Patents by Inventor Koji Sugimura

Koji Sugimura 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: 20020193972
    Abstract: A workshop facility designing and operating method of the invention is for authoring a virtual workshop that is a data model of a workshop newly organized in part or in its entirety. After the organization, simulating means causes the virtual workshop to perform a quasi-production activity to verify a production state and a physical distribution state. An actual workshop is then constructed that matches with the verified virtual workshop. The constructed actual workshop is remote monitored and a result of this monitoring is compared with a result of verification during a virtual workshop verification process. In this way, verification of the workshop in its entirety can be performed simply so that workshop deployment such as a new set-up of a production line and change in process step of the existing line can be carried out efficiently and quickly in a short time. Remote monitoring of the constructed workshop can also be performed properly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kudo, Katsumi Morishita, Masayuki Kaimi, Hideaki Kamei, Takeshi Maruyama, Koji Sugimura