Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Sumi

Nobuyuki Sumi 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: 20230390869
    Abstract: An additive manufactured object is a stack including a first metal layer made of a first metallic material and a second metal layer that includes second dot beads made of a second metallic material. The additive manufactured object includes an intermediate layer between the first and second metal layers. The intermediate layer includes a first structural part as a structure made of the first metallic material and a second structural part as a structure made of the second metallic material. The first and second structural parts engage each other in a unit structure, and an arrangement of the unit structures arranged in the intermediate layer has translational symmetry in a plane perpendicular to a stacked direction of the first and second metal layers. The intermediate layer includes, at a junction interface between the first and the second structural parts, an intermetallic compound layer including an intermetallic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi FUJII, Satoshi HATTORI, Nobuyuki SUMI
  • Publication number: 20230390865
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus produces a shaped article by adding a material melted by emission of a beam, to a workpiece. The additive manufacturing apparatus includes a machining head that emits the beam to the workpiece, a feed unit that feeds the material to the workpiece, and a numerical control device, which is a control unit that determines a machining path along which the machining head is caused to move with respect to the workpiece, and outputs a command to move the machining head. The control unit outputs a command to move the machining head along the machining path obtained by correction performed based on a moving direction of the machining head with respect to the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki SUMI, Shun KAYASHIMA, Kenji IRIGUCHI, Seiji UOZUMI
  • Publication number: 20230201964
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus manufactures a shaped object by stacking a bead that is a solidified product of a filler metal caused to be melted. The additive manufacturing apparatus includes: a feeding unit that feeds the filler metal to a workpiece; a beam source that outputs a beam for melting the filler metal that is fed; and a position calculation unit that calculates a tip position of the filler metal, the tip position being a position where a temperature reaches a melting point of the filler metal by irradiation with the beam, on the basis of a feeding speed of the filler metal to be fed to the workpiece and beam power from the beam source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shun KAYASHIMA, Nobuyuki SUMI, Seiji UOZUMI
  • Patent number: 11654510
    Abstract: An NC device that is a numerical control device controls an additive manufacturing apparatus. The additive manufacturing apparatus performs modeling by application of a melted material. The NC device includes a monitoring unit that monitors occurrence of a drop caused by a material after being melted remaining on the material before being melted, and a command generating unit that generates commands for causing the additive manufacturing apparatus to remove the drop that has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Sumi, Shun Kayashima, Satoshi Hattori, Seiji Uozumi
  • Publication number: 20230101500
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing path generation apparatus includes: a formation path generation unit that divides an additive manufacturing object into layers that are units of formation of the additive manufacturing object such that a formation height of a bead that forms the layers does not exceed an upper limit and generates formation paths that are paths for formation of the divided layers from layer definition information and a formation path surface, the layer definition information defining division of the additive manufacturing object into the layers, the formation path surface being a surface restricting positions of the formation paths; and a formation path correction unit that corrects the formation paths to a formation path that causes a plurality of layers to be partially formed in a collective manner while maintaining the formation height within a range between the upper limit and a lower limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji IRIGUCHI, Nobuhiro SHINOHARA, Nobuyuki SUMI, Shinji FUJISHIRO
  • Publication number: 20230041863
    Abstract: An NC device as a numerical control device controls an additive manufacturing apparatus for producing an object by layering, on a workpiece, a material melted by being irradiated with a beam. The NC device includes: a feature quantity extracting unit that extracts, from image data, a feature quantity for determining a welding state that is a state where a molten material is added to the workpiece; and a process map creating unit that creates a process map in which a shape of the object and a layering condition are associated with each other. The layering condition is selected from among a plurality of layering conditions on the basis of a result of determination of the welding state, and includes at least one of beam intensity and a supply amount of a material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji UOZUMI, Nobuhiro SHINOHARA, Nobuyuki SUMI
  • Patent number: 11480947
    Abstract: A control information generation device generates control information for controlling an additive manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a layer shape using a bead that is a manufactured object formed by adding a molten processing material to a target surface while moving a processing position along a manufacturing path, and manufactures a three-dimensional shape in which the layer shapes are stacked. The device includes: a bead width correction unit that obtains a corrected width on the basis of the manufacturing path and a reference width of a cross section of the bead, the corrected width being a width of the cross section for allowing the beads to be adjacent to each other without overlapping; a path correction unit that obtains a corrected path on the basis of the manufacturing path and the corrected width; and a control information output unit that outputs control information indicating the corrected path and the corrected width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Iriguchi, Nobuhiro Shinohara, Daiji Morita, Nobuyuki Sumi, Shun Kayashima
  • Publication number: 20220324057
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus that forms an object by repeating additive machining of melting a machining material and adding, onto a workpiece, the machining material solidified includes: a height measurement unit that measures a height of the object formed at a machining position; and a control unit that controls a machining condition for adding the machining material to the machining position on the basis of a measurement result provided by the height measurement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru TAKUSHIMA, Daiji MORITA, Nobuyuki SUMI, Satoshi HATTORI, Takafumi FUJII, Shun KAYASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220266378
    Abstract: An NC device that is a numerical control device controls an additive manufacturing apparatus. The additive manufacturing apparatus performs modeling by application of a melted material. The NC device includes a monitoring unit that monitors occurrence of a drop caused by a material after being melted remaining on the material before being melted, and a command generating unit that generates commands for causing the additive manufacturing apparatus to remove the drop that has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki SUMI, Shun KAYASHIMA, Satoshi HATTORI, Seiji UOZUMI
  • Patent number: 11422540
    Abstract: A process decision support device includes: a machining performance data storage unit that stores machining performance data indicating machining performance of each of a plurality of machining devices including a machining device that adds material and a machining device that removes material; a process pattern generation unit that refers to the machining performance data and sequences and allocates machining steps performed by a combination of any of the plurality of machining devices to generate a process pattern as a combination of the machining steps with which a product is manufacturable; and an output unit that outputs content of the process pattern generated by the process pattern generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Sumi, Shun Kayashima, Kenji Iriguchi, Seiji Uozumi
  • Patent number: 11351736
    Abstract: An NC device, which is a numerical control device, includes: a program analyzing unit that analyzes a machining program to obtain a movement path along which to move a supply position of a material on a workpiece; a storage temperature extracting unit that extracts, from data on surface temperature of the workpiece, storage temperature in an area including the movement path on the workpiece; a layering volume calculating unit that calculates a volume of a layer forming an object on the basis of a relation between the storage temperature and a volume of the material that solidifies at the storage temperature in a given time; and a layering shape changing unit that changes a shape of the layer on the basis of the volume of the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Uozumi, Nobuhiro Shinohara, Daiji Morita, Nobuyuki Sumi
  • Patent number: 11331755
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a laser oscillator that is a beam source that outputs a beam, and a rotary motor that is a driving unit that changes the relative positions of a material fed from a wire spool that is a supply source of a wire that is the material and an object to be machined. The driving unit is capable of performing first driving for feeding the material from the supply source toward the object to be machined and second driving for pulling back the fed material to the supply source, and switches from the first driving to the second driving on the basis of a machining program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Hattori, Takashi Hashimoto, Nobuyuki Sumi
  • Publication number: 20220143928
    Abstract: An NC device, which is a numerical control device, includes: a program analyzing unit that analyzes a machining program to obtain a movement path along which to move a supply position of a material on a workpiece; a storage temperature extracting unit that extracts, from data on surface temperature of the workpiece, storage temperature in an area including the movement path on the workpiece; a layering volume calculating unit that calculates a volume of a layer forming an object on the basis of a relation between the storage temperature and a volume of the material that solidifies at the storage temperature in a given time; and a layering shape changing unit that changes a shape of the layer on the basis of the volume of the layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji UOZUMI, Nobuhiro SHINOHARA, Daiji MORITA, Nobuyuki SUMI
  • Patent number: 11257296
    Abstract: A display system displays the progress of processing in an additive manufacturing device. The additive manufacturing device manufactures an object with a three-dimensional shape by processing of adding material on the basis of CAD data that is design data. The display system includes an obtaining unit to obtain position data that indicates the present position of a processing point where the processing is performed. The display system includes a display unit to display a trace of the processing point superimposed over the three-dimensional shape based on the design data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Sumi, Shun Kayashima, Kenji Iriguchi, Seiji Uozumi
  • Patent number: 11249460
    Abstract: A numerical control device includes: a program analyzing unit analyzing a transition of a moving velocity of a machining head and a transition of a supply amount of a material supplied to a beam-irradiation position based on a machining program; a movement distance calculating unit calculating a first distance based on a result of analysis performed by the program analyzing unit, the first distance being a length of a first movement section to a first position at which addition of the material to the workpiece is started, the first movement section being a section through which the machining head is moved while the head is accelerated; and a condition command generating unit generating a supply command to increase the supply amount of the material per hour from zero to a command value according to a machining condition while the machining head is moved through the first movement section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Uozumi, Shun Kayashima, Nobuyuki Sumi
  • Publication number: 20220043430
    Abstract: A control information generation device generates control information for controlling an additive manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a layer shape using a bead that is a manufactured object formed by adding a molten processing material to a target surface while moving a processing position along a manufacturing path, and manufactures a three-dimensional shape in which the layer shapes are stacked. The device includes: a bead width correction unit that obtains a corrected width on the basis of the manufacturing path and a reference width of a cross section of the bead, the corrected width being a width of the cross section for allowing the beads to be adjacent to each other without overlapping; a path correction unit that obtains a corrected path on the basis of the manufacturing path and the corrected width; and a control information output unit that outputs control information indicating the corrected path and the corrected width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji IRIGUCHI, Nobuhiro SHINOHARA, Daiji MORITA, Nobuyuki SUMI, Shun KAYASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11229956
    Abstract: A numerical control device controls an additive manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a modeled object by irradiating a wire, which is a material fed by a driving force of a rotary motor, which is a driving unit, with a beam, and applying the molten material to a workpiece. The numerical control device includes an error detecting unit that detects an error in the height of the workpiece in the height direction in which the material is deposited. The numerical control device includes a condition adjusting unit, which is an adjustment unit that adjusts the supply amount of the material on the basis of the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun Kayashima, Nobuyuki Sumi, Kenji Iriguchi, Seiji Uozumi
  • Publication number: 20210311457
    Abstract: A numerical control device includes: a program analyzing unit analyzing a transition of a moving velocity of a machining head and a transition of a supply amount of a material supplied to a beam-irradiation position based on a machining program; a movement distance calculating unit calculating a first distance based on a result of analysis performed by the program analyzing unit, the first distance being a length of a first movement section to a first position at which addition of the material to the workpiece is started, the first movement section being a section through which the machining head is moved while the head is accelerated; and a condition command generating unit generating a supply command to increase the supply amount of the material per hour from zero to a command value according to a machining condition while the machining head is moved through the first movement section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji UOZUMI, Shun KAYASHIMA, Nobuyuki SUMI
  • Publication number: 20210308794
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a laser oscillator that is a beam source that outputs a beam, and a rotary motor that is a driving unit that changes the relative positions of a material fed from a wire spool that is a supply source of a wire that is the material and an object to be machined. The driving unit is capable of performing first driving for feeding the material from the supply source toward the object to be machined and second driving for pulling back the fed material to the supply source, and switches from the first driving to the second driving on the basis of a machining program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi HATTORI, Takashi HASHIMOTO, Nobuyuki SUMI
  • Patent number: 11090764
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus performs additive machining by controlling a machining head that includes a wire nozzle to feed a wire to a machining region on a surface of a base material, a beam source capable of emitting a beam to an end of the wire, and a gas nozzle placed such that the beam source is interposed between the gas nozzle and the wire nozzle, the gas nozzle directing a gas toward the machining region, and the additive manufacturing apparatus includes a machining-condition selection unit to obtain an angle that is formed between a direction in which the wire is fed and a travel direction of the machining head, when viewed in a direction in which the beam is emitted, and to select a machining condition for the additive machining on the basis of the angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun Kayashima, Nobuyuki Sumi, Kenji Iriguchi, Seiji Uozumi