Patents by Inventor Tetsuo ICHII

Tetsuo ICHII 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: 20250127582
    Abstract: A robotic surgical system includes a surgical apparatus including a first robot arm to move a medical instrument, an arm base to support a proximal end of the first robot arm, and a second robot arm to move the arm base, and a monitoring controller configured or programmed to monitor whether or not a monitoring point set with respect to the arm base or the second robot arm is within a monitoring area, and change the monitoring area based on a posture of the second robot arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo ICHII, Ayataka KOBAYASHI, Tomohiro FUKUNO, Tsuyoshi TOJO
  • Patent number: 12263045
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes a controller configured or programmed to control a display to superimpose guide information indicating a moving direction of a medical cart based on a steering angle of a steering device on an image captured by an imaging device and display the guide information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ayataka Kobayashi, Tetsuo Ichii, Hirofumi Yamamori, Hideo Kawabata, Hiroaki Kitatsuji
  • Patent number: 12245832
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes: a surgical instrument; a manipulator that supports a surgical instrument without holding a trocar and includes an instrument interface to which the surgical instrument is attached, an arm including rotational joints, and a prismatic joint; and a controller. The controller may store a center of motion of the surgical instrument and control motion of the manipulator such that with the shaft inserted through the trocar and the tool located in a body cavity of the patient, a relationship T1?L is established in a case of L?T0, wherein: L represents an intra-body cavity length of the surgical instrument; T0 represents a maximum possible linear movement amount of the prismatic joint from an origin position along the axial direction; and T1 represents a first linear movement amount of the prismatic joint from the origin position to a current position along the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tojo, Nobuyasu Shimomura, Tetsuo Ichii
  • Publication number: 20250041008
    Abstract: A surgical robot (10) includes robot arms (130), an arm base (120), and a control device (30). Each of the robot arms includes a base portion (138), a tip portion (137) that can hold a medical instrument (150), and links (131 to 136). The link (131) adjacent to the base portion is connected to the base portion through a rotational joint (JA1). The control device controls the robot arm having at least seven degrees of freedom among the robot arms such that when viewed from a direction parallel to an axial direction of a rotation axis of the rotational joint, a first portion (134aa) of a first link (134) is located between a second portion (138a) of the base portion and a third portion (JA7a) of the tip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Nobuyasu SHIMOMURA, Tetsuo ICHII
  • Patent number: 12161437
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes robot arms, an arm base, and a control device. Each of the robot arms includes a base portion, a tip portion that can hold a medical instrument, and links. The link adjacent to the base portion is connected to the base portion through a rotational joint. The control device controls the robot arm having at least seven degrees of freedom among the robot arms such that when viewed from a direction parallel to an axial direction of a rotation axis of the rotational joint, a first portion of a first link is located between a second portion of the base portion and a third portion of the tip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tojo, Nobuyasu Shimomura, Tetsuo Ichii
  • Publication number: 20240122663
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes a manipulator arm having a tip end side to which a surgical instrument is attached, a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to operate the manipulator arm to which the surgical instrument is attached, and a teaching unit to teach a teaching point in a space in which the manipulator arm operates. The controller is configured or programmed to set a virtual contact prohibited space in a space around a contact prohibited object based on a plurality of the teaching points taught using the teaching unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi YAMAMORI, Tetsuo ICHII, Kazuki KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20230270515
    Abstract: A robotic surgical system includes a controller configured or programmed to limit a speed command value within a range of a speed limit value, and limit an acceleration command value within a range of an acceleration limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka TANABE, Tetsuo ICHII, Ayataka KOBAYASHI, Yuichi MIZOHATA
  • Publication number: 20230068780
    Abstract: In a robotic surgical system, a control device is configured or programmed to scale rotation speeds of a plurality of joints axes of a robot arm at predetermined ratios such that the rotation speeds of the plurality of joint axes become equal to or lower than limit value with respect to a received operation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo ICHII, Takahiro UENO, Takuya SHITAKA, Akinori IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20230014033
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes: a surgical instrument; a manipulator that supports a surgical instrument without holding a trocar and includes an instrument interface to which the surgical instrument is attached, an arm including rotational joints, and a prismatic joint; and a controller. The controller may store a center of motion of the surgical instrument and control motion of the manipulator such that with the shaft inserted through the trocar and the tool located in a body cavity of the patient, a relationship T1?L is established in a case of L?T0, wherein: L represents an intra-body cavity length of the surgical instrument; T0 represents a maximum possible linear movement amount of the prismatic joint from an origin position along the axial direction; and T1 represents a first linear movement amount of the prismatic joint from the origin position to a current position along the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Nobuyasu SHIMOMURA, Tetsuo ICHII
  • Publication number: 20230012535
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes robot arms, an arm base, and a control device. Each of the robot arms includes a base portion, a tip portion that can hold a medical instrument, and links. The link adjacent to the base portion is connected to the base portion through a rotational joint. The control device controls the robot arm having at least seven degrees of freedom among the robot arms such that when viewed from a direction parallel to an axial direction of a rotation axis of the rotational joint, a first portion of a first link is located between a second portion of the base portion and a third portion of the tip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Nobuyasu SHIMOMURA, Tetsuo ICHII
  • Publication number: 20230000572
    Abstract: A controller of a surgical system is configured to: set a center point; set a reference point on a reference line that is an extension of a rotation axis of a proximal end roll joint or that is offset from the extension in a direction normal to the extension; and position joints of a manipulator arm such that a shaft passes through the center point and that a reference plane passes through the reference point, the reference plane including a rotation axis of a distal end roll joint that coincides with a central axis of the shaft and crossing a rotation axis of a pivotal joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Nobuyasu SHIMOMURA, Tetsuo ICHII
  • Publication number: 20220409317
    Abstract: In a robotic surgical system, a control device is configured or programmed to perform first scaling on at least a rotational component in a received operation amount, and calculate a rotation angle of a joint axis of a robot arm by performing an inverse kinematics calculation on a translational component and the rotational component after the first scaling is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo ICHII, Takahiro UENO, Takuya SHITAKA, Akinori IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20220395350
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes a controller configured or programmed to control a display to superimpose guide information indicating a moving direction of a medical cart based on a steering angle of a steering device on an image captured by an imaging device and display the guide information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayataka KOBAYASHI, Tetsuo ICHII, Hirofumi YAMAMORI, Hideo KAWABATA, Hiroaki KITATSUJI
  • Publication number: 20220370158
    Abstract: In a surgical robot, a robot controller controls an articulated robot so that an arm base rotationally moves in an arc shape around a predetermined position set at a position away from the arm base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Tetsuo ICHII