Patents Assigned to OMRON
  • Publication number: 20200351348
    Abstract: A moving sensor management unit is configured to provide, to a user, sensing data generated by a sensing device attached to a mobile object, and includes a run operation information storage unit configured to store run operation information of the mobile object, a run operation information update unit configured to, when a request to change the run operation information is received, update the run operation information stored in the run operation information storage unit, in accordance with the change request, and a first output control unit configured to output, in response to a provision request to provide sensing data that is based on the run operation information, sensing data corresponding to the provision request, to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi NAITO
  • Publication number: 20200345245
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first pulse wave sensor and a second pulse wave sensor that can be arranged in correspondence with respective measurement sites distant from each other. The first pulse wave sensor outputs a current signal having a first frequency to a measurement site and detects a voltage signal that represents pulse waves from the measurement site, based on a filter characteristic corresponding to the first frequency. The second pulse wave sensor outputs a current signal having a frequency different from the first frequency to a corresponding measurement site and detects a voltage signal representing pulse waves from the measurement site, based on a filter characteristic corresponding to a second frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicants: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro MORI, Yasuhiro KAWABATA, Naomi MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20200345248
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes: a case including an outer case, a base housed in the outer case, and a back cover that covers an opening of the outer case; a movable portion arranged in a gap between the outer case, the base and the back cover, and including a bag-shaped cuff that inflates when a fluid is supplied to an internal space; and a seal member that is formed of a gel body having a lower elastic modulus than that of the cuff, and that is provided in the gap to seal the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicants: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki NISHIDA, Hirokazu TANAKA, Shinji MIZUNO, Noboru KOHARA, Kotaro KITAJO, Keitaro NAGANO, Yoshihiko SANO, Takashi ONO
  • Patent number: 10826518
    Abstract: A technology capable of sampling sensor signals in a plurality of channels simultaneously is realized. An input unit is capable of inputting sensor signals from a plurality of sensors, and includes an analog-to-digital (AD) conversion unit which is disposed with respect to each of the plurality of sensors and acquires the sensor signal from each of the sensors and converts the sensor signal into a digital signal, and a timing control unit which controls timing at which a plurality of the AD conversion units acquire the sensor signal for each of the AD conversion units according to a sampling period of each of the plurality of sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Koshiro Shiihara
  • Patent number: 10824906
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a feature detection image generating unit that generates multiple feature detection images corresponding to multiple classes by applying a convolutional neural network having the classes learned previously to an input image; a post-processing unit that generates a measurement result by performing a post-process on at least some feature detection images of the multiple feature detection images on the basis of a setting parameter; and a user interface unit that receives an input of the setting parameter while presenting a user at least one of at least some of the feature detection images which are generated by the feature detection image generating unit and the measurement result which is generated by causing the post-processing unit to perform the post-process using at least some of the feature detection images which are generated by the feature detection image generating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10825193
    Abstract: Provided is an environment for providing information for supporting adjustment of the respective parts for positioning. A position detecting apparatus includes: an image processing unit that detects, through image processing, a position of a feature portion from image data imaged and acquired when the feature portion of an object is positioned at the respective target positions by a moving mechanism; a position storage unit that stores the detected positions detected at the target positions in association with the respective target positions; and a display data generation unit that generates data for displaying information related to the detected positions on a display unit. The display data generation unit generates data for displaying the respective target positions and the respective detected positions, which are stored in association with the target positions, in the same coordinate space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Arano, Yoshihide Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Hazeyama
  • Patent number: 10827114
    Abstract: An imaging system capable of stably focusing on a desired location on a subject is provided. An imaging system includes a setting part that sets a search range of an autofocus part in a predetermined range according to an input to an input device. The setting part causes a display device to display a figure indicating a relationship between a focal position of an optical system and an evaluation value indicating an in-focus degree, and an image indicated by an image signal when the optical system has been adjusted to a focal position designated on a figure to support an input of the search range to the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Arano, Yutaka Kato
  • Patent number: 10823590
    Abstract: An environmental sensor for measuring physical quantities associated with a surrounding environment includes one or more sensor elements that detect the physical quantities, and a communication unit that transmits, when a physical quantity detected by at least one of the sensor elements included in the environmental sensor changes in accordance with a predetermined rule, a predetermined maintenance signal including unit identification information identifying at least the environmental sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ryusuke Sakai, Naotsugu Ueda, Kayo Nakamura, Takanobu Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20200342239
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a people-gathering analysis device including: a position information acquisition unit (112) that acquires position information of a moving body (150); a moving-body outside information acquisition unit (111) that acquires information about the area outside the moving body (150); and a people-gathering information calculation unit (113) that calculates people-gathering information indicating the gathering of people by referring to the position information of the moving body (150) acquired by the position information acquisition unit (112), and the information about the area outside the moving body (150) acquired by the moving-body outside information acquisition unit (111).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki KASAI, Koichi AIDA, Tomonari IMABAYASHI, Eizo KITAMURA, Hideto OHMAE, Atsushi SAKUMA, Minoru FUJINO
  • Publication number: 20200342503
    Abstract: In order to realize a technology with which it is possible to evaluate a service provider from which a service user can receive a service with ease, an evaluation device is characterized by being equipped with: an information analysis unit for calculating degree-of-ease information indicating a degree of ease of a service user from the service user's countenance; and a service provider evaluation unit for calculating an evaluation of a service provider from the degree-of-ease information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki KASAI, Koichi AIDA, Tomonari IMABAYASHI, Eizo KITAMURA, Hideto OHMAE, Atsushi SAKUMA, Minoru FUJINO
  • Publication number: 20200337565
    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: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicants: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji MIZUNO, Noboru KOHARA, Hirokazu TANAKA, Tomoyuki NISHIDA, Takashi ONO, Takanori NISHIOKA
  • Patent number: 10819338
    Abstract: A sensor includes a housing and an antenna element. The first wall and the second wall of the housing are facing each other at a distance from each other. The third wall and the fourth wall connect the first wall and the second wall and are facing at a distance from each other and have a larger area than the first wall and the second wall respectively. The housing has an internal space surrounded by the first wall, the second wall, the third wall, and the fourth wall. The antenna element is arranged in the internal space of the housing and receives identification information of an external actuator for detecting opening/closing of a door. The antenna element is arranged at a position, which is closer to the first wall than the second wall and includes a substantially center in a direction connecting the third wall and the fourth wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Murakami, Kazuhiro Kudo, Keishi Yayama, Toshiaki Ichiki
  • Patent number: 10818030
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measurement apparatus includes: projecting means for projecting, onto a measurement target, patterned light having a two-dimensionally coded pattern in which a plurality of types of words each having a different two-dimensional structure and being distinguishable from each other are two-dimensionally arranged; capturing means for capturing the measurement target onto which the patterned light is projected; and calculating means for calculating a three-dimensional position of a target pixel of the image from an image captured by the capturing means, and the two-dimensionally coded pattern is two-fold symmetrical. The two-dimensionally coded pattern is a pattern in which a predetermined word is repeated in the column direction for each column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Xingdou Fu, Masaki Suwa, Yuki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10816962
    Abstract: A process control device includes a deadlock determination part that determines whether or not a deadlock occurrence situation occurs when a work process that is being executed and a work process scheduled to be executed next are executed simultaneously by referring to process constraint information in which a plurality of work processes and each work state of a plurality of process execution elements of a manufacturing device are associated with each other, and a process execution control part that delays an execution timing of the work process scheduled to be executed next when the deadlock determination part has determined that the deadlock occurrence situation occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromi Sasaki, Kenichiro Mori, Hiroshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10816393
    Abstract: A photoelectric sensor capable of suppressing breakage of a cable connected to a case body is provided. The photoelectric sensor includes a case body having an accommodation space which accommodates at least one of a light projecting portion and a light receiving portion therein, and a cable which accommodates a cord connected via a control portion to at least one of the light projecting portion and the light receiving portion, and a concave portion recessed toward an inside of the case body is provided in an outer surface of the case body, and the cable is mounted in the concave portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizusaki, Tomohiro Tsuji, Jumpei Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Miyata
  • Patent number: 10814486
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an actuator emulator simulating a behavior of a first drive apparatus that is for driving a first control target, an actuator emulator simulating a behavior of a second drive apparatus that is for driving a second control target, a storage device for storing a PLC program including an instruction group with respect to the actuator emulator and a robot program including an instruction group with respect to the actuator emulator, a timer generating a virtual time, and a PLC emulator for repeatedly executing the instruction group included in the PLC program in each predetermined first control period in accordance with measurement using the virtual time, and a robot controller emulator for sequentially executing the instruction group included in the robot program in a predetermined execution order in accordance with the virtual time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Oya, Haruna Shimakawa
  • Patent number: 10816417
    Abstract: A force detector includes a support, fluid bags, a contact portion, a detector, and a computer. The contact portion is opposite to a side on which the fluid bags are in contact with the support and is adjacent to the fluid bags. The computer obtains information regarding the internal pressures of the fluid bags from the detector. Upon application of an external force to the contact portion from an object, the computer calculates a force acting in a tangential direction on a contact surface between the object and the contact portion based on a difference between the internal pressures of the fluid bags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION, THE RITSUMEIKAN TRUST
    Inventors: Minoru Taniguchi, Chisato Tawara, Masao Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi, Sadao Kawamura, Hye Jong Kim, Yuki Sugano
  • Patent number: 10819231
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes: a positive-side capacitor connected to a positive-electrode-side output terminal; a negative-side capacitor with one end thereof connected to the positive-side capacitor and the other end thereof connected to a negative-electrode-side output terminal; an inductor with one end thereof connected to the positive-electrode-side output terminal and an input-side end thereof opposite thereto connected to the negative-electrode-side output terminal, the inductor including a center tap between the end near the positive-electrode-side output terminal thereof and the input-side end; and a switching element with one end thereof connected to the input-side end of the inductor and the other end thereof connected to a positive electrode of a solar cell; a negative electrode of the solar cell connected to a region between the positive-side capacitor and the negative-side capacitor and to the center tap of the inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Mizokami
  • Patent number: 10816714
    Abstract: A light guide element includes: an incidence surface wherefrom light enters from a light source; a first reflection surface configured to totally reflect at least a portion of the light entering from the incidence surface; a second reflection surface configured to totally reflect at least a portion of the light totally reflected by the first reflection surface as parallel light; and an emission surface configured to emit the parallel light totally reflected by the second reflection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Yuto Mori, Gouo Kurata, Norikazu Kitamura
  • Patent number: 10816713
    Abstract: A surface light source device includes a light source; a light guide plate that has a light entrance surface through which light enters, and that emits the light entering through the light entrance surface from a light exit surface; a wiring board; and a metal frame. The metal frame includes a bottom portion having a bottom surface that faces a surface on an opposite side to the light exit surface, a side wall erected on an outer periphery of the bottom surface, and a projecting portion provided on the side wall so as to project toward the bottom surface side. The metal frame houses the light source, the light guide plate, and the wiring board. At least a part of the light source is disposed between the bottom portion and the projecting portion, and the wiring board is disposed between the light source and the bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Miyazaki, Kota Yonezawa, Masakazu Komano, Tetsuo Hayashi, Junichiro Tsuji, Daido Uchida, Koichi Takemura, Kazunori Harada, Takashi Onishi, Kazuhide Hirota, Kazuyuki Otake