372 results about "Third finger" patented technology

The invention discloses a humanoid flexible mechanism arm device which comprises five fingers which are driven by six motors. Modular structures with same structures are adopted on four fingers (an index finger, a middle finger, a third finger and a little finger). Special effects of finger coupling transmission are achieved by a manner that the one motor, a reduction gearbox, a transmission mechanism and a flexible body are comprehensively utilized on the modular fingers. A thumb is driven by two motors, a pair of duplex bevel gears and a cross-shaped shaft are applied on a base joint transmission system to achieve buckling and side-sway movements, and good transmission effects and arrangement of the thumb and a palm are achieved. Each finger is provided with three joints which include a base joint, a middle joint and a far joint, the speed ratio is close to 1: 1: 1, and the mechanical arm is enabled to be close to a movement pattern of a hand. The humanoid flexible mechanical arm device has the advantages of being large in fingertip output force and rigidity, compact in structural arrangement, high in humanization degree, stable in grab and the like.

A mobile communication terminal with dedicated keys for controlling an integrated functional component such as an audio player, in which the dedicated keys are situated at convenient positions for use. The mobile communication terminal includes a housing that accommodates parts which enable wireless communications with an external device and has an audio player therein. The terminal includes a control key assembly positioned on at least one lateral side of the housing to enable a user to operate the audio player. The position of the control key assembly assists the user in pressing the keys using his thumb, forefinger, middle finger and third finger. The position of the control key assembly also enables a wide auxiliary display to be positioned on the upper surface of the housing, e.g., on the outer surface of the upper housing.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a workpiece holding method which enables a workpiece to be held when a multi-fingered hand is used to grasp the workpiece that is in an untidy heap, even if a target workpiece is subject to interference from another workpiece, and thereby the method enhances the success rate for holding the workpiece. A workpiece holding method, when two holding devices (first to fourth fingers F1 to F4) are used to hold a workpiece (reinforcement W), including a unilateral holding process of inserting a first holding device (the first finger F1 and the second finger F2) at one holding device insert position (region A) to hold and lift a workpiece-to-be-held (reinforcement-to-be-held T) in a state where the workpiece-to-be-held has no interference from any other workpieces at the region A, and a bilateral holding process of inserting a second holding device (the third finger F3 and the fourth finger F4) around (region D) the workpiece-to-be-held lifted by the first holding device, to hold the workpiece-to-be-held.

A computer input device includes a housing having top, bottom, front, and back surfaces. The housing is adapted to be held in pistol-type grip with the bottom surface positioned adjacent a reference surface. First and second finger activation devices are mounted in the housing to be exposed on the front surface of the housing. A position sensor is mounted in the housing to detect through the bottom surface of the housing movement of the input device relative to the reference surface. Electronic circuitry in the housing is coupled to the position sensor and to the first and second finger activation devices. A third finger activation device may be exposed on the top surface of the input device, with the first and second finger activation devices being buttons and the third being a scroll wheel.

A clamp for securing apparatus such as end-of-train equipment to a railroad coupler head includes a first finger member that is mounted to pivot about a pivot pin in scissors-like manner between a fixed second and third finger member affixed to a housing, a threaded rod and cooperating piston for pivoting the first finger member away from the fixed second and third finger members, a rail member for abutting against an outside surface of the coupler head, and a crank and handle for tightening the grip of the first, second and third fingers on the inner surfaces of the core hole when the crank is rotated. The pivoting of the first finger member is accomplished by driving a pin through a slotted clevis defined in a first end of the first finger member, such that the pin moves within the slot defined by the clevis when the pin is driven in one lateral direction generally toward the fixed second and third finger members, thereby urging the clevis downward about the pivot pin and urging the opposing second end of the first finger member to move upwardly away from the fixed second and third finger members. In a preferred embodiment, end-of-train signaling and monitoring equipment is connected to the clamp for the railroad coupler head.

The invention relates to an underactuated humanoid dexterous robotic hand device, which is provided with five independently controlled modular fingers and has 16 freedom degrees. The whole hand is driven by 11 motors; the dimension and the shape are similar to those of the hand of an adult. Except for a thumb, the other four fingers have the completely identical structures; the thumb has one freedom degree of doing longitudinal rotation around the palm base; through the arrangement of a rotating shaft, when the whole hand grasps objects, the grasping force of the forefinger, the ring finger and the small finger on the objects can be in symmetrical distribution at the two sides of the middle finger; the grasping stability is improved. Modular fingers are used; the two motors are respectively used for driving a finger base part joint, a middle joint and a tail end joint; the middle joint and the tail end joint are coupled by a structure-variable connecting mechanism; through a connecting rod mechanism, the relative positions of the two coupled finger joints after the contact with the objects can be actively regulated, so that the fingers can wrap the objects according to the shape of the grasped objects; the self adaptability to the appearance of the objects is high; the grasping action better conforms to the human hand. The structure of the whole hand is simple; the grasping force is great; the grasping rigidity is high; the control is simple; the grasping self adaptability is high; the underactuated humanoid dexterous robotic hand device is applicable to the fields of disabled people artificial hands, explosive handling, nuclear equipment detection and humanoid robots.

The invention provides a display device and electronic device. The display device comprises a first sub-pixel area, a second sun-pixel area and a third sub-pixel area. The first sub-pixel area comprises a first main penetrating wavelength, the second sub-pixel area comprises a second main penetrating wavelength, and the third sub-pixel area comprises a third main penetrating wavelength. A first electrode width of a first finger-fork electrode in a first sub-pixel area and a first electrode interval of the first finger-fork electrode in the first pixel area possess a first specific value, a second electrode width of a second finger-fork electrode in a second sub-pixel area and a second electrode interval of a second finger-fork electrode in a second sub-pixel area possess a second specific value, and a third electrode width of a third finger-fork electrode in a third sub-pixel area and a third electrode interval third finger-fork electrode in a third sub-pixel area possess a third specific value. The first main penetrating wavelength is larger than the second main penetrating wavelength, and the second main penetrating wavelength is larger than the third main penetrating wavelength, the first specific value, the second specific value and the third specific value are almost the same, the first electrode interval is smaller than the second electrode interval, and the second electrode interval is smaller than the third electrode interval.

A handheld computing system for adaptive multi-sensor, a manipulator grip and its method is provided. A system includes: sensor systems for sensing characteristics of a physical object, the characteristics including at least one identifier; and a distance analyzer for dynamically determining the activation of at least one of the sensor systems based on a distance to the object and pre-determined criteria. A system includes: capturing systems for capturing characteristics of a physical object, the characteristics including an identifier and one or more attributes for contributing to identification of the object; a display for displaying the object's image, having an analysis field; and a zoom for placing a specific captured characteristic of the object in the analysis field. A method of capturing and identifying a physical object includes: capturing characteristics of the object via an optical path, a radio frequency path or a combination thereof, the characteristics including an identifier and one or more attributes for contributing to identification of the object; evaluating one or more available captured characteristics; and validating the identifier based on the evaluation. A handheld ergonomic data input device for operating a handheld computing device having a sensor, includes: an enclosure having a grip surface contoured to fit the palm of a user's hand and a support surface for mounting the device; a detection mechanism for detecting the movement of the fingers, including: a rocking switch having at least two states and operated by the first and second fingers; a single state switch operated by a third finger; and a squeeze switch operated by squeezing the grip with the hand. A handheld computing unit includes: a handheld computing device including: capturing systems for capturing characteristics including an identifier and one or more attributes for contributing to identification of the object; a processor for adaptively selecting the capturing system and validating the identifier with one or more available captured characteristics, a manipulator grip shaped for fitting the palm of a user's hand, for operating the handheld computing device with the hand, the manipulator grip including: a mounting surface for mounting the device; an entry mechanism operated by the hand; and an interface for transferring a signal associated with the operation of the entry mechanism to operate the device.

The invention discloses a manipulator for testing a capacitive touch screen. The manipulator for testing the capacitive touch screen is characterized by comprising a support mechanism, a transmission mechanism and a control mechanism, the support mechanism comprises a base, a vertical stand, a manipulator support mechanism and a moving clamp mechanism, wherein the transmission mechanism comprises a push rod mechanism and the like, the control mechanism is mainly used for having accurate control over the stroke and the position of a steering engine motor. The manipulator for simulating actions of fingers of a person is designed to be used for testing touch screen functions of a notebook computer with the capacitive touch screen and a tablet personal computer with the capacitive touch screen, and is flexible; with industrial application as a target, the terminal execution manipulator is designed on the basis of existing industrial grade equipment to simulate sliding of the first finger, the second finger, the third finger, the fourth finger and the fifth finger of a human being on the touch screen respectively so that the touch screen can be tested.

The invention relates to an exercise assisting device, in particular to an exercise assisting device based on the elongate pneumatic muscles, and aims at solving the problems that an existing exercise assisting device is complex in structure, large in weight, high in cost and poor in flexibility. The exercise assisting device comprises a glove, an air source, a control circuit and five electropneumatic valves; fiver finger cots of the glove are provided with a thumb pneumatic muscle assembly, an index finger pneumatic muscle assembly, a middle finger pneumatic muscle assembly, a ring finger pneumatic muscle assembly and a little finger pneumatic muscle assembly respectively, the thumb pneumatic muscle assembly, the index finger pneumatic muscle assembly, the middle finger pneumatic muscle assembly, the ring finger pneumatic muscle assembly and the little finger pneumatic muscle assembly are each connected with the air source through the corresponding electropneumatic valve, the signal receiving end of each electropneumatic valve is connected with the signal transmitting end of the control circuit, and the air source, the control circuit and the electropneumatic valves form a control and power system. The exercise assisting device is used for assisting hand exercises.

The invention discloses a motion capture glove for a virtual reality system and the virtual reality system. The motion capture glove comprises a three-finger fingerstall, a glove body, a wrist part and an optical mark; the three-finger fingerstall comprises a first inertial sensor, a second inertial sensor and a third inertial sensor which are respectively arranged at the second knuckles of a first fingerstall, a second fingerstall and a third fingerstall for the virtual reality system to determine the motion information of a first finger, a second finger and a third finger which wear the motion capture glove; the glove body comprises a fourth inertial sensor which is arranged at the hand back of the glove body, and is used for sending the motion information of the fourth inertial sensor for the virtual reality system to determine the motion information of a palm which wears the glove body; the wrist part comprises a fifth inertial sensor which is arranged on the back side of a wrist part, and is used for sending the motion information of the fifth inertial sensor for the virtual reality system to determine the motion information of the wrist which wears the wrist part; the optical mark is arranged on the back side of the wrist part for the virtual reality system to track to acquire an absolute position of the wrist which wears the wrist part.

The invention relates to chopsticks for learning, which comprise a first chopstick body and a second chopstick body, wherein the first chopstick body is provided with a third finger locating slot and a thumb middle phalanx locating slot; the third finger locating slot is arranged on the outer side of the first chopstick body, and the thumb middle phalanx locating slot is arranged on the front side of the first chopstick body; the second chopstick body is provided with a thumb first phalanx locating slot, a forefinger locating slot and a middle finger locating slot; the thumb first phalanx locating slot is arranged on the front side of the second chopstick body; the forefinger locating slot is arranged on the outer side of the second chopstick body; and the middle finger locating slot is arranged on the rear side of the second chopstick body. Since the third finger locating slot, thumb middle phalanx locating slot, thumb first phalanx locating slot, forefinger locating slot and middle finger locating slot are arranged on the two chopstick bodies, the learner can quickly master the positions of the fingers on the chopstick bodies so as to locate the two chopstick bodies on the hand, and can also master the cooperative actions and use force of the fingers, so that the learner can quickly know how to use common chopsticks.

The invention relates to a seven-freedom-degree five-finger mechanical arm, and belongs to the technical field of robots. The mechanical arm comprises a palm, five fingers, seven motors, a drive gear, a driven gear, a transmission shaft, a drive steel wire rope, a driven steel wire rope, three pairs of worm wheels, a worm, a hoop and a rolling cylinder. Any of the index finger, the middle finger, the third finger and the little finger has one bending freedom degree, the index finger, the third finger and the little finger have one swing freedom degree so that the three fingers can be unfolded or folded at the same time, the thumb has one bending freedom degree and one swing freedom degree, and the seven freedom degrees are set. By means of the seven-freedom-degree five-finger mechanical arm, bidirectional bending of the five mechanical fingers can be achieved, the index finger, the third finger and the little finger can be folded and unfolded, bidirectional swing of the thumb is achieved, and a precise grabbing task can be completed.

The invention belongs to the field of robot clamping jaws, and specifically relates to a self-adaptive under-actuated turning three-finger robot clamping jaw. The clamping jaw comprises a clamping jawshell, a drive module, a first finger module, a second finger module and a third finger module, wherein the drive module is installed in the clamping jaw shell and comprises a first drive motor, a second drive motor, a first power transmission system, a second power transmission system and three drive rods, the three finger modules are distributed circumferentially and are distributed at three sides of the top of the clamping jaw shell, each finger module comprises a finger base, a first finger section and a second finger section, the first drive motor drives the three finger modules to finish a grasp action through the first power transmission system, the second drive motor drives the second finger module and the third finger module to rotate along respective axis through the second power transmission system so as to acquire corresponding gestures of different finger modules. The clamping jaw can grasp a target object adaptively, has a large stroke, grasps stably, and has a graspingand self-locking function.

The invention discloses a dexterous hand of a robot. The dexterous hand of the robot comprises a palm, fingers, a tendon rope and an elastic rope, wherein the palm comprises a substrate, a thumb connecting joint, a third finger connecting joint and a little finger connecting joint; the thumb connecting joint, the third finger connecting joint and the little finger connecting joint are provided with round mounting holes, are connected to the substrate through a rotary shaft, and can rotate at a limited angle around the rotary shaft. The fingers comprise the thumb, the index, the middle finger,the third finger, the little finger, coupling fastening parts, non-coupling fastening parts and a tensioning device; the root knuckle of each finger is connected to the palm through a rotary pair; thenon-coupling fastening parts are mounted on the thumb root knuckle of the thumb and the far knuckle of the thumb and between the thumb root knuckle and the thumb connecting joint on the palm, the non-coupling fastening parts are mounted at the connections of the root knuckles of the rest four fingers and the palm, and three knuckles of the fingers are connected through two coupling fastening parts.

A finger guarding device, in combination a culinary finger guard plate, two finger guards upstanding from a side of the plate and having spacing therebetween to receive a user's middle finger to extend generally parallel to the plate, each finger guard having a finger retention portion overhanging the plate to provide adjustable spaces to receive the user's first and third fingers, between said overhang portion and the plate.

The invention discloses a parallel self-adaptive grasping robot dexterous hand. The parallel self-adaptive grasping robot dexterous hand comprises a base and fingers. The fingers comprise the first finger, the second finger and the third finger. Each finger comprises a far-end finger rod and a near-end finger rod. The first finger is fixedly connected to the base. The second finger and the third finger can rotate around the central axis perpendicular to the base. In the dexterous hand grasping process, when the near-end finger rods do not make contact with an object, the far-end finger rods linearly and horizontally move to parallelly grasp the object, and the object also can be grasped in a self-adaptive envelope mode according to the different sizes and shapes of the object after the near-end finger rods make contact with the object. Meanwhile, the positions of the rotatable fingers can be adjusted in a large range, so that a plurality of grasping structure states are produced, and the capacity to grasp different shapes of objects is improved. The parallel self-adaptive grasping robot dexterous hand is ingenious in structural design, small in size, few in driver, capable of automatically adapting to different sizes and shapes of objects, high in grasping capacity, large in range, stable and reliable.

The invention discloses an under-actuated self-adaptive mechanical arm, and belongs to the technical field of robots. The under-actuated self-adaptive mechanical arm can effectively achieve the purpose of self-adaptability to the shape and the size of a grasped object. A base is composed of a palm plate 1 and four fixed supports 2, a supporting arm 3 is vertically arranged in the form center position of the palm plate 1, the fixed supports 2 are arranged at the edges of the two sides of the two ends of the palm plate 3 respectively, and a sliding block 4 is connected with the supporting arm 3 through a cylindrical pair. Each first transmission rod 5 of a first transmission mechanism is connected with the sliding block 4 through a hinge, and each second transmission rod 6 is connected with the corresponding first transmission rod 5 through a hinge. Each second transmission rod 6 of a second transmission mechanism is a short straight rod, each third transmission rod 7 is an inequilateral right-angle rod, each fourth transmission rod 8 of a third transmission mechanism is an inequilateral right-angle rod, one end of each fourth transmission rod is connected with a corresponding first finger section 10 and a corresponding second finger section 11 through hinges, the right-angle part of each fourth transmission rod is connected with the corresponding transmission rod 7 through a hinge, and the other end of each fourth transmission rod is connected with a corresponding fifth transmission rod 9 through a hinge. The two ends of each fifth transmission rod are connected with the corresponding fourth transmission rod 8 and a corresponding third finger section 12 respectively. The under-actuated self-adaptive mechanical arm is mainly used for the robots.

The invention discloses a motion capturing glove for a virtual reality system and the virtual reality system. The motion capturing glove comprises three finger stalls, a glove body, a wrist part and an upper arm part, wherein the three finger stalls comprise a first inertial sensor, a second inertial sensor and a third inertial sensor which are arranged at second knuckles of a first finger stall, a second finger stall and a third finger stall respectively, so as to enable the virtual reality system to confirm movement information of a first finger, a second finger and a third finger wearing the motion capturing glove; the glove body comprises a fourth inertial sensor arranged at the back of the glove body, and is used for transmitting the movement information of the fourth inertial sensor so as to enable the virtual reality system to confirm the movement information of a palm wearing the glove body; the wrist part comprises a fifth inertial sensor arranged on a back side of the wrist part and is used for transmitting movement information of the fifth inertial sensor so as to enable the virtual reality system to confirm the movement information of a wrist wearing the wrist part; the upper arm part comprises a sixth inertial sensor so as to enable the virtual reality system to confirm the movement information of an upper arm wearing the upper arm part.

The invention discloses a 32-degree-of-freedom bionic compliant internal skeleton dexterous hand. The dexterous hand uses an anatomy structure of a human hand for reference, a hand portion is of an inner skeleton type, and the outer surface is suitable for being covered with a flexible bionic skin layer with a certain thickness; a joint adopts double-driver antagonistic type drive, so that the compliance operation and the robustness are both taken into account; a tendon coupling piece and a tendon sheath fixing piece are adopted, so that the hand portion and a wrist portion can be easily disassembled and assembled; metacarpophalangeal joints of five fingers all have convolution degrees of freedom so that the fingers can automatically and compliantly adapt to a complex curved surface; a carpometacarpal joint of a thumb has two degrees of freedom of bending-stretching and annular rotation, a metacarpophalangeal joint of the thumb has the degree of freedom of side sway, carpometacarpal joints of a ring finger and a small finger have degrees of freedom of bending-stretching and inward retracting-outward stretching, an opposing action can be performed so that complex pinching operationcan be executed; the axes of all the degrees of freedom of the multi-degree-of-freedom joint are orthogonal, so that control and motion planning calculation is facilitated; and the dexterous hand is very suitable for compliantly operating objects of complex shapes, so that production, disassembly, assembly and maintenance are facilitated.

The invention discloses an under-actuated highly-simulated finger integrating coupling and adaptive motion modes, and relates to an under-actuated highly-simulated finger. The existing under-actuated artificial finger is low in humanoid degree, poor in adaptive capability and insufficient in grasping force. The under-actuated highly-simulated finger comprises a base joint, a near finger knuckle, a middle finger knuckle and a far finger knuckle; a reducer casing is fixedly mounted on a base through a reducer casing mounting seat; the output shaft of a motor sequentailly penerates through the reducer casing and a bevel gear coupling and is connected with a first bevel gear; a second bevel gear is fixedly mounted on a worm and is meshed with the first bevel gear; a turbine sleeves an MCP shaft; the worm is meshed with the turbine; a third finger knuckle casing is connected with a second finger knuckle casing through a DIP shaft; the far finger knuckle sleeves the DIP shaft through a position sensor; a finger tip circuit board and a touch sensor circuit board are sequentially fixedly mounted in the third finger knuckle casing; touch sensor circuit colloid penetrates through the bottom of the third finger knuckle casing. The under-actuated highly-simulated finger is applied to intelligent robots.

The invention relates to a coupling underactuated integrated bionic hand device, belonging to the technology field of humanoid robots; the bionic hand device comprises a thumb, a forefinger, a middle finger, a third finger, a little finger and a palm. The device comprises five individually controlled fingers and fifteen joint freedom degrees and is driven by six motors, and the device realizes the functions of highly simulating the appearance of a human hand and grabbing action and is suitable for the humanoid robot. The forefinger, the middle finger, the third finger, and the little finger adopt modular structures, and the commonality of parts is strong. All fingers utilize a connecting rod and a spring piece to form a coupling driving mechanism and an underactuated driving mechanism which are integrated, thereby comprehensively realizing special effect of integrating the coupling and underactuated self-adaption grabbing process. In the grabbing process, the device is turned by a coupling mode before an object is touched, the object is grabbed in a turning way by adopting an underactuated self-adaption mode after the object is touched, and the device can be automatically adaptive to the size and shape of the object. The output power of the bionic hand device is strong, the grabbing action is stable, the range of the grabbed objects is wide, the requirement to a control system is low, the structure is simple and the coupling underactuated integrated bionic hand device is suitable for long-time usage.