Patents by Inventor Yuuki Morita

Yuuki Morita 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).

  • Publication number: 20200036321
    Abstract: To provide a motor controller and a motor control method allowing inspection for checking the presence or absence of specification error in motor winding to be conducted more simply, efficiently, and with high accuracy. A voltage command value as a command value for driving control of a motor and an excitation frequency are sampled. An actual current flowing in the motor being driven under control is detected. Theoretical values of a voltage command value, a current, and an excitation frequency are determined from a parameter for driving the motor and a condition at the time of driving. The theoretical values of the voltage command value, the current, and the excitation frequency are compared with the values of the voltage command value, the current, and the excitation frequency respectively at the time of the driving, and it is determined that there is winding abnormality if differences between the comparable values exceed a threshold range set in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuki MORITA, Tomohisa TSUTSUMI
  • Patent number: 10527676
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosing device diagnoses a driving abnormality of a single motor driven by a plurality of motor driving devices. The motor driving devices drive the motor by supplying three-phase alternating currents to a plurality of three-phase windings possessed by the motor. The abnormality diagnosing device is equipped with a rotational speed acquisition unit for acquiring a rotational speed value of the motor, a current acquisition unit for acquiring phase current values of respective phases flowing through the three-phase windings, and a determination unit for determining the presence of an abnormality, if an absolute value of the rotational speed value exceeds a predetermined value, and an absolute value of the phase current value of any one phase of the three-phase windings is less than a threshold value continuously for a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuki Morita, Tadashi Okita, Kenji Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200007060
    Abstract: A motor controller includes: a rotation speed estimating unit that estimates a rotation speed of a motor based on current information and primary frequency information of the motor; a proximity switch that outputs an ON signal when a portion of a rotating body of the motor is in proximity and that outputs an OFF signal when a portion of the rotating body of the motor is not in proximity; a rotation speed calculating unit that calculates a rotation speed of the motor based on the ON signal and the OFF signal output from the proximity switch; a speed command compensating unit that compensates a speed command value such that an error between the speed command value and a rotation speed calculation value becomes smaller; and a speed control system that perform the speed control on the motor based on the compensated speed command value and the rotation speed estimation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou HASHIMOTO, Yuuki MORITA
  • Patent number: 10505485
    Abstract: A motor controller includes: a primary frequency control unit that generates a primary frequency command value based on current information of an induction motor and limits the primary frequency command value based on a maximum primary frequency; a rotation speed estimating unit that estimates a slip frequency based on the current information of the induction motor and estimates a rotation speed based on the estimated slip frequency estimation value and the primary frequency command value; a proximity switch that outputs an ON signal or OFF signal when a portion of a rotating body of the induction motor is in proximity or not in proximity; a rotation speed computing unit that computes a rotation speed based on the ON signal and the OFF signal; and a maximum primary frequency computing unit that computes the maximum primary frequency based on the rotation speed computation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Yuuki Morita
  • Patent number: 10498278
    Abstract: A motor controller includes: a rotation speed estimating unit that estimates a rotation speed of a motor on the basis of current information and primary frequency information of the motor; a proximity switch that outputs an ON signal when a portion of a rotating body of the motor is in proximity and outputs an OFF signal when a portion of the rotating body of the motor is not in proximity; a rotation speed computing unit that computes a rotation speed of the motor on the basis of the ON signal and the OFF signal; and a state determining unit that determines whether a present state is a speed attainment state and whether a present state is a speed zero state on the basis of a rotation speed estimation value estimated by the rotation speed estimating unit and a rotation speed computation value computed by the rotation speed computing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Yuuki Morita
  • Patent number: 10488465
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosing device diagnoses a driving abnormality of a single motor driven by a plurality of motor driving devices. The motor driving devices drive the motor by supplying three-phase alternating currents to a plurality of three-phase windings possessed by the motor. The abnormality diagnosing device is equipped with a rotational speed acquisition unit for acquiring a rotational speed value of the motor, a current acquisition unit for acquiring phase current values of respective phases flowing through the three-phase windings, and a determination unit for determining the presence of an abnormality, if an absolute value of the rotational speed value exceeds a predetermined value, and an absolute value of the phase current value of any one phase of the three-phase windings is less than a threshold value continuously for a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuki Morita, Tadashi Okita, Kenji Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190317479
    Abstract: To provide a parameter determination support device and a program capable of simplifying determination of driving parameters upon driving a motor for which the slip constant is unknown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouki OIKAWA, Yuuki MORITA, Tadashi OKITA
  • Patent number: 10444727
    Abstract: An object is to provide the numerical control device of a machine tool which can achieve both a reduction in heat generation and stability in heavy cutting. A numerical control device includes a command transmission portion which transmits a speed command value and a magnetic flux command value to the spindle control portion of a machine tool and a storage portion which stores magnetic flux amounts corresponding to tools that may be used in the machine tool. The numerical control device also includes a tool detection portion which detects a tool selected in the machine tool and a magnetic flux amount setting portion which commands the command transmission portion to read, from the storage portion, a magnetic flux amount corresponding to the tool detected by the tool detection portion and to output the magnetic flux amount to the spindle control portion of the machine tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouki Oikawa, Yuuki Morita, Tadashi Okita
  • Patent number: 10444288
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosing device diagnoses a driving abnormality of a single motor driven by a plurality of motor driving devices. The plurality of motor driving devices calculate a plurality of voltage command values based on a speed command, and voltages are applied to a plurality of windings possessed by the motor based on the plurality of calculated voltage command values, thereby driving the motor. The abnormality diagnosing device is equipped with a command value difference calculating unit for calculating a difference between the plurality of voltage command values calculated by the plurality of motor driving devices, and a determination unit for determining the presence of an abnormality, when an absolute value of the difference calculated exceeds a first threshold value continuously for a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuki Morita, Kenji Takahashi, Tadashi Okita
  • Publication number: 20190302727
    Abstract: A motor control device is a motor control device which controls a spindle motor of a machine tool, the device including: a low-pass filter which averages torque command values or drive current values of the spindle motor and calculates averaged load information of the spindle motor; and a time constant calculation unit which calculates, as a time constant of the low-pass filter, a first time constant based on a cut-off frequency according to the rotation number of the spindle driven by the spindle motor, or a second time constant based on a cut-off frequency according to a value produced by multiplying a of cutting tooth number of a tool by the rotation number of the spindle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yuuki MORITA, Tadashi OKITA
  • Publication number: 20190302728
    Abstract: A motor control device is a motor control device which controls a spindle motor in a machine tool, and includes: a moving average filter which moving averages a torque command value or drive current value of the spindle motor for averaging time and generates averaged load information of the spindle motor; and an averaging time calculation unit which calculates, as the averaging time of the moving average filter, a first time of an integral multiple of a period of one rotation of the spindle driven by the spindle motor, or a second time of an integral multiple of a value arrived at by dividing the period of one rotation of the spindle by the number of cutting tooth of the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yuuki MORITA, Tadashi OKITA
  • Patent number: 10423170
    Abstract: Included are a first position detection part that detects a first position which is the position of a movable part; a second position detection part that detects a second position which is the position of a driven part; a positional error calculation part that calculates positional error, which is deviation between a converted first position detection value and a second position detection value; and a positional error variation calculation part that calculates an absolute value for variation of positional error since reversal of a position command was detected, in which addition of a backlash correction amount is started if the absolute value for the variation of the positional error exceeds a first reference value, and addition of a backlash acceleration amount is started if the absolute value of variation of the positional error exceeds a second reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Tadashi Okita, Yuuki Morita
  • Patent number: 10396699
    Abstract: An anomaly diagnosing device diagnoses an anomaly in a single motor driven by multiple motor drive units. The multiple motor drive units supply AC currents to multiple multi-phase windings of the motor to drive the motor. The anomaly diagnosing device includes: a power consumption calculator for calculating power consumption in each of the multi-phase windings; a power difference calculator for calculating a difference in power consumption between the multi-phase windings; and a determination unit for determining that an anomaly is occurring when the absolute value of the difference has exceeded a threshold for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuki Morita, Kenji Takahashi, Tadashi Okita
  • Publication number: 20190258217
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a machine tool, the control apparatus including: a numerical control unit configured to create a spindle axis command and a feed axis command according to a tapping program; a spindle axis control unit configured to control rotational operation of the spindle axis according to the spindle axis command; a rotation detector configured to detect a rotation position of the spindle axis; and a feed axis control unit configured to control feeding operation of the feed axis according to the feed axis command on the basis of the rotation position. The numerical control unit is further configured to include, in the spindle axis command, a speed command value during return that does not depend on maximum rotation speed during machining of the spindle axis and that is higher than the maximum rotation speed during machining, as a command of return operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Tajima, Yuuki Morita, Tadashi Okita
  • Publication number: 20190258227
    Abstract: To simplify determination of drive parameters upon driving a motor for which circuit constants are unknown, and shorten the time required in determination. A parameter determination support device includes: an automatic measurement part which applies initial parameters, and automatically measures a revolution speed (rpm) of a synchronous motor, as well as a DC link voltage (V) and Q-phase voltage command (%) of a motor drive device, as operating information upon driving the synchronous motor at substantially constant speed based on a base speed, according to a test-run program; an estimation part which estimates a reverse voltage constant (V/krpm) and torque constant (Nm/Arms) as circuit constants of the synchronous motor based on the operating information; and a calculation part which performs calculation of optimum parameters tailored to the output specification of the synchronous motor based on the circuit constants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouki OIKAWA, Yuuki MORITA, Tadashi OKITA
  • Publication number: 20190258216
    Abstract: To simplify determination of drive parameters upon driving a motor for which circuit constants are unknown, and shorten the time required in determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouki OIKAWA, Yuuki MORITA, Tadashi OKITA
  • Publication number: 20190257883
    Abstract: To simplify determination of drive parameters upon driving a motor for which circuit constants are unknown, and shorten the time required in determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouki OIKAWA, Yuuki MORITA, Tadashi OKITA
  • Patent number: 10389288
    Abstract: A motor controller includes: a rotation speed estimating unit that estimates a rotation speed of an motor on the basis of current information and primary frequency information of the motor; a proximity switch that outputs an ON signal when a portion of a rotating body of the motor is in proximity and outputs an OFF signal when a portion of the rotating body of the motor is not in proximity; a rotation speed computing unit that computes a rotation speed of the motor on the basis of the ON signal and the OFF signal output from the proximity switch; and an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormality in the rotation speed estimation value or an abnormality in the proximity switch when a difference between the estimated rotation speed estimation value and the computed rotation speed computation value is equal to or larger than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou Hashimoto, Yuuki Morita
  • Patent number: 10359761
    Abstract: A controller controlling a synchronized operation of spindle and feed axes. A positioning-motion control section of a spindle-axis control section calculates a first velocity command making a spindle axis perform a decelerated rotation at a variable deceleration lower than a maximum deceleration during an acceleration-varying time just after the spindle axis reaches an intermediate speed or just before the spindle axis reaches a target position, and making the spindle axis perform the decelerated rotation at the maximum deceleration during a time except for the acceleration-varying time; calculates a second velocity command making the spindle axis perform a decelerated rotation at a constant deceleration lower than the maximum deceleration after the spindle axis reaches the intermediate speed; and chooses either one, achieving a lower speed, of the first and second velocity command during a period when the spindle axis operates from the intermediate speed to reach the target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Tajima, Yuuki Morita, Tadashi Okita
  • Publication number: 20190199252
    Abstract: A motor control device includes: a polarity sensor configured to detect whether a magnetic pole position in a synchronous motor resides on a positive polarity side or a negative polarity side with reference to a reference position; a motor control unit configured to turn the synchronous motor from the polarity side detected by the polarity sensor toward an opposite polarity side through the reference position; and a magnetic pole position determination unit configured to determine, as the magnetic pole position, a position of the synchronous motor at the moment when the polarity changes, based on a detection result of the polarity sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohisa Tsutsumi, Yuuki Morita