Patents by Inventor Tooru Kubota

Tooru Kubota 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: 11137740
    Abstract: A numerical controller is equipped with an access unit configured to access variables included within a machining program at a time of analyzing the machining program, a look-ahead determining unit configured to determine whether or not the variables accessed by the access unit were accessed during look-ahead of the machining program, a specific variable determining unit configured to determine whether or not the variables determined to have been accessed during look-ahead by the look-ahead determining unit are specific variables, and an output unit configured to output at least one of numbers of the specific variables accessed during look-ahead and a time of accessing the specific variables during look-ahead, in the event that the variables accessed during look-ahead are determined to be the specific variables by the specific variable determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tooru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20200117165
    Abstract: A numerical control device that suspends tasks related to a machining process when designated conditions are satisfied to execute a designated program as an interrupt. A numerical control device includes: a task management unit that manages tasks that execute a machining program and tasks executed on the background of the tasks that execute the machining program; an interrupt notification unit that monitors system data set to an interrupt condition designated in advance and outputs an interrupt command upon detecting that the interrupt condition is satisfied; and an interrupt processing unit that suspends the tasks being executed at a time point when the interrupt command was received to execute a predetermined interrupt program as an interrupt on the basis of the interrupt command output by the interrupt notification unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventor: Tooru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20190354079
    Abstract: A numerical controller is equipped with an access unit configured to access variables included within a machining program at a time of analyzing the machining program, a look-ahead determining unit configured to determine whether or not the variables accessed by the access unit were accessed during look-ahead of the machining program, a specific variable determining unit configured to determine whether or not the variables determined to have been accessed during look-ahead by the look-ahead determining unit are specific variables, and an output unit configured to output at least one of numbers of the specific variables accessed during look-ahead and a time of accessing the specific variables during look-ahead, in the event that the variables accessed during look-ahead are determined to be the specific variables by the specific variable determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tooru Kubota
  • Patent number: 10459424
    Abstract: Provided is a numerical controller capable of shortening cycle time while maintaining machining accuracy of a rigid tap. The numerical controller includes: a rigid tap control unit that executes a rigid tap by synchronizing rotational speed of a spindle with feedrate; a synchronization error monitoring unit that starts or terminates monitoring of a synchronization error between the rotational speed of the spindle and the feedrate at a point R set to a height equal to or higher than a top of a workpiece; and a workpiece top detection unit that detects a position of the workpiece top. The synchronization error monitoring unit starts monitoring the synchronization error at the position of the workpiece top instead of the point R.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Tooru Watanabe, Tooru Kubota
  • Patent number: 10416652
    Abstract: A numerical controller is equipped with an access unit configured to access variables included within a machining program at a time of analyzing the machining program, a look-ahead determining unit configured to determine whether or not the variables accessed by the access unit were accessed during look-ahead of the machining program, a specific variable determining unit configured to determine whether or not the variables determined to have been accessed during look-ahead by the look-ahead determining unit are specific variables, and an output unit configured to output at least one of numbers of the specific variables accessed during look-ahead and a time of accessing the specific variables during look-ahead, in the event that the variables accessed during look-ahead are determined to be the specific variables by the specific variable determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tooru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20190018392
    Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus outputting commands for respective axes of a machine having a redundant degree of freedom includes: a machine learning device that learns the commands for the respective axes of the machine. The machine learning device has a state observation section that observes, as state variables expressing a current state of an environment, data indicating movements of the respective axes of the machine or an execution state of a program, a determination data acquisition section that acquires determination data indicating an appropriateness determination result of a processing result, and a learning section that learns the movements of the respective axes of the machine or the execution state of the program and the commands for the respective axes of the machine, which are associated with one another, by using the state variables and the determination data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventor: Tooru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20180143612
    Abstract: Provided is a numerical controller capable of shortening cycle time while maintaining machining accuracy of a rigid tap. The numerical controller includes: a rigid tap control unit that executes a rigid tap by synchronizing rotational speed of a spindle with feedrate; a synchronization error monitoring unit that starts or terminates monitoring of a synchronization error between the rotational speed of the spindle and the feedrate at a point R set to a height equal to or higher than a top of a workpiece; and a workpiece top detection unit that detects a position of the workpiece top. The synchronization error monitoring unit starts monitoring the synchronization error at the position of the workpiece top instead of the point R.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tooru Watanabe, Tooru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20170364054
    Abstract: A numerical controller is equipped with an access unit configured to access variables included within a machining program at a time of analyzing the machining program, a look-ahead determining unit configured to determine whether or not the variables accessed by the access unit were accessed during look-ahead of the machining program, a specific variable determining unit configured to determine whether or not the variables determined to have been accessed during look-ahead by the look-ahead determining unit are specific variables, and an output unit configured to output at least one of numbers of the specific variables accessed during look-ahead and a time of accessing the specific variables during look-ahead, in the event that the variables accessed during look-ahead are determined to be the specific variables by the specific variable determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tooru Kubota
  • Patent number: 6463766
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a wash tub, a water-supply mechanism for supplying water into the wash tub, and a disposition section in which a solid antimicrobial agent containing an organic compound having a nitrogen-halogen atomic combination is disposed. The disposition section is provided in the water-supply mechanism. The antimicrobial agent is brought into contact with water thereby to release hypohalogenous acid into the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tooru Kubota, Takayoshi Iwai, Tsutomu Hatayama, Kenji Kojima, Tadaaki Koketsu
  • Publication number: 20010010165
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a wash tub, a water-supply mechanism for supplying water into the wash tub, and a disposition section in which a solid antimicrobial agent containing an organic compound having a nitrogen-halogen atomic combination is disposed. The disposition section is provided in the water-supply mechanism. The antimicrobial agent is brought into contact with water thereby to release hypohalogenous acid into the water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Publication date: August 2, 2001
    Inventors: Tooru Kubota, Takayoshi Iwai, Tsutomu Hatayama, Kenji Kojima, Tadaaki Koketsu
  • Patent number: 4873579
    Abstract: In an image information reading apparatus according to the present invention, a scanner for reading an image is driven along the surface of a desired image sheet to scan the same, by means of a drive unit, in a manner such that the scanner is opposed to the sheet. The scanner is composed of a fluorescent lamp for applying a light beam to the sheet and a photoelectric converter for reading the light reflected from the sheet, and is housed in a case having a transparent cover which faces the image sheet. The fluorescent lamp, which is housed in the case, cannot be influenced by a temperature change outside the case, so that it can expose the sheet surface with a uniform illuminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tooru Kubota, Hiroyuki Mori