Patents by Inventor Takashi Shiino

Takashi Shiino 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: 9216345
    Abstract: A prize placement section includes a first plate-like member having a side on which a prize is placed, and a frame member that supports the first plate-like member, the frame member including a frame-side attachment section that is adapted to removably attach the frame member to an apparatus-side attachment section provided in a game space, and the frame-side attachment section being positioned so that the frame member can be attached to the apparatus-side attachment section from above when the first plate-like member is not supported by the frame member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Shiino, Makiko Sakurai, Shigeharu Goto, Akihiro Ohi
  • Publication number: 20150261206
    Abstract: A robot system according to an aspect of an embodiment includes a touch panel (display device), a camera, a tape position identification unit (identification unit), a fine adjustment unit, and an instruction unit. The camera captures images of a workpiece with and without a member thereon to be handled by a robot. The tape position identification unit identifies a position of the member based on image data captured by the camera. The fine adjustment unit is provided as an interface by which an operator conducts a fine adjustment of a teaching point for the robot based on the position of the member while viewing the workpiece displayed on the touch panel. The instruction unit instructs the robot to perform an operation for a predetermined process on the basis of teaching information generated by reflecting the teaching point finely adjusted through the fine adjustment unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Takashi SHIINO, Katsunori URABE, Takahisa IKENAGA, Toshiyuki HARADA
  • Patent number: 9120008
    Abstract: A game apparatus includes a prize support section that supports a prize, a prize moving section that moves the prize supported by the prize support section by making a movement and a motion, a prize outlet that allows a player to remove the prize, and a prize guiding space that guides the prize toward the prize outlet. The game apparatus further includes a control section that controls the movement and the motion of the prize moving section based on operation information, and controls a motion force of the prize moving section based on motion force information, and a motion force change section that changes the motion force information based on a position of the prize moving section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO GAMES INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Shiino, Kouji Sasajima, Makiko Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8996154
    Abstract: A robot system according to one aspect of an embodiment includes a robot and an instructing module. The robot holds one of a plurality of feed materials used for processing a workpiece. The instructing module gives instructions to the robot, when the feed materials are used for processing the single workpiece, for an operation in which the feed material held last in the previous round of processing a workpiece is used first in the subsequent round of processing a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Takashi Shiino, Keigo Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20150039126
    Abstract: A robot system according to an aspect of the present embodiment includes a robot (a first robot) and a controller. The robot has a robot hand (hand) equipped with one set of gripping claws that grips a tape member stuck on a workpiece to be processed. The controller instructs the robot to perform operation of peeling off the tape member while gripping the end of the tape member with the gripping claws.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Takashi SHIINO, Keigo ISHIBASHI, Toshiaki IKEDA, Toshiyuki HARADA, Shoji KOYAKUMARU
  • Publication number: 20150032243
    Abstract: A robot system according to an aspect of the embodiment includes at least one robot, a transporter, and a controller. The robot performs multi-axial operation based on an operation instruction by the controller. The transporter has a pair of guides arranged parallel to each other along a predetermined transport direction, the guides having a variable spacing therebetween, transports a workpiece to a working position of the robot while restricting the movement of the workpiece present in an area between the pair of guides toward the direction of the spacing, and sandwiches and holds the workpiece by the pair of guides at the working position. The controller instructs the robot to perform the operation to apply predetermined processing to the workpiece held at the working position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Takashi SHIINO, Keigo ISHIBASHI, Toshiaki IKEDA, Toshiyuki HARADA, Shoji KOYAKUMARU
  • Publication number: 20140115863
    Abstract: To automatically perform an attachment work of a material supply to a target object, a robot system includes a robot provided with a body, a first arm provided for the body and having a plurality of joints, a second arm provided for the body separately from the first arm and having a plurality of joints, and hand units respectively provided for the first arm and the second arm. The robot holds one of a plurality of types of workpiece components using the hand units of the first arm and the second arm at the same time, and the remaining type of the workpiece components is held and carried by the hand unit of the first arm or the second arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Katsunori URABE, Kenichi MOTONAGA, Keigo ISHIBASHI, Takashi SHIINO
  • Patent number: 8660688
    Abstract: An automatic working device according to an aspect of an embodiment includes a robot hand and a determining unit. The robot hand grips a target workpiece. The determining unit determines the type of the workpiece on the basis of a gripping operation for making the robot hand grip a gripped piece that indicates the type of the workpiece provided in a supply vessel that supplies the workpiece to the robot hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Katsunori Urabe, Keigo Ishibashi, Takashi Shiino
  • Patent number: 8651160
    Abstract: To automatically perform an attachment work of a material supply to a target object, a robot system includes a robot provided with a body, a first arm provided for the body and having a plurality of joints, a second arm provided for the body separately from the first arm and having a plurality of joints, and hand units respectively provided for the first arm and the second arm. The robot holds one of a plurality of types of workpiece components using the hand units of the first arm and the second arm at the same time, and the remaining type of the workpiece components is held and carried by the hand unit of the first arm or the second arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Katsunori Urabe, Kenichi Motonaga, Keigo Ishibashi, Takashi Shiino
  • Publication number: 20130133189
    Abstract: A robot system according to an aspect of an embodiment includes a supply unit and a robot. The supply unit is fixedly provided at a predetermined position to supply a feed material that is used for processing a workpiece. The robot transfers the unprocessed workpiece handed from an operator at a predetermined transfer position to the vicinity of the supply unit to process the workpiece by using the feed material supplied from the supply unit and then transfers the processed workpiece to the transfer position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Katsunori Urabe, Takashi Shiino, Keigo Ishibashi, Toshiyuki Harada
  • Publication number: 20130110275
    Abstract: A robot system according to one aspect of an embodiment includes a robot and an instructing module. The robot holds one of a plurality of feed materials used for processing a workpiece. The instructing module gives instructions to the robot, when the feed materials are used for processing the single workpiece, for an operation in which the feed material held last in the previous round of processing a workpiece is used first in the subsequent round of processing a workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Takashi SHIINO, Keigo Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20120228892
    Abstract: An automatic working device according to an aspect of an embodiment includes a robot hand and a determining unit. The robot hand grips a target workpiece. The determining unit determines the type of the workpiece on the basis of a gripping operation for making the robot hand grip a gripped piece that indicates the type of the workpiece provided in a supply vessel that supplies the workpiece to the robot hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Katsunori Urabe, Keigo Ishibashi, Takashi Shiino
  • Publication number: 20120056381
    Abstract: A game apparatus includes a prize support section that supports a prize, a prize moving section that moves the prize supported by the prize support section by making a movement and a motion, a prize outlet that allows a player to remove the prize, and a prize guiding space that guides the prize toward the prize outlet. The game apparatus further includes a control section that controls the movement and the motion of the prize moving section based on operation information, and controls a motion force of the prize moving section based on motion force information, and a motion force change section that changes the motion force information based on a position of the prize moving section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: NAMCO BANDAI GAMES INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Shiino, Kouji Sasajima, Makiko Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20120025469
    Abstract: A prize placement section includes a first plate-like member having a side on which a prize is placed, and a frame member that supports the first plate-like member, the frame member including a frame-side attachment section that is adapted to removably attach the frame member to an apparatus-side attachment section provided in a game space, and the frame-side attachment section being positioned so that the frame member can be attached to the apparatus-side attachment section from above when the first plate-like member is not supported by the frame member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: NAMCO BANDAI GAMES INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Shiino, Makiko Sakurai, Shigeharu Goto, Akihiro Ohi
  • Publication number: 20110290090
    Abstract: To automatically perform an attachment work of a material supply to a target object, a robot system includes a robot provided with a body, a first arm provided for the body and having a plurality of joints, a second arm provided for the body separately from the first arm and having a plurality of joints, and hand units respectively provided for the first arm and the second arm. The robot holds one of a plurality of types of workpiece components using the hand units of the first arm and the second arm at the same time, and the remaining type of the workpiece components is held and carried by the hand unit of the first arm or the second arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Katsunori URABE, Kenichi Motonaga, Keigo Ishibashi, Takashi Shiino