Patents by Inventor Hisato Sawanami

Hisato Sawanami 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: 20240140768
    Abstract: A lifting and lowering movement control system for controlling an automatic conveyance vehicle configured to move with an article loaded thereon and a lifting and lowering device configured to move up and down in a state in which the automatic conveyance vehicle is on board, the system includes a lifting and lowering relevant information acquisition section configured to acquire lifting and lowering relevant information relating to the lifting and lowering device scheduled to be boarded by the automatic conveyance vehicle, and a movement control section configured to set a movement path to the lifting and lowering device scheduled to be boarded based on the lifting and lowering relevant information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichiro KITO, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Takeshi SATO, Hisato SAWANAMI, Takuya ODA
  • Publication number: 20240061437
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided a moving body including a holding device configured to hold a cargo, a driving device configured to move the moving body, a detection device configured to detect a parameter relating to a stable degree of the cargo in the holding device when the moving body is moving, and a control device configured to determine whether a state of the cargo is stable using the parameter relating to the stable degree, and to perform stabilization control in which the driving device is controlled such that the state of the cargo is stable when it is determined that the state of the cargo is not stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato SAWANAMI, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Takuya ODA
  • Publication number: 20240051751
    Abstract: A moving body of the present disclosure is a moving body for placing a loading object on a loading platform and transporting the loading object, and the moving body includes a driving device configured to move the moving body, and a control device configured to set at least one of speed and acceleration/deceleration of the moving body based on a parameter related to at least one of a mass, a size, a shape, and a center of gravity of the loading object, and control the driving device based on at least one of the set speed and acceleration/deceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji KAWAGUCHI, Daniel BROWN, Hisato SAWANAMI, Shohei SHIRAKI
  • Publication number: 20240051418
    Abstract: A charging system for charging a battery of an automatic conveyance vehicle configured to automatically convey an article includes a temperature acquisition section configured to acquire a temperature when charging the battery, and a control section configured to control power supply of the automatic conveyance vehicle when charging the battery based on the temperature acquired by the temperature acquisition section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichiro KITO, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Hisato SAWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20240013145
    Abstract: A conveyance system for automatically conveying a product to a sales floor of a store includes a storage section that stores display shelf information including a layout of a display shelf provided in the sales floor and a type of a product to be displayed on the display shelf, a setting section that sets association information in which a product is associated with at least one of the display shelf that is a display destination of the product and a predetermined position in a vicinity including a front of the display shelf based on the display shelf information, a movement object that automatically conveys a product, and a control section that causes the movement object so as to automatically convey and place a product delivered to the store or a product delivered to the store and stored in a backyard of the store to the predetermined position based on the display shelf information and the association information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisato SAWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20230393580
    Abstract: An automatic moving device according to the present disclosure is an automatic moving device that is used in a delivery system for delivering an article and automatically moves the article. The automatic moving device includes a driving section configured to drive a wheel, a detection section configured to detect an obstacle of a road surface, and a control section configured to control the driving section so that the automatic moving device is moved in an oblique direction with respect to a groove when the groove is detected as the obstacle of the road surface, and control the driving section so that the automatic moving device is moved in a direction orthogonal to a step when the step is detected as the obstacle of the road surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato SAWANAMI, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Takuya ODA
  • Publication number: 20230312248
    Abstract: A control device according to the present disclosure is used in a delivery system having an automatic movement device that automatically moves an article inside a specific space and delivering the article. The control device includes a storage section configured to store schedule information including at least one of change information including a change region in which a movable region of the automatic movement device is changed in the specific space and a change time at which the region is changed, and operation information including an operation time at which the automatic movement device starts operating; and a processing control section configured to perform processing of preparing a new usage map by adding a change to a reference map of the specific space, based on the schedule information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya ODA, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Hisato SAWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20230306356
    Abstract: A control device according to the present disclosure is used in a delivery system that uses a transporter for accommodating a carriage on which an article is loaded in a cargo chamber and delivering the carriage to deliver the article to an accommodation chamber in which multiple carriages are disposed. The control device includes a storage section configured to store correspondence information in which identification information on the article, identification information on the carriage on which the article is loaded, and information on a disposition position of the carriage disposed in the accommodation chamber are associated with each other, and a management control section configured to manage a movement of the article by using the correspondence information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato SAWANAMI, Koji KAWAGUCHI, Takuya ODA
  • Publication number: 20230234778
    Abstract: A cart alignment device of the present disclosure is used in a delivery system that delivers an article using a cart including a loading section for loading articles and a caster disposed in the loading section and having wheels capable of changing a movement direction of the loading section. The cart alignment device includes a rail member configured to guide the caster of the cart in a predetermined arrangement direction, and a disposition section configured to dispose and fix the rail member in a collection chamber for accommodating one or more carts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji KAWAGUCHI, Hisato SAWANAMI, Takuya ODA
  • Patent number: 11051439
    Abstract: A power supply control device for controlling a consumption current supplied from a power supply device to a tape feeder loaded on a component supply device, the component supply device being exchangeably loaded with multiple of the tape feeders, the power supply control device including: a consumption current acquiring section configured to acquire the consumption current corresponding to a state of the multiple tape feeders; a total consumption current calculating section configured to calculate a total consumption current that is a total of each of the consumption currents of the multiple tape feeders; and an operation controlling section configured to control the specified operation of the multiple tape feeders within a range in which the total consumption current does not exceed an output current capacity of the power supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Fukaya, Kazuya Matsuyama, Hisato Sawanami, Toru Takahama
  • Patent number: 10939518
    Abstract: A component-mounting machine including an LED lighting device configured to illuminate an imaging target that is to be imaged by a camera loaded on the component-mounting machine; and an illumination light amount adjusting device configured to adjust in steps with a specified gradation quantity an illumination light amount of the LED lighting device. The LED lighting device uses two types of LED elements with different brightness levels, and the illumination light amount adjusting device is configured to adjust in steps with a specified gradation quantity a pulse width or a current value of a current flowing through low-brightness LED elements that are the LED elements with a lower brightness level out of the two types of LED elements so as to adjust in steps with a specified gradation quantity an emitted light amount of the low-brightness LED elements while maintaining a specified level of illumination light amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisato Sawanami
  • Patent number: 10874041
    Abstract: A power supply control device that controls consumption currents that are supplied from power supply devices in a component supply device in which multiple tape feeders are replaceably installed, the device including: a total consumption current measuring section that obtains, based on measurement, a total consumption current by adding actual consumption currents which are supplied to a plurality of tape feeders; and an overcurrent protection section that causes a specific tape feeder, which is in an operation state, to transition to a stop state or a standby state, in a case of an overcurrent state where the total consumption current exceeds an output current capacity of the power supply device. Accordingly, even though the overcurrent state occurs during setup changing work in which the multiple tape feeders can operate, the overcurrent state is rapidly canceled, and thus a protecting function is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Matsuyama, Yoshiyuki Fukaya, Hisato Sawanami
  • Publication number: 20200221551
    Abstract: A component-mounting machine including an LED lighting device configured to illuminate an imaging target that is to be imaged by a camera loaded on the component-mounting machine; and an illumination light amount adjusting device configured to adjust in steps with a specified gradation quantity an illumination light amount of the LED lighting device. The LED lighting device uses two types of LED elements with different brightness levels, and the illumination light amount adjusting device is configured to adjust in steps with a specified gradation quantity a pulse width or a current value of a current flowing through low-brightness LED elements that are the LED elements with a lower brightness level out of the two types of LED elements so as to adjust in steps with a specified gradation quantity an emitted light amount of the low-brightness LED elements while maintaining a specified level of illumination light amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisato SAWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20180332749
    Abstract: A power supply control device that controls consumption currents that are supplied from power supply devices in a component supply device in which multiple tape feeders are replaceably installed, the device including: a total consumption current measuring section that obtains, based on measurement, a total consumption current by adding actual consumption currents which are supplied to a plurality of tape feeders; and an overcurrent protection section that causes a specific tape feeder, which is in an operation state, to transition to a stop state or a standby state, in a case of an overcurrent state where the total consumption current exceeds an output current capacity of the power supply device. Accordingly, even though the overcurrent state occurs during setup changing work in which the multiple tape feeders can operate, the overcurrent state is rapidly canceled, and thus a protecting function is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya MATSUYAMA, Yoshiyuki FUKAYA, Hisato SAWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20180332746
    Abstract: A power supply control device for controlling a consumption current supplied from a power supply device to a tape feeder loaded on a component supply device, the component supply device being exchangeably loaded with multiple of the tape feeders, the power supply control device including: a consumption current acquiring section configured to acquire the consumption current corresponding to a state of the multiple tape feeders; a total consumption current calculating section configured to calculate a total consumption current that is a total of each of the consumption currents of the multiple tape feeders; and an operation controlling section configured to control the specified operation of the multiple tape feeders within a range in which the total consumption current does not exceed an output current capacity of the power supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki FUKAYA, Kazuya MATSUYAMA, Hisato SAWANAMI, Toru TAKAHAMA
  • Publication number: 20130286264
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including an image generator, a translucent mirror configured to reflect at least a portion of light emitted from the image generator and to emit the reflected light toward an outside of a housing, and an image sensor configured to receive light transmitted through the translucent mirror among light incident from the outside of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki KAMIKURA, Yoshihisa Tsuchida, Hisato Sawanami