Patent abstracts

Citation

(2006), "Patent abstracts", Industrial Robot, Vol. 33 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2006.04933fad.003

Patent abstracts

Automaton intelligent robot protector for cars and transportationsPatent number: US2006070558Publication date: 06/04/2006Applicant: CHIU HSIEN-HSIANG (CA)

Keywords: Robotics, Production equipment,Patents

An automaton intelligent robot device use to watch cars and transportation for possible theft, crime activities, and automatic make calls to seek medical aid for passenger if serious accident occurs, that built in and attached as parts and accessory of cars and transportations. The robot device has computer control center and adapters to connect and control with server modules that can attach sensors, video cameras, global position system, and video cell phone communication channels. Using micro controllers to control sensors' input, output signals, the robot will consistently monitor and watch our cars and transportation, when robot detect any suspicious signals of theft, crime activities, serious accident, the intelligent robot will able to decide what actions base on its programming list making decision to make video cell phone calls to who should call for the issue, and transfer video in real time and brief situation report to the owner and who is concern the issue such as police, 911, medical department. The robot device has built with authenticate encryption process security hardware, the security unit has listening ability for specific assigned activate signals of radio wave and digital signals, once the robot receive the correct encryption password, it will perform secure activate robot steps in the transportation.

Robot program production systemPatent number: US2006069464Publication date: 30/03/2006Applicant: FANUC LTD (JP)

A robot program production system includes: a storage block that saves pieces of information on teaching points to be taught to a robot and information on an ambient environment model representing the robot and others; a programming unit that produces off-line a robot program; and a robot control unit that controls the action of the robot so as to move the robot to a teaching point. The programming unit includes a means for determining a path, along which the robot is moved from the current position to a teaching point, which should be corrected, without interference with a work and obstacles, on the basis of the pieces of information on teaching points and the information on the ambient environment model. The robot control unit includes a means for moving the robot to the teaching point, which should be corrected, along the determined path. Information on the teaching point that should be corrected is replaced with information on an actual teaching point acquired after completion of the movement, whereby the information on the teaching point described in the robot program is corrected quickly. This results in a program capable of protecting the robot and ambient facilities from being damaged.

Programming device for returning robot to waiting positionPatent number: EP1625918Publication date: 15/02/2006Applicant: FANUC LTD (JP)

A programming device for making a program for returning a robot to its waiting position when the robot is stopped by an error. A robot control device is connected to the programming device via a network line. When the robot during operation is stopped by the error, information including data of a position where the robot is stopped is transferred to the programming device. The programming device makes the returning program, based on layout data, the received information and data including teaching positions and attribute data of the positions, by which the robot may be returned from the stop position to the waiting position without interfering with peripheral devices. The returning program is executed by using an offline simulation function of the programming device. The program is transferred to the robot control device after it is judged that interference will not occur. The robot may be safely returned to the waiting position by executing the returning program.

Welding robot systemPublication date: 22/12/2005Applicant: YASKAWA ELECTRIC CORP

Problem to be solved: to provide a welding robot system capable of adjusting welding conditions while confirming an arc state surely, being efficiently adjusted while appropriately imaging contents of the welding conditions after correction, and eliminating careless mistakes in setting and selecting welding conditions even in similar components.

Solution: the welding robot system is composed of a welding robot, a programming pendant, a welding power source, and a controller for controlling the welding robot and the welding power source. In this system, the controller is equipped with a communication control part for communicating with the programming pendant, a data storage part for storing the welding conditions, and a transmission part for communicating with the welding power source. The programming pendant is provided with a communicating part for communicating with the controller, a data holding part for temporarily holding the welding conditions, and a data display part for displaying the welding conditions.

Reverse engineering robot systemApplicant: DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY (CN)Patent number: CN1730248Publication date: 08/02/2006

The reverse engineering robot system belonged to advanced manufacturing technique field comprises a detection head, a robot, a computer, a control cabinet, and a deflection machine. When user inputs basic detection parameters, the system programs automatically the scan path, controls robot, deflection machine and detection head to complete the detection. Wherein, it uses the robot control flexibility to realize the integrative path programming, uses the environmental adaptation ability and anti-noise ability of robot to satisfy industrial field require, and uses active automatic detection mode to realize automation and exploitability for post processing.