Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi HANNYA

Tsuyoshi HANNYA 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: 11897135
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention prevents a robot from being subjected to an excessive load even when operated by an inexperienced user. Provided is a human-cooperative robot system including a robot and a control device that controls the robot. The robot is provided with a sensor that detect an external force applied to the robot. The control device stops the operation of the robot when the detected external force is equal to or greater than a first threshold, and issues a warning when the detected external force is equal to or greater than a second threshold exceeding the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hannya, Manabu Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 11511430
    Abstract: This robot controller causes a robot to follow a target, while a transfer device moves the target, by using a detection result obtained by a movement-amount detecting device that detects the amount by which the transfer device moves the target. When the value of any one of the speed, the acceleration, and the jerk of the target calculated based on the detection result obtained by the movement-amount detecting device or the pattern of the speed, the acceleration, and the jerk deviates from the predetermined reference, the robot controller performs predetermined reporting or stops the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Hirakawa, Tsuyoshi Hannya
  • Publication number: 20200238522
    Abstract: This robot controller causes a robot to follow a target, while a transfer device moves the target, by using a detection result obtained by a movement-amount detecting device that detects the amount by which the transfer device moves the target. When the value of any one of the speed, the acceleration, and the jerk of the target calculated based on the detection result obtained by the movement-amount detecting device or the pattern of the speed, the acceleration, and the jerk deviates from the predetermined reference, the robot controller performs predetermined reporting or stops the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Manabu HIRAKAWA, Tsuyoshi HANNYA
  • Publication number: 20200070342
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention prevents a robot from being subjected to an excessive load even when operated by an inexperienced user. Provided is a human-cooperative robot system including a robot and a control device that controls the robot. The robot is provided with a sensor that detect an external force applied to the robot. The control device stops the operation of the robot when the detected external force is equal to or greater than a first threshold, and issues a warning when the detected external force is equal to or greater than a second threshold exceeding the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HANNYA, Manabu HIRAKAWA
  • Patent number: 10478970
    Abstract: An object is prevented from being sandwiched between robot arms without the occurrence of unintentional operating restrictions of the robot arms. Provided is a robot system including: a robot body that is provided with at least two links that are relatively moved by at least one joint; a sensor that detects the distances from mutually opposed surfaces of the at least two links to an object inserted between the surfaces; and a control unit that performs an interference avoidance operation if the distances detected by the sensor are less than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hannya, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Takatoshi Iwayama
  • Patent number: 10427302
    Abstract: A robot control apparatus includes a setting unit which sets a workpiece parameter, which is a parameter of a workpiece itself and affects transferability of the workpiece transferred by the industrial robot, a storage unit which stores a rated workpiece parameter, which is a maximum parameter of the workpiece itself which can be transferred by the robot at a rated velocity, and a velocity limiting unit which reduces the maximum velocity of the industrial robot to a value lower than the rated velocity when the workpiece parameter set by the setting unit exceeds the rated workpiece parameter stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Hannya
  • Publication number: 20180250824
    Abstract: An object is prevented from being sandwiched between robot arms without the occurrence of unintentional operating restrictions of the robot arms. Provided is a robot system including: a robot body that is provided with at least two links that are relatively moved by at least one joint; a sensor that detects the distances from mutually opposed surfaces of the at least two links to an object inserted between the surfaces; and a control unit that performs an interference avoidance operation if the distances detected by the sensor are less than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HANNYA, Hiroaki YAMAMOTO, Takatoshi IWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180099410
    Abstract: A robot control device includes: a robot tool tip position calculator configured to calculate a position of a tip part of a tool of a robot; an operation limited region setting unit provided for a user to set an operation limited region having a desired size; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the position of the tip part of the tool is within the operation limited region; and an operation limiting unit configured to, in the case where the position of the tip part of the tool is within the operation limited region, limit at least one of a speed and an acceleration of the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi HANNYA
  • Publication number: 20180059655
    Abstract: A production system includes at least one production machine, a machine management device, and a production management device. The production machine transmits cumulative total use time data to the machine management device. The production management device has a transfer part which transfers scheduled production number information, recommended inspection time information, and inspection reservation information. The machine management device has a determination part which determines, based on the cumulative total use time data of each production machine and the recommended inspection time information, whether an inspection is necessary within a predetermined period of time, and an extraction part which extracts a predetermined number of dates from the extracted reservable dates, in order of smallest to largest scheduled production number, based on the inspection reservation information and the scheduled production number information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi HANNYA
  • Patent number: 9827673
    Abstract: A robot controller able to suppress shaking of a tool tip of a robot due to operation of a travel axis. The robot controller includes a movement calculating part calculating an amount of movement of the travel axis and an amount of movement of the tool tip each time the travel axis operates in accordance with a command and a correcting part correcting a command value so that at least one command value of a speed and acceleration to the travel axis becomes smaller when the amount of movement of the travel axis is larger than a predetermined first threshold value and the amount of movement of the tool tip is smaller than a predetermined second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Hannya
  • Publication number: 20170043481
    Abstract: A robot controller able to suppress shaking of a tool tip of a robot due to operation of a travel axis. The robot controller includes a movement calculating part calculating an amount of movement of the travel axis and an amount of movement of the tool tip each time the travel axis operates in accordance with a command and a correcting part correcting a command value so that at least one command value of a speed and acceleration to the travel axis becomes smaller when the amount of movement of the travel axis is larger than a predetermined first threshold value and the amount of movement of the tool tip is smaller than a predetermined second threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi HANNYA
  • Publication number: 20160011588
    Abstract: A robot control apparatus includes a setting unit which sets a workpiece parameter, which is a parameter of a workpiece itself and affects transferability of the workpiece transferred by the industrial robot, a storage unit which stores a rated workpiece parameter, which is a maximum parameter of the workpiece itself which can be transferred by the robot at a rated velocity, and a velocity limiting unit which reduces the maximum velocity of the industrial robot to a value lower than the rated velocity when the workpiece parameter set by the setting unit exceeds the rated workpiece parameter stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Hiromitsu TAKAHASHI, Tsuyoshi HANNYA