Patents Assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
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Publication number: 20240116129Abstract: In a state where a shoulder member is in contact with a contact surface, a pin member is brought into contact with the contact surface to specify a pin movement amount, which is a distance from an initial position of the pin member to the contact surface, and specify a shoulder displacement amount, which is a displacement amount when the shoulder member is retreated as a result of the contact of the pin member. When both a first condition that the pin movement amount is included in a first range and a second condition that the shoulder displacement amount is included in a second range are satisfied, the pin member is retreated from the contact surface by a predetermined return amount, and furthermore, origin point alignment of the pin member and the shoulder member is performed on the basis of positions of the pin member and the shoulder member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro MIYAKE, Takuya FUKUDA, Tadahiro EDAGAWA, Norichika KITA, Makoto TSUJINAKA
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Publication number: 20240116171Abstract: A substrate conveyor robot includes a guide rail cover arranged on a lateral side of the guide rail to cover an upper part of a guide rail that is exposed when an up-and-down mover moves downward. The base link includes the guide rail cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takeshi SHIBATA
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Publication number: 20240120227Abstract: A substrate handling apparatus according to one or more embodiments may include: a base, an elevating unit that is connected to the base to freely elevate and lower, an arm that is rotatably connected to the elevating unit, a disk that is provided on the arm, and a hand that is rotatably connected to the arm, wherein in case that the hand is provided on a position to overlap the arm, the disk is provided under the substrate extracted by the hand.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Kawasaki Robotics (USA), INC.Inventors: Haruhiko TAN, Simon JEYAPALAN, Avish Ashok BHARWANI, Mu-Kai LIN
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Patent number: 11952952Abstract: A HST system for use in traveling of a vehicle includes a controller that controls a pump regulator that changes a displacement of a pump and a motor regulator that changes a displacement of a motor. The controller determines whether or not a particular downhill travel condition is satisfied based on a result of detection by a vehicle speed detector that detects a vehicle speed of the vehicle and a result of detection by a rotation number detector that detects a number of rotations of an engine per unit time. In a case where a depression amount of an accelerator pedal, which is detected by a depression amount detector, is zero and the particular downhill travel condition is satisfied, the controller controls the motor regulator to increase the displacement of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiro Kondo, Ryosuke Kusumoto, Yuki Nakayama
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Patent number: 11952089Abstract: A working method using an AUV includes a step of working on a work object with a work device included in the AUV while causing the AUV to sail along the work object, a step of dropping and sinking a transponder to the bottom of water, a step of causing the AUV to sail toward a return destination, and a step of resuming work on the work object by causing the AUV to sail from a return destination to the vicinity of a work suspended position, at which work on the work object is suspended, based on information obtained by acoustic positioning using the transponder that is sunk to the bottom of water.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Minehiko Mukaida, Noriyuki Okaya, Koichi Fukui, Fumitaka Tachinami, Yuki Kaga
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Publication number: 20240109260Abstract: A composite material structure manufacturing jig is used when manufacturing a composite material structure by adhering prepreg to a framework structure including a frame component that includes a channel extending along a longitudinal direction of the frame component. The composite material structure manufacturing jig is inserted in the channel of the frame component and used therein. The jig includes a tubular body formed of an elastic material containing a reinforcement fiber, the body including a trapezoidal transverse section that is a cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the body, the trapezoidal transverse section including an upper base and a lower base longer than the upper base. An inner surface of the body is coated with an inner peripheral film serving as a gas barrier layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toshikazu SANA
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Patent number: 11945118Abstract: A method of planning works for robots includes creating a work plan for a plurality of robots, each having a work tool, sharing at at least one station a work to a plurality of work parts of the workpiece. The method includes the steps of calculating a distribution of the work parts to the robots, calculating, as a robot operation, a work order of the work parts and a moving path of the work tool for each of the robots based on the calculated work distribution, and calculating a disposed location of each of the robots with respect to the workpiece and a station where the robot is disposed so that an inter-robot interference does not occur during execution of the calculated robot operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Masaoka, Shota Asazu, Hiroyuki Moriishi, Tomoya Sakuma, Yuji Hashiba, Jun Fujimori, Hitoshi Nariai, Kazumi Fukuhara
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Patent number: 11946390Abstract: Provided is a rotor blade configured to be implanted in a disc of a rotating body, the rotor blade including a blade root, wherein in a cross-sectional shape of the blade root, the blade root includes at least one stage of protruding parts protruding toward opposite sides with respect to a direction containing a circumferential component, the protruding parts being configured to lock the blade root to the disc, each of the protruding parts has a contact surface configured to come into contact with the disc and inclined so as to extend toward a center part of the blade root from radially inside to radially outside, and each of the protruding parts has a non-contact surface configured not to come into contact with the disc and inclined so as to extend toward the center part of the blade root from the radially inside to the radially outside.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotaka Kurashima, Hirokazu Matsuda, Ryoji Tamai, Ryozo Tanaka
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Patent number: 11944983Abstract: An electrostatic separation method includes: applying voltage between a lower electrode at a bottom portion of or in the raw material layer and an upper electrode above the raw material layer, generating an electric field between electrodes; fluidizing the raw material layer and bringing conductive particles and the lower electrode into contact in the raw material layer charging only the conductive particles wherein their polarity becomes the same as the lower electrode; generating polarity, the same as the upper electrode, by dielectric polarization on a conveyor belt downward-facing conveyance surface passing through a capture region above the raw material layer and under the upper electrode, the conveyance surface including a nonconductor; separates charged conductive particles from the raw material layer surface by electrostatic force and adhering conductive particles to the conveyor belt conveyance surface; and separating and collecting the particles from the conveyance surface that moved outside the eleType: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki Ihara, Koki Ikeda, Naoya Ogiyama, Yusuke Iida, Manabu Masamoto, Koji Fukumoto, Gen Kiyotaki, Keiichi Mashio, Tomoyuki Suzuki, Ryoma Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11945177Abstract: A first laminated body is worked to form a second laminated body, the first laminated body being formed by laminating prepregs including reinforcing fibers and resin, the second laminated body including a flat portion and a wavy portion, the flat portion being located at at least one of side edge portions of the second laminated body, the wavy portion being located at a portion adjacent to the side edge portion and extending along a longitudinal direction. An intermediate product is formed from the second laminated body by a forming die such that the flat portion becomes a bent portion that is an inside portion whose circumferential length is shorter in a curved portion, and the wavy portion becomes a bent portion that is an outside portion whose circumferential length is longer in the curved portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Shimada, Yoshihiro Nakayama, Sayaka Ochi, Shouhei Kanazawa, Kenshirou Okumura, Takaya Hamamoto, Kentaro Tanaka, Yuya Ouchi
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Publication number: 20240099793Abstract: An operation device according to this disclosure includes a control device configures to execute following control that keep an angle formed by a second link part and a first link part at a predetermined angle, and a rotation amount of a following link part about a following rotation axis in a case in which an absolute value of a moving speed of a wrist part is smaller than a predetermined threshold(s) is smaller than in a case in which the absolute value is not smaller than the predetermined threshold(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke YAMAMOTO, Takeshi KURIHARA
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Patent number: 11938558Abstract: A double-action friction stir joining system, which includes a double-action friction stir joining device, a cleaning mechanism having a dressing member, a robot, and a control device. The double-action friction stir joining device includes a first rotary driver configured to rotate a pin member and a shoulder member, and a tool driver configured to reciprocate the pin member and the shoulder member. The control device is adapted to (A) operate the tool driver so that the pin member is thrusted into the shoulder member, (B) operate the first rotary driver so that the shoulder member rotates, and (C) operate the robot so that the robot holds the double-action friction stir joining device and the dressing member contacts an inner circumferential surface of the shoulder member.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Miyake, Kengo Maeda, Masato Fukushima, Yohei Ishido
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Patent number: 11943894Abstract: A robot control device includes a casing including a main body having a first opening and a second opening, and a door opening and closing the first opening, a first circuit including a heat generating element, and at least one blower device. The main body includes a first chamber accommodating the first circuit and open at the first opening, and a second chamber adjacent to the first chamber and open at the first opening and the second opening. When the door closes the first opening, the door closes the first chamber and communicates the second chamber with the outside via a door opening of the door. The blower device is disposed at least one of positions at the door opening, near the door opening, at the second opening, and near the second opening, and is configured to introduce and discharge air into/from the second chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noriaki Fujisawa, Yoshiaki Tonoue
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Publication number: 20240091928Abstract: A wrist of an arm robot includes a first motor, a first speed reducer, a second motor, a transmission shaft, and a second speed reducer. The first motor is arranged at a base and generates a first rotational drive force to rotate a first distal portion. The first speed reducer is arranged at the first distal portion, includes a hollow portion, and reduces a rotational speed of the first rotational drive force. The second motor is arranged at the base and generates a second rotational drive force to rotate a second distal portion. The transmission shaft is arranged at the first distal portion and passes through the hollow portion of the first speed reducer. The second speed reducer is arranged at the first distal portion, is arranged coaxial with the first speed reducer, and is arranged along an axial direction of the first speed reducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya KAWATA, Masato YAMAMOTO, Norihisa TATSUTA, Akinori TAKAGI
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Patent number: 11933331Abstract: A control device controls movement of a valve body of a valve device and estimates a flow rate of the valve device; determines, on the basis of an input target flow rate value and the flow rate estimate, whether or not the flow of an operating fluid in the valve device is in a transient flow state; calculates an opening command on the basis of the target flow rate value and an upstream-downstream pressure difference of the valve device; and controls the movement of the valve body. When the control device determines that the flow is not in the transient flow state, it controls the movement of the valve body on the basis of the opening command, and when the control determines that the flow is in the transient flow state, it controls the movement of the valve body on the basis of the target flow rate value.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomomichi Nose, Hayato Kawasaki, Hideyasu Muraoka, Nobuyuki Kinoshita
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Publication number: 20240081927Abstract: A robotic surgical system according to this disclosure includes a controller configured to control at least one of the first driver and the second driver to maintain a distance between the first operation unit and the second operation unit when a third operation to move the endoscope by the first operation unit and the second operation unit is receivedType: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuki KODAMA, Yusuke TAKANO
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Publication number: 20240083032Abstract: A robot system includes robot bodies, operation devices each configured to accept operation and generate operational information for causing the robot body to operate, motion controllers configured to control operation of the corresponding robot body in response to the operational information, operation target selectors configured to receive an operation for selecting any of the robot bodies and request a permission to operate the selected robot body based on the operational information from the corresponding operation device, and an operation permitting device having a determinator configured to receive the permission request from the operation target selector and determine whether a permission is to be granted for the permission request. When the permission request is received, and the operation of the robot body selected by the operation target selector based on the operational information from a different operation device is permitted, the determinator prohibits the permission to the permission request.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiko HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240085022Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes a fuel injection device provided to a combustion tube forming a combustion chamber on an inner side, and including: a fuel injection portion having a plurality of fuel injection holes which inject fuel in directions containing components perpendicular to an axial direction and a common fuel supply chamber which supplies fuel into the plurality of fuel injection holes; and an air guide portion which guides air to fuel injected from each fuel injection hole. The fuel injection portion has an air guide surface which guides air for combustion and is located frontward in the axial direction of the combustion chamber relative to the fuel injection hole. A fuel injection opening of the fuel injection hole is provided at a bottom wall surface of a stepped recess recessed in a step shape from the air guide surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daniel KRONIGER, Atsushi HORIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240083035Abstract: A robot system includes a control device configured or programmed to evaluate a plurality of generated holding posture candidates based on an index including difficulty of interference of at least one of a robot arm or a hand with a surrounding object at a time at which a workpiece is held and generate a movement path.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya SHITAKA, Yuki TAKAYAMA, Shinpei ITO, Kippei MATSUDA, Toshiyuki HOMMA
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Publication number: 20240083573Abstract: A compound helicopter includes: a body; a first main wing extending from the body toward a right side in a proceeding direction of the body; a second main wing extending from the body toward a left side in the proceeding direction of the body; a main rotor disposed at an upper side of the body; a first propeller that is disposed at the first main wing and generates positive thrust when the proceeding direction is regarded as positive; and a second propeller that is disposed at the second main wing and generates positive thrust and negative thrust. Specifications of the first propeller are different from specifications of the second propeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masashi YOSHIO