Patents by Inventor Junichi OKATANI

Junichi OKATANI 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: 10213888
    Abstract: There is provided a chip sweeping robot which is capable of possessing adaptability to various machine tools and automatically sweeping a wide range efficiently. To this end, a chip sweeping robot configured to sweep chips, which are scattered on an upper surface of a table of a machine tool at the time of machining a workpiece attached to the table, by traveling in accordance with a travel route set on the upper surface, includes: a robot body which autonomously travels on the upper surface; a rotating brush which sweeps the chips out forward in a traveling direction by being rotated from a lower side to an upper side forward in the traveling direction; and a blade which scoops out the chips, which pass through the rotating brush, forward in the traveling direction and sends the chips to a rotating region of the rotating brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINE TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Junichi Okatani
  • Publication number: 20160311076
    Abstract: There is provided a chip sweeping robot which is capable of possessing adaptability to various machine tools and automatically sweeping a wide range efficiently. To this end, a chip sweeping robot configured to sweep chips, which are scattered on an upper surface of a table of a machine tool at the time of machining a workpiece attached to the table, by traveling in accordance with a travel route set on the upper surface, includes: a robot body which autonomously travels on the upper surface; a rotating brush which sweeps the chips out forward in a traveling direction by being rotated from a lower side to an upper side forward in the traveling direction; and a blade which scoops out the chips, which pass through the rotating brush, forward in the traveling direction and sends the chips to a rotating region of the rotating brush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINE TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Junichi OKATANI