Patents by Inventor Hajime Suzuki

Hajime Suzuki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200398744
    Abstract: A lighting device includes an indoor lamp (11), being provided in the cabin of a railroad vehicle (1) in order to wholly irradiate the inside of the cabin over the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a vehicle body power supply (20), supplying electric power to the indoor lamp (11), and a storage battery (30), being charged with a voltage applied by the vehicle body power supply (20). The indoor lamp (11) includes a general lamp light source (12) and a standby lamp light source (13), being lighted at an illuminance lower than that at which the general lamp light source (12) is lighted, and the general lamp source (12) being supplied with electric power from the vehicle body power supply (20) not through the storage battery (30), while the standby lamp light source (13) being supplied with electric power from the vehicle body power supply (20) through the storage battery (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Tadashi FUJII, Hideto SANUI, Jun ITO, Hajime SUZUKI, Youmei KAMINAGA, Takayuki IZUMI, Kazuo MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200379441
    Abstract: A control device controls a mechanical device having a movable member driven by a motor. The control device includes a radio signal exchange unit that receives a sensor signal indicating a position, a velocity or an acceleration of a tip part of the movable member, a data acquisition unit that acquires first time-series data of acceleration based on the received sensor signal, a data calculation unit that calculates second time-series data of acceleration at the tip part based on a drive command to the motor, a delay time calculation unit that calculates, when the mechanical device performs a predetermined basic operation, a delay time of the first time-series data to the second time-series data, based on a degree of correlation between the first and second time-series data, and a time synchronization unit that synchronizes time of the sensor part and control device based on the delay time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi INAGAKI, Hajime SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200338724
    Abstract: A vibration display device including a vibration acquisition unit that acquires a vibration state of a distal end section of a robot that is a robot in a simulation or in a real world, the distal end section being moved based on an operation program, and a vibration trajectory drawing unit that draws, on a display device, the vibration state along a trajectory of the distal end section of the robot or that draws, on the display device, the vibration state as the trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Kouichirou HAYASHI, Hajime SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10814481
    Abstract: A robot system includes a robot mechanism unit provided with a sensor and a motor encoder for detecting a position of a control target, and a robot control device which controls an operation of the robot mechanism unit in accordance with an operation program, in which a learning control unit includes a position error estimating section which estimates low-frequency components in a position error, based on information from the motor encoder and estimates high-frequency components in the position error, based on information from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Washizu, Hajime Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10771289
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, receiver, multi-receiver device, system and computer readable medium for configuring a receiver to perform multi-transmitter channel estimation for a time-varying channel. In one aspect, the method includes: wirelessly receiving at least two frames, each frame including a block of training symbols received at different points in time for a time-varying channel; estimating, for each block at a block location, a first channel coefficient of the time-varying channel, wherein the block location is the same for each block; and interpolating or extrapolating a plurality of second channel coefficients for the respective training symbols of each block based on the respective first channel coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Chang Kyung Sung, Rodney Kendall, David Eric Humphrey, Hajime Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200273306
    Abstract: A delivery management system includes: an authentication unit that authenticates a user; a storage unit that stores identification information on an article stored in a storage area that is a target article associated with the user; and a control unit that, when an article carried out by the authenticated user from the storage area is the same as the target article, permits the user to exit the storage area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuji SAITO, Hajime SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10737384
    Abstract: A robot system includes a light source, an image capture device, a robot mechanism unit having a target site of position control where the light source is provided, and a robot controller that controls the position of the robot mechanism unit based on a position command, a position feedback, and a position compensation value. The robot controller includes a path acquisition unit that makes the image capture device capture an image of light from the light source continuously during the predetermined operation to acquire a path of the light source from the image capture device, a positional error estimation unit that estimates positional error of the path of the light source from the position command based on the acquired path of the light source and the position command, and a compensation value generation unit that generates the position compensation value based on the estimated positional error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuaki Yamaoka, Hajime Suzuki, Kaimeng Wang
  • Publication number: 20200171654
    Abstract: A robot system includes: a learning control unit configured to perform learning for calculating a learning correction amount for bringing a position of a control target portion toward a target position; a robot control unit configured to control the operation of the robot mechanism unit; a power spectrum calculating unit configured to calculate a power spectrum of a vibration data of the control target portion; a comparison unit configured to compare each power spectrum between at the time of the current learning and at the time of the immediately preceding learning; and a learning correction amount updating unit configured to adjust at least one of a phase and a gain of the learning correction amount used at the time of the current learning to set the adjusted learning correction amount as a new learning correction amount used at the time of next learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi INAGAKI, Hajime SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200147799
    Abstract: A robot device includes: a robot; an operation control section; a sensor configured to detect a value related to a position of a control target portion of the robot; a low-speed position information acquisition section configured to acquire low-speed position information of the control target portion; a calibration section configured to perform calibration between the sensor and the robot by using the low-speed position information and a command position; and a learning control section configured to learn a correction amount that reduces a deviation between operation described in an operation program and an actual operation of the control target portion, by using a detection value of the sensor that is acquired when the robot is operated in accordance with the operation program, the low-speed position information or the command position, and calibration data acquired through the calibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Yamaoka, Hajime Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10646995
    Abstract: A control device repeats learning of: calculating an allowable condition for speed variations during a processing operation based on an allowable condition for processing error; setting an operating speed change rate used to increase or reduce an operating speed of a robot mechanism unit using a calculated allowable condition for speed variations; and, while increasing or reducing the operating speed change rate over a plurality of repetitions within a range not exceeding a maximum value of the operating speed change rate and within a range of an allowable condition for vibrations occurring in a control target, calculates a new correction amount based on an amount of difference between a position of the control target detected based on a sensor and a target position, and a previously-calculated correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Washizu, Hajime Suzuki, Kaimeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10619557
    Abstract: An engine includes a cylinder liner, a cylinder block, a cylinder head, a seal portion, and a gap member. The seal part is provided to surround the outer circumferential side of the cylinder liner and configured to seal between the cylinder block and the cylinder head. At a position on the inner circumferential side of the seal part, the gap member fills the gap between the cylinder head and the end surface of the inner peripheral side of the cylinder liner, and is made of a material having a lower Young's modulus than the seal part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Suzuki, Hiroshi Yoshizumi
  • Publication number: 20200108511
    Abstract: A sensor bracket is provided with frame members supporting an acceleration sensor, the frame members having circular arc members holding an outer periphery of a tool of a robot in a state in which circumferential-direction gaps are defined in at least one portion of the circular arc members in a circumferential direction, and a bolt thread-screwed into the frame members so as to reduce the circumferential-direction gaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko INOUE, Tomoyuki MOTOKADO, Hajime SUZUKI, Kouichirou HAYASHI, Shinichi WASHIZU
  • Patent number: 10589429
    Abstract: Provided is a machine system including a machine including a movable part; a control device; a sensor detecting information about the movable part during a predetermined operation of the machine; a transmitting unit wirelessly transmitting the detected information during the predetermined operation; a receiving unit receiving the wirelessly transmitted information; a storage unit storing the received information; a detection unit detecting a loss in the received information; a command unit causing the machine to repeat the predetermined operation, in a case where a loss in the information is detected; a determination unit determining whether or not every lost part of the information detected first is contained in the information detected during the repeated operation; and an complementing unit ending the repeated operation in a case where every lost part is determined to be contained and complementing the information detected first with the information detected during the repeated operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Kaimeng Wang, Nobuaki Yamaoka, Hajime Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200030984
    Abstract: This robot system includes a robot, a tool which is attached to the robot, an imaging device, and a controller which controls the robot and the tool, and the controller is configured so that a distal end portion of the robot is placed at a plurality of calibration positions, the tool is operated at each of the calibration positions, images of light irradiated to an object or a trace left on the object due to tool operation processing are captured by the imaging device, and calibration is performed based on comparison between irradiation positions of the light or positions of the traces, which are in an image captured by the imaging device, and predetermined reference positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime SUZUKI, Shuusuke WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200009742
    Abstract: The automatic machine includes a movable member driven by a motor, a tool that is attached to the movable member and includes a movable mechanism that operates independently of the movable member, a sensor that is attached to the movable mechanism and measures a location of the movable mechanism, and a processor configured to detect, based on a location of the movable mechanism measured by the sensor when the motor is controlled in accordance with a command to move the tool to a target location and on an amount of movement of the movable mechanism from a reference point, detects a first location in a case in which the movable mechanism is virtually fixed to the reference point, and calculate a correction amount for a control amount of the motor in such a way as to decrease a difference between the target location and the first location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Hajime SUZUKI, Nobuaki YAMAOKA, Kouichirou HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10516449
    Abstract: The present invention discloses various improvements to multi-user multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MU-MIMO-OFDM) wireless communication systems. In one aspect there is disclosed an efficient and accurate channel estimation method and system using locally consecutive pilot sub-carriers. In another aspect there is disclosed an efficient channel feedback method and system by applying a discrete cosine transform to channel coefficients. In another aspect there is disclosed an efficient method and system to calculate a part of the channel inverse by interpolation. These aspects can be used in combination to improve the MU-MIMO-OFDM system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Chang Kyung Sung, Rodney Kendall, David Eric Humphrey, Hajime Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10486307
    Abstract: A robot control device that controls a robot that executes operations in the same area as an operator includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a control state of the robot, information indicating an attitude of the operator, and information indicating a position of an operating target object in the operations; an estimating unit that estimates an operation in execution on the basis of respective pieces of information acquired by the information acquisition unit; a required time calculating unit that calculates a required time required until the operation in execution ends on the basis of the estimated operation in execution; an operation plan creating unit that creates an operation plan of the robot on the basis of the required time; and a control unit that controls the robot so as to execute operations according to the operation plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaimeng Wang, Hajime Suzuki, Shuusuke Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190344440
    Abstract: The control system includes: a driven body driven by a motor; a control apparatus configured to operate the body; and a sensor detecting a state quantity of the body, wherein the control apparatus includes: a storage storing a correction amount for correcting vibration occurring at the mounting position; a control unit configured to generate a command value for the motor in each control cycle based on an operation program, and perform operation control of the body based on the correction amount and the command value; a calculation unit configured to calculate the correction amount; an update unit configured to update the correction amount each time the operation control is performed; and a determination unit configured to determine validity of at least one of an internal parameter and the like of the sensor based on the command value and the state quantity each time the operation control is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki YAMAOKA, Hajime SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20190308316
    Abstract: A robot system includes a robot mechanism unit provided with a sensor and a motor encoder for detecting a position of a control target, and a robot control device which controls an operation of the robot mechanism unit in accordance with an operation program, in which a learning control unit includes a position error estimating section which estimates low-frequency components in a position error, based on information from the motor encoder and estimates high-frequency components in the position error, based on information from the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Washizu, Hajime Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190255709
    Abstract: A vibration analyzer includes a sensor that measures a vibration of an end effector supported by a distal end of a robot, a storage unit that stores a vibration calculation model of the robot, and a control unit configured to perform separation processing for separating a vibration to be reduced that is measured by the sensor into vibration data of the robot and vibration data of the end effector by using the vibration calculation model of the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi INAGAKI, Hajime SUZUKI