Patents by Inventor Yuya KATAOKA

Yuya KATAOKA 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: 11536358
    Abstract: A gear device includes an internal gear, a flexible external gear, and a wave generator. The wave generator includes an elliptical cam and a bearing. Grease is applied to the inner circumferential surface of the external gear. A groove is provided along a rotation axis on at least one of the inner circumferential surface of the external gear and an outer circumferential surface of the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: Yuya Kataoka
  • Patent number: 11529731
    Abstract: A gearing includes an internal gear, a flexible external gear partially meshing with the internal gear and relatively rotating about a rotation axis to the internal gear, and a wave generator provided inside of the external gear and moving a mesh position between the internal gear and the external gear in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis, wherein the external gear includes an external tooth having an external tooth surface, the external tooth surface has an external tooth convex pattern including a first convex portion and a second convex portion extending in directions crossing directions of a tooth trace of the external tooth and arranged adjacent to each other in the directions of the tooth trace, and a distance between the first convex portion and the second convex portion is from 80 ?m to 520 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Satoru Masai, Yuya Kataoka, Nobuyuki Takehana, Yoshiyuki Soya
  • Patent number: 11441661
    Abstract: A gear device includes an internal gear, an external gear having flexibility configured to partially mesh with the internal gear and rotate, and a wave generator provided on an inner side of the external gear and configured to move a meshing position of the internal gear and the external gear in a circumferential direction around the rotation axis. A main material of the internal gear includes graphite particles. A tooth surface of an internal tooth of the internal gear has a convex pattern including a first convex part and a second convex part extending in a first direction having a component along the rotation axis and arranged side by side in a second direction crossing the first direction, and 10?D?40 and S?D?20, wherein D [?m] is an average particle diameter of the graphite particles and S [?m] is a separation distance between the first convex part and the second convex part in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventors: Satoru Masai, Yuya Kataoka, Nobuyuki Takehana, Yoshiyuki Soya
  • Publication number: 20220196132
    Abstract: A gear device includes an internal gear, an external gear, and a wave generator. The external gear includes a cylinder section including external teeth, a diaphragm extending to a radial direction outer side of the cylinder section on the opposite side of the external teeth, and an annular boss section coupled to the outer circumferential end side of the diaphragm. The thickness of the diaphragm gradually decreases from the outer circumferential end toward a center portion in the radial direction of the diaphragm. In a natural state, a part (an inclination start part) where a first surface on the external teeth side of the diaphragm starts to incline with respect to an imaginary surface, which is a surface perpendicular to a rotation axis, is present further on the cylinder section side in the radial direction than the inner circumferential surface of the boss section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Yuya KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20220186821
    Abstract: A gear device includes an internal gear, an external gear, and a wave generator. The external gear includes a cylinder section, a diaphragm, and a boss section. The diaphragm includes a first coupling section, a second coupling section, and a diaphragm main body. A ratio of the length from one opening end of the cylinder section to the surface of the diaphragm on the opposite side of the opening end in a rotation axis direction to the length from the inner circumferential surface of the boss section coupled to the second coupling section to the outer circumferential surface of the cylinder section in the radial direction is 1.0 or more and 5.0 or less, and t(C)?t(A), where t(A) represents the thickness of the inner circumferential end of the diaphragm and t(C) represents the thickness of the outer circumferential end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: Yuya KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20220177250
    Abstract: A sheet processing machine stores sheets transported by a transport unit. The sheet processing machine includes: a reel on which a first end side of a tape is wound; a first stepper motor that rotates the reel about a rotation axis of the reel; a drum configured to wind up a second end side of the tape together with the sheets to form a winding body together with the tape and the sheets; a second stepper motor that rotates the drum about a rotation axis of the drum; and circuitry configured to change an interval between the sheets wound on the drum by controlling a rotation of the first stepper motor and the second stepper motor based on a parameter indicating a condition of the winding body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusaku TACHIBANA, Takeshi YOKAWA, Yuya KATAOKA, Keisuke NADA, Daiki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11292686
    Abstract: A sheet processing machine stores sheets transported by a transport unit. The sheet processing machine includes: a reel on which a first end side of a tape is wound; a first stepper motor that rotates the reel about a rotation axis of the reel; a drum configured to wind up a second end side of the tape together with the sheets to form a winding body together with the tape and the sheets; a second stepper motor that rotates the drum about a rotation axis of the drum; and circuitry configured to change an interval between the sheets wound on the drum by controlling a rotation of the first stepper motor and the second stepper motor based on a parameter indicating a condition of the winding body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Yusaku Tachibana, Takeshi Yokawa, Yuya Kataoka, Keisuke Nada, Daiki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11285601
    Abstract: A gearing includes an internal gear, an external gear including external teeth placed around a rotation axis and meshing with the internal gear, a barrel part adjacent to the external teeth along the rotation axis, and an inner circumferential surface on an inner surface of the external teeth, and having flexibility and relatively rotating about the rotation axis to the internal gear, and a wave generator including a bearing having an outer ring in contact with the inner circumferential surface, an inner ring, and balls intervening between the outer ring and the inner ring, and moving a mesh position between the internal gear and the external gear about the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventor: Yuya Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20220049762
    Abstract: A gear device includes an internal gear, an external gear having flexibility, a wave generator, a cross roller bearing, and a first seal and a second seal. The external gear includes a cylindrical body section including a first end portion, with which the wave generator is in contact, and a second end portion on the opposite side of the first end portion, external teeth provided on the outer circumferential surface of the first end portion, an annular diaphragm section provided on the outer side of the second end portion, and a boss section provided on the outer side of the diaphragm section. The first seal is sandwiched between the boss section and an outer ring of the cross roller bearing. The second seal includes a proximal end fixed to the outer ring and a distal end in contact with the outer circumferential surface of an inner ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventor: Yuya KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20210362324
    Abstract: A gear device includes an internal gear, an external gear having flexibility configured to partially mesh with the internal gear and rotate around a rotation axis relatively to the internal gear, and a wave generator configured to come into contact with an inner circumferential surface of the external gear and move a meshing position of the internal gear and the external gear in a circumferential direction around the rotation axis. The external gear includes a cylindrical section including a first end portion with which the wave generator is in contact and a second end portion adjacent to the first end portion along the rotation axis. An inner circumferential surface of the first end portion includes a polished surface. An inner circumferential surface of the second end portion includes a lathe-cut surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Satoru MASAI, Yuya KATAOKA, Nobuyuki TAKEHANA, Yoshiyuki SOYA
  • Publication number: 20210316445
    Abstract: A gearing includes an internal gear, a flexible external gear partially meshing with the internal gear and relatively rotating about a rotation axis to the internal gear, and a wave generator provided inside of the external gear and moving a mesh position between the internal gear and the external gear in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis, wherein the external gear includes an external tooth having an external tooth surface, the external tooth surface has an external tooth convex pattern including a first convex portion and a second convex portion extending in directions crossing directions of a tooth trace of the external tooth and arranged adjacent to each other in the directions of the tooth trace, and a distance between the first convex portion and the second convex portion is from 80 ?m to 520 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Satoru MASAI, Yuya KATAOKA, Nobuyuki TAKEHANA, Yoshiyuki SOYA
  • Publication number: 20210270355
    Abstract: A gear device includes an internal gear, an external gear having flexibility configured to partially mesh with the internal gear and rotate, and a wave generator provided on an inner side of the external gear and configured to move a meshing position of the internal gear and the external gear in a circumferential direction around the rotation axis. A main material of the internal gear includes graphite particles. A tooth surface of an internal tooth of the internal gear has a convex pattern including a first convex part and a second convex part extending in a first direction having a component along the rotation axis and arranged side by side in a second direction crossing the first direction, and 10?D?40 and S?D?20, wherein D [?m] is an average particle diameter of the graphite particles and S [?m] is a separation distance between the first convex part and the second convex part in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Satoru MASAI, Yuya KATAOKA, Nobuyuki TAKEHANA, Yoshiyuki SOYA
  • Publication number: 20210268642
    Abstract: A bearing includes an outer ring, an inner ring provided on the inner side in the radial direction of the outer ring, a rolling body provided between the outer ring and the inner ring, and a holder including a base formed in an annular shape around a center axis of the outer ring and the inner ring and a first wall section and a second wall section provided to project from the base, the holder holding the rolling body. The first wall section includes a first channel provided in the circumferential direction of the base. The second wall section includes a second channel provided in the circumferential direction of the base. The position of the first channel in the first wall section and the position of the second channel in the second wall section are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventor: Yuya KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20210156459
    Abstract: A gear device includes an internal gear, a flexible external gear, and a wave generator. The wave generator includes an elliptical cam and a bearing. Grease is applied to the inner circumferential surface of the external gear. A groove is provided along a rotation axis on at least one of the inner circumferential surface of the external gear and an outer circumferential surface of the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventor: Yuya KATAOKA
  • Patent number: 10981271
    Abstract: A gear device includes an internal gear, an external gear partially meshing with the internal gear, relatively rotating around a rotation axis to the internal gear, and having flexibility, and a wave generator being in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the external gear and moving a meshing position of the internal gear and the external gear in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis, wherein a virtual straight line as an extension of a tooth trace of the internal gear intersects with the rotation axis in a sectional view cut along a plane containing the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Inventor: Yuya Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20210090374
    Abstract: A sheet processing machine stores sheets transported by a transport unit. The sheet processing machine includes: a reel on which a first end side of a tape is wound; a first stepper motor that rotates the reel about a rotation axis of the reel; a drum configured to wind up a second end side of the tape together with the sheets to form a winding body together with the tape and the sheets; a second stepper motor that rotates the drum about a rotation axis of the drum; and circuitry configured to change an interval between the sheets wound on the drum by controlling a rotation of the first stepper motor and the second stepper motor based on a parameter indicating a condition of the winding body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusaku TACHIBANA, Takeshi YOKAWA, Yuya KATAOKA, Keisuke NADA, Daiki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200070339
    Abstract: A gearing includes an internal gear, an external gear including external teeth placed around a rotation axis and meshing with the internal gear, a barrel part adjacent to the external teeth along the rotation axis, and an inner circumferential surface on an inner surface of the external teeth, and having flexibility and relatively rotating about the rotation axis to the internal gear, and a wave generator including a bearing having an outer ring in contact with the inner circumferential surface, an inner ring, and balls intervening between the outer ring and the inner ring, and moving a mesh position between the internal gear and the external gear about the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventor: Yuya KATAOKA
  • Patent number: 10515502
    Abstract: A paper sheet handling machine (for example, banknote handling machine (10)) includes: a recognition unit (18) configured to recognize a paper sheet transported by a transport unit (16); a storage unit (for example, banknote storages (30) or banknote storage cassette (40)) configured to store the paper sheet recognized by the recognition unit (18); a memory unit (54) configured to store a maximum capacity for paper sheets in the storage unit; and a maximum capacity change unit (58) configured to change the maximum capacity stored in the memory unit (54), on the basis of information about a kind of the paper sheet recognized by the recognition unit (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Danjo, Yuya Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20190247999
    Abstract: A gear device includes an internal gear, an external gear partially meshing with the internal gear, relatively rotating around a rotation axis to the internal gear, and having flexibility, and a wave generator being in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the external gear and moving a meshing position of the internal gear and the external gear in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis, wherein a virtual straight line as an extension of a tooth trace of the internal gear intersects with the rotation axis in a sectional view cut along a plane containing the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventor: Yuya KATAOKA
  • Patent number: 10344848
    Abstract: A robot includes a first member, a second member provided to be capable of turning with respect to the first member, and a gear device configured to transmit a driving force from one side to the other side of the first member and the second member. The gear device includes an internal gear, an external gear having flexibility and configured to partially mesh with the internal gear, a wave generator configured to be in contact with the external gear and move a meshing position of the internal gear and the external gear in a circumferential direction, and lubricant disposed in at least one of a meshing section of the internal gear and the external gear and a portion where the external gear and the wave generator are in contact with each other. A last non-seizure load of the lubricant is 300 N or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masanao Kunugi, Hiroyuki Kusumoto, Yuya Kataoka