Patents by Inventor Zhizhen XIA

Zhizhen XIA 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: 11169502
    Abstract: A device that estimates a life of a clamping mechanism clamping rotation of a rotary table includes a machine learning device. The machine learning device observes operating state data of the rotary table and operation history data of the rotary table as a state variable indicative of a current state of an environment, and acquires life data indicative of the life of the clamping mechanism as label data. In addition, the device uses the state variable that has been observed and the label data that has been acquired and learns the operating state data and the operation history data and the life data in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhizhen Xia
  • Patent number: 10442050
    Abstract: In a method of controlling a rotary table device, a clamp mechanism drive unit is controlled to unclamp a brake disk. Thereafter, a pressure of working fluid supplied to an unclamp fluid chamber is decreased, and a motor drive unit is controlled to rotate a motor. Then, the abrasion quantity of the piston and the clamp member is calculated based on a reference pressure and a pressure when the load torque of a spindle exceeded a reference load torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhizhen Xia
  • Publication number: 20190121319
    Abstract: A device that estimates a life of a clamping mechanism clamping rotation of a rotary table includes a machine learning device. The machine learning device observes operating state data of the rotary table and operation history data of the rotary table as a state variable indicative of a current state of an environment, and acquires life data indicative of the life of the clamping mechanism as label data. In addition, the device uses the state variable that has been observed and the label data that has been acquired and learns the operating state data and the operation history data and the life data in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventor: Zhizhen XIA
  • Publication number: 20190070704
    Abstract: In a method of controlling a rotary table device, a clamp mechanism drive unit is controlled to unclamp a brake disk. Thereafter, a pressure of working fluid supplied to an unclamp fluid chamber is decreased, and a motor drive unit is controlled to rotate a motor. Then, the abrasion quantity of the piston and the clamp member is calculated based on a reference pressure and a pressure when the load torque of a spindle exceeded a reference load torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Zhizhen XIA
  • Patent number: 10179385
    Abstract: A clamping mechanism of rotation table device includes a shaft fixing a workpiece to an end portion thereof, a brake disk fixed to the shaft, and a clamping mechanism clamping or unclamping the brake disk by driving a piston. The clamping mechanism includes a plate spring fixed to a rear plate fixed to a casing and a piston and urging the piston in a clamping direction at all times by an elastic deformation restoring force and the plate spring is fixed to the rear plate or the piston through an annular plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhizhen Xia, Zheng Tong, Hiroki Tezuka
  • Publication number: 20170136593
    Abstract: A clamping mechanism of rotation table device includes a shaft fixing a workpiece to an end portion thereof, a brake disk fixed to the shaft, and a clamping mechanism clamping or unclamping the brake disk by driving a piston. The clamping mechanism includes a plate spring fixed to a rear plate fixed to a casing and a piston and urging the piston in a clamping direction at all times by an elastic deformation restoring force and the plate spring is fixed to the rear plate or the piston through an annular plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Zhizhen XIA, Zheng TONG, Hiroki TEZUKA
  • Publication number: 20160207156
    Abstract: A rotary table, which is provided with a rotating shaft rotatably disposed in a casing and a clamping mechanism configured to disable the rotating shaft from rotating, is designed so that another clamping mechanism, in addition to the first clamping mechanism, can be connected to the rotating shaft, whereby a clamping torque twice that of a rotary table with a single clamping mechanism can be produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventor: Zhizhen XIA