Patents by Inventor Ryuichiro MAENISHI

Ryuichiro MAENISHI 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: 11858175
    Abstract: In a continuous kneading apparatus according to an embodiment, for each of a plurality of ring-shaped heaters, a control unit determines a current state and a reward for an action selected in the past based on a control error calculated from an acquired temperature; updates a control condition based on the reward, and determines an optimum action corresponding to the current state under the updated control condition, the control condition being a combination of a state and an action; and controls a target ring-shaped heater based on the optimum action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichiro Maenishi, Soma Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220339838
    Abstract: In a resin film manufacturing device according to an embodiment, a current state and a reward for a previously selected action are determined for each heat bolt based on a control error calculated from a thickness distribution of a resin film acquired from a thickness sensor. Then, control conditions, which are a combination of states and actions, are updated based on the reward, and a most appropriate action corresponding to the current state is selected from the updated control conditions. Then, the heater is controlled based on the most appropriate action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Ryuichiro MAENISHI, Nobuhiro HARAMOTO, Fumitake FUJII
  • Patent number: 11426914
    Abstract: In a resin film manufacturing device according to an embodiment, a current state and a reward for a previously selected action are determined for each heat bolt based on a control error calculated from a thickness distribution of a resin film acquired from a thickness sensor. Then, control conditions, which are a combination of states and actions, are updated based on the reward, and a most appropriate action corresponding to the current state is selected from the updated control conditions. Then, the heater is controlled based on the most appropriate action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichiro Maenishi, Nobuhiro Haramoto, Fumitake Fujii
  • Publication number: 20220184872
    Abstract: In an extrusion molding apparatus according to an embodiment, a control unit configured to perform feedback control for a rotation speed of a pump so as to bring a pressure measured by a pressure sensor closer to a target pressure determines a current state and a reward for an action selected in the past based on a difference between the measured pressure and the target pressure, updates a control condition, which is a combination of a state and an action, based on the reward, selects an optimum action corresponding to the current state under the updated control condition, and controls the rotation speed of the pump based on the optimum action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Ryuichiro MAENISHI, Soma TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220118653
    Abstract: In a continuous kneading apparatus according to an embodiment, for each of a plurality of ring-shaped heaters, a control unit determines a current state and a reward for an action selected in the past based on a control error calculated from an acquired temperature; updates a control condition based on the reward, and determines an optimum action corresponding to the current state under the updated control condition, the control condition being a combination of a state and an action; and controls a target ring-shaped heater based on the optimum action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Ryuichiro MAENISHI, Soma TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220072756
    Abstract: In a resin-film manufacturing apparatus of an embodiment, when a lip gap control is started, a difference between a state of a target heat bolt (THB) at a start of current control and a state of each of all the heat bolts at a start of last control is obtained, when the difference between the states of THB at the starts of the current and last control is a smallest one, a learning result of THB is set as an initial value of a control condition for THB, and when the difference between the states of THB is not the smallest one, either one of a learning result of the heat bolt of which the difference between the states is smaller than the difference between the states of THB and the learning result of THB is set as the initial value of the control condition for THB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ryuichiro MAENISHI, Soma TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200290259
    Abstract: In a resin film manufacturing device according to an embodiment, a current state and a reward for a previously selected action are determined for each heat bolt based on a control error calculated from a thickness distribution of a resin film acquired from a thickness sensor. Then, control conditions, which are a combination of states and actions, are updated based on the reward, and a most appropriate action corresponding to the current state is selected from the updated control conditions. Then, the heater is controlled based on the most appropriate action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Ryuichiro MAENISHI, Nobuhiro HARAMOTO, Fumitake FUJII