Patents by Inventor Akihiro Ishitani

Akihiro Ishitani has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240075541
    Abstract: A deburring tool includes: a body having a cylinder bore; an anti-rotation body protruding toward inside of the cylinder bore; a cylindrical slide shaft reciprocable inside the cylinder bore, and an elastic body urges the slide shaft toward a cutting depth direction. The slide shaft includes a guide groove having a displacement width for the slide shaft to axially displaceable with respect to the anti-rotation body, and the guide groove moves the slide shaft with respect to the body in an opposite direction to the cutting depth direction as the guide groove receives cutting resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro ISHITANI, Mitsuru MUTO
  • Publication number: 20230278090
    Abstract: Provided is a processing tool capable of sliding a tool relative to a shank with a simple structure, to which a tool holder is detachably attached. The processing tool to which the tool is detachably attached, includes: a body; a spindle including tool holder holding hole, a first anti-rotation body holding hole; a cover including a pressing surface and a relief portion; a tool holder detachably inserted into the tool holder holding hole, the tool holder including a first anti-rotation groove, a tool holding hole, and a first spring holding hole, an anti-rotation body movable between the first anti-rotation groove and the pressing surface, the anti-rotation body accommodated in the relief portion when the cover is located at the detachable position and the tool holder is removed from the tool holder holding hole; and an elastic member to urge the tool holder toward distal end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Akihiro ISHITANI, Mitsuru MUTO, Masahide YAMAZAKI
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20210016328
    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: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Toyoaki MITSUE, Taiki MATSUI, Takuya AOKI, Akihiro ISHITANI
  • Publication number: 20200368789
    Abstract: A single-axis robot in which a ball screw or a linear guide can be easily replaced is provided. A single axis robot, includes: a housing including, on a first side, a base plate having a first saddle hole; a support plate arranged in a second side of the housing; a linear guide arranged inside the housing along the base plate, the linear guide extending along the first saddle hole; a slider arranged inside the housing on the linear guide, the slider configured to slide along the linear guide; a saddle arranged on the first side of the slider to protrude to an outside of the housing through the first saddle hole; a driving device arranged on the second side of the slider to drive the slider; and a telescopic cover arranged outside the housing between the base plate and the saddle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiro ISHITANI, Takuya AOKI
  • Patent number: 10280011
    Abstract: The stop position of a workpiece is detected by a position detection unit. A control unit calculates and records a difference between the detected stop position (actual stop position) and a reference stop position set in advance. After recording the difference multiple times, the control unit performs a statistical processing of the differences and calculates a compensation amount based on results of the statistical processing. In the next position detecting, the position detection unit is disposed at a compensated position which is obtained by adding the compensation amount to the reference stop position, and in this state, detects the position of a predetermined portion of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Namba, Atsushi Ueyama, Masakazu Adachi, Akihiro Ishitani
  • Publication number: 20180250795
    Abstract: An objective is to provide a holding device capable of holding a hexagonal part at a nearly fixed orientation. A holding device 1 holds a bolt B by a left claw member 32L and a right claw member 32R. A left recessed portion 34L and a right recessed portion 34R in a recessed manner toward the bolt B in plan view are respectively formed in inner side end portions 33L and 33R facing the bolt B, of the claw members 32L and 32R, a pair of protruding portions 36L and 37L and a pair of protruding portions 36R and 37R protruding toward the bolt B are respectively formed in the portions 34L and 34R, the distances ra and rb from a center O to the portions 36L and 37L are equal in each of the claw members 32L and 32R, and the protrusion interval ? is from d/?3 to d.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Masakazu Adachi, Nobuhiro Namba, Atsushi Ueyama, Akihiro Ishitani
  • Publication number: 20180208406
    Abstract: The stop position of a workpiece is detected by a position detection unit. A control unit calculates and records a difference between the detected stop position (actual stop position) and a reference stop position set in advance. After recording the difference multiple times, the control unit performs a statistical processing of the differences and calculates a compensation amount based on results of the statistical processing. In the next position detecting, the position detection unit is disposed at a compensated position which is obtained by adding the compensation amount to the reference stop position, and in this state, detects the position of a predetermined portion of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Namba, Atsushi Ueyama, Masakazu Adachi, Akihiro Ishitani
  • Patent number: D993289
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Inventors: Kei Tsujimoto, Kosuke Wakao, Taiki Matsui, Takuya Aoki, Akihiro Ishitani