Patents by Inventor Masaru Kino

Masaru Kino 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: 10442088
    Abstract: A robot teaching device allowing a user to operate an enable switch provided on the robot teaching device in a similar manner regardless of the user's dominant hand. A hand-held robot teaching device includes an enable switch built-in includes a main body including a holding portion that is configured to be held by one hand, and an enable switch operating section that is provided on the holding portion and is configured to be operated by a reference switching motion of a hand holding the holding portion in a reference position. The enable switch operating section includes a switching motion specifying mechanism that makes the reference switching motion in the reference position easier than another motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaru Kino
  • Patent number: 10186391
    Abstract: A circuit breaking system includes an output device for outputting an output signal; a control device controlled by the output signal; a power input terminal provided in the output device, for supplying power to the control device; a power supply to the output device, which has a ground terminal; a break circuit disposed between a power output terminal and the power input terminal; a switching circuit disposed between the break circuit and the power output terminal; and a short circuit disposed between a ground and a node which connects the power input terminal and the break circuit. The break circuit and the short circuit are operated so as to not be closed at the same time. When the switching circuit is closed, the break circuit is closed while the short circuit is open. When the switching circuit is open, the break circuit is open while the short circuit is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshikiyo Tanabe, Masaru Kino, Yoshiki Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10187001
    Abstract: A motor drive device includes: a converter which converts AC power of an AC power source side to DC power and outputs the same to a DC link; a DC link capacitor; an inverter in which each switching element is controlled based on a switching drive signal supplied, thereby performing power conversion between DC power of the DC link and AC power of a motor side; a DC/DC converter which converts DC power of the DC link to DC power for a control power source; a servo motor control circuit which outputs the switching drive signal; a torque cut-off circuit which cuts off source of each switching drive signal to each switching element, thereby stopping a motor when not receiving a safety signal; and a safety monitor circuit which stops transmission of the safety signal during an abnormality of the torque cut-off circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshikiyo Tanabe, Masaru Kino
  • Publication number: 20180297212
    Abstract: A robot teaching dvice allowing a user to operate an enable switch provided on the robot teaching device in a similar manner regardless of the user's dominant hand. A hand-held robot teaching device includes an enable switch built-in includes a main body including a holding portion that is configured to be held by one hand, and an enable switch operating section that is provided on the holding portion and is configured to be operated by a reference switching motion of a hand holding the holding portion in a reference position. The enable switch operating section includes a switching motion specifying mechanism that makes the reference switching motion in the reference position easier than another motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaru Kino
  • Publication number: 20180123498
    Abstract: A motor drive device includes: a converter which converts AC power of an AC power source side to DC power and outputs the same to a DC link; a DC link capacitor; an inverter in which each switching element is controlled based on a switching drive signal supplied, thereby performing power conversion between DC power of the DC link and AC power of a motor side; a DC/DC converter which converts DC power of the DC link to DC power for a control power source; a servo motor control circuit which outputs the switching drive signal; a torque cut-off circuit which cuts off source of each switching drive signal to each switching element, thereby stopping a motor when not receiving a safety signal; and a safety monitor circuit which stops transmission of the safety signal during an abnormality of the torque cut-off circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: YOSHIKIYO TANABE, Masaru Kino
  • Publication number: 20170213678
    Abstract: A circuit breaking system includes an output device for outputting an output signal; a control device controlled by the output signal; a power input terminal provided in the output device, for supplying power to the control device; a power supply to the output device, which has a ground terminal; a break circuit disposed between a power output terminal and the power input terminal; a switching circuit disposed between the break circuit and the power output terminal; and a short circuit disposed between a ground and a node which connects the power input terminal and the break circuit. The break circuit and the short circuit are operated so as to not be closed at the same time. When the switching circuit is closed, the break circuit is closed while the short circuit is open. When the switching circuit is open, the break circuit is open while the short circuit is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshikiyo Tanabe, Masaru Kino, Yoshiki Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20100317264
    Abstract: When a large optical device is incorporated into a large telescope or the like, a support state and a load distribution are different from those when an object to be ground is placed on a workpiece supporting fixture of a processing machine, and a surface shape measured in a state of being mounted on the processing machine is different from a surface shape in an incorporated state. Thus, there has been no apparatus for manufacturing an optical device that is deformed by its own weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: NANO-OPTONICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Masaru Kino, Mikio Kurita, Fumihide Iwamuro, Atsushi Shimono, Toshinori Maihara, Hitoshi Tokoro, Yu Nakajima
  • Patent number: D853338
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORAITON
    Inventors: Yoshikiyo Tanabe, Masaru Kino, Toshihiro Fujimori