Patents by Inventor Nobuyoshi OGATA

Nobuyoshi OGATA 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: 10525594
    Abstract: A teaching system includes: a teaching-data generator configured to generate teaching data of a robot having a joint in a virtual environment, the virtual environment including a work tool, the robot, and a workpiece to which a plurality of working points is preliminarily set, the teaching data causing the robot to move one of the work tool and the workpiece passing through approach points corresponding to the respective working points to cause the work tool to relatively reach and separate from the working points; a determiner configured to determine whether a virtual line interferes with another of the workpiece and the work tool, the virtual line connecting the approach points of the consecutively worked working points together; and a teaching-data updater capable of changing a position of the approach point on the virtual line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventor: Nobuyoshi Ogata
  • Publication number: 20160059413
    Abstract: A teaching system includes: a teaching-data generator configured to generate teaching data of a robot having a joint in a virtual environment, the virtual environment including a work tool, the robot, and a workpiece to which a plurality of working points is preliminarily set, the teaching data causing the robot to move one of the work tool and the workpiece passing through approach points corresponding to the respective working points to cause the work tool to relatively reach and separate from the working points; a determiner configured to determine whether a virtual line interferes with another of the workpiece and the work tool, the virtual line connecting the approach points of the consecutively worked working points together; and a teaching-data updater capable of changing a position of the approach point on the virtual line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventor: Nobuyoshi OGATA