Patents by Inventor Takashi Nagatomi

Takashi Nagatomi 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: 20230376002
    Abstract: A machine learning device has an input data acquisition unit that acquires input data including an arbitrary machining condition for an arbitrary workpiece to be machined by an arbitrary machine tool, a cleaning condition for cleaning, by an arbitrary cleaning device, the inside of a machine by which the workpiece was machined under the machining condition and state information indicating a degree of dirtiness of the inside of the machine before the machining under the machining condition. The device also has a label acquisition unit that acquires, as label data, state information about the inside of the machine after machining under the machining condition and cleaning under the cleaning condition included in the input data, and a learning unit that executes supervised learning using the input data and the label data, so as to generate a learned model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kenichi OGAWA, Takashi NAGATOMI
  • Patent number: 11687138
    Abstract: In a power supplying system, a selection unit that selects one of a first power feed unit and a second power feed unit, a first voltage determination unit that compares a voltage of an output of the first power feed unit with a first threshold value, a second voltage determination unit that compares a voltage of an output of the second power feed unit with a second threshold value, and a management unit that sets the first threshold value and the second threshold value are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Nagatomi
  • Publication number: 20220155842
    Abstract: In a power supplying system, a selection unit that selects one of a first power feed unit and a second power feed unit, a first voltage determination unit that compares a voltage of an output of the first power feed unit with a first threshold value, a second voltage determination unit that compares a voltage of an output of the second power feed unit with a second threshold value, and a management unit that sets the first threshold value and the second threshold value are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Nagatomi
  • Patent number: 11275422
    Abstract: In a power supplying system, a selection unit that selects one of a first power feed unit and a second power feed unit, a first voltage determination unit that compares a voltage of an output of the first power feed unit with a first threshold value, a second voltage determination unit that compares a voltage of an output of the second power feed unit with a second threshold value, and a management unit that sets the first threshold value and the second threshold value are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Nagatomi
  • Publication number: 20210174227
    Abstract: A machine learning apparatus capable of reducing an error between a machined workpiece and a target shape when the workpiece is machined based on a workpiece model modeling the target shape of the workpiece. A machine learning apparatus includes a state observation section configured to observe machining state data of a machine tool configured to machine the workpiece, and measurement data of an error between a shape of the workpiece machined by the machine tool based on the workpiece model and the target shape, as a state variable representing a current state of environment in which the workpiece is machined, and a learning section configured to learn the correction amount in association with the error by using the state variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichi OGAWA, Takashi NAGATOMI
  • Patent number: 10780513
    Abstract: A wire electrical discharge machining system includes a securing device that is placed at a cut position where a workpiece on a holding unit has been cut by wire electrical discharge machining when the wire electrical discharge machining has been performed on the workpiece held on the holding unit to reach a predetermined position before the completion of machining and that individually attracts a cut-out portion from the workpiece and a remaining portion on the workpiece at the cut position where the workpiece has been cut, thereby securing the cut-out portion to the remaining portion, and a robot is configured to individually attract both the cut-out portion and the remaining portion with the securing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takurou Oonishi, Takashi Nagatomi
  • Publication number: 20190272013
    Abstract: In a power supplying system, a selection unit that selects one of a first power feed unit and a second power feed unit, a first voltage determination unit that compares a voltage of an output of the first power feed unit with a first threshold value, a second voltage determination unit that compares a voltage of an output of the second power feed unit with a second threshold value, and a management unit that sets the first threshold value and the second threshold value are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Nagatomi
  • Patent number: 10328582
    Abstract: A process system includes a detection device that detects a rotation angle of a workpiece when a robot grips the workpiece. The control device includes a storage unit that stores a reference rotation angle serving as a criterion for the rotation angle of the workpiece, and an error calculation unit that calculates a rotation error relative to the reference rotation angle in the rotation angle of the workpiece detected by the detection device. The control device corrects the rotation angle of the fixture based on the rotation error so as to correspond to the rotation angle of the workpiece detected by the detection device when the robot transfers the workpiece to the fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Itou, Takashi Nagatomi
  • Publication number: 20180207804
    Abstract: A process system includes a detection device that detects a rotation angle of a workpiece when a robot grips the workpiece. The control device includes a storage unit that stores a reference rotation angle serving as a criterion for the rotation angle of the workpiece, and an error calculation unit that calculates a rotation error relative to the reference rotation angle in the rotation angle of the workpiece detected by the detection device. The control device corrects the rotation angle of the fixture based on the rotation error so as to correspond to the rotation angle of the workpiece detected by the detection device when the robot transfers the workpiece to the fixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Daisuke ITOU, Takashi NAGATOMI
  • Patent number: 9925630
    Abstract: Provided is a device that prevents a workpiece from sticking to a clamp part and moving with the clamp part to a position deviating from a predetermined position. The device for holding the workpiece includes: a seat on which the workpiece is seated; a clamper that is movable with respect to the seat; a clamp part that is movably supported by the clamper and is configured to hold the workpiece at a clamp position with respect to the clamper in such a manner that the clamp part is pressed against the workpiece by an operation of the clamper so that the workpiece is held between the clamp part and the seat; and a biasing part that is configured to bias the clamp part to move the clamp part from the clamp position when the clamp part is at the clamp position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Nagatomi
  • Publication number: 20170341172
    Abstract: A wire electrical discharge machining system includes a securing device that is placed at a cut position where a workpiece on a holding unit has been cut by wire electrical discharge machining when the wire electrical discharge machining has been performed on the workpiece held on the holding unit to reach a predetermined position before the completion of machining and that individually attracts a cut-out portion from the workpiece and a remaining portion on the workpiece at the cut position where the workpiece has been cut, thereby securing the cut-out portion to the remaining portion, and a robot is configured to individually attract both the cut-out portion and the remaining portion with the securing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takurou OONISHI, Takashi NAGATOMI
  • Patent number: 9656329
    Abstract: A machining jig for rotatably supporting a workpiece comprising: a rotary drive part which rotates a seating part about a rotation axis, a clamp arm which has a rotary type clamp member which cooperates with the seating part to fasten a workpiece at a position separated from the seating part in a direction along the rotation axis of the seating part, a linear drive part which moves the clamp arm in a direction along a rotation axis, a position adjusting part which adjusts a position of the clamp arm in a plane intersecting the rotation axis, and a tilt adjusting part which adjusts a tilt of the clamp member so that a rotation axis of the clamp member becomes parallel with the rotation axis of the seating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Ogawa, Takashi Nagatomi
  • Publication number: 20160023315
    Abstract: Provided is a device that prevents a workpiece from sticking to a clamp part and moving with the clamp part to a position deviating from a predetermined position. The device for holding the workpiece includes: a seat on which the workpiece is seated; a clamper that is movable with respect to the seat; a clamp part that is movably supported by the clamper and is configured to hold the workpiece at a clamp position with respect to the clamper in such a manner that the clamp part is pressed against the workpiece by an operation of the clamper so that the workpiece is held between the clamp part and the seat; and a biasing part that is configured to bias the clamp part to move the clamp part from the clamp position when the clamp part is at the clamp position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventor: Takashi Nagatomi
  • Publication number: 20150266109
    Abstract: A machining jig for rotatably supporting a workpiece comprising: a rotary drive part which rotates a seating part about a rotation axis, a clamp arm which has a rotary type clamp member which cooperates with the seating part to fasten a workpiece at a position separated from the seating part in a direction along the rotation axis of the seating part, a linear drive part which moves the clamp arm in a direction along a rotation axis, a position adjusting part which adjusts a position of the clamp arm in a plane intersecting the rotation axis, and a tilt adjusting part which adjusts a tilt of the clamp member so that a rotation axis of the clamp member becomes parallel with the rotation axis of the seating part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Kenichi OGAWA, Takashi NAGATOMI
  • Patent number: 5888037
    Abstract: A feed-shaft moving method and an apparatus capable of reducing non-cutting motion time. In a first section and a second section, an immediately preceding path is connected with a rapid traverse by a rapid traverse motion path having a curve continuous with the immediately preceding path. The movement is accelerated up to a rapid traverse speed while passing the curve. In the first section, the path is connected with the next path by a rapid traverse path having a curve continuous with the next movement. The movement is decelerated to the next moving speed while passing the curve. The rapid traverse motion of the feed shaft can be completed in less time, with unnecessary interruption and with no impact on the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Fanuc, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Fujimoto, Takashi Nagatomi
  • Patent number: 5773949
    Abstract: A cutter fracture detecting system is capable of detecting a fracture of a cutter highly accurately which may occur even when no substantial loads are imposed on a rotating axis and a cutter feed axis of a machine tool. A rotating axis disturbant load torque estimating unit (1) and a moving axis disturbant load torque estimating unit (2) monitor disturbant load torques on a spindle and an axis with respect to which a workpiece and a cutter move relatively to each other, and still axis disturbant load torque estimating units (3, 4) also monitor disturbant load torques on axes with respect to which the workpiece and the cutter do not move relatively to each other. A comparing unit (5) determines that the cutter is fractured based on the disturbant load torques estimated by the disturbant load torque estimating units. When a cutter fracture is detected, the machine tool is stopped by a machine shutdown command unit (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Fanuc, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Nagatomi, Miwako Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 5599142
    Abstract: In a drilling control apparatus for properly controlling a load sitting on a drill, a cutting reaction force estimate unit (1) estimates a disturbance load torque Yz acting on a servomotor (feed axis) (63) based on a speed signal X1z to the servomotor (63) and a torque value U1z commanded to the servomotor (63). In drilling operations, the cutting reaction force Yz is equivalent to a cutting reaction force generated between a drill (75) and a workpiece (91). Note, rotation of the drill (75) is controlled by a spindle motor (73) and a position in a Z-axis direction of the drill (75) and a feed speed of the drill (75) are controlled by the servomotor (63) through a spindle head (74).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Fujimoto, Takashi Nagatomi, Naoki Sato
  • Patent number: 5587915
    Abstract: A tool damage prevention system is provided which can easily detect an abnormal load with high accuracy to reliably prevent damage to a tool, and which also can appropriately cope with abnormality even if tool damage or the like has already occurred. A first disturbance torque estimating device estimates a disturbance torque Ys acting on a spindle motor, based on a velocity signal X1s from the spindle motor (spindle) and a torque command value U1s for the spindle motor. A second disturbance torque estimating device estimates a disturbance torque Yz acting on a servomotor, based on a velocity signal X1z from the servomotor (feed shaft) and a torque command value U1z for the servomotor. A comparing device obtains a composite disturbance torque Y by combining the estimated disturbance torques Ys and Yz, and compares the composite disturbance torque Y with a preset reference torque Ye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1996
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Nagatomi
  • Patent number: 4870744
    Abstract: In a tool exchange system, in which the selection of a tool (8) supported on a magazine (9) is done by the rotation of a main spindle (5) via a pair of gears (20) and (21), an elastic member (71) is provided so as to retain the magazine (9) in a machining position (pause position) which does not interfere with a machining operation. A first cam mechanism (11) is adapted to move the magazine (9) between a tool exchange position and the machining position in response to the vertical move of a Z-slider (3) moving along a column (1). A second cam mechanism (12) is adapted to operate a tool attachment/removal means (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Araki, Hisao Ishii, Yoshihisa Akiyama, Hiroshi Kamada, Takashi Nagatomi