Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12044593
    Abstract: A diagnosis apparatus includes: a sensor that detects diagnosis target information generated by a diagnosis target device; a threshold setting unit that sets a threshold for the diagnosis target information; and a diagnosis unit that diagnoses the diagnosis target device based on the diagnosis target information detected by the sensor and the threshold, in which the threshold setting unit sets the threshold based on the diagnosis target information in a predetermined period before a diagnosis time point, and the diagnosis unit performs diagnosis based on a current time point threshold set at the diagnosis time point and at least one past threshold set in the past.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoko Ichikawa, Yutaka Akedo
  • Patent number: 12036713
    Abstract: It is possible to improve accuracy of calculated statistical information. An injection molding machine according to an embodiment includes: a display control unit configured to display an input field for a shot number indicating an injection molding cycle or for a time period in which the injection molding cycle is performed, for specifying a calculation target of statistical information based on a parameter related to injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomosuke Kadoono, Tomohiro Hirano
  • Patent number: 12031302
    Abstract: An excavator according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body with an attachment mounted on the lower traveling body, and a controller installed in the upper turning body. The controller is configured to restrict movement of the lower traveling body based on information about terrain around the upper traveling body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Chunnan Wu, Yusuke Sano, Yoshiyasu Itsuji
  • Patent number: 12031301
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, and a controller configured to control a projection device that projects light onto a ground surface. The controller is attached to the upper turning body, and is configured to control the projection device so as to enable visualization of the relationship between the current shape of the ground surface and the shape of a target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sano, Chunnan Wu, Yoshiyasu Itsuji, Koichiro Tsukane, Takumi Itoh, Keiji Honda
  • Patent number: 12031682
    Abstract: A cryogenic cooling system includes a gas circulation source; a cryocooler including a cryocooler stage that cools the cooling gas; an object-to-be-cooled gas flow path; a gas supply line that supplies a cooling gas from the gas circulation source via the cryocooler stage to the object-to-be-cooled gas flow path; a gas recovery line that recovers the cooling gas from the object-to-be-cooled gas flow path to the gas circulation source; at least one temperature sensor installed at a measurement location away from the object-to-be-cooled gas flow path along the gas supply line and/or a measurement location installed away from the object-to-be-cooled gas flow path along the gas recovery line; and a gas flow rate control unit that controls the gas circulation source to adjust a flow rate of the cooling gas flowing through the object-to-be-cooled gas flow path in accordance with a measured temperature at at least one measurement location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Ebara, Takaaki Morie, Jyun Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12033795
    Abstract: To provide a superconducting magnet device enabling improved access to internal equipment. A superconducting magnet device includes: a superconducting coil; and a hollow tubular cryostat having an outer peripheral wall and an inner peripheral wall connected to each other so as to define a vacuum region where the superconducting coil is disposed. The cryostat has a tubular partition wall connecting the outer peripheral wall and the inner peripheral wall and a cavity partitioned from the vacuum region by the tubular partition wall is formed inside the tubular partition wall. The outer peripheral wall has an opening portion wide in the circumferential direction of the cryostat, and the opening portion communicates with the cryostat hollow portion radially inside the inner peripheral wall through the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Akito Higuchi
  • Patent number: 12023833
    Abstract: The present invention offers a technique for providing assistance in setting up control for releasing gas from the interior of a mold device to the outside of the mold device. A display device for an injection molding machine display a screen. The screen includes a tab display field, in which a plurality of tabs are arranged, and a selection screen display field, in which selection screens that are selected for the respective plurality of tabs are displayed. The tab display field includes a first tab. The first selection screen, displayed in the selection screen display field when the first tab is selected, includes a plurality of input columns for use in a control of the release of gas from the inside of the mold device to the outside of the mold device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Tsutsumi, Daigo Hotta, Shun Shibuya, Yuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 12013014
    Abstract: Provided is a friction transmission device including an input raceway ring, a planetary rolling element that is disposed around a rotation axis of the input raceway ring and comes into contact with the input raceway ring; an output raceway ring that comes into contact with the planetary rolling element and is connected to an output shaft, and a first support raceway ring and a second support raceway ring that come into contact with the planetary rolling element. A quadrangle is formed by extension lines of normal vectors at contact points between the planetary rolling element and the respective raceway rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiya Nagumo
  • Publication number: 20240191913
    Abstract: A pulse tube cryocooler includes a cold head including a pulse tube and a radiator thermally coupled to a high-temperature end of the pulse tube, and a forced cooler that forcedly cools the radiator in a cool-down operation of the pulse tube cryocooler from an ambient temperature to a cryogenic temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyosuke NAKANO, Yosuke MATSUMURA
  • Patent number: 12007152
    Abstract: There is provided a starting method for a cryocooler, the cryocooler including a compressor, a cold head, a high pressure line, and a low pressure line, the method including increasing a volume of the high pressure line when the cold head is at a room temperature, cooling the cold head from the room temperature to a cryogenic temperature while controlling an operation frequency of the compressor based on a pressure of the high pressure line or a differential pressure between the high pressure line and the low pressure line, after the volume of the high pressure line has been increased, decreasing the volume of the high pressure line after the cold head has been cooled to the cryogenic temperature, and maintaining the cold head at the cryogenic temperature after the volume of the high pressure line has been decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shuji Oyama
  • Patent number: 11998969
    Abstract: Provided is a forming system that expands and deforms a metal material to perform forming, the forming system including: a forming device that performs the forming; and at least one transport device that transports the metal material, in which the transport device transports the metal material to the forming device in a held state, in a case where a pretreatment device that performs pretreatment for the forming is present, the transport device transports the metal material to the pretreatment device in a held state, and during a period from a transport process in which the metal material is transported to any of devices by the transport device to a treatment process performed by any of the devices, at least one of the transport device and any of the devices continues holding the metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Itagaki, Kei Yamauchi, Kiyomasa Koukami
  • Patent number: 11992987
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided an injection molding machine including a mold clamping unit that clamps a mold unit, an injection unit that fills the mold unit clamped by the mold clamping unit with a molding material, an ejector unit that takes out a molding product from the mold unit after the molding material filled by the injection unit is cooled and solidified, a plurality of data acquisition units that acquire different types of data from each other, and a data transmission unit that transmits data acquired by the plurality of data acquisition units to a management device in a state where the data are capable of being compared in time-series for each type of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Arita, Hiroshi Mogi
  • Publication number: 20240167554
    Abstract: A gear device includes a resin gear that is formed of a first resin material, and a connected member that is formed of a second resin material and that is connected to the resin gear, in which the first resin material is a fiber-reinforced resin obtained by filling a first base material resin with first reinforcement fibers, the second resin material is a fiber-reinforced resin obtained by filling a second base material resin with second reinforcement fibers, and a fiber content ratio of the second reinforcement fibers in the second resin material is higher than a fiber content ratio of the first reinforcement fibers in the first resin material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro TAMURA, Masahiro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11987960
    Abstract: There is provided a work machine including a traveling body, a rotating platform mounted on the traveling body, an attachment mounted on the rotating platform, and including a work element, an imaging unit mounted on the rotating platform, and configured to capture a peripheral image, and an imaging controller configured to cause the imaging unit to capture the image, when an imaging range of the imaging unit includes a predetermined subject region designated in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kiyota, Masahito Indoh
  • Patent number: 11987957
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling structure, an upper swing structure swingably mounted on the lower traveling structure, an attachment, and processing circuitry. The attachment includes a boom attached to the upper swing structure, an arm attached to the distal end of the boom, and an end attachment attached to the distal end of the arm. The processing circuitry is configured to automatically move the attachment in such a manner as to relatively reduce the movement of the attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Okada, Keiji Honda
  • Publication number: 20240159304
    Abstract: A bending meshing type gear device includes a wave generator, a bending gear that is bent and deformed by the wave generator, and a meshing gear that meshes with the bending gear, in which the meshing gear is formed of a first resin having a glass transition point lower than about 140° C., the bending gear is formed of a first high thermal conductivity material having higher thermal conductivity than the first resin, and the wave generator is formed of a second high thermal conductivity material having higher thermal conductivity than the first high thermal conductivity material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro TAMURA, Masahiro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11976437
    Abstract: A shovel includes an attachment attached to a revolving upper body; and a control device including a memory and a processor configured to execute estimating a center of gravity of loaded matter loaded in the attachment, and calculating a weight of the loaded matter based on the estimated center of gravity of the loaded matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sano, Chunnan Wu, Kazunori Hiranuma
  • Patent number: 11977366
    Abstract: An assist device is for grasping the operating status of a plant and includes a data acquisition unit that acquires process data for the plant, a summarization unit that summarizes the dimensionality of the process data acquired by the data acquisition unit, and a display unit that displays the summarized data summarized by the summarization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 11978586
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet device includes a tubular cryostat defining a central cavity therein, a first superconducting coil set and a second superconducting coil set disposed outside the central cavity and inside the tubular cryostat, and a power supply system being capable of controlling a magnitude of a first exciting current to the first superconducting coil set and a magnitude of a second exciting current to the second superconducting coil set independently of each other. The first superconducting coil set generates a magnetic field distribution, which is convex downward on an X axis and convex upward on a Y axis when the first exciting current is supplied, in the central cavity. The second superconducting coil set generates a magnetic field distribution, which is convex upward on the X axis and convex downward on the Y axis when the second exciting current is supplied, in the central cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Hashimoto, Jyun Yoshida, Kenta Demura, Takaaki Morie
  • Publication number: 20240142149
    Abstract: A cryocooler includes: a compressor; a plurality of cold heads connected in parallel to the compressor; a pressure sensor that measures a pressure of a working gas on a supply side from the compressor to the plurality of cold heads or on a collection side from the plurality of cold heads to the compressor; and a controller configured to acquire, for each of the plurality of cold heads, individual pressure waveform data measured by the pressure sensor when the cold head is individually operated, and to operate the plurality of cold heads simultaneously and asynchronously based on the individual pressure waveform data of the plurality of cold heads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shuji OYAMA