Patents Assigned to OMRON
  • Patent number: 11314009
    Abstract: A display device includes a transparent light guide plate having an incident surface to display a plurality of patterns viewable in different directions and at least one light source facing a part of the incident surface. The light guide plate includes, on a first surface of the light guide plate, a plurality of prisms arranged along each of the plurality of patterns. The plurality of prisms have, for each pattern, reflection surfaces that reflect light emitted from the at least one light source and entering the light guide plate through the incident surface in a direction in which the pattern is viewable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shohei Hisaki, Junya Fujita, Yoshihiko Takagi, Yoshimasa Osumi
  • Patent number: 11316710
    Abstract: A control system includes a master device and one or a plurality of slave devices connected to the master device via a field network. In a storage unit of each slave device, a node address is arranged in a unique region for each model of the slave devices. The control system further includes an information providing part which provides, in any slave device, information for specifying the region in which the node address is stored in the storage unit to the master device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori Sawada, Akihiro Tamura, Yuji Ikeo
  • Patent number: 11311243
    Abstract: A blood pressure data processing apparatus including a peak selection unit, a frequency component suppression unit, a respiratory fluctuation calculation unit, an attenuation amount calculation unit, and a respiratory cycle determination unit. The frequency component suppression unit suppresses components of the selected peak frequency within the first spectrum, and generates a second spectrum. The respiratory fluctuation calculation unit calculates a first respiratory fluctuation in second blood pressure data, and calculates a second respiratory fluctuation in third blood pressure data, which is a time domain representation of the second spectrum. The attenuation amount calculation unit calculates an attenuation amount of the second respiratory fluctuation relative to the first respiratory fluctuation. The respiratory cycle determination unit determines a cycle corresponding to the selected peak frequency as a respiratory cycle of a user if the attenuation amount is greater than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seitaro Mura, Hirotaka Wada, Eriko Kan, Ayako Kokubo
  • Publication number: 20220120955
    Abstract: A display device includes a light guide plate that guides light incident from a first light source to cause part of the light to exit from a light exit surface. The light guide plate includes a first outgoing structure region including a plurality of outgoing structures, and the plurality of first outgoing structures have maximum incident directions that make intensity of light exiting in a predetermined direction largest scattered over a first angle range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiko TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20220121266
    Abstract: Provided is a counter unit capable of supporting any output apparatus of single-phase output, two-phase output, or three-phase output without waste. A counter unit (10) is provided with: a plurality of signal input terminals to which pulse signals outputted from a plurality of external output apparatuses (50) are respectively inputted; input circuits (21a to 21f) respectively connected to the plurality of signal input terminals; a single-phase counter (13) that performs count on the basis of a single-phase pulse signal, and a multi-phase counter (15) that performs count on the basis of a multi-phase pulse signal; and a switching part (16) that switches whether the input circuits (21a to 21f) are connected to the single-phase counter (13) or the multi-phase counter (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi OBA, Masaya KUDO
  • Publication number: 20220123592
    Abstract: A power transmission device of a non-contact power feeding device according one or more embodiments may include a control circuit configured to control at least one of a switching frequency or a voltage of AC power supplied from a power supply circuit to a transmission coil, on the basis of a change over time in a strength of a magnetic field detected by a magnetic field detection element configured to detect a strength of a magnetic field generated from the transmission coil of the power transmission device. Whereas, a power reception device has a resonant circuit having a reception coil configured to receive electric power from the power transmission device and a resonance suppression coil arranged to be capable of being electromagnetically coupled to the reception coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Goro NAKAO, Yusuke KAWAI, Kenichi TABATA, Atsushi NOMURA, Takahiro TAKEYAMA, Masanobu NAKAJO
  • Patent number: 11309153
    Abstract: The contact switching device includes a first terminal, a first contact, a second terminal, and a base. The first contact is attached to the first terminal. The base includes a first attachment portion, a second attachment portion, and a groove portion. The first terminal is attached to the first attachment portion. The second terminal is attached to the second attachment portion. The groove portion is arranged between the first attachment portion and the second attachment portion. The groove portion has a shape in which the inside is larger than the entrance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Sasaki, Kazuhiro Tsutsui, Hiroyuki Harimochi, Shintaro Wada, Yuki Muto, Kazuhiro Ikemoto, Keisuke Kihara
  • Patent number: 11304612
    Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section and a control unit. The sensor section is rotatable about a first axis and is rotatable about a second axis. The control unit determines a rotation angle about the second axis and a rotation angle about the first axis in a state where a roll angle of the sensor section is controlled to the optimal roll angle. Then, the control unit, presses the sensor section against the body surface in a state where the sensor section is controlled into the optimal roll angle and the optimal pitch angle, detects a pulse wave based on pressure signals detected by pressure detecting elements during the increase, and calculates vital information based on the detected pulse wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura
  • Patent number: 11307318
    Abstract: Provided is a technique that can suppress erroneous determination of noise as an earthquake in a seismic sensor and erroneous output of a shut-off signal. The seismic sensor includes: an earthquake determination unit configured to determine an occurrence of an earthquake based on acceleration measured in a determination period after shifting from a power saving mode to a measurement mode with higher power consumption when measured acceleration exceeds a predetermined threshold; and an index calculator configured to calculate an index value indicating a scale of an earthquake in an earthquake processing period after the determination period, when the earthquake determination unit determines that an earthquake has occurred. The seismic sensor causes output of a shut-off signal when the index value is equal to or larger than a threshold in the earthquake processing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mino, Naotsugu Ueda, Masakazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11304613
    Abstract: A bag-shaped structure excellent in both creep resistance and flexibility is provided. Provided is a bag-shaped structure (122) including a layer (122a) made of a thermoplastic elastomer foam. Also provided are a cuff for a blood pressure monitor and a blood pressure monitor each including the bag-shaped structure (122).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhei Ojiro, Kazuyoshi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11309741
    Abstract: A resonance oscillator circuit is provided to include first and second oscillators. The first oscillator includes a first LC resonator circuit and an amplifier element, and oscillates by shifting a phase of an output voltage with a predetermined phase difference and feeding the output voltage back to the amplifier element. The second oscillator oscillates by generating a gate signal, which has a frequency identical to that of the output voltage, and drives the amplifier element, by shifting the phase of the output voltage with the phase difference and feeding the gate signal back to an input terminal of the amplifier element, by using the amplifier element as a switching element and using the first oscillator as a feedback circuit. The phase difference is a value substantially independent of an inductance of the first LC resonator circuit and a load, to which the output voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Taichi Mishima, Shingo Nagaoka, Takeshi Uematsu, Hiroo Sekiya
  • Patent number: 11305117
    Abstract: A terminal device, a control method, a treatment system, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium, with the terminal device being configured to wirelessly communicate with an electrical treatment device. A terminal device is configured to wirelessly communicate with electrical treatment devices. Each one of the electrical treatment devices comprises a case and a vibration source that vibrates the case. The terminal device comprises a display control unit that displays image information associated with the each one of the electrical treatment devices on a display of the terminal device; a vibration instruction unit that instructs one of the electrical treatment devices associated with image information selected by a user to vibrate the case; and a treatment content setting unit that sets a treatment content performed by the each one of the electrical treatment devices in accordance with an instruction from the user notified by vibration of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Zaitsu
  • Patent number: 11309825
    Abstract: Provided is a motor control device comprising a motor control unit and a safety monitoring unit. The motor control unit switches a rotation direction of a motor with respect to an input instruction in accordance with a set motor-control rotation-direction specified value. The safety monitoring unit monitors, on the basis of a position or speed of the motor, a state of the motor deviating from any one of a plurality of safety state conditions prescribed by a plurality of set safety-monitoring parameter values, and the safety monitoring unit can treat the plurality of safety-monitoring parameter values as a value of a case when the rotation direction of the motor is a first direction or as a value of a case when the rotation direction of the motor is a second direction reverse to the first direction. The motor control device has a safety function being flexible in programming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Matsugami, Ryuichi Jimbo
  • Patent number: 11307553
    Abstract: A control device includes a first processor that acquires a synchronization signal that is generated every first period, and a second processor that generates a second period that is obtained by dividing the first period by n (n?1), generates a control signal, using a timer, every third period that is obtained by dividing the second period by m (m?2), where at least one of a plurality of control signals generated in the first period is a control signal that should be synchronous with the synchronization signal, and in a case where occurrence of an error between timings of the synchronization signal and the control signal that should be synchronous with the synchronization signal is detected, the second processor corrects the error by temporarily changing a width of the timer that is to be started at next and later times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11307023
    Abstract: A measurement system and method, which increases a degree of freedom for setting a measurement period and a transmission period of measurement values and has a high accuracy, are provided. The measurement system includes a control device and a measurement device that measures a measurement object in a first period and transmits measurement values obtained from the measurement device to the control device. The measurement device transmits the measurement values waiting to be transmitted and additional information including information of the number of the measurement values waiting to be transmitted to the control device using frames transmitted in a second period that is longer than the first period. The control device generates time series data in which the measurement values are arranged in time series using the additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Suzuki, Hiroshi Sawaragi, Tomonori Kondo
  • Patent number: 11307829
    Abstract: In the present invention, a map information table is displayed as a list on a display screen. The map information table associates a reference name field representing each of the plurality of device ports with a set value field for each device port. It is determined whether a set value has been written on the set value field for each of the device ports regarding a first program in a first programming language. Writing of a set value on the set value field is prohibited regarding a second program in a second programming language, which is different from the first programming language, for a device port for which it is determined that a set value has been written on the set value field regarding a first program in the first programming language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Maruno, Naoto Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20220113706
    Abstract: Information for addressing an incident depending on the incident is given. A control system includes a controller that performs a control operation for controlling an object to be controlled and a security component connected to the controller, the security component being responsible for a security function of the control system. The security component includes a collection module configured to collect state information indicating an operating state of the control system, a sensing module configured to sense an incident in the control system based on the collected state information, and a notification module configured to give information for addressing the sensed incident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi KATAOKA, Yuta NAGATA
  • Patent number: 11302022
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measurement system capable of realizing high-speed processing while increasing measurement resolution are provided. The system includes: an image capture unit including a first and second image capture units that are spaced apart; a first calculation unit calculates a parallax at first feature points in the images using distance information of a three-dimensional measurement method other than a stereo camera method or information for calculating a distance, using at least one of the first and second image capture units; and a second calculation unit calculates a parallax at second feature points based on a corresponding point for the second feature point by using the stereo camera method using the first and second image capture units, and specifies a three-dimensional shape based on the parallax at the first and second feature points. The second calculation unit sets a search area based on the parallax at the first feature points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ohnishi, Takashi Shimizu, Shinya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11301294
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor that executes a plurality of tasks including a control task and a non-control task that performs related processing related to real-time control, a multitask execution part that causes the processor to execute the tasks in a sequence based on priorities of the respective tasks, and a scheduler. The control task is set to have a highest priority. The scheduler sets the priority of the non-control task to a first priority when an execution start condition of the non-control task has been satisfied, keep the priority of the non-control task at the first priority while the period of time from the execution start is less than or equal to a first time period for executing the related processing in real time, and thereafter reduces the priority to a second priority when the period of time has exceeded the first time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Toku
  • Patent number: 11301978
    Abstract: An image generating part generating feature extraction images by applying an identification part, which has completed learning, that has executed learning in advance to extract features using learning image data to an inspection image, an inspection part specifying an area corresponding to a defect on the basis of judgment parameters for judging presence/absence of a defect in the inspection target object and a binary image generated on the basis of the feature extraction images, and a setting part calculating an image score based on a density of a color of pixels of a setting image using the setting image that is the binary image in which an area corresponding to the defect is specified and updating the judgment parameters such that a difference between an image score of the inside of the area and an image score of the outside of the area becomes relatively large are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Ikeda, Masashi Kurita