Patents by Inventor Tatsuro IPPOSHI

Tatsuro IPPOSHI 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: 10661267
    Abstract: Provided is an electric pipette system, including: an operating condition receiving milt configured to receive an operating condition of a manipulation operation to foe occur next; a suction/discharge operating unit configured to perform at least any one of a suction operation and a discharge operation of a liquid by an electric pipette based cm the operating condition; an information collecting unit configured to collect various types of information during the suction operation or the discharge operation of the liquid; and an information recording unit configured to record the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI, ROBOTIC BIOLOGY INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Toru Natsume, Naoyuki Sasaki, Kenji Matsukuma, Makoto Umeno, Tatsuro Ipposhi
  • Patent number: 10409269
    Abstract: Provided is an operation command generation device, which is configured to generate an operation command, which is a collection of jobs to be performed by a process system of at least a robot, based on a protocol chart of at least a plurality of process symbols, the operation command generation device circuitry includes: a job generation unit configured to generate, based on the protocol chart, a job; a priority instruction unit configured to instruct a priority condition for determining a job execution order; and an execution order determination unit configured to determine an execution order of the jobs based on the priority instructed by the priority instruction unit by using a first condition about repeatedly execution of the jobs according to the number of the containers and a second condition about execution order of the jobs according to the arrangement of the process symbols in the protocol chart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Tetsuro Izumi, Hirokazu Kariyazaki, Makoto Umeno, Tatsuro Ipposhi
  • Publication number: 20180032549
    Abstract: Provided is an experimental data recording device, configured to record experimental data, which is a record of an experiment based on a protocol in at least one of a biochemistry field or a biotechnology field, the experimental data recording device including: a reception unit configured to receive operation records of pieces of experiment equipment; an experiment ID recording unit configured to record, an experiment ID, which is an ID unique to an experiment, in association with a protocol ID unique to a protocol; and an operation record recording unit configured to record each of the received operation records in association with a corresponding procedure out of a plurality of procedures included in the protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Toru NATSUME, Kenji MATSUKUMA, Makoto UMENO, Tatsuro IPPOSHI
  • Patent number: 9849587
    Abstract: Provided is an operation command generation device including: an execution order determination unit configured to determine, based on respective arrangement positions of a plurality of process symbols each representing a process for a process subject on a protocol chart including the plurality of process symbols, an execution order of the plurality of process symbols; and a process symbol conversion unit configured to respectively convert the plurality of process symbols into jobs for a process system including at least a robot so that processes represented by the plurality of process symbols are executed in the execution order determined by the execution order determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI, ROBOTIC BIOLOGY INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Toru Natsume, Takashi Nagasaki, Makoto Umeno, Tatsuro Ipposhi, Hirokazu Kariyazaki
  • Publication number: 20170329313
    Abstract: Provided is an operation command generation device, which is configured to generate an operation command, which is a collection of jobs to fee performed by a process system of at least a robot, based on a protocol chart of at least a plurality of process symbols, the operation command generation device circuitry includes: a job generation unit configured to generate, based on the protocol chart, a job; apriority instruction unit configured to instruct a priority condition for determining a job execution order; and an execution order determination unit configured to determine an execution order of the jobs based on the priority instructed by the priority instruction unit by using a first condition about repeatedly execution of the jobs according to the number of the containers and a second condition about execution order of the jobs according to the arrangement of the process symbols in the protocol chart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuro IZUMI, Hirokazu KARIYAZAKI, Makoto UMENO, Tatsuro IPPOSHI
  • Patent number: 9802312
    Abstract: Provided is an operation command generation device configured to generate an operation command, which is a collection of jobs to be carried out by a process system including a robot based on a protocol chart including a process symbol representing a process to be carried out on a container containing a process subject, the operation command generation device including: a process job generation unit configured to generate, based on the process symbol, a job for causing the process system to carry out the process on the container at a work area; and a transfer job generation unit configured to generate, when the process represented by the process symbol is not a process to be carried out on the same container, a job to transfer the container from the work area to a retreat area after the process represented by the process symbol has been carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI, ROBOTIC BIOLOGY INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Toru Natsume, Takashi Nagasaki, Makoto Umeno, Tatsuro Ipposhi, Hirokazu Kariyazaki
  • Patent number: 9744666
    Abstract: Provided is an operation command generation device configured to generate an operation command, which is a collection of jobs to be carried out by a process system including a robot based on a protocol chart including a process symbol representing a process to be carried out on a container containing a process subject, the operation command generation device including: a process job generation unit configured to generate, based on the process symbol, a job for causing the process system to carry out the process on the container at a work area; and a transfer job generation unit configured to generate, when the process represented by the process symbol is not a process to be carried out on the same container, a job to transfer the container from the work area to a retreat area after the process represented by the process symbol has been carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI, ROBOTIC BIOLOGY INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Toru Natsume, Takashi Nagasaki, Makoto Umeno, Tatsuro Ipposhi, Hirokazu Kariyazaki
  • Publication number: 20170173576
    Abstract: Provided is an electric pipette system, including: an operating condition receiving milt configured to receive an operating condition of a manipulation operation to foe occur next; a suction/discharge operating unit configured to perform at least any one of a suction operation and a discharge operation of a liquid by an electric pipette based cm the operating condition; an information collecting unit configured to collect various types of information during the suction operation or the discharge operation of the liquid; and an information recording unit configured to record the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Toru NATSUME, Naoyuki SASAKI, Kenji MATSUKUMA, Makoto UMENO, Tatsuro IPPOSHI
  • Publication number: 20170061078
    Abstract: Provided is a protocol chart creation device, including: an initial symbol arrangement unit configured to arrange an initial symbol representing an initial state of a container for containing a specimen; a procedure line arrangement unit configured to arrange a procedure line representing a process order for the container in a direction along a first axis from the initial symbol; a process symbol arrangement unit configured to arrange a process symbol representing a process to be carried out on the container along the procedure line, and to arrange, when there are a plurality of processes to be carried out on one container, the process symbols representing the processes along the procedure line; and a separation unit configured to separate arrangements of the initial symbols, the procedure lines, and the process symbols for different containers in a direction along a second axis intersecting the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Toru NATSUME, Kenji MATSUKUMA, Takashi NAGASAKI, Makoto UMENO, Tatsuro IPPOSHI, Hirokazu KARIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160144507
    Abstract: Provided is an operation command generation device configured to generate an operation command, which is a collection of jobs to be carried out by a process system including a robot based on a protocol chart including a process symbol representing a process to be carried out on a container containing a process subject, the operation command generation device including: a process job generation unit configured to generate, based on the process symbol, a job for causing the process system to carry out the process on the container at a work area; and a transfer job generation unit configured to generate, when the process represented by the process symbol is not a process to be carried out on the same container, a job to transfer the container from the work area to a retreat area after the process represented by the process symbol has been carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Toru NATSUME, Takashi NAGASAKI, Makoto UMENO, Tatsuro IPPOSHI, Kazuhiro KARIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160144506
    Abstract: Provided is an operation command generation device including: an execution order determination unit configured to determine, based on respective arrangement positions of a plurality of process symbols each representing a process for a process subject on a protocol chart including the plurality of process symbols, an execution order of the plurality of process symbols; and a process symbol conversion unit configured to respectively convert the plurality of process symbols into jobs for a process system including at least a robot so that processes represented by the plurality of process symbols are executed in the execution order determined by the execution order determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Toru NATSUME, Takashi NAGASAKI, Makoto UMENO, Tatsuro IPPOSHI, Kazuhiro KARIYAZAKI