Patents by Inventor Atsushi Nakaya
Atsushi Nakaya 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: 20240105985Abstract: Provided are: a modified sulfide solid electrode containing a sulfide solid electrolyte having a BET specific surface area of 10 m2/g or more and containing a lithium atom, a sulfur atom, a phosphorus atom, and a halogen atom, and an epoxy compound, in which the modified sulfide solid electrolyte has a peak at 2800 to 3000 cm?1 in an infrared absorption spectrum obtained by FT-IR spectroscopy (ATR method); and a method for producing the modified sulfide solid electrolyte, which has excellent coating suitability when applied as a paste and is capable of efficiently exhibiting excellent battery performance even when a sulfide solid electrolyte having a large specific surface area is used.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki OKUYAMA, Nobuhito NAKAYA, Hiroto IDA, Toshifumi MIYAGAWA, Atsushi YAO
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Publication number: 20240079648Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing a modified sulfide solid electrolyte, which is excellent in coating suitability when applied as a paste even if a sulfide solid electrolyte has a large specific surface area, and can efficiently exhibit an excellent battery performance, the modified sulfide solid electrolyte obtained by the manufacturing method, and an electrode combined material and a lithium ion battery which exhibit an excellent battery performance. The method includes: mixing an organic halide and an organic solvent with a sulfide solid electrolyte having a BET specific surface area of 10 m2/g or more and containing a lithium atom, a sulfur atom, a phosphorus atom, and a halogen atom; and removing the organic solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuhito NAKAYA, Yusuke ISEKI, Tomoyuki OKUYAMA, Hiroto IDA, Toshifumi MIYAGAWA, Atsushi YAO
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Publication number: 20240051129Abstract: A horizontally articulated robot includes a manipulator, a hand, and a teaching member. The hand is connected to the manipulator. The hand is capable of holding a substrate. The teaching member is connected to the manipulator. The teaching member is not used for transferring a substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuma KANEZAKI, Atsushi NAKAYA, Junichi MATSUOKA
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Patent number: 11898595Abstract: Provided is a surface fastener in which a decrease in engagement strength can be suppressed when a masking member is peeled off. This surface fastener includes a fastener member and a masking member. The fastener member includes a base portion and a plurality of engaging elements. The masking member covers at least a part of the engaging elements. At least one recess portion is provided on a masking outer surface of the masking member.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Zhiyu Ren, Atsushi Nakaya, Yuta Inoue
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Publication number: 20230019019Abstract: A video confirmation computer for confirming video related to robot operation includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit stores information on the position of the electric motor that drives a link body of the robot received from the controller of the robot and information on the video obtained by a camera attached to the robot. The processor makes at least one of the video confirmation computer itself and a computer connected to the video confirmation computer display a model area and a video area side by side. In the model area, a two-dimensional or three-dimensional model reproducing the posture of the robot is displayed by computer graphics. In the video area, the video is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya KITANO, Atsushi NAKAYA, Masaya YOSHIDA, Kazuo FUJIMORI, Hiroyuki OKADA
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Publication number: 20220312905Abstract: Provided is a surface fastener in which a decrease in engagement strength can be suppressed when a masking member is peeled off. This surface fastener includes a fastener member and a masking member. The fastener member includes a base portion and a plurality of engaging elements. The masking member covers at least a part of the engaging elements. At least one recess portion is provided on a masking outer surface of the masking member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Zhiyu Ren, Atsushi Nakaya, Yuta Inoue
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Patent number: 11445786Abstract: A fastening tape having flexibility in a longitudinal direction of the fastening tape. The fastening tape includes a plurality of fasteners, a support, and magnetic material positioned on the support. The support defines a plurality of plateaus and a plurality of valleys. The magnetic material is positioned on at least a portion of one of the plurality of plateaus or the plurality of valleys of the support such that a height of the magnetic material varies in the longitudinal direction. Because the height of the magnetic material varies, the fastening tape is more flexible in the longitudinal direction. In some cases, the fastening tape is also flexible in the lateral direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Zhiyu Ren, Tsuyoshi Minato, Atsushi Nakaya, Kenta Okada
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Publication number: 20220290706Abstract: The surface fastener includes a base portion, a fastener member that includes a plurality of engagement elements, and a masking member that is detachably held by the fastener member. The masking member covers an engaging area of the fastener member, at least a part of the engaging element is embedded in the masking member. A space portion is provided between the base portion and the masking member in the engaging area. Thus, a foam resin can be prevented from intruding the engaging area of the fastener member in foam-molding of the cushion body. The masking member is also easily peeled off from the fastener member after foam-molding.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Zhiyu Ren, Atsushi Nakaya, Yuta Inoue
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Patent number: 11440200Abstract: A method of monitoring a robot including a plurality of actuators and configured to perform a predetermined process operation, the method including: a preliminary operation step of causing the robot to perform the predetermined process operation one or more times and detecting, in each of a plurality of process phases, assigned monitoring parameters for the actuators operating in the process phase; a ranking step of deriving a load level based on a predetermined load evaluation procedure for each of the monitoring parameters detected in the preliminary operation step and ranking all of the detected monitoring parameters in decreasing order of the load level; and a normal operation step of monitoring primarily a monitoring parameter highly ranked in the ranking step, wherein the monitoring is performed for the actuator that operates in the process phase in which the highly ranked monitoring parameter was detected.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaya Yoshida, Hiroyuki Okada, Atsushi Nakaya
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Publication number: 20220281694Abstract: A robot control device configured to control operation of a robot configured to transfer a substrate while holding the substrate is provided. The substrate becomes in a first state where an end effector holds the substrate and the substrate is not placed at an installation position, when the end effector positions at a first teaching point above the installation position. The substrate becomes in a second state where the end effector does not hold the substrate and the substrate is placed at the installation position, when the end effector positions at a second teaching point below the installation position. The first and second states can be switched by causing the robot to perform a first operation to move the end effector from either one of the first teaching point and the second teaching point to the other one of the first teaching point and the second teaching point.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaya YOSHIDA, Shinya KITANO, Atsushi NAKAYA, Junichi SUGAHARA
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Publication number: 20210362381Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing method of a cover material fastening member including a clip locking member. The clip locking member is integrally provided at an end edge portion of a strip shaped member. The manufacturing method of the cover material fastening member includes: a molding step of filling a resin for forming the clip locking member in a cavity formed on a surface of each of a pair of rolls in rotation; and a press-bonding step of passing the strip shaped member between the pair of rolls in accordance with rotation of the pair of rolls, pressing the resin by the pair of rolls, and continuously press-bonding the clip locking member to two surfaces of the strip shaped member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Wanli Zhang, Hikaru Okuyama, Atsushi Nakaya, Seiichiro Yonezawa
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Publication number: 20210354293Abstract: A robot controlling device capable of preventing a rapid change in posture of a robotic arm due to a singular point. The robot controlling device brings a third rotational axis to on a circumference of a circle which is on a first rotational axis with a radius at a difference between a distance from the first rotational axis to a second rotational axis and a distance from the second rotational axis to the third rotational axis while changing posture of a horizontal robot to be holdable of a workpiece in an accommodating device, and moves the third rotational axis across a line connecting the first rotational axis and the second rotational axis, and moves the second rotational axis and the third rotational axis divided at the second straight line, connecting a center point of the workpiece accommodated in the accommodating device and the first rotational axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi NAKAYA, Shinya KITANO
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Patent number: 11109649Abstract: There is provided a fastening tape. A plurality of fastening cells on a surface of an elongated substrate. Each of at least some of the fastening cells includes: a fastening element array; one or more barriers at least partially surrounding the fastening element array; at least one slit provided in an upper portion of at least one of the one or more barriers; and a fastening element at least partially filling the slit. At least some of the fastening cells which are adjacent to each other in a longitudinal direction are separated from each other by an open space extending across the substrate in a lateral direction. The fastening element extends inward of the respective fastening cells in a direction away from a respective one of the open spaces.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Takayuki Matsui, Zhiyu Ren, Atsushi Nakaya, Kazuhiro Nozaka, Tetsuya Yoshino, Ayumi Fujisaki, Nao Yasuda, Masayoshi Kinoshita
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Publication number: 20200329826Abstract: There is provided a fastening tape. A plurality of fastening cells on a surface of an elongated substrate. Each of at least some of the fastening cells includes: a fastening element array; one or more barriers at least partially surrounding the fastening element array; at least one slit provided in an upper portion of at least one of the one or more barriers; and a fastening element at least partially filling the slit. At least some of the fastening cells which are adjacent to each other in a longitudinal direction are separated from each other by an open space extending across the substrate in a lateral direction. The fastening element extends inward of the respective fastening cells in a direction away from a respective one of the open spaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Takayuki Matsui, Zhiyu Ren, Atsushi Nakaya, Kazuhiro Nozaka, Tetsuya Yoshino, Ayumi Fujisaki, Nao Yasuda, Masayoshi Kinoshita
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Publication number: 20200298416Abstract: A method of monitoring a robot including a plurality of actuators and configured to perform a predetermined process operation, the method including: a preliminary operation step of causing the robot to perform the predetermined process operation one or more times and detecting, in each of a plurality of process phases, assigned monitoring parameters for the actuators operating in the process phase; a ranking step of deriving a load level based on a predetermined load evaluation procedure for each of the monitoring parameters detected in the preliminary operation step and ranking all of the detected monitoring parameters in decreasing order of the load level; and a normal operation step of monitoring primarily a monitoring parameter highly ranked in the ranking step, wherein the monitoring is performed for the actuator that operates in the process phase in which the highly ranked monitoring parameter was detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2018Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaya YOSHIDA, Hiroyuki OKADA, Atsushi NAKAYA
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Patent number: 10694821Abstract: A fastening tape with a flange is provided. The fastening tape includes a body and a plurality of fasteners positioned on the body. The flange is between the plurality of fasteners and an edge of the body. In some cases, the flange increases the “hook to foam strength” of the fastening tape when the fastening tape is within foam.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi Minato, Zhiyu Ren, Atsushi Nakaya, Michael Fleming, Keith Kratz, Wolfgang Coronel, Takayuki Matsui, Tetsuya Yoshino
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Patent number: 10699929Abstract: A controller includes a control unit which stops a transfer mechanism in a case where the value of a deterioration indication parameter has exceeded a preset threshold, and determines whether or not an event in which the value of the deterioration indication parameter has exceeded the preset threshold is attributed to deterioration of the transfer mechanism which has progressed over time based on a change pattern of time series data of the value of the deterioration indication parameter, and causes the transfer mechanism to operate at a reduced operation speed, in a case where the control unit determines that the event in which the value of the deterioration indication parameter has exceeded the preset threshold is attributed to the deterioration of the transfer mechanism which has progressed over time.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Nakaya, Hiroyuki Okada, Masaya Yoshida
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Publication number: 20200121034Abstract: A fastening tape having flexibility in a longitudinal direction of the fastening tape. The fastening tape includes a plurality of fasteners, a support, and magnetic material positioned on the support. The support defines a plurality of plateaus and a plurality of valleys. The magnetic material is positioned on at least a portion of one of the plurality of plateaus or the plurality of valleys of the support such that a height of the magnetic material varies in the longitudinal direction. Because the height of the magnetic material varies, the fastening tape is more flexible in the longitudinal direction. In some cases, the fastening tape is also flexible in the lateral direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Zhiyu Ren, Tsuyoshi Minato, Atsushi Nakaya, Kenta Okada
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Patent number: 10548374Abstract: A fastening tape having flexibility in a longitudinal direction of the fastening tape. The fastening tape includes a plurality of fasteners, a support, and magnetic material positioned on the support. The support defines a plurality of plateaus and a plurality of valleys. The magnetic material is positioned on at least a portion of one of the plurality of plateaus or the plurality of valleys of the support such that a height of the magnetic material varies in the longitudinal direction. Because the height of the magnetic material varies, the fastening tape is more flexible in the longitudinal direction. In some cases, the fastening tape is also flexible in the lateral direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Zhiyu Ren, Tsuyoshi Minato, Atsushi Nakaya, Kenta Okada
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Patent number: 10350756Abstract: Method of automatically avoiding an obstacle for a robot including a geometric model expression step, an area setting step, a final posture deciding step, an initial route deciding step, a virtual posture calculation step, an interference determining step, a way-point posture deciding step that decides the virtual posture as a way-point posture; and when the geometric model is determined to interfere with the no-entry area, virtually generates a repulsive force for relatively repelling an interfering portion of the geometric model from an interfering portion of the no-entry area, calculates a posture in a state where the interfering portion of the model is pushed from the no-entry area into the operating area by the repulsive force, and decides the calculated posture as a way-point posture; an updated route deciding step, and a step repeatedly performing the steps from the initial route deciding step to the updated route deciding step.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Nakaya, Masaya Yoshida, Shohei Mase, Hiroki Takahashi