Patents by Inventor Kenichi Takayama

Kenichi Takayama 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: 9018886
    Abstract: A motor control system (10) which includes a difference calculating part (31) which calculates a difference between a first position detection value of a moving part and a second position detection value of a driven part, a judging part (32) which judges if a moving part has engaged with the driven part when the moving part is made to move from any initial position in a first and second drive directions, a holding part (33) which holds the difference as initial difference linked with the first or second drive direction, when the moving part has engaged with the driven part, and a correction amount calculating part (34) which calculates a backlash correction amount, the correction amount calculating part using the difference based on the current positions of the moving part and the driven part and the initial difference to calculate the backlash correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Kenichi Takayama, Satoshi Ikai
  • Patent number: 8896255
    Abstract: A servo controller, capable of controlling the motion of a movable body with high accuracy, without depending on the position of the movable body which is moved on a ball screw. The servo controller has a position command generating part which generates a position command value; a velocity command generating part which generates a velocity command value based on the position command value and a position detection value; a torque command generating part which generates a torque command value based on the velocity command value and a velocity detection value; and a position compensation calculating part which calculates an amount of expansion/contraction of the ball screw based on a distance from the servomotor to a nut threadably engaged with the ball screw and the torque command value, and calculates a position compensation based on the amount of expansion/contraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Kenichi Takayama, Satoshi Ikai
  • Patent number: 8853182
    Abstract: An object is to provide a cell growth inhibitor also effective for androgen-independent prostate cancer. The present invention provides a cell growth inhibitor having, as an active ingredient, an expression inhibitor or function inhibitor of PSF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Kenichi Takayama
  • Patent number: 8796240
    Abstract: An object is to provide a cell growth inhibitor also effective for androgen-independent prostate cancer. The present invention provides a cell growth inhibitor having, as an active ingredient, an expression inhibitor or function inhibitor of an antisense RNA (CTBP1-AS) expressed in the vicinity of an androgen receptor (AR) binding site of a C-terminal binding protein (CTBP1) gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Kenichi Takayama
  • Publication number: 20140156080
    Abstract: A servo control system including a servo motor, a driven member driven, a coupling mechanism coupled with the servo motor and the driven member, and a motor control part controlling the servo motor. The motor control part includes a position command generating part generating a position command value of the driven member, a force estimating part estimating the drive force acting on the driven member, a compensating part compensating the position command value based on the drive force estimated by the force estimating part, and a control signal output part outputting a control signal to the servo motor based on a position command value compensated by the compensating part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasusuke IWASHITA, Kenichi TAKAYAMA, Satoshi IKAI
  • Publication number: 20140121818
    Abstract: A servo control device in the present invention corrects a position command to a feed axis, so as to compensate for an amount of stretch or contraction of a ball screw during operation, by taking into account an influence of tension applied to the ball screw. The amount of stretch or contraction of the ball screw is calculated, based on the tension acting on the ball screw on the side farther from the servo motor, a distance between two fixed units supporting the ball screw at its opposite ends, a distance from the fixed unit situated closer to the servo motor to a moving body, and a torque command to the servo motor. An amount of position correction of the feed axis is calculated, based on the calculated amount of stretch or contraction of the ball screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasusuke IWASHITA, Kenichi TAKAYAMA, Satoshi IKAI
  • Patent number: 8692488
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus for synchronously controlling a master axis motor for driving a master axis and a slave axis motor for driving a slave axis, includes: a master axis position detector which outputs position data of the master axis and a reference signal with a predetermined fixed period; a master axis receiving circuit which receives the position data and the reference signal output from the master axis position detector; a master axis computation circuit which computes a master axis error representing a difference between the position data received by the master axis receiving circuit and the position data acquired at the time of the reception of the reference signal; and a slave axis motor control unit which controls the operation of the slave axis motor by using the master axis error as a command for synchronizing the operation of the master axis motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Takayama, Hiroyuki Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20140062378
    Abstract: A motor control system (10) which includes a difference calculating part (31) which calculates a difference between a first position detection value of a moving part and a second position detection value of a driven part, a judging part (32) which judges if a moving part has engaged with the driven part when the moving part is made to move from any initial position in a first and second drive directions, a holding part (33) which holds the difference as initial difference linked with the first or second drive direction, when the moving part has engaged with the driven part, and a correction amount calculating part (34) which calculates a backlash correction amount, the correction amount calculating part using the difference based on the current positions of the moving part and the driven part and the initial difference to calculate the backlash correction amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasusuke IWASHITA, Kenichi TAKAYAMA, Satoshi IKAI
  • Patent number: 8662799
    Abstract: A tapping machine (1) executes a tapping operation by operating a spindle motor (21) and a feed axis motor (31) in synchronization, and includes a spindle reversal detector unit (34) for detecting the reversed operation of the spindle during the tapping operation, and a reverse correction amount production unit (35) for producing a reverse correction amount for improving follow-up performance of reversed operation of the feed axis at the time when the reversed operation of the spindle is detected by the spindle reversal detector unit (34). When the reversed operation is detected by the spindle reversal detector unit, the reverse correction amount produced by the reverse correction amount production unit (35) is added to the speed instruction on a speed control loop of the feed axis control unit (30) or to an integrator (41) of the speed control loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Takayama, Tadashi Okita
  • Publication number: 20130320908
    Abstract: A servo controller, capable of controlling the motion of a movable body with high accuracy, without depending on the position of the movable body which is moved on a ball screw. The servo controller has a position command generating part which generates a position command value; a velocity command generating part which generates a velocity command value based on the position command value and a position detection value; a torque command generating part which generates a torque command value based on the velocity command value and a velocity detection value; and a position compensation calculating part which calculates an amount of expansion/contraction of the ball screw based on a distance from the servomotor to a nut threadably engaged with the ball screw and the torque command value, and calculates a position compensation based on the amount of expansion/contraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: Yasusuke IWASHITA, Kenichi TAKAYAMA, Satoshi IKAI
  • Publication number: 20130184327
    Abstract: An object is to provide a cell growth inhibitor also effective for androgen-independent prostate cancer. The present invention provides a cell growth inhibitor having, as an active ingredient, an expression inhibitor or function inhibitor of an antisense RNA (CTBP1-AS) expressed in the vicinity of an androgen receptor (AR) binding site of a C-terminal binding protein (CTBP1) gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Kenichi Takayama
  • Publication number: 20130134919
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus for synchronously controlling a master axis motor for driving a master axis and a slave axis motor for driving a slave axis, includes: a master axis position detector which outputs position data of the master axis and a reference signal with a predetermined fixed period; a master axis receiving circuit which receives the position data and the reference signal output from the master axis position detector; a master axis computation circuit which computes a master axis error representing a difference between the position data received by the master axis receiving circuit and the position data acquired at the time of the reception of the reference signal; and a slave axis motor control unit which controls the operation of the slave axis motor by using the master axis error as a command for synchronizing the operation of the master axis motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi TAKAYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20130039707
    Abstract: A tapping machine (1) executes a tapping operation by operating a spindle motor (21) and a feed axis motor (31) in synchronization, and includes a spindle reversal detector unit (34) for detecting the reversed operation of the spindle during the tapping operation, and a reverse correction amount production unit (35) for producing a reverse correction amount for improving follow-up performance of reversed operation of the feed axis at the time when the reversed operation of the spindle is detected by the spindle reversal detector unit (34). When the reversed operation is detected by the spindle reversal detector unit, the reverse correction amount produced by the reverse correction amount production unit (35) is added to the speed instruction on a speed control loop of the feed axis control unit (30) or to an integrator (41) of the speed control loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: FANUC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi TAKAYAMA, Tadashi OKITA
  • Patent number: 8054015
    Abstract: A motor drive includes a dynamic braking circuit for producing a deceleration torque utilizing a braking force caused by a synchronous motor acting as a generator when the synchronous motor is deenergized. The motor drive apparatus is equipped with a dynamic braking circuit fault detection capability, a DC power supply which is obtained by rectifying input AC power, voltage application function for applying a voltage to the windings of the synchronous motor and to the dynamic braking circuit for a predetermined length of time by switching power transistors connected to the DC power supply, current detection unit for detecting the value of a current flowing from the power transistors, and fault checking unit for checking the dynamic braking circuit for the presence or absence of a fault, based on the current value detected by the current detection unit and on a predefined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Tadashi Okita, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Kenichi Takayama
  • Publication number: 20090174349
    Abstract: A motor drive apparatus 1 having a dynamic braking circuit 5 for producing a deceleration torque utilizing a braking force caused by a synchronous motor 4 acting as a generator when the synchronous motor 4 is deenergized, is equipped with a dynamic braking circuit fault detection capability, and comprises: a DC power supply 2 which is obtained by rectifying input AC power; voltage application means 2, 3, 10, 11 for applying a voltage to the windings of the synchronous motor 4 and to the dynamic braking circuit 5 for a predetermined length of time by switching power transistors A to F connected to the DC power supply 2; current detection means 6 for detecting the value of a current flowing from the power transistors A to F; and fault checking means 11 for checking the dynamic braking circuit 5 for the presence or absence of a fault, based on the current value detected by the current detection means 6 and on a predefined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: FANUC LTD
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Tadashi Okita, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Kenichi Takayama
  • Patent number: 7531981
    Abstract: A controller for a servomotor capable of improving accuracy of positioning and quality of a machined surface by switching modes of correction of a position command or the like, and reducing a shock at the time of switching. A correction amount generating section obtains a correction amount based on a value of a correction factor such as machine temperature. When the external signal is in ON state, a position command or the like is corrected by the correction amount obtained by the correction amount generating section and sent via switches. A correction amount holding section holds the correction amount obtained by the correction amount generating section. When the external signal turns to OFF state, the connection of the switches is changed so that correction is performed by the correction amount held in the correction amount holding section. When the connection of the switches is changed, the correction amount does not change rapidly, so that the machine does not suffer a shock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Tadashi Okita, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Kenichi Takayama
  • Publication number: 20070188123
    Abstract: A controller for a servomotor capable of improving accuracy of positioning and quality of a machined surface by switching modes of correction of a position command or the like, and reducing a shock at the time of switching. A correction amount generating section obtains a correction amount based on a value of a correction factor such as machine temperature. When the external signal is in ON state, a position command or the like is corrected by the correction amount obtained by the correction amount generating section and sent via switches. A correction amount holding section holds the correction amount obtained by the correction amount generating section. When the external signal turns to OFF state, the connection of the switches is changed so that correction is performed by the correction amount held in the correction amount holding section. When the connection of the switches is changed, the correction amount does not change rapidly, so that the machine does not suffer a shock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: FANUC LTD
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Tadashi Okita, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Kenichi Takayama
  • Patent number: 5501183
    Abstract: A driving disc in a temperature-sensitive fluid fan coupling has a substantially C- or I-shaped cross section defined by a cylindrical wall projecting from its outer periphery coaxially therewith. The disc has at its outer periphery including the projecting wall a width which is equal to at least 7% of its outside diameter. The disc, its projecting wall and a housing in which the disc is mounted define at least one chamber for the temporary storage of oil. The disc has on at least one side thereof a plurality of radially extending partitions which divide the oil storage chamber into a plurality of portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Usui Kokusai Sangyo Kaisha Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Takayama