Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Sugiyama
Hirokazu Sugiyama 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: 12090630Abstract: A robot system (100) of the present disclosure includes a robot (101) installed in a workarea (201), an interface (102), a display (105), and a control device (111). When operating the robot (101) to perform a kind of work defined beforehand to a workpiece (300) based on manipulational command information on the robot (101) inputted from the interface (102), the control device (111) displays on the display (105) a spatial relationship between the workpiece (300) and the robot (101) in a state where the workpiece and the robot are seen from a direction different from a direction in which an operator looks at the robot (101) from a manipulation area (202) that is a space different from the workarea (201), based on three-dimensional model information on the workpiece (300), three-dimensional model information on the robot (101), and the manipulational command information.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki Kamon, Hirokazu Sugiyama, Hidenori Tani
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Publication number: 20240198523Abstract: A robot system 100 includes an operator 2 to be operated by a user, a robot 1 having an end effector 11 that acts on an object W and a robot arm 12 that moves the end effector 11, and a controller 3 that outputs a command for the robot arm 12 such that the end effector 11 moves according to operation information input via the operator 2. The controller 3 performs coordinate conversion to adapt a reference surface RP in an operation coordinate system set for the operator 2 to the surface of the object W, and generates the command for the robot arm 12 based on the operation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2022Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro AZUMA, Tomoki SAKUMA, Masayuki KAMON, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA, Masahiko AKAMATSU, Takanori KOZUKI, Takanori KIRITOSHI, Jun FUJIMORI, Hiroki KINOSHITA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Kai SHIMIZU, Yoshiki NAITO
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Patent number: 12011838Abstract: A robot system according to the present disclosure includes a robot installed in a work area, a manipulator configured to be gripped by an operator and manipulate the robot, a sensor disposed at a manipulation area and configured to wirelessly detect positional information and posture information on the manipulator, and a control device which calculates a locus of the manipulator based on the positional information and the posture information on the manipulator detected by the sensor, and operates the robot on real time.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogo Hasegawa, Tetsuya Yoshida, Masayuki Kamon, Hirokazu Sugiyama, Tomofumi Okamoto
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Patent number: 11999892Abstract: A compound that helps achieve a high voltage holding ratio (VHR) of a liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal composition that contains this compound, and a liquid crystal display element made with this liquid crystal composition. More specifically, a compound represented by general formula (Y), which has polymerizable groups and polar group(s). A liquid crystal composition containing one or two or more compounds represented by general formula (Y), each of which has polymerizable groups and polar group(s). A liquid crystal display element made with a liquid crystal composition that contains one or two or more compounds represented by general formula (Y), each of which has polymerizable groups and polar group(s).Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: DIC CorporationInventors: Yuichi Inoue, Daiki Noro, Yutaka Kadomoto, Hirokazu Sugiyama, Noriyuki Sugiyama
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Patent number: 11833698Abstract: A vision system includes a robot body and a robot operation manipulator that receives inputs from an operator to manipulate the robot body. The vision system also includes a left-eye and right-eye cameras, and a display that displays parallax images for an operator. The vision system further includes an area operation manipulator that receives inputs by the operator to specify a target area to be seen three-dimensionally through the parallax images displayed on the display. The target area is located in an absolute space and is included in a portion of a field of view common between the left-eye and right-eye cameras. The vision system further includes a first controller that controls operation of the robot body, and a second controller that extracts and displays, as parallax images, images corresponding to the target area from a left-eye and right-eye capturing images captured by the left-eye and right-eye cameras, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki Kamon, Hirokazu Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20230239439Abstract: An imaging system includes: an unmanned flight vehicle; an imager that is mounted on the unmanned flight vehicle and takes an image of a robot which performs work with respect to a target object; a display structure which is located away from the unmanned flight vehicle and displays the image taken by the imager to a user who manipulates the robot; and circuitry which controls operations of the imager and the unmanned flight vehicle. The circuitry acquires operation related information that is information related to an operation of the robot. The circuitry moves the unmanned flight vehicle such that a position and direction of the imager are changed so as to correspond to the operation related information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki KAMON, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230131540Abstract: A compound that helps achieve a high voltage holding ratio (VHR) of a liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal composition that contains this compound, and a liquid crystal display element made with this liquid crystal composition. More specifically, a compound represented by general formula (Y), which has polymerizable groups and polar group(s). A liquid crystal composition containing one or two or more compounds represented by general formula (Y), each of which has polymerizable groups and polar group(s). A liquid crystal display element made with a liquid crystal composition that contains one or two or more compounds represented by general formula (Y), each of which has polymerizable groups and polar group(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: DIC CorporationInventors: Yuichi INOUE, Daiki NORO, Yutaka KADOMOTO, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA, Noriyuki SUGIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230028457Abstract: A robot system includes a robot installed in a work area and controlled by a second control device, a 3D camera operated by an operator, a sensor that is disposed in a manipulation area that is a space different from the work area, and wirelessly detects position information and posture information on the 3D camera, a display, and a first control device. The first control device acquires image information on a workpiece imaged by the 3D camera, acquires, from the sensor, the position information and the posture information when the workpiece is imaged by the 3D camera, displays the acquired image information on the display, forms a three-dimensional model of the workpiece based on the image information, and the acquired position information and posture information, displays the formed three-dimensional model on the display, and outputs first data that is data of the formed three-dimensional model to the second control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayuki KAMON, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA, Yuki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20230010975Abstract: A robot system (100) of the present disclosure includes a robot (101) installed in a workarea (201), an interface (102), a display (105), and a control device (111). When operating the robot (101) to perform a kind of work defined beforehand to a workpiece (300) based on manipulational command information on the robot (101) inputted from the interface (102), the control device (111) displays on the display (105) a spatial relationship between the workpiece (300) and the robot (101) in a state where the workpiece and the robot are seen from a direction different from a direction in which an operator looks at the robot (101) from a manipulation area (202) that is a space different from the workarea (201), based on three-dimensional model information on the workpiece (300), three-dimensional model information on the robot (101), and the manipulational command information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayuki KAMON, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA, Hidenori TANI
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Patent number: 11422410Abstract: Provided are a substrate that can exert an anchoring force causing liquid crystal molecules to be vertically aligned and a liquid crystal display device. The substrate of the present invention is to be used in contact with a liquid crystal composition containing liquid crystal molecules and an alignment aid having a polar group and having the function of causing the liquid crystal molecules to be aligned spontaneously. The substrate includes an insulating film having a contact surface to be in contact with the liquid crystal composition. The static contact angle of water on the contact surface at 25° C. is 70° or less and/or the surface free energy of the contact surface is 50 mN/m or more. The substrate is preferably a substrate in direct contact with the liquid crystal composition with no alignment film therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: DIC CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Kanda, Hirokazu Sugiyama, Shinichi Hirata
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Publication number: 20220184814Abstract: A robot system according to the present disclosure includes a robot installed in a work area, a manipulator configured to be gripped by an operator and manipulate the robot, a sensor disposed at a manipulation area and configured to wirelessly detect positional information and posture information on the manipulator, and a control device which calculates a locus of the manipulator based on the positional information and the posture information on the manipulator detected by the sensor, and operates the robot on real time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogo HASEGAWA, Tetsuya Yoshida, Masayuki KAMON, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA, Tomofumi OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20220128867Abstract: Provided are a substrate that can exert an anchoring force causing liquid crystal molecules to be vertically aligned and a liquid crystal display device. The substrate of the present invention is to be used in contact with a liquid crystal composition containing liquid crystal molecules and an alignment aid having a polar group and having the function of causing the liquid crystal molecules to be aligned spontaneously. The substrate includes an insulating film having a contact surface to be in contact with the liquid crystal composition. The static contact angle of water on the contact surface at 25° C. is 70° or less and/or the surface free energy of the contact surface is 50 mN/m or more. The substrate is preferably a substrate in direct contact with the liquid crystal composition with no alignment film therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: DIC CorporationInventors: Ryo Kanda, Hirokazu Sugiyama, Shinichi Hirata
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Patent number: 11312906Abstract: A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition excellent in vertical alignment and compatibility and to provide a liquid crystal display device produced using the same. The problem is solved by a liquid crystal composition containing one or two or more kinds of self-aligning polymerizable monomers and one or two or more kinds of polymerizable monomers (or polymerizable compounds) having a specific chemical structure, and a liquid crystal display device produced using the same, specifically a liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable monomer represented by General Formula (I) and a spontaneously aligning monomer which has a chemical structure different from that of the polymerizable monomer represented by General Formula (I), and has a polar group, and a liquid crystal display device containing the same.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: DIC CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Mamiya, Yuichi Inoue, Masaomi Kimura, Junko Yamamoto, Masanao Hayashi, Hirokazu Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20210323165Abstract: A robot system includes a robot body having a working part, a robot manipulation device used by an operator to manipulate the robot body, left and right-eye cameras configured to capture left and right-eye capturing images of a work area where the working part performs the work, a stereoscopic display unit configured to display parallax images seen three-dimensionally by the operator with both eyes, an area manipulation device operated by the operator to specify a stereoscopic vision target area to be seen three-dimensionally on the display unit, in an absolute space in a field of view common between the cameras, a robot controlling module that controls operation of the robot body according to manipulation of the robot manipulation device, a stereoscopic display controlling module that extracts images corresponding to the target area, from the left and right-eye capturing images, and display the extracted images on the stereoscopic display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki KAMON, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA
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Publication number: 20200224098Abstract: A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition excellent in vertical alignment and compatibility and to provide a liquid crystal display device produced using the same. The problem is solved by a liquid crystal composition containing one or two or more kinds of self-aligning polymerizable monomers and one or two or more kinds of polymerizable monomers (or polymerizable compounds) having a specific chemical structure, and a liquid crystal display device produced using the same, specifically a liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable monomer represented by General Formula (I) and a spontaneously aligning monomer which has a chemical structure different from that of the polymerizable monomer represented by General Formula (I), and has a polar group, and a liquid crystal display device containing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: DIC CorporationInventors: Junichi Mamiya, Yuichi Inoue, Masaomi Kimura, Junko Yamamoto, Masanao Hayashi, Hirokazu Sugiyama
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Patent number: 10616394Abstract: A cordless telephone that establishes a call with a telephone of a destination via a base unit includes a controller and a radio unit. The controller modulates control data for controlling radio communication and voice data to be transmitted to the telephone, and stores a modulation control signal of the control data and a modulation voice signal of the voice data in a half slot of a Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) system. The radio unit transmits, by radio, the half slot to the base unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishihara, Akira Shibuta, Hirokazu Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20190387090Abstract: A cordless telephone that establishes a call with a telephone of a destination via a base unit includes a controller and a radio unit. The controller modulates control data for controlling radio communication and voice data to be transmitted to the telephone, and stores a modulation control signal of the control data and a modulation voice signal of the voice data in a half slot of a Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) system. The radio unit transmits, by radio, the half slot to the base unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Akira SHIBUTA, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA
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Publication number: 20190203309Abstract: This H section includes, as a chemical composition, C, Si, Mn, Nb, V, Ti, and N; in which the H section includes, as a metallographic structure, ferrite of 60 area % to less than 100 area %, an average grain size of this ferrite is 1 ?m to 30 ?m, a thickness of a flange is 20 mm to 140 mm, tensile yield stress is 385 MPa to 530 MPa, and Charpy absorbed energy at ?20° C. is 100 J or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki MIZOGUCHI, Kazutoshi ICHIKAWA, Hirokazu SUGIYAMA, Tetsuya SEIKE
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Patent number: 10280476Abstract: An H-section steel has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a Mg-containing oxide having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.005 ?m to 0.5 ?m is contained at a total number density of 100 pieces/mm2 to 5000 pieces/mm2, a thickness of a flange is 100 mm to 150 mm, at a strength evaluation portion which is at a ? position from a surface of the flange in a length direction and at a ¼ position from the surface in a thickness direction, a fraction of bainite in a steel structure is 80% or more, and the average prior austenite grain size is 70 ?m or more, and at a toughness evaluation portion which is at a ½ position from the surface of the flange in the length direction and at a ¾ position from the surface of the flange in the thickness direction, the average prior austenite grain size in a steel structure is 200 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Masaki Mizoguchi, Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Kazuaki Mitsuyasu, Hirokazu Sugiyama
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Patent number: 10149297Abstract: Data is transferred between a DECT terminal and an LTE base station. A base unit includes a DECT communication unit and an LTE communication unit, the DECT communication unit performing DECT communication with a DECT terminal, and the LTE communication unit transmitting and receiving data with the DECT communication unit and performing LTE communication with an LTE carrier gateway through an LTE base station. The DECT communication unit, in a case where an adjacent frequency bandwidth that is adjacent to one of DECT communication sub-bands is used in the LTE communication, controls the DECT communication to be performed by using the other sub-band.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishihara, Akira Shibuta, Shinji Ikegami, Hirokazu Sugiyama, Takashi Enoki, Kazuhide Shibata, Masayuki Nagano