Patents Assigned to Omron Corporation
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Patent number: 12271024Abstract: A illumination device 10 is attached to a housing 41 of a gaming machine 40, and comprises LEDs 21a that emit light, light guide plates 20, a rotating body 23, a plate-shaped member 24, a motor 31, a lower case 13, and a control unit 44. A plurality of light guide plates 20 are attached to the plate-shaped member 24. The light guide plates 20 each have an end surface 20a on which the light emitted from the LEDs 21a is incident, and a flat surface 20b from which the incident light is emitted. The plate-shaped member 24 holds the light guide plate 20. The motor 31 rotates the rotating body 23 in the desired direction. The lower case 13 is provided with the motor 31, the rotating body 23 and the like are connected thereto in a state of being incapable of relative rotation, and the lower case 13 is installed in the housing 41 of the gaming machine 40.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masaaki Sumi, Hiroyuki Onitsuka, Takahiro Ono
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Patent number: 12272941Abstract: An overcurrent protection circuit includes a first switching element including a fourth terminal, a sixth terminal connected to a first terminal, and a fifth terminal, and a second switching element including a seventh terminal connected to the fifth terminal, an eighth terminal connected to the fourth terminal, and a ninth terminal. The first switching element electrically connects the sixth terminal and the fifth terminal in response to detecting a voltage value between the first terminal and a third terminal of the switching device exceeding a predetermined threshold based on the predetermined threshold voltage input into the fourth terminal. The second switching element electrically connects, in response to the sixth terminal and the fifth terminal of the first switching element being electrically connected to each other, the eighth terminal and the ninth terminal to lower the predetermined threshold voltage input into the fourth terminal of the first switching element.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Nosaka, Hironori Tauchi, Takuro Hashimoto
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Patent number: 12269694Abstract: A controller includes: a deformation information obtaining unit configured to obtain information on deformation of a suction portion that suctions an object with negative pressure, and that is deformed by the negative pressure; and an operation control unit configured to control movement of the suction portion in accordance with deformation of the suction portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Sayaka Doi, Hiroki Koga, Shinji Kawakami, Yukihisa Karako
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Patent number: 12272045Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a dimensional information management device with which search information about a buried object in a target can be effectively utilized, and the burden on the worker can be reduced, as well as a dimensional information management system comprising this dimensional information management device. A dimensional information management device 40 manages dimensional information about a buried object 51 included in a search image showing the presence or absence of the buried object in a wall surface 50 generated by a buried object scanning device 10 that has been scanned along the wall surface 50, said dimensional information management device comprising a data receiving unit 41 and a memory unit 43. The data receiving unit 41 acquires search information including a search image from the buried object scanning device 10. The memory unit 43 stores the search information acquired by the data receiving unit 41.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuro Tsurusu, Shingo Kawamoto, Mitsunori Sugiura
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Patent number: 12270837Abstract: To provide voltage detection device capable of reducing variations and errors in detection voltage caused by influence of configuration of pattern wiring and temperature when detecting voltages applied to a plurality of resistance elements connected in parallel. Voltage detection device includes resistance unit including a plurality of resistance elements connected in parallel, differential amplifier circuit, first connection portion having two wiring portions connecting positions different from each other in one end portion of resistance unit and input terminal of differential amplifier circuit, and second connection portion having two wiring portion connecting positions different from each other in other end portion of resistance unit and input terminal of differential amplifier circuit. Voltage detection device configures to detect voltage applied to resistance unit based on voltage of output terminal of differential amplifier circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki Nagano, Kohei Tanino, Kosuke Sumi, Yohei Takashima, Tomonori Watanabe, Kosuke Yoshimaru
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Patent number: 12269640Abstract: Teaching including adjustment of an inclination of a suction tool with respect to an object is performed in teaching of a suction position of the suction tool. A sticker affixing system includes an articulated robot, a controller, a suction tool attached to a distal end of the articulated robot, a force sensor, and a storage. The controller causes the articulated robot to execute an operation of bringing the suction tool close to a sticker on a release paper in a teaching mode, an operation of adjusting a suction position of the suction tool and an inclination in a traveling direction (roll axis X) of the suction tool in peeling off the sticker based on a signal from the force sensor, and an operation of storing the teaching data including information about the adjusted suction position and the inclination of the suction tool in the storage.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Tsuchihashi, Hiromi Sasaki, Yoko Yoshida
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Patent number: 12269165Abstract: A robot control apparatus according to one or more embodiments may include: a calculating unit configured to calculate an interference range of a robot based on a model of the robot in a state in which an object is gripped by a gripper with which the robot is equipped; and a planning unit configured to plan a motion of the robot based on the model and the interference range.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Felix Vondrigalski, Yoshihisa Ijiri
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Patent number: 12272078Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a movable object detector that detects a movable object from a captured image captured with a fisheye camera, a human determiner that determines whether the movable object is a human by comparing a distance between two predetermined points on an outline of a movable object area including the movable object with a threshold range set based on a height of the human measured at a position of the movable object in the captured image, and a human detector that detects the human from the movable object area including the movable object determined as the human by the human determiner.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventor: Daiki Shinkawa
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Publication number: 20250110595Abstract: A display selection button 10 comprises a light projecting unit 21, a light guide plate 13, a light receiving units 22, a control unit 30, and LED 23,24. The light guide plate 13 has an incident surface 13a to which the light emitted from the light projecting unit 21 is incident, a plurality of prisms 13d that reflect incident light toward the side approaching or touching a finger and are provided at positions corresponding to push buttons 10c, and an exit surface 13b that emits the light reflected in the direction in which the finger approaches. The light receiving units 22 receive light emitted from the exit surface 13b and reflected from a finger. The control unit 30 detects the approach of a finger depending on the amount of light received by the light receiving units 22. The light guide plate 13 has the plurality of the prisms 13e that reflect the incident light and displays the desired design.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota KANDA, Junya FUJITA, Naoya KAKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20250111183Abstract: An electronic device obtains a first image, including an image area enclosing a barcode, selects an image filter having a filter parameter, and iteratively processes the first image until a quality score satisfies an image modulation condition. A set of filters and associated filter parameters are determined for processing additional barcode images based on at least the image filter and the filter parameter corresponding to the quality score that satisfies the image modulation condition. During each iterative cycle, the image area is processed by the image filter having the filter parameter to generate a plurality of grayscale values, determine the quality score that measures the quality of two grayscale clusters grouping the grayscale values of the image area, determine whether the quality score satisfies the image modulation condition, and adjust the filter parameter of the image filter when the quality score does not satisfy the image modulation condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Steven J. KING, Robert M. LIU, James MOORE
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Publication number: 20250110638Abstract: A display selection button 10 comprises a light projecting unit 21, a light guide plate 13, a light receiving units 22, a control unit 30, and a printed sheet 14 and a LED 25. The light guide plate 13 has an incident surface 13a to which the light emitted from the light projecting unit 21 is incident, a plurality of prisms 13d that reflect incident light toward the side approaching or touching a finger and are provided at positions corresponding to push buttons 10c, and an exit surface 13b that emits the light reflected in the direction in which the finger approaches. The light receiving units 22 receive light emitted from the exit surface 13b and reflected from a finger. The control unit 30 detects the approach of a finger depending on the amount of light received by the light receiving units 22. The printed sheet 14 displays the desired numerals. The LED 25 emits light for displaying the desired numerals in the printed sheet 14.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota KANDA, Junya FUJITA, Naoya KAKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20250110578Abstract: A display selection button 10 comprises a light projecting unit 21, a light guide plate 13, a plurality of light receiving units 22, and a control unit 30. The light guide plate 13 has an incident surface 13a, a plurality of prisms 13d that reflect incident light toward the side approached by a finger and are provided at positions corresponding to push buttons 10c, and an exit surface 13b that emits the light reflected by the prisms 13d in the direction in which the finger approaches or touches. The light receiving units 22 are provided at positions corresponding to the push buttons 10c and receive light reflected from a finger approaching a push button 10c. The prisms 13d reflect light so as to compensate for the amount of light that decreases depending on the distance from the light projecting unit 21.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota KANDA, Junya FUJITA, Naoya KAKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20250111731Abstract: A display selection button 10 comprises a light projecting unit 21, a light guide plate 13, a plurality of light receiving units 22, and a control unit 30. The light guide plate 13 has an incident surface 13a to which the light projected from the light projecting unit 21 incident, a plurality of prisms 13d that reflect incident light toward the finger side and are provided at positions corresponding to push buttons 10c, and an exit surface 13b that emits the light reflected in the direction in which the finger approaches. The light receiving units 22 are provided at positions corresponding to the push buttons 10c and receive light reflected from a finger. The light receiving unit 22 have higher detection sensitivity as a distance from the light projecting unit 21 increases so as to compensate for the amount of light that decreases depending on the distance from the light projecting unit 21.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota KANDA, Junya FUJITA, Naoya KAKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20250112005Abstract: A trigger switch includes: a housing, housed in a main unit; a trigger, accepting a push operation with a part located outside the housing, and moving when pushed by the push operation and when the push operation is released; and an energizing member, energizing the trigger in an opposite direction to the push operation, and is capable of being incorporated into the main unit. The energizing member energizes the trigger in an opposite direction to the push operation at one end side located outside the housing, and has other end side fixed inside the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Isao OZOE, Makito MORII, Koji OMORI, Yasunori YAMANE, Hiroaki YAMANE, Tatsuro KATO
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Patent number: 12266945Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Goro Nakao, Yuki Ito, Taichi Mishima
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Publication number: 20250100144Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control system is provided with: a user program acquisition means; a user program execution means; a system program storage means; and a system program execution means.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventor: Chisato NAKASHIMA
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Patent number: 12257036Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes: a base; a flow path cover that is fixed to the base and defines a flow path portion with reference to the base; a recess including an outer surface which is on a base side of the flow path portion and part of which is projected toward the base, and an outer surface which is on a side opposite to the base side and part of which is depressed toward the base; a nozzle that is that is formed on a bottom surface of the recess and communicates with the flow path portion; and a bag-shaped cuff that is connected to the nozzle and that is inflated when a fluid is supplied to an internal space.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Mizuno, Tomoyuki Nishida, Takashi Ono, Takanori Nishioka, Yoshihiko Sano
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Patent number: 12261004Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a fixed terminal, a fixed contact, a movable contact, a movable contact piece, and a dust collecting mechanism. The fixed contact is connected to the fixed terminal. The movable contact faces the fixed contact. The movable contact piece is connected to the movable contact. The movable contact piece is movable between a closed position at which the movable contact is in contact with the fixed contact and an open position at which the movable contact is separated from the fixed contact. The dust collecting mechanism is disposed adjacent to the fixed contact and the movable contact. The dust collecting mechanism generates a second negative pressure greater than a first negative pressure generated between the fixed contact and the movable contact when the movable contact piece moves from the closed position to the open position.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Otsuka, Ayata Horie, Hiroyuki Iwasaka, Ryota Minowa, Shinichi Ogawa
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Patent number: 12259804Abstract: A program development device provides a development environment of a user program executed by a control device. The program development device receives setting of an attribute related to reference from a program for each of one or more variables used in the user program including a first program and a second program having a calling relationship. The set attribute includes a first attribute referred to by any one of the first program and the second program and a second attribute referred to by both the first program and the second program. The program development device analyzes the user program and evaluates consistency based on the set attribute related to reference from the program for each of the one or more variables.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Jinkawa
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Patent number: 12254076Abstract: A control system includes plural units. The plural units include a master unit connected to a bus and a slave unit connected to the bus, the slave unit communicating with the master unit via the bus. The master unit includes a nonvolatile memory that stores first security information as information to be concealed, and the slave unit includes a volatile memory. The slave unit receives the first security information from the master unit at a predetermined timing and stores the first security information in the volatile memory.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihide Nishiyama, Yuta Nagata