Patents by Inventor Kenji Sugiyama

Kenji Sugiyama 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: 20210233226
    Abstract: A component mounter images suction states of components picked up by a suction nozzle, processes images of the suction states of the components to recognize the suction state of the component, and stores the images in a storage device with linking production information related to the components. An inspection machine images a mounted state of each component on a board, processes an image of mounted state of each component to recognize the mounted state of each component, and inspects whether a mounting error occurred for each component based on the recognition result. The inspection machine determines that a mounting error occurred for any of the components the image of the mounted state of the component for which a mounting error was determined to have occurred and a searched image of the suction state of the component are displayed on the display monitor in a comparative manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji SUGIYAMA, Shuichiro KITO, Hiroshi OIKE
  • Patent number: 11053565
    Abstract: A post-heating treatment device performs a post-heating treatment for a welded section of a rail, after an induction heating coil is automatically disposed at a predetermined position based on the welded section. The device includes welded section detecting unit for detecting the position of a welded section on a rail, a first coil and a second coil that form an induction heating coil, first coil moving unit for moving the first coil to a position spaced apart from the rail at a predetermined distance, second coil moving unit for moving the second coil to a position separated from the rail at a predetermined distance, where the second coil is contacted to the first coil, clamping unit for pressing against the contact portion between the first coil and the second coil, and current applying unit for applying a predetermined current to the formed induction heating coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: DAI-ICHI HIGH FREQUENCY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Sugiyama, Nobuhiko Matsumoto, Ryuta Harada, Kenji Saita, Takeshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210185183
    Abstract: A printer-equipped camera includes an instant film pack loading unit in which an instant film pack including an exposure opening is loaded, a first displaying unit of which a displaying surface is arranged to face an exposure surface of an instant film in the instant film pack through the exposure opening with respect to the instant film pack loaded in the instant film pack loading unit, and that exposes the instant film by displaying an image, a light exit direction restriction member that is included on the displaying surface of the first displaying unit and restricts a light exit direction of light from each pixel of the first displaying unit to a constant range, the light exit direction restriction member being arranged to be spaced from the exposure surface of the instant film, an imaging unit that captures a subject image, and a second displaying unit that displays an image to an outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KURASE, Tsuneo SATO, Kenji SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210176907
    Abstract: Component mounting system 1 includes electronic component mounting device 10, control device 100, image processing device 110, and storage device 115. Electronic component mounting device 10 includes mounting head 26, supply device 28, and component camera 90. Electronic component mounting device 10 holds a supplied electronic component with mounting head 26, and images the held electronic component with component camera 90. Controller 102 performs image processing on captured image data with image processing device 110 to determine the acceptability and position of the electronic component (S6). Controller 102 monitors the start and end of the storage period (S10, S13) based on the magnitude relationship between the error rate calculated from the determination result information in the error rate calculation process (S8) and the reference error rate (S9). If the image data captured with component camera 90 is stored within the storage period, controller 102 stores the image data in storage device 115 (S11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi OIKE, Kenji SUGIYAMA, Shuichiro KITO
  • Patent number: 11010576
    Abstract: A substrate work system including an information management device to manage traceability information of configuration items that configure a circuit board product; an imaging device to image an identification code attached to the configuration item; and an imaging control device to read the identification code imaged by the imaging device, and transmit a serial number recorded in the identification code to the information management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Sugiyama, Kazuya Kotani, Hirotake Esaki
  • Publication number: 20210112693
    Abstract: An electronic component mounting method including a preparatory imaging step of storing preparation position information of component holding sections obtained based on preparation images imaged with no electronic component held by the component holding sections and with a rotary head indexed to multiple indexing angles; a pick-up step of picking up electronic components; an angle information acquisition step of acquiring indexing angle information of the rotary head; a component imaging step of imaging the electronic components with the indexing angle of the rotary head made to coincide with an indexing angle of the rotary head that corresponds to the specific positional information; and a measurement step of measuring a positional deviation amount between a position of the multiple component holding sections that is recognized from the specific positional information and a position of the electronic component that is recognized from the component image obtained in the component imaging step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotake ESAKI, Kenji SUGIYAMA, Kazuya KOTANI
  • Publication number: 20210055923
    Abstract: A management device for a board work machine includes a storage device storing version information in which a current version of software executed by a constitutive device of a board work machine in a production process is associated individually with the multiple constitutive devices and a version designation section configured to designate a version of the software which is to be applied to the production process based on a type of the production process and the version information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi OIKE, Kenji SUGIYAMA, Yuki INAURA
  • Patent number: 10872405
    Abstract: A system for creating component shape data for image processing to be used when performing image recognition of a component to be mounted by a component mounter, the system including: a display section; a wire frame drawing section configured to draw a wire frame on top of the component image, and to move a position of a side of the wide frame in accordance with a drag operation of an operator; a minimum unit specifying section configured to specify a minimum unit for when measuring the shape data of the measurement target portion surrounded by the wire frame; and a component shape data creation section configured to create the component shape data for image processing by measuring with an accuracy using the minimum unit specified by the minimum unit specifying section for the shape data of the measurement target portion surrounded by the wire frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oike, Shuichiro Kito, Kenji Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 10863660
    Abstract: A component picked up by a suction nozzle of a component mounting machine is imaged by a camera, the captured image is processed by an image recognition system to recognize the component, the image is determined to be normal or abnormal based on the recognition result, and in addition to classifying the image as a normal image or an abnormal image and storing the image in a storage device, component mounting boards, unloaded from a component mounting machine, are inspected with an inspection device. A stored image reclassification computer acquires the inspection result from the inspection device, reclassifies the normal image stored in the storage device, based on the inspection result, as an image whose determination as a normal image is suspect or as an image whose determination as a normal image is not suspect, and then stores the normal image in the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Sugiyama, Hiroshi Oike, Shuichiro Kito
  • Patent number: 10813261
    Abstract: A mounting device provided with: a collecting section configured to move a component for which imaging conditions are defined as a range including multiple values to an arrangement position in a state with multiple of the components collected; an imaging section configured to image the multiple components held by the collecting section; and a control section configured to, when the collecting section is holding the multiple components that include imaging conditions with ranges that are not the same, cause the imaging section to image the multiple components using imaging conditions with a shared value among the ranges defined for the multiple components held by the collecting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oike, Shuichiro Kito, Kenji Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 10772250
    Abstract: Component mounting system 1 includes electronic component mounting device 10, control device 100, image processing device 110, memory device 115, and display 120. Electronic component mounting device 10 includes mounting head 26, supply device 28, and component camera 90, and is configured to use mounting head 26 to pick up an electronic component supplied by supply device 28 and to image the held electronic component using component camera 90. When saving the captured image data on memory device 115, it is determined whether a condition for using a first format is satisfied (S1, S2). When the conditions for using the first format are satisfied (S2: yes), the captured image data is saved on memory device 115 in the first format that is a lossless compression format (S5). When conditions for using the first format are not satisfied (S2: no), the captured image data is saved on memory device 115 in the second format, which is a lossy compression format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oike, Hirotake Esaki, Kenji Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20200151414
    Abstract: A substrate work system including an information management device to manage traceability information of configuration items that configure a circuit board product; an imaging device to image an identification code attached to the configuration item; and an imaging control device to read the identification code imaged by the imaging device, and transmit a serial number recorded in the identification code to the information management device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: FUJl CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji SUGIYAMA, Kazuya KOTANI, Hirotake ESAKI
  • Patent number: 10611140
    Abstract: A printing apparatus according to an embodiment of this invention brings, out of a cleaning unit that cleans a transfer member in contact with a transfer member and an application unit that applies a reactive liquid with ink to the transfer member, the cleaning unit into contact with the transfer member to clean the transfer member by the cleaning unit at the start of the printing operation. Alternatively, out of the application unit and an absorbing unit that absorbs a liquid component from the reactive liquid applied by the application unit in contact with the transfer member, the printing apparatus brings the application unit into contact with the transfer member to apply the reactive liquid by the application unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiki Takeuchi, Masahiro Sugimoto, Ippei Tsushima, Kohei Fukui, Masato Izumi, Ryosuke Sato, Kenji Sugiyama, Kengo Nieda, Kota Uchida, Yuichiro Yanagi, Yusuke Nakaya, Atsushi Sakamoto, Susumu Hirosawa, Takeshi Murase, Futoshi Hirose
  • Publication number: 20200103248
    Abstract: A display system includes: a display that displays an image; and a display controller that causes the display to display a first image resembling roads around a vehicle and a second image resembling a recommended lane determined on the basis of a route to a destination set by the vehicle among the roads around the vehicle. The display controller causes the display to display the second image and a third image guiding a course of the vehicle when the vehicle has reached a second position located a predetermined distance before a first position at which the vehicle has to make a turn in the route to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Masaya Ikeda, Kenji Sugiyama, Yoshitaka Mimura, Takashi Watanabe, Taichi Sogo, Masayuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200086890
    Abstract: A display system includes a display that displays a first image simulating a road on which a host vehicle is traveling, and a display controller that causes the display to display a second image simulating a recommended lane given to a controller that performs driving control of the host vehicle at a position associated with the first image, and to display a third image simulating a target trajectory generated by the controller that performs driving control of the host vehicle at a position associated with the first image, wherein the display controller changes the third image to an image simulating the target trajectory for lane change without changing a display position of the second image when the controller executes driving control for causing the host vehicle to return to an original lane after causing the host vehicle to perform lane change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Masaya Ikeda, Kenji Sugiyama, Yoshitaka Mimura, Takashi Watanabe, Taichi Sogo, Masayuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200093042
    Abstract: A mounting device provided with: a collecting section configured to move a component for which imaging conditions are defined as a range including multiple values to an arrangement position in a state with multiple of the components collected; an imaging section configured to image the multiple components held by the collecting section; and a control section configured to, when the collecting section is holding the multiple components that include imaging conditions with ranges that are not the same, cause the imaging section to image the multiple components using imaging conditions with a shared value among the ranges defined for the multiple components held by the collecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi OIKE, Shuichiro KITO, Kenji SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10589752
    Abstract: A display system includes: a first display unit (400) that displays an image indicating a driving assist state of a vehicle which includes an automated driving state; a second display unit (400) that displays an image that resembles a road on which the vehicle travels; and a display control unit (120) that allows the second display unit to display approximately the entire region of a region corresponding to a recommended lane applied to a control unit that performs the automated driving in a predetermined color, and allows a target trajectory generated by the control unit that performs the automated driving to be displayed in a region narrower than the recommended lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Kenji Sugiyama, Masayuki Takahashi, Takashi Watanabe, Masaya Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20200058120
    Abstract: A system for creating component shape data for image processing to be used when performing image recognition of a component to be mounted by a component mounter, the system including: a display section; a wire frame drawing section configured to draw a wire frame on top of the component image, and to move a position of a side of the wide frame in accordance with a drag operation of an operator; a minimum unit specifying section configured to specify a minimum unit for when measuring the shape data of the measurement target portion surrounded by the wire frame; and a component shape data creation section configured to create the component shape data for image processing by measuring with an accuracy using the minimum unit specified by the minimum unit specifying section for the shape data of the measurement target portion surrounded by the wire frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi OIKE, Shuichiro KITO, Kenji SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10549528
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of this invention, a printing apparatus capable of cleaning a transfer member continuously while downsizing the apparatus and a cleaning method of the same are provided. The printing apparatus includes a cleaning roller configured to apply a cleaning liquid to the transfer member while rotating in contact with the transfer member, a liquid tank configured to reserve the cleaning liquid so that a part of the cleaning roller is immersed in the cleaning liquid, and a removal unit configured to remove a blot by contacting the surface of the cleaning roller which rotates in the liquid tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Sugiyama, Toshiki Takeuchi, Masato Izumi, Kengo Nieda, Ippei Tsushima, Atsushi Sakamoto, Futoshi Hirose, Susumu Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 10500839
    Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a printhead configured to form an image by discharging ink to a transfer member, a transfer unit configured to transfer the image from the transfer member to a print medium, and an application unit configured to apply a first liquid to the transfer member prior to formation of the image by the printhead. The inkjet printing apparatus also includes a first drying unit configured to dry the first liquid applied to the transfer member by the application unit by blowing air using a first air blower before the ink is discharged by the printhead to the transfer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryosuke Sato, Masato Izumi, Kota Uchida, Kengo Nieda, Yusuke Nakaya, Kenji Sugiyama, Ippei Tsushima