Patents by Inventor Takafumi Murakami

Takafumi Murakami 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: 11956662
    Abstract: A wireless communication system in which wireless stations perform transmission, a plurality of wireless modules that are operated in a shared frequency band being installed in the wireless stations, wherein the wireless stations each include means for notifying a control device of environment information that includes capacity information regarding the wireless station and information regarding a surrounding wireless environment, and setting frequency channels in the plurality of wireless modules, the wireless stations being notified of the frequency channels by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating a frequency channel of each wireless module of each wireless station based on the environment information collected from each wireless station, following a control guideline that is determined in advance, and notifying the wireless stations of the frequency channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11950115
    Abstract: A measurement station collects radio base station performance information related to a radio communication performance of each radio base station, radio connection information related to a radio communication performance and a communication status of a corresponding radio terminal station, generates a measurement condition and an expected measurement result based on the radio base station performance information and the radio connection information, and notifies a measurement control signal corresponding to the measurement condition to the radio terminal station through the radio base station; the radio terminal station performs a communication setting of an own station based on the notified measurement control signal, and notifies a measurement preparation status to the measurement station; and the measurement station measures the radio communication performance by causing a flow of a measurement traffic to the radio terminal station through the radio base station, acquiring a measurement result, and determi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11917455
    Abstract: The invention of the present application provides a transmission parameter control method in a radio communication system that performs, between a radio base station and a plurality of radio terminal stations, communication of a first method in which reception confirmation is enabled and communication of a second method in which reception confirmation is not possible. The radio base station selects transmission parameters including a transmission rate in the communication of the second method with the radio terminal stations, based on radio communication information in the communication of the first method with the radio terminal stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11917454
    Abstract: A wireless communications method for connecting a base station with each of a plurality of terminal stations, the base station being equipped with a plurality of wireless communications units configured to be able to select a plurality of different transmission rates and connectable with one or more of the terminal stations, includes: a collection step of collecting information about a transmission rate and multicast transmission frequency from each of the terminal stations; a policy calculation step of calculating a setting policy for setting a unicast transmission rate and a multicast transmission rate for each of the wireless communications units and a switching policy for setting a condition for switching that one of the wireless communications units which is to be connected, for each of the terminal stations based on the collected information; and a setting step of setting those of the terminal stations which are to be connected, for each of the wireless communications units based on the calculated setti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11892813
    Abstract: Provided is a control device capable of automatically determining whether or not an inertia estimation function needs to be activated. The control device 10 is for an electric motor and comprises: a first inertia estimation unit 11 that estimates whether or not there has been a change in the inertia of an object to be driven, on the basis of at least one among first information pertaining to an operation program or operation settings for a device comprising the electric motor, second information obtained from a detection device for detecting the shape of the object to be driven by the electric motor, and third information indicating the operation state of the electric motor; and a second inertia estimation unit 12 that estimates the inertia of the object to be driven if the first inertia estimation unit 11 has estimated that there has been a change in the inertia of the object to be driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Murakami, Satoshi Ikai, Tsutomu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240027997
    Abstract: This communications system for numerical control devices includes a numerical control device, a converter device, and a plurality of inverter devices. This communications system for numerical control devices comprises an application unit and a determination unit. The application unit applies identification information to the inverter devices. The determination unit determines the inverter device, among the plurality of inverter devices that have had identification information applied thereto, that will be used for communications with the numerical control device and the converter device. The numerical control device comprises a numerical control communications unit that communicates with the inverter device using a first transmission path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi MURAKAMI, Takahiro OMORI
  • Publication number: 20230050838
    Abstract: Provided is a control device capable of automatically determining whether or not an inertia estimation function needs to be activated. The control device 10 is for an electric motor and comprises: a first inertia estimation unit 11 that estimates whether or not there has been a change in the inertia of an object to be driven, on the basis of at least one among first information pertaining to an operation program or operation settings for a device comprising the electric motor, second information obtained from a detection device for detecting the shape of the object to be driven by the electric motor, and third information indicating the operation state of the electric motor; and a second inertia estimation unit 12 that estimates the inertia of the object to be driven if the first inertia estimation unit 11 has estimated that there has been a change in the inertia of the object to be driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Takafumi Murakami, Satoshi Ikai, Tsutomu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11484981
    Abstract: A tool magazine of a machine tool holds machining tools of multiple types. The number of stored machining tools of at least one type is more than one. When all the machining tools of the at least one type are unused, a first test-machining step of machining a workpiece using one machining tool of each type is performed. When the machined product is graded as acceptable, a second test-machining step of replacing the machining tool of the at least one type with an unused machining tool in the tool magazine and machining a new workpiece using the one machining tool of each type is performed. The second test-machining step is repeated until all the machining tools are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takafumi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20210370453
    Abstract: A tool magazine of a machine tool holds machining tools of multiple types. The number of stored machining tools of at least one type is more than one. When all the machining tools of the at least one type are unused, a first test-machining step of machining a workpiece using one machining tool of each type is performed. When the machined product is graded as acceptable, a second test-machining step of replacing the machining tool of the at least one type with an unused machining tool in the tool magazine and machining a new workpiece using the one machining tool of each type is performed. The second test-machining step is repeated until all the machining tools are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Takafumi Murakami
  • Patent number: 11077709
    Abstract: A drive shaft is configured by joining solid stub shafts formed of a medium carbon steel to both ends of a hollow tubular body formed of a medium carbon steel. When expressed as grain size number, the grain size of the hollow tubular body at joint parts where the hollow tubular body and the solid stub shafts are joined together ranges from #5 to #9, and the grain size of the solid stub shafts at the joint parts ranges from #10 to #12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kamikawa, Naoto Shibata, Ko Sugai, Masafumi Yamamoto, Takafumi Murakami, Kazuya Kumei, Yutaka Takeuchi, Masaki Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20210197331
    Abstract: When the number of machining operations using a tool attached to a machining head of a machine tool has reached a predetermined number of machining operations for replacement, without a determination unit determining that an abnormality has occurred in the tool, then the tool is replaced with a replacement tool that is held in a tool magazine. Further, the tool removed from the machining head is returned to the tool magazine and stored as an auxiliary replacement tool. Then, if the determination unit determines that an abnormality has occurred in the replacement tool, the replacement tool is replaced with the auxiliary replacement tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventor: Takafumi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20200307312
    Abstract: A drive shaft is configured by joining solid stub shafts formed of a medium carbon steel to both ends of a hollow tubular body formed of a medium carbon steel. When expressed as grain size number, the grain size of the hollow tubular body at joint parts where the hollow tubular body and the solid stub shafts are joined together ranges from #5 to #9, and the grain size of the solid stub shafts at the joint parts ranges from #10 to #12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kamikawa, Naoto Shibata, Ko Sugai, Masafumi Yamamoto, Takafumi Murakami, Kazuya Kumei, Yutaka Takeuchi, Masaki Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10364710
    Abstract: An engine valve and a method of producing the engine valve are provided. The engine valve includes a shaft part and an umbrella part formed at one end of the shaft part. The engine valve opens and closes an intake port or an exhaust port of a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. Further, at least a portion of the engine valve that extends from the umbrella part to a position on the shaft part in a longitudinal direction thereof includes a valve body made of steel or nickel alloy, and a core member made of copper or copper alloy and provided inside the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takafumi Murakami
  • Patent number: 10126470
    Abstract: An optical absorber includes a first light-absorbing body which receives light incident from an entrance aperture and partially absorbs and reflects the incident light, and a second light-absorbing body which partially absorbs the incident light reflected by the first light-absorbing body and partially reflects the incident light toward the first light-absorbing body. The reflectance and light resistance of the first light-absorbing body are set higher than the reflectance and light resistance, respectively, of the second light-absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Murakami, Michinori Maeda
  • Publication number: 20180283261
    Abstract: An expansion tank includes a plurality of partition walls separating a storage chamber of the tank main body into a plurality of compartment chambers, each partition wall provided with a lower communicating portion and an upper communicating portion formed in a lower part and an upper part thereof, respectively, to communicate the adjoining compartment chambers to each other, wherein the compartment chambers include an inlet chamber having an inlet, an outlet chamber having an outlet, and intermediate chambers, and wherein one of the compartment chambers other than the outlet chamber is provided with a communication port, and a lower edge of the upper communicating portion of the partition wall defining the compartment chamber provided with the communication port is lower than a lower edge of the upper communicating portion of another one of the partition walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Haruo MORISHITA, Shinji SHIMOYAMA, Yoshihiro HATTORI, Takafumi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20170276032
    Abstract: An engine valve and a method of producing the engine valve are provided. The engine valve includes a shaft part and an umbrella part formed at one end of the shaft part. The engine valve opens and closes an intake port or an exhaust port of a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. Further, at least a portion of the engine valve that extends from the umbrella part to a position on the shaft part in a longitudinal direction thereof includes a valve body made of steel or nickel alloy, and a core member made of copper or copper alloy and provided inside the valve body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventor: Takafumi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20160259096
    Abstract: An optical absorber includes a first light-absorbing body which receives light incident from an entrance aperture and partially absorbs and reflects the incident light, and a second light-absorbing body which partially absorbs the incident light reflected by the first light-absorbing body and partially reflects the incident light toward the first light-absorbing body. The reflectance and light resistance of the first light-absorbing body are set higher than the reflectance and light resistance, respectively, of the second light-absorbing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Murakami, Michinori Maeda
  • Publication number: 20150318657
    Abstract: A laser oscillator having a mechanism which makes it easy to correct distortion in the laser oscillator, and also has a simple structure. The laser oscillator has a housing located on an installation surface and a resonator held by the housing. The resonator has a total reflecting mirror, an outputting mirror, a discharge tube positioned between the mirrors, and a laser power source which injects excitation energy into the laser medium such as the carbon dioxide gas within the discharge tube. The resonator is held on the housing by means of a holding mechanism, such as a clamp, a bolt or a bearing. The laser oscillator has at least three nonextendable legs having a constant height, and at least one extendable leg having an adjustable height, so that the legs extend from a lower part of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Murakami, Michinori Maeda
  • Patent number: 8958454
    Abstract: The slant of a first mirror (21), the slant of a second mirror (22), and the laser output when the slant of the first mirror (21) is an initial value and when the slant of the first mirror (21) is made to move from the initial value by exactly a predetermined value in the positive and negative directions are used as the basis to calculate a first approximation curve of the laser output with respect to the slant of the first mirror (21) and second approximation curve of the laser output with respect to the slant of the second mirror (22), set a value which corresponds to a local maximum value of the first approximation curve as the slant of the first mirror (21), and set a value which corresponds to a local maximum value of the second approximation curve as the slant of the second mirror (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Sato, Takafumi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140211825
    Abstract: The slant of a first mirror (21), the slant of a second mirror (22), and the laser output when the slant of the first mirror (21) is an initial value and when the slant of the first mirror (21) is made to move from the initial value by exactly a predetermined value in the positive and negative directions are used as the basis to calculate a first approximation curve of the laser output with respect to the slant of the first mirror (21) and second approximation curve of the laser output with respect to the slant of the second mirror (22), set a value which corresponds to a local maximum value of the first approximation curve as the slant of the first mirror (21), and set a value which corresponds to a local maximum value of the second approximation curve as the slant of the second mirror (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Sato, Takafumi Murakami