Patents by Inventor Ryou Matsumoto

Ryou Matsumoto 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: 11161254
    Abstract: A robot hand includes three or more holding portions arranged at intervals from each other along a circumferential direction about a predetermined axis, and configured to hold a work piece, and a driving portion configured to move the three or more holding portions toward a closing direction for approaching the axis and toward an opening direction for moving away from the axis, wherein at least one of the holding portions is swingable, about the axis, at a position at which the at least one holding portion is in contact with the work piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryou Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11123877
    Abstract: Provided is a robot hand including: gripping portions disposed with spacings between each other in a circumferential direction about an axis, and that grip a workpiece; driving portions, each of which is provided so as to correspond to one of the gripping portions, cause the corresponding gripping portions to be linearly moved in closing directions in which the gripping portions are brought close to the axis and opening directions in which the gripping portions are moved away from the axis; and a center-of-gravity detecting unit detects a center-of-gravity position of the workpiece being gripped by the gripping portions. Each of the driving portions adjust, based on the center-of-gravity position of the workpiece, the position of the corresponding gripping portion in a direction in which the center-of-gravity position is brought closer to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryou Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10647006
    Abstract: A hand includes a pair of finger members disposed separated by an interval and relatively movable in an interval direction, a finger drive unit that moves at least one of the finger members in the interval direction, a pair of holding pads that are provided on the respective finger members, and are supported to face each other and to be rotatable around an axis extending in the interval direction, and a pressing member that is provided to be movable in a direction intersecting a radial direction, at a position separated from the axis in the radial direction, and presses a surface of a workpiece held between the holding pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Ryou Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10589420
    Abstract: A hand device includes: a first hand fixed to a robot arm; a second hand that has a workpiece stage on which a workpiece is placed and that is coupled to the first hand; a positioning mechanism that positions the second hand relative to the first hand when the second hand is to be coupled to the first hand; and a coupling mechanism that couples the second hand having been positioned by the positioning mechanism to the first hand, and uncouples the second hand from the first hand, wherein the hand device is configured to clamp the workpiece between the first hand and the second hand by moving at least a part of the first hand toward the second hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Ryou Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20200078960
    Abstract: A robot hand includes three or more holding portions arranged at intervals from each other along a circumferential direction about a predetermined axis, and configured to hold a work piece, and a driving portion configured to move the three or more holding portions toward a closing direction for approaching the axis and toward an opening direction for moving away from the axis, wherein at least one of the holding portions is swingable, about the axis, at a position at which the at least one holding portion is in contact with the work piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryou MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200070353
    Abstract: Provided is a robot hand including: gripping portions disposed with spacings between each other in a circumferential direction about an axis, and that grip a workpiece; driving portions, each of which is provided so as to correspond to one of the gripping portions, cause the corresponding gripping portions to be linearly moved in closing directions in which the gripping portions are brought close to the axis and opening directions in which the gripping portions are moved away from the axis; and a center-of-gravity detecting unit detects a center-of-gravity position of the workpiece being gripped by the gripping portions. Each of the driving portions adjust, based on the center-of-gravity position of the workpiece, the position of the corresponding gripping portion in a direction in which the center-of-gravity position is brought closer to the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Ryou MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190358831
    Abstract: A hand includes a pair of finger members disposed separated by an interval and relatively movable in an interval direction, a finger drive unit that moves at least one of the finger members in the interval direction, a pair of holding pads that are provided on the respective finger members, and are supported to face each other and to be rotatable around an axis extending in the interval direction, and a pressing member that is provided to be movable in a direction intersecting a radial direction, at a position separated from the axis in the radial direction, and presses a surface of a workpiece held between the holding pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Ryou MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180085916
    Abstract: A hand device includes: a first hand fixed to a robot arm; a second hand that has a workpiece stage on which a workpiece is placed and that is coupled to the first hand; a positioning mechanism that positions the second hand relative to the first hand when the second hand is to be coupled to the first hand; and a coupling mechanism that couples the second hand having been positioned by the positioning mechanism to the first hand, and uncouples the second hand from the first hand, wherein the hand device is configured to clamp the workpiece between the first hand and the second hand by moving at least a part of the first hand toward the second hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Ryou MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170266818
    Abstract: A robot hand and a robot having the robot hand, the robot hand having a mechanism configured to appropriately carry out surface matching between an electrical magnet and an adsorbed surface of a workpiece, corresponding to the posture of the adsorbed surface. The robot hand has: a hand base; a holder attached to the hand base; a spherical bearing arranged in the holder so that a rotational center of the spherical bearing is positioned on a hand center axis; a connecting member attached to the holder via the spherical bearing, the connecting member having a protruding portion which protrudes from the holder in a direction opposed to the hand base; a holder base fixed to an attachment surface opposed to an adsorbing surface of the electrical magnet; and a posture restoring member for restoring the posture of the holder base so that the holder base represents a neutral posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryou Matsumoto