CN1784161A

CN1784161A - Mannequin having drive section

Info

Publication number: CN1784161A
Application number: CNA038203391A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 松井龙哉; 星野裕之
Original assignee: FLOWER ROBOTICS Inc
Current assignee: FLOWER ROBOTICS Inc
Priority date: 2002-08-29
Filing date: 2003-08-27
Publication date: 2006-06-07
Also published as: EP1547493A1; US20060124673A1; AU2003261773A1; JPWO2004019736A1; WO2004019736A1; EP1547493A4

Abstract

A mannequin installed in a show window or the like, comprising a body consisting of at least a torso (2) and arms (3), a plurality of joints (4, 5, 6) installed at least in the arms and adapted to be operable in a predetermined direction, a drive section (10) connected to the joints to drive the respective joints, a control section (11) connected to the drive section and capable of optionally controlling the movements of the joints by controlling the drive section, and a storage section (12) connected to the control section to store instructions corresponding to predetermined operation pattern for the motion of the body. The control section (11) controls the drive section (10) on the basis of the instructions stored in the storage section (12) so as to ensure that the body moves to follow the operation pattern based on the instructions.

Description

Manikin with drive division

Technical field

The present invention relates to be arranged on the shop display window, the shop, the manikin that the next door of commodity etc. is located relates in particular to and has the manikin that drives the drive division be arranged on the joint portion that arm etc. locates.

Background technology

Past be arranged on the shop display window, the shop, the manikin that the next door of commodity etc. is located is a kind of dress as clothes such as the western-style clothes of commodity, bags, the predetermined posture of decision when being provided with is kept the model that this posture is showed with static state.The arm of such manikin has the joint portion that can carry out the action that is similar to the ordinary people, this joint portion is carried out operations such as bending by the special messenger, can determine the posture of being scheduled to by this mode.And in the occasion of the posture of wanting to change this manikin, this director wants the arm of mobile human body model at every turn, makes it change into other posture.In addition, at first in the occasion of the manikin that does not have joint portion, owing to can not change posture, when wanting other posture of conversion, must prepare other manikin.

Yet, in the aforesaid occasion that alters one's posture, at every turn this director all have to the mobile human body model arm or prepare other manikin, frequent change posture is the work that bothers very much.In addition, the manikin of this static state in past is not easy to cause pedestrian and client's concern, is not what showy thing.And, though can experience the atmosphere that reality has been worn western-style clothes, from the manikin that is in the action stationary state, can't understand the appearance of wearing the motion of this western-style clothes etc.Therefore, a kind of manikin can appear in expectation now, and it can improve the attraction to pedestrian etc., and can effectively propagate commodity.

The present invention In view of the foregoing, provides a kind of manikin with the drive division that drives joint portion, and it can move according to the predetermined actions style.

Summary of the invention

In order to realize above-mentioned purpose of the present invention, of the present inventionly be arranged on the manikin that shop display window etc. locates and be provided with: at least by trunk, the health that arm constitutes; At least be arranged on the above-mentioned arm a plurality of joint portions that can move in a predetermined direction; Be connected with above-mentioned joint portion, drive the drive division of this joint portion respectively; By being connected with above-mentioned drive division and this drive division being controlled the control part that the action of each joint portion is controlled arbitrarily; Be connected with above-mentioned control part, be used for the storage part of memory command, this order is corresponding to the predetermined action style of above-mentioned body action.Above-mentioned control part according to the order that is stored in the above-mentioned storage part, is controlled above-mentioned drive division and is made above-mentioned health move along the action style of this order request.

Here, above-mentioned drive division is made of air pressure drive system or electrical drive system, and this air pressure drive system has air compressor, voltage regulation part, and valve part; This electrical drive system has motor, and force transmission system.

In addition, above-mentioned control part is connected with an electrical communication network, and can carry out remote-controlled operation to above-mentioned control part by this electrical communication network.

And above-mentioned storage part is connected with an electrical communication network, and can be connected with above-mentioned control part by this electrical communication network.

In addition, also can be provided with and to detect the sensor that has or not the pedestrian.The sensor is connected with above-mentioned control part, detects above-mentioned pedestrian at sensor and has stopped the occasion more than the certain hour, and above-mentioned control part is controlled above-mentioned manikin its direction towards detected pedestrian is moved.

And the sensor can be arranged on the front side, position that above-mentioned manikin is placed, rear side, and the right side, any one of left side perhaps is arranged on going up of many sides everywhere.

In addition, the action style of corresponding mentioned order in above-mentioned storage portion stores is the model's of imitation fashion world the action style of typical posture.

According to said method, can obtain following effect.Promptly, manikin of the present invention, make that manikin can be free and realize simply moving according to the predetermined actions style.Owing to usually can move, improved attraction to pedestrian etc., can effectively display commodity.In addition, by the long-distance remote control operation, can more optionally pose at any time simply.And owing to can also determine posture to the pedestrian who it is expressed interest, it becomes a kind of western-style clothes manikin of being worn higher to client's attraction that can make.In addition, because the action style is the model's of imitation fashion world a typical posture, the commodity of western-style clothes etc. can show more beautiful effect.

The simple declaration of accompanying drawing

Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of the manikin with drive division of the 1st embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is the schematic diagram of the manikin with drive division of the 2nd embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is the schematic diagram of the manikin with drive division of the 3rd embodiment of the present invention.

Most preferred embodiment of the present invention

Below, form of implementation of the present invention and illustrated example are described together.Fig. 1 is the figure that schematically illustrates the manikin of the 1st embodiment of the present invention.The health of illustrated manikin of the present invention is mainly by head 1, trunk 2, and arm 3 constitutes.And, can certainly be to constitute the health that does not have head 1 according to the type of service of manikin.And on the arm 3, at shoulder, ancon has

joint portion

4,5,6 respectively on the wrist portion, makes that the action of arm 3 on predetermined direction can be identical with the mankind's arm.And joint portion not only can be located on the shoulder, can also be located on the neck 7 and waist 8 as the connecting portion between head 1 and the trunk 2.These joint portions can also further be located at the part corresponding with articulations digitorum manus, and the position of its setting, quantity etc. can be according to the requirements to manikin, type of service, the consideration arbitrary decision of aspects such as manufacturing cost.

On above-mentioned joint portion, be connected with the drive division 10 that is used to drive this joint portion.Here, in the embodiment in figure 1, expression be the situation that drive division 10 is made of the air pressure drive system.At this moment, on joint portion, be provided with the cylinder that can drive arm etc. etc.In addition, on each cylinder, be provided with air flue (dotted line among the figure).Be provided with in the drive division 10: compressed air improves the air compressor 101 of air pressure; The pressure that this air compressor 101 produces is regulated, be adjusted to the pressure regulating part 102 of predetermined pressure; And be arranged on adjustment on the joint portion to the valve part 103 of the discrepancy air mass flow of cylinder.And, though be the drive division of air pressure drive system shown in Fig. 1, the invention is not restricted to this, can also be that do not propose various can be applicable to the devices that drive joint portion.Such as, can also be to adopt oil pressure, the drive system of non-air pressure such as hydraulic pressure, and, can also be the drive division that adopts electrical drive system, wherein electrical drive system be sent to such power transmission structures such as the gear of joint portion or belt by motor with the rotation of this motor and constitutes.

Manikin of the present invention also has and is connected with above-mentioned drive division 10, can at random control the control part 11 of above-mentioned each

joint portion

4,5,6.In the occasion that is the drive division 10 of air pressure drive system as shown in Figure 1, control part 11 is by being connected with the valve part 103 of drive division 10, and the valve event of by-pass valve control parts 103 can at random be controlled

joint portion

4,5,6 action.Particularly, for example make the occasion that arm makes progress at the joint portion 4 of wanting to move shoulder, with control part 11 control be arranged on air flue that cylinder on the joint portion 4 is connected on the valve of valve part 103, thereby apply air pressure to cylinder, driving joint portion 4.By respectively each joint portion being carried out the mode of control similarly, it is carried out and human the same action.

And, on control part 11, be connected with storage part 12.In the storage part 12, store order corresponding to the predetermined actions style of the action of the health of above-mentioned manikin.Particularly, storage part is a kind ofly to make arm 3 move with a series of action style in order to realize, and storage device that can memory command, and wherein this order is to drive the order that the action of each joint portion is controlled respectively by drive division 10.Here, being not limited to semiconductor memory, can also be to comprise disk, the memory of various storage devices such as CD.And order is exactly the program corresponding to concrete action style, and this procedure stores in storage part 12, is controlled drive division 10 by control part 11 according to this program, makes each

joint portion

4,5,6 grades move.

Below, the action of manikin of the present invention with above-mentioned structure is described.By waited order of the action of sending the beginning manikin by the operator, the air compressor 101 of drive division 10 is started working, and is adjusted to predetermined air pressure by voltage regulation part 102.Then, select to be stored in the order of the corresponding predetermined actions pattern in the storage part 12, such as the selected orders such as posture that determined according to the fashion model, the valve part 103 of 11 pairs of drive divisions 10 of control part is controlled.The switching of the valve by valve part 103 makes to be arranged on cylinder action on each

joint portion

4,5,6, thereby realizes manikin moving by the predetermined actions style.Storage part 12 can be stored a plurality of orders corresponding with a plurality of action styles, therefrom selects the operation of predetermined actions style, can certainly automatically carry out randomly.

On manikin with such drive division of the present invention, dress has the western-style clothes as commodity, bag, ornament or the like is arranged on the shop display window with it, the shop, the next door of commodity does not just need the responsible posture that specially changes manikin of special messenger, in addition, because manikin self can move automatically, can also improve the attraction to pedestrian and client.And, owing to can see appearance when the arm of wear after the western-style clothes moves, and in the display of commodity, introduction, more effective in the time of propaganda.And, be stored in the action style on the storage part 12, be not limited to the motion of machinery, because it can also realize multiple action style, typical posture such as the model that can also imitate fashion world, continuous posture of famous model such as supermodel or the like is so can show commodity such as western-style clothes with beautiful more mode.And imitation model's posture can realize by adopting in such a way, promptly, with various technology such as motion captures model's action is collected in the computer etc., and is transformed into the understandable order of control part of the present invention.

With reference to Fig. 2 the 2nd embodiment of the present invention is described then.Fig. 2 is the figure that schematically illustrates the manikin of the 2nd embodiment of the present invention, among the figure, owing to represent same object with the part that Fig. 1 has an identical Reference numeral, omits the explanation to repeating part.In the manikin of the 2nd embodiment of the present invention, control part 11 is connected with electrical communication network 15, can control the action of manikin by this electrical communication network 15.

So, by control part 11 is connected with electrical communication network 15 (such as Internet (internet) and Intranet (intranet)), can realize remote straighforward operation manikin.If promptly on electrical communication network 15, be provided with the operation center 20 of management manikin, need not just can be from simply and promptly manikin being controlled at a distance near the place that in fact is provided with manikin.And storage part 12 also is connected with electrical communication network 15, also can be connected with control part 11 via this electrical communication network.At this moment, storage part 12 can wait with file server and make up, and just can worry memory capacity and can login a large amount of action styles.In addition, storage part 12 is arranged on the electrical communication network, because can be from moving the login of style at a distance, change can be rapidly reacted to popular posture etc.And the connection between control part 11 and the electrical communication network 15 is not limited to wired connection, can certainly adopt the mode of wireless connections based on the examining of aspect such as cabling of wiring.

And, having the occasion of a plurality of manikins, if control part 11 separately is connected with electrical communication network 15, just can realize such as the manikin in the shop is carried out unified management with operation center 20.And, even away from the shop, also can realize the manikin between each shop, control simultaneously such as having relation ground mutually.In addition, storage part 12 is located on the electrical communication network 15, just not be used in storage part 12 all is set on each manikin, can reduce number of components thus, and, because the management etc. of action style can be concentrated at a place carries out, can alleviate the operation of this respect.

Then, figure 3 illustrates the schematic diagram of the manikin of the 3rd embodiment of the present invention.Among the figure,, omit explanation here to repeating part because the part that has a same reference numerals with Fig. 1 is represented same object.In the present embodiment, also be connected with on the control part 11 and can detect the sensor 16 that has or not pedestrian 18.

Such as shown in Figure 3, in the front of the set shop display window of manikin of the present invention a plurality of sensors 16 are set, they are devices of the pedestrian who stops previously 18 that can detect in the shop display window.Particularly, sensor 16 can adopt the various sensors that can detect the pedestrian, such as sonar sensor, and optical sensor, heat sensor etc.And sensor 16 can adopt sonic transducer, every can be all right to the sensor of pedestrian 18 sound generating reaction.And, though sensor 16 has been established a plurality ofly in illustrated embodiment, can detect pedestrian's 18 in the broader context position, also can be a sensor.Promptly, sensor 16 can be located at the place ahead of the position that manikin places, the rear, right-hand, in the left any one, perhaps be arranged on the wherein many places in a plurality of orientation, as the device that can detect the position that pedestrian 18 exists can according to the characteristic of sensor to it number, place etc. be set carry out suitable selection.And, sensor 16 can also be located on one's body the manikin.And in this specification, the pedestrian comprises the audience, and client etc. watch everyone of the western-style clothes worn on the manikin and bag etc.

Occasion at example shown in Figure 3, detect 18 pairs of manikins of pedestrian at the sensor of central authorities and express interest, stopped under the above situation of the scheduled time such as 5 seconds, control part 11 judges that being positioned at central 18 pairs of manikins of pedestrian has represented interest, just drive division 10 is controlled, made manikin carry out carrying out the action of action style such as posture displaying towards central authorities according to the order that is stored in the storage part 12.Stopped more than the scheduled time if other sensor detects the pedestrian, control part 11 makes manikin move with regard to controlling drive division 10 towards the detected pedestrian's of this sensor direction.And, though control part 11 is not connected on the electrical communication network in the illustrative example, but by combined, also can carry out the long-distance remote control operation, storage part 12 can also be located on the electrical communication network by the electrical communication network with the 2nd embodiment of the present invention.

So, according to present embodiment, because control to the action of manikin, can be towards the pedestrian who stops who manikin is expressed interest, can more effectively display, propagate being worn in western-style clothes on the manikin and bag etc., so be a kind of manikin stronger client's attraction.

And, have the manikin of drive division of the present invention, be not limited to the technical scheme of above-mentioned illustrated embodiment, can also be in the scope that does not break away from aim of the present invention, to carry out the resulting other technologies scheme of various changes.Such as, though represented to have the manikin of head in the illustrated embodiment, but also can constitute the manikin that does not have head, in addition, certainly as required can be not only will the upper part of the body also the part of the lower part of the body be also formed by the such structure of part of the upper part of the body of manikin of the present invention.And the structure of drive division only is an example, can also adopt the technology of the action of other the various joint portions that can realize arm etc.

As mentioned above, according to manikin with drive division of the present invention, be different from and only worn the manikin that commodity are shelved with static state, since free and simply realized doing according to the action of predetermined actions style, reached the effect that more effectively commodity is displayed and propagate.In addition,, can watch the people of manikin to move, realize a kind of technical scheme that can wait the interactively manikin of reacting the pedestrian so that manikin can wait towards the pedestrian owing to had sensor.

Claims

1. A mannequin set in a shop display window, etc., the mannequin having:

A body consisting of at least a torso, arms,

A plurality of joints that can move in predetermined directions provided at least on the above-mentioned arm,

A drive unit that is connected to the above-mentioned joint part and drives the joint part respectively,

A control unit that is connected to the above-mentioned drive unit and can control the movement of each joint part arbitrarily by controlling the drive unit,

a storage unit connected to the control unit for storing commands corresponding to predetermined movement patterns of the movement of the body,

It is characterized in that the control unit controls the driving unit according to the command stored in the storage unit, so that the body moves according to the motion pattern required by the command.

2. The human body model according to claim 1, wherein the driving unit is constituted by a pneumatic driving system, and the pneumatic driving system has an air compressor, a pressure regulating member, and a valve member.

3. The human body model according to claim 1, wherein the drive unit is composed of an electric drive system having a motor and a force transmission system.

4. The human body model according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the control unit is connected to an electric communication network and can be remotely operated through the electric communication network.

5. The human body model according to claim 4, wherein the storage unit is connected to an electrical communication network, and can be connected to the control unit through the electrical communication network.

6. The human body model as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that: a sensor capable of detecting whether a pedestrian passes is also provided, the sensor is connected to the control unit, and when the sensor detects that the pedestrian has stopped for a certain period of time, When the time is longer, the control unit controls the human body model to move in the direction of the detected pedestrian.

7. The human body model according to claim 6, characterized in that: the above-mentioned sensors are arranged at any one of the front side, the rear side, the right side, and the left side of the position where the human body model is placed, or are arranged at each of multiple sides. on.

8. The mannequin according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the movement patterns corresponding to the commands stored in the storage unit are movement patterns imitating typical poses of fashion models.