Patents by Inventor Makio Suzuki

Makio Suzuki 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: 10933616
    Abstract: A roll press method according to an embodiment comprises a roll gap measuring step for measuring a roll gap between an outer peripheral surface of the first roll and an outer peripheral surface of the second roll at one or more positions in a width direction of the first roll while rotating the first roll and the second roll and storing the measured roll gap and rotation angles of the first roll and the second roll in association with each other; and a roll press step for adjusting, according to the rotation angles, a position in the facing direction of the first roll by the adjustment mechanism such that the roll gap is kept within a predetermined variation range with respect to a target value and pressurizing the work by using the first roll in which positions are adjusted in accordance with the rotation angle and the second roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Nakajima, Makio Suzuki, Akiomi Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10737319
    Abstract: A leakage of a molten metal is suppressed at the time of pouring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., UNIVERSITY OF YAMNASHI
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Noda, Yuta Sueki, Makio Suzuki, Kazuhiro Ota
  • Patent number: 10639709
    Abstract: [Problem to Be Solved] A pouring control method for controlling an automatic pouring device with a tilting-type ladle is provided. By the method, a lip of a pouring ladle approaches a sprue of a mold without striking any object located within the range of its movement. Also, by the method, the molten metal that runs out of the ladle can accurately fill the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignees: Sintokogio, Ltd., National University Corporation Toyohashi University of Technology
    Inventors: Makio Suzuki, Kazuhiko Terashima, Atsushi Ito, Yoshiyuki Noda
  • Publication number: 20190152210
    Abstract: A roll press method according to an embodiment comprises a roll gap measuring step for measuring a roll gap between an outer peripheral surface of the first roll and an outer peripheral surface of the second roll at one or more positions in a width direction of the first roll while rotating the first roll and the second roll and storing the measured roll gap and rotation angles of the first roll and the second roll in association with each other; and a roll press step for adjusting, according to the rotation angles, a position in the facing direction of the first roll by the adjustment mechanism such that the roll gap is kept within a predetermined variation range with respect to a target value and pressurizing the work by using the first roll in which positions are adjusted in accordance with the rotation angle and the second roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo NAKAJIMA, Makio SUZUKI, Akiomi UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180339886
    Abstract: A system for controlling transport of a liquid tank by an overhead crane and a method for transporting the liquid tank by the overhead crane, which can suppress sloshing of liquid in the tank, are provided. In the control of the overhead crane cart, the swing of a liquid tank and a suspender (16) that suspends the liquid tank from an overhead crane cart (14), and the sloshing of liquid in the liquid tank are modeled into a coupled system model, and the system is designed based on a mixed H2/H? control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicants: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kunihiro HASHIMOTO, Makio SUZUKI, Akihiro KANESHIGE, Satoshi UEKI, Yu YAMAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180236535
    Abstract: A leakage of a molten metal is suppressed at the time of pouring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicants: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki NODA, Yuta SUEKI, Makio SUZUKI, Kazuhiro OTA
  • Publication number: 20180193907
    Abstract: [Problem to Be Solved] A pouring control method for controlling an automatic pouring device with a tilting-type ladle is provided. By the method, a lip of a pouring ladle approaches a sprue of a mold without striking any object located within the range of its movement. Also, by the method, the molten metal that runs out of the ladle can accurately fill the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicants: Sintokogio, Ltd., National University Corporation Toyohashi Universi ty of Technology
    Inventors: Makio SUZUKI, Kazuhiko TERASHIMA, Atsushi ITO, Yoshiyuki NODA
  • Patent number: 9975177
    Abstract: To enable a ladle-tilting automatic pouring device to take less time for identification of the parameters and the device to pour highly precisely by sequentially updating pouring model parameters according to the pouring situation, the present pouring control method is based on a mathematical model of a process from input of control parameters to pouring of molten metal, the method including: identifying, using an optimization technique, a flow rate coefficient, a liquid density, and a pouring start angle that is a tilting angle of the pouring ladle when the flowing of the molten metal starts, which are the control parameters in the mathematical model, based on weight of liquid that flows out of the pouring ladle and tilting angle of the ladle that are measured during pouring, and a command signal that controls the tilting of the pouring ladle; and updating the control parameters to the identified control parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignees: National University Corporation University of Yamanashi, Sintokogio, Ltd., National University Corporation Toyohashi University of Technology
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Noda, Takaaki Tsuji, Makio Suzuki, Kazuhiko Terashima
  • Patent number: 9950364
    Abstract: [Problem to Be Solved] A pouring control method for controlling an automatic pouring device with a tilting-type ladle is provided. By the method, a lip of a pouring ladle approaches a sprue of a mold without striking any object located within the range of its movement. Also, by the method, the molten metal that runs out of the ladle can accurately fill the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignees: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Makio Suzuki, Kazuhiko Terashima, Atsushi Ito, Yoshiyuki Noda
  • Publication number: 20160096222
    Abstract: [Problem to be solved] To provide a pouring control method, for a ladle-tilting automatic pouring device, where the operation for identification of the parameters, which normally takes much time to complete, can take less time and the device can pour with a high degree of precision by sequentially updating pouring model parameters according to the pouring situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATON UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI, SINTOKOGIO, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki NODA, Takaaki TSUJI, Makio SUZUKI, Kazuhiko TERASHIMA
  • Patent number: 9248498
    Abstract: A method for controlling the respective input voltages transmitted to a servomotor that tilts the ladle such that the molten metal that flows from the ladle drops accurately into the pouring gate in the mold, a servomotor that moves the ladle back and forth, and a servomotor that moves the ladle up and down, by using a computer. In the method, a mathematical model of the area on which the molten metal that flows from the ladle will drop is produced, and then the inverse problem of the produced mathematical model is solved. In view of the effect of a contracted flow, the position on which molten metal drops is estimated by the estimating device for estimating the pouring rate and the estimating device for estimating the position on which molten metal will drop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Noda, Kazuhiko Terashima, Ryusuke Fukushima, Makio Suzuki, Kazuhiro Ota, Hiroyasu Makino
  • Publication number: 20150000860
    Abstract: [Problem to Be Solved] A pouring control method for controlling an automatic pouring device with a tilting-type ladle is provided. By the method, a lip of a pouring ladle approaches a sprue of a mold without striking any object located within the range of its movement. Also, by the method, the molten metal that runs out of the ladle can accurately fill the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicants: Sintokogio, Ltd., National University Corporation Toyohashi University of Technology
    Inventors: Makio Suzuki, Kazuhiko Terashima, Atsushi Ito, Yoshiyuki Noda
  • Patent number: 8875960
    Abstract: A method of automatically pouring molten metal from a ladle into a mold by tilting the ladle. In the method, the height of molten metal located above a molten metal outlet and the weight of molten metal flowing out of the ladle are estimated using an expanded Kalman filter on the basis of: the weight of the molten metal flowing out of the ladle, said weight being measured using a load cell; the voltage inputted to a servo motor; the angle of tilt of the ladle measured by a rotary encoder; and the position of the ladle in the lifting and lowering direction thereof. The sum of the weight of the molten metal flowing out of the ladle when the ladle is tilted rearward, said weight being estimated from the angle of tilt of the ladle and the height of the molten metal located above the molten metal outlet estimated by the expanded Kalman filter, and the weight of the molten metal flowing out of the ladle estimated by the expanded Kalman filter are estimated as the final weight of outflowing molten metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: Sintokogio, Ltd., National University Corporation Toyohashi University of Technology
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Terashima, Yoshiyuki Noda, Makio Suzuki, Hiroyasu Makino, Kazuhiro Ota
  • Patent number: 8506876
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method to control automatic pouring equipment that can pour molten metal in a desired sequence, and it also provides the system therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Sintokogio, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makio Suzuki, Yanyan Yang
  • Publication number: 20130041493
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for accurately dropping molten metal that flows from a ladle into a pouring gate in a mold. The present invention includes a method for controlling the respective input voltages transmitted to a servomotor that tilts the ladle such that the molten metal that flows from the ladle drops accurately into the pouring gate in the mold, a servomotor that moves the ladle back and forth, and a servomotor that moves the ladle up and down, by using a computer. In the method, a mathematical model of the area on which the molten metal that flows from the ladle will drop is produced, and then the inverse problem of the produced mathematical model is solved. In view of the effect of a contracted flow, the position on which molten metal drops is estimated by the estimating device for estimating the pouring rate and the estimating device for estimating the position on which molten metal will drop. Then the estimated position is calculated by a computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Noda, Kazuhiko Terashima, Ryusuke Fukushima, Makio Suzuki, Kazuhiro Ota, Hiroyasu Makino
  • Patent number: 8202472
    Abstract: A method for controlling a ladle to pour molten metal into a mold. The method comprises producing a mathematical model describing a relationship between a measured electrical voltage supplied to a servomotor for tilting the ladle and a flow rate of the molten metal flowing out of the ladle when the ladle is tilted; solving an inverse problem of the mathematical model; estimating the flow rate of the molten metal using a state observer having an exponential damping that uses an extended Kalman filter, based on the measured electrical voltage and a weight of the molten metal poured into the mold; processing the flow rate of the molten metal and a target flow rate of the molten metal with a gain-scheduled PI controller; obtaining a target electrical voltage to be supplied to the servomotor; and controlling the servomotor based on the target electrical voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignees: Sintokogio, Ltd., National University Corporation Toyohashi University of Technology
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Noda, Kazuhiko Terashima, Takanori Miyoshi, Kazuhiro Ota, Makio Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120109354
    Abstract: A method of automatically pouring molten metal from a ladle into a mold by tilting the ladle. In the method, the height of molten metal located above a molten metal outlet and the weight of molten metal flowing out of the ladle are estimated using an expanded Kalman filter on the basis of: the weight of the molten metal flowing out of the ladle, said weight being measured using a load cell; the voltage inputted to a servo motor; the angle of tilt of the ladle measured by a rotary encoder; and the position of the ladle in the lifting and lowering direction thereof. The sum of the weight of the molten metal flowing out of the ladle when the ladle is tilted rearward, said weight being estimated from the angle of tilt of the ladle and the height of the molten metal located above the molten metal outlet estimated by the expanded Kalman filter, and the weight of the molten metal flowing out of the ladle estimated by the expanded Kalman filter are estimated as the final weight of outflowing molten metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Terashima, Yoshiyuki Noda, Makio Suzuki, Hiroyasu Makino, Kazuhiro Ota
  • Patent number: 8114338
    Abstract: A tilting-type automatic pouring method for pouring molten metal from a ladle with an outflow position into a mold. The method includes tilting the ladle forward to pour molten metal into the mold, measuring a weight of poured molten metal, calculating a flow rate of the molten metal flowing out of the ladle based on the measured weight of poured molten metal, estimating a weight of molten metal that will be poured during a backward tilting. The method also includes estimating a total weight of molten metal based on the measured weight of poured molten metal and the estimated weight of molten metal that will be poured during the backward tilting and comparing the estimated total weight of molten metal to a predetermined weight. When the estimated total weight is equal to or larger than the predetermined weight, the backward tilting is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignees: Sintokogio, Ltd., National University Corporation Toyohashi University of Technology
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Noda, Kazuhiko Terashima, Takanori Miyoshi, Makio Suzuki, Kazuhiro Ota
  • Patent number: 8062578
    Abstract: A method for controlling a ladle to pour molten metal into a sprue of a mold. The method includes obtaining a mathematical model describing a locus of positions where the molten metal flowing from the ladle drops on an upper surface of the sprue. The method further includes solving an inverse problem of the mathematical model, estimating a position where the molten metal drops using a result of the solving of the inverse problem, and determining target voltages to be supplied to servomotors controlling the ladle. At least the target voltage to be supplied to one of the servomotors is determined based on the estimated position. The method also includes controlling the servomotors based on respective target voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignees: Sintokogio, Ltd., National University Corporation Toyohashi University of Technology
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Noda, Kazuhiko Terashima, Takanori Miyoshi, Kazuhiro Ota, Makio Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8005598
    Abstract: A method and a system for controlling a crane drive unit so as to suppress sway of a load suspended by a rope of a crane, which sway occurs when the load has been transported from a first position to a second position, the control being made by operating a controller having a filter unit by using a feedforward control program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignees: Sintokogio, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Terashima, Makio Suzuki