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; and a transfer device having a gripper device for gripping a sausage group and for transferring and depositing the sausage group into a receiving container.

A parallel robot includes a base, a moving platform, a plurality of branch chains, a plurality of driving devices, a plurality of transmission devices, a plurality of force/torque sensors, and a control device. The transmission device includes an output end. Each branch chain includes a first end connected to the output end and a second end connected to the moving platform. The driving device is configured to drive the transmission device to move. The force/torque sensor is configured to sense the force and/or torque between the driving device and the output end. The control device is configured to adjust a power of the driving device according to the force and/or torque sensed by the force/torque sensor, a target force or displacement to be loaded on the moving platform, and a preset rule until the force and/or torque sensed by the force/torque sensor matches the target force or displacement.

A linear motion mechanism with precise linear motion has structural robustness and allows easy reduction in weight and size, simple production and easy operation. The linear motion mechanism includes: an elastic arrangement which is arranged to transform an input direction and an input displacement to an output direction and an output displacement, wherein the output direction is orthogonal to the input direction; an operating member which is arranged to deform the elastic arrangement in the input direction by the input displacement; and a movable member fixed to the elastic arrangement to move in the output direction by the output displacement.

A cooperative-control robot includes a base component, a mobile platform arranged proximate the base component, a translation assembly operatively connected to the base component and the mobile platform and configured to move the mobile platform with translational degrees of freedom substantially without rotation with respect to said the component, a tool assembly connected to the mobile platform, and a control system configured to communicate with the translation assembly to control motion of the mobile platform in response to forces by a user applied to at least a portion of the cooperative-control robot. The translation assembly includes at least three independently operable actuator arms, each connected to a separate position of the mobile platform. A robotic system includes two or more the cooperative-control robots.

A parallel link robot including a base portion, a movable portion, and arms which connect the base portion and the movable portion. Each of the arms includes a drive link rotationally driven about a predetermined axis line by a motor, two parallel driven links that forms a pair, and a connecting member that connects the driven links, each pair of driven links are coupled to the drive link by ball joints at a position where the drive link is positioned between the pair of driven links, the pair of driven links forms a joint together with the drive link, the connecting member includes a first portion both sides of which are attached to the pair of driven links, second portions which are arranged with a space in a direction of an interval between the pair of driven links, and a third portion connecting the first and second portions.

A parallel link robot according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a plurality of arm units and a movable part commonly connected to distal ends of the plurality of arm units. Each of the arm units includes a pedestal, a first arm rotatably supported on the pedestal, a second arm rotatably connected to the first arm, a motor installed in the pedestal, and a reduction gear installed in the pedestal and configured to transmit rotation of the motor to the first arm. The pedestal is provided with a mounting structure for individually mounting the arm unit to an external trestle. The pedestal is equipped with a cable connector for ensuring a direct connection with an external control device.

The coupling structure includes: a pair of attachment members that are supported on two links) that each have a longitudinal axis and move parallel to each other with a gap therebetween so as to be able to rotate about rotation axes that are perpendicular to a plane that includes the longitudinal axes of both the links; and a coupling mechanism that fixes the distance between the pair of attachment members in an adjustable manner.

A connection structure includes bushings attached to two links so as to be rotatable about an axis perpendicular to a plane containing two longitudinal axes of the two links; a biasing mechanism spanning between the bushings of the two links and applying an elastic restoring force in a direction in which the two bushings move closer together; and a connection member having two attachment holes through which the bushings can pass in a direction of the axis and regulating a distance between the bushings to be less than or equal to a prescribed distance. The bushings include claw portions projecting radially outward. The attachment holes are formed in a shape allowing the bushings to pass therethrough at a prescribed attachment phase around the axis coinciding with the claw portions of the bushings. A phase of the bushings is regulated to a phase that does not match the attachment phase.

A connection structure includes bushings attached to two links so as to be rotatable about an axis perpendicular to a plane containing two longitudinal axes of the two links; a biasing mechanism spanning between the bushings of the two links and applying an elastic restoring force in a direction in which the two bushings move closer together; and a connection member having two attachment holes through which the bushings can pass in a direction of the axis and regulating a distance between the bushings to be less than or equal to a prescribed distance. The bushings include claw portions projecting radially outward. The attachment holes are formed in a shape allowing the bushings to pass therethrough at a prescribed attachment phase around the axis coinciding with the claw portions of the bushings. A phase of the bushings is regulated to a phase that does not match the attachment phase.

A miniature parallel robot and a flat design manufacturing method, relating to the field of robots. A direction perpendicular to a fixed platform is used as a longitudinal direction and a direction parallel to the fixed platform is used as a transverse direction; the overall structure of a miniature parallel robot to be manufactured is divided in both the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction; then linkage units obtained by the division are manufactured on the basis of a flat machining process; and finally, the linkage units are recombined by re-assembly to obtain a final miniature parallel robot. The present invention simplifies the design process of the miniature parallel robot, and can be conveniently applied to different complex parallel robots (having more than three branches). Additionally, the miniature parallel robot designed and manufactured by means of the method has high precision, high rigidity, and high dynamic performance.