Patents by Inventor Hiroshige KASHIWABARA
Hiroshige KASHIWABARA 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).
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Patent number: 11276155Abstract: There are provided an automatic inspection system and an automatic inspection method capable of suppressing power consumption of a measurement device. A measurement device includes a sensor unit 11 that measures an inspection target 3, a parameter management unit 13 that determines a predetermined parameter set for the sensor unit based on parameter determination information received from a data collection device 2, and a measurement data generation unit 12 that generates measurement data by analyzing data obtained by the sensor unit measuring the inspection target by using the predetermined parameter. The data collection device includes a parameter determination information generation unit 23 that generates parameter determination information, and a measurement data acquisition unit 21 that specifies the parameter determination information for the measurement device, requests the measurement device to acquire the measurement data, and stores the measurement data acquired from the measurement device.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Jumpei Honda, Takuma Nishimura, Hiroshige Kashiwabara
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Publication number: 20220063112Abstract: A robot hand includes grip portions for gripping an article, grip drive mechanisms for moving the grip portions, and a control device for controlling the drive of the grip drive mechanisms. Then, the control device controls the drive of the grip drive mechanisms to start gripping operation with a first force for a force of gripping an article by the grip portions, and then switches the force of gripping an article by the grip portions to a second force.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Takaomi NISHIGAITO, Hiroshige KASHIWABARA, Tadashi OSAKA, Hiroshi IKEDA
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Patent number: 11238673Abstract: An inspection target reading device includes a wireless slave station that performs communication via a wireless network, a measurement unit that measures a state of an inspection target, and an analysis unit that generates measurement data, and transmits the measurement data from the wireless slave station via the wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Jumpei Honda, Takuma Nishimura, Hiroshige Kashiwabara, Hidemasa Nakai, Yuichi Igarashi, Ryo Nakano
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Patent number: 11170635Abstract: A reading device includes wireless slave devices that communicate via a multihop wireless network, a measuring unit that measures the state of an inspection target to generate measurement data, a measurement data analysis unit, and a failure cause analysis unit that analyzes a failure cause when the analysis of the failure cause analysis unit fails. The reading device transmits the measurement data to the data collecting device by associating the measurement data with failure cause information. The data collecting device includes a wireless master device, a measurement data acquisition unit that acquires measurement data from each reading device, a recording unit that records the measurement data when the measurement data is not associated with failure cause information, and a retry control unit that retries data acquisition according to the type of the failure cause when the measurement data is associated with the failure cause information.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshige Kashiwabara, Takuma Nishimura, Yoshimi Fujimata, Hidemasa Nakai, Jumpei Honda
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Publication number: 20210287527Abstract: Useless retries of data transfer is decreased to contribute to power saving during inspection. A reading device includes wireless slave devices that communicate via a multihop wireless network, a measuring unit that measures the state of an inspection target to generate measurement data, a measurement data analysis unit, and a failure cause analysis unit that analyzes a failure cause when the analysis of the failure cause analysis unit fails. The reading device transmits the measurement data to the data collecting device by associating the measurement data with failure cause information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2017Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Hiroshige KASHIWABARA, Takuma NISHIMURA, Yoshimi FUJIMATA, Hidemasa NAKAI, Jumpei HONDA
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Publication number: 20200357107Abstract: There are provided an automatic inspection system and an automatic inspection method capable of suppressing power consumption of a measurement device. A measurement device includes a sensor unit 11 that measures an inspection target 3, a parameter management unit 13 that determines a predetermined parameter set for the sensor unit based on parameter determination information received from a data collection device 2, and a measurement data generation unit 12 that generates measurement data by analyzing data obtained by the sensor unit measuring the inspection target by using the predetermined parameter. The data collection device includes a parameter determination information generation unit 23 that generates parameter determination information, and a measurement data acquisition unit 21 that specifies the parameter determination information for the measurement device, requests the measurement device to acquire the measurement data, and stores the measurement data acquired from the measurement device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2018Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Jumpei HONDA, Takuma NISHIMURA, Hiroshige KASHIWABARA
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Patent number: 10819600Abstract: A data collection apparatus collecting data from a terminal device connected through a communication path, comprising a schedule managing unit determining a schedule transmitting a data acquisition request to the terminal device according to managed timing data, a transmission amount adjusting unit adjusting a transmission amount of the data acquisition request, and a collected data managing unit managing the data collected from the terminal device, in which the schedule managing unit manages a start point time that is a time at which a data collection from each terminal device starts, a collection period that is an interval of the data collection from each terminal device, a retransmission interval that is a time until the data acquisition request is retransmitted when the data collection from the terminal device fails, and a retransmission number that is the number of times to retransmit the data acquisition request as the timing data.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Igarashi, Ryo Nakano, Jumpei Honda, Hiroshige Kashiwabara, Takuma Nishimura
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Patent number: 10636287Abstract: An automatic inspection system, which includes a wireless slave device having a reading device that acquires a physical quantity to be inspected and a wireless master device that receives measurement data of the physical quantity from the wireless slave device, is provided with a data collection device that collects the measurement data from the wireless slave device via the wireless master device in a constant cycle and detects a time zone in which the measurement data is non-acquirable by the reading device based on a result of the collection. The wireless master device performs control to avoid the wireless slave device from re-acquisition of the measurement data in the non-acquirable time zone based on a result of the detection of the non-acquirable time zone.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jumpei Honda, Takuma Nishimura, Yoshimi Fujimata, Hiroshige Kashiwabara
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Publication number: 20200090424Abstract: An inspection target reading device includes a wireless slave station that performs communication via a wireless network, a measurement unit that measures a state of an inspection target, and an analysis unit that generates measurement data, and transmits the measurement data from the wireless slave station via the wireless network.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Jumpei HONDA, Takuma NISHIMURA, Hiroshige KASHIWABARA, Hidemasa NAKAI, Yuichi IGARASHI, Ryo NAKANO
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Patent number: 10432424Abstract: A ring network system is a ring network system in which a plurality of nodes including a blocking node that blocks transfer of a predetermined frame are connected in a ring shape, and when, any one of the plurality of nodes detects a change in a link state with an adjacent node, the node detecting the change transmits a collision frame for inquiring a collision of a blocking node to a current blocking node, and in accordance with a response from the current blocking node, a determination is made which of the nodes is to be a new blocking node, and in a case where the link state with the adjacent node has a higher priority level of blocking than a link state between the current blocking nodes, the node having detected the change transmits a collision frame for inquiring a collision of the blocking node.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hidemasa Nakai, Hiroshige Kashiwabara, Hironori Adachi, Atsushi Tanji, Takuma Nishimura
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Publication number: 20190279498Abstract: An automatic inspection system, which includes a wireless slave device having a reading device that acquires a physical quantity to be inspected and a wireless master device that receives measurement data of the physical quantity from the wireless slave device, is provided with a data collection device that collects the measurement data from the wireless slave device via the wireless master device in a constant cycle and detects a time zone in which the measurement data is non-acquirable by the reading device based on a result of the collection. The wireless master device performs control to avoid the wireless slave device from re-acquisition of the measurement data in the non-acquirable time zone based on a result of the detection of the non-acquirable time zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2017Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Jumpei HONDA, Takuma NISHIMURA, Yoshimi FUJIMATA, Hiroshige KASHIWABARA
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Publication number: 20190123986Abstract: A data collection apparatus collecting data from a terminal device connected through a communication path, comprising a schedule managing unit determining a schedule transmitting a data acquisition request to the terminal device according to managed timing data, a transmission amount adjusting unit adjusting a transmission amount of the data acquisition request, and a collected data managing unit managing the data collected from the terminal device, in which the schedule managing unit manages a start point time that is a time at which a data collection from each terminal device starts, a collection period that is an interval of the data collection from each terminal device, a retransmission interval that is a time until the data acquisition request is retransmitted when the data collection from the terminal device fails, and a retransmission number that is the number of times to retransmit the data acquisition request as the timing data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Igarashi, Ryo Nakano, Jumpei Honda, Hiroshige Kashiwabara, Takuma Nishimura
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Publication number: 20170155525Abstract: A ring network system is a ring network system in which a plurality of nodes including a blocking node that blocks transfer of a predetermined frame are connected in a ring shape, and when, any one of the plurality of nodes detects a change in a link state with an adjacent node, the node detecting the change transmits a collision frame for inquiring a collision of a blocking node to a current blocking node, and in accordance with a response from the current blocking node, a determination is made which of the nodes is to be a new blocking node, and in a case where the link state with the adjacent node has a higher priority level of blocking than a link state between the current blocking nodes, the node having detected the change transmits a collision frame for inquiring a collision of the blocking node.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hidemasa NAKAI, Hiroshige KASHIWABARA, Hironori ADACHI, Atsushi TANJI, Takuma NISHIMURA