Patents by Inventor Masaaki SHINDOU

Masaaki SHINDOU 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: 10956863
    Abstract: A facility management unit includes a facility information collection part, a supply replenishment determination part, an inventory information confirmation part, and a transport command part. The facility information collection part collects supply information indicating the consumption status of supplies for each manufacturing facility in real time. The supply replenishment determination part determines the presence or absence of manufacturing facilities that require replenishment with supplies and determines the order of replenishment with supplies for all the manufacturing facilities that require replenishment with supplies. The transport command part indicates a transport path, along which the supplies are sequentially transported from a storage facility to the manufacturing facilities according to the order of replenishment with supplies, to a transport facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Hyodo, Takenori Ono, Masaaki Shindou
  • Publication number: 20200334029
    Abstract: The disclosure is intended to provide an update system allowing software to be updated in an easier way. An update system updates software set in a numerical controller to new software. The update system includes: a device specific information acquisition unit that acquires specific information retained by the numerical controller as device specific information from the numerical controller; a candidate extraction unit that extracts candidates of software for update on the basis of the acquired device specific information; a software selection unit that selects the new software to be set in the numerical controller from the extracted candidates of software for update; and an update execution unit that executes setting of the selected new software in the numerical controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi NAKAJIMA, Masaaki SHINDOU
  • Patent number: 10656621
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided that enables an operator to efficiently carry out revision of an amount of removal of a workpiece at each block of a machining program. The information processing device includes a design data storage unit configured to store at least information relating to a workpiece, a simulation unit configured to carry out a simulation process of reproducing a positional relationship between the tool and the workpiece in a virtual space, a removal amount calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of removal of the workpiece by each block included in the machining program, the amount of removal being calculated on a per-block basis, and a display unit configured to display the blocks included in the machining program in a machining program display field in different display modes in accordance with the amounts of removal of the workpiece by the blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Masaaki Shindou
  • Patent number: 10649435
    Abstract: Provided is a tool life estimating device that enables estimation of a life of a tool used in a machine tool according to changes in machining conditions. The tool life estimating device includes a state observation unit that acquires machining information indicative of a status of the machining in a state where the life of the tool remains sufficiently, wherein the machining information is acquired from log data recorded while the machine tool is operated, and creates input data based on the machining information that has been acquired; a learning unit that constructs a learning model in which clusters of the machining information are created by unsupervised learning using the input data that has been created by the state observation unit; and a learning model storage unit that stores the learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki Shindou
  • Publication number: 20200057984
    Abstract: A facility management unit includes a facility information collection part, a supply replenishment determination part, an inventory information confirmation part, and a transport command part. The facility information collection part collects supply information indicating the consumption status of supplies for each manufacturing facility in real time. The supply replenishment determination part determines the presence or absence of manufacturing facilities that require replenishment with supplies and determines the order of replenishment with supplies for all the manufacturing facilities that require replenishment with supplies. The transport command part indicates a transport path, along which the supplies are sequentially transported from a storage facility to the manufacturing facilities according to the order of replenishment with supplies, to a transport facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroaki HYODO, Takenori ONO, Masaaki SHINDOU
  • Patent number: 10545477
    Abstract: Disclosed is a numerical controller that has a cutting in/out motion inserting function and configured to control a machine tool that performs lathe-turning machining in which a cutting tool moves in contact with a rotating workpiece. The numerical controller includes a cutting in/out motion inserting unit that generates a program to perform cutting in/out motion, based on operation conditions analyzed by a cutting in/out motion operation conditions analysis unit and inserts the generated program of performing the cutting in/out motion to a program to perform the lathe-turning machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Haga, Masaaki Shindou
  • Patent number: 10540633
    Abstract: A facility management unit includes a facility information collection part, a supply replenishment determination part, an inventory information confirmation part, and a transport command part. The facility information collection part collects supply information indicating the consumption status of supplies for each manufacturing facility in real time. The supply replenishment determination part determines the presence or absence of manufacturing facilities that require replenishment with supplies and determines the order of replenishment with supplies for all the manufacturing facilities that require replenishment with supplies. The transport command part indicates a transport path, along which the supplies are sequentially transported from a storage facility to the manufacturing facilities according to the order of replenishment with supplies, to a transport facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Hyodo, Takenori Ono, Masaaki Shindou
  • Patent number: 10474131
    Abstract: A numerical controller includes a data table on which data in which a size of a machining area and a setting value of a parameter, which is influenced by a size of a machining area, are associated with each other is registered. Further, the numerical controller estimates a size of a machining area based on a setting value of a parameter used for control of a machine tool. In the case where data corresponding to the estimated size of the machining area is registered on the data table, the numerical controller acquires a parameter setting value corresponding to the size of the machining area from the data table so as to set the parameter setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Masaaki Shindou
  • Patent number: 10338570
    Abstract: A numerical controller capable of finely designating a restart condition for look-ahead for a program after suppression of the look-ahead is configured to sequentially read out and analyze commands for blocks of a program, perform look-ahead processing to save the result of the analysis in a buffer, and execute the commands for the blocks looked ahead based on the analysis result saved in the buffer, thereby controlling a machine, and is provided with a function of stopping the look-ahead processing when a block into which a code for stopping look-ahead is inserted is read out from the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Masaaki Shindou
  • Publication number: 20180292807
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided that enables an operator to efficiently carry out revision of an amount of removal of a workpiece at each block of a machining program. The information processing device includes a design data storage unit configured to store at least information relating to a workpiece, a simulation unit configured to carry out a simulation process of reproducing a positional relationship between the tool and the workpiece in a virtual space, a removal amount calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of removal of the workpiece by each block included in the machining program, the amount of removal being calculated on a per-block basis, and a display unit configured to display the blocks included in the machining program in a machining program display field in different display modes in accordance with the amounts of removal of the workpiece by the blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki Shindou
  • Publication number: 20180181105
    Abstract: Provided is a tool life estimating device that enables estimation of a life of a tool used in a machine tool according to changes in machining conditions. The tool life estimating device includes a state observation unit that acquires machining information indicative of a status of the machining in a state where the life of the tool remains sufficiently, wherein the machining information is acquired from log data recorded while the machine tool is operated, and creates input data based on the machining information that has been acquired; a learning unit that constructs a learning model in which clusters of the machining information are created by unsupervised learning using the input data that has been created by the state observation unit; and a learning model storage unit that stores the learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventor: Masaaki SHINDOU
  • Patent number: 9939798
    Abstract: Disclosed is a numerical controller that has a cutting in/out motion inserting function and configured to control a machine tool that performs lathe-turning machining in which a cutting tool moves in contact with a rotating workpiece. The numerical controller includes a cutting in/out motion inserting unit that generates a program to perform cutting in/out motion, based on operation conditions analyzed by a cutting in/out motion operation conditions analysis unit and inserts the generated program of performing the cutting in/out motion to a program to perform the lathe-turning machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Haga, Masaaki Shindou
  • Publication number: 20180095443
    Abstract: Disclosed is a numerical controller that has a cutting in/out motion inserting function and configured to control a machine tool that performs lathe-turning machining in which a cutting tool moves in contact with a rotating workpiece. The numerical controller includes a cutting in/out motion inserting unit that generates a program to perform cutting in/out motion, based on operation conditions analyzed by a cutting in/out motion operation conditions analysis unit and inserts the generated program of performing the cutting in/out motion to a program to perform the lathe-turning machining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Makoto HAGA, Masaaki SHINDOU
  • Publication number: 20170329305
    Abstract: A numerical controller capable of finely designating a restart condition for look-ahead for a program after suppression of the look-ahead is configured to sequentially read out and analyze commands for blocks of a program, perform look-ahead processing to save the result of the analysis in a buffer, and execute the commands for the blocks looked ahead based on the analysis result saved in the buffer, thereby controlling a machine, and is provided with a function of stopping the look-ahead processing when a block into which a code for stopping look-ahead is inserted is read out from the program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki Shindou
  • Publication number: 20170300853
    Abstract: A facility management unit includes a facility information collection part, a supply replenishment determination part, an inventory information confirmation part, and a transport command part. The facility information collection part collects supply information indicating the consumption status of supplies for each manufacturing facility in real time. The supply replenishment determination part determines the presence or absence of manufacturing facilities that require replenishment with supplies and determines the order of replenishment with supplies for all the manufacturing facilities that require replenishment with supplies. The transport command part indicates a transport path, along which the supplies are sequentially transported from a storage facility to the manufacturing facilities according to the order of replenishment with supplies, to a transport facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroaki HYODO, Takenori ONO, Masaaki SHINDOU
  • Publication number: 20170097629
    Abstract: A numerical controller includes a data table on which data in which a size of a machining area and a setting value of a parameter, which is influenced by a size of a machining area, are associated with each other is registered. Further, the numerical controller estimates a size of a machining area based on a setting value of a parameter used for control of a machine tool. In the case where data corresponding to the estimated size of the machining area is registered on the data table, the numerical controller acquires a parameter setting value corresponding to the size of the machining area from the data table so as to set the parameter setting value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki Shindou
  • Patent number: 9400496
    Abstract: A pre-read/analysis process is carried out to analyze a code in a block, and whether or not the analyzed data contains an inter-path waiting code is determined. When the block contains an inter-path waiting code, the pre-read/analysis process is suspended, and whether or not a preset specified condition is met is judged. When the specified condition is met, inter-path waiting is started. When the inter-path waiting is established, code analysis data created before creation of execution data is discarded, and a pre-read/analysis process on the next block is immediately started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Haga, Masaaki Shindou
  • Publication number: 20150346707
    Abstract: Disclosed is a numerical controller that has a cutting in/out motion inserting function and configured to control a machine tool that performs lathe-turning machining in which a cutting tool moves in contact with a rotating workpiece. The numerical controller includes a cutting in/out motion inserting unit that generates a program to perform cutting in/out motion, based on operation conditions analyzed by a cutting in/out motion operation conditions analysis unit and inserts the generated program of performing the cutting in/out motion to a program to perform the lathe-turning machining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Makoto HAGA, Masaaki SHINDOU
  • Publication number: 20140088755
    Abstract: A pre-read/analysis process is carried out to analyze a code in a block, and whether or not the analyzed data contains an inter-path waiting code is determined. When the block contains an inter-path waiting code, the pre-read/analysis process is suspended, and whether or not a preset specified condition is met is judged. When the specified condition is met, inter-path waiting is started. When the inter-path waiting is established, code analysis data created before creation of execution data is discarded, and a pre-read/analysis process on the next block is immediately started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: FANUC Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto HAGA, Masaaki SHINDOU