Patents by Inventor Katsuaki OKUMA

Katsuaki OKUMA 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: 20240123537
    Abstract: An offline teaching device provided with an acquisition unit for acquiring first production data about a workpiece to be produced, and a teaching program creation unit for acquiring a first weld line of the workpiece from the first production data, and creating and outputting a first welding teaching program for executing welding by means of a welding robot, and a first inspection teaching program for executing an inspection of a weld bead, wherein, on the basis of a second weld line, a second welding teaching program for a workpiece to be produced using second production data and a second inspection teaching program are created and output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Katsuaki OKUMA, Masaya HIRAYAMA, Yoshiyuki OKAZKI
  • Publication number: 20240123625
    Abstract: An offline teaching device include an input unit that receives an operator operation, an acquisition unit that acquires three-dimensional shape data of a workpiece, an operation trajectory of the welding, and a scanning range of a sensor; a generation unit that generates three-dimensional regions to be scanned by the sensor based on the acquired scanning range and a scanning section; and a control unit that disposes at least one of the three-dimensional regions on the three-dimensional shape data of the workpiece based on the operator operation input to the input unit, and that creates and outputs, to a welding robot that performs the welding, a teaching program for scanning the three-dimensional region based on the disposed three-dimensional region and the operation trajectory of the welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Masaya HIRAYAMA, Yoshiyuki OKAZAKI, Katsuaki OKUMA
  • Publication number: 20230264302
    Abstract: A repair welding segment detection method includes generating, based on a result of the inspection determination, shape mismatch data obtained by extracting a shape mismatch portion of the weld bead, dividing the shape mismatch data into N. where N is an integer of 2 or more, equally divided windows in a direction perpendicular to a welding direction of the weld bead, setting a shift region formed by i, where i: an integer of 1 or more, continuous windows among the N windows, separately calculating volumes of (N-i+1) shift regions obtained by shifting one by one the i windows forming the shift region in the welding direction, and determining that a shift region having a volume of a predetermined value or more among the calculated volumes of the (N-i+1) respective shift regions is a defective segment of the weld bead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: Katsuaki OKUMA
  • Publication number: 20220412728
    Abstract: A bead appearance inspection device includes an input unit configured to enter input data related to a welding bead of a workpiece produced by welding, and a determination unit configured to perform an inspection determination related to a shape of the welding bead based on the input data. The determination unit determines which of a range of a value indicating a non-defective product zone, a range of a value indicating a gray zone, and a range of a value indicating a defective product zone a value obtained from the input data belongs to. The range of the value indicating the gray zone is between the range of the value indicating the non-defective product zone and the range of the value indicating the defective product zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Katsuaki OKUMA, Kazuyuki NAKASHIMA, Teruaki NISHINAKA
  • Publication number: 20220410323
    Abstract: A bead appearance inspection device includes an input unit configured to enter input data related to a welding bead of a workpiece produced by welding, a first determination unit configured to perform a first inspection determination related to a shape of the welding bead based on a comparison between the input data and a master data, k second determination units, where k is an integer of 1 or more, that are equipped with k types of artificial intelligence and that are configured to perform a second inspection determination related to a welding defect of the welding bead based on processings of the k types of artificial intelligence targeting the input data, and a comprehensive determination unit configured to output a result of an appearance inspection of the welding bead to an output device based on determination results of the first determination unit and the k second determination units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuki HANADA, Katsuaki OKUMA, Toshinari MOHRI, Takamichi KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20220410322
    Abstract: A bead appearance inspection device includes an acquisition unit that acquires input data related to a welding bead, a storage unit that stores a first determination standard and a second determination standard used for an inspection of a defect of the welding bead, a first determination unit that executes a first inspection determination on the welding bead, and k second determination units, where k is an integer of 1 or more, that execute a second inspection determination on the welding bead. An appearance inspection result of the welding bead is created and output by using a determination result indicating whether a first inspection result acquired by the first inspection determination satisfies the first determination standard and a determination result indicating whether a second inspection result satisfies the second determination standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Toshinari MOHRI, Shoriki NARITA, Katsuaki OKUMA, Takamichi KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20220297246
    Abstract: A repair welding device includes an inspection result acquisition unit configured to acquire an appearance inspection result including information about a defective portion of a weld bead of a welded workpiece produced by a main welding that is executed by a welding robot, and a robot control unit configured to instruct the welding robot to execute a repair welding on a position of the defective portion using the appearance inspection result based on a relationship between the position of the defective portion and a predetermined width related to the weld bead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Katsuaki OKUMA, Ryutaro MONDEN
  • Publication number: 20220297241
    Abstract: A repair welding device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an appearance inspection result including information about a position of a defective portion of a weld bead of a welded workpiece produced by a main welding that is executed by a welding robot, and a robot control unit configured to set a plurality of interpolation points on a virtual welding line of the main welding executed by the welding robot and instruct the welding robot to execute a repair welding on an interpolation point that is closest to the acquired position of the defective portion. The virtual welding line is simulated based on a main welding program for executing the main welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventor: Katsuaki OKUMA
  • Publication number: 20220097178
    Abstract: A repair welding control device includes a memory that stores instructions and a processor that executes the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to perform acquiring information indicating a range of a defective portion in main welding of a workpiece, and determining a repair welding start point indicating a start point of repair welding and a repair welding end point indicating an end point of the repair welding such that a repair welding range includes all the range of the defective portion and a range wider than the range of the defective portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Toshinari MOHRI, Takamichi KOMATSU, Katsuaki OKUMA