Patents by Inventor Koji Kawaguchi

Koji Kawaguchi 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: 20240157404
    Abstract: A waste material processing system of the present disclosure that places a waste material on a conveyance surface of a conveyance section, conveys the waste material in a conveyance line, and recycles the waste material, the system includes a detection section disposed on a downstream side of a removal area where foreign matters included in the waste material are removed in the conveyance line, and configured to detect the foreign matters remaining in the conveyed waste material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori KONDO, Koji KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240140768
    Abstract: A lifting and lowering movement control system for controlling an automatic conveyance vehicle configured to move with an article loaded thereon and a lifting and lowering device configured to move up and down in a state in which the automatic conveyance vehicle is on board, the system includes a lifting and lowering relevant information acquisition section configured to acquire lifting and lowering relevant information relating to the lifting and lowering device scheduled to be boarded by the automatic conveyance vehicle, and a movement control section configured to set a movement path to the lifting and lowering device scheduled to be boarded based on the lifting and lowering relevant information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichiro KITO, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Takeshi SATO, Hisato SAWANAMI, Takuya ODA
  • Patent number: 11922361
    Abstract: A distribution system is linked to a delivery vehicle delivering a product stored in a warehouse to a delivery destination and includes an automatic conveyance device and an automatic conveyance device server. An automatic conveyance device server transmits a release instruction to an automatic conveyance device when receiving a request for delivery, transmits a loading instruction for loading of a product to a delivery vehicle to the automatic conveyance device when receiving loading permission, and transmits a release completion notification to a transmitter of a delivery request when receiving information indicating the releasing is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kawaguchi, Takeshi Sato
  • Publication number: 20240061437
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided a moving body including a holding device configured to hold a cargo, a driving device configured to move the moving body, a detection device configured to detect a parameter relating to a stable degree of the cargo in the holding device when the moving body is moving, and a control device configured to determine whether a state of the cargo is stable using the parameter relating to the stable degree, and to perform stabilization control in which the driving device is controlled such that the state of the cargo is stable when it is determined that the state of the cargo is not stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato SAWANAMI, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Takuya ODA
  • Publication number: 20240051418
    Abstract: A charging system for charging a battery of an automatic conveyance vehicle configured to automatically convey an article includes a temperature acquisition section configured to acquire a temperature when charging the battery, and a control section configured to control power supply of the automatic conveyance vehicle when charging the battery based on the temperature acquired by the temperature acquisition section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichiro KITO, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Hisato SAWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20240051751
    Abstract: A moving body of the present disclosure is a moving body for placing a loading object on a loading platform and transporting the loading object, and the moving body includes a driving device configured to move the moving body, and a control device configured to set at least one of speed and acceleration/deceleration of the moving body based on a parameter related to at least one of a mass, a size, a shape, and a center of gravity of the loading object, and control the driving device based on at least one of the set speed and acceleration/deceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji KAWAGUCHI, Daniel BROWN, Hisato SAWANAMI, Shohei SHIRAKI
  • Publication number: 20230393580
    Abstract: An automatic moving device according to the present disclosure is an automatic moving device that is used in a delivery system for delivering an article and automatically moves the article. The automatic moving device includes a driving section configured to drive a wheel, a detection section configured to detect an obstacle of a road surface, and a control section configured to control the driving section so that the automatic moving device is moved in an oblique direction with respect to a groove when the groove is detected as the obstacle of the road surface, and control the driving section so that the automatic moving device is moved in a direction orthogonal to a step when the step is detected as the obstacle of the road surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato SAWANAMI, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Takuya ODA
  • Publication number: 20230312248
    Abstract: A control device according to the present disclosure is used in a delivery system having an automatic movement device that automatically moves an article inside a specific space and delivering the article. The control device includes a storage section configured to store schedule information including at least one of change information including a change region in which a movable region of the automatic movement device is changed in the specific space and a change time at which the region is changed, and operation information including an operation time at which the automatic movement device starts operating; and a processing control section configured to perform processing of preparing a new usage map by adding a change to a reference map of the specific space, based on the schedule information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya ODA, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Hisato SAWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20230306356
    Abstract: A control device according to the present disclosure is used in a delivery system that uses a transporter for accommodating a carriage on which an article is loaded in a cargo chamber and delivering the carriage to deliver the article to an accommodation chamber in which multiple carriages are disposed. The control device includes a storage section configured to store correspondence information in which identification information on the article, identification information on the carriage on which the article is loaded, and information on a disposition position of the carriage disposed in the accommodation chamber are associated with each other, and a management control section configured to manage a movement of the article by using the correspondence information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato SAWANAMI, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Takuya ODA
  • Publication number: 20230278833
    Abstract: The article transport vehicle includes a travel section, a holding section, an elevating device, an inclination detection device, an inclination adjustment device, and an inclination control device for controlling the inclination adjustment device. The inclination adjustment device is configured to act on a target belt among a plurality of suspension belts to adjust an inclination of the holding section by adjusting a suspension height at which the holding section is held by the target belt. During the lowering of the holding section to the transfer position by the elevating device, the inclination control device executes an adjustment operation during lowering, in which the inclination of the holding section is detected by the inclination detection device, and based on the result of the detection performed by the inclination detection device, the inclination adjustment device is controlled to adjust the inclination of the holding section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Tomotaka Kinugawa, Hiroshi Otsuka, Keisuke Shiroishi, Koji Kawaguchi, Yasushi Morikawa
  • Publication number: 20230234778
    Abstract: A cart alignment device of the present disclosure is used in a delivery system that delivers an article using a cart including a loading section for loading articles and a caster disposed in the loading section and having wheels capable of changing a movement direction of the loading section. The cart alignment device includes a rail member configured to guide the caster of the cart in a predetermined arrangement direction, and a disposition section configured to dispose and fix the rail member in a collection chamber for accommodating one or more carts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji KAWAGUCHI, Hisato SAWANAMI, Takuya ODA
  • Patent number: 11661756
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for accurately modifying a concrete slab on subsided ground by injecting an expandable resin below the concrete slab more than once, which also allows for easy control of the work process. The method of the present invention as a means for resolution includes performing the following steps: on a concrete slab in an area including a region where ground subsidence has occurred, determining points to drill injection holes for injecting an expandable resin at a pitch of 0.5 to 2.0 m in a grid pattern or a staggered pattern; injecting an expandable resin below a point where the subsidence of the concrete slab is severest and expanding the expandable resin to push up the concrete slab at most 30 mm more than once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: UPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobukazu Matsudo, Koji Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220297299
    Abstract: The component mounter includes a mounting control section that controls a mounting operation for a component by the mounting head based on a control program to execute a mounting process. In a recovery process of attempting to mount a component anew with a mounting position related to the mounting operation as a target position in a case where an error has occurred in the mounting operation, the mounting control section executes the mounting operation for the component by using a designated holder that is one of the multiple holders allocated to the target position in the mounting process as the designated holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi IWASHIMA, Koji KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220292436
    Abstract: A distribution system is linked to a delivery vehicle delivering a product stored in a warehouse to a delivery destination and includes an automatic conveyance device and an automatic conveyance device server. An automatic conveyance device server transmits a release instruction to an automatic conveyance device when receiving a request for delivery, transmits a loading instruction for loading of a product to a delivery vehicle to the automatic conveyance device when receiving loading permission, and transmits a release completion notification to a transmitter of a delivery request when receiving information indicating the releasing is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kawaguchi, Takeshi Sato
  • Patent number: 11329721
    Abstract: A communication device includes a zoom lens that collects signal light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TAMRON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hashimoto, Nobuyuki Adachi, Koji Kawaguchi, Hirofumi Mochizuki, Keijiro Abe, Yuichi Imamiya, Hironori Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11272648
    Abstract: A component mounting machine, includes a mounting base provided in a component mounting machine main body and movable at least in the horizontal direction; a mounting/demounting tool, detachably mounted on the mounting base and movable in the up-down direction while holding a component; a tool moving mechanism configured to move the mounting/demounting tool in the up-down direction; a mounting base moving mechanism configured to move the mounting base at least in the horizontal direction; and a control device configured to perform a seating improvement process for applying a force in a predetermined direction, including the horizontal direction, to the mounting base on which the mounting/demounting tool is mounted after the mounting/demounting tool is mounted on the mounting base and before the mounting/demounting tool holds the component, by a moving operation different from a moving operation for holding the component on the mounting/demounting tool in the mounting base moving mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kawaguchi, Toshihiko Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20210384971
    Abstract: A communication device includes a zoom lens that collects signal light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: TAMRON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke HASHIMOTO, Nobuyuki ADACHI, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Hirofumi MOCHIZUKI, Keijiro ABE, Yuichi IMAMIYA, Hironori TAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11072895
    Abstract: A method for correcting the tilt of adjacent concrete slabs on subsided ground and connected at a joint part by tie bars or dowel bars caused by the subsidence of the joint part. The method comprises pushing up a tilted concrete slab by: drilling an injection hole for injecting an expandable resin in one concrete slab at a point 10 to 200 cm away from the joint part and also in the other concrete slab at a point 10 to 200 cm away from the joint part, the point in the other concrete slab being on a line that is orthogonal to the joint part and has the point in the one concrete slab thereon; and simultaneously starting an operation of intermittently injecting an expandable resin from both of the injection holes wherein the expandable resin expands below both of the concrete slabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: UPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobukazu Matsudo, Koji Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210222446
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for accurately modifying a concrete slab on subsided ground by injecting an expandable resin below the concrete slab more than once, which also allows for easy control of the work process. The method of the present invention as a means for resolution includes performing the following steps: on a concrete slab in an area including a region where ground subsidence has occurred, determining points to drill injection holes for injecting an expandable resin at a pitch of 0.5 to 2.0 m in a grid pattern or a staggered pattern; injecting an expandable resin below a point where the subsidence of the concrete slab is severest and expanding the expandable resin to push up the concrete slab at most 30 mm more than once.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: UPCON Corporation
    Inventors: Nobukazu MATSUDO, Koji KAWAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10798861
    Abstract: A mounter capable of curtailing interference between a mounting head that has a component holding section, and an exchange-use component holding section and a storage section that holds the exchange-use component holding section. A controller of the mounter reads head identification information for identifying the mounting head from the mounting head. Also, different quantities of protruding sections are formed on nozzle tray in accordance with the height in the Z-axis direction. Also, pressure switches that are pressed by protruding sections so as to turn on and off are provided on loading plate on which nozzle tray is loaded. By this, the controller is able to determine whether interference will occur between the mounting head and nozzle tray based on the detection signal of the pressure switches before the mounting head is moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kawaguchi, Kohei Sugihara, Yoji Fujita