Patents by Inventor Takashi Nammoto

Takashi Nammoto 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: 20160368150
    Abstract: A robot, wherein the robot operates on the basis of a picked-up image of at least a part of a work space of the robot picked up by an image pickup section, and a transparent member is disposed between the robot and the work space of the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Kenichi MARUYAMA, Takashi NAMMOTO, Tomoki HARADA
  • Publication number: 20160370393
    Abstract: A robot includes a first arm, and a first end effector provided in the first arm, and the first end effector grasps a container and an object is spread within the container using a spreading member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Tomoki HARADA, Takashi NAMMOTO, Kenichi MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160306340
    Abstract: A robot includes an arm and a hand. The robot brings a tool gripped by the hand into contact with an object and changes at least one of the position and the posture of the hand gripping the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi NAMMOTO, Kenichi MARUYAMA, Tomoki HARADA, Kazuhiro KOSUGE, Haruaki CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20160297071
    Abstract: A robot includes: an arm; and a controller that operates the arm, the controller generating a pathway according to a relative position and a relative orientation of: a first object that moves together with the arm; and a second object and according to a first position of the first object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi NAMMOTO, Kazuhiro KOSUGE, Abhilasha SAKSENA
  • Patent number: 9452537
    Abstract: A robot hand is a robot hand including a finger section. The robot hand includes an elastic body provided in the finger section and including an attracting section that attracts an object and a sensor provided in the finger section and configured to detect deformation of the elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nammoto, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Kosuke Hara, Kengo Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20160272354
    Abstract: For accurate housing of an object to be packed even in an unfixed box body, a packing apparatus includes a movable unit and a force detection part provided in the movable unit and houses an object to be packed in a box body formed from a packing material based on an output value of the force detection part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi NAMMOTO, Kazuhiro KOSUGE, Tomoki HARADA, Koichi HASHIMOTO, Kengo YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9358691
    Abstract: A robot hand includes a finger unit that is in contact with an object. The finger unit includes: a first member in which a tip portion and a base portion connected to the tip portion are formed as a single member; and a second member that covers a surface of the first member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nammoto, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Kosuke Hara, Kengo Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20160089788
    Abstract: A robot includes an arm and a control unit configured to control a motion of the arm using compliant motion control. The control unit changes a parameter value of the compliant motion control depending on a relative position and orientation of a first object moving along with the arm and a second object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi NAMMOTO, Kazuhiro KOSUGE, Abhilasha SAKSENA
  • Patent number: 9211642
    Abstract: A robot apparatus includes a gripping unit configured to grip a first component, a force sensor configured to detect, as detection values, a force and a moment acting on the gripping unit, a storing unit having stored therein contact states of the first component and a second component and transition information in association with each other, a selecting unit configured to discriminate, on the basis of the detection values, a contact state of the first component and the second component and select, on the basis of a result of the discrimination, the transition state stored in the storing unit, and a control unit configured to control the gripping unit on the basis of the transition information selected by the selecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nammoto, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Kentaro Kamei
  • Publication number: 20150251314
    Abstract: Provided is a robot including a hand and a control unit that operates the hand. The control unit rotates a first object around a predetermined position of the first object with the hand and moves the first object with respect to a second object, based on a captured image including the hand and the first object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi NAMMOTO, Kazuhiro KOSUGE, Koichi HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9129358
    Abstract: An inspecting apparatus includes an image pickup unit configured to pick up a plurality of images of an inspection target object with different exposure times and generate, image data of an inspection target object image including an inspection region, a weighted-image-data generating unit configured to weight, for each of the image data generated with the exposure times different from one another, data of pixels indicating a region where a difference in gradation of pixel values is relatively large among regions of pixels included in the image data and generate weighted image data, an image-data combining unit configured to generate combined image data obtained by combining the generated respective weighted image data, and a determining unit configured to determine a state of the inspection region on the basis of image data of a reference image set and the generated combined image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nammoto, Koichi Hashimoto, Tomohiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 9102059
    Abstract: A robot control method includes a first step of selecting a holding form in which a robot holds an object and a second step of determining whether the object can continue to be stably held when a predetermined external force is applied to the object in the selected holding form. In the second step, it is determined that the object can continue to be stably held when a force which should be generated by a contact portion to generate resistance to the predetermined external force is included in a friction cone of a force generated by driving the contact portion and enlarged by a suction force from the suction mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nammoto, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Kengo Yamaguchi, Yasuhisa Hirata
  • Publication number: 20150217458
    Abstract: A robot hand is a robot hand including a finger section. The robot hand includes an elastic body provided in the finger section and including an attracting section that attracts an object and a sensor provided in the finger section and configured to detect deformation of the elastic body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi NAMMOTO, Kazuhiro KOSUGE, Kosuke HARA, Kengo YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150202778
    Abstract: A robot hand includes a finger unit that is in contact with an object. The finger unit includes: a first member in which a tip portion and a base portion connected to the tip portion are formed as a single member; and a second member that covers a surface of the first member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi NAMMOTO, Kazuhiro KOSUGE, Kosuke HARA, Kengo YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9082017
    Abstract: A robot apparatus includes a reference-model storing unit configured to store a reference model of an object, a feature-value-table storing unit configured to store a feature value table that associates position data and orientation data of the reference model and a feature value, a photographed-image acquiring unit configured to capture a photographed image of the object, a detecting unit configured to calculate a photographed image feature value from the photographed image, and a driving control unit configured to control a robot main body on the basis of the position data and the orientation data to change the position and the orientation of a gripping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nammoto, Koichi Hashimoto, Chuantao Zang
  • Publication number: 20150148950
    Abstract: A robot control device of a vertical articulated robot having seven axes and an offset structure includes: a storage unit which stores a condition of a status of the vertical articulated robot including a position of an elbow in the vertical articulated robot and control information for controlling the vertical articulated robot such that the condition is satisfied to match each other; an input unit to which the condition of the status of the vertical articulated robot including the position of the elbow is input; and a robot control unit which controls the vertical articulated robot such that the input condition is satisfied on the basis of the control information stored in the storage unit to match the same condition as the condition input to the input unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi NAMMOTO, Kazuhiro KOSUGE, Kentaro KAMEI
  • Publication number: 20150127152
    Abstract: A robot apparatus includes a gripping unit configured to grip a first component, a force sensor configured to detect, as detection values, a force and a moment acting on the gripping unit, a storing unit having stored therein contact states of the first component and a second component and transition information in association with each other, a selecting unit configured to discriminate, on the basis of the detection values, a contact state of the first component and the second component and select, on the basis of a result of the discrimination, the transition state stored in the storing unit, and a control unit configured to control the gripping unit on the basis of the transition information selected by the selecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi NAMMOTO, Kazuhiro KOSUGE, Kentaro KAMEI
  • Patent number: 9016742
    Abstract: A robot hand includes a finger unit that is in contact with an object. The finger unit includes: a first member in which a tip portion and a base portion connected to the tip portion are formed as a single member; and a second member that covers a surface of the first member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nammoto, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Kosuke Hara, Kengo Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8977392
    Abstract: A robot control device of a vertical articulated robot having seven axes and an offset structure includes: a storage unit which stores a condition of a status of the vertical articulated robot including a position of an elbow in the vertical articulated robot and control information for controlling the vertical articulated robot such that the condition is satisfied to match each other; an input unit to which the condition of the status of the vertical articulated robot including the position of the elbow is input; and a robot control unit which controls the vertical articulated robot such that the input condition is satisfied on the basis of the control information stored in the storage unit to match the same condition as the condition input to the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nammoto, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Kentaro Kamei
  • Patent number: 8965581
    Abstract: A robot apparatus includes a gripping unit configured to grip a first component, a force sensor configured to detect, as detection values, a force and a moment acting on the gripping unit, a storing unit having stored therein contact states of the first component and a second component and transition information in association with each other, a selecting unit configured to discriminate, on the basis of the detection values, a contact state of the first component and the second component and select, on the basis of a result of the discrimination, the transition state stored in the storing unit, and a control unit configured to control the gripping unit on the basis of the transition information selected by the selecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nammoto, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Kentaro Kamei