Azbil Corporation

Thk Co., Ltd.

Tomofumi Ohashi

Yuki Hayashi

Yuki Tanaka

Yusuke Asano

Akihiro Unno

Katsunori Kogure

Hideaki Someya

Wataru Saito

Yoshihiro Kudo

Hiroaki Narita

Makoto Saruwatari

Takuya Miyazaki

Sho Iwashiro

Bin Zhao

Shigeru Futami

Hitoshi Shibata

Mika Oki

The ball screw device includes: a screw shaft having an N number (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2) of rolling grooves having the same lead; balls configured to roll in the rolling grooves; and a nut member, which is assembled to the screw shaft through intermediation of the balls, and includes one or a plurality of endless circulation paths configured to circulate the balls around the screw shaft. Each of the endless circulation paths of the nut member includes: an N number of load portions, which are configured to allow the balls to roll thereon while bearing a load, and correspond to the N number of rolling grooves, respectively; and an N number of no-load portions, which each couple adjacent ones of the load portions, and are configured to allow the balls to move between the N number of rolling grooves.

Ball screw device

A lifespan diagnosis device for a motion guidance device including: a stress calculating means which calculates stresses during movement for each of virtual segments, the stresses during movement being stresses that occur in each segment during a movement of the moving member; a counting means which counts, for each of the segments, on the basis of the amount of displacement, the number of occurrences of the stresses during movement which repetitively occur with waving during a movement of the moving member along the track; and a diagnostic means which calculates, for each of the segments, a lifespan exhaustion ratio on the basis of magnitudes of the stresses during movement and the number of occurrences of the stresses during movement, and which diagnoses the lifespan of the motion guidance device on the basis of the calculated lifespan exhaustion ratios of the respective segments.

Lifespan diagnosis device, method, non-transitory storage medium, and system for motion guidance device

A machining control system for machining of a workpiece movably supported by a motion guidance device having a track member which extends along a longitudinal direction and a moving member which is arranged so as to oppose the track member via a rolling element being rollably arranged inside a rolling groove and which is relatively movable along the longitudinal direction of the track member, the machining control system including: an acquisition unit which acquires prescribed machining information related to a load applied to the motion guidance device when machining of the workpiece is performed by the machining device; and an output unit which generates machining correction information for correcting a prescribed control parameter for machining of the workpiece by the machining device on the basis of the prescribed machining information acquired by the acquisition unit and which outputs the generated machining correction information to a side of the machining device.

Machining control system and motion guidance device

To suitably set a control gain in feedback control while suppressing an increase in apparatus size. A workpiece transport control system includes: one or a plurality of motion guidance devices; a table on which a workpiece is to be placed; an actuator which imparts a driving force to the table; a control unit which performs transport control by feedback control; and a calculation unit which calculates a transport load applied from the workpiece to a moving member of each of the one or a plurality of motion guidance devices, wherein a control gain related to the feedback control in the transport control is adjusted on the basis of the transport load in each of the one or a plurality of motion guidance devices.

Workpiece transport control system and motion guidance device

An actuator includes: a fixed internal gear that is formed in an annular shape, has a tooth on an inner peripheral surface thereof, and is non-rotatably provided; a movable internal gear that is formed in an annular shape, has a tooth on an inner peripheral surface thereof, and is rotatably provided coaxially with the fixed internal gear; a plurality of external gears that mesh with the fixed internal gear and the movable internal gear, and rotate along an inner peripheral surface of the fixed internal gear; and a carrier that is formed in an annular shape, rotatably supports the external gears, has a tooth for receiving a turning force from a drive motor on an outer peripheral surface thereof, transmits a turning force from the drive motor to the external gears, and is rotatably provided coaxially with the movable internal gear.

Regulating valve with planetary gear transmission

A new position control apparatus is provided which can reduce deviation caused by a non-linear spring characteristic of a rolling apparatus. In a position control apparatus () that controls the position of a movable body (), in a positioning apparatus () including a rolling apparatus (), a deviation e(t) or d of the movable bodycaused by the non-linear spring characteristic of the rolling apparatus () is subtracted from or added to a position command Xref or r of the movable body (). The deviation d is calculated by carrying out equivalent exchange on a control circuit for a friction force of the rolling apparatus (), which is set as a quantity of the dimension of displacement.

Position control apparatus and method

In a management system which manages user equipment installed in a prescribed space managed by a user, the user equipment including a plurality of motion guidance devices each including a track member, a moving member, and a plurality of displacement sensors which detect displacements of the moving member in a prescribed number of displacement directions in the moving member, on the basis of lifespan-related information corresponding to each of the plurality of motion guidance devices, a lifespan exhaustion ratio of each motion guidance device is calculated and, on the basis of the calculated lifespan exhaustion ratio, replacement object devices to be replaced within a prescribed period which constitute a part of or all of the plurality of motion guidance devices are determined. In addition, a user is notified of a replacement timing at which all of the determined replacement object devices in the user equipment are to be replaced.

Management system and motion guidance device

A setting/operating device includes a sun gear that rotates by receiving a rotating force from a driving motor; a first internal gear that has teeth on the inner peripheral surface thereof, the first internal gear being provided rotatably so as to surround the sun gear; a plurality of planetary gears that are disposed between the sun gear and the first internal gear, engaged with the sun gear and the first internal gear, and capable of rotating on axes thereof while revolving around the sun gear; a rotation mechanism that rotates by receiving rotating forces of the plurality of planetary gears; an output shaft that is coupled to the rotation mechanism; a housing that accommodates the sun gear, the first internal gear, the plurality of planetary gears, and the rotation mechanism; and a rotation control mechanism that switches between a rotatable state and an unrotatable state of the first internal gear.

A setting/operating device includes a first motor; a sun gear that rotates by receiving a rotating force from the first motor; a first internal gear disposed so as to surround the sun gear; a second motor that applies a force to the first internal gear in a direction in which rotation of the first internal gear is prevented; a plurality of planetary gears disposed between the sun gear and the first internal gear, engaged with the sun gear and the first internal gear, and capable of rotating on the axes thereof while revolving around the sun gear; a rotation mechanism that rotates by receiving rotating forces of the plurality of planetary gears; an output shaft that is coupled to the rotation mechanism; and a spring unit that applies a rotating force to the output shaft when supply of electric power to the first motor and the second motor is stopped.

A setting/operating device includes a sun gear that rotates by receiving a rotating force from a motor; a first internal gear that has teeth on the inner peripheral surface thereof and is provided so as to surround the sun gear; a plurality of planetary gears that are engaged with the sun gear and the first internal gear and capable of rotating on axes thereof while revolving around the sun gear; a rotation mechanism that rotates by receiving rotating forces of the plurality of planetary gears; an output shaft that is coupled to the rotation mechanism; a rotation control member made of a material that expands in response to voltage application; and a housing in which the rotation control member is disposed in a gap between the first internal gear and the housing so as to make contact with the first internal gear and the housing.

A setting/operating device including: a sun gear that is rotated by a rotational force from a drive motor; a fixed internal gear fixedly disposed to surround the sun gear and having teeth on an inner peripheral surface; a plurality of planetary gears disposed between the sun gear and the fixed internal gear that rotate in engagement with the sun gear and the fixed internal gear while revolving around the sun gear; a movable internal gear disposed coaxially with the fixed internal gear, having teeth that come into engagement with the planetary gear on an inner peripheral surface, and provided so as to be rotatable; an output shaft coupled to the movable internal gear and configured to rotate the valve stem of the regulating valve; and a manual operation mechanism that rotates the sun gear or the planetary gear by a force applied from the outside of a housing.

Planetary gear transmission for a motor and manually operable valve

A setting/operating device for operating a valve stem of a regulating valve, including: a sun gear that rotates upon reception of a rotational force from a drive motor; a fixed internal gear fixedly disposed to surround the sun gear and having teeth on an inner peripheral surface; a plurality of planetary gears disposed between the sun gear and the fixed internal gear that rotate in engagement with the sun gear and the fixed internal gear while revolving around the sun gear; a movable internal gear rotatably disposed coaxially with the fixed internal gear, having teeth that engage the planetary gear on an inner peripheral surface; and an output shaft coupled to the movable internal gear and configured to rotate the valve stem of the regulating valve, wherein the planetary gears have a torque limit structure that restricts power transmission when a torque exceeding a certain level is applied.

Planetary gear torque limiting structure for a regulating valve

A setting/operating device includes: a drive motor, a sun gear that rotates by force from the drive motor; a fixed internal gear; planetary gears configured to be rotatable in engagement with the fixed internal gear while revolving around the sun gear; a movable internal gear disposed coaxially with the fixed internal gear and provided so as to be rotatable in engagement with the planetary gears; an output shaft coupled to the movable internal gear and configured to rotate a valve stem of a regulating valve; wherein the planetary gear includes: a first gear portion configured to engage the sun gear and the fixed internal gear, a second gear portion disposed coaxially with the first gear portion and configured to engage the movable internal gear; and an elastically deformable portion having a smaller elastic modulus formed integrally between the first gear portion and the second gear portion.

Regulating valve with elastic modulus planetary gear transmission

A valve opening setpoint corrector and a correction table storage are provided in a flow rate controlling valve. A correction table indicating valve opening correction values corresponding to combinations of amounts of opening of a valve and front-back differential pressures across the valve is stored in the correction table storage. In the valve opening setpoint corrector a correction value acquirer acquires, from the correction table, the valve opening correction value &#x3b1; that corresponds to the inputted measured value of the valve and front-back differential pressure across the valve and sends it to the setpoint corrector, as a correction value that takes into account the amount of twist in the valve rod. The setpoint corrector corrects, by the correction value taking into account the amount of twist in the valve rod, the valve opening setpoint from the air conditioning controller, sending this corrected valve opening setpoint to the valve opening controller.

Rotary valve

A table indicating a relationship between a differential pressure across a valve unit and a torque that is to be outputted by a motor (an output torque) is stored in a table storing portion. A valve opening controlling portion and a torque controlling portion are provided in a controlling portion. The valve opening controlling portion uses the actual opening &#x3b8;pv, from the valve opening detector, as the valve opening measured value, and sends a driving command to the motor so as to cause the valve opening measured value &#x3b8;pv to match the valve opening setpoint &#x3b8;sp. The torque controlling portion acquires, from the table, a torque corresponding to the differential pressure &#x394;P across the valve unit, detected by the differential pressure detecting portion, and sends, to the motor, a command (a torque output command) to cause outputting of the torque that has been acquired.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tomofumi Ohashi