Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Kitatsuji
Hiroaki Kitatsuji 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: 20240099792Abstract: A remote surgery support system according to one or more embodiments may include: a doctor-side operating device in a first facility to operate manipulator arms in the first facility; a mentor-side operating device in a second facility to operate the manipulator arms via an external network; and one or more controllers. The doctor-side operating device includes a first display to display an endoscopic image and a first voice communication device. The mentor-side operating device includes: a second display to display the endoscopic image; a second voice communication device; a touch panel display to display the endoscopic image and receive an instruction input for generating an annotation image; and a third voice communication device. The one or more controllers is configured to display on the first display the annotation image based on the instruction input received by the touch panel display with the annotation image superimposed with the endoscopic image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: MEDICAROID CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki KITATSUJI, Masanao OHASHI
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Publication number: 20240099558Abstract: An embodiment of the disclosure may be a mentor-side operating device placed in a second facility different from a first facility in which a surgical system is placed, the surgical system of the first facility including first and second manipulator arms holding first and second surgical instruments; a third manipulator arm holding an endoscope; and a doctor-side operating device that includes a first display to display an endoscopic image acquired by the endoscope. The mentor-side operating device is configured to operate, via an external network from the second facility, the first to third manipulator arms of the surgical system in the first facility. The mentor-side operating device includes a second display configured to display the endoscopic image transmitted through the external network with the endoscopic image being superimposed with a graphical user interface including information about a state of communication between the mentor-side operating device and the surgical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: MEDICAROID CORPORATIONInventors: Masanao OHASHI, Hiroaki KITATSUJI
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Publication number: 20230032548Abstract: In a robotic surgical system, a controller is configured or programmed to set a temporary pivot position based on an operation on a pivot position setter and store a position adjusted by a predetermined length from the temporary pivot position as a pivot position in a storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATIONInventors: Ayataka KOBAYASHI, Tsuyoshi TOJO, Hirofumi YAMAMORI, Jota IDA, Hiroaki KITATSUJI
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Publication number: 20220395350Abstract: A surgical robot includes a controller configured or programmed to control a display to superimpose guide information indicating a moving direction of a medical cart based on a steering angle of a steering device on an image captured by an imaging device and display the guide information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATIONInventors: Ayataka KOBAYASHI, Tetsuo ICHII, Hirofumi YAMAMORI, Hideo KAWABATA, Hiroaki KITATSUJI
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Publication number: 20210330410Abstract: In a surgical robot, an operation unit includes an enable switch and an operation tool configured to control a moving direction of an arm, and the enable switch and the operation tool are arranged apart from each other within a range operable by fingers of one hand of an operator in the operation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji KISHIDA, Tsuyoshi TOJO, Toshihiko TAKAGI, Hiroaki KITATSUJI, Koji MUNETO
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Publication number: 20210330409Abstract: In a surgical robot, a pivot position teaching button is pressed with a tip end of a medical device moved to a position corresponding to an insertion position of a trocar inserted into a body surface of a patient such that a pivot position is stored in a storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki KITATSUJI, Tsuyoshi TOJO, Yusuke TANIGAKE
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Patent number: 11045376Abstract: A robotic operating table according to one or more embodiments may include: a table on which to place a patient; a robotic arm including a plurality of joints, and including a first end supported on a base fixed to a floor, and a second end supporting the table; an operation device including: a move operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move the table, and a register operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a register operation to register a position of a movement destination of the table and a movement-destination set operation; a memory; and a controller that causes the robotic arm to move the table based on the move operation received by the move operation receiving unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignees: MEDICAROID CORPORATION, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaro Yano, Yoshiyuki Tamura, Yukihiko Kitano, Mitsuichi Hiratsuka, Hiroaki Kitatsuji
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Patent number: 10869799Abstract: An operation device according to one or more embodiments may include: a display; a move operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move a table on which a patient can be placed of an operating table; and an operation controller. In a condition in which the table is put in a tilted posture in accordance with the move operation, the operation controller may cause the display to display an elapsed time in the tilted posture.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignees: MEDICAROID CORPORATION, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaro Yano, Yoshiyuki Tamura, Mitsuichi Hiratsuka, Hiroaki Kitatsuji, Toru Mizumoto
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Patent number: 10857053Abstract: A robotic operating table may include: a table on which to place a patient; and a robotic arm including a plurality of joints, and having a first end supported on a base fixed to a floor, and a second end supporting the table; and an operation device including: a mode-set operation receiving unit that receives a set operation to set a rotation mode for rotating the table; a move operation receiving unit that receives a move operation to move the table; and a display. When the mode-set operation receiving unit receives the set operation to set the rotation mode, the display may display setting information for setting a rotation center position of the table. When the move operation receiving unit receives the move operation in a state where the rotation center position is set, the robotic arm may rotate the table about a rotation axis at the rotation center position.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignees: MEDICAROID CORPORATION, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaro Yano, Yoshiyuki Tamura, Yukihiko Kitano, Mitsuichi Hiratsuka, Hiroaki Kitatsuji
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Patent number: 10561384Abstract: An X-ray imaging system takes an X-ray of an examined part of an examination subject supported by a bed. The X-ray imaging system includes: an X-ray generator that is an X-ray source; an X-ray image pickup apparatus arranged to be opposed to the X-ray generator and configured to take an X-ray having been radiated from the X-ray generator to the examination subject and passed through the examination subject; a seven-axis vertical multi-joint first robot supporting the X-ray generator; a seven-axis vertical multi-joint second robot supporting the X-ray image pickup apparatus; and a robot controller configured to control operations of the first robot and the second robot such that the X-ray generator and the X-ray image pickup apparatus move on a spherical shell centering around an isocenter C while causing the isocenter C and the examined part to substantially coincide with each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi Tanaka, Hiroaki Kitatsuji
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Publication number: 20180243152Abstract: An operation device according to one or more embodiments may include: a display; a move operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move a table on which a patient can be placed of an operating table; and an operation controller. In a condition in which the table is put in a tilted posture in accordance with the move operation, the operation controller may cause the display to display an elapsed time in the tilted posture.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicants: MEDICAROID CORPORATION, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaro YANO, Yoshiyuki TAMURA, Mitsuichi HIRATSUKA, Hiroaki KITATSUJI, Toru MIZUMOTO
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Publication number: 20180243151Abstract: A robotic operating table may include: a table on which to place a patient; and a robotic arm including a plurality of joints, and having a first end supported on a base fixed to a floor, and a second end supporting the table; and an operation device including: a mode-set operation receiving unit that receives a set operation to set a rotation mode for rotating the table; a move operation receiving unit that receives a move operation to move the table; and a display. When the mode-set operation receiving unit receives the set operation to set the rotation mode, the display may display setting information for setting a rotation center position of the table. When the move operation receiving unit receives the move operation in a state where the rotation center position is set, the robotic arm may rotate the table about a rotation axis at the rotation center position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicants: MEDICAROID CORPORATION, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaro YANO, Yoshiyuki TAMURA, Yukihiko KITANO, Mitsuichi HIRATSUKA, Hiroaki KITATSUJI
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Publication number: 20180242938Abstract: An X-ray imaging system takes an X-ray of an examined part of an examination subject supported by a bed. The X-ray imaging system includes: an X-ray generator that is an X-ray source; an X-ray image pickup apparatus arranged to be opposed to the X-ray generator and configured to take an X-ray having been radiated from the X-ray generator to the examination subject and passed through the examination subject; a seven-axis vertical multi-joint first robot supporting the X-ray generator; a seven-axis vertical multi-joint second robot supporting the X-ray image pickup apparatus; and a robot controller configured to control operations of the first robot and the second robot such that the X-ray generator and the X-ray image pickup apparatus move on a spherical shell centering around an isocenter C while causing the isocenter C and the examined part to substantially coincide with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2015Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi TANAKA, Hiroaki KITATSUJI
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Publication number: 20180243150Abstract: A robotic operating table according to one or more embodiments may include: a table on which to place a patient; a robotic arm including a plurality of joints, and including a first end supported on a base fixed to a floor, and a second end supporting the table; an operation device including: a move operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move the table, and a register operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a register operation to register a position of a movement destination of the table and a movement-destination set operation; a memory; and a controller that causes the robotic arm to move the table based on the move operation received by the move operation receiving unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicants: MEDICAROID CORPORATION, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaro YANO, Yoshiyuki TAMURA, Yukihiko KITANO, Mitsuichi HIRATSUKA, Hiroaki KITATSUJI
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Patent number: 9774827Abstract: An imaging inspection apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a predetermined position between a first position and a second position as a signal output position, the predetermined position being set by using a distance from a reference position that is based on at least one of the first position and the second position; an image-capturing command signal generator configured to determine, when causing a distal end portion of a robot to move from the first position to the second position, whether or not the distal end portion of the robot is located at the signal output position, and if it is determined that the distal end portion of the robot is located at the signal output position, the image-capturing command signal generator transmits, to the image-capturing device, an image-capturing command signal for capturing an image of the inspection object by using the image-capturing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki Tanaka, Hiroaki Kitatsuji, Kazuhiko Kojima
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Publication number: 20150237308Abstract: An imaging inspection apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a predetermined position between a first position and a second position as a signal output position, the predetermined position being set by using a distance from a reference position that is based on at least one of the first position and the second position; an image-capturing command signal generator configured to determine, when causing a distal end portion of a robot to move from the first position to the second position, whether or not the distal end portion of the robot is located at the signal output position, and if it is determined that the distal end portion of the robot is located at the signal output position, the image-capturing command signal generator transmits, to the image-capturing device, an image-capturing command signal for capturing an image of the inspection object by using the image-capturing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2013Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Hideki Tanaka, Hiroaki Kitatsuji, Kazuhiko Kojima
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Patent number: 7282882Abstract: A robot control system for simultaneously controlling multi-axial robots each of which has actuators, a standard movement part being set in each of the robots, includes: a single main controller for calculating respective movement positions of the standard moving part on a movement route along which the standard moving part is to be moved; and sub-controllers installed for each of the robots, each of the sub-controllers calculating an operation amount of each of the actuators so that the standard moving part of a corresponding robot is to be moved along the movement route, based on the movement positions of the standard moving part of the corresponding robot on the movement route, and controlling each of the actuators of the robots in accordance with the operation amount.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2005Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Kitatsuji, Naoyuki Matsumoto, Yoshinori Kegasa
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Publication number: 20060145647Abstract: A robot control system for simultaneously controlling multi-axial robots each of which has actuators, a standard movement part being set in each of the robots, includes: a single main controller for calculating respective movement positions of the standard moving part on a movement route along which the standard moving part is to be moved; and sub-controllers installed for each of the robots, each of the sub-controllers calculating an operation amount of each of the actuators so that the standard moving part of a corresponding robot is to be moved along the movement route, based on the movement positions of the standard moving part of the corresponding robot on the movement route, and controlling each of the actuators of the robots in accordance with the operation amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2005Publication date: July 6, 2006Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Kitatsuji, Naoyuki Matsumoto, Yoshinori Kegasa
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Patent number: 5938955Abstract: Provided is a consumable electrode type arc welding method and device in which stable welding can be performed at a high speed for a welding gap greater than a thickness of a base metal and the like, and welding conditions are automatically changed according to the welding gap along a welding line to perform the stable welding. A first base metal extended vertically and a second base metal which has an upper end positioned in a middle portion of the first base metal and is provided along the first base metal are welded together. The first and second base metals have a thickness of 2.8 mm, and an arc is generated toward an upper end portion of the second base metal from obliquely above on a side opposite to the first base metal. The second base metal is melted to be a part of a weld metal. An amount of the second base metal to be melted is increased or decreased according to a welding gap detected by a laser sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 1997Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Ikeda, Takayuki Murata, Hiroaki Kitatsuji, Hideki Futayabu
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Patent number: 5864115Abstract: Provided is a consumable electrode type arc welding method and device in which stable welding can be performed at a high speed for a welding gap greater than a thickness of a base metal and the like, and welding conditions are automatically changed according to the welding gap along a welding line to perform the stable welding. A first base metal extended vertically and a second base metal which has an upper end positioned in a middle portion of the first base metal and is provided along the first base metal are welded together. The first and second base metals have a thickness of 2.8 mm, and an arc is generated toward an upper end portion of the second base metal from obliquely above on a side opposite to the first base metal. The second base metal is melted to be a part of a weld metal. An amount of the second base metal to be melted is increased or decreased according to a welding gap detected by a laser sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1997Date of Patent: January 26, 1999Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Ikeda, Takayuki Murata, Hiroaki Kitatsuji, Hideki Futayabu