Patents by Inventor Ippei Kono
Ippei Kono 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: 12283038Abstract: Provided is a tool wear monitoring device configured to input a plurality of pieces of image data captured with a microscope camera while changing an angle, and to monitor tool wear. The tool wear monitoring device includes a data analysis unit configured to analyze image data. The data analysis unit binarizes the plurality of pieces of image data captured while changing an angle, extracts data in which a worn region has a maximum area among the plurality of pieces of image data, and analyzes the amount of wear from the extracted data with the maximum area.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Nishikawa, Yasushi Sano, Ippei Kono
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Patent number: 12030148Abstract: The present invention provides a technology for generating an NC program which can secure appropriate machining accuracy. Provided is a conversion computer 10 which includes a CPU 11 and generates an NC program for a turning process for a workpiece on a lathe, wherein the CPU 11 is configured to generate an NC program such that displacements caused for a workpiece to be processed on a plurality of machining positions at a time of a turning process are calculated, on the basis of the displacements caused for the workpiece on the plurality of machining positions, a movement path of a tool to be used at the time of the turning process is decided, and the tool is moved through the decided movement path.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Ippei Kono, Kohei Kaiho, Koji Utsumi, Eiji Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20230096031Abstract: A numerical control (NC) program is converted regardless of a machining form of a workpiece. An NC program conversion processing method is an NC program conversion processing method for converting a conversion source NC program that controls a first machining center into a conversion destination NC program that controls a second machining center, which includes: a determination step of determining a machining form of a workpiece by the conversion source NC program; a decision step of deciding a correction method to be one-direction correction or two-direction correction according to the determined machining form of the workpiece; and a conversion step of converting the conversion source NC program into the conversion destination NC program using the decided correction method.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Yasutaka KEDO, Ippei KONO, Akihiro YOSHIDA, Koji UTSUMI
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Patent number: 11561527Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to convert an NC program used for one processing into an NC program capable of securing appropriate processing accuracy in another processing machine. Provided is an NC program conversion process method by a conversion system which converts a conversion source NC program for executing a processing in a conversion source processing machine into a conversion destination NC program for executing a processing in a conversion destination processing machine, wherein an input of information relating to (1) stiffness of the conversion destination processing machine or (2) stiffness of the tool included in a conversion destination toolset is received, and on the basis of the received information relating to the stiffness, a conversion source NC program 1424 is converted into a conversion destination NC program 1425.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Sakamoto, Ippei Kono
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Publication number: 20230008435Abstract: Provided is a tool wear monitoring device configured to input a plurality of pieces of image data captured with a microscope camera while changing an angle, and to monitor tool wear. The tool wear monitoring device includes a data analysis unit configured to analyze image data. The data analysis unit binarizes the plurality of pieces of image data captured while changing an angle, extracts data in which a worn region has a maximum area among the plurality of pieces of image data, and analyzes the amount of wear from the extracted data with the maximum area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Kenji NISHIKAWA, Yasushi SANO, Ippei KONO
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Publication number: 20220276631Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to convert an NC program used for one processing into an NC program capable of securing appropriate processing accuracy in another processing machine. Provided is an NC program conversion process method by a conversion system which converts a conversion source NC program for executing a processing in a conversion source processing machine into a conversion destination NC program for executing a processing in a conversion destination processing machine, wherein an input of information relating to (1) stiffness of the conversion destination processing machine or (2) stiffness of the tool included in a conversion destination toolset is received, and on the basis of the received information relating to the stiffness, a conversion source NC program 1424 is converted into a conversion destination NC program 1425.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Eiji SAKAMOTO, Ippei KONO
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Publication number: 20220258296Abstract: The present invention provides a technology for generating an NC program which can secure appropriate machining accuracy. Provided is a conversion computer 10 which includes a CPU 11 and generates an NC program for a turning process for a workpiece on a lathe, wherein the CPU 11 is configured to generate an NC program such that displacements caused for a workpiece to be processed on a plurality of machining positions at a time of a turning process are calculated, on the basis of the displacements caused for the workpiece on the plurality of machining positions, a movement path of a tool to be used at the time of the turning process is decided, and the tool is moved through the decided movement path.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ippei KONO, Kohei KAIHO, Koji UTSUMI, Eiji SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11340581Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to convert an NC program used for one processing into an NC program capable of securing appropriate processing accuracy in another processing machine. Provided is an NC program conversion process method by a conversion system which converts a conversion source NC program for executing a processing in a conversion source processing machine into a conversion destination NC program for executing a processing in a conversion destination processing machine, wherein an input of information relating to (1) stiffness of the conversion destination processing machine or (2) stiffness of the tool included in a conversion destination toolset is received, and on the basis of the received information relating to the stiffness, a conversion source NC program 1424 is converted into a conversion destination NC program 1425.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Sakamoto, Ippei Kono
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Publication number: 20210356932Abstract: Provided is a technique for converting an NC program into an NC program capable of ensuring appropriate precision in working while avoiding the occurrence of differences in levels caused by correction during the cutting of a cut surface of a workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Ippei KONO, Koji UTSUMI, Eiji SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210311456Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to convert an NC program used for one processing into an NC program capable of securing appropriate processing accuracy in another processing machine. Provided is an NC program conversion process method by a conversion system which converts a conversion source NC program for executing a processing in a conversion source processing machine into a conversion destination NC program for executing a processing in a conversion destination processing machine, wherein an input of information relating to (1) stiffness of the conversion destination processing machine or (2) stiffness of the tool included in a conversion destination toolset is received, and on the basis of the received information relating to the stiffness, a conversion source NC program 1424 is converted into a conversion destination NC program 1425.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Eiji SAKAMOTO, Ippei KONO
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Patent number: 9919365Abstract: A side milling cutter for slot cutting is provided whose vibration can be damped even in cases where a vibration mode of the cutter generates plural nodes in a cutting part. A side milling cutter for slot cutting of the present invention includes a disc-shaped cutter and a plurality of cartridges as cutting edges provided at a predefined interval in a circumferential direction along an outer circumference of the disc-shaped cutter. The disc-shaped cutter cuts a predefined slot on a workpiece using the cartridges by circumferentially rotating. The disc-shaped cutter internally includes a plurality of vibration damping structures in the circumferential direction on a disk surface of the disc-shaped cutter.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignees: Misubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.Inventors: Takayuki Miyamoto, Kenji Nishikawa, Ippei Kono, Junichi Hirai, Masanori Kawakami, Nobuhisa Kanamaru, Hitoshi Tohkairin
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Publication number: 20150165531Abstract: A side milling cutter for slot cutting is provided whose vibration can be damped even in cases where a vibration mode of the cutter generates plural nodes in a cutting part. A side milling cutter for slot cutting of the present invention includes a disc-shaped cutter and a plurality of cartridges as cutting edges provided at a predefined interval in a circumferential direction along an outer circumference of the disc-shaped cutter. The disc-shaped cutter cuts a predefined slot on a workpiece using the cartridges by circumferentially rotating. The disc-shaped cutter internally includes a plurality of vibration damping structures in the circumferential direction on a disk surface of the disc-shaped cutter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Takayuki MIYAMOTO, Kenji NISHIKAWA, Ippei KONO, Junichi HIRAI, Masanori KAWAKAMI, Nobuhisa KANAMARU, Hitoshi TOHKAIRIN
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Publication number: 20100129169Abstract: A corner portion working tool includes: a main body portion 4 having a space 5 through which a cutting fluid can pass; and a blade portion 8 that is provided in the main body portion 4 and can be displaced outwardly of the main body portion 4, wherein the blade portion 8 is displaced outwardly of the main body portion 4 according to a change in hydrostatic pressure of the cutting fluid having passed through the space 5, and the main body portion 4 is rotated to work a corner portion with the blade portion 8. Thus, the corner portion working tool brings the blade portion for deburring or corner portion shape forming into contact with only a hole end surface, does not reduce quality of an inner wall surface of a hole, does not select a proper rotation condition, and easily performs deburring or corner portion shape forming.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Kyoi, Hideaki Onozuka, Koji Utsumi, Ippei Kono