Patents Assigned to SMC Corporation
  • Patent number: 11569774
    Abstract: An actuator control device supplies electrical power to a plurality of actuators via a plurality of controller units consecutively disposed and connected in one direction. A power supply unit or an input/output and power supply unit is interposed between each arbitrary number of controller units from within the plurality of controller units. In a case that the power supply unit is interposed, the power supply unit supplies electrical power to the block connected on a downstream side in a connecting direction. In a case that the input/output and power supply unit is interposed, the input/output and power supply unit performs input and output of signals to and from an exterior and the block that is connected on the downstream side in the connecting direction, while also supplying electrical power to the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujiwara, Eiji Iijima
  • Publication number: 20230017482
    Abstract: A plurality of vacuum suction cylinders are connected to each other by using tie rods inserted into insertion holes penetrating side walls of a cylinder tube of each vacuum suction cylinder, insertion holes provided in a first flow path block, and insertion holes provided in a second flow path block, and sandwiching between the first flow path block and the second flow path block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi YOSHIMURA, Minehiko MITA, Masaki MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11555546
    Abstract: In a connection mechanism that connects a valve shaft to air cylinders, shake prevention mechanisms are disposed at facing portions at which outer side surfaces of side frames face inner side surfaces of housings of the air cylinders and/or facing portions at which inner side surfaces and of the side frames face left-hand and right-hand side surfaces of a center frame. The shake prevention mechanisms include a sliding member that is disposed on a sliding surface that is formed on one of two surfaces that face each other and on the other and a spring mechanism that presses the sliding member in a direction in which the sliding member comes into contact with the sliding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Nagao, Hidefumi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11541554
    Abstract: A non-contact transport device includes a deflector having a flange portion provided with a plurality of nozzle grooves extending radially outward and arranged equidistantly in the circumferential direction. The nozzle grooves are each formed to be hollowed with respect to an upper surface of the flange portion so as to have an arc-shaped cross section, and constitute lead-out channels together with a flat surface of a hollow of a body. A pressure fluid is supplied through a first port of the body into the body and flows through the plurality of nozzle grooves to a workpiece holding surface along first and second curved surfaces of the hollow. As a result, the pressure fluid flowing at high speed between the workpiece holding surface and a workpiece generates a suction force exerted toward the body side, whereby the workpiece is suctioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Nakayama, Toru Sugiyama, Masaru Saitoh, Hiroaki Saka
  • Publication number: 20220403856
    Abstract: An ejector includes an ejector body having an internal passage and a negative-pressure generating mechanism including a nozzle unit and a diffuser unit that generates a negative pressure by using compressed air ejected by the nozzle unit. The ejector body has a first attachment surface to which a valve body of a switching valve is attached and a second attachment surface to which a base body of the manifold base is attached. The first attachment surface has a first inflow port for supplying compressed air to the negative-pressure generating mechanism by being connected to a first output port of the switching valve, and this port communicates with the nozzle unit. The second attachment surface has a negative-pressure supply port for outputting a negative pressure to the outside by being connected to a negative-pressure inflow port of the manifold base, and this port communicates with the diffuser unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichi MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20220404304
    Abstract: A humidity measuring device is equipped with a temperature and humidity measurement unit including a temperature sensing element that measures temperature and a humidity sensing element that measures humidity, a casing having an accommodating section in which the temperature and humidity measurement unit is accommodated, and a supply tube that supplies a gas at a measurement location into the accommodating section, and a display unit having a display device, and which is fixed to the casing. The display unit further includes a display control unit that controls the display device to thereby cause the display device to display at least one of the humidity of the gas measured by the humidity sensing element, or a dew point temperature of the gas calculated based on the temperature of the gas measured by the temperature sensing element, and the humidity of the gas measured by the humidity sensing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshinori KURATA
  • Patent number: 11529581
    Abstract: A negative pressure-side flow path having a negative pressure-side filter and a positive pressure-side flow path having a positive pressure-side filter are connected in parallel between a first port and a second port, and a shuttle valve is installed between the negative pressure-side flow path and the positive pressure-side flow path, and the first port, thus when a negative pressure is supplied to the first port, the first port is caused to communicate with the second port through the negative pressure-side flow path, and when a positive pressure is supplied to the first port, the first port is caused to communicate with the second port through the positive pressure-side flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kurihara, Kenji Fukushima
  • Patent number: D973180
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Hara
  • Patent number: D973725
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke Uchida
  • Patent number: D973726
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke Uchida
  • Patent number: D973727
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke Uchida
  • Patent number: D973728
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke Uchida
  • Patent number: D973729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke Uchida
  • Patent number: D974417
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke Uchida
  • Patent number: D974418
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke Uchida
  • Patent number: D975146
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke Uchida
  • Patent number: D975243
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Enzaki
  • Patent number: D977070
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Enzaki
  • Patent number: D978283
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: D980383
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Tanaka