Patents by Inventor Souichi Toyama

Souichi Toyama 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: 20050128553
    Abstract: A scanner system includes a servo control unit. A rotation angle of a rotating shaft supporting a mirror is detected, and an error of the detected value with respect to a commanded value is integrated by an integral compensator so that the detected value is able to track the commanded value. A tracking error proportional compensator is disposed in parallel with the integral compensator so as to add a correction value proportional to the error to the integrated value of the error. A plurality of gains are prepared for each of the integral compensator, the tracking error proportional compensator, a detected value proportional compensator and a detected value differential compensator of the servo control unit. Each gain is changed in accordance with a travel angle of the commanded value. Thus, the mirror can be positioned quickly so that the machining speed can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicant: Hitachi Via Mechanics Ltd.
    Inventors: Souichi Toyama, Haruaki Otsuki, Atsushi Sakamoto, Kenta Seki, Yaichi Okubo
  • Publication number: 20040212862
    Abstract: An optical scanner which can realize target trajectory tracking machining at a high speed and with a high accuracy. In a servo control circuit controlling the operation of an X-axis scanner for positioning a mirror and the operation of a Y-axis scanner for positioning another mirror, sine wave response is performed at a specific frequency on feedback control for each axis so that the gain characteristic and the phase characteristic of the feedback control are estimated. This arithmetic operation processing is performed by a microprocessor prior to machining, and the results of estimation of the two axes are stored as data for each frequency. In the stage of machining, the results of estimation in terms of the gain characteristic and the phase characteristic are used for correcting the amplitude and phase of a sine wave of a target trajectory in order to cancel each characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: Hitachi Via Mechanics, Ltd.
    Inventors: Souichi Toyama, Atsushi Sakamoto, Haruaki Otsuki, Yaichi Okubo