Patents by Inventor Shiguma IIJIMA

Shiguma IIJIMA 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: 20210154859
    Abstract: A robot system includes a robot including a robot arm, a force sensor, and a fitted portion provided at an opposite side to the robot arm via the force sensor, a tool having a fitting portion fitting in the fitted portion, and a control apparatus controlling actuation of the robot, wherein the control apparatus performs first control to detach the tool from the robot arm by driving the robot arm based on output of the force sensor and releasing fitting of the fitted portion and the fitting portion, and second control to attach the tool to the robot arm by driving the robot arm based on the output of the force sensor and fitting the fitted portion in the fitting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventor: Shiguma IIJIMA
  • Patent number: 10857674
    Abstract: A robot system and a robot are capable of easily defining a position of a target object with respect to a robot. The robot system includes a first robot, a first cell which is provided with the first robot and is capable of moving, and a positioning unit which is provided in an inner portion of the first cell and positions a target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventors: Masato Yokota, Shiguma Iijima
  • Publication number: 20180154522
    Abstract: A robot system and a robot are capable of easily defining a position of a target object with respect to a robot. The robot system includes a first robot, a first cell which is provided with the first robot and is capable of moving, and a positioning unit which is provided in an inner portion of the first cell and positions a target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masato YOKOTA, Shiguma IIJIMA
  • Patent number: 9926142
    Abstract: A workpiece supplying device includes a pallet that has a groove portion being disposed in an arc state and a stepped portion including a stepped surface intersecting a circumferential direction of the pallet and accommodates a workpiece, and a vibration unit that drives the pallet due to vibration and transports the workpiece in the circumferential direction toward the stepped portion. A plurality of the groove portions are disposed in a concentric manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shiguma Iijima, Tsuguya Kojima, Takuma Okamuro, Takahiro Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20170050276
    Abstract: A work system is for performing a work operation including a plurality of operation processes on an object, and includes a plurality of plates, lengths of the plates in a first direction in which the work operation including the plurality of operation processes is performed each have a value obtained by multiplying a predetermined value by a natural number, and intervals between the plates adjacent to each other in the first direction each have a value obtained by multiplying the predetermined value by an integer one of equal to and larger than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventor: Shiguma Iijima
  • Publication number: 20170008703
    Abstract: A workpiece supplying device includes a pallet that has a groove portion being disposed in an arc state and a stepped portion including a stepped surface intersecting a circumferential direction of the pallet and accommodates a workpiece, and a vibration unit that drives the pallet due to vibration and transports the workpiece in the circumferential direction toward the stepped portion. A plurality of the groove portions are disposed in a concentric manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Shiguma IIJIMA, Tsuguya KOJIMA, Takuma OKAMURO, Takahiro SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20100052250
    Abstract: A carrier device performs floating and carrying of a sheet-like member having curling tendency along a carrier path. The carrier device includes a floating air blowing unit that floats and carries the sheet-like member by blowing out air obliquely upward in a carrying direction to the sheet-like member residing on the carrier path via a plurality of blowout holes, a carrier plate that constitutes the carrier path and has the plurality of blowout holes formed therein, and a pressing air blowing unit that faces a carrying start position of the sheet-like member on the carrier plate and blows out air from an upper position relative to the sheet-like member so as to lay the sheet-like member along the carrier plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiguma IIJIMA, Makoto ISHIDA, Atsushi HIRAI