Patents by Inventor Kaoru KITAJIMA

Kaoru KITAJIMA 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: 20260219655
    Abstract: A production line planning device, for planning a production line for a product, stores product operation information, operation facility correspondence information, component classification information, and facility common ID information. A process planning variable calculation unit configured to, when the operation included in the product operation information matches the operation included in the operation facility correspondence information, add the operation, the facility, and a decision variable to process planning variable information in a case where the facility included in the matched operation facility correspondence information is not included in the reference facility in the facility common ID information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2025
    Publication date: July 30, 2026
    Inventors: Kaoru KITAJIMA, Takahiro NAKANO, Daisuke TSUTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20250381671
    Abstract: An equipment layout adjustment system includes a calculation device and a storage device. The storage device holds position and posture constraint information indicating a constraint on a position and a posture of an object. The object includes at least a robot, a work target object that is a target on which the robot performs work, and a work-related object that constrains a position and a posture of the work target object. The calculation device selects, based on the position and posture constraint information, a decision variable to be subjected to calculation for optimization of an objective function of evaluating an operation of the robot from among variables indicating the position and the posture of the object, calculates a trajectory of the robot based on the decision variable, and specifies, based on the calculated trajectory of the robot, a value of the decision variable so as to optimize the objective function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2025
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Kaoru KITAJIMA, Daisuke TSUTSUMI, Hiroki TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20250370441
    Abstract: A process planning device includes a data storage unit configured to store product information, operation information, and facility element information, in which combination record information of facilities configuring units of operation of a process is stored in the data storage unit, a desired combination of facilities is narrowed down based on the combination record information from candidates of combinations of facilities configuring each of the units of operation, operation time and amount of facility cost for each of the narrowed combinations of facilities are calculated based on the stored facility element information and the stored operation information, the combination of facilities having a predetermined threshold or less is selected based on the calculated operation time and the calculated amount of facility cost, and a facility sharable in the unit of operation corresponding to the combination of facilities is selected based on a plurality of the selected combinations of facilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: Toshihiro MORISAWA, Takahiro NAKANO, Daiki KAJITA, Shota UMEDA, Daisuke TSUTSUMI, Kaoru KITAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20250335650
    Abstract: A production line design system stores: facility information that indicates facilities used in a production line of an object product and arrangement levels of regions in which the facilities are respectively arranged, in which the regions have an inclusion relationship, and arrangement restriction information that defines the arrangement restriction of the facilities by dividing arrangement restriction of the facilities into restriction levels that correspond to the regions that have the inclusion relationship. The production line design system extracts a facility arrangement possible area in the respective arrangement levels based on the facility information and the arrangement restriction information, and the decides an arrangement pattern candidate of the facilities with respect to the extracted respective arrangement possible areas based on the facility information and the arrangement restriction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2025
    Publication date: October 30, 2025
    Inventors: Daisuke TSUTSUMI, Kaoru KITAJIMA
  • Patent number: 12220824
    Abstract: A correction device includes: a measurement point generation unit configured to generate a plurality of candidate points corresponding to posture of a robot within a movable range of the robot based on robot mechanism model information representing a mechanism of the robot and end effector information concerning an end effector installed in the robot, and determine, among the generated plurality of candidate points, a candidate point at which joint torque ? of each joint of the robot in the posture corresponding to each candidate point is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold as a measurement point; and a parameter identification unit configured to calculate a position error between a calculated position and a measured position of the end effector in the posture corresponding to the measurement point and identify mechanism error parameters so that the calculated position error is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Maeda, Kaoru Kitajima
  • Publication number: 20230321836
    Abstract: A correction device includes: a measurement point generation unit configured to generate a plurality of candidate points corresponding to posture of a robot within a movable range of the robot based on robot mechanism model information representing a mechanism of the robot and end effector information concerning an end effector installed in the robot, and determine, among the generated plurality of candidate points, a candidate point at which joint torque ? of each joint of the robot in the posture corresponding to each candidate point is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold as a measurement point; and a parameter identification unit configured to calculate a position error between a calculated position and a measured position of the end effector in the posture corresponding to the measurement point and identify mechanism error parameters so that the calculated position error is minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Masaaki MAEDA, Kaoru KITAJIMA