Patents by Inventor Wanfeng FU
Wanfeng FU 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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Publication number: 20260183955Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure is connected to an industrial machine equipped with a sensor or a control device that controls the industrial machine. The information processing apparatus is provided with a storage unit that stores first table data in which a plurality of abnormality causes are associated with a plurality of abnormal situations related to operation of the industrial machine, an abnormality monitoring unit that monitors the occurrence of an abnormal situation in the industrial machine, based on data output from the sensor, a cause identification unit that identifies a cause of the abnormal situation with reference to the first table data, and a display control unit that causes a display unit to display details of the abnormal situation and the identified cause of the abnormal situation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2022Publication date: July 2, 2026Inventor: Wanfeng FU
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Patent number: 12629824Abstract: A teaching device is used in an industrial machine system in which information is acquired using a sensor and a task is performed with respect to a workpiece. The teaching device includes: an execution history screen display unit for displaying an execution history screen that presents one or more pieces of execution history pertaining to an execution result of a program performing sensor-based processing, and for accepting an operation to select a single piece of execution history; and a modification screen display unit for restoring the selected single piece of execution history to a program and displaying a modification screen for modifying a configuration parameter of the program in which the execution history is restored.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Wanfeng Fu, Yuta Namiki
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Patent number: 12617086Abstract: This teaching device comprises a teaching unit that, using a force detector, binds a force parameter of a force control command for a machine, and a movement trajectory of the machine which executes force control, and that simultaneously teaches the force parameter and the movement trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 5, 2026Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Wanfeng Fu
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Publication number: 20260027707Abstract: Provided is a robot control device with which it is possible to efficiently and highly accurately perform fastening work using a fastener. The robot control device controls a robot and causes the robot to perform fastening work using a fastener, and is provided with a storage unit, an acquisition unit, a setting unit, and a control unit. The storage unit stores, in association with each other, information about fasteners and a parameter with regards to carrying out fastening work. The acquisition unit acquires, on the basis of output of a fastener recognition sensor, information about a fastener with which fastening work is to be performed. A setting unit acquires, on the basis of the acquired information about the fastener, the parameter associated with the information about the fastener from the storage unit, and sets the parameter. The control unit controls the robot on the basis of the set parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2023Publication date: January 29, 2026Applicant: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Wanfeng FU
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Publication number: 20250353170Abstract: Provided is a robot system that comprises a robot, a robot control device which executes a robot program and controls the robot, and a force detection unit which detects a force acting on the robot. The robot control device comprises: a determination unit that, on the basis of the robot program, determines an operating mode for force control, using the force detection unit, executed by the robot program; and a force control setting unit that sets operation settings for force control in accordance with the operating mode for the force control determined by the determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: November 20, 2025Inventor: Wanfeng FU
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Patent number: 12418718Abstract: An image processing system includes: an industrial machine; a visual sensor; a visual pattern arranged on a part to be detected, for identifying a relative positional relationship between the visual sensor and the visual pattern; an image processing unit that determines the relative positional relationship between the visual sensor and the visual pattern on the basis of an image of the visual pattern captured by the visual sensor; and a focusing operation control unit that, with the visual pattern within the field of view of the visual sensor, causes the visual sensor to capture the visual pattern while changing the relative positions of the visual sensor and the visual pattern in a predetermined direction with reference to the visual pattern, on the basis of the determined relative positional relationship to obtain a focus degree of the visual pattern, whereby the visual sensor is focused on the visual pattern.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: September 16, 2025Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Wanfeng Fu, Yuta Namiki
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Patent number: 12318914Abstract: A device to correct a teaching position of a robot includes an orientation change data acquisition section to acquire orientation change data indicating a change amount in an orientation of a workpiece with respect to the robot due to a change of an arrangement, based on first and second position data of the robot, a third position data acquisition section to acquire third position data of the robot when a hand-tip portion is arranged in a predetermined positional relationship with an index in a state where the hand-tip portion is arranged at a second orientation which is corrected by using the orientation change data, and a position change data acquisition section to acquire position change data indicating a change amount in a position of the workpiece with respect to the robot due to the change of the arrangement, based on the first position data and the third position data.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Wanfeng Fu, Kyouhei Kokubo
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Publication number: 20250170709Abstract: This robot control device is capable of easily giving instructions on an operating procedure for causing a robot to feed a workpiece to a fixation mechanism, and performs control on the robot that feeds and extracts a workpiece to and from the fixation mechanism of a machine tool. The robot control device comprises: a communication unit which transmits and receives a signal for ordering or checking the operating condition of said fixation mechanism; a memory unit which stores therein the specification of the signal transmitted or received by the communication unit; and an instruction unit which sets the signal transmitted or received by the communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: May 29, 2025Inventors: Wanfeng FU, Takashi SATOU, Yihua GU
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Publication number: 20250026010Abstract: This teaching device comprises a teaching unit that, using a force detector, binds a force parameter of a force control command for a machine, and a movement trajectory of the machine which executes force control, and that simultaneously teaches the force parameter and the movement trajectory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventor: Wanfeng FU
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Publication number: 20240383134Abstract: A teaching device is used in an industrial machine system in which information is acquired using a sensor and a task is performed with respect to a workpiece. The teaching device includes: an execution history screen display unit for displaying an execution history screen that presents one or more pieces of execution history pertaining to an execution result of a program performing sensor-based processing, and for accepting an operation to select a single piece of execution history; and a modification screen display unit for restoring the selected single piece of execution history to a program and displaying a modification screen for modifying a configuration parameter of the program in which the execution history is restored.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Fanuc CorporationInventors: Wanfeng Fu, Yuta Namiki
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Patent number: 11995742Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a graphical image generator that generates a first graphical image and a second graphical image, and a mode switching unit that switches between a first display mode and a second display mode so that a display displays the first graphical image or the second graphical image. Each graphical image includes a color wheel indicating a two-dimensional color space of hue and saturation and a lightness bar indicating a one-dimensional color space of lightness. In the first graphical image, each position in the color wheel and the lightness bar is indicated by the hue and saturation indicated by that position. In the second graphical image, a distribution of colors included in the color image in the color space of hue and saturation or the color space of lightness is superposed on the color wheel and the lightness bar.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Fumikazu Warashina, Yuutarou Takahashi, Wanfeng Fu
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Patent number: 11978168Abstract: Provided is a display device for an industrial machine capable of automatically switching between augmented reality display and 3D computer graphics display. A robot display device 2 comprises: a camera 2b; a display unit 20 capable of switching between a first display by means of 3D computer graphics for a robot 3 or for the robot 3 and peripherals 4 thereof, and a second display using augmented reality for the robot 3 and the peripherals 4 thereof captured by the camera 2b; and a selection unit 21 that activates the first display and displays the first display on the display unit when the camera 2b does not face the robot and the peripherals 4 thereof, and activates the second display and displays the second display on the display unit 20 when the camera 2b faces the robot 3 and the peripherals 4 thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Wanfeng Fu, Yuta Namiki
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Publication number: 20240139959Abstract: The present invention facilitates calibration of a robot system. A program generation device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure generates a calibration program that defines a procedure for calibration Los setting a positional relationship between a visual sensor and a robot in a robot system is which the robot is operated on the basis of a detection result from the visual sensor. The program generation device comprises: a calibration information acquisition unit for acquiring information about the calibration performed in accordance with a teacher's input; and a program generation unit for generating a calibration program that defines, on the basis of the information about the calibration acquired by the calibration information acquisition unit, a procedure for the calibration to be performed the next time and thereafter.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Wanfeng FU, Yuta NAMIKI
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Publication number: 20230328372Abstract: An image processing system includes: an industrial machine; a visual sensor; a visual pattern arranged on a part to be detected, for identifying a relative positional relationship between the visual sensor and the visual pattern; an image processing unit that determines the relative positional relationship between the visual sensor and the visual pattern on the basis of an image of the visual pattern captured by the visual sensor; and a focusing operation control unit that, with the visual pattern within the field of view of the visual sensor, causes the visual sensor to capture the visual pattern while changing the relative positions of the visual sensor and the visual pattern in a predetermined direction with reference to the visual pattern, on the basis of the determined relative positional relationship to obtain a focus degree of the visual pattern, whereby the visual sensor is focused on the visual pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Wanfeng FU, Yuta NAMIKI
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Publication number: 20230316668Abstract: Provided is a display device for an industrial machine capable of automatically switching between augmented reality display and 3D computer graphics display. A robot display device 2 comprises: a camera 2b; a display unit 20 capable of switching between a first display by means of 3D computer graphics for a robot 3 or for the robot 3 and peripherals 4 thereof, and a second display using augmented reality for the robot 3 and the peripherals 4 thereof captured by the camera 2b; and a selection unit 21 that activates the first display and displays the first display on the display unit when the camera 2b does not face the robot and the peripherals 4 thereof, and activates the second display and displays the second display on the display unit 20 when the camera 2b faces the robot 3 and the peripherals 4 thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Wanfeng FU, Yuta NAMIKI
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Publication number: 20230158687Abstract: A device to correct a teaching position of a robot includes an orientation change data acquisition section to acquire orientation change data indicating a change amount in an orientation of a workpiece with respect to the robot due to a change of an arrangement, based on first and second position data of the robot, a third position data acquisition section to acquire third position data of the robot when a hand-tip portion is arranged in a predetermined positional relationship with an index in a state where the hand-tip portion is arranged at a second orientation which is corrected by using the orientation change data, and a position change data acquisition section to acquire position change data indicating a change amount in a position of the workpiece with respect to the robot due to the change of the arrangement, based on the first position data and the third position data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventors: Wanfeng FU, Kyouhei KOKUBO
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Publication number: 20210019920Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a graphical image generator that generates a first graphical image and a second graphical image, and a mode switching unit that switches between a first display mode and a second display mode so that a display displays the first graphical image or the second graphical image. Each graphical image includes a color wheel indicating a two-dimensional color space of hue and saturation and a lightness bar indicating a one-dimensional color space of lightness. In the first graphical image, each position in the color wheel and the lightness bar is indicated by the hue and saturation indicated by that position. In the second graphical image, a distribution of colors included in the color image in the color space of hue and saturation or the color space of lightness is superposed on the color wheel and the lightness bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Fumikazu WARASHINA, Yuutarou TAKAHASHI, Wanfeng FU