Patents by Inventor Nobutaka TSUBOI

Nobutaka TSUBOI 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: 11559891
    Abstract: A robot system has first and second joint control units that respectively calculate first and second current values to be supplied to first and second motors based on deviations between first and second operation targets for the motors that are input from a higher device and actual operation of output shafts of the motor, and control operation of the output shafts by supplying current to the motors based on the current values, and an error estimation unit estimating an error in operation of a second joint due to bending and/or twisting of a robot arm based on the first current value and the actual operation of the output shaft of the first motor, in which the second joint control unit calculates the second current value to control the rotation angle of the output shaft of the second motor in a manner compensating for an angle error of the second joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobutaka Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11167416
    Abstract: a speed reducer angular transmission error identification system including a variation data acquisition unit that acquires first variation data indicating a periodic variation of an operation of a second joint caused by a first motor's angular transmission error when a first joint control unit rotates a first motor's output shaft in a first direction at a constant first target speed and a second joint drive unit rotates an output shaft of a second motor at a constant second target speed, second variation which is data indicating a periodic variation of an operation of second joint caused by the first motor's angular transmission error when the first joint control unit rotates the first motor's output shaft in a second direction at the constant first target speed and the second joint control unit rotates the second motor's output shaft at the constant second target speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobutaka Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 10919150
    Abstract: A motor control system including an input shaft connected to an output shaft of the motor and an output shaft connected to a load, the system including: a detection unit for detecting a rotation speed of the output shaft; a speed deviation generation unit generating a speed command position and calculates a speed deviation between the speed command and rotation speed of the output shaft; an angular transmission error compensation unit estimated between a rotation angle of the output shaft and of the speed reducer, and corrects the speed command, speed deviation, or rotation speed of the output shaft detected based on the event detected by the detection unit, based on the estimated angular transmission error; a current command generation unit generates a current command based on the speed deviation; and a current control unit controls a current supplied to the motor based on the current command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobutaka Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20200180153
    Abstract: a speed reducer angular transmission error identification system including a variation data acquisition unit that acquires first variation data indicating a periodic variation of an operation of a second joint caused by a first motor's angular transmission error when a first joint control unit rotates a first motor's output shaft in a first direction at a constant first target speed and a second joint drive unit rotates an output shaft of a second motor at a constant second target speed, second variation which is data indicating a periodic variation of an operation of second joint caused by the first motor's angular transmission error when the first joint control unit rotates the first motor's output shaft in a second direction at the constant first target speed and the second joint control unit rotates the second motor's output shaft at the constant second target speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobutaka TSUBOI
  • Publication number: 20200180149
    Abstract: A motor control system including an input shaft connected to an output shaft of the motor and an output shaft connected to a load, the system including: a detection unit for detecting a rotation speed of the output shaft; a speed deviation generation unit generating a speed command position and calculates a speed deviation between the speed command and rotation speed of the output shaft; an angular transmission error compensation unit estimated between a rotation angle of the output shaft and of the speed reducer, and corrects the speed command, speed deviation, or rotation speed of the output shaft detected based on the event detected by the detection unit, based on the estimated angular transmission error; a current command generation unit generates a current command based on the speed deviation; and a current control unit controls a current supplied to the motor based on the current command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobutaka TSUBOI
  • Publication number: 20200180154
    Abstract: A robot system has first and second joint control units that respectively calculate first and second current values to be supplied to first and second motors based on deviations between first and second operation targets for the motors that are input from a higher device and actual operation of output shafts of the motor, and control operation of the output shafts by supplying current to the motors based on the current values, and an error estimation unit estimating an error in operation of a second joint due to bending and/or twisting of a robot arm based on the first current value and the actual operation of the output shaft of the first motor, in which the second joint control unit calculates the second current value to control the rotation angle of the output shaft of the second motor in a manner compensating for an angle error of the second joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobutaka TSUBOI