Patents by Inventor Shouki Tani

Shouki Tani 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: 20240077845
    Abstract: A numerical controller 10 according to an aspect of the present disclosure does not require excessive speed and acceleration yet suppress errors in movement paths, and in accordance with a machining program containing a plurality of command blocks that each specify a designated speed of a target, controls a machining device having a plurality of driving axes for driving the target. The numerical controller 10 comprises: a synthetic speed calculation unit 16 that, for at least a curve block which designates curve movement and which is from among the plurality of command blocks, calculates a synthetic speed that is revised so that the designated speed is initially accelerated from zero by a prior revision time constant and finally decelerated to zero by the prior revision time constant; and a prior revision speed calculation unit 17 that calculates a prior revision speed of each driving axis for each time to realize the synthetic speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shouki TANI, Naoya KOIDE
  • Patent number: 10915087
    Abstract: To provide a numerical control device capable of directly determining whether or not a cutting fluid is applied to a cutting point. A numerical control device includes a determination unit configured to make, on a basis of image data acquired when a vision sensor photographs a cutting fluid jetted from an injection nozzle toward a cutting point, determination of whether or not the cutting fluid is applied to the cutting point, and an instruction unit configured to issue an instruction to a nozzle control device configured to control a position and an attitude of the injection nozzle on a basis of a result of the determination of the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuaki Aizawa, Shouki Tani
  • Patent number: 10599125
    Abstract: Provided is a numerical controller capable of calculating an optimum feed rate in machining in which cutting is performed in a different direction from a direction of a spindle axis. The numerical controller includes a tool data storage unit for storing tool data related to a tool attached to the spindle axis, a command analyzer for reading and analyzing a command block from the machining program, and generating movement command data for relatively moving the spindle axis with respect to the workpiece and spindle axis rotation command data for rotating the spindle axis, and a cutting speed controller for calculating a recommended cutting feed rate of the spindle axis based on the tool data of the tool, and clamping a cutting feed rate of the spindle axis included in the movement command data at the recommended cutting feed rate when the cutting feed rate of the spindle axis is larger than the recommended cutting feed rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Aizawa, Shouki Tani
  • Publication number: 20190332086
    Abstract: To provide a numerical control device capable of directly determining whether or not a cutting fluid is applied to a cutting point. A numerical control device includes a determination unit configured to make, on a basis of image data acquired when a vision sensor photographs a cutting fluid jetted from an injection nozzle toward a cutting point, determination of whether or not the cutting fluid is applied to the cutting point, and an instruction unit configured to issue an instruction to a nozzle control device configured to control a position and an attitude of the injection nozzle on a basis of a result of the determination of the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuaki AIZAWA, Shouki TANI
  • Publication number: 20180275626
    Abstract: Provided is a numerical controller capable of calculating an optimum feed rate in machining in which cutting is performed in a different direction from a direction of a spindle axis. The numerical controller includes a tool data storage unit for storing tool data related to a tool attached to the spindle axis, a command analyzer for reading and analyzing a command block from the machining program, and generating movement command data for relatively moving the spindle axis with respect to the workpiece and spindle axis rotation command data for rotating the spindle axis, and a cutting speed controller for calculating a recommended cutting feed rate of the spindle axis based on the tool data of the tool, and clamping a cutting feed rate of the spindle axis included in the movement command data at the recommended cutting feed rate when the cutting feed rate of the spindle axis is larger than the recommended cutting feed rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuaki Aizawa, Shouki Tani
  • Publication number: 20080021591
    Abstract: When an operation state of a numerical controller which controls a machine tool is (1) in a state were rotation of a spindle is being stopped, (2) in a state where cutting feed rate of a tool with respect to a work exceeds a set maximum cutting feed rate corresponding to a work material, or (3) in a state where the tool moves in a direction different from the work cutting direction of the tool, it is checked whether or not the tool and the work interfere with each other. In other operation states, an interference check is not executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: FANUC LTD
    Inventors: Shouki Tani, Shuji Ogawa, Masahiko Hosokawa, Osamu Hanaoka