Patents Assigned to Sugino Machine Limited
  • Patent number: 11938494
    Abstract: Turbulence of the jet ejected from the nozzle hole is suppressed. The nozzle includes a shaft body having a center axis, a liquid guide path located inside the shaft body and extending along the center axis, a liquid chamber disposed at a distal end portion of the liquid guide path the liquid chamber having a nozzle hole. The nozzle hole is located at the distal end portion of the liquid chamber, extending along the ejection axis that extends in a direction different from the center axis. The nozzle has an inlet portion having a smaller diameter toward the downstream, and a guide portion connected to the downstream of the inlet portion to guide the liquid to an opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeru Nagao, Tomio Sawasaki
  • Patent number: 11883929
    Abstract: An apparatus capable of efficiently performing a metal surface processing. The abrasive peening apparatus includes a processing tank storing abrasive particles and peening liquid, and including a bottom portion in which a workpiece is immersed in the peening liquid; a dispensing chamber having a plurality of recesses on an upper surface, and disposed in the bottom portion to dispense the peening liquid; a stirring nozzle disposed at a center of the recess directing vertically upward and connected to the dispensing chamber to eject the peening liquid; a peening nozzle immersed inside the processing tank to eject the peening liquid toward the workpiece; and a moving device moving the peening nozzle relative to the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventor: Taiki Matsui
  • Patent number: 11839904
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus capable of thoroughly cleaning all parts of a workpiece is provided. The cleaning apparatus includes: a cleaning chamber; a table rotation shaft that rotates about a first axis; a first swivel fitting disposed inside the table rotation shaft; a table on which the cleaning workpiece is placed; a first motor that rotates the table rotation shaft; a propeller shaft that rotates about a second axis that is parallel to the first axis; a second swivel fitting connected to a propeller shaft; and a nozzle that rotates integrally with the second swivel shaft and that ejects a cleaning fluid in a direction different from the second axis toward the cleaning workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki Haremaki, Yoshiteru Kawamori, Taiki Matsui, Kodai Nakazaki
  • Patent number: 11623166
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid processing apparatus and a liquid processing method for reducing a waste amount of a high specific gravity liquid. The liquid processing apparatus includes: a supply pump; a bubble tank including an inflow port, an overflow port, and a return port; a microbubble generator disposed outside the bubble tank; a recovery tank having a recovery port to recover the processing liquid overflown from a first liquid level to the tank; a separation tank including a settling tank connected to the overflow port, and a floating tank connected to the settling tank at a lower portion, and an ejector having a inlet port connected to the supply pump, a suction port connected the suction body, and a discharge port connected to the return port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanii
  • Patent number: 11608386
    Abstract: Provided are dried cellulose fibers that are satisfactory dispersible in a resin when the cellulose fibers are mixed with the resin and can improve physical properties such as tensile elastic modulus and tensile strength of a resin composite, a cellulose fiber-resin composite including the cellulose fibers, and a molded article. The dried cellulose fibers include cellulose fibers, the cellulose fiber-resin composite includes the dried cellulose fibers, and the molded article is formed from the cellulose fiber-resin composite. The cellulose fibers have an average fiber diameter of 0.1 ?m more and 20 ?m or less and have a hemicellulose content of 50% or less in constituent sugar components. The dried cellulose fibers have a water content of 10% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuki Morimoto, Atsushi Minemura, Kazuya Nagata, Kazuaki Sanada
  • Patent number: 11602812
    Abstract: Provided is a compact tool changer. The vertical machine tool includes a frame, a spindle, a moving device for moving the spindle, a magazine including a plurality of pots that move up and down installed in a pot holder, a pot lifter for moving up and down the pot at a pot tool changing position, and an intermediate arm assembly that moves among a magazine position, an intermediate position, and a spindle position. The intermediate arm assembly includes an arm having a first gripper and a second gripper, and an arm rotation device for positioning the first gripper or the second gripper to either a pot phase or a spindle phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Takuya Moriguchi, Yasuhiro Tominaga
  • Patent number: 11571777
    Abstract: The machining apparatus includes: a cover including a side plate, a projecting portion disposed below the side plate, a rectangular shaped front opening, and a semicircular shaped planar opening; a first door body including a first drum disposed in a first side of a mating surface, a first abutting surface connected to the first drum, and a first top plate, and accommodated inside the cover by rotated about a first axis; and a second door body including a second drum disposed in the second side of the mating surface, a second abutting surface abut to the first abutting surface on the mating surface, and a second top plate, and accommodated inside the cover by rotated about a second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki Haremaki, Yoshiteru Kawamori, Taiki Matsui
  • Patent number: 11541432
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cleaning machine capable of selecting a spray head independently of a rotational phase of a nozzle. The cleaning machine includes a slide, a pump, a main valve, a nozzle switching valve, a compressed air source, a swivel joint, a motor, and a nozzle block. The nozzle switching valve has an inflow chamber, a first chamber, a second chamber, a stem, a conical first valve element abuttable against the first valve seat, a conical second valve element abuttable against the second valve seat, a piston, and a spring. The swivel joint has a swivel housing, a swivel shaft, a first nozzle flow path and a second nozzle flow path. The nozzle block has a first nozzle connected to the first nozzle flow path and a second nozzle connected to the second nozzle flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventor: Toyoaki Mitsue
  • Patent number: 11491515
    Abstract: A compact cleaning apparatus including a robot with a narrow range of motion is provided. The cleaning apparatus includes: a cleaning chamber; a cleaning station; a drying station; a separation wall; a single axis robot including a column arranged adjacent to a side surface, a linear guide extending vertically, and a vertical moving saddle movable vertically; an arm portion including a first rotation saddle rotatable about a second axis extending vertically, a first arm swingable about a third axis extending horizontally and extending orthogonal to the third axis, a second arm rotatable about a fourth axis orthogonal to the third axis, a second rotation saddle rotatable about a fifth axis orthogonal to the fourth axis, a third rotation saddle rotatable about a sixth axis orthogonal to the fifth axis; and a hand for gripping a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Toyoaki Mitsue, Taiki Matsui, Takuya Aoki, Akihiro Ishitani
  • Patent number: 11465183
    Abstract: Provided is a cleaning apparatus for cleaning a portion where a seating pad contacts or a hole into which a pin is inserted when a workpiece is placed. The cleaning apparatus for cleaning a workpiece having a placing portion and a reference hole, including: a table plate, a seating pad on which the workpiece is placed at the placing portion, a first nozzle that ejects a cleaning fluid, a pin inserted into the reference hole, and a second nozzle that ejects the cleaning fluid toward inside of the reference hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Kawamori, Toyoaki Mitsue, Takuya Kanemoto
  • Patent number: 11458511
    Abstract: Clamping an axially extending workpiece along a center axis and cleaning a shaft portion and an end to clean and dry the workpiece in a short period of time. A cleaning apparatus for cleaning the workpiece, including a cleaning chamber having a first side wall and a second side wall, a cleaning station including a cleaning axis, a cleaning nozzle, a first clamping device arranged on the first side wall, a second clamping device arranged on the second side wall, and a drying station including a drying axis, a drying nozzle, a second clamping device arranged on the second side wall, and a turn table having two regions arranged in a 180 degree rotational symmetry. The turn table arranges one of the two regions is arranged in the cleaning station, and the other in the drying station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Kawamori, Toyoaki Mitsue
  • Patent number: 11376673
    Abstract: A deburring tool includes: a case; a hollow sleeve that reciprocates inside the cylinder in a non-rotating manner; a drive gear disposed inside the sleeve, includes a first tooth, and rotates together with the case and the sleeve; a reciprocating shaft disposed inside the sleeve, including a driven gear disposed at a basal end portion of the sleeve and a basal end side of the drive gear, the driven gear including a second tooth, a tool holder disposed at a distal end portion of the sleeve, and slides inside the sleeve in a rotational and reciprocating direction, and a stem that fixes the driven gear and the tool holder, and penetrates the drive gear, a first spring that urges the sleeve toward distal end direction; and a second spring that urges the tool holder from the drive gear toward distal end direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Mitsuru Muto, Masato Tozuka
  • Patent number: 11371646
    Abstract: A feeding device includes a feed base that is horizontally installed, a first driving source and a second driving source, a first saddle, a second saddle, a first propeller shaft, a second propeller shaft, a first transmission device, a second transmission device, and a holding device. The first saddle rotates about a first axis that goes along a vertical direction. The second saddle is disposed at the first saddle. The second saddle rotates about a second axis. The second axis goes along a horizontal direction. The first propeller shaft transmits a torque from the first driving source. The second propeller shaft transmits a torque from the second driving source. The first transmission device transmits a rotation of the first propeller shaft to the first saddle. The second transmission device transmits a rotation of the second propeller shaft to the second saddle. The holding device holds the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Kawamori, Toyoaki Mitsue
  • Patent number: 11318503
    Abstract: A cleaning method of sufficiently cleaning a workpiece is provided. The cleaning method, including: rotating or swinging a workpiece having a first cleaning surface about a table rotation axis; ejecting cleaning fluid from a nozzle along an ejection axis; and swinging the nozzle about a nozzle rotation axis parallel to the table rotation axis to keep a constant impact angle formed between the ejection axis and the first cleaning surface for cleaning the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroki Haremaki
  • Patent number: 11306712
    Abstract: Provided is a pump apparatus capable of suppressing an unintentional ejection of a high-pressure liquid from a nozzle. A pump apparatus including: an injection chamber having a door; a nozzle arranged in the injection chamber; a pump connected to the nozzle for discharging liquid; a motor for driving the pump; a door sensor for detecting that the door is closed; and a control device capable of communicating with the door sensor, the control device having a motor rotation unit for supplying driving power to the motor only when the door sensor detects that the door is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventor: Toyohiro Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11273500
    Abstract: A drilling method of machining holes that are not regularly arranged in one direction in a short machining time is provided. A drilling method, includes: creating a machining order of machining a first hole to be machined with a first spindle and a second hole to be machined with a second spindle for a workpiece having a plurality of target holes on a machining table, the first spindle and the second spindle arranged in X direction; rotating the machining table relative to the first spindle and the second spindle so that the first hole and the second hole are arranged in X direction with the first hole located nearer to the first spindle; moving the first spindle and the second spindle relative to the machining table so that the first hole and a center of the first spindle are aligned and the second hole and a center of the second spindle are aligned; and machining the first hole with the first spindle and the second hole with the second spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Kawamori, Kazuo Kimura
  • Patent number: 11213865
    Abstract: A cleaning method capable of eliminating cleaning unrequired cleaning points is disclosed. The cleaning method is for a workpiece with foreign matter adhered, and the cleaning method includes: identifying cleaning points of the workpiece with the foreign matter adhered; substituting a true value to a cleaning variable for the identified cleaning points; generating a cleaning liquid jet from a main nozzle; skipping a first cleaning section if the cleaning variable has a false value; and executing the first cleaning section to direct the main nozzle toward the cleaning points if the cleaning variable has a true value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventor: Yoshiteru Kawamori
  • Patent number: 11192152
    Abstract: A compact versatile cell-type cleaning device and cell-type drying device is provided. A cleaning apparatus includes: a cover having a loading port formed on a wall surface of a cleaning chamber, and an unloading port formed on a wall surface of a drying chamber; a partition plate having an intermediate transfer port for dividing into the cleaning chamber and the drying chamber; an intermediate door that opens and closes the intermediate transfer port; a turntable disposed inside the drying chamber and having a first gripping device that grips an object, and a moving device having a gripping device that grips the object through a loading port, cleans the object inside the cleaning chamber while gripping the object, and moves the object to the turntable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Daisuke Kunitomo, Toyoaki Mitsue, Toyohiro Yamauchi, Atsushi Kohama, Atsushi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11154962
    Abstract: A burnishing tool uses a relatively small pressing load in burnishing. The burnishing tool for machining a target surface of a workpiece includes a base and a tip portion located on a distal end of the base. The tip portion includes a linear slide-contact portion that linearly contacts and slides on the target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Daichi Kamimura, Masaru Futamura
  • Patent number: D984496
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Taiki Matsui, Hiroki Haremaki, Kosuke Wakao, Kei Tsujimoto