Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Kikuchi

Hirofumi Kikuchi 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: 20040157502
    Abstract: An assembly of electric motor with encoder, including an electric motor having a motor housing, and an encoder for detecting the rotation angle of the output shaft of the electric motor. The encoder includes a frame member attached to the motor housing in a conductive manner, a circuit board supported on the frame member and a detection circuit provided in the circuit board. The assembly of electric motor with encoder further includes an output signal cable connected to the circuit board of the encoder and including a signal wire and a shield member, and a grounding mechanism electrically connecting the shield member of the output signal cable to the motor housing for grounding purposes. The grounding mechanism includes a conductor patterned on the circuit board, a first connecting structure mutually connecting the conductor to the shield member, and a second connecting structure mutually connecting the conductor to the frame member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: FANUC LTD
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki Taniguchi, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Hiromichi Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 6748979
    Abstract: There is disclosed a fluid supply valve comprising a disc-shaped valve body which is equipped with a fluid supply port in the central portion thereof and composed of an elastic material whose peripheral portion is reinforced and fixed with a rigid material, the fluid supply port being closed when the valve body abuts against a fixed valve seat placed so as to be opposite to the fluid supply port, and being opened when the valve body is separated from the fixed valve seat, wherein the disc shaped valve body is equipped further with a thin walled portion in the intermediate annular portion between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion in the radial direction, and/or with an inflectional portion in the radial direction between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Miyazawa, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Youichi Nishimuro, Kunio Machida
  • Publication number: 20030155023
    Abstract: There is disclosed a fluid supply valve comprising a disc-shaped valve body which is equipped with a fluid supply port in the central portion thereof and composed of an elastic material whose peripheral portion is reinforced and fixed with a rigid material, the fluid supply port being closed when the valve body abuts against a fixed valve seat placed so as to be opposite to the fluid supply port, and being opened when the valve body is separated from the fixed valve seat, wherein the disc shaped valve body is equipped further with a thin walled portion in the intermediate annular portion between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion in the radial direction, and/or with an inflectional portion in the radial direction between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Miyazawa, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Youichi Nishimuro, Kunio Machida
  • Patent number: 6550498
    Abstract: There is disclosed a fluid supply valve comprising a disc-shaped valve body which is equipped with a fluid supply port in the central portion thereof and composed of an elastic material whose peripheral portion is reinforced and fixed with a rigid material, the fluid supply port being closed when the valve body abuts against a fixed valve seat placed so as to be opposite to the fluid supply port, and being opened when the valve body is separated from the fixed valve seat, wherein the disc shaped valve body is equipped further with a thin walled portion in the intermediate annular portion between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion in the radial direction, and/or with an inflectional portion in the radial direction between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Miyazawa, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Youichi Nishimuro, Kunio Machida
  • Patent number: 6394137
    Abstract: There is disclosed a fluid supply value comprising a disc-shaped valve body which is equipped with a fluid supply port in the central portion thereof and composed of an elastic material whose peripheral portion is reinforced and fixed with a rigid material, the fluid supply port being closed when the valve body abuts against a fixed valve seat placed so as to be opposite to the fluid supply port, and being opened when the valve body is separated from the fixed valve seat, wherein the disc-shaped valve body is equipped further with a thin-walled portion in the intermediate annular portion between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion in the radial direction, and/or with an inflectional portion in the radial direction between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kikuchi, Youichi Nishimuro, Kunio Machida
  • Publication number: 20020050298
    Abstract: There is disclosed a fluid supply valve comprising a disc-shaped valve body which is equipped with a fluid supply port in the central portion thereof and composed of an elastic material whose peripheral portion is reinforced and fixed with a riqid material, the fluid supply port being closed when the valve body abuts against a fixed valve seat placed so as to be opposite to the fluid supply port, and being opened when the valve body is separated from the fixed valve seat, wherein the disc-shaped valve body is equipped further with a thin-walled portion in the intermediate annular portion between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion in the radial direction, and/or with an inflectional portion in the radial direction between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: HIROFUMI KIKUCHI, YOUICHI NISHIMURO, KUNIO MACHIDA, HISASHI MIYAZAWA
  • Patent number: 6338024
    Abstract: An industrial machine in which vibration exerted on a position detector provided for an axis of the machine is detected and countermeasures against the vibration can be swiftly taken. A ball screw is driven by a servo motor MZ supplied with power from a servo amplifier via a power line so that a cutting unit is advanced and retracted. A spindle motor MS above the cutting unit rotates a cutting tool via a spindle shaft and a workpiece W on an XY table is machined. An acceleration detection element is built in a position detector attached to a motor shaft of the servo motor MZ. An angle detection signal for servo control and a vibration level signal outputted by the acceleration detection element are converted into serial signals and are transmitted to a controller (axis control circuit of Z-axis) via the common signal line. The controller takes measures of changing the machining condition (for example, change of spindle rotational speed) and stopping the machine in accordance with a rank of the vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki Taniguchi, Hirofumi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20010050108
    Abstract: There is disclosed a fluid supply valve comprising a disc-shaped valve body which is equipped with a fluid supply port in the central portion thereof and composed of an elastic material whose peripheral portion is reinforced and fixed with a rigid material, the fluid supply port being closed when the valve body abuts against a fixed valve seat placed so as to be opposite to the fluid supply port, and being opened when the valve body is separated from the fixed valve seat, wherein the disc shaped valve body is equipped further with a thin walled portion in the intermediate annular portion between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion in the radial direction, and/or with an inflectional portion in the radial direction between the fluid supply port and the peripheral portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Applicant: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kikuchi, Youichi Nishimuro, Kunio Machida
  • Patent number: 6083433
    Abstract: There is provided a cleaning blade which is used for cleaning an image-forming body in an electrophotographic apparatus, and which has excellent performances in that the cleaning blade is minimized in the deflection of its tip part, never contaminates an image-forming body and so forth. The cleaning blade equipped with unevenness on at least part of a plate member excluding the portion of the plate member in direct contact with the image-forming body, is obtained by arranging a support member in a mold which is equipped with unevenness on at least part of the inside surface thereof in contact with a molding material for the plate member; then casting the molding material for the plate member in the mold; and curing the molding material to integrate the plate member and the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kikuchi, Kunio Machida
  • Patent number: 5533095
    Abstract: A data transfer system capable of preventing a transmitter from receiving erroneous message data because of an instantaneous interruption of a transmission line. The radio paging terminal includes a message data transmission circuit for transmitting inputted message data through a transmission line. The transmitter, which is connected to the transmission line, receives an output signal from the message data transmission circuit via the transmission line and outputs the output signal to a modulator section and a transmitter section which transmits the message data as radio waves for data transfer with the radio paging terminal. The transmitter also includes a receiver for receiving the radio waves radiated from the transmitter section and for outputting the demodulated message data to the radio paging terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 5321299
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hybrid integrated circuit device provided with an active filter. The active filter is constructed mainly from a rectifier circuit, a reactor with one terminal connected with an output terminal of the rectifier, a switching element connected with one terminal of the reactor and a smoothing condenser connected with the other terminal of the reactor. The active filter is mounted on an insulating metal substrate and has, other than the above feature, a specific circuit structure wherein the substrate is divided by a ground pattern or power supply pattern into two blocks. One block is for a large current circuit such as the rectifier circuit, the switching element, and a diode and another block for a small signal circuit such as a control circuit. The hybrid integrated circuit device is of remarkably compact size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Ohkawa, Hisashi Shimizu, Hirofumi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 5119004
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reference-point return method for returning a movable element of a machine to a reference point using solely a linear scale, without relying upon a limit switch. The method includes providing the linear scale (1) with a second scale portion (2) for stipulating a deceleration starting position and a reference-point position, in addition to first scale portion (3, 4) for generating two-phase signals for position detection, generating signals (S.sub.1, S.sub.2) indicative of the deceleration starting position (D) and reference-point position (O) from the second scale portion (2) of the linear scale, slowing a reference point return rapid-traverse velocity (Va) to a reference-point return rapid-traverse velocity (Vb) using the deceleration starting signal (S.sub.1), and effecting return to the reference point by stopping movement in response to the reference-point signal (S.sub.2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Sakamoto, Shigeyuki Ushiyama, Mitsuyuki Taniguchi, Hirofumi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 5075540
    Abstract: An optical encoder, having an offset adjustment function for causing light receiving element outputs to have the same direct current component level, and capable of greatly reducing an adverse affection by noise, to thereby generate an accurate position signal. A combined signal (i10), generated in a third electric current mirror circuit (T17-T19) for receiving output currents (ia11, ia12) from light receiving elements (A11, A12) through first and second electric current mirror circuits (T11-T13, T14-T16) and serving as a feedback signal (i10', i10") for eliminating an offset between direct current components of the output currents of the light receiving elements, is superimposed through a variable resistor (VRa1) on these output currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki Taniguchi, Hirofumi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4897544
    Abstract: A light receiving element (1) and an operation transistor (3) are connected in series, a plurality of signal output transistors (5a, 5b) are current-miller-connected to the operation transistors (3) in parallel, and photoelectrically converted output signals (O.sub.1, O.sub.2) are separately applied to a plurality of circuits in parallel from the plurality of the signal output transistors (5a, 5b). As a result, in the plurality of the circuits which receive the photoelectrically converted output signals (O.sub.1, O.sub.2) in parallel to carry out predetermined processes, interference will not occur, the signals are processed correctly, the power consumption is reduced, and the speed of responsitivity is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuo Kobari, Yoshitaka Takekoshi, Mitsuyuki Taniguchi, Hirofumi Kikuchi