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A position control method for controlling a position of a movable portion, includes: performing control of allowing the movable portion to approach a predetermined position by moving the movable portion; and performing control of moving the movable portion to the predetermined position by moving the movable portion and detecting a relative position of the movable portion with respect to the predetermined position by using an imaging unit.

A component feeder capable of enhancing productivity is provided by that the component feeder includes a tape feeding device intermittently feeding a component housing tape constituted of a carrier tape having component housing parts formed with predetermined interval to contain respective electronic components, and a cover tape covering the component housing parts to prevent the components from jumping out from the component housing parts while the component housing tape wound on a housing tape reel is sequentially fed to a component extracting position, and an electronic component exposing device exposing the electronic components in the component housing parts to be allowed to be extracted, wherein the tape feeding device is constituted of a first feeding device and a second feeding device, and the electronic component exposing device is provided between the first feeding device and the second feeding device.

A mover device and an ion implanter apparatus having a processing base that reciprocates at a high speed without undesirable noise and vibration are provided. The mover device includes: a fixed base; a movable base that is linearly movable with respect to the fixed base; a processing base that is linearly movable with respect to the movable base; a main linear motor that generates a moving force to move the processing base with respect to the movable base, thereby moving the processing base with respect to the fixed base; and a velocity control unit that controls the moving velocity of the processing base with respect to the fixed base. In this mover device, the movable base is moved by virtue of a reaction force caused by the moving force to move the processing base.

A recording apparatus includes: a recording head that performs recording on a recording target medium; a driving mechanism that is capable of causing the recording head to move closer to the recording target medium or move away from the recording target medium; and a controlling section that determines driving amount for one driving operation that is performed by the driving mechanism on the basis of results of a comparison made between a first recording head movement direction that is taken or to be taken in the one driving operation and a second recording head movement direction that was taken in another driving operation that is immediately before the one driving operation and thus precedes the one driving operation.

An image processing device comprising: a determination section that, based on a factor defining a depth representing a permissible range for acceptable state of focus and on parallax computed by a parallax computation section, determines an operation movement ratio for converting an operation amount, that instructs movement of a focusing lens, into a movement amount of the focusing lens by using a function including the operation movement ratio as a dependent variable and an independent variable determined according to the factor and the parallax; and a control section that controls a movement section to move the focusing lens by an amount equivalent to a movement amount determined based on an operation movement ratio determined by the determination section and the operation amount.

A drive device for erosion tools, having a drive shaft, an electrode holder connected to the drive shaft, an axial drive which works on the drive shaft, a rotational drive which works on the drive shaft as a direct drive in a contactless manner, and a radial bearing. The radial bearing is constructed as a ball track.

A CCD image sensor is fixed on a Y-direction stage that is supported on an X-direction stage. When a piezo driver supplies voltage to an X-direction piezo element and a Y-direction piezo element, the CCD image sensor is moved in X and Y directions. The X-direction position sensor and the Y-direction position sensor detects the position information of the CCD image sensor in X and Y direction respectively, and send the position information to the piezo driver. The piezo driver sets a target movement of the CCD image sensor, and detects the actual movement of the CCD image sensor from the position information. The piezo driver adjusts the output voltage to the X-direction piezo element and the Y-direction piezo element such that the target movement becomes the same as the actual movement.

A device for nondestructive testing of pipelines is designed to move along a pipeline and has at least one measuring unit for acquiring measured data of the pipeline, wherein the device is self-propelled and has at least one functional unit rotatable about a central axis of the device for acquiring measured data and / or for driving the device. In a corresponding method for nondestructive testing of pipelines, the device is moved along the pipeline by a functional unit having drive elements and moving helically along a surface of the pipeline to be covered. The functional unit acquires measured data and the drive elements are forced by a magnetic field generated by the functional unit against the surface of the pipeline.

A component feeder capable of enhancing productivity is provided by that the component feeder includes a tape feeding device intermittently feeding a component housing tape constituted of a carrier tape having component housing parts formed with predetermined interval to contain respective electronic components, and a cover tape covering the component housing parts to prevent the components from jumping out from the component housing parts while the component housing tape wound on a housing tape reel is sequentially fed to a component extracting position, and an electronic component exposing device exposing the electronic components in the component housing parts to be allowed to be extracted, wherein the tape feeding device is constituted of a first feeding device and a second feeding device, and the electronic component exposing device is provided between the first feeding device and the second feeding device.

An inkjet recording apparatus including: a recording head; a recording medium moving section; a position information detecting section synchronized with a movement of the recording medium moving section; a mark recording section for recording a mark on the recording medium; a mark detecting section for detecting the mark recorded; an analog-to-digital conversion section for converting an output signal; and a control section for obtaining a reference mark position of the mark based on a signal outputted from the mark detecting section and the position information detected, and for determining the amount of recording medium movement on the basis of reference detection position of the mark; wherein analog-to-digital conversion is applied to the output signal from the mark detecting section to get a sampling data, in exact timing with an output of position information, and the control section calculates the reference detection position from the sampling data.

The invention discloses a high-voltage electric cable detection device, and belongs to the technical field of electric power detection. The high-voltage electric cable detection device comprises a fixing frame, an electric cable clamping assembly and a voltage detection assembly. The fixing frame is of a U-shaped structure, the electric cable clamping assembly comprises a driving component and twoclamping plates, the two clamping plates are of V-shaped structures, antislip layers are arranged on two opposite ends of the two clamping plates, support assemblies are arranged on two sides of thefixing frame, and the two clamping plates are arranged on the two support assemblies. The high-voltage electric cable detection device has the advantages that workers can manually clamp electric cables with different diameters by the aid of the electric cable clamping assembly and can quickly fix or detach the electric cables by the aid of an adjusting head, and accordingly the high-voltage electric cable detection device is high in practicality; the workers can quickly puncture and detect the electric cables by the aid of the voltage detection assembly, accordingly, the time and labor can besaved as compared with the traditional methods, the high-voltage electric cable detection device can bring convenience for the workers, and the detection efficiency of the workers can be improved.

An arrangement for gripping at least one teat cup (1). The arrangement includes a storing device (10) adapted to hold the teat cup (1) in a parked position and a gripping device (2) adapted to grip the parked teat cup (1) in the storing device (10). The gripping device (2) includes a contact surface (6a) which is adapted to be moved to a position in which it comes in contact with a contact surface (1d) of the teat cup (1) during a gripping operation of the teat cup (1). The arrangement includes an adjusting part which is able to adjust the position of at least one of said contact surfaces (1d, 6a) in relation to the other contact surface (1d, 6a) from an initial contact position to a grip position in which the gripping device is able to grip the teat cup in the storing device.

The present invention provides a printer device. The printer device comprises a second printing unit, which has a carriage provided movably in a horizontal direction along a guide rail (40) and a printer head for discharging ink toward a printing sheet; a cutting unit (90), which has a carriage provided movably in a horizontal direction along a guide rail (40) and a cutter holder (92) for cutting the printing sheet into a predetermined shape; a second maintenance device which is capable of holding the second printing unit; a left standby station (95L) which is capable of holding the cutting unit (90); and a vertical movement mechanism (100) which is capable of integrally moving the cutting unit (90) and the left standby station (95L) up and down with respect to a platen (30). When performing printing while moving the printer head in the horizontal direction, the vertical movement mechanism (100) moves the cutting unit (90) and the left standby station (95L) to be positioned below the platen (30).

A traction drive system for an articulated robotic arm. The traction drive system can include an input drive disk, a spider, an array of traction balls, a traction plate, an output drive shaft, a clamping device to load the traction balls, and an absolute rotation position sensor system. The rotation of the output drive shaft can be coupled to the rotation of the input drive disk while the traction balls are frictionally engaged to the drive disk surface and traction plate surface. The rotational connection can be decoupled when the traction balls are not frictionally engaged to the drive disk surface and traction plate surface. A rotational position sensor located in proximity to the traction drive can provide absolute rotational position feedback of the output drive shaft.

The invention provides an endoscope device which can be easily made to be miniature and enables the focus distance to be changed in a highly precise manner. The endoscope device comprises a shooting element (23) which shoots an object to be shot through a lens unit including a movable lens (21). The endoscope device is equipped with a rotation component (11) that rotates freely with a rotation shaft (J2) being the center; a motor that drives the rotation component (11) to rotate; a movable lens retaining portion (14) that has a pin (15) abutting against part (11B) of the rotation component (11) and that retains the movable lens (21); and a spring (16) that applied force to the pin (15) toward the rotation component (11). The rotation component (11) includes a cylindrical part (11B) extending in the direction of an optical axis; and a cylindrical part (11A) protruding from the transverse plane of the part (11B) at the side of the object to be shot and thinner than the part (11B). The transverse plane of the part (11B) includes an abut surface (11d) which abuts against the pin (15) and continuously changes, in terms of the height in the direction of the optical axis, along the circumference of the part (11B). The movable lens retaining portion (14) is freely embedded into the part (11A) in a movable manner in the direction of the optical axis.

The invention provides a three-degree-of-freedom position regulating system comprising two sets of electric control three- three-degree-of-freedom precise work benches and a control calculating unit, wherein the two sets of electric control three-degree-of-freedom precise work benches are used for implementing three-degree-of-freedom translation within a certain range according to external instructions respectively, and outputting position signals in real time; the control calculating unit is used for receiving position signals of the two sets of electric control three-degree-of-freedom precise work benches respectively, and outputting instruction signals to the first electric control three-degree-of-freedom precise work bench and the second electric control three-degree-of-freedom precise work bench according to the position signals and parameters input by a user; when a workpiece needs to be moved, the control calculating unit sends instructions to the two sets of electric control three-degree-of-freedom precise work benches, so as to drive the two sets of work benches to work toward the same direction by the same distance. The system provided by the invention solves technical problems of the prior art in low movement precision, difficulty in control over movement amount, difficulty in measurement, time-consuming operation, etc., thereby implementing the three-degree-of-freedom high-precision movement of large and medium parts within a certain range.

Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of controlling a mover device The method includes generating a moving force from a moving force generating unit to move a processing base with respect to a movable base, thereby moving the processing base with respect to a fixed base as a result of the movement of the processing base with respect to the movable base; moving the movable base on the fixed base in the opposite direction to the moving direction of the processing base by virtue of a reaction force caused by the moving force generated from the moving force generating unit to move the processing base, so that the movable base moves in the opposite direction to the moving direction of the processing base on the fixed base. The method further includes controlling the moving velocity of the processing base with respect to the fixed base.

A lens unit consists of a plurality of lens frames, a stepping motor, and a driving control unit. The plurality of lens frames for holding an imaging optical system lies in a lens barrel and moves over a stowage interval and a zoom interval. The stowage interval is an interval between a position of stowage at which the lens frames are stowed and a ready-to-image position at which imaging is enabled. The zoom interval is an interval over which the ready-to-image position exists and a power varying action is executed. The stepping motor moves the plurality of lens frames. During execution of a thrusting action or storing action, the driving control unit drives and controls the stepping motor in a first driving mode. The thrusting action is executed for moving the plurality of lens frames from the position of stowage to the ready-to-image position. The stowing action is executed for moving the lens frames from any position within the zoom interval to the position of stowage. During execution of a zooming action for moving the lens frames over the zoom interval, the driving control unit drives and controls the stepping motor in a second driving mode in which a lower current is used than in the first driving mode.

The invention belongs to the technical field of mechanical arms, and particularly relates to a mechanical arm system. The mechanical arm system comprises a lifting device (1), a plane motion mechanism(2) and a computer (3); the lifting device (1) and the plane motion mechanism (2) are electrically connected with the computer (3), the plane motion mechanism (2) comprises a bearing longitudinal beam (21), a movable cross beam (22) and a replaceable operation part (23), the movable cross beam (22) and the bearing longitudinal beam (21) are in sliding connection, and the operation part (23) is insliding connection with the movable cross beam (22). The mechanical arm system has the expanding and practicability, the mechanical arm can be flexibly controlled to finish corresponding actions, high-precision moving can be achieved, the automatic mechanical operation can be achieved, work efficiency is improved, manual cost is reduced, and in addition, the invention discloses a control method of the mechanical arm system.

A device for treating individual sausages, including:a sorting device having an endless conveyor belt traveling around a triangular geometry and having rails or carrier bars, on which belt the sausages, which are loosely deposited onto an ascending run of the belt, are distributed individually into the rails or carrier bars;an endless first conveying device with individual rails or carrier bars to accept the sorted sausages, wherein each individual rail or carrier bar accommodates one sausage;a grouping device, in which the sausages delivered by the first conveying device are combined into groups;a second conveying device with receiving sections, each of which accommodates the sausages of one group, and into which the sausages, lying side by side, are transferred from the grouping device; anda transfer device having a gripper device for gripping a sausage group and for transferring and depositing the sausage group into a receiving container.

The present invention provides one kind of chuck bench moving mechanism capable of absorbing the vibration of the external screw and supporting the chuck bench with supported machined article to move at high precision. The chuck bench moving mechanism possesses a chuck bench supporting mechanism, a guide track and an external screw. The chuck bench supporting mechanism is provided with a supporting pedestal; several movable pedestals set between the supporting pedestal and the external screw, including one adjacent to the external screw with inner thread fitting the thread in the external screw; and several power transmitting mechanisms set separately between the movable pedestal adjacent to the supporting pedestal and the supporting pedestal and between two adjacent movable pedestals, and with vibration absorbing mechanism to transmit the power in the machining feeding direction.

A recording apparatus includes: a recording head that performs recording on a recording target medium; a driving mechanism that is capable of causing the recording head to move closer to the recording target medium or move away from the recording target medium; and a controlling section that determines driving amount for one driving operation that is performed by the driving mechanism on the basis of results of a comparison made between a first recording head movement direction that is taken or to be taken in the one driving operation and a second recording head movement direction that was taken in another driving operation that is immediately before the one driving operation and thus precedes the one driving operation.

A lens unit consists of a plurality of lens frames, a stepping motor, and a driving control unit. The plurality of lens frames for holding an imaging optical system lies in a lens barrel and moves over a stowage interval and a zoom interval. The stowage interval is an interval between a position of stowage at which the lens frames are stowed and a ready-to-image position at which imaging is enabled. The zoom interval is an interval over which the ready-to-image position exists and a power varying action is executed. The stepping motor moves the plurality of lens frames. During execution of a thrusting action or storing action, the driving control unit drives and controls the stepping motor in a first driving mode. The thrusting action is executed for moving the plurality of lens frames from the position of stowage to the ready-to-image position. The stowing action is executed for moving the lens frames from any position within the zoom interval to the position of stowage. During execution of a zooming action for moving the lens frames over the zoom interval, the driving control unit drives and controls the stepping motor in a second driving mode in which a lower current is used than in the first driving mode.

A slider is composed of four components except for rolling elements. A slider moving relatively to a guide rail is composed of a carriage having raceway grooves, a circulator to make a return passage and insert nuts to fit into through-holes in the circulator. Engaging parts of the carriage makes fit-engagement with holes in the circulator to make snap-fit between the carriage and the circulator to fasten them each other.

A traction drive system for an articulated robotic arm. The traction drive system can include an input drive disk, a spider, an array of traction balls, a traction plate, an output drive shaft, a clamping device to load the traction balls, and an absolute rotation position sensor system. The rotation of the output drive shaft can be coupled to the rotation of the input drive disk while the traction balls are frictionally engaged to the drive disk surface and traction plate surface. The rotational connection can be decoupled when the traction balls are not frictionally engaged to the drive disk surface and traction plate surface. A rotational position sensor located in proximity to the traction drive can provide absolute rotational position feedback of the output drive shaft.

The invention discloses a symmetrical parallel mechanism without singularities. The symmetrical parallel mechanism without the singularities comprises a movable platform, a fixed platform used as a frame, and four kinematic chains connecting the movable platform and the fixed platform, wherein the four kinematic chains comprise a properly constrained chain connecting the central position of the movable platform and the central position of the fixed platform, and three identical kinematic branched chains; the three kinematic branched chains are symmetrically distributed about the centre of the properly constrained chain; the parallel mechanism has three degrees of freedom and four degrees of freedom respectively through addition or no addition of a revolute pair on the properly constrained chain; and the parallel mechanisms with the two degrees of freedom both have the characteristics of symmetrical structure and no singularities. The symmetrical parallel mechanism without the singularities, which is disclosed by the invention, can be applied to the fields of motion simulators, telescope secondary mirror support mechanisms, mechanical wrists, coordinate measuring machines, micro-operation robots, machine tool spindle heads and the like, and has a wide application prospect.

A drive device for erosion tools, having a drive shaft, an electrode holder connected to the drive shaft, an axial drive which works on the drive shaft, a rotational drive which works on the drive shaft as a direct drive in a contactless manner, and a radial bearing. The radial bearing is constructed as a ball track.

Disclosed are a supporting device and a light exposure device, both of which can achieve the control of an angle of a stage with high repeatability. A spring member (450) is attached to the upper surface of an arm (439c) of a movable member (439) and the lower surface of a substrate support (442), so that the spring member (450), the arm (439c) and the substrate support (442) can move together in the Z-axis direction. In this manner, the change in the form of the spring member (450) can be prevented compared with a case where the spring member (450) is connected to a housing (431), and therefore the accurate positioning of a substrate stage (20) can be achieved stably regardless of the movement of the movable member (439).