Patents by Inventor Masakazu Niwa

Masakazu Niwa 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: 20080303476
    Abstract: An excitation current processor of a current controller processes the excitation current corresponding to the magnetic flux instruction from the magnetic flux instruction processor. It multiplies this excitation current with a boost coefficient to obtain an excitation current instruction. Here, the boost coefficient is determined based on the difference obtained by subtracting the magnetic flux estimation value processed by the magnetic flux processor based on the excitation current feedback from the voltage conversion device from the magnetic flux instruction input from the magnetic flux instruction processor. Further, the boost coefficient can be found from the function of time from the start of the rise of the magnetic flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: FANUC LTD
    Inventors: Yasusuke IWASHITA, Takahiro AKIYAMA, Masakazu NIWA, Tomohisa TSUTSUMI
  • Patent number: 7446497
    Abstract: A fixed-position stop control apparatus (10) includes: a move-instruction generating means (22) for generating a move instruction for each control cycle; a position loop control means (25) for position controlling a rotation shaft (61) for each control cycle according to the move instruction generated by the move-instruction generating means; and a speed loop control means (35) for speed controlling the rotation shaft according to one of a speed instruction generated by a higher level control apparatus (45) and a predetermined speed instruction, thereby switching the speed control of the rotation shaft by the speed loop control means to the position control of the rotation shaft by the position loop control means. In this fixed-position stop control apparatus, the move instruction generated by the move-instruction generating means has acceleration smaller than the acceleration corresponding to the acceleration and deceleration ability of the rotation shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Takahiro Akiyama, Masakazu Niwa
  • Publication number: 20080116833
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus for computing or outputting motor load information, comprises: a storage unit which stores a function or table obtained in advance based on parameters used for the computation of the load information and on an actually measured value of a motor output or motor torque; and a load meter computing unit which computes the load information from the function or table stored in the storage unit by using the parameters used for the computation of the load information. With the above configuration, the load meter is computed in such a manner as to accurately indicate the load condition of a motor in real time over the entire speed range of the motor including the nonlinear control region of the motor, and the motor is controlled using the thus computed value or the computed value is displayed on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: FANUC LTD
    Inventors: Yasusuke IWASHITA, Takahiro AKIYAMA, Masakazu NIWA, Geng LI
  • Patent number: 7368887
    Abstract: A servo control device that displays, by a two-dimensional image, evaluation of control precision of a servo system, includes: an instruction unit that instructs a position instruction having periodicity; a unit that records a track of position data based on a position feedback of a servo system according to the position instruction; and a first drawing unit that draws position data based on the position feedback, data before a quarter cycle or after a quarter cycle of the position data or position data based on the position instruction before a quarter cycle or after a quarter cycle, on a two-dimensional plane including orthogonal two axes, as the axis data of the orthogonal two axes respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Takahiro Akiyama, Masakazu Niwa
  • Publication number: 20080004912
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for providing a medical device to a patient, including recording, by medical personnel, information specific to a patient; automatically selecting a portion of the recorded patient information; transmitting the selected portion of the recorded patient information to a provider of the medical device; automatically selecting the medical device based on the transmitted patient information; transmitting information describing the selected medical device from the provider of the medical device to the medical personnel; and providing the selected medical device to the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventor: Masakazu Niwa
  • Publication number: 20070138989
    Abstract: A fixed-position stop control apparatus (10) includes: a move-instruction generating means (22) for generating a move instruction for each control cycle; a position loop control means (25) for position controlling a rotation shaft (61) for each control cycle according to the move instruction generated by the move-instruction generating means; and a speed loop control means (35) for speed controlling the rotation shaft according to one of a speed instruction generated by a higher level control apparatus (45) and a predetermined speed instruction, thereby switching the speed control of the rotation shaft by the speed loop control means to the position control of the rotation shaft by the position loop control means. In this fixed-position stop control apparatus, the move instruction generated by the move-instruction generating means has acceleration smaller than the acceleration corresponding to the acceleration and deceleration ability of the rotation shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: FANUC LTD
    Inventors: Yasusuke IWASHITA, Takahiro AKIYAMA, Masakazu NIWA
  • Publication number: 20060186849
    Abstract: The invention relates to a numerical control (NC) device, and provides a servo control device that displays, by a two-dimensional image, evaluation of control precision of a servo system, and that can adjust the servo system according to a visual method, and provides a method of adjusting the servo system. The control device includes: an instruction unit that instructs a position instruction having periodicity; a unit that records a track of position data based on a position feedback of a servo system according to the position instruction; and a first drawing unit that draws position data based on the position feedback, data before a quarter cycle or after a quarter cycle of the position data or position data based on the position instruction before a quarter cycle or after a quarter cycle, on a two-dimensional plane including orthogonal two axes, as the axis data of the orthogonal two axes respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Takahiro Akiyama, Masakazu Niwa
  • Patent number: 6786260
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire has a tire meridian cross-sectional configuration of a tread surface portion on at least one side of the tire center line which is arranged such that, when a position A is an intersection of the tire center line and the tread surface, and when a position B is an intersection of a straight line P drawn orthogonal to the tire axis from an edge of an innermost belt layer and the tread surface, an angle &agr; between a straight line X connecting the positions A and B and a straight line Y drawn perpendicular to the tire center line from the position A is set in a range of 8 to 10 degrees, when the pneumatic radial tire is attached to a standard rim specified in JATMA with its air pressure being 180 kPa and with no load applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Niwa, Katsuyuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20030121582
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire has a tire meridian cross-sectional configuration of a tread surface portion on at least one side of the tire center line which is arranged such that, when a position A is an intersection of the tire center line and the tread surface, and when a position B is an intersection of a straight line P drawn orthogonal to the tire axis from an edge of an innermost belt layer and the tread surface, an angle &agr; between a straight line X connecting the positions A and B and a straight line Y drawn perpendicular to the tire center line from the position A is set in a range of 8 to 10 degrees, when the pneumatic radial tire is attached to a standard rim specified in JATMA with its air pressure being 180 kPa and with no load applied thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Masakazu Niwa, Katsuyuki Kato
  • Patent number: D453495
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Fujishiro, Masakuni Kawamura, Katsuyuki Kato, Masakazu Niwa, Koutaro Iwabuchi
  • Patent number: D592127
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Niwa, Kenichirou Endou
  • Patent number: D593934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Niwa, Kenichirou Endou
  • Patent number: D426855
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Niwa, Kenichiro Sugitani, Hiroshi Hata, Tetsuya Kuze