US 12,454,062 B2
Nursing care robot
Yoshinao Sodeyama, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 18/565,642
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 18, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/001667
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 30, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/259595, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 15, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-097442 (JP), filed on Jun. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0261979 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. B25J 5/00 (2006.01); B25J 11/00 (2006.01); B25J 19/02 (2006.01)
CPC B25J 11/009 (2013.01) [B25J 5/007 (2013.01); B25J 19/023 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A robot comprising:
a head section including an eyeball section;
a chest section;
an arm section mounted on the chest section;
a movable neck provided between the head section and the chest section, and having a neck joint axis;
a movable shoulder provided between the chest section and the arm section, and having a shoulder joint axis; and
a movable hip provided below the chest section, and having a hip joint axis, wherein,
as viewed from a side direction in an upright posture, the neck joint axis is offset in a backward direction from the shoulder joint axis, and the hip joint axis is offset in a forward direction from the shoulder joint axis, wherein
the eyeball section includes
a transparent solid cylindrical section having a first end surface and a second end surface,
a display that is provided on side of the first end surface of the transparent solid cylindrical section, and displays an operation of an iris, and
a hemispherical transparent spherical section that is provided on side of the second end surface of the transparent solid cylindrical section and outputs display light from the display incoming through the transparent solid cylindrical section, and wherein
a center position of an eyeball of the eyeball section is configured to be offset inward from a center position of an outer periphery of the hemispherical transparent spherical section.