Patents by Inventor Akira Kunisaki

Akira Kunisaki 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: 20240147616
    Abstract: In an electronic device assembly apparatus that inserts a leading end of flat and flexible cables 162 and 166 into connectors 164 and 168 on a circuit board 160, a gripping device 200 includes a first gripping mechanism 210 and a second gripping mechanism 212, a rotational mechanism 260, and a width direction open/close mechanism 240, and the width direction open/close mechanism 240 includes a first cylinder 244 and a second cylinder 270 that causes the first and the second gripping mechanism to perform a width adjustment movement in the same direction as the first cylinder, and the second cylinder has a lock function for fixing the second cylinder at a predetermined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NACHI-FUJIKOSHI CORP.
    Inventors: Akira KUNISAKI, Shun SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20180104826
    Abstract: A machining device includes a manipulator, a base portion, and a spindle. The manipulator includes a hand device that grips a workpiece. The spindle is controlled to selectively proceed and retreat with respect to the base portion. The hand device has a workpiece gripping portion and a bottom portion, which is located on the side opposite to the workpiece gripping portion. The base portion and the bottom portion of the hand device have a positioning structure for determining the positions thereof with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Akira Kunisaki
  • Patent number: 9770831
    Abstract: A cable drawn from a lower arm of a robot into a first upper arm part of an upper arm is further drawn out to an exterior space of the robot through a first hole of a second upper arm part. The cable is drawn in contact with a sidewall part of the second upper arm part, and is disposed in a wrist arrangement portion through a second hole. A slack part is formed taking account of a length of the cable pulled by a wrist when the wrist pivots in the wrist arrangement portion, and the cable is drawn to a tool through a through hole of the wrist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: NACHI-FUJIKOSHI CORP.
    Inventors: Takashi Sakai, Shunsuke Kosaka, Akira Kunisaki
  • Publication number: 20150246449
    Abstract: A cable drawn from a lower arm of a robot into a first upper arm part of an upper arm is further drawn out to an exterior space of the robot through a first hole of a second upper arm part. The cable is drawn in contact with a sidewall part of the second upper arm part, and is disposed in a wrist arrangement portion through a second hole. A slack part is formed taking account of a length of the cable pulled by a wrist when the wrist pivots in the wrist arrangement portion, and the cable is drawn to a tool through a through hole of the wrist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi SAKAI, Shunsuke KOSAKA, Akira KUNISAKI
  • Publication number: 20070075048
    Abstract: Disclosed is a welding teaching point correction system, including: a robot; a spot welding gun comprising two welding tips provided to be opposed to each other; an imaging apparatus to image a welding point of a workpiece, the imaging apparatus being provided detachably to or exchangeably with at least one of the two welding tips; an operation control unit to control the robot and the spot welding gun in accordance with an teaching program to teach welding operation to the robot and the spot welding gun; an image processing unit to acquire positional information of the welding point of the workpiece in the image; and a program correction unit to correct an teaching point for the robot in the teaching program in a plurality of directions based on the positional information of the welding point of the workpiece in the image acquired by the image processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp.
    Inventors: Akira Kunisaki, Hisanori Takata
  • Publication number: 20070076946
    Abstract: Disclosed is an object search apparatus, including: an imaging unit to acquire image data of a point group; a radiation unit to scan the imaging area; a three-dimensional analysis unit to calculate three-dimensional data indicating position coordinates of the point group, from the image data; a master data storage unit to store a master data which is each of the three-dimensional data of a search object to be searched in the imaging area in a plurality of directions; and a judgment unit to position one point of the master data in each direction to each point of the three-dimensional data, to judge whether position coordinates of points of the positioned master data in any direction approach to position coordinates of corresponding points of the three-dimensional data of the imaging area, and to perform a search of the search object based on a result of the judgment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp.
    Inventors: Akira Kunisaki, Masayuki Nakaya, Katsutoshi Ohno