Patents by Inventor Miho NIIKURA

Miho NIIKURA 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: 20230305515
    Abstract: A machine tool controller including a storage unit configured to store three-dimensional basic shape data, a region setting unit that creates a collision detection region of an auxiliary mechanism and sets the collision detection region, and an input unit to which an operator inputs a setting value for a plurality of setting items for determining positions of a plurality of boundary surfaces of the collision detection region, where the plurality of setting items includes at least one non-essential item for which input of the setting value is not mandatory, the region setting unit sets the collision detection region based on the setting value input through the input unit, and, when there is an un-input item as the non-essential item, the region setting unit sets at least one of the boundary surfaces to be determined by the un-input item at an edge of the predetermined setting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Miho NIIKURA
  • Patent number: 11453095
    Abstract: A control device includes: a storage unit that stores a working program and a tool length correction amount; a control unit that causes a table and a spindle to relatively move on the basis of the working program and the tool length correction amount; a region setting unit that sets an interference checking region including a tool held by the spindle on the basis of the tool length correction amount; and an interference determination unit that determines whether the interference checking region interferes or not with obstacles in surroundings of the tool in a case in which the tool and the table are caused to relatively move on the basis of the working program and the tool length correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Miho Niikura
  • Publication number: 20200306910
    Abstract: A control device includes: a storage unit that stores a working program and a tool length correction amount; a control unit that causes a table and a spindle to relatively move on the basis of the working program and the tool length correction amount; a region setting unit that sets an interference checking region including a tool held by the spindle on the basis of the tool length correction amount; and an interference determination unit that determines whether the interference checking region interferes or not with obstacles in surroundings of the tool in a case in which the tool and the table are caused to relatively move on the basis of the working program and the tool length correction amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Miho NIIKURA
  • Patent number: 10775319
    Abstract: A system includes a visual sensor provided in an industrial machine or in the vicinity thereof to acquire a plurality of image data, a calculation unit that calculates a contamination degree of a lens or a lens cover of the visual sensor on the basis of the image data acquired by the visual sensor, and a prediction unit that calculates information on a predicted cleaning timing to be performed in the future, of the lens or the lens cover on the basis of the calculated contamination degree of the lens or the lens cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho Niikura, Yasuhiko Kurosumi, Yoshihiko Tarui
  • Publication number: 20190369031
    Abstract: A system includes a visual sensor provided in an industrial machine or in the vicinity thereof to acquire a plurality of image data, a calculation unit that calculates a contamination degree of a lens or a lens cover of the visual sensor on the basis of the image data acquired by the visual sensor, and a prediction unit that calculates information on a predicted cleaning timing to be performed in the future, of the lens or the lens cover on the basis of the calculated contamination degree of the lens or the lens cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho NIIKURA, Yasuhiko KUROSUMI, Yoshihiko TARUI