Patents by Inventor Shinichi Ozeki

Shinichi Ozeki 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: 11679463
    Abstract: A cutting fluid amount adjusting device acquires at least data indicating a machining state of a machine tool and data relating to cutting fluid supplied from a cutting fluid supplying device, creates data used in machine learning based on the acquired data, and executes, based on the created data, processing of the machine learning relating to the discharge amount of the cutting fluid from a cutting fluid nozzle in an environment in which machining of a workpiece by the machine tool is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Ozeki
  • Publication number: 20230176544
    Abstract: A control device is for controlling an industrial machine. The control device has a display control unit that divides a screen displayed on a display unit into a plurality of regions and displays representations, on the regions, concerning respective motion executions of the machine, a detection unit that, when a plurality of the representations are displayed in a combination, detects operation of a user on the machine or detects a time period in which a display pattern indicating the combination of representations has been displayed without change, and a saving unit that, when the detected operation is a predetermined operation having been set in advance or the display time period of the detected display pattern is equal to or longer than a predetermined time period having been set in advance, saves the display pattern when the detection has been performed as an intended display pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Shinichi OZEKI
  • Publication number: 20230143968
    Abstract: A control device is provided with: an extraction unit which extracts, on the basis of a machine configuration including the number of axes and/or the number of systems in a machine tool, a plurality of task items included in setup work for the next process in the machine tool, as essential settings or optional settings; a determination unit which dynamically determines, in accordance with operation details of setup work performed on the machine tool during a period from the completion of the latest process by the machine tool to the present point in time, whether each of the plurality of task items extracted as an essential setting or optional setting corresponds to an essential setting or an optional setting; and an action control unit which does not permit a process action of the machine tool if there is an essential setting which has not been completed or updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Shinichi OZEKI
  • Publication number: 20230140903
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to ascertain easily a positional relationship between a tool and a workpiece in a machining program, in order to stop a machine tool in accordance with the purpose. This control device for controlling a machine tool on the basis of a machining program is provided with an extracting unit for extracting, from blocks included in the machining program, a block of the machining program in which the tool and the workpiece in the machine tool are in a predetermined state, as a stopping position candidate, in accordance with the purpose of stopping the machine tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Shinichi OZEKI
  • Patent number: 11614727
    Abstract: Operation of an NC device can be restricted during the time until processing requested by a transmitting side is completed by a receiving side. An information processing device communicatively connected to a controller of an industrial machine including a processing request transmission unit that transmits a processing request to the controller; a processing completion notification management unit that detects a processing completion notification, transmitted from the controller, which notifies of completion of processing according to the processing request; and an operation restriction control unit that restricts processing request operation of the controller for a next operation until the processing completion notification is detected by the processing completion notification management unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Ozeki
  • Patent number: 11602876
    Abstract: A molding shrinkage ratio is predicted according to molding conditions set in advance in designing a mold. A machine learning device includes an input data acquiring unit that acquires input data including any molding condition including a type of resin, a type of additive, a blending ratio of the additive, a surface temperature of a mold, and a product of a holding pressure and a holding pressure time for any article molded by any injection molding machine, a label acquiring unit that acquires label data indicating a molding shrinkage ratio in a flow direction and a molding shrinkage ratio in a vertical direction perpendicular to the flow direction of a resin measured of the article molded at the molding condition, and a learning unit that executes supervised learning using the input data and the label data, and generates a learned model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Ozeki
  • Publication number: 20230065699
    Abstract: A machine learning device includes an input data acquisition unit which acquires input data containing a machining condition for any wire-cut electrical discharge machining applied to any workpiece by any wire-cut electrical discharge machining machine and consumables information including the degree of degradation of at least one of an electrode wire, ion exchange resin, a power supply die, and an electrode wire guide roller before wire-cut electrical discharge machining. The device also includes a label acquisition unit which acquires label data indicating the degree of degradation of at least one of the electrode wire, the ion exchange resin, the power supply die, and the electrode wire guide roller after the wire-cut electrical discharge machining under the machining condition contained in the input data, and a learning unit which uses the input data and the label data to execute supervised learning, thereby generating a learned model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Shinichi OZEKI
  • Patent number: 11583968
    Abstract: The state of a cutting fluid after machining is predicted. A machine learning device includes: an input data acquisition unit that acquires input data including arbitrary machining conditions for an arbitrary work in machining by an arbitrary machine tool and state information indicating a state of a cutting fluid before machining is performed under the machining conditions; a label acquisition unit that acquires label data indicating state information of the cutting fluid after the machining is performed under the machining conditions included in the input data; and a learning unit that executes supervised learning using the input data acquired by the input data acquisition unit and the label data acquired by the label acquisition unit to generate a learned model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Ozeki
  • Patent number: 11556142
    Abstract: A warm-up evaluation device includes: a temperature data acquisition unit that acquires temperature data before warm-up operation when a machine performs the warm-up operation; a parameter value acquisition unit that acquires parameter values set in a program for performing the warm-up operation; an evaluation data acquisition unit that acquires evaluation data for evaluating a result of the warm-up operation; a learning unit that learns a machine learning model which receives the temperature data and the parameter values as an input and outputs the evaluation data on the basis of a plurality of warm-up operations performed by the same or the same types of machines; and an evaluation unit that inputs candidates for the parameter values to the machine learning model together with the temperature data and outputs the evaluation data when the same or the same types of machines perform a new warm-up operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Ozeki
  • Patent number: 11531320
    Abstract: A numerical controller that collects data from an industrial machine and writes data into a storage medium includes: an interval setting unit that sets a time interval between cycles in which one cycle involves collection of operation information indicating an operating state of the industrial machine and writing of the collected operation information to the storage medium; a reduced service life calculation unit that calculates a service life of the number of writes of the storage medium reduced by the writing on the basis of the set time interval as a reduced service life; a determining unit that determines whether the calculated reduced service life exceeds a prescribed threshold; and a signal output unit that outputs a signal indicating that the reduced service life exceeds the prescribed threshold when it is determined that the reduced service life exceeds the prescribed threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Ozeki
  • Patent number: 11465253
    Abstract: A grinder selection device includes: an input unit that inputs a grinding condition for a workpiece as a grinding target of grinding machining including at least the geometry of the workpiece and vibration data indicating vibration of a grinding machine, and grinder information about one or more grinders as grinder candidates to be used for the grinding machining; a learned model acquired through supervised learning using training data containing input data and label data, the input data containing an arbitrary grinding condition for a workpiece as a grinding target of grinding machining by an arbitrary grinding machine including at least the geometry of the workpiece and vibration data indicating vibration of the grinding machine, and grinder information about an arbitrary grinder, the label data being data indicating the adequacy or inadequacy of a combination between the grinding condition and the grinder information about the grinder; and a judgment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Ozeki
  • Patent number: 11099542
    Abstract: An input error detection device can detect an input error based on input values input in the past and the trend of values from the view point of the whole of a control program. In order to detect an error in inputting a value used to control a manufacturing machine, the input error detection device is provided with a histogram creation unit configured to create a histogram, based on a set of values used to control the manufacturing machine, and a determination unit configured, based on the histogram, to determine input errors of the values used to control the manufacturing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Satou, Shinichi Ozeki, Shinichirou Itakura
  • Publication number: 20210187742
    Abstract: To reliably execute processing of a client or application to be prioritized according to processing contents for each processing state for an industrial machine. A control device relates to a control device that executes processing of processing requests for an industrial machine from a plurality of clients, the control device including: a priority determination unit configured to determine, in a case in which a plurality of the processing requests is received from the plurality of clients, a priority of each of the plurality of clients according to a processing state of the industrial machine, and a processing switching unit configured to switch an order of processing of each of the plurality of the processing requests based on a priority of each of the plurality of clients determined by the priority determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Shinichi OZEKI
  • Publication number: 20210181712
    Abstract: To reliably execute processing to be prioritized for each processing state for an industrial machine. A control device executes processing of processing requests for a machine tool from a client, the numerical control device including: a processing switching unit configured to switch, in a case in which a plurality of the processing requests is received from the client, an order of processing for each of the plurality of processing requests based on a priority according to a processing state for the machine tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventor: Shinichi OZEKI
  • Publication number: 20210173374
    Abstract: Operation of an NC device can be restricted during the time until processing requested by a transmitting side is completed by a receiving side. An information processing device communicatively connected to a controller of an industrial machine including a processing request transmission unit that transmits a processing request to the controller; a processing completion notification management unit that detects a processing completion notification, transmitted from the controller, which notifies of completion of processing according to the processing request; and an operation restriction control unit that restricts processing request operation of the controller for a next operation until the processing completion notification is detected by the processing completion notification management unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventor: Shinichi OZEKI
  • Patent number: 10962953
    Abstract: An adjustment necessity determination device is an adjustment necessity determination device that makes a determination, after a workpiece is machined, about a necessity to make an adjustment of a deviation of the axis position of each axis of a machine tool that has performed the machining and includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires a physical quantity relating to a cause of a deviation of the axis position of each axis of the machine tool, the physical quantity observed at the time of the machining; a time-series data storage unit that stores the physical quantity as time-series data; and an adjustment necessity judgement unit that makes a judgment about a necessity to make an adjustment of a deviation of the axis position of each axis of the machine tool based on the time-series data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Ozeki
  • Patent number: 10901395
    Abstract: A numerical controller includes an optimum data amount calculation unit that calculates an optimum value of at least one of the number of vertices and the number of polygons of a workpiece after machining, where the number of vertices or the number of polygons are extracted from the CAD data, a three-dimensional data reduction unit that reduces the number of vertices or the number of polygons of the workpiece after machining extracted from the CAD data, a three-dimensional model generation unit that generates a three-dimensional model of the workpiece after machining based on the vertices or the polygons reduced, and a display unit that generates display data for displaying the three-dimensional model and display the generated display data on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Ozeki
  • Publication number: 20200394536
    Abstract: Predicting a state of a mold after molding upon injection molding. A machine learning device includes: an input data acquiring unit that acquires input data including any molding condition including at least a type of resin, a type of additive, a blending ratio of the additive, and a temperature of the resin in molding any article molded by any injection molding machine, and state information indicating a wear amount of a mold before molding at the molding conditions; a label acquiring unit that acquires label data indicating state information of the mold after molding at the molding conditions included in the input data; and a learning unit that executes supervised learning using the input data acquired by the input data acquiring unit and the label data acquired by the label acquiring unit, and generates a learned model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventor: Shinichi OZEKI
  • Publication number: 20200391414
    Abstract: A molding shrinkage ratio is predicted according to molding conditions set in advance in designing a mold. A machine learning device includes an input data acquiring unit that acquires input data including any molding condition including a type of resin, a type of additive, a blending ratio of the additive, a surface temperature of a mold, and a product of a holding pressure and a holding pressure time for any article molded by any injection molding machine, a label acquiring unit that acquires label data indicating a molding shrinkage ratio in a flow direction and a molding shrinkage ratio in a vertical direction perpendicular to the flow direction of a resin measured of the article molded at the molding condition, and a learning unit that executes supervised learning using the input data and the label data, and generates a learned model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventor: Shinichi OZEKI
  • Publication number: 20200363785
    Abstract: A numerical controller that collects data from an industrial machine and writes data into a storage medium includes: an interval setting unit that sets a time interval between cycles in which one cycle involves collection of operation information indicating an operating state of the industrial machine and writing of the collected operation information to the storage medium; a reduced service life calculation unit that calculates a service life of the number of writes of the storage medium reduced by the writing on the basis of the set time interval as a reduced service life; a determining unit that determines whether the calculated reduced service life exceeds a prescribed threshold; and a signal output unit that outputs a signal indicating that the reduced service life exceeds the prescribed threshold when it is determined that the reduced service life exceeds the prescribed threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventor: Shinichi OZEKI