Patents Assigned to Omron Corporation
  • Publication number: 20240143287
    Abstract: A development support device extracts a first variable that is unused in a source code of a control program for a control device that controls a control target from variables in a variable definition list that declares variables used in the source code, and acquires information for specifying a second variable used by the control target in an execution state of the control program. The development support device determines that a third variable that does not correspond to the second variable out of the first variable is delible from the variable definition list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori HIGA
  • Publication number: 20240142952
    Abstract: An access authority is set for each data referred to by a program. A control system includes a control unit that controls a control target, a storage unit that stores a program executed by the control unit and each access authority for each of data referred to by the program, and an input unit that receives an access request for any one of the data. Each access authority includes information about an operation that can be executed by a user having each authority. The control unit refers to each access authority based on acquisition of the access request for any one of the data from the input unit, and determines whether the user who transmits the access request has the access authority for the data for which the access is requested based on each access authority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KITAMURA, Hisanori IGARASHI, Kotaro OKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240143803
    Abstract: Reliability of an instrument connected to a control device is verified. A control system includes a control unit and a communication unit. The control unit and the communication unit are configured to be detachable. The control unit authenticates the communication unit connected to the control unit using a common key, and allows the communication unit to access data in the control unit based on a result of the authentication checking that the communication unit has the common key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KITAMURA, Hisanori IGARASHI, Kotaro OKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240146118
    Abstract: A foreign matter detection device includes: a plurality of detection coils (43-1 to 43-n) between a transmission coil (12) of a power transmission device (2) and a reception coil (21) of a power reception device (3), through which power is transmitted in a contactless manner; a plurality of capacitors (44-1 to 44-n) forming, for each of the detection coils, a resonance circuit together with the detection coil; a power supply circuit (41) supplying AC power having a predetermined frequency to each detection coil; and a detection circuit (45) detecting a voltage output from each detection coil and detecting a foreign matter entering between the transmission coil (12) and the reception coil (21) according to the voltage detected. Then, each detection coil is arranged to overlap by a predetermined amount that allows electromagnetic coupling between adjacent two of the detection coils (43-1 to 43-n) to be ignored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Goro NAKAO, Yuki ITO, Taichi MISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240139946
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires specification information about a robot that is a component of a robot cell system, member information including shape information about a member, other than the robot, which is also a component of the robot cell system, and work information relating to work to be performed by the robot. A layout planning unit calculates, based on the specification information, the member information, and the work information, one or more layout candidates for the robot and the member in the robot cell system. A pose planning unit calculates, for each layout candidate, a set of combinations of a start pose at a start point and an end pose at an end point of each operation of the robot. A route planning unit calculates, for each layout candidate, a set of routes from the start pose to the end pose of each combination of the start pose and the end pose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Kojima, Haruka Fujii, Ryoichi Kuratani
  • Patent number: 11969237
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes an outer case; a base; a pump provided on a surface of the base such that the pump is shifted from a center of the outer case and located on one side as viewed in a circumferential direction of a living body; a first pressure sensor and a second pressure sensor that are provided such that the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor are arranged side by side in the circumferential direction and located on one side as viewed in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; and a first on-off valve and a second on-off valve that are provided such that the first on-off valve and the second on-off valve are arranged side by side in the circumferential direction with reference to the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Mizuno, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tomoyuki Nishida, Noboru Kohara, Kotaro Kitajo, Takashi Ono, Takanori Nishioka, Yoshihiko Sano
  • Patent number: 11969919
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a sensor. The sensor has a casing having an opening portion, a clamp having a recessed part on its outer periphery and having one end inserted into the opening portion, and a sealing ring attached to the recessed part and disposed between the casing and the clamp. The method includes using a first divided mold to form a first component of the clamp, the first component including a main body portion and a first part located at one end side of the main body portion and forming a part of the recessed part. The first divided mold is divided so that a dividing surface intersects the main body portion and separates in an axial direction of the main body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakayama, Daisuke Inoue, Yuki Ushiro, Takaaki Sanda, Hiroto Katsura
  • Patent number: 11971709
    Abstract: The disclosure is to constitute, while reducing a cost for collecting training data used in machine learning that makes a control module acquire an ability to control a robot device, the control module operatable in an actual environment by the machine learning. A learning device according to one aspect of the present invention executes machine learning of an extractor by using a first learning data set constituted by a combination of simulation data and first environmental information and a second learning data set constituted by a combination of actual data and second environmental information. Further, a learning device according to one aspect of the present invention executes machine learning of a controller by using a third learning data set constituted by a combination of third environmental information, state information, and a control command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Yamaguchi, Kennosuke Hayashi, Kin Chung Denny Fu, Yohei Okawa, Chisato Saito, Yoshiya Shibata
  • Publication number: 20240134047
    Abstract: A transport possibility determination device comprises a distance measurement unit and a control unit. The distance measurement unit acquires information about the distance to an object. The control unit determines the state of a load when the object is a transport platform on which the load has been placed, on the basis of the information about the distance to the object acquired by the distance measurement unit. The control unit determines whether or not a transportable condition, which is a condition for permitting a forklift to transport the load, is met on the basis of the determined state of the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benika INOUE, Masahiro KINOSHITA, Akihiro ISHII, Mitsunori SUGIURA, Ryoji SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240131997
    Abstract: A display switching device (1) includes: a lens array (40); a display part (10), comprising pixel regions (31) disposed to include regions in which light in which respective light emitted from light sources (50) is condensed by respective lenses (41) of the lens array (40) passes through. A transmittance of each pixel region (31) is set corresponding to a predetermined stationary pattern. Display of the display part (10) performed through irradiation of the light of the light sources (50) exhibits directivity, and a first averaged oriented direction (D1) averaging, among the light sources (50), oriented directions as directions of the directivity is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a normal direction of a display surface (11) of the display part (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yuto MORI, Gouo KURATA, Masao MISHINA, Yutaka OKAYASU
  • Publication number: 20240135172
    Abstract: A data generation device according to the above-described aspect of the present invention: uses a trained encoder to acquire, in a feature space, two or more sample points corresponding to two or more training samples from among a plurality of training samples, and to derive the linear sum at which the total distance becomes the maximum, said distance being calculated from respective sample points that have been acquired in accordance with a prescribed index; and uses a trained decoder to generate, as a new training sample, a decoding sample corresponding to a feature amount of the derived linear sum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi HYUGA, Mei TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240134359
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a relationship identifier that identifies a first causal relationship based on data of a connection state and an order relationship of machineries that constitute a manufacturing line, the first causal relationship being between the machineries in a process performed on the manufacturing line, a relationship acquirer that acquires a second causal relationship between events related to the machineries in a process performed on the manufacturing line according to user setting, and a relationship synthesizer that generates a third causal relationship obtained by integrating the first causal relationship and the second causal relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro UJITA, Kota MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240134327
    Abstract: A system includes control devices, an integrated control device, and an operation terminal. The control devices respectively control movement mechanisms. The integrated control device outputs a command for each of the movement mechanisms to a control device that controls the movement mechanism. The operation terminal outputs a first command for a specific movement mechanism to the integrated control device, the specific movement mechanism being any of the movement mechanisms. The integrated control device generates a second command corresponding to the specific movement mechanism based on the first command and outputs the second command to a specific control device that controls the specific movement mechanism. The integrated control device or the specific control device generates, based on the second command, an operation profile that defines a temporal change in an operation of the specific movement mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke MATSUNAGA, David FORNAS
  • Publication number: 20240136860
    Abstract: A power reception device 3 includes: an estimation circuit 28 estimating a load resistance of an entire contactless power feed apparatus 1; and a reception-side communicator 27 transmitting an estimated value of the load resistance of the entire contactless power feed apparatus 1 to a power transmission device 2. The power transmission device 2 has a power supply circuit 11 supplying AC power to a transmission coil 12 supplying power to the power reception device 3. The power transmission device 2 further includes a control circuit 18 decreasing an input/output gain of a transmission-side DC-DC converter 31 included in the power supply circuit 11 by a predetermined amount when the estimated value of the load resistance is less than a predetermined allowed lower limit, and maintaining or increasing the input/output gain when the estimated value of the load resistance is equal to or greater than the predetermined allowed lower limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Goro NAKAO, Yuki ITO, Taichi MISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240136952
    Abstract: A vibration device includes vibration elements arranged side by side in a plane direction of a thin film, and the vibration elements are capable of being controlled in different vibrations respectively. The vibration device includes vibration elements having different frequencies of vibration. Further, the vibration device includes vibration elements having different phases. A vibration unit includes the vibration device and a control part controlling vibration of the vibration elements included in the vibration device. A vibration apparatus includes the vibration device, the control part, and a housing accommodating the vibration device and the control part, and includes a vibration part arranged on an outer surface of the housing and generating vibration caused by the vibration elements included in the vibration device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo NAGASAKA, Yoshinori SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240136859
    Abstract: A contactless power feed apparatus 1 has a relay circuit 4 relaying power transmitted from a power transmission device 2 to a power reception device 3 in a contactless manner. The power transmission device 2 has: a transmission coil 12 transmitting AC power to the relay circuit 4. The relay circuit 4 has: a first coil 31, electromagnetically coupled with the transmission coil 12 and receiving the AC power from the transmission coil 12; a second coil 32, transmitting the AC power to the power reception device 3; and a resonant capacitor 33, resonating with the AC power supplied to the transmission coil 12 together with the first and second coils 31, 32. The power reception device 3 has: a resonant circuit 20, having a reception coil 21 receiving AC power from the second coil 32 by being electromagnetically coupled with the second coil 32 of the relay circuit 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Goro NAKAO, Yuki ITO, Taichi MISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240136102
    Abstract: A winding of a transmission coil included in a power transmission device of a contactless power feed apparatus and serving to transmit AC power to a power reception device contactlessly is formed of a wiring pattern provided on a substrate. The transmission coil is divided into partial coils arranged coaxially. Each of the partial coils is formed such that, among the partial coils, a number of turns of a winding included in a partial coil is larger as the partial coil is located more outwardly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Goro NAKAO, Yuki ITO, Taichi MISHIMA, Yusuke KAWAI, Hiroyuki IBUKI, Yoshihisa ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11963778
    Abstract: A belt and electrocardiographic measurement device, the belt including a belt body windable around an upper arm in a circumferential direction of the upper arm, and an electrode array including a plurality of electrodes fixed to an inner surface of the belt body and arranged side by side in a direction, which is a longitudinal direction of the belt body, the plurality of electrodes being more than N+2 in number, where N is a number of electrodes required for obtaining electrocardiographic information, the electrodes, counted from a first electrode located at a first end in the direction (X) by counting including the first electrode, to the (N+1)th electrode in the direction (X) being arranged at equal intervals that are predetermined intervals, and intervals between each of the (N+1)th and subsequent electrodes being greater than the predetermined interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reiji Fujita, Yasuhiro Kawabata, Kenji Fujii, Naomi Matsumura, Akito Ito
  • Patent number: 11966064
    Abstract: A light guide plate according to one or more embodiments may include an incident surface that receives light, and an optical path changer on a back surface perpendicular to the incident surface. The optical path changer may reflect light to be emitted through an emission surface parallel to the back surface. The light emitted through the emission surface may form a formed image including a plane image representing a surface. The plane image may include a near imaging portion and a distant imaging portion. The plane image may have two ends included in the near imaging portion in a cross section perpendicular to the back surface and an optical axis of a light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Shinohara, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Masafumi Danno
  • Patent number: D1023984
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Okada, Takahiro Inoue