Patents by Inventor Sadao Kubo

Sadao Kubo 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: 8388035
    Abstract: A robot hand is configured such that a plurality of finger mechanisms are disposed on base and operate so as to cause fingertip portions thereof to get close to each other and separate from each other. At least one of the plurality of finger mechanisms is constituted by a Chebychev link mechanism including a driving link configured to be rotated about a base end portion thereof supported by the base, a driven link having a base end portion coupled to the base so as to be swingable, and an intermediate link having a base end portion coupled to a tip end portion of the driving link so as to be swingable and a center portion coupled to a tip end portion of the driven link so as to be swingable. The fingertip portions are respectively provided at tip end portions of the intermediate links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Kamon, Sadao Kubo, Yuuki Takayama, Hitoshi Hasunuma
  • Publication number: 20110115244
    Abstract: A robot hand is configured such that a plurality of finger mechanisms are disposed on base and operate so as to cause fingertip portions thereof to get close to each other and separate from each other. At least one of the plurality of finger mechanisms is constituted by a Chebychev link mechanism including a driving link configured to be rotated about a base end portion thereof supported by the base, a driven link having a base end portion coupled to the base so as to be swingable, and an intermediate link having a base end portion coupled to a tip end portion of the driving link so as to be swingable and a center portion coupled to a tip end portion of the driven link so as to be swingable. The fingertip portions are respectively provided at tip end portions of the intermediate links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Kamon, Sadao Kubo, Yuuki Takayama, Hitoshi Hasunuma
  • Patent number: 7657082
    Abstract: A method of measuring a welding-groove position for an over-lapped fillet welding of thin members, comprising a projection step of projecting a slit light so that the slit light is projected on both the thin members crossing a welding-groove face, a two-dimensional image acquisition step of capturing the slit-light image projected on each of the thin members as two-dimensional images; a three-dimensional conversion step of converting the two-dimensional images into three-dimensional images using a predetermined three-dimensional conversion parameter, and a calculation step of calculating the welding-groove position based on the three-dimensional data of the projected slit-light images, and relative positions between the projected slit-light images in the three-dimensional data defined by shapes and arrangement of the thin members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignees: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Central Motor Wheel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Kubo, Tadao Shimada, Kazuhiko Onoue, Hirotaka Uehara, Hirotaka Kinoshita, Yukimitsu Suzuki, Ichiro Arita
  • Publication number: 20060159331
    Abstract: A method of measuring a welding-groove position for an over-lapped fillet welding of thin members, comprising a projection step of projecting a slit light so that the slit light is projected on both the thin members crossing a welding-groove face, a two-dimensional image acquisition step of capturing the slit-light image projected on each of the thin members as two-dimensional images; a three-dimensional conversion step of converting the two-dimensional images into three-dimensional images using a predetermined three-dimensional conversion parameter, and a calculation step of calculating the welding-groove position based on the three-dimensional data of the projected slit-light images, and relative positions between the projected slit-light images in the three-dimensional data defined by shapes and arrangement of the thin members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Sadao Kubo, Tadao Shimada, Kazuhiko Onoue, Hirotaka Uehara, Hirotaka Kinoshita, Yukimitsu Suzuki, Ichiro Arita
  • Patent number: D323644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ichida, Sadao Kubo
  • Patent number: D324026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ichida, Sadao Kubo