Patents by Inventor Atsushi Mori
Atsushi Mori 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).
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Publication number: 20230234170Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a laser device that makes it possible to minimize condensation in a closed space by means of a simple structure. This laser device comprises a closed space (S4) in which an optical system (31) for transmitting laser light is accommodated and a dew point adjustment flow path (5) of which at least one part is a flow path wall section formed from a transmissive material (51) through which gas molecules including water vapor are transmitted and dust and oil mist are not transmitted. The transmissive material (51) separates the interior of the dew point adjustment flow path (5) and the closed space (S4).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi MORI
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Patent number: 11667131Abstract: A liquid circulation device includes a circulation passage, a liquid feeding device, a pressure sensor, and control circuitry. Through the circulation passage, liquid circulates to be supplied to and collected from a circulatory liquid discharge head. The liquid feeding device is configured to circulate the liquid through the circulation passage. The pressure sensor is configured to detect a pressure of the circulation passage. The control circuitry configured to acquire a characteristic indicating a relationship among a drive amount of the liquid feeding device, discharge information of the liquid discharged from the liquid discharge head, and a pressure detection value of the circulation passage; and change, based on the characteristic acquired, at least one of a control parameter and a calculation expression used to control the liquid feeding device.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yuuichiroh Uematsu, Ryohki Wakasa, Atsushi Mori
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Patent number: 11597093Abstract: A calibration method for a laser processing robot, including: fixing a jig that includes a target-site to a base of the laser processing robot; placing a laser processing tool at a position where a laser beam is scanned with respect to the target-site, the laser processing tool having a function for two-dimensionally scanning the laser beam and a function for receiving the laser beam reflected at an object and for measuring a distance to the object; measuring distances to respective portions of the target-site by scanning the laser beam; calculating a coordinate transformation function for converting a position and orientation of the target-site, which is obtained based on the measured distances to the respective portions of the target-site, into an actual position and orientation of the target-site; and correcting a tool-center-point of the laser processing tool by the coordinate transformation function.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiko Inoue, Toshikatsu Kuroki, Naoki Fujioka, Atsushi Mori
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Patent number: 11488456Abstract: An article management system according to the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires article identification information, which is read from a storage medium provided to an article that passed through an article arrival port and identifies the article, by using a wireless communication device provided at the article arrival port of a shop; and a registration unit that registers the article information in a storage device so that whether or not an arrival state of the article in the shop is an arrived state and whether or not a display state of the article in the shop is a not-displayed state for the article corresponding to the article identification information acquired by the acquisition unit can be extracted from the storage device storing article information in which the article identification information, the arrival state, and the display state are associated with each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Mori, Matsuhiro Usui, Koyo Tani
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Publication number: 20220193827Abstract: A laser machine comprises: a head including optical parts allowing reflection of a laser beam or allowing the laser beam to pass through, while being rotatable about rotary axes, and a focusing optical system that focuses the laser beam; a moving mechanism that allows the head and a target to move relative to each other; and a control unit that controls rotations of the optical parts in such a manner that an irradiation intended position to be reached by an emission optical axis when the laser beam is emitted to the target moves in a curvilinear pattern or a linear pattern, controls movement by the moving mechanism so as to move the head and the target relative to each other, and controls emission output from the laser source so as to change a condition for emitting the laser beam based on the rotation angles of the optical parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi MORI
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Publication number: 20220126594Abstract: A liquid circulation device includes a circulation passage, a liquid feeding device, a pressure sensor, and control circuitry. Through the circulation passage, liquid circulates to be supplied to and collected from a circulatory liquid discharge head. The liquid feeding device is configured to circulate the liquid through the circulation passage. The pressure sensor is configured to detect a pressure of the circulation passage. The control circuitry configured to acquire a characteristic indicating a relationship among a drive amount of the liquid feeding device, discharge information of the liquid discharged from the liquid discharge head, and a pressure detection value of the circulation passage; and change, based on the characteristic acquired, at least one of a control parameter and a calculation expression used to control the liquid feeding device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuichiroh UEMATSU, Ryohki WAKASA, Atsushi MORI
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Patent number: 11305383Abstract: A laser machine comprises: a head including optical parts allowing reflection of a laser beam or allowing the laser beam to pass through, while being rotatable about rotary axes, and a focusing optical system that focuses the laser beam; a moving mechanism that allows the head and a target to move relative to each other; and a control unit that controls rotations of the optical parts in such a manner that an irradiation intended position to be reached by an emission optical axis when the laser beam is emitted to the target moves in a curvilinear pattern or a linear pattern, controls movement by the moving mechanism so as to move the head and the target relative to each other, and controls emission output from the laser source so as to change a condition for emitting the laser beam based on the rotation angles of the optical parts.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi Mori
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Patent number: 11260667Abstract: A liquid circulation device includes a circulation passage, a liquid feeding device, a pressure sensor, and control circuitry. Through the circulation passage, liquid circulates to be supplied to and collected from a circulatory liquid discharge head. The liquid feeding device is configured to circulate the liquid through the circulation passage. The pressure sensor is configured to detect a pressure of the circulation passage. The control circuitry configured to acquire a characteristic indicating a relationship among a drive amount of the liquid feeding device, discharge information of the liquid discharged from the liquid discharge head, and a pressure detection value of the circulation passage; and change, based on the characteristic acquired, at least one of a control parameter and a calculation expression used to control the liquid feeding device.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: RICOH COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Yuuichiroh Uematsu, Ryohki Wakasa, Atsushi Mori
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Patent number: 11133643Abstract: A laser apparatus includes: a cooling capacity control means which controls the cooling capacity of a heat receiving/cooling unit; a surrounding member which surrounds a dew condensation prevention target unit including a heat generating unit and which reaches a surrounding member equilibrium temperature higher than the maximum dew point temperature within a housing as the temperature of the heat generating unit is increased; and a temperature detection means which detects the temperature of the surrounding member, a control unit compares, while a current output command is being output to a laser power supply unit, a surrounding member temperature with a switching temperature previously set lower than the surrounding member equilibrium temperature and when the surrounding member temperature is lower than the switching temperature, the control unit controls the cooling capacity control means such that the cooling capacity of the heat receiving/cooling unit is a low level whereas when the surrounding member temType: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Takigawa, Yuji Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Tadashi Kurosawa, Atsushi Mori, Toshiyasu Shiomi, Michinori Maeda, Akihiko Nishio
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Patent number: 11077671Abstract: A liquid discharge device includes a storage tank, a discharge head, a liquid feeder, a supply tank, a liquid path, a branch path, and a flow regulator. The liquid feeder is configured to feed liquid from the storage tank to the discharge head in a liquid feed direction. The supply tank is disposed upstream of the discharge head in the liquid feed direction, to store the liquid fed by the liquid feeder while being in a state open to atmosphere. The liquid path is configured to flow the liquid from the liquid feeder to the supply tank. The branch path is connected to the liquid path and configured to cause part of the liquid to branch from the liquid path. The flow regulator is disposed downstream of the discharge head in the liquid feed direction and configured to control a flow rate of the liquid flowing into the discharge head.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ryohki Wakasa, Atsushi Mori, Yuuichiroh Uematsu
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Publication number: 20210225134Abstract: An article management system according to the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires article identification information, which is read from a storage medium provided to an article that passed through an article arrival port and identifies the article, by using a wireless communication device provided at the article arrival port of a shop; and a registration unit that registers the article information in a storage device so that whether or not an arrival state of the article in the shop is an arrived state and whether or not a display state of the article in the shop is a not-displayed state for the article corresponding to the article identification information acquired by the acquisition unit can be extracted from the storage device storing article information in which the article identification information, the arrival state, and the display state are associated with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2019Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Atsushi MORI, Matsuhiro USUI, Koyo TANI
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Patent number: 11052670Abstract: A liquid circulation device includes a circulation path, a liquid feeding device, and circuitry. The circulation path is configured to circulate a liquid to be supplied to a liquid discharge head of a circulatory type and collected from the liquid discharge head. The liquid feeding device is configured to feed the liquid to circulate the liquid in the circulation path. The circuitry is configured to control an amount of the liquid to be fed by the liquid feeding device, on a basis of discharge information about the liquid to be discharged from the liquid discharge head.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Atsushi Mori
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Publication number: 20210184646Abstract: A resonator is provided that includes a vibration part and a mass addition portion. The vibration part includes a piezoelectric film, an upper electrode, and a lower electrode. The upper electrode and the lower electrode are disposed on opposite sides with the piezoelectric film therebetween. The amount of displacement of the vibration part is greater in a region corresponding to at least part of the mass addition portion than in any other region. The mass addition portion has an inclined surface that slopes in such a manner that the mass addition portion has end regions and a central region thinner than at least one of the end regions when the vibration part is viewed in a plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventor: Atsushi Mori
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Patent number: 10985949Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology capable of supporting reverse connection in which the front and back of a connector are reversed while expansion of circuit scale is suppressed. A reception control device is provided including a polarity detection unit that detects, as a polarity determination result signal, at least one of a polarity of a first reception signal received by a first reception unit or a polarity of a polarity inversion result of a second reception signal received by a second reception unit and a reception control unit that controls output destinations of a third reception signal received after the first reception signal by the first reception unit and a fourth reception signal received after the second reception signal by the second reception unit, on the basis of the polarity determination result signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Mori, Toshihisa Hyakudai, Hiroshi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20210086305Abstract: An object is to provide a technology in which in debarring machining on a three-dimensionally shaped ridge line by laser application, a stable gas flow can be supplied and in which stable deburring machining can be performed. A deburring device for removing a burr which is present on a ridge line of a workpiece after being machined, includes: a laser device which includes a laser machining head that applies laser light to the ridge line; a transport device which transports the laser device and a gas jetting, device; and a controller which controls the laser device, the gas jetting device and the transport device and the controller controls the gas jetting device and the transport device such that a gas jetting nozzle is moved on a plane including the bisector of an apex angle of the ridge line and the ridge line and that in a side view parallel to the ridge line, an angle formed by the ridge line and the central axis line of the gas jetting, nozzle is an acute angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi MORI
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Patent number: 10933741Abstract: A vehicular propeller shaft is configured to transmit a rotational force output from a drive force source to drive wheels. The vehicular propeller shaft includes a stepped pipe-shaped member including a compressive load weakest part with respect to an axial compressive load of the vehicular propeller shaft and a torsional load weakest part with respect to a torsional load around an axis of the vehicular propeller shaft. The compressive load weakest part and the torsional load weakest part are positioned apart from each other in a radial direction of the stepped pipe-shaped member.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya Isono, Kouki Kawarada, Atsushi Mori, Atsuo Mikazuki
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Patent number: 10931072Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology capable of improving reliability in light transmission and convenience at the time of connecting a transmission device to a cable with a simple circuit configuration. A transmitting device is provided which includes a connector receptacle unit connected to an optical-electrical composite cable, in which the connector receptacle unit includes a first electrode group, a second electrode group provided at a position rotated from the first electrode group by 180 degrees about a center of a main body of the connector receptacle unit as a reference, a first connection unit group for transmitting optical signals, and a second connection unit group for transmitting optical signals provided at a position rotated from the first connection unit group for transmitting optical signals by 180 degrees about the center of the main body of the connector receptacle unit as a reference.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihisa Hyakudai, Atsushi Mori, Naoto Nagaki, Manabu Sakai, Hiroshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 10928615Abstract: A laser processing device configured to generally vertically irradiate a laser beam to a workpiece, and having a function for reducing an adverse effect due to a reflected laser beam from the workpiece. The laser processing device includes: a light condensing point moving part configured to move a focal point in an optical axis direction while irradiating the laser beam, by moving at least one of a processing head, an optical component of a light condense optical system, and a workpiece; and a light condensing point distance setting part configured to set a light condensing point distance between the light condensing point and a workpiece surface when the laser beam is started to be irradiated, wherein the light condensing point distance is set so that an amount of the reflected laser beam returned to the processing head through the optical system is not more than an allowable value.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventors: Atsushi Mori, Tatsuya Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20200376842Abstract: A liquid circulation device includes a circulation passage, a liquid feeding device, a pressure sensor, and control circuitry. Through the circulation passage, liquid circulates to be supplied to and collected from a circulatory liquid discharge head. The liquid feeding device is configured to circulate the liquid through the circulation passage. The pressure sensor is configured to detect a pressure of the circulation passage. The control circuitry configured to acquire a characteristic indicating a relationship among a drive amount of the liquid feeding device, discharge information of the liquid discharged from the liquid discharge head, and a pressure detection value of the circulation passage; and change, based on the characteristic acquired, at least one of a control parameter and a calculation expression used to control the liquid feeding device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuichiroh UEMATSU, Ryohki WAKASA, Atsushi MORI
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Patent number: 10767686Abstract: A vehicular propeller shaft through which a rotary motion of a drive power source is transmitted to drive wheels and which includes a first tubular member and a second tubular member. The first tubular member has a large-diameter cylindrical section, a small-diameter cylindrical section having a smaller outside diameter than the large-diameter cylindrical section, and a tapered cylindrical section formed between one end of the large-diameter cylindrical section and the small-diameter cylindrical section. The large-diameter cylindrical section, the small-diameter cylindrical section and the tapered cylindrical section are formed integrally with each other. The second tubular member is coaxially joined to the first tubular member and formed of a material having a higher degree of strength than the first tubular member.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsuo Mikazuki, Tatsuya Isono, Kohki Kawarada, Atsushi Mori