Patents by Inventor Yoshio MOTOWAKI
Yoshio MOTOWAKI 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: 20230405838Abstract: A suction nozzle device includes a large-diameter pipe, a large-diameter nozzle, a small-diameter pipe, a small-diameter nozzle, and a support mechanism for supporting the large-diameter and small-diameter pipes so as to be movable relative to each other. As the large-diameter and the small-diameter pipes move relative to each other, the large-diameter nozzle and the small-diameter nozzle selectively protrude. A nozzle can be selected from nozzles having different diameters, and the flow rate can be varied in accordance with the selection of the nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Chao PAN, Yoshio MOTOWAKI
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Patent number: 11564341Abstract: A reel holding device includes a first reel support member that includes a first placement member that rotatably supports a first reel and a second reel support member that supports a second reel. The first reel support member is rotatable between a reference position at which a carrier tape of the first reel is supplied to the mounter, and a discharge position for discharging the first reel. By rotating the first reel support member from the reference position toward the discharge position, the first reel drops through an opening of the first placement member and is discharged. When the first reel support member returns from the discharge position to the reference position, the second reel moves through the opening and into the interior of the first placement member.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Patent number: 11413716Abstract: A nut runner device includes a main body including spindles, and support portions that support the spindles rotatably around a longitudinal axial line, a detachable unit that is detachably connected to a tip of the main body, and includes a wrench that is disposed coaxially with the spindles and is rotatable integrally with the spindles and an air passage that extends inside of the spindles and the detachable unit in a direction along the longitudinal axial line, and connects a discharge port provided in the spindle, and a suction port that opens to a tip surface of the detachable unit, wherein a tip portion of the wrench is disposed in the suction port, and air that is sucked from the suction port to the discharge port 20c via the air passage passes by the tip portion of the wrench and a fastening member fitted to a tip of the wrench.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Patent number: 11364514Abstract: The present disclosure is intended to provide a discharge apparatus and an industrial robot, discharge apparatus having a relatively simple configuration capable of removing a remainder of a discharge material remaining in a discharge nozzle and a feeding channel, enabling cost reduction, and having a structure which is easy to clean and with which a function of preventing drips can be imparted.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Patent number: 11292140Abstract: An operation tool as a gripping device includes a first arm and a second arm that move in directions opposite to each other, and a third arm for engaging with a workpiece. The operation tool includes a gear and a gear moving cylinder for causing the gear to move to a first position, a second position, and a third position between the first position and the second position. The first arm and the second arm move when the gear is disposed at the first position. The third arm moves when the gear is disposed at the second position. The gear is separated from all of the arms when the gear is disposed at the third position.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Patent number: 11285620Abstract: The hand apparatus includes: a grasper that grasps a work; a grasper driving portion that causes the grasper to operate at a first position at which the grasper grasps the work, a second position at which the grasper is open widest, and a third position between the first position and the second position; a hand mechanism portion having a pair of hand portions that holds both ends in a width direction of the work grasped by the grasper and capable of varying an opening position of the pair of hand portions; an operating portion provided so as to be interlocked with an operation of the grasper and being connectable to the hand mechanism portion; and an actuator that causes the grasper to advance and retract, wherein when the grasper is at the second position, the hand mechanism portion is connected to the operating portion to vary the opening position of the pair of hand portions by being interlocked with the advancing and retracting movement of the grasper according to the actuator, and when the grasper is atType: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Patent number: 11285619Abstract: A robot hand includes holding members radially receiving a tape reel between flat-plate-shape main bodies facing each other, and an actuator configured to open and close the holding members. The holding members are openable and closable between a reel hold position and a tape pull-out position, the reel hold position is a position at which a distance between inner surfaces of the main bodies is greater than a distance between outer surfaces of pair of side plates of the tape reel, the tape pull-out position is a position at which a distance between outer surface of the main bodies is smaller than a distance between inner surfaces of the pair of side plates. The holding members include rail portions and cut-outs provided in the rail portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Patent number: 11267659Abstract: An apparatus for taking out a workpiece includes: a nozzle head that has a plurality of suction nozzles, each of which has a suction unit configured to suction a workpiece, a frame that is attached to a transport apparatus, and a support unit that supports the plurality of suction nozzles and is supported by the frame in a movable manner, wherein the support unit is caused to move relative to the frame, thereby selectively arranging one of the plurality of suction nozzles at a predetermined use position; and a drive unit that causes one suction nozzle arranged at the predetermined use position to move relative to the frame and causes the one suction nozzle to move to a predetermined suction position at which the workpiece is suctioned by the suction unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Patent number: 11198188Abstract: A soldering device includes a laser head for outputting a laser beam and a solder feeder for feeding a thread solder to a path of the laser beam. The soldering device includes a solder receiving member for receiving solder melted by the laser beam and a pouring member for pouring molten solder into a workpiece. The solder receiving member includes a recess part having a shape for retaining the molten solder. The pouring member has a groove part communicating with the recess part and allowing the solder to flow therein.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Patent number: 11129317Abstract: A reel holder includes: a plate-shaped rotating plate; multiple reel support portions evenly arranged in a circumferential direction about the center of the rotating plate, and supporting the tape reels such that each of the tape reels is rotatable about the center thereof; and a rotating plate support portion supporting the rotating plate such that the rotating plate is rotatable about the center of the rotating plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Patent number: 11110615Abstract: A robot hand includes a pair of movable members that is detachable from a wrist flange of a robot body and that are arranged at a distance from each other; holding parts that are provided on the movable members and that hold a workpiece; and a width adjusting mechanism that supports the pair of movable members so as to allow relative movement thereof in a width direction and that adjusts a distance B between the pair of movable members by means of the relative movement of the pair of movable members in the width direction (A). The pair of movable members are relatively moved in the width direction as a result of the width adjusting mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori Hagiwara, Yoshio Motowaki
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Patent number: 11090817Abstract: A robot hand capable of rotating and inserting a workpiece into a hole, while preventing a workpiece from being damaged when the workpiece is gripped. The robot hand includes a first hand section, a second hand section provided with a workpiece gripping section capable of gripping a workpiece, an elastic member configured to connect the first hand section and the second hand section in an elastically displaceable manner, and a movement restricting mechanism configured to releasably restrict a rotation movement of an elastic displacement of the second hand section with respect to the first hand section.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Patent number: 11034528Abstract: A workpiece holding jig including a base member conveyed by a linear guide and at least one pair of holding pieces arranged on the base member in the direction crossing the conveying direction of the linear guide. Each of the at least one pair of holding pieces includes a workpiece holding portion that fits or contacts with the outer peripheral surface of a workpiece located between the at least one pair of holding pieces to prevent the workpiece from slanting or becoming misaligned during the conveyance. At least one of holding pieces in the at least one pair of holding pieces is movable in the direction away from the other.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Publication number: 20210155417Abstract: An apparatus for taking out a workpiece includes: a nozzle head that has a plurality of suction nozzles, each of which has a suction unit configured to suction a workpiece, a frame that is attached to a transport apparatus, and a support unit that supports the plurality of suction nozzles and is supported by the frame in a movable manner, wherein the support unit is caused to move relative to the frame, thereby selectively arranging one of the plurality of suction nozzles at a predetermined use position; and a drive unit that causes one suction nozzle arranged at the predetermined use position to move relative to the frame and causes the one suction nozzle to move to a predetermined suction position at which the workpiece is suctioned by the suction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio MOTOWAKI
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Publication number: 20210154780Abstract: A nut runner device includes a main body including spindles, and support portions that support the spindles rotatably around a longitudinal axial line, a detachable unit that is detachably connected to a tip of the main body, and includes a wrench that is disposed coaxially with the spindles and is rotatable integrally with the spindles and an air passage that extends inside of the spindles and the detachable unit in a direction along the longitudinal axial line, and connects a discharge port provided in the spindle, and a suction port that opens to a tip surface of the detachable unit, wherein a tip portion of the wrench is disposed in the suction port, and air that is sucked from the suction port to the discharge port 20c via the air passage passes by the tip portion of the wrench and a fastening member fitted to a tip of the wrench.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventor: Yoshio MOTOWAKI
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Patent number: 10910785Abstract: A connector-connecting jig used to connect a first connector disposed at one end of a strip-shaped flexible cable, which has another end fixed to a bottom surface of a housing-shaped electronic device body, to a second connector on a substrate. The first connector is disposed on a surface of the flexible cable opposite to said bottom surface. The connector-connecting jig includes a base having a placement surface on which the electronic device body is placed; a body fixing unit that fixes the electronic device body onto the placement surface; and a connector supporting member that extends over the electronic device body and contacts a surface of the flexible cable on a rear surface side of the first connector when the flexible cable is lifted upward from said bottom surface of the electronic device body fixed onto the placement surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Publication number: 20200406475Abstract: A robot hand includes holding members radially receiving a tape reel between flat-plate-shape main bodies facing each other, and an actuator configured to open and close the holding members. The holding members are openable and closable between a reel hold position and a tape pull-out position, the reel hold position is a position at which a distance between inner surfaces of the main bodies is greater than a distance between outer surfaces of pair of side plates of the tape reel, the tape pull-out position is a position at which a distance between outer surface of the main bodies is smaller than a distance between inner surfaces of the pair of side plates. The holding members include rail portions and cut-outs provided in the rail portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio MOTOWAKI
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Patent number: 10857683Abstract: A robot hand includes a first portion, and a second portion detachable from the first portion, including a pair of holding pieces for holding a workpiece. The first portion includes a first movable member movable in one direction by a first stroke, an actuator which moves the first movable member. The second portion includes a second base which is detachably attached to the attaching and detaching mechanism, and a second movable member movable in one direction by a second stroke which is larger than the first stroke. At least one of the holding pieces is fixed to the second movable member. A first engaging portion is provided in the first movable member, second engaging portions are provided in the second movable member, and the second engaging portion can be engaged with the first engaging portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Publication number: 20200376579Abstract: A soldering device includes a laser head for outputting a laser beam and a solder feeder for feeding a thread solder to a path of the laser beam. The soldering device includes a solder receiving member for receiving solder melted by the laser beam and a pouring member for pouring molten solder into a workpiece. The solder receiving member includes a recess part having a shape for retaining the molten solder. The pouring member has a groove part communicating with the recess part and allowing the solder to flow therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Publication number: 20200353627Abstract: An operation tool as a gripping device includes a first arm and a second arm that move in directions opposite to each other, and a third arm for engaging with a workpiece. The operation tool includes a gear and a gear moving cylinder for causing the gear to move to a first position, a second position, and a third position between the first position and the second position. The first arm and the second arm move when the gear is disposed at the first position. The third arm moves when the gear is disposed at the second position. The gear is separated from all of the arms when the gear is disposed at the third position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Yoshio Motowaki