Patents Assigned to OMRON
  • Patent number: 11321860
    Abstract: The three-dimensional measurement apparatus includes a light projecting unit projects, onto a target, a pattern in which data is encoded, an image capturing unit captures an image of the target onto which the pattern is projected, and a calculation unit calculates positions of a three-dimensional point group based on positions of the feature points and the decoded data, in which the pattern includes unit patterns that each expresses at least two bits and are used in order to calculate the positions of the three-dimensional point group, the unit patterns each includes a first region and a second region that has an area that is larger than an area of the first region, and an area ratio between the first region and the second region is at least 0.3 and not more than 0.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Matsumoto, Yasuhiro Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 11321102
    Abstract: To provide a programmable display that enables content for coping with an event that has occurred to be promptly used. A programmable display that can communicate with a control device that controls production equipment includes a display; a storage device that stores a plurality of pieces of content that can be used by the programmable display; a detection part that detects a predetermined event that occurs in the production equipment; a learning part that learns a probability that each of 5 the plurality of pieces of content will be used under a condition that the predetermined event occurs by monitoring content used by the programmable display when the predetermined event is detected; and a specification part that specifies content having a high possibility of being used by the programmable display among the plurality of pieces of content based on the learned probability when the predetermined event is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yuta Nagata
  • Patent number: 11317818
    Abstract: A belt to be mounted around a measurement site; first pulse wave sensor and second pulse wave sensor mounted on the belt, separated from each other, configured to detect pulse waves in an artery passing through the measurement site; and pressing member mounted on the belt, capable of pressing first pulse wave sensor and second pulse wave sensor against the measurement site while varying pressing force. Time difference between first and second pulse wave signals is acquired as pulse transit time. Blood pressure is calculated based on the pulse transit time acquired by the measurement processing unit by using a predetermined correspondence equation between pulse transit time and blood pressure. Pulse transit time is acquired with the measurement processing unit while pressing force by pressing member is changed in resting state, and corresponding equation is calibrated based on plurality of pulse transit times corresponding to plurality of respective pressing forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Fujii, Naoki Matsumoto, Yuki Kato
  • Patent number: 11320582
    Abstract: An illumination device is disclosed that may constitute a partition wall or the like having an impact in a bright and brilliant space. An illumination device according to an embodiment may include: a plurality of light guide plate units each including a light guide plate and an LED substrate; and a base to which the plurality of light guide plate units are attached so as to be laid over the base. The attachment surface of the base is divided into sections for attaching the light guide plate units so as to lay the light guide plate units over the base and each section is provided with an IC board for driving the corresponding LED substrate and snap-fit engagement portions for fixing the light guide plate unit to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Onitsuka, Junya Fujita, Takehiro Agata
  • Patent number: 11321052
    Abstract: The present invention provides an environment that makes it possible to incorporate a non-periodic-execution function module into a periodic-execution control program. A development support program that makes a computer execute steps that generate a periodic-execution second function module that invokes a non-periodic-execution first function module. Said steps include: a step in which a data type that is in a periodic-execution programming language and corresponds to the data type of an argument for the first function module is specified, and an input variable of said data type is established for the second function module; and a step in which a data type that is in a periodic-execution programming language and corresponds to the data type of a return value for the first function module is specified, and an output variable of said data type is established for the second function module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Hirota
  • Patent number: 11318653
    Abstract: In a temperature control device, a resin flow channel is formed from a nozzle section and a cylinder section that is connected to the nozzle section and the device controls the temperature of the resin that flows in the resin flow channel. The temperature control device is provided with: a first temperature sensor for detecting the nozzle temperature of the resin flowing through the nozzle section; a first temperature control unit for performing PID control so that the nozzle temperature achieves a first target temperature; multiple second temperature sensors for detecting the cylinder temperature of the resin flowing through the cylinder section; and second temperature control units for performing PID control so that the cylinder temperature achieves a second target temperature. The second temperature control units perform PID control of the cylinder temperature using temperature control information from the first temperature control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Yamada, Takashi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 11320976
    Abstract: In order to facilitate creation of a controller program and a UI program in which variables match each other, this program development support unit is provided with: a calculation unit and a program development support program which implement a sequence program editing unit, a UI editing unit, and a copy function unit; a display unit; and an operation input unit. The copy function unit detects selection, through the input operation unit, of an element of the sequence program and movement to an editing screen in a user interface program, and causes elements in the user interface program that correspond to elements in the sequence program to be reflected on the editing screen of the user interface program. The copy function unit detects the type of the sequence program being edited, and, depending on the type of sequence program, determines the type of elements of the user interface program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Shintaro Iwamura
  • Publication number: 20220128725
    Abstract: A buried object scanning device 10 includes a capacitance sensor 13, a search image conversion processing unit 25, a memory unit 22, a display unit 12, an operation input unit 15, and a display control unit 30. The capacitance sensor 13 detects a buried object 51. The search image conversion processing unit 25 converts the detection result of the capacitance sensor 13 into a search image. The memory unit 22 stores search images and a grid layer including grid lines corresponding to a specific scale. The display unit 12 displays the search images and the grid layer. The display control unit 30 controls the display unit 12 so as to display the search image superimposed with the grid layer and to display the search image in a state of being movable relative to the grid layer, in response to input to the operation input unit 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro TSURUSU, Shingo KAWAMOTO, Ryoji SHIMIZU, Kohei FUJIO, Yuji MAKITA, Akihiro ISHII, Mitsunori SUGIURA
  • Publication number: 20220131414
    Abstract: A power receiver device of a non-contact power feeding device includes a plurality of resonance circuits that receive power from a power transmitter device, and a power receiver circuit that outputs, to a load circuit, the power received from the power transmitter device by the plurality of resonance circuits. Each of the plurality of resonance circuits includes a receiver coil that receives power from a transmitter coil of the power transmitter device, and a resonance capacitor that resonates, together with the receiver coil, with AC power supplied to the transmitter coil of the power transmitter device. The receiver coils of the plurality of resonance circuits are arranged so as to be electromagnetically coupled to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Goro NAKAO
  • Publication number: 20220126409
    Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of suitably determining screw fastening failure. A screw fastening failure determination device (10) includes: a speed acquisition unit (13) which acquires an axial speed of a screw driver or a speed feature value relating to the speed; and a failure determination unit (14) which determines, in a temporary seating process, that a screw fastening has failed on the basis of the axial speed or the speed feature value at a prescribed timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SUGIOKA, Tatsuya SASAKI, Koji NISHIGAKI, Takanori SHIBUTANI
  • Publication number: 20220129533
    Abstract: A technique for managing, in a centralized manner, user accounts in a control system which includes two or more units is provided. A control system (2) is provided with first and second units (200, 300). The first unit (200), upon reception of an access request to the first unit (200) from an external device (500), requests the external device (500) to input a user account, and transmits the user account received from the external device (500) to the second unit (300). The second unit (300, U3) refers to registration information (330) defining account information of registered users, and, when the user account is determined to be registered, transmits to the first unit (200) a token indicating permission of access. The first unit (200) transmits the token received from the second unit (300) to the external device (500).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yuta NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20220130034
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro TSURUSU, Shingo KAWAMOTO, Mitsunori SUGIURA
  • Publication number: 20220125327
    Abstract: A sphygmomanometer includes a casing including a base and a side wall surrounding the base, a circuit board provided in the casing, a piezoelectric pump located in the casing and including a nozzle of which gas is jetted out, a first lead wire and a second lead wire each having one end electrically connected to the piezoelectric pump and an other end electrically connected to the circuit board, and a first rib and a second rib each projecting from the base toward the inside of the casing. A direction in which the first rib and second rib project is substantially parallel to a direction in which the nozzle extends. The first lead wire is press-fitted between the side wall and the first rib, and the second lead wire is press-fitted between the first rib and the second rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keita IKEDA, Bo ZHAO, Wataru TSUNODA, Chiaki EBISU
  • Patent number: 11314243
    Abstract: Provided are a failure prediction support device, a failure prediction support method, and a failure prediction support program, by which a user can easily know an abnormality in time series data relating to an apparatus. The failure prediction support device includes: a difference detection part, acquiring actual machine time series data being time series data relating to control of an apparatus and simulation time series data being time series data relating to control of the simulated apparatus, and detecting a difference between the actual machine time series data and the simulation time series data; a determination part, determining whether or not the difference satisfies a condition predetermined in relation to an abnormality in the actual machine time series data; and a notification processing part, notifying that the difference has been detected when it is determined that the difference satisfies the condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Keizo Tanaka, Haruna Shimakawa, Katsushige Ohnuki
  • Patent number: 11314219
    Abstract: Updating performance of a display screen in a terminal device that displays a screen for remotely monitoring an object to be controlled by a control device is appropriately maintained. An information device for factory automation connected to the control device that controls an object communicates with a terminal device having a display capable of displaying a screen for remotely monitoring the control device. The screen includes one or more components. The screen data for displaying the screen includes attributes of the respective components relating to the display, and a logic executed by the programmable indicator to determine the attribute values. When the terminal device displays a screen, the programmable indicator transmits the attributes and attribute values of the respective components in the screen data to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Takahashi, Hidehiko Sekimoto, Kiyotaka Ueda, Yuichi Wakayama
  • Patent number: 11311363
    Abstract: A toothbrush of the present invention includes: a main body including a head portion having a bristle raising surface on which bristles are provided in a standing manner; a light emission unit configured to emit light through a specific region of the bristle raising surface to a tooth surface; and a light reception unit configured to receive radiated light from the tooth surface resulting from the light through the specific region, the light emission unit and the light reception unit being provided in the main body. The toothbrush also includes a detection unit configured to collectively detect whether or not dental plaque or dental calculus is present on the tooth surface based on an output from the light reception unit. The toothbrush further includes a determination unit configured to determine that dental calculus is present on the tooth surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kawabata, Hideyuki Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura, Hideaki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11313676
    Abstract: The three-dimensional measurement apparatus includes a projecting unit configured to project patterned light onto a measurement target and an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of the measurement target onto which the patterned light is projected, with a predetermined exposure time, a calculation unit configured to calculate positions of a three-dimensional point group expressing a three-dimensional shape of the measurement target based on the feature points included in the image, and a determination unit configured to determine the exposure time such that at least one of the number of feature points and the number of three-dimensional point groups is equal to or greater than a threshold that is defined based on one of their maximum numbers, and the exposure time is shorter than an exposure time for the maximum number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Xingdou Fu, Takashi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11313907
    Abstract: A control panel includes power supply circuits for supplying power supply voltages to loads and a connection part for connecting wiring. The control panel comprises a system current detection unit that is for detecting a sudden increase in system current that is from a power system and flows through the control panel and includes a second current transformer, and individual current detection units that are for detecting a sudden increase in the individual current of one of the power supply circuits and include first current transformers. An arc discharge detection unit identifies an arc discharge occurring within the control panel separately from a surge flowing into the system based on a system current detection signal and individual current detection signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Marumo, Yasushi Kawashima, Hajime Umeki, Junji Obata, Keisuke Yano
  • Patent number: 11317290
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, an information processing apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether an identifier extracted from a one-way communication packet received from a sensor includes a first value indicating another information processing apparatus as a legitimate destination, a second value indicating a user different from a user of the information processing apparatus as the legitimate destination, or a third value indicating a sensor different from a sensor associated with the information processing apparatus as an origination, and a transmission unit that transmits, to a server, a second packet in which the first, the second, or the third value is stored, if the identifier includes the first, the second, or the third value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Kubo, Toru Deno, Hideki Kondo
  • Patent number: D950359
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tadahiko Ogawa, Koji Takatori, Ryo Ikeuchi, Takahiro Nakamura