Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11697916
    Abstract: An attachment is attached to an upper turning body. During a normal operation, a drive means drives the attachment according to an input of an operator to a manipulation device. A sensor detects a motion of an excavator. Based on an output of the sensor, the slip suppression unit detects slip of a traveling body in an extension direction of the attachment and corrects an operation of the attachment performed by the drive means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Junichi Okada
  • Patent number: 11697920
    Abstract: A surroundings monitoring system for a work machine includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to detect an obstacle present around the work machine and control an output apparatus mounted on the work machine. The processor is configured to display an output image on a display apparatus. The output image includes an image part generated using a captured image of an image capturing apparatus attached to the work machine and an icon of the work machine. The processor is configured to highlight, among image parts around the icon, an image part corresponding to a direction in which or a position at which the detected obstacle is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kiyota, Shunsuke Otsuki, Susumu Aizawa
  • Patent number: 11692334
    Abstract: An excavator includes a traveling body, an upper turning body rotatably provided on the traveling body, an attachment which has a boom, an arm, and a bucket and is attached to the upper turning body, and a controller configured to perform a control of a cylinder of at least one shaft of the attachment so as to suppress a vibration of the traveling body or the upper turning body, which is caused by an aerial operation of the attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Okada, Masaru Onodera
  • Patent number: 11691192
    Abstract: A forming system includes: a forming apparatus which supplies gas into a cylindrical metal pipe material having a welded portion to expand the metal pipe material; a supply device for supplying the metal pipe material to the forming apparatus; and a control device for controlling an operation of the supply device, in which in a case where a position where a distance from a center of the metal pipe material is the longest, on a surface of the die, when viewed from an extension direction of the metal pipe material in a state where the metal pipe material is disposed between the dies, is a longest position, the control device includes a control unit which controls supply of the metal pipe material to the forming apparatus such that the welded portion is not located on a straight line connecting the longest position and the center of the metal pipe material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kimihiro Nogiwa, Masayuki Ishizuka, Masayuki Saika, Norieda Ueno
  • Patent number: 11694877
    Abstract: Provided is a negative ion irradiation device in which an object is irradiated with a negative ion. The device includes a chamber that allows the negative ion to be generated therein, a gas supply unit that supplies a gas which is a raw material for the negative ion, a plasma generating portion that generates plasma, a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage to the object, a control unit that performs control of the gas supply unit, the plasma generating portion, and the voltage applying unit. The control unit controls the gas supply unit to supply the gas into the chamber, controls the plasma generating portion to generate the plasma in the chamber and to generate the negative ion by stopping the generation of the plasma, and controls the voltage applying unit to start voltage application during plasma generation and to continue voltage application after plasma generation stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Kitami, Toshiyuki Sakemi, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11686300
    Abstract: A cryopump includes at least one cryopanel including a photocatalyst layer on a surface thereof, and an excitation light source that is disposed so as to irradiate the photocatalyst layer with excitation light that activates the photocatalyst layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Mochidzuki
  • Patent number: 11690163
    Abstract: A particle accelerator system including a particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles, a signal source that outputs high frequency power for accelerating the charged particles in the particle accelerator, an amplifying unit that amplifies the high frequency power from the signal source, and supplies the high frequency power to the particle accelerator, the amplifying unit including a plurality of semiconductor amplifiers using a semiconductor, and a control unit that controls an operation of the amplifying unit. The control unit controls output of at least one of the plurality of semiconductor amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11668362
    Abstract: Provided is an actuator including: a motor; a brake; a motor casing that accommodates a constituent member of the motor; and a brake casing that accommodates a constituent member of the brake. The motor casing and the brake casing are connected to each other, the brake includes a stator having a coil and a coil case, and a friction plate, a minimum outer diameter of the coil case is 70 mm or less, and a value obtained by dividing a distance from a first end surface of the friction plate on a side farthest in an axial direction from the coil case to a second end surface of the coil case on a side opposite to the first end surface by the minimum outer diameter is 0.2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiki Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 11666987
    Abstract: A laser power control device includes a storage unit that stores relational data having a measurement value of a heat radiation sensor, which measures intensity of heat radiation of an irradiation object irradiated with a laser beam from a laser machining device in association with a power value of the laser beam on a machining surface of the laser machining device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Aiba
  • Patent number: 11655611
    Abstract: A shovel that corrects the movement of an attachment regardless of the operating state of the attachment by an operator is provided. The shovel includes a traveling body, a turning body turnably mounted on the traveling body, an attachment attached to the turning body, a hydraulic actuator configured to drive the attachment, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the hydraulic actuator to minimize a change in orientation of the traveling body or of the turning body, in response to a change in moment caused by an aerial movement of the attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sano, Junichi Okada, Kazunori Hiranuma, Yoshiyasu Itsuji, Koichiro Tsukane, Keiji Honda
  • Patent number: 11655832
    Abstract: A control calculation device performs a calculation of compensating for a volume change amount of each pressure chamber caused by a positional change of a pressure receiving plate inside a cylinder chamber for each position command value applied to two servo amplifiers, outputs each of the compensated position command values to the two servo amplifiers, and executes origin positioning for a position of a slider in order to compensate for the volume change amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yoshida, Shinya Hamada
  • Patent number: 11649887
    Abstract: A gear device includes an external gear, and an internal gear that meshes with the external gear. The external gear is formed of metal. The internal gear is formed of a carbon fiber reinforced resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Mitsuhiro Tamura, Kenji Shirouzu, Masahiro Watanabe, Toshiaki Matoba
  • Patent number: 11649990
    Abstract: A compressor system for a cryocooler includes a compressor unit that includes a compressor main body compressing a refrigerant gas of the cryocooler and a liquid-cooled heat exchanger cooling, through heat exchange with a cooling liquid, at least one of the refrigerant gas compressed by the compressor main body and an oil lubricating the compressor main body, a supply line through which the cooling liquid is supplied from a main chiller to the liquid-cooled heat exchanger, a collecting line through which the cooling liquid is collected from the liquid-cooled heat exchanger to the main chiller, and a backup chiller that is provided outside the compressor unit, circulates the cooling liquid to the liquid-cooled heat exchanger in place of or together with the main chiller, and includes a circulation pump and a cooler cooling the cooling liquid on an inlet side or outlet side of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenta Semura
  • Patent number: 11649998
    Abstract: A cryocooler includes a cold head, a plurality of compressor main bodies that are connected to the cold head in parallel, a plurality of state detection sensors that are provided to correspond to the plurality of compressor main bodies respectively and each detect a state of a corresponding compressor main body to output a state detection signal, and a compressor control unit that is configured to, in a case where the state detection signal from any one state detection sensor of the plurality of state detection sensors indicates that the corresponding compressor main body is stopped, stop also the other compressor main bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shuji Oyama
  • Patent number: 11644024
    Abstract: A cryopump includes a cryocooler which includes a high-temperature cooling stage and a low-temperature cooling stage, a radiation shield which is thermally coupled to the high-temperature cooling stage and axially extends in a tubular shape from a cryopump intake port, and a low-temperature cryopanel section which is thermally coupled to the low-temperature cooling stage, is surrounded by the radiation shield, and includes a plurality of cryopanels and a plurality of heat transfer bodies axially arranged in columnar shape, and in which the plurality of cryopanels and the plurality of heat transfer bodies are axially stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kakeru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11642715
    Abstract: A forming device which expands a metal pipe material to form a metal pipe having a pipe portion and a flange portion includes first and second dies paired with each other and including pipe forming surfaces for forming the pipe portion and flange forming surfaces for forming the flange portion, a drive unit that drives at least one of the first and second dies, and a controller that controls the drive unit, in which, on at least one of the flange forming surfaces of the first and second dies, a protrusion portion protruding by an amount not to abut against the other flange forming surface when the dies are closed is formed and the controller controls the drive unit to form a thin wall portion at which a thickness of the flange portion becomes partially small at the flange portion by the protrusion portion pressing the flange portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ide, Masayuki Ishizuka, Norieda Ueno, Kimihiro Nogiwa
  • Patent number: 11643795
    Abstract: There is provided a work machine information processing device including a risk detector configured to detect a risk relating to a state or a surrounding environment of a work machine, notifier configured to notify an operator of the work machine of the risk detected by the risk detector, behavior detector configured to detect a behavior of the operator after the notification of the notifier, and calculator configured to calculate a safety behavior evaluation value obtained by quantitatively evaluating the behavior of the operator in terms of a degree of contribution to the safety, based on contents of the risk detected by the risk detector and the behavior of the operator detected by the behavior detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Otsuki, Susumu Aizawa, Yoshihisa Kiyota, Danting Li
  • Patent number: 11633751
    Abstract: A release agent spraying device that sprays a release agent to a die of a forming apparatus main body, the release agent spraying device includes a motor, a moving nozzle that advances and retreats in a direction intersecting a moving direction of the die and jets the release agent from a tip, and a connection mechanism that connects the motor to the moving nozzle and advances and retreats the moving nozzle by a rotation output of the motor in one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeharu Onishi
  • Publication number: 20230122451
    Abstract: Provided is a suspension device including a drive wheel, a first driven wheel that is disposed on one side in a front-rear direction with respect to the drive wheel, a second driven wheel that is disposed on the other side in the front-rear direction with respect to the drive wheel, a bogie link member that supports the drive wheel and the first driven wheel and is oscillatable around a first oscillation axis, and a rocker link member that supports the second driven wheel and the bogie link member and is oscillatable around a second oscillation axis. When viewed from a left-right direction, the first oscillation axis is not on the same vertical line as a rotation axis of the drive wheel and is located above the rotation axis in a vertical direction and located inside a contour of the drive wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Sigeru TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11629796
    Abstract: A vacuum valve includes a valve plate that covers an exhaust port of a vacuum chamber, and a poppet type actuator that drives the valve plate in an axial direction orthogonal to a surface of the vacuum chamber on which the exhaust port is provided. The actuator includes a shaft that is connected to the valve plate, a drive unit that is disposed side by side with the shaft in a radial direction of the shaft and includes a ball screw shaft and a drive source that rotates the ball screw shaft, and a connection part that connects the ball screw shaft and the shaft and moves in the axial direction together with the shaft to a position where the valve plate covers the exhaust port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Emmanuel Vyers