Patents by Inventor Kaname Matsumoto

Kaname Matsumoto 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).

  • Patent number: 11551854
    Abstract: A three-phase AC reactor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes three-phase coils that are not arranged in parallel, an input and output terminal block having an input and output unit having a parallel arrangement, and an external connection position change unit disposed between a coil end of each of the three-phase coils and the input and output terminal block to connect the coil end to the input and output terminal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Tsukada, Kaname Matsumoto, Makoto Takeshita, Yuuichi Yamada, Masatomo Shirouzu
  • Patent number: 10903703
    Abstract: A rotor includes: a rotary member; a plurality of permanent magnets arranged on an outer circumferential side of the rotary member; and a cover tube provided on an outer circumferential surface side of the plurality of the permanent magnets, and formed by a tape-like fiber bundle in which a plurality of thread-like fibers aligned in one direction is bundled smoothly by resin, in which the cover tube is formed so that the tape-like fiber bundle circles in a spiral pattern along the circumferential direction, and the tape-like fiber bundle arranges along the axial direction, and a circling-start end face and a circling-end end face of the tape-like fiber bundle face the axial direction of the cover tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Takano, Takafumi Kajiya, Hisashi Maeda, Kaname Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10749393
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotary member, a plurality of permanent magnets disposed on an outer circumference of the rotary member, and a cover tube that is mounted to outer circumference of the permanent magnets to cover the permanent magnets, and is formed of a fiber reinforced plastic. At least one of the rotary member and the permanent magnets has a diameter enlarged portion having a diameter enlarged circumferential surface. The diameter enlarged portion has a diameter that enlarges from a first diameter region to a second diameter region. The first diameter region has a diameter equal to or less than an inner diameter of the cover tube. The second diameter region has a diameter equal to or more than an outer diameter of the permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Takano, Takafumi Kajiya, Kaname Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10685777
    Abstract: A three-phase AC reactor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an input and output terminal block; a peripheral iron core disposed under the input and output terminal block; and at least three iron-core coils each constituted of an iron core and a coil wound around the iron core, so as to contact an inner surface of the peripheral iron core or so as to be coupled to the inner surface. The at least three iron-core coils form gaps that can be magnetically coupled between two of the iron-core coils adjoining each other. The three-phase AC reactor includes a phase-based coil extending member unit that extends from coil end portions of the coils as base points to connection points of the input and output terminal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Tsukada, Kaname Matsumoto, Makoto Takeshita, Yuuichi Yamada, Masatomo Shirouzu
  • Patent number: 10622137
    Abstract: A three-phase AC reactor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes three-phase coils that are not arranged in parallel, an input and output terminal block having an input and output unit having a parallel arrangement, and an external connection position change unit disposed between a coil end of each of the three-phase coils and the input and output terminal block to connect the coil end to the input and output terminal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Tsukada, Kaname Matsumoto, Makoto Takeshita, Yuuichi Yamada, Masatomo Shirouzu
  • Publication number: 20200043646
    Abstract: A three-phase AC reactor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes three-phase coils that are not arranged in parallel, an input and output terminal block having an input and output unit having a parallel arrangement, and an external connection position change unit disposed between a coil end of each of the three-phase coils and the input and output terminal block to connect the coil end to the input and output terminal block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Tsukada, Kaname Matsumoto, Makoto Takeshita, Yuuichi Yamada, Masatomo Shirouzu
  • Publication number: 20200043647
    Abstract: A three-phase AC reactor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes three-phase coils that are not arranged in parallel, an input and output terminal block having an input and output unit having a parallel arrangement, and an external connection position change unit disposed between a coil end of each of the three-phase coils and the input and output terminal block to connect the coil end to the input and output terminal block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Tsukada, Kaname Matsumoto, Makoto Takeshita, Yuuichi Yamada, Masatomo Shirouzu
  • Patent number: 10490336
    Abstract: A three-phase AC reactor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes three-phase coils that are not arranged in parallel, an input and output terminal block having an input and output unit having a parallel arrangement, and an external connection position change unit disposed between a coil end of each of the three-phase coils and the input and output terminal block to connect the coil end to the input and output terminal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Tsukada, Kaname Matsumoto, Makoto Takeshita, Yuuichi Yamada, Masatomo Shirouzu
  • Publication number: 20190109502
    Abstract: A rotor includes: a rotary member; a plurality of permanent magnets arranged on an outer circumferential side of the rotary member; and a cover tube provided on an outer circumferential surface side of the plurality of the permanent magnets, and formed by a tape-like fiber bundle in which a plurality of thread-like fibers aligned in one direction is bundled smoothly by resin, in which the cover tube is formed so that the tape-like fiber bundle circles in a spiral pattern along the circumferential direction, and the tape-like fiber bundle arranges along the axial direction, and a circling-start end face and a circling-end end face of the tape-like fiber bundle face the axial direction of the cover tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Shinobu Takano, Takafumi Kajiya, Hisashi Maeda, Kaname Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10218096
    Abstract: A short bar for connecting terminal blocks of two motor driving units which drive a motor includes a strip-plate-like fixed portion which has a through hole into which a screw for fixing is inserted and which is fixed to the terminal block of the motor driving unit with the screw, a first connection portion which is provided on one end of the fixed portion, and a second connection portion which is provided on the other end of the fixed portion, wherein the first connection member has a configuration that the first connection portion and the second connection portion of another shot bar can be connected electrically and mechanically with each other through a relative movement in the thickness direction of the fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Shouta Fujii, Kaname Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20190036401
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotary member, a plurality of permanent magnets disposed on an outer circumference of the rotary member, and a cover tube that is mounted to outer circumference of the permanent magnets to cover the permanent magnets, and is formed of a fiber reinforced plastic. At least one of the rotary member and the permanent magnets has a diameter enlarged portion having a diameter enlarged circumferential surface. The diameter enlarged portion has a diameter that enlarges from a first diameter region to a second diameter region. The first diameter region has a diameter equal to or less than an inner diameter of the cover tube. The second diameter region has a diameter equal to or more than an outer diameter of the permanent magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu TAKANO, Takafumi KAJIYA, Kaname MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10164355
    Abstract: This motor drive device includes a first motor driving unit, a first terminal block 11 attached to the first motor driving unit, a second motor driving unit, a second terminal block attached to the motor driving unit, a first short bar whose one end portion is attached to the first terminal block so that the first short bar can be rotated around a first axis line, and a second short bar whose one end portion is attached to the first terminal block so that the second short bar can be rotated around a second axis line, the other end sides thereof can be placed at a connection position so that the other end sides can be connected to the second terminal block, and at a retract position which is distant from the second terminal block by rotation of the first and the second short bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shouta Fujii, Kaname Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10050357
    Abstract: A connection member includes: a first short bar whose one end is attached to a first terminal block; a second short bar which extends in a longitudinal direction of the first short bar and whose one end is attached to a second terminal block, at least part of the other end of the second short bar overlapping the first short bar; and a guide member which is attached to an overlapping part of the first short bar and the second short bar and which allows the second short bar to move relative to the first short bar in the longitudinal direction while maintaining surface contact between the first short bar and the second short bar at the overlapping part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Tateda, Yuuta Satou, Kaname Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20180166800
    Abstract: A short bar for connecting terminal blocks of two motor driving units which drive a motor includes a strip-plate-like fixed portion which has a through hole into which a screw for fixing is inserted and which is fixed to the terminal block of the motor driving unit with the screw, a first connection portion which is provided on one end of the fixed portion, and a second connection portion which is provided on the other end of the fixed portion, wherein the first connection member has a configuration that the first connection portion and the second connection portion of another shot bar can be connected electrically and mechanically with each other through a relative movement in the thickness direction of the fixing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Shouta FUJII, Kaname MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 9990590
    Abstract: A machine learning apparatus includes: a state observation unit that observes a state variable composed of at least one of data relating to the number of errors that is an error between a position command relative to a rotor of a motor which is drive-controlled by the motor control apparatus and an actual position of a feed mechanism unit, an operation program of the motor control apparatus, any command of the position command, a speed command, or a current command in the motor control apparatus, data relating to a workpiece machining condition in a machine tool including the motor control apparatus, and data relating to a state of the machine tool including the motor control apparatus; and a learning unit that learns a condition associated with the number of corrections used to correct the above-mentioned command in accordance with a training data set constituted by the state variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Kawai, Kaname Matsumoto, Tatsuya Senoo
  • Publication number: 20180138608
    Abstract: A connection member includes: a first short bar whose one end is attached to a first terminal block; a second short bar which extends in a longitudinal direction of the first short bar and whose one end is attached to a second terminal block, at least part of the other end of the second short bar overlapping the first short bar; and a guide member which is attached to an overlapping part of the first short bar and the second short bar and which allows the second short bar to move relative to the first short bar in the longitudinal direction while maintaining surface contact between the first short bar and the second short bar at the overlapping part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya TATEDA, Yuuta SATOU, Kaname MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180131108
    Abstract: This motor drive device includes a first motor driving unit, a first terminal block 11 attached to the first motor driving unit, a second motor driving unit, a second terminal block attached to the motor driving unit, a first short bar whose one end portion is attached to the first terminal block so that the first short bar can be rotated around a first axis line, and a second short bar whose one end portion is attached to the first terminal block so that the second short bar can be rotated around a second axis line, the other end sides thereof can be placed at a connection position so that the other end sides can be connected to the second terminal block, and at a retract position which is distant from the second terminal block by rotation of the first and the second short bars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shouta FUJII, Kaname MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180090262
    Abstract: A three-phase AC reactor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an input and output terminal block; a peripheral iron core disposed under the input and output terminal block; and at least three iron-core coils each constituted of an iron core and a coil wound around the iron core, so as to contact an inner surface of the peripheral iron core or so as to be coupled to the inner surface. The at least three iron-core coils form gaps that can be magnetically coupled between two of the iron-core coils adjoining each other. The three-phase AC reactor includes a phase-based coil extending member unit that extends from coil end portions of the coils as base points to connection points of the input and output terminal block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Tsukada, Kaname Matsumoto, Makoto Takeshita, Yuuichi Yamada, Masatomo Shirouzu
  • Patent number: 9909943
    Abstract: A device can prevent a failure in the actuation of a braking mechanism, which is caused by adhesion of adhesive substances. The device includes a heating part for heating the braking mechanism, a heat controller for controlling a heating operation of the heating part, a brake controller for actuating the braking mechanism when the heat controller stops the heating operation, and the temperature of the braking mechanism decreases, an actuation delay measuring part for measuring an actuation delay of the braking mechanism when the brake controller actuates the braking mechanism, and a comparison part for comparing the actuation delay measured by the actuation delay measuring part with a reference value of the actuation delay of the braking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Ono, Takeshi Tamaki, Kaname Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20180025830
    Abstract: A three-phase AC reactor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes three-phase coils that are not arranged in parallel, an input and output terminal block having an input and output unit having a parallel arrangement, and an external connection position change unit disposed between a coil end of each of the three-phase coils and the input and output terminal block to connect the coil end to the input and output terminal block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: KENICHI TSUKADA, Kaname Matsumoto, Makoto Takeshita, Yuuichi Yamada, Masatomo Shirouzu