unit. The power source unit receives the output signal of the photo diode as a feedback signal and controls a driving current or an excitation current to be supplied to a laser diode of a pumping unit such that the laser output of the fiber laser beam equals a set value.

There is provided a multilayer made up of: a support member 11 with first electrodes 3 including a plurality of electrodes arranged parallel to each other and the second electrodes 4 including a plurality of electrodes that are arranged parallel to each other so as to cross the first electrodes 3; a protective layer (a front member) 12 that is provided opposite one side of the support member 11 and with which a predetermined position pointing member is brought into contact; and a reinforcing material (a rear member) 13 provided opposite the other side of the support member 11. A gas layer (space) 15 is provided between the first electrodes 3 or the second electrodes 4 and at least one of the support member 11, the protective layer (the front member) 12, and the reinforcing material (the rear member) 13, thereby blocking electrical coupling paths that increase electrostatic capacitance C.

A device for closed-loop control of a plurality of state variables of a steam generator of a thermal power plant is provided. In order to achieve stable and exact closed-loop control of the plurality of state variables, a multi-variable control / controller controls the plurality of state variables and uses a linear quadratic controller for this multi-variable control / controller.

The invention relates to a thermoforming packaging machine with a top film forming station, the forming tool upper part and the forming tool lower part of which are disposed above a lower film transportation plane and via a traverse system connected to a lifting mechanism and where said lifting mechanism is disposed below said lower film transportation plane.

The object of the present invention is to provide a closed battery capable of rapidly releasing the internal pressure thereof and at the same time disconnecting the current to effectively prevent itself from temperature rising and exploding so that in such a completely closed battery it may assure the safety and reliability thereof, when the internal pressure is elevated due to short circuit, overcharge, reverse charge, or the like. A valve element 5 is provided with a slit 3 between the circumference thereof and a metal substrate 1. When the internal pressure of a battery is elevated, the valve element 5 is smoothly raised up together with a metal foil 2 from a bending fulcrum portion 4 to thereby cut a lead wire 6 or permit a braze portion 8 to detach from the lead wire 6, thus disconnecting the current reliably. Then, the metal foil which usually closes the slit formed around the circumference of the valve element 5 is allowed to burst stably and accurately at a prescribed pressure to thereby form a valve opening portion 7 so that the internal gas of the battery can be discharged.

A throw-away insert includes: an upper and bottom surface; two side surfaces; two end surfaces; a main cutting section formed from a ridge line positioned at the intersection between the side surfaces and the upper surface; a secondary cutting section formed from a ridge line positioned at the intersection between the end surfaces and the upper surface; an axial support surface supported by an insert pocket of a cutter body; and noses formed at the corners of the upper surface. The corner angles of the noses when seen from above are essentially right angles. The axial support surface is formed as a section of the end surface. The secondary cutting section is parallel to the ridge line at the upper end of the axial support surface and the bottom surface. The upper end of the axial support surface is positioned so that it is projected more in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the main cutting section than the ridge line of the upper end.

A method and device for determining a roll angle for occupant protection devices. Transverse acceleration and vertical acceleration of a vehicle are detected, and the roll angle of the vehicle is estimated on the basis of the detected lateral acceleration and the detected vertical acceleration, additional driving dynamics quantities, including a vehicle speed, a yaw angle and a float angle being determined, and centripetal acceleration being calculated from these driving dynamics quantities, formula, to improve the estimate of the roll angle.