Patents by Inventor Tetsuro Matsudaira

Tetsuro Matsudaira 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: 20190091864
    Abstract: A robot system includes: a robot; a sensor that detects entry of a person into a peripheral region of the robot; and a control device that controls the robot and the sensor. The control device is provided with: a robot control unit that controls the robot; an operating-region prediction unit that sequentially predicts an operating region of the robot up to a predetermined time later; and a detection-region control unit that sets to enabled a detection result of the sensor in a region, of the peripheral region, that includes the operating region, which is predicted by the operating-region prediction unit, and sets to disabled the detection result of the sensor in the other region of the peripheral region. The robot control unit limits the operation of the robot when entry of a person is detected in the region where the detection result of the sensor has been set to enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsuro MATSUDAIRA, Shuu INOUE
  • Publication number: 20190047143
    Abstract: A control device that outputs a command for a robot includes a machine learning device that learns a command for the robot. The machine learning device includes a state observation unit that observes a state of the robot and a state of a person present in a peripheral area of the robot, as state variables representing a current state of an environment, a determination data acquisition unit that acquires determination data representing an interference state between the robot and the person, and a learning unit that learns the state of the robot, the state of the person present in the peripheral area of the robot, and the command for the robot obtained by associating the state of the robot and the state of the person present in the peripheral area of the robot by using the state variables and the determination data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Matsudaira, Shuu Inoue
  • Patent number: 10011017
    Abstract: An industrial robot system includes a first deviation calculation unit calculating a first deviation between a first force detection value and a first force estimation value, a first command output unit outputting an operation command, a stop command, a deceleration command, or a deceleration stop command to a robot when a first deviation is larger than a first threshold value, and a fourth command output unit outputting the operation command, the stop command, the deceleration command, or the deceleration stop command according to a deviation pattern when the first deviation includes a common deviation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Matsudaira, Shuntaro Toda
  • Publication number: 20180071913
    Abstract: A robot system having a communication established between a robot controller and a teach pendant. The robot system includes a robot; a detecting section for detecting a sign received by the robot; a robot controller for controlling the robot; a teach pendant capable of communicating with the robot controller and inputting an operational instruction for the robot into the robot controller; and an input permission section for permitting input of the operational instruction from the teach pendant into the robot controller when the sign is detected by the detecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Tetsuro MATSUDAIRA, Syuntarou TODA
  • Publication number: 20170028565
    Abstract: An industrial robot system includes a first deviation calculation unit calculating a first deviation between a first force detection value and a first force estimation value, a first command output unit outputting an operation command, a stop command, a deceleration command, or a deceleration stop command to a robot when a first deviation is larger than a first threshold value, and a fourth command output unit outputting the operation command, the stop command, the deceleration command, or the deceleration stop command according to a deviation pattern when the first deviation includes a common deviation pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuro MATSUDAIRA, Shuntaro TODA
  • Publication number: 20070200829
    Abstract: An operation panel capable of being effectively reduced in size while the operability and the visibility are maintained at the conventional level. The operation panel includes a flexible display, a plurality of operation keys and a storing part for storing the flexible display in a wound state. In a second operation mode of the operation panel, the flexible display may be withdrawn to a second position at which the flexible display covers a second operation key, in order to enlarge a display area of the operation panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Yoshiki Hashimoto, Tomoki Ohya, Satoru Morita, Tetsuro Matsudaira