Patents Assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11904454
    Abstract: A robot system includes a manufacturing system including a robot and peripheral equipment. There is a controller communicably connected to the robot, the peripheral equipment, and a portable information terminal. The controller includes a memory storing the operation program, operation mode setting circuitry to set an operation mode a teaching mode or a playback mode, operation controlling circuitry configured to control the operation of the robot in the teaching mode based on the operation command, and control the robot and the peripheral equipment in the playback mode in accordance with the operation program, and display controlling circuitry configured to control the portable information terminal in the teaching mode to display on a display an operation screen through which the operation command is inputted, and control the portable information terminal in the playback mode to display on the displaying part a screen different from the operation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Watanabe, Toshihiko Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20240050175
    Abstract: A surgical robot (1) includes a controller (31) configured or programmed to perform a control to move a medical cart (3), to align a manipulator arm (60) with a position corresponding to a port (PT) or a trocar (T) provided on a body surface (S) based on an image captured by an imager (51).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji KISHIDA, Jota IDA
  • Publication number: 20240051134
    Abstract: A controller that performs a control in which a robot autonomously performs a given work includes a first processor. The first processor performs processing including acquiring state information including a state of a workpiece that is a work target while performing the given work, determining candidates of a work position of the workpiece based on the state information, transmitting a selection request for requesting a selection of the work position from the candidates of the work position to an operation terminal, the operation terminal being connected data-communicably with the first processor via a communication network, and when information on a selected position that is the selected work position is received from the operation terminal, causing the robot to operate autonomously according to the selected position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi HASUNUMA, Masayuki KAMON, Takeshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240055897
    Abstract: A wireless power supply device (1) includes a first turn-on control circuit (31) to control a turn-on timing of a switching device (SW), and a second turn-on control circuit (32) to control a turn-on timing of an auxiliary switching device (SWS), and the switching device (SW) and the auxiliary switching device (SWS) are operable to perform a zero voltage switching operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: JOSHO GAKUEN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki OMORI, Ryota SAKAI, Taichi IWANAGA
  • Publication number: 20240052599
    Abstract: A housing of a multi-control valve includes an arm parallel passage, an arm crowding supply passage, an arm pushing supply passage, a boom parallel passage, a boom raising supply passage, and a boom lowering supply passage. The housing further includes: a slide hole; a head-side passage that is branched off from the boom raising supply passage and extends to the slide hole; a rod-side passage that is branched off from the boom lowering supply passage and extends to the slide hole; and a regeneration passage that extends from the slide hole to the arm parallel passage. The slide hole receives a boom sub spool therein. The boom sub spool is either a boom recycling spool or a boom regeneration spool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro KONDO, Yoshiyuki TODE, Hideyasu MURAOKA
  • Publication number: 20240052977
    Abstract: A portable cargo handling equipment includes: a liquid hydrogen pipe which includes a first joint connectable to an end portion of a ship-side liquid pipe extending from the ship-side cryogenic tank and a second joint connectable to an end portion of a land-side liquid pipe extending from the land-side cryogenic tank; an emergency release coupling located at the liquid hydrogen pipe; a shutoff valve located between the emergency release coupling and second joint; and an atmosphere open structure including an atmosphere open passage including one end communicating with a portion of the liquid hydrogen pipe which is located between first joint and shutoff valve, and the other end that is open to an atmosphere, an on-off valve that opens and closes the atmosphere open passage; and a heater that is located at atmosphere open passage and heats the liquid hydrogen or hydrogen gas and guided by the atmosphere open passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsutomu ONO, Takako OSHIBE
  • Publication number: 20240051129
    Abstract: A horizontally articulated robot includes a manipulator, a hand, and a teaching member. The hand is connected to the manipulator. The hand is capable of holding a substrate. The teaching member is connected to the manipulator. The teaching member is not used for transferring a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuma KANEZAKI, Atsushi NAKAYA, Junichi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20240051158
    Abstract: An automatic lubrication robot includes a robot, a grease hose, and a delivery unit. The robot includes a lifting and lowering unit that moves linearly and an arm coupled to the lifting and lowering unit, and the robot is arranged in a clean room to perform an operation. Grease for lubricating the robot passes through the grease hose. In response to the linear movement of the lifting and lowering unit, the delivery unit delivers the grease to the robot via the grease hose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi SHIBATA, Ryota ONO
  • Patent number: 11898650
    Abstract: This pressure-reducing valve includes: a casing in which a valve passage is formed; a valve body that is movably housed in the casing and changes a position thereof according to a secondary pressure to adjust an opening degree of the valve passage; and a biasing member that biases the valve body against the secondary pressure in an opening direction in which the valve passage opens. The biasing member is a spring in the form of a plate and extends laterally from the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Fujimoto, Masayoshi Okamoto, Masataka Higashiura, Masataka Shirasawa, Tsutomu Tomita, Shigeyoshi Mori
  • Publication number: 20240041548
    Abstract: A surgical robot according to this disclosure includes a wiring-line set that is arranged in a robot arm so that the wiring-line set extends in a longitudinal direction of the robot arm, and passes through a rotation axis of a first joint, which is configured to rotate in a bending direction of the robot arm, and through a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the robot arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichirou TANIMOTO, Fumiya MATSUMOTO, Tetsuya NAKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20240042620
    Abstract: A robot system includes a plurality of self-propelled robots, each including an autonomously travelable carriage and a robotic arm mounted on the carriage, and a single manipulation console that is operated by an operator to allow the operator to manually operate the plurality of self-propelled robots. The plurality of self-propelled robots include a first self-propelled robot that performs a given first work, and a second self-propelled robot that performs a given second work different in kind from the first work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki KAMON, Hitoshi HASUNUMA
  • Publication number: 20240041549
    Abstract: A surgical robot according to this disclosure includes the joint including an electric motor, a first speed reducer configured to reduce a speed of rotation of the electric motor, and to provide the speed-reduced rotation, a gear part configured to further reduce the speed of the rotation provided from the first speed reducer, and to provide the further-speed-reduced rotation, and a second speed reducer configured to reduce the further-speed-reduced rotation provided from the gear part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichirou TANIMOTO, Fumiya MATSUMOTO, Tetsuya NAKANISHI
  • Patent number: 11890072
    Abstract: A robotic surgical system includes a controller configured or programmed to change a length between a first axis and a second axis in a direction in which a shaft extends, the length serving as a control parameter, according to a rotation speed of the shaft with respect to an amount of operation to control operation of a surgical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Mizohata, Nobuyasu Shimomura, Ayataka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11892162
    Abstract: A premixed combustion burner includes: a mixing part including a first peripheral wall having a center burner axis, a mixing region for mixing fuel and air in the first peripheral wall, and air supply ports arranged circumferentially and open in the first peripheral wall; a nozzle on the mixing part side, a second peripheral wall having a center burner axis, a premixed gas passage continuous to the second peripheral wall mixing region, and a cooling passage in the second peripheral wall; and a header part proximal to the mixing part, and a first header chamber with a fuel supply port, second header chamber, and fuel ejection port for communication between the second header chamber and mixing region. The first peripheral wall has an outward path connecting the first header chamber and a cooling passage inlet, and a return path connecting cooling passage outlet and the second header chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Uchiyama, Takahiro Uto, Atsushi Horikawa
  • Patent number: 11892074
    Abstract: A transmission lubricating structure includes a power transmitting shaft, a main lubricating circuit, and an auxiliary lubricating circuit. The power transmitting shaft includes an ejection hole communicating an inside with an outside of the power transmitting shaft. The main lubricating circuit includes: a main nozzle having a nozzle hole through which lubricating oil supplied from a main tank is discharged to the internal space of the power transmitting shaft; and a hydraulic pump configured to supply the lubricating oil by pressure from the main tank to the main nozzle. The auxiliary lubricating circuit includes an auxiliary nozzle arranged lower than an auxiliary tank and higher than a lubrication target at the outside of the power transmitting shaft, the auxiliary nozzle being configured to drop the lubricating oil, supplied from the auxiliary tank by an own weight of the lubricating oil, toward the lubrication target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenta Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 11891181
    Abstract: An outer panel-mediated cooling system includes a heat source chamber; a cooling path that is located between outer and inner panels; a non-cooling path that is located between the outer and inner panels and thermally insulated from a cooling path and the outer panel and through which at least one of pressurized gas and return gas from the heat source chamber passes; a mixing chamber into which cooled gas leaving the cooling path and an uncooled gas leaving the non-cooling path flow, in which the cooled gas and the uncooled gas are mixed to form a mixed gas, and out of which the mixed gas flows toward the heat source chamber; and a flow rate regulating valve that regulates a flow rate of gas flowing toward the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Haruki, Keiji Sakagawa, Kazuhide Hakamada, Ryosuke Mitani
  • Patent number: 11890823
    Abstract: A composite material structure manufacturing jig (10) is used when manufacturing a composite material structure by adhering prepreg to a framework structure including a frame component that includes a channel extending along a longitudinal direction of the frame component. The composite material structure manufacturing jig (10) is inserted in the channel of the frame component and used therein. The jig (10) includes a tubular body (11) formed of an elastic material containing a reinforcement fiber, the body (11) including a trapezoidal transverse section that is a cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the body (11), the trapezoidal transverse section including an upper base and a lower base longer than the upper base. An inner surface of the body (11) is coated with an inner peripheral film (16) serving as a gas barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshikazu Sana
  • Patent number: 11890753
    Abstract: A cooling medium flow path structure is for use at a joint of a robot. The joint of the robot includes an N-th link and an N+1-th link. A tubular projection extends from a first wall constituting the N-th link, and a motor is located on the first wall. The cooling medium flow path structure is annularly or tubularly shaped such that an inner peripheral surface of the cooling medium flow path structure is located outside an outer peripheral surface of the motor. The cooling medium flow path structure includes an internal cooling medium flow path through which a cooling medium flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nodo, Ryoma Koretake
  • Publication number: 20240037294
    Abstract: A simulator includes circuitry and a storage. The storage stores target operation data indicative of a series of target operations, and data relevant to a virtual robot model. The processing circuitry performs: causing the robot model to operate according to the target operation data; outputting image data of the operating robot model to a display; accepting an input of a change in a first operation that is operation of the robot model according to the target operation data and is displayed on the display; associating information indicative of a state of the robot model in a second operation, to which the change is reflected, with information on the first operation included in the target operation data; and storing the associated information in the storage. The circuitry outputs image data indicative of the second operation to the display, when causing the robot model to perform the first operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akinori TANI, Hitoshi NARIAI
  • Publication number: 20240035255
    Abstract: A valve unit according to one embodiment includes valve equipment and control circuitry. The valve equipment includes a spool valve and a poppet-type logic valve. The spool valve switches a direction of supply and discharge of hydraulic oil to and from a hydraulic actuator. The logic valve is located between the spool valve and a hydraulic pump. The control circuitry controls the spool valve and the logic valve, such that if a supply flow rate of the hydraulic oil to the hydraulic actuator is less than a predetermined value, an opening area of a meter-in passage of the spool valve is less than an opening area of the logic valve, whereas if the supply flow rate of the hydraulic oil to the hydraulic actuator is greater than the predetermined value, the opening area of the meter-in passage of the spool valve is greater than the opening area of the logic valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiji AOKI, Yoshiyuki TODE, Masahiro OHIRA