Patents Assigned to OMRON
  • Publication number: 20200410270
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, device, system and computer-program product for setting a lighting condition when an object is checked and a storage medium. The method includes that: the object is lighted by light sources capable of changing lighting parameters, and the object is captured by an image sensor in such lighting parameters to obtain captured images, wherein the object has known label data; and a part of or all of the captured images and the corresponding label data of the object are applied to learning of a machine learning model, and the lighting condition and the check algorithm parameters of the machine learning model is set simultaneously by optimizing both the lighting parameters and the check algorithm parameters, on the basis of a comparison result between an estimation result of the machine learning model and the label data. Therefore, operations are simplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke NARUSE, Masashi KURITA
  • Publication number: 20200405220
    Abstract: A biological information measuring device includes a buckle including a first plate having a plate shape and being fixed to the other end of a second plate frame member and a second plate having a plate shape being rotatable. The second plate has a part that extends beyond the first plate when the second plate overlaps an outer surface of the first plate. A first fixing element is on a side of the extended part that becomes an inner surface when the second plate overlaps the outer surface of the first plate. A second fixing element is engageable with the first fixing element on the outer surface of the front end of the belt. An first engagement protrusion is on the first plate, and a second engagement protrusion overlaps the first engagement protrusion in a direction with the first engagement protrusion is on the second plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuma ADACHI, Chiaki EBISU
  • Publication number: 20200405162
    Abstract: A cuff unit of the present invention includes a first wall and a second wall that face each other with an object which has a rod shape interposed therebetween, an actuator that is capable of moving the first wall and the second wall in parallel with each other in a direction in which the first wall and the second wall relatively approach each other or separate from each other, a pressing fluid bag that is provided on a surface of the first wall on a side facing the object and that receives supply of a fluid from outside to inflate and press the object, and a restraining fluid bag that is provided on a surface of the second wall on a side facing the object and that receives supply of a fluid from outside to inflate along the periphery of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicants: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., THE UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE, OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka NISHIOKA, Kenta AZUMA, Minoru TANIGUCHI, Chisato TAWARA, Tsuyoshi HAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200412172
    Abstract: A contactless power transmission apparatus includes a receiver that includes a resonant circuit including a receiver coil that receives electric power from a transmitter coil included in a transmitter and a resonant capacitor connected in parallel to the receiver coil. The receiver outputs, through an output coil having fewer turns than the receiver coil and a coil connected to the output coil, electric power received by the resonant circuit and rectifies the output power with a rectifier circuit. The transmitter includes a control circuit that controls a voltage and a switching frequency of alternating current power to be supplied to the transmitter coil from a power supply circuit to allow the contactless power transmission apparatus to continuously perform a constant voltage output operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Goro NAKAO, Atsushi NOMURA, Yusuke KAWAI, Toshiyuki ZAITSU
  • Publication number: 20200412932
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, device, system and computer-program product for setting a lighting condition when an object is checked and a storage medium. The method includes that: the object is lighted by light sources capable of changing lighting parameters specifying the lighting condition when the object is captured, and the object with corresponding label data is captured by an image sensor under multiple such lighting parameters to obtain multiple captured images; estimation images of the object are generated on the basis of image data sets obtained by associating the captured images and the corresponding lighting parameters; and the estimation images and the corresponding label data are applied to learning of the machine learning model, and the lighting condition is set on the basis of a comparison result between an estimation result of a machine learning model and the label data. Therefore, operations are simplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke NARUSE, Masashi KURITA
  • Publication number: 20200412807
    Abstract: A session control apparatus, a session control method, and a session control program may maintain a quality of input data output to a processing module. A processing module has a defined condition regarding a quality of the input data. The session control apparatus includes a selection unit and a switching unit. The selection unit selects a second device when the input data fails to satisfy the condition. The switching unit switches a first device that outputs the input data to the processing module to the second device selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuji YAMATO, Taiji YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10879834
    Abstract: A temperature monitoring device of the present invention includes: a current value acquisition portion (50) that acquires a current value supplied for the motor; a calorific value inference portion (20) that infers a calorific value through a first thermal model indicating a relationship between the current value and a calorific value of a servo driver (2); and an anomaly judgment portion (10) that compares the calorific value with a threshold, so as to judge whether there is heating anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamawaki, Takao Ushiyama, Kentaro Hirao
  • Patent number: 10875180
    Abstract: Provided is a highly safe robot system. A robot system includes: an arm operation control unit that controls operations of an arm; and a storage unit that records hazardous part information related to at least any one of a grip unit of the arm and a work target gripped with the grip unit, and the arm operation control unit causes the arm to operate such that the hazardous direction of the hazardous part is different from a moving direction of the grip unit on the basis of the hazardous part information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Higuchi, Yoshiharu Tani, Kazunori Osako, Minoru Hashimoto, Daichi Kamisono, Masaki Fujita
  • Patent number: 10879145
    Abstract: An electronic device includes electronic components, a molded resin element wherein the electronic components are embedded and secured, and a heat transfer layer; the heat transfer layer has a higher thermal conductivity than the molded resin element. The heat transfer layer is in contact with portions of the electronic components other than an electrode pad and a terminal. This prevents increases in the cost of manufacturing the electronic device and the allows the electronic device to be thinner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Wakahiro Kawai
  • Patent number: 10880027
    Abstract: The present disclosure is to enable simplification of processing for analyzing each sensor value. Provided is a sensor including a continuous excess detection part that detects a continuous excess state, which is a state where an absolute value of a sensor value exceeds a predetermined threshold value continuously for a predetermined period of time and a start specification part that specifies an operation start timing of a robot on the basis of a timing when the continuous excess state is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yahiro Koezuka
  • Patent number: 10874306
    Abstract: A soft gripper that surrounds and grips an outer peripheral surface of an object, the soft gripper includes an elongated first actuator and an elongated second actuator, which are deformed in response to supply of a fluid. The first actuator and the second actuator extend from bases of the first and second actuators toward opposite sides each other. When receiving the supply of the fluid, each of the first and second actuators sequentially surrounds the object from the base toward a side of a leading end of the each of the first and second actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE, OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Nishioka, Wataru Masuda, Masao Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi, Minoru Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 10877451
    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: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Junji Shimamura, Tetsushi Jakunen, Tomonori Shimamura, Eiji Yamamoto, Masahiko Nakano
  • Patent number: 10876977
    Abstract: An inspection management system that manages inspection of an inspection apparatus in a production line including a manufacturing apparatus of a product and the inspection apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire inspection content data including an inspection standard for each component; an inspection content setting unit configured to set inspection content; a setting-related information acquisition unit configured to acquire setting-related information including at least a time at which new inspection content is set when the inspection content setting unit sets the new inspection content; a storage unit configured to retain the setting-related information in association with a history of the setting of the inspection content; a setting-related information reading unit configured to read the setting-related information retained in the storage unit; and an output unit configured to be able to output the setting-related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mori, Katsuki Nakajima, Mayuko Tanaka, Takako Onishi, Isao Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 10877538
    Abstract: There is expected a technique capable of determining a power supply state with respect to an arithmetic unit according to a connection status with a power supply unit. The arithmetic unit includes a state management circuit outputting a state signal indicating whether or not supply of power from the power supply circuit is valid. The state management circuit of the arithmetic unit determines a value of the state signal based on a voltage of a second port, a voltage of a first port, and a signal indicating whether or not the power supply unit exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Ueda
  • Patent number: 10875422
    Abstract: A battery pack (10) supplies power to a vehicle (20), and comprises a receiver (11), a signal analyzer (12), and a discharge controller (14). The receiver (11) receives from the vehicle (20) a proper use signal generated by the vehicle (20). The signal analyzer (12) analyzes the proper use signal received by the receiver (11). The discharge controller (14) permits power supply to the vehicle (20) when it has been confirmed, as a result of analysis by the signal analyzer (12), that a proper use signal has been received from the vehicle (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Wada, Hiromasa Takatsuka, Kazuki Kasai
  • Patent number: 10878283
    Abstract: A data generation apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a result determined by a determination unit, which uses an identification device trained using learning data, as to whether or not an object to be inspected includes a part to be detected based on an image of the object to be inspected; an evaluation unit configured to evaluate whether or not the determination result is correct; and a generation unit configured to generate, if the evaluation unit has evaluated that the determination result is not correct, new learning data by associating at least one of the image and a composite image generated based on the image with information in which the determination result is corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Kurita, Yuki Hanzawa
  • Patent number: 10877803
    Abstract: Provided is a system capable of appropriately evaluating even an execution state of a program having a relatively low priority in execution of a plurality of programs having different priorities in a control apparatus. The control apparatus includes a first program which is repeatedly executed by the processor and has a highest execution priority, a second program and a third program, and a scheduler program which manages programs executed by the processor. The scheduler program includes a command for causing the processor to execute the second and third programs such that execution of the first program is not obstructed, and a command for determining an execution state of the second program in each predetermined monitoring cycle on the basis of a start notification and an end notification from the second program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Adachi, Yoshihide Nishiyama, Shigeyuki Eguchi
  • Patent number: D906252
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takamasa Yamaji
  • Patent number: D906253
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa Yamaji, Heita Nada
  • Patent number: D906393
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Omron Robotics and Safety Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: C. Brian Gulassa, Daniel P. Norboe, Tim Vickroy