Patents by Inventor Shohei MASE

Shohei MASE 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: 11613021
    Abstract: A robot system including a robot, a marker unit, a sensor, storage device, and a control device. The robot performs an operation with regard to a workpiece. The marker unit is attached to a measurement object and includes a base section and a plurality of markers attached to the base section. The sensor detects identification information and three-dimensional positions of the plurality of markers. The storage device stores teaching data including operation data and attachment position data indicating a correspondence relationship between the identification information of each of the markers and an attachment position of the corresponding marker. The control device calculates a three-dimensional position of the measurement object based on the three-dimensional positions of the plurality of markers and the attachment position data and controls the robot based on the three-dimensional position of the measurement object and the operation data so as to make the robot perform the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Mase, Jun Fujimori, Masao Takatori, Kenji Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20200206938
    Abstract: A robot system including a robot, a marker unit, a sensor, storage device, and a control device. The robot performs an operation with regard to a workpiece. The marker unit is attached to a measurement object and includes a base section and a plurality of markers attached to the base section. The sensor detects identification information and three-dimensional positions of the plurality of markers. The storage device stores teaching data including operation data and attachment position data indicating a correspondence relationship between the identification information of each of the markers and an attachment position of the corresponding marker. The control device calculates a three-dimensional position of the measurement object based on the three-dimensional positions of the plurality of markers and the attachment position data and controls the robot based on the three-dimensional position of the measurement object and the operation data so as to make the robot perform the operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei MASE, Jun FUJIMORI, Masao TAKATORI, Kenji NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10350756
    Abstract: Method of automatically avoiding an obstacle for a robot including a geometric model expression step, an area setting step, a final posture deciding step, an initial route deciding step, a virtual posture calculation step, an interference determining step, a way-point posture deciding step that decides the virtual posture as a way-point posture; and when the geometric model is determined to interfere with the no-entry area, virtually generates a repulsive force for relatively repelling an interfering portion of the geometric model from an interfering portion of the no-entry area, calculates a posture in a state where the interfering portion of the model is pushed from the no-entry area into the operating area by the repulsive force, and decides the calculated posture as a way-point posture; an updated route deciding step, and a step repeatedly performing the steps from the initial route deciding step to the updated route deciding step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakaya, Masaya Yoshida, Shohei Mase, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170348856
    Abstract: Method of automatically avoiding an obstacle for a robot including a geometric model expression step, an area setting step, a final posture deciding step, an initial route deciding step, a virtual posture calculation step, an interference determining step, a way-point posture deciding step that decides the virtual posture as a way-point posture; and when the geometric model is determined to interfere with the no-entry area, virtually generates a repulsive force for relatively repelling an interfering portion of the geometric model from an interfering portion of the no-entry area, calculates a posture in a state where the interfering portion of the model is pushed from the no-entry area into the operating area by the repulsive force, and decides the calculated posture as a way-point posture; an updated route deciding step, and a step repeatedly performing the steps from the initial route deciding step to the updated route deciding step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKAYA, Masaya YOSHIDA, Shohei MASE, Hiroki TAKAHASHI