Patents Assigned to FANUC Corporation
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Patent number: 10649432Abstract: A numerical controller of the present invention is provided with an override input unit configured to accept an operation for an override value by an operator, an override monitoring unit configured to detect the operation for the override value by the override input unit and output a notification based on the detected operation, and an execution block control unit configured to control suspension and resumption of run based on the notification output from the override monitoring unit. The override monitoring unit outputs a notification of an end-point stop request if a first operation pattern is detected from the override input unit during the run, and the execution block control unit performs control for suspending the run at the end point of a currently running block of a machining program on receiving the notification of the end-point stop request.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Akinobu Fukumoto
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Patent number: 10649436Abstract: An abnormality detection apparatus includes: a state observation section that observes tool weight data on weights of tools attached to a tool exchange device, tool balance data on balances of the tools, and tool exchange state data on a state during exchange of the tools; a tool exchange state data storage section that stores the tool weight data, the tool balance data, and the tool exchange state data in association with each other; and a determination result output section that detects an abnormality in the exchange of the tools based on the tool weight data, the tool balance data, and the tool exchange state data observed by the state observation section during the exchange of the tools in the processing machine and the data stored in the tool exchange state data storage section.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Shinichi Tanaka
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Patent number: 10649435Abstract: Provided is a tool life estimating device that enables estimation of a life of a tool used in a machine tool according to changes in machining conditions. The tool life estimating device includes a state observation unit that acquires machining information indicative of a status of the machining in a state where the life of the tool remains sufficiently, wherein the machining information is acquired from log data recorded while the machine tool is operated, and creates input data based on the machining information that has been acquired; a learning unit that constructs a learning model in which clusters of the machining information are created by unsupervised learning using the input data that has been created by the state observation unit; and a learning model storage unit that stores the learning model.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Masaaki Shindou
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Patent number: 10647044Abstract: An injection molding machine, which includes a safety door that can be opened and closed, is further equipped with a servo motor configured to open and close the safety door, a presence detector configured to detect whether or not an operator or object is present within a door operating space of the safety door or within a predetermined vicinal area of the safety door including the door operating space, and a controller configured to control the servo motor with a reference control amount in order to perform a closing operation of the safety door, and during a time it is detected by the presence detector that an operator or object is present, to cause a control amount that controls the servo motor in order to perform the closing operation of the safety door to decrease from the reference control amount.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Iwakura, Junpei Maruyama, Tatsuhiro Uchiyama
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Patent number: 10650956Abstract: A core body of a reactor includes an outer peripheral iron core composed of a plurality of outer peripheral iron core portions, at least three iron cores coupled to the plurality of outer peripheral iron core portions, and coils wound onto the at least three iron cores. Gaps, which can be magnetically coupled, are formed between one of the at least three iron cores and another iron core adjacent thereto. The reactor includes cover parts which at least partially cover the iron cores and provide insulation from the coils.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomokazu Yoshida, Masatomo Shirouzu, Kenichi Tsukada
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Publication number: 20200142382Abstract: An information processing device configured to display information on a plurality of machines in a plant in where a plurality of users and the machines individually having a plurality of modes are present is provided with a screen customization unit configured to generate layout information on a custom screen and a layout information holding unit configured to store the layout information in association with the users, the machines, and the modes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Takuya Hiranuma
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Publication number: 20200139548Abstract: An alarm notification system configured to assist an operator so that the operator can effectively carry out a teaching operation, etc. The alarm notification system includes: a storing section configured to, with respect to a past alarm which occurred when a program generated by a teach pendant was executed, store alarm data including a name of the program and a number of a line of the program when the alarm occurred; a judging section configured to judge as to whether or not an alarm prediction condition using the alarm data stored in the storing section is satisfied, when the program is executed again; and an alarm predicting section configured to notify the operator who is carrying out teaching of the robot of alarm information relating to the alarm, when the alarm prediction condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Teppei Hoshiyama
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Publication number: 20200139500Abstract: A rotary table device according to the present invention includes: a spindle that supports a table; a driving mechanism that drives the spindle; a load detection portion that detects a load of the driving mechanism; a clamp mechanism that inhibits rotation of the spindle; a rotation control portion that causes the driving mechanism to drive the spindle with a predetermined inspection pattern after the clamp mechanism starts releasing clamping; and a determination portion that determines whether good or not with respect to an operation of the clamp mechanism based on of change over time in the load detected by the load detection portion when the spindle is driven with the inspection pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Shingo TACHIKI
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Patent number: 10639836Abstract: A joining member configured to join a temperature-controlled member and a temperature control jacket includes a temperature control jacket attachment part attached to the temperature control jacket, and a temperature-controlled member attachment part attached to the temperature-controlled member. The temperature control jacket attachment part includes a temperature control jacket-side opening into which a first bolt is insertable, and the temperature-controlled member attachment part includes a temperature-controlled member-side opening into which a second bolt is insertable. The temperature control jacket-side opening and/or the temperature-controlled member-side opening are configured to allow change in positions where the first and second bolts are inserted.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Fuyuki Sugiura, Akira Oomori
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Patent number: 10639753Abstract: A machine tool provided with a tool spindle and a work table for supporting a workpiece for plastic forming on a workpiece with a tool attached to the tool spindle. The partially curved tool is has a moving mechanism to move the tool spindle relative to the workpiece, a spindle rotating motor to turn the tool spindle relative to the workpiece, a movement control unit to control the moving mechanism to move the tool along the workpiece while pressing a curved portion on the surface to be machined, and a turn control unit to control the spindle rotating motor to orient a normal line of the curved portion toward the surface of the workpiece at a reference position taken as a reference.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Takaaki Fujii
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Patent number: 10642247Abstract: A cell control system capable of estimating a cause of an alarm by estimating an influence of noise in a plurality of machines includes a machine operation instruction unit for transmitting an operation instruction to a managed manufacturing machine, a noise value collection unit for collecting detected noise information, an operation information collection unit for collecting operation information of a manufacturing machine, a learning unit for creating a learning model by performing machine learning using the collected operation information collected as an input signal and the detected noise information as an instruction signal, an estimation unit for analyzing the learning model to estimate operation information corresponding to a noise factor, and an operation instruction change unit for instructing the machine operation instruction unit to change instruction content based on the operation information corresponding to the noise factor.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Manabu Saitou
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Patent number: 10639788Abstract: A parallel link robot includes a base portion; a movable portion that is disposed below the base portion; a plurality of arms that link the base portion and the movable portion so as to be parallel to each other; and a wrist shaft that is supported by the movable portion so as to be rotatable about a rotation axis in a substantially vertical direction. A pair of marks indicate a relative phase between the movable portion and the wrist shaft about the rotation axis are on the movable portion and the wrist shaft, at positions visible from the upper side or the lateral side.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Yunfeng Wu
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Patent number: 10644568Abstract: The stator frame includes: a spiral groove which is provided as a flow path of a coolant from one end side to the other end side in an axis direction spirally along the circumferential direction of an outer circumferential surface; and annular grooves which individually communicate with the end portions of the spiral groove on the one end side and the other end side in the axis direction and which are provided annularly along the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential surface. The spiral groove is formed such that a groove depth is shallow in regions on the one end side and the other end side in the axis direction and the groove depth is deep in a region around a center in the axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuo Yamada
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Patent number: 10643127Abstract: The machine learning apparatus includes: a state data observing unit which observes state data of the laser apparatus, including data output from a reflected light detecting unit for measuring a reflected light amount; an operation result acquiring unit which acquires a success/failure result indicating whether the machining has been started successfully by the laser beam output from a laser oscillator; a learning unit which learns light output command data by associating the light output command data with the state data of the laser apparatus and the success/failure result of the machining start; and a decision making unit which determines the light output command data by referring to the light output command data learned by the learning unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Takigawa, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Hisatada Machida, Michinori Maeda, Ryusuke Miyata, Akinori Ohyama
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Patent number: 10639799Abstract: A robot system includes: a robot that is movable according to an external force applied thereto by a worker; a force detecting unit that is provided in the robot and that detects the magnitude of an external force acting on the robot; a warning part that vibrates the robot when an external force having a magnitude equal to or greater than a first predetermined threshold is detected by the force detecting unit; and a stop part that stops the robot when an external force having a magnitude equal to or greater than a second predetermined threshold that is greater than the first predetermined threshold is detected by the force detecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki Katou, Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Takeaki Aramaki
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Patent number: 10643779Abstract: A reactor includes an outer peripheral iron core composed of a plurality of outer peripheral iron core portions and at least three iron core coils arranged inside the outer peripheral iron core. Each of the at least three iron core coils is composed of an iron core coupled to the respective outer peripheral iron core portion and a coil wound onto the respective iron core. Gaps, which can be magnetically coupled, are formed between adjacent iron cores. The reactor further includes connection parts for connecting the plurality of outer peripheral iron core portions to each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Masatomo Shirouzu, Kenichi Tsukada
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Patent number: 10642250Abstract: A servo control system for controlling a plurality of axes of a machine tool, comprises: a plurality of servo control units for controlling the plurality of axes, respectively; a plurality of learning control units that are provided one each in the plurality of servo control units, and each configured to control a cyclic operation highly precisely; a common learning memory for storing correction data which at least a portion of the plurality of learning control units generates; a memory allocation unit for allocating at least a portion of a memory area in the learning memory to the axis that the learning control unit that generated the correction data controls; and a memory amount notifying unit for notifying the memory allocation unit as to the amount of memory that each of the plurality of learning control units of the respective axes requires.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Kouki Kameta, Naoto Sonoda
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Patent number: 10639791Abstract: Methods and systems for touch-sensing to provide an updated user frame are provided. These include the provision of a user frame and the touch-sensing of a workpiece, where the touch-sensing includes performing a touch-sensing schedule. The touch-sensing schedule includes one of a laser touch-sensing event and a wire touch-sensing event, where one of the laser touch-sensing event and the wire touch-sensing event is switched to the other of the laser touch-sensing event and the wire touch-sensing event while performing the touch-sensing schedule. An offset of the workpiece relative to the user frame is determined based on the touch-sensing of the workpiece and the offset is applied to the user frame to provide the updated user frame. The unique dynamic user frame feature enables same touch sensing program to be cloned and applied on multiple robot controllers.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Tien L. Chang, Terry Tupper, Ho Cheung Wong, Sai-Kai Cheng, Jason Tsai
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Patent number: 10645280Abstract: An object is to provide an image-sensing system which can acquire uniform images with a line sensor camera. An image-sensing system includes: a line sensor camera that shoots a workpiece in which a plurality of circumferential surfaces whose radii differ from each other are aligned in a direction of an axis and which is being machined while being rotated about the axis from a direction orthogonal to the axis so as to cover the entire workpiece in the direction of the axis; and a scan rate change unit which changes a scan rate of the line sensor camera to values that respectively correspond to the radii of the circumferential surfaces, and the line sensor camera shoots the workpiece at the scan rates which are changed to the values corresponding to the radii of the circumferential surfaces so as to respectively correspond to the circumferential surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Kouhei Kuribara, Kazuo Sato
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Patent number: 10641817Abstract: A motor driving device includes: a converter unit having a capacitor; a plurality of inverter units having a plurality of semiconductor switching elements and configured to convert a capacitor voltage across the capacitor into an AC voltage to drive a plurality of motors; a second switch configured to connect the negative-side terminal of the capacitor to ground; a first detector configured to detect a ground-referenced voltage; and a second detector configured to detect the capacitor voltage. The motor driving device controls the semiconductor switching elements to establish a measurement state for enabling measurement of an insulation resistance of a measurement target motor, determines that the ground-referenced voltage has converged when an amount of change in the waveform of the ground-referenced voltage detected by the first detector becomes equal to or lower than a threshold, and calculates the insulation resistance based on the ground-referenced voltage and the capacitor voltage.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Norihiro Chou, Youichirou Ooi