Patents by Inventor Eiji TAYA

Eiji TAYA 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).

  • Publication number: 20230280727
    Abstract: Provided is an integrated management system including: a registration unit configured to register a plurality of production management systems for each managing a target production process as a target among a plurality of production processes of producing a product from a material in association with a sequence of the plurality of production processes; a feedback data acquisition unit configured to acquire, from at least one of the plurality of production management systems, feedback data for evaluating a production element in an upstream production process, which is an upstream process of the target production process, on a basis of quality of a target product, which is a product of the target production process, in the upstream production process; and a feedback data providing unit configured to provide the feedback data to an upstream production management system configured to manage the upstream production process on a basis of the sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Masato KATSUKI, Keiji SATO, Eiji TAYA, Tsutomu NIHO, Makoto ENDO, Toshiya YAMASHITA, Akifumi INOMATA, Fumihiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230280731
    Abstract: Provided is a production management system including: an operational data acquisition unit for acquiring operational data regarding a production element in a target production process as a target among a plurality of production processes for producing a product from a material; a quality data acquisition unit for acquiring, as quality data indicating quality of a target product, feedback data for evaluating the production element in the target production process based on quality of a downstream product in the target production process, the feedback data being output from a production management system for managing a downstream production process of producing the downstream product by using, as a material, the target product; an analysis unit for analyzing the operational feedback data; and a control information decision unit for deciding control information for controlling the production element in the target production process based on an analysis result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Masato KATSUKI, Keiji SATO, Eiji TAYA, Tsutomu NIHO, Makoto ENDO, Toshiya YAMASHITA, Akifumi INOMATA, Fumihiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230280730
    Abstract: Provided is a production management system including: an operational data acquisition unit for acquiring operational data regarding a production element in a target production process as a target among a plurality of production processes for producing a product from a material; a quality data acquisition unit for acquiring quality data indicating quality of a target product; an analysis unit for analyzing the operational and quality data to estimate an influence, caused by an upstream product, on the quality of the target product, the upstream product being a product of an upstream production process and serving as a material in the target production process; and a feedback unit for outputting, based on an analysis result, feedback data for evaluating a production element in the upstream production process based on the quality of the target product in the upstream production process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Masato KATSUKI, Keiji SATO, Eiji TAYA, Tsutomu NIHO, Makoto ENDO, Toshiya YAMASHITA, Akifumi INOMATA, Fumihiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220284346
    Abstract: Provided is a learning apparatus comprising: a correspondence receiving unit for receiving a correspondence between each produced object of a target process and a quality evaluation of each downstream produced object produced by using each produced object of the target process; a learning processing unit for generating, through learning, an estimation model for estimating the quality evaluation of the downstream produced object, by using the at least one production parameter about the production of each produced object of the target process and the quality evaluation of each downstream produced object; a calculating unit for calculating a model evaluation based on at least one of certainty or complexity of the estimation model; and a model evaluation sending unit for sending the calculated model evaluation, to an evaluation apparatus for evaluating at least one upstream process by using a model evaluation about each of the at least one upstream process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki KANOKOGI, Hirotsugu GOTOU, Yota FURUKAWA, Yoshio UOMORI, Masato KATSUKI, Keiji SATO, Fumihiro SAITO, Eiji TAYA, Tomotaka MAKI, Akifumi INOMATA
  • Publication number: 20220214257
    Abstract: A viscosity estimation device includes: a current detector detecting a drive current supplied to an induction motor which stirs a substance due to rotation of a rotating shaft which is rotationally driven; a rotation detector detecting rotation of the rotating shaft; and a calculator obtaining a viscosity correlation value, which is a value having a correlation with a viscosity of the substance, using a detection result of the current detector and a detection result of the rotation detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Hirofumi OKAMOTO, Eiji TAYA, Katsuya OHSHIMA
  • Patent number: 10838938
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process monitorer, a process monitoring system, a process monitoring method, a process monitoring program, and a recording medium for monitoring processes in real time. The process monitorer including: a process information acquirer for acquiring process information indicating a state of a process provided from an industrial device; an indexed information generator for generating the indexed information indexed by a predetermined index based on the process information; a threshold acquirer for acquiring a threshold of the indexed information; a result of the determination generator for generating the result of the determination of the indexed information based on the threshold; a result of the determination notifier for notifying the result of the determination; an indexed information recorder for recording the indexed information; and a chart generator for generating a chart based on the indexed information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Niina, Eiji Taya, Osamu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20170262480
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process monitorer, a process monitoring system, a process monitoring method, a process monitoring program, and a recording medium for monitoring processes in real time. The process monitorer including: a process information acquirer for acquiring process information indicating a state of a process provided from an industrial device; an indexed information generator for generating the indexed information indexed by a predetermined index based on the process information; a threshold acquirer for acquiring a threshold of the indexed information; a result of the determination generator for generating the result of the determination of the indexed information based on the threshold; a result of the determination notifier for notifying the result of the determination; an indexed information recorder for recording the indexed information; and a chart generator for generating a chart based on the indexed information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro NIIA, Eiji TAYA, Osamu AOKI