Patents by Inventor Takanori SHIBUTANI

Takanori SHIBUTANI 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: 11964351
    Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of suitably determining screw fastening failure. A screw fastening failure determination device (10) includes: a speed acquisition unit (13) which acquires an axial speed of a screw driver or a speed feature value relating to the speed; and a failure determination unit (14) which determines, in a temporary seating process, that a screw fastening has failed on the basis of the axial speed or the speed feature value at a prescribed timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Sugioka, Tatsuya Sasaki, Koji Nishigaki, Takanori Shibutani
  • Publication number: 20230182241
    Abstract: Even when a tapping screw is used in a soft material, it is determined whether or not a screw tightening defect has occurred. A PLC (10) comprises a determination unit (13) which for a rotational torque data sequence having a predetermined number of data points, generates a normalized torque data sequence that is the amount of change with respect to rotational torque at a first data point of the data sequence, and determines whether screw tightening is defective, on the basis of the normalized torque data sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya SASAKI, Takanori SHIBUTANI
  • Patent number: 11512949
    Abstract: A screw length determination system capable of quickly determining the length of a screw is obtained. A PLC (10) is equipped with a determination part for measuring the moving speed of a driver for tightening screws in the axial direction of the driver from an initial position until a screw contacts and is screwed into a workpiece, and determining the length of the screw on the basis of the time from the start of movement from the initial position until the moving speed changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Nishigaki, Tatsuya Sasaki, Takanori Shibutani
  • Patent number: 11453091
    Abstract: Provided is a screw length determination system capable of determining the length of a screw with a high degree of accuracy. A PLC (10) determines the length of a screw on the basis of the amount of rotation or the position in the axial direction of a driver during a period lasting from the time when the screw completes its descent until any time from among the time when provisional seating occurs, the time when the primary tightening period ends and the time when the period of holding for primary tightening ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Nishigaki, Tatsuya Sasaki, Takanori Shibutani
  • Publication number: 20220126409
    Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of suitably determining screw fastening failure. A screw fastening failure determination device (10) includes: a speed acquisition unit (13) which acquires an axial speed of a screw driver or a speed feature value relating to the speed; and a failure determination unit (14) which determines, in a temporary seating process, that a screw fastening has failed on the basis of the axial speed or the speed feature value at a prescribed timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SUGIOKA, Tatsuya SASAKI, Koji NISHIGAKI, Takanori SHIBUTANI
  • Publication number: 20220080540
    Abstract: The present invention provides technology with which it is possible to highly accurately assess the quality of fastening of a screw. The present invention comprises a position acquisition unit (13) that acquires the axial-direction position of a driver (50), and a fault assessment unit (14) that assesses that a fault has occurred in fastening of a screw when the amount of change in the axial-direction position of the driver (50) from when temporary seating occurred is greater than a threshold value. The present invention provides a technology with which the quality of screw fastening can be assessed with high precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SUGIOKA, Tatsuya SASAKI, Koji NISHIGAKI, Takanori SHIBUTANI
  • Publication number: 20220040805
    Abstract: Provided is a screw length determination system capable of determining the length of a screw with a high degree of accuracy. A PLC (10) determines the length of a screw on the basis of the amount of rotation or the position in the axial direction of a driver during a period lasting from the time when the screw completes its descent until any time from among the time when provisional seating occurs, the time when the primary tightening period ends and the time when the period of holding for primary tightening ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Koji NISHIGAKI, Tatsuya SASAKI, Takanori SHIBUTANI
  • Publication number: 20220042796
    Abstract: A screw length determination system capable of quickly determining the length of a screw is obtained. A PLC (10) is equipped with a determination part for measuring the moving speed of a driver for tightening screws in the axial direction of the driver from an initial position until a screw contacts and is screwed into a workpiece, and determining the length of the screw on the basis of the time from the start of movement from the initial position until the moving speed changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Koji NISHIGAKI, Tatsuya SASAKI, Takanori SHIBUTANI