Patents by Inventor Akira Nojima

Akira Nojima 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: 11854582
    Abstract: A suspension includes a load beam, a flexure and a dimple portion. The flexure includes a tongue. The dimple portion swingably supports the tongue at least over a first position and a second position. In the tongue, first pillow portions supporting a slider and an adhesive portion fixing the slider are provided. In the load beam, a second pillow portion protruding towards the slider is provided. The second pillow portion is in contact with the slider when the tongue is located at the first position, and separates from the slider when the tongue has moved to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Nishida, Akira Nojima
  • Patent number: 11803179
    Abstract: A SCADA Web HMI system includes a drawing generation device (1) and an HMI terminal device (32). A drawing editor (11) generates SVG data (21) and part runtime attribute data (22). The HMI terminal device (32) includes a Web browser (321) that reads SVG data (21) and displays an HMI screen, and an HMI Web runtime (322) that reads the part runtime attribute data (22) as setting parameters and operates on the Web browser (321). When receiving signal data corresponding to unique signal names from a monitoring target device (7), the HMI Web runtime (322) changes display of parts corresponding to the unique signal names on the HMI screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujieda, Nobuo Shimizu, Akira Nojima, Ryo Shimizu, Takaharu Hashizume
  • Publication number: 20230342184
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a SCADA web HMI system that can reduce a load for processing input/output signals in a large-scale system. An HMI server apparatus performs three filtering processing. In first filtering processing, in a case where received block data corresponds to a screen currently displayed on a web browser, a set of input/output signals is extracted from the received block data. In second filtering processing, input/output signals each having a value varied from a previous value are extracted from the set of input/output signals extracted in the first filtering processing. In third filtering processing, input/output signals corresponding to display parts arranged in the screen currently displayed on the web browser, are extracted from the input/output signals extracted in the second filtering processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo SHIMIZU, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230280724
    Abstract: The SCADA web HMI client device runs a plurality of web browsers communicating with a web server. A first web browser is displayed on first monitor and draws an HMI screen for monitoring and controlling an industrial plant. A second web browser is displayed on a second monitor and draws the HMI screen. An operation right table is obtained from the web server. If, in the operation right table, the first web browser is not permitted to operate the HMI screen, an operation part positioned on the HMI screen of the first web browser is drawn in an inoperable state. If, in the operation right table, the second web browser is permitted to operate the HMI screen, the operation part positioned on the HMI screen of the second web browser is drawn in an operable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo SHIMIZU, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230259087
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a SCADA web HMI system that can reduce a load for processing an alarm signal in a large-scale system. An HMI server apparatus performs buffering processing and alarm filtering processing. In the buffering processing, in a case where a received block data includes a set of alarm signals, at least the set of alarm signals included in the block data is temporarily stored in an alarm buffer memory. In the alarm filtering processing, the set of alarm signals stored in the alarm buffer memory is taken out for every second period that is longer than a first period, and the alarm signal having a value varied from a previous value is extracted from the taken-out set of alarm signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo SHIMIZU, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230251624
    Abstract: A drawing creating device generates HMI configuration data for a system monitoring screen from a network configuration diagram drawn by drag-and-drop operation. An HMI server device executes a system monitoring process by applying HMI configuration data to a predetermined server runtime library, and transmits a display signal according to the communication status of a monitored device. An HMI client device draws the system monitoring screen on a web browser and changes the display statuses of the parts positioned on the system monitoring screen according to the received display signal. According to the present invention, the system monitoring function of an industrial plant can be implemented in a non-programmable graphical manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo SHIMIZU, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11720082
    Abstract: A SCADA web HMI system dynamically distributes server connection priority lists from web HMI servers to HMI clients in accordance with order of assignment which takes load balancing into account. As a result, preliminary settings associated with connection priority do not need to be made on the HMI clients. Also, since the server connection priority lists are assigned to the HMI clients in accordance with the order of assignment which takes load balancing into account, the numbers of clients connected to the individual web HMI servers are equalized and the load balancing can be ensured. The SCADA web HMI system can reduce the operating costs necessary in client settings while ensuring redundancy and load balancing of servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Higashiya, Akira Nojima, Nobuo Shimizu, Ryo Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20230236584
    Abstract: When a general-purpose operation part (22, 23) is hidden by a window part (24), it becomes hard for an operator to visually check an association state between a field device (10A, 10B) and a hardware switch (3). If such a display state has occurred, an HMI server (5) stops a health check signal which is being output to a PLC (6). The PLC (6) detects the stop of the health check signal and forcibly cancels the association state between the field device (10A, 10B) and the hardware switch (3). Thus, a human error can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vittal RAO, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU, Ryo SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230197109
    Abstract: A suspension includes a load beam, a flexure and a dimple portion. The flexure includes a tongue. The dimple portion swingably supports the tongue at least over a first position and a second position. In the tongue, first pillow portions supporting a slider and an adhesive portion fixing the slider are provided. In the load beam, a second pillow portion protruding towards the slider is provided. The second pillow portion is in contact with the slider when the tongue is located at the first position, and separates from the slider when the tongue has moved to the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko NISHIDA, Akira NOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230145367
    Abstract: A SCADA web HMI system dynamically distributes server connection priority lists from web HMI servers to HMI clients in accordance with order of assignment which takes load balancing into account. As a result, preliminary settings associated with connection priority do not need to be made on the HMI clients. Also, since the server connection priority lists are assigned to the HMI clients in accordance with the order of assignment which takes load balancing into account, the numbers of clients connected to the individual web HMI servers are equalized and the load balancing can be ensured. The SCADA web HMI system can reduce the operating costs necessary in client settings while ensuring redundancy and load balancing of servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke HIGASHIYA, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU, Ryo SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11644810
    Abstract: A hybrid rendering HMI terminal device (32) is provided with a web browser (321) and an HMI Web Runtime (322). The web browser (321) displays an HMI screen on which a first part and a second part that represent the state of a monitoring target device (7) are arranged. When signal data from the monitoring target device (7) is analog numerical data, a WebGL rendering processing unit (322i) renders the first part associated with the signal data by WebGL rendering. When signal data from the monitoring target device (7) is data other than analog numerical data, an SVG rendering processing unit (322h) renders the second part associated with the signal data by SVG rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujieda, Nobuo Shimizu, Akira Nojima, Kyohei Miyake
  • Publication number: 20220390934
    Abstract: A SCADA web HMI system generates an integrated component by grouping components including a first component and provides a first animation effect to the integrated component. The first animation effect is applied to the integrated component as a whole but not individually applied to components constituting the integrated component. The system provides a second animation effect to the first component. The second animation effect is applied to the first component but not applied to the components constituting the integrated component except for the first component. The system associates the first animation effect with the value of a first PLC signal and changes the appearance of the integrated component according to the value of the first PLC signal. The system associates the second animation effect with the value of a second PLC signal and changes the appearance of the first component according to the value of the second PLC signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke HIGASHIYA, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU, Ryo SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20220057780
    Abstract: An SCADA web HMI system includes a web browser for displaying an HMI screen. An integrated part identifier generation unit generates a new integrated part identifier when attribute identifiers of first part data and second part data are identical. A part data change unit changes part identifiers of the first part data and the second part data to the integrated part identifier. An integrated item name generation unit generates an integrated item name in which a screen identifier of the HMI screen, the integrated part identifier, and the identical attribute identifier are combined. The web browser changes, when a PLC signal received from a programmable logic controller corresponds to the integrated item name, a display state of the first part based on first display information and changes a display state of the second part based on second display information, according to the value of the received PLC signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke HIGASHIYA, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU, Ryo SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11231692
    Abstract: An HMI renders on an HMI screen a process line which includes: a movable looper group part obtained by grouping at least one movable roll part and a plurality of line parts connected to the movable roll part; and a plurality of fixed roll parts connected to the movable looper group part. The HMI continuously obtains a process line length from an output signal of a monitoring target device. The HMI calculates a looper movement amount by dividing a difference between a process line total length and the process line length by the number of parts in the plurality of line parts which are shared by the movable looper group part with the plurality of fixed roll parts. The HMI changes a relative position between the plurality of fixed roll parts and the movable looper group part on the HMI screen according to the looper movement amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujieda, Nobuo Shimizu, Akira Nojima
  • Publication number: 20210373546
    Abstract: A SCADA Web HMI system includes a drawing generation device (1) and an HMI terminal device (32). A drawing editor (11) generates SVG data (21) and part runtime attribute data (22). The HMI terminal device (32) includes a Web browser (321) that reads SVG data (21) and displays an HMI screen, and an HMI Web runtime (322) that reads the part runtime attribute data (22) as setting parameters and operates on the Web browser (321). When receiving signal data corresponding to unique signal names from a monitoring target device (7), the HMI Web runtime (322) changes display of parts corresponding to the unique signal names on the HMI screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FUJIEDA, Nobuo SHIMIZU, Akira NOJIMA, Ryo SHIMIZU, Takaharu HASHIZUME
  • Publication number: 20210208562
    Abstract: A hybrid rendering HMI terminal device (32) is provided with a web browser (321) and an HMI Web Runtime (322). The web browser (321) displays an HMI screen on which a first part and a second part that represent the state of a monitoring target device (7) are arranged. When signal data from the monitoring target device (7) is analog numerical data, a WebGL rendering processing unit (322i) renders the first part associated with the signal data by WebGL rendering. When signal data from the monitoring target device (7) is data other than analog numerical data, an SVG rendering processing unit (322h) renders the second part associated with the signal data by SVG rendering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FUJIEDA, Nobuo SHIMIZU, Akira NOJIMA, Kyohei MIYAKE
  • Publication number: 20210191356
    Abstract: An HMI renders on an HMI screen a process line which includes: a movable looper group part obtained by grouping at least one movable roll part and a plurality of line parts connected to the movable roll part; and a plurality of fixed roll parts connected to the movable looper group part. The HMI continuously obtains a process line length from an output signal of a monitoring target device. The HMI calculates a looper movement amount by dividing a difference between a process line total length and the process line length by the number of parts in the plurality of line parts which are shared by the movable looper group part with the plurality of fixed roll parts. The HMI changes a relative position between the plurality of fixed roll parts and the movable looper group part on the HMI screen according to the looper movement amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FUJIEDA, Nobuo SHIMIZU, Akira NOJIMA
  • Patent number: 10431245
    Abstract: A piezoelectric element easily and surely forms polymer coatings on peripheral end faces of the piezoelectric element without deteriorating a yield of the piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element is manufactured by a method including steps of cutting a piezoelectric element out from a base piezoelectric material plate so that peripheral end faces are formed to define a peripheral shape of the piezoelectric element, and forming polymer coatings on at least objective areas of the peripheral end faces of the piezoelectric element by vapor deposition polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Nojima
  • Patent number: 10055477
    Abstract: Provided are a first storage unit 411b configured to store the data which are transmitted among the control apparatuses 21 to 24; a group selector 414a configured to divide the memory area in the first storage unit 411b into multiple groups, to further divide the memory area in each group into multiple subgroups, and to select at least one divided subgroups as a collection group, which is a unit to continuously read data in the group; a schedule generator 414b configured to generate the schedule, on the basis of the number of subgroups selected as each collection group and the collection cycle for the data collection; and a data reader 414e configured to read the data on the basis of the generated schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Nojima
  • Patent number: 9939793
    Abstract: A plant control monitoring system that can reduce communication traffic between a client and server to improve processing speed, and that includes: a server-side storage section provided in a server to store operation right processing information for a machine group on a client operation monitoring screen; client-side storage sections provided in clients to store duplicates of the operation right processing information of the server-side storage section; and operation right processing sections provided in the clients to correspond to each of the operation monitoring screens and that perform operation right processing based on the operation right processing information of the client-side storage sections. Operation right processing information for each client is stored in a global variable storage section of the client-side storage section, and operation right processing information for each operation screen is stored in a local variable storage section of the client-side storage section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yun Wang, Akira Nojima, Hiroyuki Fujieda