Patents by Inventor Masahiro Murota

Masahiro Murota 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: 20200001415
    Abstract: A spindle device includes: a spindle housing; a spindle shaft configured to be rotatably supported inside the spindle housing; a spindle mount having an insertion cavity into which the spindle housing is inserted along the axial direction of the spindle shaft; a flange portion projecting outward from the outer peripheral surface of the spindle housing and configured to be removably fixed to an end of the spindle mount that is closer to one opening of the insertion cavity; and a support member configured to support the spindle housing inserted in the insertion cavity by using, as a base, the other end of the spindle mount that is closer to the other opening of the insertion cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventor: Masahiro Murota
  • Patent number: 10468946
    Abstract: A cooling system of an electric motor with a fan, including a fan configured to generate fluid flow for cooling the electric motor, and a duct forming a flow channel for guiding a fluid flow generated by the fan, includes at least one hole provided in the duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Murota, Toshifumi Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 10343245
    Abstract: A liquid drainage mechanism drains oil (liquid) from a Y-axis slider that moves along a predetermined path. The liquid drainage mechanism includes an outflow hole and a nozzle flow passage that are provided in a C-axis rotary mechanism and configured to flow the oil in a stator, a nozzle configured to move integrally with the Y-axis slider and discharge the oil, and a Y-axis guide member configured to guide the Y-axis slider. The nozzle is disposed at a position that is close to but not in contact with the Y-axis guide member, and the nozzle discharges the oil so that the oil reaches the Y-axis guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toyoaki Suzuki, Hiroshi Minami, Masahiro Murota
  • Patent number: 10315283
    Abstract: A tool cleaning device for a machine tool has a chip removing device which removes the chip, a moving device to which the chip removing device is attachable, a detecting device which detects a storing state of the chip to the tool of the machine tool, an information processing device which processes information according to the storing state of the chip acquired by the detecting device and judges a region where a chip removing is necessary, and a controller of the moving device which moves the chip removing device to the region where the chip removing is necessary judged by the information processing device. The chip stored on the tool is cleaned by the chip removing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Murota
  • Patent number: 10286506
    Abstract: A tool exchanger includes a variation detection unit configured to detect a variation periodically generated by turning operation of a turret; and a turret phase detection unit configured to set a tool indexing reference phase of the turret based on a detection result from the variation detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Murota, Gaku Isobe, Yasuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10280976
    Abstract: A support structure for a bellows attached to a slide table, and which is capable of expanding and contracting in a movement direction of the slide table, includes support members that support the bellows, shafts disposed substantially in parallel with the movement direction of the slide table, and bushes that support the support member so as to be capable of moving in the movement direction of the slide table with respect to the shafts. Fluid bearings are formed by supplying a fluid between the bushes and the shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Minami, Masahiro Murota, Yuuta Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20190064778
    Abstract: A machine tool, which performs machining on a workpiece using a tool, is equipped with a servo motor configured to cause axial movement of the tool or the workpiece, an imaging device configured to capture an image of the tool or the workpiece at a specified imaging magnification, a display unit configured to display the image captured by the imaging device, a speed compensating unit configured to compensate a command speed of the tool or the workpiece on the basis of the imaging magnification and thereby generate a compensated command speed, and a motor control unit configured to control the servo motor in a manner so that the tool or the workpiece is axially moved at the compensated command speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fuminobu Nakamura, Masahiro Murota
  • Publication number: 20190061088
    Abstract: A machine tool, which carries out machining on a workpiece using a tool, is equipped with a servo motor configured to cause axial movement of the tool, an imaging device configured to capture an image of the tool at a specified imaging magnification, a display unit configured to display the image captured by the imaging device, a command position calculating unit configured to, in the case that the imaging magnification is changed, calculate a movement command position of the tool on the basis of the imaging magnification before and after having been changed, so as to maintain a relative positional relationship between a specified point of the tool in the image, and an imaging center position in the image before and after the change in the imaging magnification, and a motor control unit configured to control the servo motor on the basis of the movement command position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Ootou, Masahiro Murota
  • Publication number: 20180267489
    Abstract: A cleaning process optimization device includes a machine learning device that learns a cleaning condition when cleaning an object to be cleaned. The machine learning device includes: a state observation unit that observes cleaning condition data indicating the cleaning condition, and contamination state data indicating a contamination state of the object to be cleaned measured before cleaning as a state variable representing a current state of environment; a determination data acquisition unit that acquires determination data indicating an adequacy determination result on accuracy of a contamination state of the object to be cleaned after cleaning; and a learning unit that learns the cleaning condition when cleaning the object to be cleaned in association with the contamination state data using the state variable and the determination data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Chikara TANGO, Masahiro MUROTA
  • Publication number: 20180104784
    Abstract: A liquid drainage mechanism drains oil (liquid) from a Y-axis slider that moves along a predetermined path. The liquid drainage mechanism includes an outflow hole and a nozzle flow passage that are provided in a C-axis rotary mechanism and configured to flow the oil in a stator, a nozzle configured to move integrally with the Y-axis slider and discharge the oil, and a Y-axis guide member configured to guide the Y-axis slider. The nozzle is disposed at a position that is close to but not in contact with the Y-axis guide member, and the nozzle discharges the oil so that the oil reaches the Y-axis guide member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Toyoaki SUZUKI, Hiroshi MINAMI, Masahiro MUROTA
  • Publication number: 20180066701
    Abstract: A support structure for a bellows attached to a slide table, and which is capable of expanding and contracting in a movement direction of the slide table, includes support members that support the bellows, shafts disposed substantially in parallel with the movement direction of the slide table, and bushes that support the support member so as to be capable of moving in the movement direction of the slide table with respect to the shafts. Fluid bearings are formed by supplying a fluid between the bushes and the shafts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Minami, Masahiro Murota, Yuuta Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 9815158
    Abstract: A tool changer for a machine tool is provided with a command unit for outputting a change command for a tool storage position to a control unit, which turns a tool magazine with a tool mounted on a spindle and controls an index unit to index a predetermined tool grip portion to a tool change position on receiving the change command for the tool storage position from the command unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku Isobe, Masahiro Murota, Naoki Sato
  • Publication number: 20170284464
    Abstract: A throttle unit is equipped with a grooved block including at least one minute groove formed on a plane surface, and an opposite block having a plane surface which is opposite to the minute groove. The grooved block and the opposite block are detachably joined so as to be opposite to each other. A throttle fluid path is formed by the minute groove and the plane surface of the opposite block. At least one surface of each of the minute groove is constituted by a curved surface or an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to the plane surface of the grooved block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Toyoaki SUZUKI, Masahiro MUROTA
  • Patent number: 9757835
    Abstract: A tool changer comprises a turret with a plurality of grips for holding tools such that the turret is turned to index a desired tool to change the tools. The front and rear surfaces of the turret are covered by front and rear covers, respectively. A projection or a recess which defines a passage for cutting fluid is formed in an outer rear surface portion of the rear cover at portions above and/or on each lateral side of a turret mechanism portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Murota, Guanghui Li, Gaku Isobe
  • Patent number: 9709170
    Abstract: A machine tool including a sealing structure in a rotation unit includes a gas supply amount control unit configured to control so that an air sealing gas supply amount in the case of a deceleration state of the rotation unit determined by a rotation state determination unit becomes larger than an air sealing gas supply amount in the case of a non-deceleration state determined by the rotation state determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Murota
  • Patent number: 9707653
    Abstract: A automatic tool changer of a machine tool including a magazine driving motor configured to turn a tool magazine has the magazine driving motor fixed to a non-movable unit of the machine tool and when the tool magazine rotationally moves to reach an approaching position to a spindle head, a tool magazine side power transmission unit and a magazine driving motor side power transmission unit are connected to perform a turning operation of the tool magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku Isobe, Masahiro Murota, Naoki Sato
  • Patent number: 9682453
    Abstract: A tool changer for a machine tool is provided with a spindle head, tool magazine, rotating shaft, and magazine drive motor. The tool magazine is provided with a tool-magazine power transmission unit. The tool-magazine power transmission unit and a magazine-drive-motor power transmission unit engage with each other at all times between a proximity position and a separated position relative to the spindle head of the tool magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku Isobe, Masahiro Murota, Naoki Sato
  • Patent number: 9656362
    Abstract: A tool changer is equipped with a turret having plural grips for use to grip tools as well as with a front cover and rear cover adapted to cover a front face and rear face of the turret. Furthermore, a protrusion is installed on the rear cover in a neighborhood of a gap between the front cover and the rear cover, being configured to block intrusion of chips or cutting fluid into the gap between the front cover and the rear cover from a top face of the rear cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Murota
  • Publication number: 20170113314
    Abstract: A tool cleaning device for a machine tool has a chip removing device which removes the chip, a moving device to which the chip removing device is attachable, a detecting device which detects a storing state of the chip to the tool of the machine tool, an information processing device which processes information according to the storing state of the chip acquired by the detecting device and judges a region where a chip removing is necessary, and a controller of the moving device which moves the chip removing device to the region where the chip removing is necessary judged by the information processing device. The chip stored on the tool is cleaned by the chip removing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventor: Masahiro MUROTA
  • Patent number: 9558303
    Abstract: A value of shape data is calculated from moment of inertia and weight data of a tool, a relational expression between shape data and tool moment of inertia in a predetermined tool shape model, and a relational expression between the shape data and tool weight in the tool shape model to estimate a shape of the tool, and a gravity center position of the tool is calculated based on the estimated tool shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Murota, Gaku Isobe