Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro NAKAHAMA

Yasuhiro NAKAHAMA 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: 11841294
    Abstract: A diagnosis device includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, and an associating unit. The first acquisition unit is configured to acquire, from a machine tool, context information including at least a monitoring specifying number identifying a machining process. The second acquisition unit is configured to acquire detection information output from a detection unit installed for the machine tool. The associating unit is configured to associate the monitoring specifying number included in the context information acquired by the first acquisition unit and the detection information acquired by the second acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: RICOH COMPANY, LTD., FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Teshima, Yasuhiro Nakahama
  • Patent number: 11048227
    Abstract: Provided is an abnormality detection device with which an abnormality of a machining state of a machine tool can be detected based on information on a section where machining is actually performed in machine tool-based machining. The abnormality detection device detects an abnormality of a machining state of a machine tool machining a workpiece with a tool. The machine tool includes a determination unit determining the machining state by using information related to an actual cutting section in the tool-based machining of the workpiece in the machine tool. The determination unit performs the machining state determination by using a deviation in position and length of a section recognized as the actual cutting section and a physical quantity in the actual cutting section acquired from the machine tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: FANUC CORPORATION, RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Takahara, Yasuhiro Nakahama, Shinji Okuda, Junichi Takami
  • Publication number: 20200309642
    Abstract: A diagnosis device includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, and an associating unit. The first acquisition unit is configured to acquire, from a machine tool, context information including at least a monitoring specifying number identifying a machining process. The second acquisition unit is configured to acquire detection information output from a detection unit installed for the machine tool. The associating unit is configured to associate the monitoring specifying number included in the context information acquired by the first acquisition unit and the detection information acquired by the second acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yu TESHIMA, Yasuhiro NAKAHAMA
  • Publication number: 20200147737
    Abstract: A tool attachment abnormality detection device acquires data associated with a machining center, performs pre-processing to create data regarding at least chronological data of a vibration or sound that has been generated in a tool change when a tool has been attached to a tool magazine, where the data is created based on the data that has been acquired, and detects an abnormality in attachment of the tool to the tool magazine based on the data created in the pre-processing stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Yasuhiro NAKAHAMA
  • Patent number: 10635081
    Abstract: A scattering direction, a scattering range, a scattering speed, or the like of chip generated by machining is acquired by image pickup unit, and a state (such as wearing and fracture) of a tool is estimated from the acquired dynamic information. A machine learning device is used to perform the estimation and the machine learning device is caused to learn a state of a tool relative to the combination of a plurality of dynamic information on the vicinity of the tool, and the state of the tool is estimated based on a result of the learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Nakahama
  • Patent number: 10474122
    Abstract: A machining tool with a numerical control device includes an actual gravity center calculation unit configured to calculate an actual gravity center, the actual gravity center being a whole gravity center of the machining tool and the load, a target gravity center position set unit, a movable part position correction unit configured to correct the relative position of the movable part to the fixed part, to make the target gravity center position and the whole center gravity center position of the machining tool and the load coincident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Nakahama
  • Publication number: 20190294144
    Abstract: Provided is an abnormality detection device with which an abnormality of a machining state of a machine tool can be detected based on information on a section where machining is actually performed in machine tool-based machining. The abnormality detection device detects an abnormality of a machining state of a machine tool machining a workpiece with a tool. The machine tool includes a determination unit determining the machining state by using information related to an actual cutting section in the tool-based machining of the workpiece in the machine tool. The determination unit performs the machining state determination by using a deviation in position and length of a section recognized as the actual cutting section and a physical quantity in the actual cutting section acquired from the machine tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsushi TAKAHARA, Yasuhiro NAKAHAMA, Shinji OKUDA, Junichi TAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10386813
    Abstract: A combined system having a function for rapidly detecting and correcting a positional misalignment between a machine tool and a robot. The combined system includes: a machine tool having a table and a workpiece fixing jig integrally movable with the table; a robot system separated from the machine tool and having a robot configured to supply or take out a workpiece to or from the jig; a network for information transmission between the machine tool and the robot; an interference judging part which judges occurrence of interference, based on a disturbance value of each axis of the robot, when the workpiece is supplied to or taken out from the jig; and an interference avoiding part which, when it is judged that the interference occurs, stops a motion of the robot and moves the table in a direction of at least one axis based on the disturbance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunihiko Harada, Yasuhiro Nakahama
  • Patent number: 10315282
    Abstract: A control device for controlling a machine tool so as to drill a workpiece based on a machining program, includes a motor control unit configured to, when drilling the workpiece, control an axis feed motor of the machine tool so that the rotary tool of the machine tool is axially moved by intermittently decelerated feed in which the feed rate of the rotary tool is alternately switched between a first feed rate and a second feed rate that is lower than the first feed rate, under the condition in which the relational equations (1) and (5) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Nakahama
  • Publication number: 20180304426
    Abstract: A control device for controlling a machine tool so as to drill a workpiece based on a machining program, includes a motor control unit configured to, when drilling the workpiece, control an axis feed motor of the machine tool so that the rotary tool of the machine tool is axially moved by intermittently decelerated feed in which the feed rate of the rotary tool is alternately switched between a first feed rate and a second feed rate that is lower than the first feed rate, under the condition in which the relational equations (1) and (5) are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Nakahama
  • Publication number: 20180246494
    Abstract: A scattering direction, a scattering range, a scattering speed, or the like of chip generated by machining is acquired by image pickup unit, and a state (such as wearing and fracture) of a tool is estimated from the acquired dynamic information. A machine learning device is used to perform the estimation and the machine learning device is caused to learn a state of a tool relative to the combination of a plurality of dynamic information on the vicinity of the tool, and the state of the tool is estimated based on a result of the learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventor: Yasuhiro NAKAHAMA
  • Patent number: 9696231
    Abstract: A machine tool having a numeric control device is configured such that a storage unit of the numeric control device stores a weight and a position of a center of gravity of a fixed unit and a movable unit of the machine tool, and the position of the center of gravity of the entire set including the machine tool and the load is calculated using the weights and the positions of the center of gravity, the weight and the position of the center of gravity of the load, and a relative position of the movable unit of the machine tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Nakahama
  • Publication number: 20170160717
    Abstract: A combined system having a function for rapidly detecting and correcting a positional misalignment between a machine tool and a robot. The combined system includes: a machine tool having a table and a workpiece fixing jig integrally movable with the table; a robot system separated from the machine tool and having a robot configured to supply or take out a workpiece to or from the jig; a network for information transmission between the machine tool and the robot; an interference judging part which judges occurrence of interference, based on a disturbance value of each axis of the robot, when the workpiece is supplied to or taken out from the jig; and an interference avoiding part which, when it is judged that the interference occurs, stops a motion of the robot and moves the table in a direction of at least one axis based on the disturbance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Kunihiko HARADA, Yasuhiro NAKAHAMA
  • Publication number: 20160041546
    Abstract: A machining tool with a numerical control device includes an actual gravity center calculation unit configured to calculate an actual gravity center, the actual gravity center being a whole gravity center of the machining tool and the load, a target gravity center position set unit, a movable part position correction unit configured to correct the relative position of the movable part to the fixed part, to make the target gravity center position and the whole center gravity center position of the machining tool and the load coincident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventor: Yasuhiro NAKAHAMA
  • Publication number: 20150177090
    Abstract: A machine tool having a numeric control device is configured such that a storage unit of the numeric control device stores a weight and a position of a center of gravity of a fixed unit and a movable unit of the machine tool, and the position of the center of gravity of the entire set including the machine tool and the load is calculated using the weights and the positions of the center of gravity, the weight and the position of the center of gravity of the load, and a relative position of the movable unit of the machine tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventor: Yasuhiro NAKAHAMA
  • Publication number: 20130302180
    Abstract: A warm-up control system for a machine tool drives a spindle motor for rotating a main spindle of the machine tool before starting machining, thereby performing a warm-up operation, and acquires a spindle motor load value that is variable by heat generated during the warm-up operation. The warm-up operation is ended when the acquired spindle motor load value becomes substantially equal to a preset working reference load value. The cutting capacity of the main spindle can be improved by this warm-up operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki FUJII, Masahiro MUROTA, Yasuhiro NAKAHAMA