Patents by Inventor Hiroya YAMADA

Hiroya YAMADA 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).

  • Patent number: 12173830
    Abstract: Provided is a pipe interior inspection robot that has characteristics of having an extremely simple device structure to easily achieve dustproof and waterproof properties, being able to pass through a pipe bent in any direction, and enabling the selection of the advancing direction. A pipe interior inspection robot for inspecting the inside of a pipe branched from a pipe header, the robot including: 1) a moving means having a structure capable of being introduced from a pipe base, which is an inlet of the pipe header, and capable of moving in the pipe header and being fixed to a pipe wall inside the pipe header at a desired position; 2) a mechanism for specifying a position of a pipe to be inspected; and 3) a mechanism for inspecting a condition inside the pipe to be inspected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: EBARA ENVIRONMENTAL PLANT CO., LTD, HIBOT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroya Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240308064
    Abstract: With the purpose of realizing a robot arm that achieves both lightness of weight and ease of maintenance, and that has a long reach, a robot arm (100) is provided with a pneumatic cylinder (102) that pulls in a wire (104), and a movable pulley (105) that amplifies a force generated by the pneumatic cylinder (102) and that transmits the force by the wire (104), wherein the robot arm (100) is connected to a joint (103) that is driven by the force amplified by the movable pulley (105). An articulated robot arm can be realized by serially connecting a plurality of the robot arms (100) and arranging joints between the plurality of robot arms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: HIBOT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroya YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220057040
    Abstract: Provided is a pipe interior inspection robot that has characteristics of having an extremely simple device structure to easily achieve dustproof and waterproof properties, being able to pass through a pipe bent in any direction, and enabling the selection of the advancing direction. A pipe interior inspection robot for inspecting the inside of a pipe branched from a pipe header, the robot including: 1) a moving means having a structure capable of being introduced from a pipe base, which is an inlet of the pipe header, and capable of moving in the pipe header and being fixed to a pipe wall inside the pipe header at a desired position; 2) a mechanism for specifying a position of a pipe to be inspected; and 3) a mechanism for inspecting a condition inside the pipe to be inspected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicants: EBARA Environmental Plant Co., Ltd., HIBOT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroya YAMADA