Patents Assigned to OMRON
  • Patent number: 11301122
    Abstract: Measurement data is managed such that the measurement data can be visualized and recorded in association with a condition set during servo control adjustment. The adjustment device obtains the parameter setting condition and measurement data in association with each other, and saves drawing information based on the measurement data and the setting condition as the same file content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajima, Mamoru Egi
  • Patent number: 11303821
    Abstract: An illumination device includes illumination units for irradiating light on an object and a substrate member, which is an example of a holding mechanism for detachably holding the illumination units according to a predetermined disposition rule. The substrate member has a connection part for electrically connecting with a controller. The substrate member holds a part of the illumination units by linking parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Inazumi, Jaewook Hwang, Yutaka Kato
  • Patent number: 11294057
    Abstract: A displacement sensor includes an emitting unit periodically emitting pulse signals; a receiving unit receiving reflection signals generated from the pulse signals and reflected by an object and outputs binary signals that indicate signal intensity of the received reflection signals; a waveform summation unit generating a summation waveform by accumulating temporal waveforms of the binary signals for the respective corresponding periods of time with reference to emission timings of the corresponding pulse signals; a distance calculation unit calculating a value that indicates a distance to the object on the basis of waveform features corresponding to waveform features of the pulse signals that appear in the summation waveform; and a reception signal amount calculation unit calculating a reception signal amount that is intensity of the reflection signals received by the receiving unit on the basis of feature amounts indicated by cumulative values that appear in the summation waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Iida, Ryosuke Tsuzuki, Shoichi Ohnaka, Koji Iguchi, Osamu Harada
  • Patent number: 11291375
    Abstract: A pulse wave detector includes a pulse wave detection sensor which is configured to detect a pressure pulse wave from an artery of a measurement subject, a pressing member which supports the pulse wave detection sensor and is configured to be moved in one direction to press the pulse wave detection sensor against a body surface of the measurement subject, a plurality of guiding members which are placed around the pulse wave detection sensor in a plan view as seen in the one direction and extend in the one direction, and a supporting member which supports the plurality of guiding members. The pressing member includes pass-through portions through which the plurality of guiding members are passed to be movable along the guiding members, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Reiji Fujita, Masayuki Fukutsuka
  • Patent number: 11295918
    Abstract: A first fixed terminal includes a first support portion and a first extending portion. The first support portion is located in a closing direction with respect to a movable contact piece. The first support portion supports a first fixed contact. The first support portion extends from the first fixed contact in a first lateral direction. The first lateral direction is one direction in a longitudinal direction of the movable contact piece. The first extending portion is connected to the first support portion. The first extending portion extends in the closing direction from the first support portion. The first extending portion is disposed apart from the movable contact piece in the first lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kawaguchi, Ryota Minowa, Hiroyuki Harimochi, Shinichi Ogawa, Kohei Otsuka, Hiroyuki Iwasaka
  • Publication number: 20220103045
    Abstract: A voice coil motor (VCM) according to one or more embodiments may include a casing, a permanent magnet, a yoke and iron-core, a bobbin, and a coil part. The coil part may include a drive and primary coil serving as a drive coil and a primary coil of a displacement sensor including a differential transformer, the drive and primary coil being interlinked with a magnetic flux by the permanent magnet, and two secondary coils of the displacement sensor. The yoke and iron-core may be disposed in a central space defined in the coil part, and serves as an iron core of the displacement sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuji KAWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220103057
    Abstract: A gimmick device according to one or more embodiments may include a gimmick and a voice coil motors (VCM). The VCM includes a casing, a permanent magnet, a yoke and iron-core, a bobbin, and a coil part. The gimmick is mounted to the casing on a movable side. The coil part includes a drive and primary coil serving as a drive coil and a primary coil of a displacement sensor including a differential transformer, the drive and primary coil being interlinked with a magnetic flux by the permanent magnet, and two secondary coils of the displacement sensor. The yoke and iron-core may be disposed in a central space defined in the coil part, and serves as an iron core of the displacement sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuji KAWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220100162
    Abstract: An object is to provide a function of managing data exchanged with an external device. A control device defines a publishing setting of a process value in accordance with information on one or both of an execution result of a control program and an operating state of the control device. The control device exchanges a data set including a part of one or more process values with the external device in accordance with the defined publishing setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta NAGATA
  • Patent number: 11287793
    Abstract: To read respective values as updated of a plurality of variables synchronization of which respective values is ensured while tasks are being carried out in a multi-tasking manner, a PLC 10 reads respective values as updated of variables A to C in such a manner as to complete reading the respective values as updated of the variables A to C during a time period from (i) a time point of a start of a single instance of a cycle of a task which cycle is shortest to (ii) a time point of an end of the single instance of the cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kojima, Takahiro Toku
  • Patent number: 11287805
    Abstract: Provided is a technology of enabling notification, to a user, that the state of a machine system has changed prior to occurrence of machine resonance, irrespective of the direction of a resonance frequency change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito Tanaka, Mamoru Egi
  • Patent number: 11289296
    Abstract: A relay has a first fixed contact, a second fixed contact, a movable touch piece including a first movable contact that is disposed facing the first fixed contact, and a second movable contact that is disposed facing the second fixed contact, the movable touch piece being disposed so as to be movable in a direction in which the first movable contact and the second movable contact come into contact with the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact and in a direction in which the first movable contact and the second movable contact separate from the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact, a holder configured to hold the movable touch piece, a drive shaft connected to the holder, and a drive device configured to move the drive shaft in a movement direction of the movable touch piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Minowa, Hiroyuki Iwasaka, Naoki Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11287940
    Abstract: A plurality of HMI projects is easily compared. A HMI development support device includes a calculation unit (11) and a display unit (14). A HMI editing program (210) is stored in a storage unit (12), and by executing this program, the calculation unit (11) functions as a HMI editing unit. The HMI editing unit performs editing of a HMI project. The display unit (14) displays an editing screen of the HMI project. The HMI editing unit has a comparison processing unit which forms a comparison screen for comparing a reference HMI project and the HMI project being edited, and displays the comparison screen on the display unit (14). On the comparison screen, the comparison processing unit highlights differences between the reference HMI project and the HMI project being edited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Shintaro Iwamura
  • Patent number: 11288886
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Kasai, Koichi Aida, Tomonari Imabayashi, Eizo Kitamura, Hideto Ohmae, Atsushi Sakuma, Minoru Fujino
  • Patent number: 11287789
    Abstract: A sequence control program and an HMI control program are synchronized and simulated. A program development support unit includes a calculation unit and a storage unit. A sequence control editing program for achieving a sequence control editing unit, an HMI control editing program for achieving an HMI control editing unit, and an integration simulation management program for achieving an integration simulation management unit are stored in the storage unit. The integration simulation management unit manages the synchronization of simulation of the sequence control program and simulation of the HMI control program. The integration simulation management unit executes variable management process. In the variable management process, common variables are exchanged between the sequence control program and the HMI control program during execution of the simulation of the sequence control program and the simulation of the HMI control program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Hasegawa, Shintaro Iwamura
  • Patent number: 11289282
    Abstract: A switch used in an operation device such as a mouse has flexibility, and includes a movable member in which a first end side is fixed as a swing fulcrum and a second end side swings, and a pressing member that presses a portion between the first end and the second end of the movable member by receiving a pressing force from an outside source. Bent portions that are bent in a swinging direction are formed in side portions of the movable member. When the movable member warps by being pressed by the pressing member, the bent portions resist against the warping of the movable member, and therefore an operator can have click feeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Fujino, Kenji Takahama, Yoshinori Ijiri, Kazufumi Osaki, Keigo Nakahata
  • Patent number: 11290024
    Abstract: A power supply control device according to one or more embodiments may be provided to: control a power conversion device that has a configuration in which a resonant circuit is provided on an output side of a matrix converter including switching circuits having snubber elements, and that performs AC-AC conversion of output from a multi-phase AC power supply. The power supply control device performs control such that: the output current, which has a phase difference caused by the resonant circuit, is negative during a period in which an absolute value of a positive-going output voltage that is output from the power conversion device increases while the output current is positive during a period in which the absolute value of a negative-going output voltage increases; and a polarity of the output current does not change within a period in which the snubber element is discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: OMRON Corporation, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tokusaki, Takashi Hyodo, Satoshi Ogasawara, Wataru Kodaka
  • Publication number: 20220092513
    Abstract: According to embodiments, a job performance support apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a calculation unit, a first generation unit, and a second generation unit. The calculation unit: acquires index data including index contents corresponding to first indices classified by an axis for classifying indices into a physical condition and a mental condition of a human resource, and a second index concerning a job performance result of the department; and calculates an evaluation value that evaluates the index contents from the index data. The first generation unit designates a display mode of the evaluation value for the first indices and the second index, and generate display data with which the evaluation value is associated, and the second generation unit generate support data including support measures corresponding to the first indices in accordance with a combination of the display data for the first indices and the second index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Fumihiko KUBO, Hiroko EBINE, Ritsuko NOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220088795
    Abstract: A manipulator controller according to one or more embodiments may include a tilt angle obtainer that obtains a tilt angle of a movable unit receiving a robot relative to a reference surface, a target position obtainer that obtains a target position of the robot on the movable unit having no tilt to the reference surface, a correction unit that corrects, based on the tilt angle obtained by the tilt angle obtainer and the target position obtained by the target position obtainer, the target position to a corrected target position in accordance with the tilt angle, and a control unit that controls an operation of the robot based on the corrected target position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Go AOKI
  • Publication number: 20220094615
    Abstract: Provided is a management device that makes it possible for a user of a device different from the management device to smoothly assist troubleshooting in the management device. A management device 3 is a management device that manages a network including one or more nodes, and includes: a data acquisition portion that generates first data in binary format which indicates a state of the network, and a data conversion portion 326 that converts the first data into second data in viewer format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji IKEO
  • Publication number: 20220091298
    Abstract: Provided is an air purge unit capable of removing contamination of a lens surface of a photoelectric sensor with a small air supply amount. This air purge unit 2 is provided with: a housing 30; an air supply port 31 for supplying air into the housing 30; and a plurality of air blow-out ports 32 arranged on a side wall of the housing 30 and blowing air to a lens surface 11a of a photoelectric sensor 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Jumpei NAKAMURA, Hirotaka NAKASHIMA