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A robot hand according to embodiments includes a holding unit, a bottom end, an optical sensor, and a reflecting member. The holding unit holds a thin-plate-shaped workpiece. In the bottom end, its leading part is coupled to the holding unit and its tail part is rotatably coupled to an arm. The optical sensor is provided in the bottom end and has a projector and a photoreceiver. The reflecting member is provided in the holding unit. The reflecting member reflects light from the projector, makes it pass through the holding area of the workpiece, and makes it reach the photoreceiver to form an optical path.

A method of determining a recording power used to record information to an optical disc, includes carrying out test recording which records predetermined data to a predetermined area of the optical disc to determine the recording power, and recording predetermined data with a power equal to or more than the determined recording power to an area adjacent to the predetermined area.

An object of the invention is to provide a bed which can surely detect the positional shift and heartbeat vibration of a bedded person while suppressing the increase of the cost and the degradation of the comfortability of a bed, and to provide a bed and an in-bed state detection method which can prevent the undesirable caught at the time of elevating the bed. In order to detect the shift of a bedded person, a ratio of intensities between output signals from first pressure sensitive sensor 21 and a second pressure sensitive sensor 22 each having a cable shape is obtained. These sensors are disposed along the lying direction at the both end sides of a bedding surface 15a on which a bedded person lies, respectively. When the ratio is in a range of a predetermined shift state set in advance, it is determined that the positional shift of a bedded person on the bedding surface 15a occurs. Further, a low-repulsion urethane layer is provided within a bed pad thereby to detect the heartbeat vibration. Furthermore, the elevational driving of the panel portion is controlled in accordance with the output form the pressure sensitive sensor disposed on a bed.

A safety belt includes a connecting member including a rope, an attaching portion connected to a first end of the rope and arranged to be attached to a body belt worn around a body of a worker, a hook connected to a second end of the rope, and a load detection portion arranged to detect whether or not a load is applied to the connecting member and to output a load detection signal. The safety belt also includes a control device that includes a receiver unit arranged to receive the load detection signal, a control unit arranged to determine a status of the worker or a status of the safety belt based on the load detection signal, and a notification unit arranged to provide a notification in accordance with control by the control unit corresponding to the determined status.

There is provided, at a low cost, an axial air-gap electronic motor capable of preventing a magnet from coming off and carrying out position detection more surely. In an axial air-gap electronic motor in which the teeth surface of a stator and the magnet surface of a rotor are arranged opposedly with a predetermined gap being provided therebetween along the axis line direction of the output shaft of the rotor, the rotor has a rotor back yoke arranged coaxially with the stator and a rotor magnet installed to the rotor back yoke so as to face to the teeth surface of the stator, and the rotor magnet is provided with an anchor magnet which is integral with the rotor magnet and is arranged on the back surface side of the rotor back yoke. The anchor magnet 36 integral with the rotor magnet 32 via a through hole 35 is provided on the back surface side of the rotor back yoke 31 of the rotor 3, thereby fixing the rotor magnet 32, and further position detection is carried out by the anchor magnet 36.

A current detection circuit of the present invention has a switching device 1; an auxiliary switching device 2; an offset voltage source comprising an offset resistor device 7 and a current source circuit 8; a compensation circuit, comprising a differential amplifier 4 and a compensation transistor 5, for adjusting the output current of the auxiliary switching device 2 so that the potential obtained by subtracting the voltage drop across the offset resistor device 7 from the output potential of the auxiliary device 1 is equal to the output potential of the auxiliary switching device 2, being configured that the detection level of the current flowing in the switching device 1 is shifted by an offset amount.

An exhaust gas purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine including a first filter and a second filter. The first filter traps particulates in exhaust gases from said engine. The second filter is provided for failure detection and disposed downstream of the first filter. The trapping state of the second filter is detected and a filtering capability of the first filter is diagnosed based on the detect trapping state of the first filter.

An autonomous moving apparatus moving to a destination while detecting and avoiding an obstacle includes a radar device for scanning a horizontal plane in its travelling direction to thereby detect a position of an obstacle and an obstacle sensor for detecting an obstacle in a space different from the scanning plane of the radar device. The apparatus moves to the destination under such control as to avoid the obstacle based on detection information from the radar device and the obstacle sensor from a detection output provided by a specific-configuration detecting element for detecting a present specific configuration from scanning information by the radar device. By providing such a specific-configuration detecting element that detects a specific configuration based on the scan information by the radar device that can accurately know about position information, it is possible to guess an obstacle having an upper structure, thus providing efficient avoidance.

A keyless entry device includes a plurality of antennas which receive high frequency signals, a high frequency receiver which reproduces data from the high frequency signals received by the plurality of antennas, an intermittent controller which changes over an operation of the high frequency receiver between a continuous operation and an intermittent operation in an interlocking manner with turning on or off of an ignition key of an automobile, and a data processor which outputs data as control signals, wherein when the ignition key is turned on, the keyless entry device is operated as the tire pressure monitoring device and when the ignition key is turned off, the keyless entry device is operated as the keyless entry device.

Provided is a drive control device capable of surely detecting, by a monitoring / controlling unit, an abnormality of a short circuit and a disconnection in a power supply circuit to an electric load, and of decreasing a load required for a quick response imposed on the monitoring / controlling unit. A switching element is controlled to open / close by a control output signal generated by a monitoring / controlling unit, and a determination storing circuit determines whether circuit opening and circuit closing have been correctly carried out and stores a result of the determination, and periodically reports to the monitoring / controlling unit. While the stored content of the determination is periodically reset, the determination operation is updated and continues. The monitoring / controlling unit does not need to immediately monitor the determination storing signal when the open / closing command is generated.

A belt type fixing device of the present invention includes a fix roller, a press roller rotatable in pressing contact with the fix roller, a heat roller accommodating a heat source therein and a belt passed over the fix roller and heat roller. A non-contact type temperature sensor is positioned in a sheet passing range corresponding to the width of a minimum sheet size and assigned to the heat roller while a contact type temperature sensor is positioned outside of the sheet passing range. A controller prevents the heat source from being turned on if temperature sensed by the non-contact type temperature sensor is short of preselected temperature B when temperature sensed by the contact type temperature sensor reaches preselected temperature A assigned to the non-contact type temperature sensor. A reflection type sheet sensor determines whether or not a sheet is present on the belt.

Provided is a self-propelled robot that can prevent damage due to dropping of the self-propelled robot and efficiently perform the operation on a flat surface. A self-propelled robot 1 that self-travels on a structure SP having a flat surface SF to perform operation on the flat surface SF of the structure SP, the self-propelled robot includes: a robot main body 2 in which a moving unit 4 for the self-travel is provided; and a controller 30 that controls movement of the robot main body 2. At this point, the controller 30 includes an edge detector 31 that detects an end edge of the flat surface SF, and the controller 30 has a function of controlling activation of the moving unit 4 such that a distance between the end edge of the flat surface SF and the moving unit 4 is maintained to a given extent or more based on a signal from the edge detector 31.

An object of the present invention is to provide: a spindle inclination detector capable of surely detecting spindle inclination with a simple configuration; and a machine tool including the spindle inclination detector. Spindle inclination detectors (41A, 41B) are equipped in columns (32A, 32B) of a portal bridge (24) of a machine tool (21). Each spindle inclination detector includes: a string (43) which hangs vertically with an upper end fixed to the column (reinforcement (32b)) and a lower end attached to a weight (45); a gap sensor (44) which is attached to the string to measure a distance to a front face plate (32a) of the column; and an oil damper (46). Moreover, a spindle inclination correction controller provided to the machine tool controls a Peltier device (42A,42B) attached to a rear face plate (32d) of the column, on a basis of an average distance measured by the gap sensor, and thus corrects an inclination of a spindle (28) due to the thermal deformation of the column by correcting thermal deformation of the column.

The invention provides a technique that makes it possible to surely detect an abnormality in normal operation of an antenna of a communication system for wireless communication with an RF tag attached to a management target article. The antenna is provided with an operation confirmation RF tag with which the antenna can always establish wireless communications when normally transmitting to the attached RF tag. The communication system transmits, from the antenna, radio waves for wireless communication with the RF tag attached to the management target article, and thus can determine an abnormality of the antenna on the basis of the presence or absence of a response from the operation confirmation RF tag.

A front side surface of a cover glass of a solid state imaging device is focused, and a front side image is captured. Next, a rear side surface of the cover glass is focused, and a rear side image is captured. The front side image and the rear side image are combined with each other to create a composite image. A first threshold value is set for each pixel in the composite image by dynamic thresholding. An image composed of pixels whose gray values exceed the first threshold value is identified as a defect candidate image. The maximum gray value of the defect candidate image is multiplied by a constant rate to set a second threshold value. An image composed of pixels whose gray value is less than the second threshold value is eliminated as a blurred image from the defect candidate image. Thereby, only a spot defect image, an allowable defect image, and a stain defect image remain in the composite image.

When a thickness sensor detects a corner fold in a front end part of the paper sheet being carried, a light sensor checks whether a break exists or not in the front end part. When there is no break, it means the thickness sensor does not detect a corner fold but a foreign matter such as a tape mending a break. When there is a break, it means the thickness sensor detects a corner fold in the front end part. When there is no corner fold, the light sensor checks the front end part. When there is a break, it means there is a corner break but no corner fold in the front end part. When there is no break, it is a normal state. Regarding the back end part, a corner fold is detected in similarly to the foregoing.

An image forming apparatus includes: a rotatable image carrier; an image forming unit configured to form a plurality of divided patch images, which is obtained by dividing a patch image for detecting a concentration of an image in a rotation direction of the image carrier, on the image carrier at regular intervals and form an image to be formed on a paper sheet on the image carrier; a concentration detecting unit configured to detect the concentration of the plurality of divided patch images formed by the image forming unit; and a controller configured to combine the concentration of divided patch images detected by the concentration detecting unit in chronological order and detect concentration unevenness of the image in the vertical scanning direction which is a paper sheet conveying direction of the paper sheet.

A microcomputer is formed of a CPU and a detection circuit and inputs sensor signals of a vibration sensor and a rotation sensor. The detection circuit includes an AD converter circuit for AD conversion of the sensor signal of the vibration sensor at a predetermined sampling interval, a peak hold circuit for detecting a peak value of the sensor signal, a RAM for storing the peak value, a counter for detecting a crank angle at a peak value detection time, and an angle calculation part. The microcomputer divides a pre-ignition check interval into plural interval units and checks the pre-ignition based on the peak value detected in each unit interval. The pre-ignition and the knock are checked by using different threshold values in an interval, in which the pre-ignition check interval overlaps a knock check interval.

An overcurrent protection apparatus for a load circuit can detect an overcurrent with a high accuracy without being influenced by a deviation ±ΔRon of the on-resistance of a semiconductor element (T1). Supposing that a ratio (R3 / R1) between a resistor R3 and a resistor R1 is an amplification factor m, a determination voltage generated by resistors R4, R5 is V4 and the average value of the on-resistance of a MOSFET (T1) is Ron, the overcurrent protection apparatus for a load circuit controls either a current I3 flowing through the resistor R3 or a current IR5 flowing through the resister R5 so that the output signal of a compactor CMP1 is inverted when a current having a value of (V4 / m / Ron) flows into the MOSFET (T1). For example, when the deviation ±ΔRon of the on-resistance has a positive value, either the current I3 is generated by subtracting a current proportional to the deviation ±ΔRon from a current I1 flowing through the R1 or the current IR5 is generated by adding a current proportional to the deviation ±ΔRon to a current IR4 flowing through R4. In contrast, when the deviation ±ΔRon of the on-resistance has a negative value, either the current I3 is generated by adding the current ΔI1 proportional to the deviation ±ΔRon to the current I1 or the current IR5 is generated by subtracting the current proportional to the deviation ±ΔRon from the current IR4.

A detection device for side collision of a vehicle includes: an outer plate of a vehicle side door; an inner plate of the side door arranged separately from the outer plate; a reinforcing member arranged between the outer plate and the inner plate and having a bending rigidity higher than a bending rigidity of the outer plate; a detection subject member provided by at least one of the inner plate and a member fixed to the inner plate; a sensor detecting a separate distance between the detection subject member and the reinforcing member; and a determination element determining that the vehicle collides with an object based on an output value of the sensor.

The motor control device includes plural motor current blocking units that, in blocking operation, individually block energization between plural motor driving circuits and multi-phase motor windings of a multi-phase electric motor and an abnormality detecting unit that detects a short-circuit failure of the motor current blocking units. The abnormality detecting unit causes one or more motor current blocking units of the plural motor current blocking units to perform a blocking operation during energization between the plural motor driving circuits and the multi-phase electric motor, and, during the blocking operation, detects a short-circuit failure of the motor current blocking units caused to perform the blocking operation based on current values of currents flowing to the plural motor driving circuits.

A touch sensor that includes a pressure detection sensor and a position detection sensor. The pressure detection sensor and the position detection sensor are sequentially disposed from an operation surface side of the touch sensor. The position detection sensor includes a dielectric substrate, first position detecting electrodes on a first principal surface of the dielectric substrate, and second position detecting electrodes on a second principal surface of the dielectric substrate. The pressure detection sensor includes a piezoelectric film, a first piezoelectric detecting electrode on a first principal surface of the piezoelectric film, and a second piezoelectric detecting electrode on a second principal surface of the piezoelectric film. The first and second piezoelectric detecting electrodes are disposed so as to not overlap the first and second position detecting electrodes.

A gaming machine includes a gaming table, antennas and a control unit. The antennas are arranged to placement areas formed on the gaming table. The antennas are employed to determine whether or not at least one gaming medium is placed on any of the placement areas. The control unit drives at least two antennas simultaneously so that a direction of magnetic field generated by one antenna is opposed to one generated by at least one other antenna adjacent to the one antenna.