Patents Assigned to Sintokogio, Ltd.
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Patent number: 11504886Abstract: The present invention includes: a connector unit configured to disconnectably connect an injection container unit and a lid member; and a vertically driving mechanism configured to cause the injection container unit and the lid member to move up and down together when the injection container unit and the lid member are connected together and to cause the lid member to move up and down when the injection container unit and the lid member are not connected together.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Takanobu Tozaki, Takayuki Komiyama, Tomohiro Aoki
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Patent number: 11504908Abstract: The additive manufacturing system includes a container having an upper part being opened, a base part being vertically movable, and defining a space therein, the space being fillable with sand as a base material of a molded object, an additive manufacturing apparatus forming a green body of the molded object layer by layer in the container while causing the base part to move down, and a microwave oven defining a space therein, the space configured to house the container including the green body, the microwave oven configured to irradiate the container with a microwave to obtain the molded object, wherein a part or a whole of the container is made of a dielectric.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyasu Makino, Yoshihisa Suzuki, Hideki Morimitsu
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Publication number: 20220349763Abstract: An electric cylinder system includes: an electric cylinder including a rod and a strain detector; an output unit configured to output, on the basis of a reference load value in accordance with an output value of a strain detector for calibration obtained when the rod presses the strain detector for calibration and a measurement load value in accordance with an output value of the strain detector obtained when the rod presses the strain detector for calibration, a gain and an offset for causing the measurement load value to approach the reference load value; a storage unit configured to store the gain and the offset as a calibration parameter; and a calibration unit configured to calibrate a load value in accordance with an output value detected by the strain detector on the basis of the calibration parameter wherein the gain and the offset satisfy a preset relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Takuma NAKAI, Yuu ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20220350314Abstract: A management method for managing a production line including a plurality of steps includes carrying out a first displaying process and carrying out a second displaying process, wherein, among a first indicator group (I1), an indicator corresponding to a certain step functions as a GUI element configured to change a screen to be displayed on a display from a top screen (G1) to a second screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro OTA, Takeshi SONOHARA
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Patent number: 11478897Abstract: A blasting processing method using shot media. A particle diameter distribution of the shot media before forming an operating mix is bimodal and substantially continuous, and both a first particle group corresponding to a first peak and a second particle group corresponding to a second peak are aggregates of particles in a shape having an angular part.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Hayato Taniguchi, Yuto Kato
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Patent number: 11473842Abstract: A melting work device and a melting work method by which work can be easily performed on a melting furnace without a worker approaching the melting furnace. A melting work device performs work on a melt obtained by melting a material in a melting furnace. The melting work device has a drive mechanism; and a plurality of work tools that are operated by the drive mechanism; wherein the drive mechanism is able to move the work tools in an arbitrary direction at an arbitrary location above the melting furnace.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Tamaki, Takahiro Yano, Masayuki Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20220324190Abstract: An electric cylinder system includes: a rod; a ball screw mechanism; a nut connected to the rod; a cylindrical body including a contact portion, the contact portion configured to be abutting the nut making the linear motion, the cylindrical body configured to support the ball screw mechanism in such a manner that the ball screw mechanism is displaceable in the axis direction of the ball screw; a strain detector fixed to the cylindrical body and configured to detect a value corresponding to a displacement of the ball screw mechanism; and a control section configured to make the ball screw mechanism be displaced by making the nut abut against the contact portion, and configured to detect an abnormality of the strain detector based on the value detected by the strain detector according to the displacement of the ball screw mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Yuu ISHIDA, Takuma NAKAI
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Publication number: 20220324137Abstract: A molding unit includes: a flask guide member guiding the upper flask and the lower flask; a first squeeze member and a second squeeze member disposed in such a manner as to sandwich upper and lower flasks as the upper flask and the lower flask connected with each other, the first squeeze member and the second squeeze member each capable of entering the upper and lower flasks; a squeeze cylinder including a rod having an end part fixed to the first squeeze member and a cylinder body extending and contracting the rod; and a squeeze guide member configured to fix relative positions of the second squeeze member and the cylinder body. The flask guide member is a hollow rod member, and the squeeze guide member is a rod member disposed in a movable manner inside the flask guide member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki MIYAZAKI, Kimikazu KANETO
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Publication number: 20220321980Abstract: Equipment in a production facility is managed with use of information from the equipment and information from a sensor for measurement of a state of the equipment, while achieving a high degree of freedom in increasing and decreasing the number of such sensors. The present invention is provided with a gateway (10) and a server (20). The gateway is connected to a controller included in each piece of equipment and connected, without being intermediated by the controller, to an externally attached sensor accompanying the each piece of equipment. The server is connected to the gateway. The gateway carries out the processes of: receiving, from each controller, information indicative of an internal state of the piece of equipment; receiving, from each sensor, information indicative of an external state of the piece of equipment; and transmitting these pieces of information to the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Narihiro AKATSUKA, Naohisa NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20220314312Abstract: The present invention reasonably sets a molding condition of a mold for casting. A molding condition deriving device (i) collects a molding condition of a mold which molding condition excludes at least one molding condition, a sand property condition, and a quality condition of the mold, (ii) inputs the molding condition, the sand property condition, and the quality condition into a learned model learned with use of the molding condition, the sand property condition, and the quality condition, and (iii) derives the at least one molding condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventor: Yohei NOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220314091Abstract: Provided is a technique with which a batter who is practicing batting with a tee can acknowledge how the batter should change his/her hitting posture. An information processing device includes a processor that executes: (a) continuously measuring, according to either or both of output signals from a motion sensor and a force plate, a posture of a batter who is practicing batting with a tee; (b) determining, according to an output signal from a force sensor internally stored in the tee, a timing at which the batter hits a ball placed at the tee; (c) determining, as a hitting posture of the batter, a posture of the batter at the determined timing; and (d) outputting a message instructing the batter to change the batter's hitting posture, according to information indicating an exemplary hitting posture and information indicating the determined batter's hitting posture.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Yoshikane TANAAMI, Takahiro KOKAWAJI, Miyuki HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220307928Abstract: A force sensor includes a force receiver which receives a force or a moment that acts on a detection target part, and a strain element which is provided to a sensor base and which serves as an elastic support that supports the force receiver. The force sensor includes two systems of detecting sections which each independently detect strain of four beam parts of the strain element, two systems of computing circuits which each independently compute, on the basis of a detection result that has been outputted from a corresponding one of the two systems of detecting sections, the force or the moment that acts on the detection target part, and two systems of output sections which each independently output, as an electrical signal, a computation result that has been outputted from a corresponding one of the two systems of computing circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Yoshikane TANAAMI, Koji ITO
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Patent number: 11446786Abstract: An object is to enable accurate machining by enabling shots to be accurately blasted on a workpiece even while workpiece is being deformed. A part manufacturing system includes: a peening device including a nozzle that projects a plurality of shots toward a workpiece, and a sensor that detects a distance to the workpiece; and a machining robot including a hand to which the peening device is attached, and a control unit that adjusts a position or an orientation of the peening device by controlling the hand based on the distance detected by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kozaki, Kosuke Akanuma, Hideaki Kaga, Kyoichi Iwata, Seiya Ikeda
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Publication number: 20220291169Abstract: A management device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires inspection result data indicating an inspection result of each of a plurality of workpieces and processing condition data indicating a processing condition used for processing each of the plurality of workpieces; an analysis unit that selects a specific parameter correlated with the inspection result among a plurality of processing parameters; and a prediction unit that predicts predict whether or not the processing device will become abnormal in future based on a temporal change in a value of the specific parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyasu MAKINO, Kan AOKI, Shuji HAYASHIDA
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Patent number: 11442033Abstract: A surface property evaluation method includes a measurement step for acquiring the distribution of impedance in the depth direction of a test piece, and an evaluation step for evaluating the surface treatment state in the depth direction and wherein the evaluation step includes: a step for creating a reference measurement value group by preparing untreated sample, good sample, and sample to be evaluated, and calculating an impedance ratio ?1 at each frequency for the untreated sample and good sample impedances; a step for creating an evaluation measurement value group by calculating an impedance ratio ?2 for the impedances of untreated sample at each frequency relative to the sample to be evaluated impedances; and a step for evaluating the surface treatment state of a sample to be evaluated by comparing a reference measurement value group with the evaluation measurement value group.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventor: Yoshiyasu Makino
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Publication number: 20220281071Abstract: A shot peening method includes performing first shot peening for applying residual stress to a surface of an object formed of a metal material at a first depth, and performing second shot peening for applying residual stress to the surface of the object at a second depth deeper than the first depth after the first shot peening.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventor: Yuji KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220281074Abstract: A surface treatment method includes: preparing a metal laminated article; and blasting a surface of the metal laminated article using shot media, the shot media include first shot media of first granularity with a grit shape and second shot media of second granularity with a grit shape, and the first granularity is greater than the second granularity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventor: Toshiya TSUJI
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Publication number: 20220274205Abstract: A method for surface treatment includes performing blasting on a surface of a workpiece, and irradiating the blasted surface of the workpiece with electron beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Toshiya TSUJI, Norihito SHIBUYA, Akira OKADA, Togo SHINONAGA, Taisei WATANABE, Hiroya KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220274143Abstract: A dust solidification system includes: a preduster for sucking dust with a negative pressure generated by a negative pressure generating source, removing solidification-inhibiting substances from the dust, and making the dust with a reduced solidification-inhibiting substance content rate flow toward the source; a dust capturing mechanism for capturing the dust flowing from the preduster and allowing the dust to fall; a storage tank for storing the dust captured by and falling from the capturing mechanism; and a dust solidifying mechanism for solidifying the dust in a forming chamber; and further includes one or more of the following: a dust re-scattering prevention mechanism for preventing re-scattering of the dust falling from the capturing mechanism; a stirring mechanism for stirring the dust loaded into the solidifying mechanism; and an air releasing mechanism for preventing air from entering the forming chamber by releasing air flowing into the storage tank from the solidifying mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Takashi SUZUKI, Yoshihiko OGI, Koh SAITO, Shintaro NISHIKAWA, Yoshiyuki HAYASHI, Masanori UCHIDA, Noriaki MASAKI
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Publication number: 20220250208Abstract: A blasting apparatus includes: a storage container including a storage chamber; a volumetric feeder; and a nozzle configured to project, together with compressed air, an abrasive supplied from the volumetric feeder, wherein: the volumetric feeder includes: a casing configured to define a space on an inside, and including an introduction port causing the space and the storage chamber to communicate with each other and a supply port opened toward a lower side in a position separated from the introduction port in a horizontal direction; and a screw including a rotational shaft housed in the casing and extending along the horizontal direction, the screw configured to carry the abrasive in the space toward the supply port from the introduction port by rotating about the rotational shaft; wherein the screw is housed in the casing in such a way as not to overlap the supply port in a vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Norihito SHIBUYA, Kazuyoshi MAEDA