Patents Assigned to OMRON
  • Publication number: 20200159219
    Abstract: A feature is realized with which it is possible to determine the work entity by which each load should be transported. A simulator (1) is provided with a transport capacity acquisition portion (6) for acquiring the transport capacity of one or a plurality of types of work entity, a load information acquisition portion (5), a map information acquisition portion (4), a work entity situation acquisition portion (7), and a work entity determination portion (2) for determining a work entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki KASAI, Hiromasa TAKATSUKA, Junichi WADA, Hiroyuki INOUE, Yoshiyuki TANI, Masahiro OHARA
  • Patent number: 10657392
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to improve the speed of processing related to the presence of objects, while maintaining measurement accuracy of object detection, in an object detection device. This object detection device is provided with: an output unit; a plurality of detection units; a first data generation unit; a second data generation unit; and an information processing unit. The output unit outputs measurement light. The plurality of detection units detect reflected light. The first data generation unit generates first data. The second data generation unit generates second data by extracting, from the first data, a plurality of pieces of second position information, which are pieces of first position information that correspond to representative points expressing the presence ranges of objects. The information processing unit uses the second data to execute information processing related to the presence of the objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yukiko Yanagawa, Manabu Kawashima
  • Patent number: 10656636
    Abstract: An evaluation system includes an acquisition module that acquires a safety program, an instruction extraction module that extracts an instruction directed to processing for causing a target device to operate with safety maintained, a signal extraction module that extracts an input signal and an output signal related to the instruction, a setting module that displays the extracted input signal and the extracted output signal in association with each other, and receives a setting of an expected output value for the displayed output signal, the expected output value being a value for causing the target device to operate with safety maintained, and an evaluation module that changes a value of the extracted input signal and determines whether a value of the output signal calculated by an operation in accordance with the safety program, in response to change of the value of the input signal, is identical to the expected output value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Fujimura, Nobuyuki Takuma, Hiromu Suganuma, Asahi Matsui, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 10656270
    Abstract: This object detection device is provided with: an output unit; a plurality of detection units; a data acquisition unit; and an object information confirmation unit. The output unit outputs measurement light Lm towards an object. Each of the plurality of detection units detects, as a signal representing the distance to the object present in an observed area and the shape of the object, the reflected light generated as a result of the measurement light being reflected by the object. The data acquisition unit acquires detection signal waveforms W representing changes in the intensities of second signals over time. The object information confirmation unit confirms the range of the presence of the object by determining that any two or more of the detection units correspond to the same object, or correspond to different objects, on the basis of the detection signal waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yukiko Yanagawa
  • Patent number: 10658140
    Abstract: A contact mechanism has a base, a pair of fixed contact terminals provided side by side on the base, a first contact mechanism including a first fixed contact provided in one of the pair of fixed contact terminals, and a first movable contact that contactably and separably faces the first fixed contact, a second contact mechanism including a second fixed contact provided in another of the pair of fixed contact terminals, and a second movable contact that contactably and separably faces the second fixed contact, and a magnetic field generation unit having a permanent magnet disposed between the first contact mechanism and the second contact mechanism such that magnetic fields in opposite directions are generated respectively between contacts of the first contact mechanism and between contacts of the second contact mechanism when currents in opposite directions flow in the first contact mechanism and the second contact mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Itoda, Masayuki Noda, Koji Takami, Takeshi Nishida
  • Patent number: 10654343
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer system for a vehicle door glass may include a power transmitter including a first converter converting DC power from a battery into AC power, a transmitting coil wirelessly transmitting the AC power received from the first converter, and a transmitter controller controlling a power level to be output from the first converter; and a power receiver including a receiving coil wirelessly receiving the AC power from the transmitting coil, a second converter and a third converter connected to the receiving coil, and a receiver controller controlling a power level to be output from the second converter and the third converter, wherein the power transmitter is mounted on a vehicle door, and the power receiver is mounted on a door glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Omron Automotive Electronic Korea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwan Hui Kang, Sang Hoon Gweon, Joon Koo Hwang, Dong Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 10656616
    Abstract: A control device, a control program and a control system are provided. The control device includes: a first identification device for giving a first command as a command value to a drive device and determining a torque required for the controlled object to execute the first command; a second identification device for giving a second command as the command value and a third command as a compensation command to the drive device and determining a preceding switching time based on a response from the controlled object; a command value updating device for sequentially updating the command value based on a predetermined target trajectory; and a compensation command updating device for sequentially updating the compensation command based on the command value. The compensation command updating device updates the compensation command according to a moving direction after a reversal of the moving direction of the controlled object in the target trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: SitiAisyah Azizan, Masaki Namie, Mikiko Manabe
  • Patent number: 10653350
    Abstract: A data processing device that performs data processing of monitoring a person, the data processing device includes: a calculator configured to calculate pupil movement and head movement of the person; an evaluator configured to evaluate a suitability degree of a situation in calculating the VOR; a provision unit configured to provide the suitability degree evaluated by the evaluator to data calculated by the calculator; a selector configured to select a first technique of calculating the sleepiness based on the VOR of the person or a second technique different from the first technique based on the suitability degree provided to the data; a first sleepiness calculator configured to calculate the sleepiness based on the first technique when the selector selects the first technique; and a second sleepiness calculator configured to calculate the sleepiness based on the second technique when the selector selects the second technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ayumi Takemoto, Koichi Kinoshita, Hitoshi Mukai, Shigenori Nagae, Yamato Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10657626
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an image processing apparatus, an image processing system, and recording medium capable of achieving both reduction of the amount of data and securement of reproducibility. An image processing apparatus generates compressed image data by compressing raw image data acquired by imaging an object into a JPEG format, restores the compressed image data to restored image data of a bmp format, and then acquires a first result by executing an image measurement processing on the restored image data. The image processing apparatus stores the compressed image data and the first result in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Kiuchi, Tsunehiko Araki
  • Patent number: 10657778
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a door switch that improves visibility. The door switch includes an actuator and a sensor. In addition, the door switch is installed so that when a door is closed, a surface of the sensor and an opposite surface of the actuator are in contact with or close to each other, and when the door is open, the surface of the sensor and the opposite surface of the actuator are separated from each other. The actuator outputs a detection signal. A display part for indicating a reception state of the detection signal is formed on the surface of the sensor. The surface of the sensor has a non-opposite region, wherein the non-opposite region is at least a part of the display part not opposite to the opposite surface of the actuator in the reception state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Rina Su, Keishi Yayama, Kazuhiro Kudo, Kenji Shimazu
  • Patent number: 10649426
    Abstract: The present invention can stabilize driving of a motor even if multiple control instructions of driving the motor are acquired through non-real-time communication. A servo driver (10) does not perform processing corresponding to other control commands when acquiring the other control commands from other interfaces through non-real-time communication in a process of performing processing corresponding to a control command acquired via one interface and through non-real-time communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Ushiyama, Satoshi Yamawaki, Takaya Kitano
  • Patent number: 10650444
    Abstract: A battery reservation device (10) comprises a battery state acquisition component (12), a scheduled return time acquisition component (13c), a remaining battery charge prediction component (14), a battery station information acquisition component (15), and a reservation acceptance component (17). The battery state acquisition component (12) acquires the remaining battery charge of a battery pack (1) scheduled to be returned to a battery station (30a). The scheduled return time acquisition component (13c) acquires the scheduled return time of the battery pack (1). The remaining battery charge prediction component (14) predicts the remaining battery charge at the time of return on the basis of the current remaining battery charge of the battery pack (1) and the scheduled return time. The battery station information acquisition component (15) acquires the charging speed of a charger (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa Takatsuka, Junichi Wada, Kazuki Kasai
  • Patent number: 10646124
    Abstract: A pulse wave signal expressing a pulse is obtained by detecting a pulse of a measurement subject using a pulse wave sensor. The pulse wave signal is stored in a storage unit. A frequency spectrum of the pulse wave signal is found by converting the time-domain pulse wave signal stored in the storage unit into the frequency domain. It is determined whether or not the measurement subject is at rest by finding a frequency range, within a predetermined total frequency range the pulse rate of a person can take on, in which an intensity of a frequency component of the frequency spectrum exceeds a first threshold, and finding whether or not a ratio of the frequency range with respect to the total frequency range is less than a second threshold. A pulse rate from the point in time when the measurement subject has been determined to be at rest is found as the measurement subject's at-rest pulse rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Fujii, Shigemi Kamegawa
  • Patent number: 10650996
    Abstract: At the time of contact between the contacts, the first movable contact comes into contact with the first fixed contact before contact between the second movable contact and the second fixed contact is made. The first movable contact is located on a leading end side of the contact piece with respect to the second movable contact. The first divided piece includes a body and a projection. The body extends in the lengthwise direction. The projection projects in the widthwise direction of the first divided piece from the body. The projection includes a contact portion pressed by the link member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori Hayashida, Yuji Kozai
  • Publication number: 20200139545
    Abstract: In a route outputting method using an arithmetic device including an external interface, a storage unit, and an arithmetic unit when a robot having a plurality of movable shafts transports an object W from a first position to a second position, the arithmetic unit executes the steps of: acquiring the first position and the second position using the external interface; acquiring transport conditions when the robot transports the object W from the first position to the second position; generating a route for the robot to transport the object W from the first position to the second position, the transport conditions being satisfied along the entire route; and outputting the generated route using the external interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kennosuke HAYASHI, Akane NAKASHIMA, Takeshi KOJIMA, Haruka FUJII
  • Publication number: 20200140720
    Abstract: A method for curing an adhesive composition includes: arranging an adhesive composition that transmits laser light of a first wavelength in contact with a surface of a first adherend that contains, at least at its surface, a first light-to-heat conversion material that generates heat by absorbing laser light of the first wavelength; and curing the adhesive composition by irradiating the adhesive composition and the first adherend with laser light of the first wavelength. In a method for manufacturing a bonded structure, a first bonded structure is manufactured by bonding the adhesive composition to the first adherend by using the method for curing an adhesive composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takekazu KOMORI, Daisuke SATO, Kyoji KITAMURA, Yosuke TATSUNO, Yuki HOGA
  • Patent number: D883823
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Nishiuchi, Heita Nada, Nobuchika Takiguchi, Tetsuya Fukumoto
  • Patent number: D883931
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiro Otsu, Tomoyuki Haruna, Hidekazu Koyama, Yukito Yoshida
  • Patent number: D884615
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tamaki Ito, Tsuyoshi Ogihara, Gen Suzuki, Takashi Shigeno, Kazuya Andachi
  • Patent number: D884902
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Nishiyama, Tsuyoshi Ogihara, Yoshikazu Inami, Asa Hirasawa, Masaaki Nonoyama, Yuki Suzuki, Yuki Kinpara, Asami Sasaki