Patents by Inventor Katsunori Kogure

Katsunori Kogure 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: 11371909
    Abstract: A lifespan diagnosis device for a motion guidance device including: a stress calculating means which calculates stresses during movement for each of virtual segments, the stresses during movement being stresses that occur in each segment during a movement of the moving member; a counting means which counts, for each of the segments, on the basis of the amount of displacement, the number of occurrences of the stresses during movement which repetitively occur with waving during a movement of the moving member along the track; and a diagnostic means which calculates, for each of the segments, a lifespan exhaustion ratio on the basis of magnitudes of the stresses during movement and the number of occurrences of the stresses during movement, and which diagnoses the lifespan of the motion guidance device on the basis of the calculated lifespan exhaustion ratios of the respective segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Unno, Yuki Hayashi, Yuki Tanaka, Tomofumi Ohashi, Yusuke Asano, Katsunori Kogure
  • Patent number: 11226001
    Abstract: A machining control system for machining of a workpiece movably supported by a motion guidance device having a track member which extends along a longitudinal direction and a moving member which is arranged so as to oppose the track member via a rolling element being rollably arranged inside a rolling groove and which is relatively movable along the longitudinal direction of the track member, the machining control system including: an acquisition unit which acquires prescribed machining information related to a load applied to the motion guidance device when machining of the workpiece is performed by the machining device; and an output unit which generates machining correction information for correcting a prescribed control parameter for machining of the workpiece by the machining device on the basis of the prescribed machining information acquired by the acquisition unit and which outputs the generated machining correction information to a side of the machining device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Unno, Yuki Hayashi, Yuki Tanaka, Tomofumi Ohashi, Yusuke Asano, Katsunori Kogure
  • Patent number: 10844904
    Abstract: To suitably set a control gain in feedback control while suppressing an increase in apparatus size. A workpiece transport control system includes: one or a plurality of motion guidance devices; a table on which a workpiece is to be placed; an actuator which imparts a driving force to the table; a control unit which performs transport control by feedback control; and a calculation unit which calculates a transport load applied from the workpiece to a moving member of each of the one or a plurality of motion guidance devices, wherein a control gain related to the feedback control in the transport control is adjusted on the basis of the transport load in each of the one or a plurality of motion guidance devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Unno, Yuki Hayashi, Yuki Tanaka, Tomofumi Ohashi, Yusuke Asano, Katsunori Kogure
  • Patent number: 10738827
    Abstract: In a management system which manages user equipment installed in a prescribed space managed by a user, the user equipment including a plurality of motion guidance devices each including a track member, a moving member, and a plurality of displacement sensors which detect displacements of the moving member in a prescribed number of displacement directions in the moving member, on the basis of lifespan-related information corresponding to each of the plurality of motion guidance devices, a lifespan exhaustion ratio of each motion guidance device is calculated and, on the basis of the calculated lifespan exhaustion ratio, replacement object devices to be replaced within a prescribed period which constitute a part of or all of the plurality of motion guidance devices are determined. In addition, a user is notified of a replacement timing at which all of the determined replacement object devices in the user equipment are to be replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Unno, Yuki Hayashi, Yuki Tanaka, Tomofumi Ohashi, Yusuke Asano, Katsunori Kogure
  • Publication number: 20200124091
    Abstract: In a management system which manages user equipment installed in a prescribed space managed by a user, the user equipment including a plurality of motion guidance devices each including a track member, a moving member, and a plurality of displacement sensors which detect displacements of the moving member in a prescribed number of displacement directions in the moving member, on the basis of lifespan-related information corresponding to each of the plurality of motion guidance devices, a lifespan exhaustion ratio of each motion guidance device is calculated and, on the basis of the calculated lifespan exhaustion ratio, replacement object devices to be replaced within a prescribed period which constitute a part of or all of the plurality of motion guidance devices are determined. In addition, a user is notified of a replacement timing at which all of the determined replacement object devices in the user equipment are to be replaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Unno, Yuki Hayashi, Yuki Tanaka, Tomofumi Ohashi, Yusuke Asano, Katsunori Kogure
  • Publication number: 20200103311
    Abstract: A lifespan diagnosis device for a motion guidance device including: a stress calculating means which calculates stresses during movement for each of virtual segments, the stresses during movement being stresses that occur in each segment during a movement of the moving member; a counting means which counts, for each of the segments, on the basis of the amount of displacement, the number of occurrences of the stresses during movement which repetitively occur with waving during a movement of the moving member along the track; and a diagnostic means which calculates, for each of the segments, a lifespan exhaustion ratio on the basis of magnitudes of the stresses during movement and the number of occurrences of the stresses during movement, and which diagnoses the lifespan of the motion guidance device on the basis of the calculated lifespan exhaustion ratios of the respective segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Unno, Yuki Hayashi, Yuki Tanaka, Tomofumi Ohashi, Yusuke Asano, Katsunori Kogure
  • Publication number: 20190383327
    Abstract: A machining control system for machining of a workpiece movably supported by a motion guidance device having a track member which extends along a longitudinal direction and a moving member which is arranged so as to oppose the track member via a rolling element being rollably arranged inside a rolling groove and which is relatively movable along the longitudinal direction of the track member, the machining control system including: an acquisition unit which acquires prescribed machining information related to a load applied to the motion guidance device when machining of the workpiece is performed by the machining device; and an output unit which generates machining correction information for correcting a prescribed control parameter for machining of the workpiece by the machining device on the basis of the prescribed machining information acquired by the acquisition unit and which outputs the generated machining correction information to a side of the machining device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Unno, Yuki Hayashi, Yuki Tanaka, Tomofumi Ohashi, Yusuke Asano, Katsunori Kogure
  • Publication number: 20190376553
    Abstract: To suitably set a control gain in feedback control while suppressing an increase in apparatus size. A workpiece transport control system includes: one or a plurality of motion guidance devices; a table on which a workpiece is to be placed; an actuator which imparts a driving force to the table; a control unit which performs transport control by feedback control; and a calculation unit which calculates a transport load applied from the workpiece to a moving member of each of the one or a plurality of motion guidance devices, wherein a control gain related to the feedback control in the transport control is adjusted on the basis of the transport load in each of the one or a plurality of motion guidance devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Unno, Yuki Hayashi, Yuki Tanaka, Tomofumi Ohashi, Yusuke Asano, Katsunori Kogure