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).
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Patent number: 11137740Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Tooru Kubota
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Publication number: 20200117165Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventor: Tooru KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20190354079Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Tooru Kubota
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Patent number: 10459424Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventors: Tooru Watanabe, Tooru Kubota
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Patent number: 10416652Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Tooru Kubota
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Publication number: 20190018392Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventor: Tooru KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20180143612Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2017Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Tooru Watanabe, Tooru Kubota
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Publication number: 20170364054Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Tooru Kubota
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Patent number: 6463766Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2001Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tooru Kubota, Takayoshi Iwai, Tsutomu Hatayama, Kenji Kojima, Tadaaki Koketsu
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Publication number: 20010010165Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Tooru Kubota, Takayoshi Iwai, Tsutomu Hatayama, Kenji Kojima, Tadaaki Koketsu
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Patent number: 4873579Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 6, 1988Date of Patent: October 10, 1989Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tooru Kubota, Hiroyuki Mori