Patents Assigned to Omron Corporation
  • Publication number: 20240151891
    Abstract: A minimum display unit forming a pattern, displayable by a light guide plate of a display device, has first and second prisms with reflective surfaces in a curved surface shape that is convex relative to an incident surface of the light guide plate. The first and second prisms are configured such that a ratio of light quantities from first and second light sources having different emission colors into the light guide plate, reflected by the reflective surface of the first prism, and directed to a predetermined direction is a first ratio; a ratio of light quantities from second and third light sources having different emission colors into the light guide plate, reflected by the reflective surface of the second prism, and directed to the predetermined direction is a second ratio. The first and second ratios are set such that the minimum display unit is displayed in a predetermined display color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru OKUDA, Yasuhiro Tanoue
  • Patent number: 11979404
    Abstract: An information providing method includes (i) starting, by a control device, a communication session with a server in response to establishment of a communication connection with a terminal, and (ii) issuing, by the server, temporary access information for accessing a service in a manner that depends on the communication session. The access information is different for each communication session. The information providing method further includes (iii) notifying, by the control device, the access information to the terminal, and (iv) providing, by the server, target information collected from the control device to the terminal in response to access from the terminal based on the access information. Accordingly, the threat to security when providing information of the control device is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yutsuka Shigemori
  • Patent number: 11974837
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes an outer case; a base; a pump provided on 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 drive unit provided on the base and located on one side of the pump as viewed in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; an on-off valve provided on another side of the pump as viewed in the direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; a pressure sensor provided on said another side of the pump as viewed in the direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; and packing provided between the on-off valve and the pressure sensor and the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Mizuno, Noboru Kohara, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tomoyuki Nishida, Takashi Ono, Takanori Nishioka
  • Patent number: 11979035
    Abstract: A wireless power transmitting apparatus is provided with: a power transmitting circuit for transmitting power for a load device to a wireless power receiving apparatus; a signal transmitting circuit for transmitting a control signal for the load device to the wireless power receiving apparatus; a signal receiving circuit for obtaining an estimated received power level indicating a level of the power transmitted from the wireless power transmitting apparatus and received by the wireless power receiving apparatus; and a control circuit. The control circuit periodically allocates time slots to wireless power receiving apparatuses for wireless power transmission. When the received power level is smaller than a threshold in a first time slot allocated to one wireless power receiving apparatus, the control circuit extends a second time slot allocated to the one wireless power receiving apparatus, the second time slot preceding or following the first time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Hamana, Tetsuya Nosaka, Manh Tai Nguyen, Akito Murai, Yoshiki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11978605
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a first fixed terminal, a second fixed terminal, a movable contact piece, a case, a magnet, and a gas flow path. The first fixed terminal includes a first fixed contact. The second fixed terminal includes a second fixed contact. The movable contact piece includes a first movable contact and a second movable contact. The case includes an accommodation space where the first fixed contact, the second fixed contact, and the movable contact piece are accommodated, a gas inflow space separate from the accommodation space, and a side wall covering the accommodation space and the gas inflow space in a first direction. The magnet is disposed between the accommodation space and the gas inflow space. The gas flow path is disposed between the side wall of the case and the magnet and is configured to communicate the accommodation space with the gas inflow space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kawaguchi, Takeshi Nishida, Kazuki Furukawa, Takashi Tsukada
  • Patent number: 11978603
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a base, a fixed terminal, a fixed contact, a movable piece, a movable contact, a magnet, a base holder, and a case. The fixed terminal is supported by the base. The fixed contact is connected to the fixed terminal. The movable piece is supported by the base. The movable contact is connected to the movable piece and faces the fixed contact. The magnet exerts a Lorentz force on an arc generated between the fixed contact and the movable contact. The base holder is a separate body from the base. The base holder is attached to the base. The base holder is disposed in at least a direction in which the Lorentz force acts with respect to the base. The case is attached to the base holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Murata, Tatsuro Kitagawa
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: D1026061
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Katakura, Hiromitsu Chinen, Yuna Suzuki
  • Patent number: D1026062
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Katakura, Hiromitsu Chinen, Yuna Suzuki