Device for controlling return of robot to origin thereof, and method of searching return path of robot to origin thereof

    公开(公告)号:US12186910B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-07

    申请号:US17680974

    申请日:2022-02-25

    Inventor: Yuya Kato

    Abstract: In a robot controller, return of a position (including posture) of a robot arm to an origin thereof is controlled along a searched return path, when there occurs an abnormality against the robot. It is determined whether there is a trajectory portion regarded as being a straight line on a motion trajectory of the arm, based on the operation log data recorded in a recording unit when it is determined that the arm should be returned to the origin. Operation log data of a node are decimated (i.e., downsampled), which are present between two nodes which are at both ends of a trajectory portion regarded as being a straight line when the trajectory portion is regarded as being the straight line. Then, the return path is calculated, along which the arm returns to the origin, based on remaining operation log data.

    CODE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20240386448A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-21

    申请号:US18788718

    申请日:2024-07-30

    Inventor: Takayoshi KAMIYA

    Abstract: A code image is acquired by photographing a code as an authentication target. An extraction area is set within an area of the code shown in the code image. An image feature extracted from the extraction area is acquired as an extraction image feature. The image feature extracted from the extraction area of the code which is a genuine product is prepared and registered in advance as a registration image feature. An authenticity of the code as the authentication target is determined based on a verification between the extraction image feature and the registration image feature.

    PHOTODETECTION DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20240329211A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-03

    申请号:US18741559

    申请日:2024-06-12

    CPC classification number: G01S7/4817 G01S7/4814 G01S7/4816

    Abstract: A photodetection device includes: a base that defines first and second reference directions perpendicular to each other; a projection holder positioned in the first and second reference directions with respect to the base; a projection unit having a projector held by the base and a projection lens system held by the projection holder on a projection optical axis perpendicular to the first and second reference directions; a first projection shim replaceably interposed between the base and the projection holder, in a first projection gap that extends along the first reference direction; a second projection shim replaceably interposed between the base and the projection holder, in a second projection gap that extends along a projection intersecting direction that intersects the first and second reference directions; and a light projection screw that fixes the projection holder to the base by screwing along the first reference direction.

    A THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASURING DEVICE
    4.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240310165A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-19

    申请号:US18275473

    申请日:2022-01-17

    Inventor: Yusuke MITANI

    CPC classification number: G01B11/254 G06T7/521 H04N25/47

    Abstract: A projection unit projects predetermined stripe pattern to measurement object so that emission start timing differs for each stripe number. Imaging unit is equipped with imaging device that outputs event data including two-dimensional point data in which position of pixel is specified corresponding to pixel whose brightness has changed when received. An imaged image is generated from event data output from imaging device. The imaging device outputs event data of positive brightness change in case of the brightness change to brighten and event data of negative brightness change in a case of brightness change to darken. The measuring unit obtains stripe pattern information based on time difference between output of event data of the positive brightness change and output of the event data of the negative brightness change on pixel-by-pixel basis in captured image and stripe number specified from output timing of the first event data constituting this time difference.

    Robot hand controller
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12064885B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US16825300

    申请日:2020-03-20

    Inventor: Takafumi Fukuoka

    CPC classification number: B25J9/1694 B25J15/08

    Abstract: A robot hand controller is provided for controlling operations of a robot (e.g., an industrial robot), which is configured to be held with a position and posture of an arm being changed by a user, and a hand mounted on the arm and held with an open/closed position being changed by a user. In the controller, the position and posture of the arm and the open/closed position of the hand are detected. A gripping force of the hand is detected. A reception unit receives an operation of recording a state of the arm and the hand, and a recording unit records, as state information in time series, the position and the posture, the open/closed position, and the gripping force, which are detected when the operation is received by the reception unit. Operations of the arm and the hand are controlled to reproduce the recorded state information recorded in time series.

    Optical information reader
    6.
    外观设计

    公开(公告)号:USD1031735S1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-18

    申请号:US29820768

    申请日:2021-12-23

    Designer: Eishun Nakamura

    Abstract: FIG. 1 is a front, right-side, top perspective view of a first embodiment of an optical information reader, showing the new design;
    FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;
    FIG. 3 is a rear view thereof;
    FIG. 4 is a top plan view thereof;
    FIG. 5 is a left-side view thereof;
    FIG. 6 is a right-side view thereof; and
    FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view thereof.
    FIG. 8 is a front, right-side, top perspective view of a second embodiment of an optical information reader, showing the new design;
    FIG. 9 is a front view thereof;
    FIG. 10 is a rear view thereof;
    FIG. 11 is a top plan view thereof;
    FIG. 12 is a left-side view thereof;
    FIG. 13 is a right-side view thereof; and,
    FIG. 14 is a bottom plan view thereof.

    Apparatus and method for controlling robot arm

    公开(公告)号:US11970344B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-30

    申请号:US17331005

    申请日:2021-05-26

    Inventor: Hiroshi Tsuzuki

    Abstract: In an apparatus for controlling a robot arm with an end effector for packing workpieces in a box-shaped open container with a bottom wall and at least one side wall, an inner surface of the at least one side wall being covered with a contact prevention sheet having an indefinite shape, a controller determines whether a packing position of a selected workpiece in the box-shaped open container is adjacent to the inner surface of the at least one side wall of the container. The controller instructs the robot arm to move the selected workpiece picked up by the end effector downward while preventing the picked-up workpiece from entering a predetermined safety zone in response to determination that the specified packing position in the box-shaped open container is adjacent to the inner surface of the at least one side wall of the container.

    Method and device for controlling workpiece suction-gripping actions of robot

    公开(公告)号:US11964828B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-23

    申请号:US17349443

    申请日:2021-06-16

    CPC classification number: B65G47/91

    Abstract: To provide a method of controlling a robot and a suction gripping device capable of preventing occurrence of wrinkling in a workpiece having a thin packaging material with a content contained therein. A method of controlling an industrial robot according to an embodiment, configured to suction and grip a workpiece having a thin packaging material with a content contained therein, includes: pressing a suction pad against the content with the packaging material interposed therebetween and, upon starting the suction, suction-gripping the workpiece by the suction pad. Starting suction may be performed in a state in which the suction pad is pressed to the content with the packing material therebetween or before the suction pad is pressed to the content.

    MONITORING SYSTEM
    10.
    发明公开
    MONITORING SYSTEM 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240114113A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-04

    申请号:US18374115

    申请日:2023-09-28

    CPC classification number: H04N7/18 G06F21/44

    Abstract: A monitoring system comprises a monitoring device, a terminal device that has an imaging function and transmits identification information, and the monitoring center. The monitoring device performs an authentication process of the terminal device based on the identification information received, and transmits first information that associates an authentication time, region information for specifying a monitoring region, and the identification information received. The terminal device transmits second information that associates an image in the monitoring region captured, a capture time of the image, and the identification information. The monitoring center associates, with the image of the second information, the authentication time and the region information of the first information that is associated with the same identification information as the identification information of the second information and is also associated with the authentication time in which a difference from the capture time of the second information is within a prescribed range.

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