Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Iwao

Tetsuo Iwao 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: 11878824
    Abstract: A robot hand includes a gripping mechanism. The gripping mechanism includes a pair of gripping claws that perform opening and closing operations in a horizontal direction intersecting with an extending direction of an electric wire. The gripping claw has a lower claw portion that functions as a scooping claw by moving obliquely upward from below. Before or during a bundling operation, a control device of a robot causes the lower claw portion of the gripping claw to move obliquely upward from below to scoop up all electric wires to be bundled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito Saitou, Jun Yagi, Tetsuo Iwao
  • Publication number: 20230051533
    Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing device includes a first rail and a second rail provided in parallel on a jig plate; a first holding portion that holds a first connector and a second holding portion that holds a second connector; an electric wire holding portion that holds a first electric wire and a second electric wire; a one end side connection portion that connects one end sides of the first electric wire and the second electric wire to the first connector and the second connector; a cutting portion that cuts the first electric wire and the second electric wire; the other end side connector that connects the cut first electric wire and the cut second electric wire to a third connector and a fourth connector and a binding portion that binds the first electric wire and the second electric wire whose tension is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Takahito SAITOU, Jun Yagi, Tetsuo Iwao
  • Publication number: 20230051455
    Abstract: An electric wire processing device includes a comb-shaped jig having a plurality of comb teeth; and a drive mechanism configured to, in a state in which at least one electric wire is sandwiched between the plurality of comb teeth, slide the comb-shaped jig on the at least one electric wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Takahito SAITOU, Jun YAGI, Tetsuo IWAO
  • Publication number: 20230041080
    Abstract: A robot hand includes a gripping mechanism. The gripping mechanism includes a pair of gripping claws that perform opening and closing operations in a horizontal direction intersecting with an extending direction of an electric wire. The gripping claw has a lower claw portion that functions as a scooping claw by moving obliquely upward from below. Before or during a bundling operation, a control device of a robot causes the lower claw portion of the gripping claw to move obliquely upward from below to scoop up all electric wires to be bundled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Takahito SAITOU, Jun Yagi, Tetsuo Iwao