Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Iwai
Hiroaki Iwai 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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Patent number: 9579756Abstract: A screwing system includes at least one screw feeder, and a screwing device configured to move between the screw feeder and a screwing position and tighten a screw obtained from the screw feeder on a part at the screwing position. The screwing system includes a robot capable of holding the part. The robot carries the held part to the screwing position, changes a posture of the part, and carries the part from the screwing position. While the robot holds the part, the screwing device screws the part.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Iwai, Masato Yanagisawa
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Patent number: 9545696Abstract: A screwing system includes at least one screw feeder, and a screwing device configured to move between the screw feeder and a screwing position and tighten a screw obtained from the screw feeder on a part at the screwing position. The screwing system includes a robot capable of holding the part. The robot carries the held part to the screwing position, changes a posture of the part, and carries the part from the screwing position. While the robot holds the part, the screwing device screws the part.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Iwai, Masato Yanagisawa
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Patent number: 9511386Abstract: A coating system comprises: a coating apparatus connected to a syringe filled with a coating agent and having a nozzle for discharging the coating agent of the connected syringe; a robot which moves an object to be coated, held by a robot hand, to a coating position; and a control unit, wherein the coating apparatus comprises a plurality of syringes respectively filled with different coating agents, the nozzles connected to the respective syringes, and a rotary table for rotationally moving together the syringes and the connected nozzles, and the control unit controls to select the syringe filled with the coating agent to be applied to the object, move the nozzle connected to the selected syringe to a position facing the coating position by the rotation of the rotary table, move the object held by the robot hand to the coating position, and discharge the coating agent from the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Hiroaki Iwai
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Publication number: 20140290440Abstract: A screwing system includes at least one screw feeder, and a screwing device configured to move between the screw feeder and a screwing position and tighten a screw obtained from the screw feeder on a part at the screwing position. The screwing system includes a robot capable of holding the part. The robot carries the held part to the screwing position, changes a posture of the part, and carries the part from the screwing position. While the robot holds the part, the screwing device screws the part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki Iwai, Masato Yanagisawa
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Publication number: 20140205760Abstract: A coating system comprises: a coating apparatus connected to a syringe filled with a coating agent and having a nozzle for discharging the coating agent of the connected syringe; a robot which moves an object to be coated, held by a robot hand, to a coating position; and a control unit, wherein the coating apparatus comprises a plurality of syringes respectively filled with different coating agents, the nozzles connected to the respective syringes, and a rotary table for rotationally moving together the syringes and the connected nozzles, and the control unit controls to select the syringe filled with the coating agent to be applied to the object, move the nozzle connected to the selected syringe to a position facing the coating position by the rotation of the rotary table, move the object held by the robot hand to the coating position, and discharge the coating agent from the nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Hiroaki Iwai
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Patent number: 6886464Abstract: A printing apparatus (1001) having a plurality of blanket cylinders (1051 to 1054) normally-contacting to impression cylinders (1031, 1032), plate cylinders (1041 to 1044) normally-contacting to the respective blanket cylinders, and a ink coating apparatus (1061 to 1064), a printing apparatus, an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, an imaging medium, a printing system, and a printing method. In the printing apparatus (1001), a plurality of ink coating apparatus (1061 to 1064) is arranged in a substantially gravity direction, a feeding apparatus (1020) of sheets of recording mediums to the printing apparatus and a discharging apparatus (1070) are provided at a side opposite to a setting side of the ink coating apparatus with respect to the blanket cylinders. The printing apparatus can execute a back face printing easily, and has good workability.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Michio Yamasaki, Hiroaki Iwai
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Patent number: 6670979Abstract: An imaging apparatus 1 having a plurality of beam irradiation sources individually drivable, an imaging method, an optical fiber array apparatus, an imaging head apparatus, and a printing apparatus. The imaging apparatus 1 comprises n (n=2 or more integer) light source blocks 15a to 15d including k (k=2 or more integer) beam irradiation sources, and one or more and below n beam irradiation source driving devices connectable for each block.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2002Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Hiroaki Iwai
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Publication number: 20030142194Abstract: An imaging apparatus 1 having a plurality of beam irradiation sources individually drivable, an imaging method, an optical fiber array apparatus, an imaging head apparatus, and a printing apparatus. The imaging apparatus 1 comprises n (n=2 or more integer) light source blocks 15a to 15d including k (k=2 or more integer) beam irradiation sources, and one or more and below n beam irradiation source driving devices connectable for each block.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2002Publication date: July 31, 2003Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Hiroaki Iwai
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Patent number: 6522350Abstract: An imaging apparatus 1 having a plurality of beam irradiation sources individually drivable, an imaging method, an optical fiber array apparatus, an imaging head apparatus, and a printing apparatus. The imaging apparatus 1 includes n (n=2 or more integer) light source blocks 15a to 15d including k (k=2 or more integer) beam irradiation sources, and one or more and below n beam irradiation source driving devices connectable for each block.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1998Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Hiroaki Iwai
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Publication number: 20020139260Abstract: A printing apparatus (1001) having a plurality of blanket cylinders (1051 to 1054) normally-contacting to impression cylinders (1031, 1032), plate cylinders (1041 to 1044) normally-contacting to the respective blanket cylinders, and a ink coating apparatus (1061 to 1064), a printing apparatus, an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, an imaging medium, a printing system, and a printing method. In the printing apparatus (1001), a plurality of ink coating apparatus (1061 to 1064) is arranged in a substantially gravity direction, a feeding apparatus (1020) of sheets of recording mediums to the printing apparatus and a discharging apparatus (1070) are provided at a side opposite to a setting side of the ink coating apparatus with respect to the blanket cylinders. The printing apparatus can execute a back face printing easily, and has good workability.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2002Publication date: October 3, 2002Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIESInventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Michio Yamasaki, Hiroaki Iwai
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Patent number: 6382098Abstract: A printing apparatus (1001) having a plurality of blanket cylinders (1051 to 1054) normally-contacting to impression cylinders (1031, 1032), plate cylinders (1041 to 1044) normally-contacting to the respective blanket cylinders, and a ink coating apparatus(1061 to 1064), a printing apparatus, an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, an imaging medium, a printing system, and a printing method. In the printing apparatus (1001), a plurality of ink coating apparatus (1061 to 1064) is arranged in a substantially gravity direction, a feeding apparatus (1020) of sheets of recording mediums to the printing apparatus and a discharging apparatus (1070) are provided at a side opposite to a setting side of the ink coating apparatus with respect to the blanket cylinders. The printing apparatus can execute a back face printing easily, and has good workability.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Michio Yamasaki, Hiroaki Iwai
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Publication number: 20020015088Abstract: An imaging apparatus 1 having a plurality of beam irradiation sources individually drivable, an imaging method, an optical fiber array apparatus, an imaging head apparatus, and a printing apparatus. The imaging apparatus 1 comprises n (n=2 or more integer) light source blocks 15a to 15d including k (k=2 or more integer) beam irradiation sources, and one or more and below n beam irradiation source driving devices connectable for each block.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 1998Publication date: February 7, 2002Inventors: YOSHINORI INOUE, HIROAKI IWAI
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Publication number: 20010000861Abstract: A printing apparatus (1001) having a plurality of blanket cylinders (1051 to 1054) normally-contacting to impression cylinders (1031, 1032), plate cylinders (1041 to 1044) normally-contacting to the respective blanket cylinders, and a ink coating apparatus(1061 to 1064), a printing apparatus, an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, an imaging medium, a printing system, and a printing method. In the printing apparatus (1001), a plurality of ink coating apparatus (1061 to 1064) is arranged in a substantially gravity direction, a feeding apparatus (1020) of sheets of recording mediums to the printing apparatus and a discharging apparatus (1070) are provided at a side opposite to a setting side of the ink coating apparatus with respect to the blanket cylinders. The printing apparatus can execute a back face printing easily, and has good workability.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2000Publication date: May 10, 2001Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Michio Yamasaki, Hiroaki Iwai
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Patent number: 6227109Abstract: A printing apparatus (1001) having a plurality of blanket cylinders (1051 to 1054) normally-contacting to impression cylinders (1031, 1032), plate cylinders (1041 to 1044) normally-contacting to the respective blanket cylinders, and a ink coating apparatus (1061 to 1064), a printing apparatus, an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, an imaging medium, a printing system, and a printing method. In the printing apparatus (1001), a plurality of ink coating apparatus (1061 to 1064) is arranged in a substantially gravity direction, a feeding apparatus (1020) of sheets of recording mediums to the printing apparatus and a discharging apparatus (1070) are provided at a side opposite to a setting side of the ink coating apparatus with respect to the blanket cylinders. The printing apparatus can execute a back face printing easily, and has good workability.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1998Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Michio Yamasaki, Hiroaki Iwai