Patents Assigned to OMRON
  • Patent number: 10913162
    Abstract: A robot system and a control method of a robot are provided. The robot system includes a robot, a liquid application part being provided on the robot, an application thickness measurement part measuring an application thickness of a liquid applied by the liquid application part, a distance measurement part measuring a first distance from the distance measurement part to an application object, a control part controlling the robot based on the first distance so that a second distance from the liquid application part to the application object becomes constant, a supply amount adjustment part adjusting a supply amount of the liquid to the application object according to the application thickness measured by the application thickness measurement part, wherein the distance measurement part, the liquid application part and the application thickness measurement part are arranged in this order in an application direction of the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20210034672
    Abstract: Provided is a metadata generation apparatus. The metadata generation apparatus generates metadata that is associated with a processing module. The processing module is a trained model generated by using a plurality of sets of learning data. Each set of the learning data includes input data and a correct label of output data. The metadata generation apparatus includes a probability density function generation unit and a metadata generation unit. The probability density function generation unit generate a probability density function of a plurality of sets of input data associated with the same correct label. The metadata generation unit generates metadata based on the probability density function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi IMAI, Tetsuji YAMATO, Taiji YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210030287
    Abstract: In a sphygmomanometer of the present invention, a main body includes a slide receiving part having a circular-arc cross section that opens upward and slidably receiving a cuff unit along a direction perpendicular to the circular-arc cross-section. The cuff unit includes a cylindrical cuff structure having a fluid bag along the inner circumferential surface, and a cover having a circular-arc cross section that opens downward and detachably attached integrally with the cuff structure to cover the upper half of the cuff structure. When the cuff unit is slid along the slide receiving part, upper edges on both sides of the circular-arc cross section of the slide receiving part abut with the lower edges on both sides of the circular-arc cross section of the cover to support the weight of the cuff unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki KOGA, Takuya NAGATA, Toshihiko OGURA
  • Patent number: 10908583
    Abstract: A safety control system that can realize comprehensive safety control for a manufacturing site is provided. A safety control system includes an arithmetic operation processing unit, a data storing unit that stores safety input/output data, and a plurality of communication processing units that exchange safety input/output data with a device that is a connection destination. Each of the plurality of communication processing units, independently from processes of the other communication processing units, periodically transmits safety output data for a target device stored in the data storing unit to the target device and writes safety input data from the target device into the data storing unit in accordance with a connection setting set in advance for each of the communication processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takamasa Ueda
  • Patent number: 10909672
    Abstract: An appearance inspection system enabling a route to be easily set when a target is imaged while causing a relative position of an imaging device with respect to the target to be different is provided. A decision part decides a plurality of relative position candidates of the imaging device with respect to the target at which focus of a lens module is possible on the inspection target position with regard to each of a plurality of the inspection target positions on the target. A selection part selects relative positions one by one from corresponding plurality of relative position candidates for each of the plurality of inspection target positions and selects a route candidate satisfying a preset requirement from a plurality of route candidates generated by sequentially connecting the plurality of selected relative positions as a designation route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Inazumi, Yutaka Kato, Naoya Nakashita
  • Patent number: 10908579
    Abstract: A controller performs a control operation associated with a control target. The controller includes a communication interface that electrically connects at least one function unit to the controller through a data transmission path, a writing unit that writes an observation value obtained through the function unit into a database, and a delay obtaining unit that obtains a delay time taken from when a signal indicating an observation value is input into the function unit to when data representing the observation value becomes usable in the controller, and stores information indicating the obtained delay time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Abe, Yuhki Ueyama, Nobuyuki Sakatani
  • Patent number: 10909278
    Abstract: The present invention easily displays a frequency response and a time response to a user. The simulation device of the present invention comprises: a frequency response function computing part (53) computing a frequency response function according to a measured value of a response of a mechanical system (7), a time response outputting part (44) executing time response simulation, a frequency response outputting part (45) outputting a frequency response characteristic and a display control part (26) displaying the time response simulation and frequency response characteristic simultaneously or selectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumoto Mori, Mamoru Egi, Yasushi Ohno, Shota Miyaguchi, Yasutomo Kawanishi
  • Patent number: 10908577
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a configuration of a control device that is capable of controlling the execution timing, etc. of multiple application programs when the multiple programs are executed in parallel in addition to a sequence program in a single control device. In the control device, when a first application program includes a first special command and a second application program includes a second special command, a command calculation part outputs a control command according to commands described after the first special command in the first application program and a control command according to commands described after the second special command in the second application program on the basis of a common timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Junji Shimamura, Tetsushi Jakunen, Tomonori Shimamura, Eiji Yamamoto, Masahiko Nakano
  • Patent number: 10905381
    Abstract: A blood pressure correction information generating device includes: a wrist position change time period detecting section which detects a change time period when a position of a wrist of a person is changed at a degree equal to or greater than a threshold based on information according to a motion of the wrist of the person to whom a blood pressure measurement device is attached, the blood pressure measurement device including a pulse wave detecting section which detects a pulse wave, and a blood pressure information calculating section which calculates blood pressure information; and a blood pressure correction information generating section which generates blood pressure correction information for correcting the blood pressure information which is calculated after the change time period, based on first blood pressure information which is calculated before the change time period, and second blood pressure information which is calculated after the change time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Kentaro Mori, Yuki Ota
  • Patent number: 10909277
    Abstract: The present invention is suitable for easily properly setting control parameters in short time. The simulation device of the present invention comprises: a frequency response function computing part (53) computing a frequency response function according to a first command value and a measured value of a mechanical system; an impulse response computing part (41) computing an impulse response by performing inverse Fourier transform on the frequency response function obtained according to the frequency response function and the control parameters; and a time response outputting part (44) executing time response simulation of the mechanical system (7) according to a second command value and the impulse response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumoto Mori, Mamoru Egi, Shota Miyaguchi
  • Patent number: 10910174
    Abstract: A push-button switch may include a housing, an operation unit, a lock lever unit, and a biasing portion. A lever support portion may be connected to the operation unit so as to be movable together with the operation unit when a lever body is positioned at a second position. The housing may have a deformation portion that, when the operation unit is pulled in an opening direction when the lever body is positioned at the second position, deforms the lever body so as to be capable of releasing the pressing to the lever body by a holding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Morita, Yusuke Komoguchi, Tadahiko Ogawa, Masami Nishida
  • Publication number: 20210026330
    Abstract: To improve the usability so that the result of adjustment of a plurality of axes operating in cooperation is easily evaluated. An adjustment apparatus displays a graph indicating a temporal change of measurement data for each control axis and a control instruction on the same time base in a first area in a screen, and displays a control trajectory of a control position of each control axis, the control instruction, and a target trajectory of a target position in the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji NAKAJIMA, Mamoru EGI
  • Publication number: 20210026609
    Abstract: The present invention provides a support device supports easy development of a control program in which the data type of control data is considered. A command code generation means generates: a variable for each control datum; information that defines a data type that corresponds to the variable, the data type being at least one type from among other data types that have the same data-handling method; and a command code for which a process executed by a control device is described using the defined variable. When generating an executable program using the defining information and the command code, an executable program generation means generates a type set that comprises one or more data types defined in correspondence with each variable that has an operational expression indicated by the command code, selects one type from the type set of the operational expression based on a standard for ensuring operational precision, and determines the type as the data type of the operational result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji UNO
  • Publication number: 20210022639
    Abstract: In an apparatus for measuring biological information using a radio wave, a technique for acquiring an index related to a setting position of the apparatus with respect to a measurement site is provided. A biological information measurement apparatus (1) according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a transmitter (3) configured to transmit a radio wave toward a measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicants: OMRON Corporation, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayaka IWADE, Keigo KAMADA, Satoshi YASE, Hisashi OZAWA, Masayuki SUGANO, Keisuke SAITO, Yasuhiro KAWABATA
  • Publication number: 20210028707
    Abstract: This power supply unit of a control system outputs a notification signal to a calculation unit when a time in which an input voltage becomes smaller than a threshold voltage exceeds a prescribed first measurement time. When detecting that a predetermined second measurement time has elapsed after the notification signal has been received, the calculation unit outputs an instruction signal instructing the execution of a process before a stop in preparation for a prescribed stop of power supply, and executes the process before the stop in place of the current process. Settings of the threshold voltage and the second measurement time are configured to be changeable by means of an external operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo OGAKI, Seiji OKA, Kenji KOMATSUBARA
  • Patent number: 10903760
    Abstract: The power conditioner includes: a reactor; a capacitor; a first switching circuit that alternately switches, at a first frequency, between a first state where the DC current supplied from the DC power source is supplied to the reactor and supply of the DC current to the capacitor is shut off and a second state where an electric current is supplied to the capacitor from the reactor in which energy is accumulated by the supply of the DC current and the electric current from the DC power source to the reactor is shut off; and a second switching circuit that alternately switches, at a second frequency, between a first direction in which an electric current supplied from the capacitor flows toward a second output terminal through a first output terminal and a second direction in which the electric current flows toward the first output terminal through the second output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Mizokami
  • Patent number: 10898135
    Abstract: A biometric information measurement device intermittently measures biometric information from a living body. The device includes an attachment and detachment determining section which determines whether the device is in an attached state where the device is attached to the living body or an unattached state where the device is detached from the living body, a personal identifying section which, in the attached state, determines whether a user attached with the device is a registered user who is registered in advance and stores a result of the determination, and a storage controller which, when a determination result indicating that the user is the registered user is stored, stores information indicating the registered user while being associated with the measured biometric information. The personal identifying section deletes the determination result when a time period in which the device is determined to be in the unattached state exceeds a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Naoki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10901398
    Abstract: A controller includes a control operation unit that cyclically performs a control operation for controlling a control target, a data generator that generates data showing a chronological change in a value associated with a control target, and an analyzer that analyzes the data and outputs an analysis result in a predetermined analysis target period. The analysis target period includes a plurality of sections. The data generator sequentially outputs section data showing a chronological change in a value for each of the plurality of sections in the analysis target period. The analyzer analyzes the sequentially output section data for each section. When an analysis of section data for a section in the analysis target period shows a predefined result, the analyzer eliminates an analysis of section data for one or more sections in the analysis target period that are subsequent to the section for which the analysis shows the predefined result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuhki Ueyama, Nobuyuki Sakatani, Yasuaki Abe
  • Patent number: 10898304
    Abstract: An oral care implement body to which a replacement head can be detachably coupled. In one embodiment, the oral care implement body includes a gripping portion having a shoulder, a stem extending from the shoulder along a longitudinal axis, and a boss protruding from an outer surface of the stem. The boss may have a locking rib section having an undercut surface that is axially spaced from the shoulder and a positioning rib section extending from the locking rib section to the shoulder. The undercut surface may circumferentially protrude from a first side surface of the positioning rib section. The locking rib section may extend along a first rib axis and the positioning rib section may extend along a second rib axis, the first rib axis oriented obliquely to the second rib axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: Colgate-Palmolive Company, Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Yoshida, Takashi Torihama, Thomas Mintel, Joseph Fattori
  • Patent number: 10899297
    Abstract: A submergence detection device includes: a housing in which an opening is formed; and a detection electrode disposed inside the housing and configured to detect a submergence. A through hole is formed in the housing. When seen from the opening, a wall surface that is located in the housing farther than a position of the through hole is watertight. When seen from the opening, the detection electrode is disposed closer to the opening than the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Mori, Takayuki Suzuki, Yuichi Fujii, Mamoru Minamide, Hideyo Kakuno