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        <title>Free Patents Online: Robots</title>
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        <description>USPTO Class 901 Robots</description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Autonomous mobile equipment and position-of-object and own position detecting system]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Autonomous mobile equipment includes a position-of-object and own position detecting system and a moving unit, and autonomously moves. The position-of-object and own position detecting system includes a database in which pieces of information on the superficial shape and position of an object are recorded. The superficial shape of the object detected by a position measuring unit is collated with the superficial shape of the object recorded in the database. If the collated superficial shapes agree with each other, the pieces of information on the object recorded in the database are transmitted to a traveling planning unit. If the collated superficial shapes disagree with each other, the information on the object acquired by the position measuring unit is transmitted to the traveling planning unit.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Leg joint assist device of legged mobile robot]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An assist device  11  is equipped with a spring means  21  (gas spring), and a piston  24  in a cylinder  23  moves upward or downward according to a relative displacement motion (flexing or stretching motion) of a thigh  4  and a crus  5  at a knee joint  8  of a leg  3  of a robot. Air chambers  25  and  26  above and below the piston  24  are filled with gases. If a flexing degree at the knee joint  8  is a predetermined value or less, then the air chambers  25  and  26  are brought into communication through a groove  28  in the cylinder  23 , and the spring means  21  does not generate an elastic force, but if the flexing degree exceeds the predetermined value, then the air chambers  25  and  26  are hermetically sealed from each other and the spring means  21  produces an elastic force, the elastic force acting on the knee joint  8  as assisting driving force. A burden on a joint actuator of a leg can be reduced, while reducing energy consumption of the robot by using a small and simple construction. Moreover, a change in the characteristics of an assisting driving force of the spring means  21  in response to a flexing degree of the knee joint  8  can be restrained.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mobile robot]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There is provided a high-speed and stable robot apparatus realizing stable walking by surely grounding legs having wheels even on an irregular ground surface. The mobile robot includes a body having a control device and an inclination angle detecting device which detects an inclination angle and an angular velocity, and the plurality of legs each having a thigh part and a lower limb part. The thigh part is rotatable around an X-axis, which is a front direction with respect to the body, and around a Y-axis which is a side surface direction with respect to the body. The robot comprises wheels rotatable around the Y-axis and movable supporting parts rotatable around the Y-axis and capable of being grounded on a road surface, which are provided on lower portions of the lower limb parts. The robot switches its operation according to irregularities of the road surface between coaxial two-wheeled inverted pendulum control operation of moving with the wheels without grounding the movable supporting parts while maintaining the inversion and bipedal walking control operation of walking by controlling the grounding of the wheels and the movable supporting parts on the road surface.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Biomimetic tactile sensor]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Disclosed is a tactile sensory system consisting of set of sensors that work by measuring impedance among plurality of electrodes. The electrodes are deployed on a substantially rigid structure that is protected form the direct contact with external objects by overlying deformable structures. These mechanical structures have similarities to the biological relationships among the distal phalanx, overlying finger pulp and covering skin and nail. Signal information is extracted form these sensors that is related to canonical physical representations used to describe stimuli to be sensed.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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