Patents by Inventor Hiromu Wakayama
Hiromu Wakayama 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: 20220410399Abstract: This robot system includes: an automated guided vehicle that includes a support surface and automatically travels; a robot cell including a seat surface to be mounted on the support surface, a ground contact portion protruding downward from the seat surface so as to contact with a ground, an articulated arm, and a robot controller that controls operation of the articulated arm; and a switching mechanism that performs switching between a transferable state in which the seat surface is mounted on the support surface and the ground contact portion is separated from the ground, and a placed state in which the seat surface is separated from the support surface and the ground contact portion contacts with the ground.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eiji YOSHIKUWA, Toshiyuki TSUJIMORI, Hideshi YAMANE, Shoichi MIYAO, Yoshihiro OKAZAKI, Ryoichi KITAGUCHI, Yuichi OTSUJI, Masayoshi HOSHI, Atsuhiro TAKAMATSU, Masamitsu YOSHIDA, Shigetomo MATSUI, Hiromu WAKAYAMA, Kanji MATSUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20220255318Abstract: A power supply system includes a movable power supply device including a first power storage device, a robot including a second power storage device, and a controller, and the controller performs control for conveying the first power storage device to the robot by using the power supply device, on the basis of information about an amount of power stored in the second power storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicants: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nakanishi Metal Works Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiji YOSHIKUWA, Toshiyuki TSUJIMORI, Hideshi YAMANE, Shoichi MIYAO, Yoshihiro OKAZAKI, Ryoichi KITAGUCHI, Yuichi OTSUJI, Masayoshi HOSHI, Shigetomo MATSUI, Kanji MATSUSHIMA, Hiromu WAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20220236743Abstract: A power supply system includes: a robot including a power storage device; a movable power supply device; and a controller. The power supply device includes a first electrical connector which is electrically connectable to a second electrical connector of the robot and which is electrically connected to a power supply source via a wire, and the controller performs control for electrically connecting the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector and supplying power to the robot, on the basis of information about an amount of power stored in the power storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicants: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, NAKANISHI METAL WORKS CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji YOSHIKUWA, Toshiyuki TSUJIMORI, Hideshi YAMANE, Shoichi MIYAO, Yoshihiro OKAZAKI, Ryoichi KITAGUCHI, Yuichi OTSUJI, Masayoshi HOSHI, Shigetomo MATSUI, Kanji MATSUSHIMA, Hiromu WAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20210198090Abstract: A traveling robot includes: a traveling body including a truck and a drive unit, the truck including front and rear wheels and a floor frame, the drive unit being configured to rotate the wheels; a support mechanism configured to raise or lower a holding tool configured to support a mounting plate; and a picking robot configured to load a cargo onto the mounting plate or unload the cargo from the mounting plate. The drive unit is mounted on the floor frame, and the floor frame includes a projecting portion projecting forward from a portion on which the drive unit is mounted. The support mechanism is attached to a front end portion of the projecting portion. The picking robot is provided at the projecting portion, is arranged between the support mechanism and the drive unit in a front-rear direction, and is arranged on or behind an imaginary vertical line passing through a front axle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicants: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nakanishi Metal Works Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji BANDO, Eiji YOSHIKUWA, Masayuki WATANABE, Toshiyuki TSUJIMORI, Hideshi YAMANE, Shoichi MIYAO, Tianfen XU, Shunichi TANIGUCHI, Yoshihiro OKAZAKI, Ryoichi KITAGUCHI, Yuichi OTSUJI, Masayoshi HOSHI, Shigetomo MATSUI, Kanji MATSUSHIMA, Hiromu WAKAYAMA
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Patent number: 5214748Abstract: A robot teaching/playback system for controlling a robot which performs an operation on a work turned by a turntable and also controls the turntable, including a common controlling means for controlling the turntable and robot, teaching means for storing in a memory a set of robot working data and taught turntable rotational position data for each of divisional rotational regions into which the turntable is divided, and playback means for interpolating robot working data and turntable rotational position data between each adjacent ones of the divisional rotational regions in accordance with the robot working data and taught turntable rotational position data stored for each of the divisional rotational regions and for causing the common controlling means to control the robot and turntable in accordance with the interpolated data.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1991Date of Patent: May 25, 1993Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Hiromu Wakayama, Hideki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 4182042Abstract: A marking device is described which includes a guide post having a guide surface and inclined to the vertical plane, a horizontal arm carried by the guide post and movable up and down along said guide surface, a detector for detecting the material on which the marking is to be effected and carried by the horizontal arm, movable back and forth in the direction perpendicular to the material, a crosshead movable along the length of the horizontal arm, a marking head carried by the crosshead movable in the direction perpendicular to the direction in which the crosshead, is moved and a marking member carried by the marking head, movable in the direction perpendicular to the directions in which the crosshead and the marking head are moved, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1978Date of Patent: January 8, 1980Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Kazunori Konishi, Hiromu Wakayama, Toshihiro Nagatani, Fumio Eto