Patents by Inventor Tomoyoshi Utsumi

Tomoyoshi Utsumi 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: 11912412
    Abstract: A substrate working system includes a plurality of substrate working apparatuses, a component storage that stores a device and a component to be used by the substrate working apparatuses, and a component conveyance flight vehicle. The component conveyance flight vehicle conveys a conveyance article by flying from the component storage to a predetermined position corresponding to a predetermined substrate working apparatus while holding the conveyance article based on necessary article information of the substrate working apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Nakano, Tomoyoshi Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20220081226
    Abstract: A movable harvesting apparatus includes an end effector including a suction port to suction a harvest object, a vacuum generator, vacuum spaces in which a vacuum is generated by the vacuum generator, a switching valve disposed in a path from the vacuum spaces to the suction port, and a controller to control opening and closing of the switching valve. The harvesting apparatus reduces wasteful energy consumption required for harvesting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Masamitsu SHINOMIYA, Tomoyoshi UTSUMI, Shuhei MATSUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11185000
    Abstract: A mounting shaft device comprises a spline shaft including a supply passage for air pressure that extends through a shaft hole in a support, a conduit in communication with a valve and allowing the air pressure from the valve to be introduced to the supply passage, a component retainer disposed at an axial end of the spline shaft and configured to hold an electronic component by using the air pressure applied through the supply passage, a spline nut connected to the spline shaft through a spline mechanism, and a bearing supporting the spline shaft in the shaft hole in the support both in a linearly movable manner in an axial direction and in a rotatable manner about an axis thereof. The bearing, the conduit, and the spline nut are arranged on an axis of the spline shaft in this order from the component retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Utsumi
  • Patent number: 11013159
    Abstract: A component mounting device mounts electronic components fed at component feeding positions arranged in one line onto printed circuit boards, and includes a rotary head and a head transfer mechanism. The rotary head includes a rotary body, an N-axis servomotor that rotates the rotary body, pickup nozzles attached to the rotary body in a movable manner along a rotation axis, and two Z-axis drive units. The pickup nozzles are arranged on an imaginary circle centered at the rotation axis, and hold and release the electronic components. The Z-axis drive units move one of the pickup nozzles located at a predetermined driving position on the imaginary circle along the rotation axis. The N-axis drive units are arranged with the rotary body therebetween in a direction in which the component feeding positions are arranged. The head transfer mechanism moves the rotary head in a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Utsumi
  • Patent number: 10925198
    Abstract: A shaft device includes a nut support including a shaft hole, a spline shaft extending through the shaft hole of the nut support, a spline nut having a tubular shape, a bearing of thrust type rotatably supporting the spline nut relative to the nut support, and a biasing member configured to bias the bearing in an axial direction of the spline shaft. The spline nut is disposed coaxially with a portion of the spline shaft protruding upward from the shaft hole and connected to the spline shaft through a spline mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Utsumi
  • Patent number: 10897841
    Abstract: A rotary head of a surface mounter includes a rotating body, an N-shaft servo motor configured to rotate and drive the rotating body and a plurality of suction nozzles attached to the rotating body in such a manner as to be movable in a direction of a rotation axis. The plurality of suction nozzles are arranged on a virtual circle with the rotation axis as the center, and the plurality of suction nozzles are configured to hold and release a component. The rotary head of a surface mounter further includes a Z-axis drive device including a Z-axis linear motor. The Z-axis drive device is configured to use the Z-axis linear motor to move, in the direction of the rotation axis, the suction nozzle that has moved to a predetermined drive position on the virtual circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Tsuri, Tomoyoshi Utsumi
  • Patent number: 10874040
    Abstract: A rotary head of a surface mounter includes a rotating body, an N-shaft servo motor configured to rotate and drive the rotating body, and a plurality of suction nozzles attached to the rotating body in such a manner as to be movable in a direction of a rotation axis. The plurality of suction nozzles are arranged on the circumference of a circle with the rotation axis as the center, and the plurality of suction nozzles are configured to hold and release a component. The rotary head of a surface mounter further includes at least a pair of Z-axis drive devices spaced apart from each other in a rotation direction of the rotating body and configured to move, in the direction of the rotation axis, the suction nozzle that has moved to a predetermined drive position on the circumference of the circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Tsuri, Tomoyoshi Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20190359331
    Abstract: A substrate working system includes a plurality of substrate working apparatuses, a component storage that stores a device and a component to be used by the substrate working apparatuses, and a component conveyance flight vehicle. The component conveyance flight vehicle conveys a conveyance article by flying from the component storage to a predetermined position corresponding to a predetermined substrate working apparatus while holding the conveyance article based on necessary article information of the substrate working apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki NAKANO, Tomoyoshi UTSUMI
  • Patent number: 10267298
    Abstract: A linear motor includes a stator having a core and an armature including coils respectively attached to the cores. A mover includes a shaft-like member having an opposed surface opposed to the armature and a field magneton made of a plurality of permanent magnets arrayed along the shaft-like member and fixed to the opposed surface. A frame member is configured to support the stator. A retaining member is attached to the frame member and configured to retain the shaft-like member movably in the longitudinal direction thereof such that the mover is movable in the first direction with respect to the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20180376632
    Abstract: A component mounting device mounts electronic components fed at component feeding positions arranged in one line onto printed circuit boards, and includes a rotary head and a head transfer mechanism. The rotary head includes a rotary body, an N-axis servomotor that rotates the rotary body, pickup nozzles attached to the rotary body in a movable manner along a rotation axis, and two Z-axis drive units. The pickup nozzles are arranged on an imaginary circle centered at the rotation axis, and hold and release the electronic components. The Z-axis drive units move one of the pickup nozzles located at a predetermined driving position on the imaginary circle along the rotation axis. The N-axis drive units are arranged with the rotary body therebetween in a direction in which the component feeding positions are arranged. The head transfer mechanism moves the rotary head in a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20180324989
    Abstract: A mounting shaft device comprises a spline shaft including a supply passage for air pressure that extends through a shaft hole in a supporting member, an introducing member in communication with a valve and allowing the air pressure from the valve to be introduced to the supply passage, a component retainer disposed at an axial end of the spline shaft and configured to hold an electronic component by using the air pressure applied through the supply passage, a spline nut connected to the spline shaft through a spline mechanism, and a bearing supporting the spline shaft in the shaft hole in the supporting member both in a linearly movable manner in an axial direction and in a rotatable manner about an axis thereof. The bearing, the introducing member, and the spline nut are arranged on an axis of the spline shaft in this order from the component retainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20180317352
    Abstract: A shaft device includes a nut support including a shaft hole, a spline shaft extending through the shaft hole of the nut support, a spline nut having a tubular shape, a bearing of thrust type rotatably supporting the spline nut relative to the nut support, and a biasing member configured to bias the bearing in an axial direction of the spline shaft. The spline nut is disposed coaxially with a portion of the spline shaft protruding upward from the shaft hole and connected to the spline shaft through a spline mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20180288911
    Abstract: A rotary head of a surface mounter includes a rotating body, an N-shaft servo motor configured to rotate and drive the rotating body and a plurality of suction nozzles attached to the rotating body in such a manner as to be movable in a direction of a rotation axis. The plurality of suction nozzles are arranged on a virtual circle with the rotation axis as the center, and the plurality of suction nozzles are configured to hold and release a component. The rotary head of a surface mounter further includes a Z-axis drive device including a Z-axis linear motor. The Z-axis drive device is configured to use the Z-axis linear motor to move, in the direction of the rotation axis, the suction nozzle that has moved to a predetermined drive position on the virtual circle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji TSURI, Tomoyoshi UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20180270999
    Abstract: A rotary head of a surface mounter includes a rotating body, an N-shaft servo motor configured to rotate and drive the rotating body, and a plurality of suction nozzles attached to the rotating body in such a manner as to be movable in a direction of a rotation axis. The plurality of suction nozzles are arranged on the circumference of a circle with the rotation axis as the center, and the plurality of suction nozzles are configured to hold and release a component. The rotary head of a surface mounter further includes at least a pair of Z-axis drive devices spaced apart from each other in a rotation direction of the rotating body and configured to move, in the direction of the rotation axis, the suction nozzle that has moved to a predetermined drive position on the circumference of the circle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji TSURI, Tomoyoshi UTSUMI
  • Patent number: 9686455
    Abstract: In an apparatus adapted to scan a lower side of an electronic component being suction-held by a suction-holding nozzle, to perform image recognition of suction-held conditions of the electronic component, this invention is intended to perform a transfer operation under a condition that the suction-holding nozzle is arranged closer to an upper surface of a base, wherein the optical path directed downwardly from the suction-holding nozzle is bended in a lateral direction by a first optical path changing member and then further bended in another direction by a second optical path changing member to allow image-sensing means to capture an image of a lower surface of the suction-holding nozzle, and the electronic component being suction-held by the suction-holding nozzle is illuminated along the lateral optical path changed by the first optical path changing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi Utsumi, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Naoki Hanamura
  • Patent number: 9370793
    Abstract: A component mounting device is provided with a head unit having a first nozzle array including a plurality of nozzle members aligned in a first direction, a second nozzle array that includes a plurality of nozzle members aligned in the first direction and that is aligned in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A first linear motor vertically drives the nozzle members of the first nozzle array. A second linear motor drives the nozzle members of the second nozzle array. Each linear motor includes a linear motor main body that includes a stationary element and a mobile element that faces the stationary element in the second direction. The mobile element of the first linear motor and the mobile element of the second linear motor are in close proximity with each other in the second direction and each stationary element is located outside the mobile element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20150215503
    Abstract: In an apparatus adapted to scan a lower side of an electronic component being suction-held by a suction-holding nozzle, to perform image recognition of suction-held conditions of the electronic component, this invention is intended to perform a transfer operation under a condition that the suction-holding nozzle is arranged closer to an upper surface of a base, wherein the optical path directed downwardly from the suction-holding nozzle is bended in a lateral direction by a first optical path changing member and then further bended in another direction by a second optical path changing member to allow image-sensing means to capture an image of a lower surface of the suction-holding nozzle, and the electronic component being suction-held by the suction-holding nozzle is illuminated along the lateral optical path changed by the first optical path changing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi UTSUMI, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI, Naoki HANAMURA
  • Publication number: 20150041557
    Abstract: A component mounting device is provided with a head unit having a first nozzle array including a plurality of nozzle members aligned in a first direction, a second nozzle array that includes a plurality of nozzle members aligned in the first direction and that is aligned in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A first linear motor vertically drives the nozzle members of the first nozzle array. A second linear motor drives the nozzle members of the second nozzle array. Each linear motor includes a linear motor main body that includes a stationary element and a mobile element that faces the stationary element in the second direction. The mobile element of the first linear motor and the mobile element of the second linear motor are in close proximity with each other in the second direction and each stationary element is located outside the mobile element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Utsumi
  • Patent number: 8941271
    Abstract: The linear motor includes: a frame; a slider having an mounting portion to allow the suction nozzle to be coupled thereto, wherein the slider is support by the frame in a movable manner in an up and down direction; a plurality of permanent magnets fixed to the slider while being aligned in the up and down direction; a spring member installed between the frame and a region of the slider spaced from the fixation position of the permanent magnets in the up and down direction, to bias the slider upwardly; a coil supported by the frame in such a manner as to be opposed to the permanent magnets; and an encoder supported by the frame in side-by-side relation with the coil in the up and down direction and adapted to detect a movement of the slider. The encoder and the spring member are arranged side-by-side in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Tsuri, Tomoyoshi Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20150004029
    Abstract: A linear motor includes a stator having a core and an armature including coils respectively attached to the cores. A mover includes a shaft-like member having an opposed surface opposed to the armature and a field magneton made of a plurality of permanent magnets arrayed along the shaft-like member and fixed to the opposed surface. A frame member is configured to support the stator. A retaining member is attached to the frame member and configured to retain the shaft-like member movably in the longitudinal direction thereof such that the mover is movable in the first direction with respect to the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Utsumi