Patents Assigned to OMRON
  • Patent number: 11270852
    Abstract: Provided is an electromagnetic relay including a case, a first fixed contact terminal including a first fixed contact, a second fixed contact terminal including a second fixed contact, and a movable touch piece including, on one surface of the movable touch piece, a first movable contact and a second movable contact configured to come into and out of contact in a contact-making and breaking direction. The first fixed contact terminal includes a facing portion disposed facing the other surface of the movable touch piece with a gap provided between the facing portion and the movable touch piece, and at least part of the facing portion lies over the movable touch piece in plan view in the contact-making and breaking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Mori, Ryota Minowa
  • Patent number: 11271506
    Abstract: A control device and a control method for an induction motor. The control device comprises: a magnetizing current adjusting unit used for calculating a magnetizing voltage instruction; a torque current adjusting unit used for calculating a torque voltage instruction; a flux linkage instruction angle generating unit calculating a flux linkage instruction angle according to a lower limit ?1th of a preset stator frequency, a stator frequency ?1, and a flux linkage estimation angle; and a motor stator voltage instruction calculating unit calculating, according to the magnetizing voltage instruction, the torque voltage instruction, and the flux linkage instruction angle, a stator voltage instruction for controlling a stator of the motor. The control system can be run outside an unstable area, and the stability of control by the control device is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yutao Wang, Shaofeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11266317
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device is equipped with a pressing surface which is formed with pressure sensors, an air bag for pressing the pressing surface toward a radius artery that runs under a skin of a living body; an air bag drive unit for controlling the pressing force of the air bag, and a control unit for calculating blood pressure values in the radius artery on the basis of pressure pulse waves that were detected by all of the pressure sensors in a process that the pressing force was increased or decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura, Masayuki Fukutsuka, Daizo Oka, Naomi Matsumura, Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Masayuki Wakamiya
  • Patent number: 11269313
    Abstract: A controller includes a processor and a communication circuit. The controller controls an object of control by sequentially repeating, on a predetermined control cycle, the transmission of the output data, the reception of the input data, and execution of a control program for generating the output data using the input data. In the transmission of the output data, the processor executes: storing of the output data in a frame, the output data having been generated by the execution of the control program in a previous control cycle; and control of the communication circuit such that the frame, in which the output data is stored, is transmitted to the object of control. The processor executes, in a current control cycle, at least a part of the storing of the output data in a frame that is to be executed in a next control cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yoneda, Shigenori Sawada, Yasunori Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11266349
    Abstract: A sphygmomanometer includes a cuff and a main body. The main body is equipped with a substrate, a pump and a pressure sensor that are attached to one surface of the substrate, and a plate-shaped member opposed to an other surface of the substrate on an opposite side of the one surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a first through-hole and a second through-hole. The other surface of the substrate and an opposing surface of the plate-shaped member opposed to the other surface constitute the planar direction passage extending in a planar direction along the other surface of the substrate. The planar direction passage communicates with a fluid bag of the cuff. The sphygmomanometer further includes a pressurization controller and a blood pressure calculator. The pressurization controller controls pressing the measured site through the planar direction passage. The blood pressure calculator calculates a blood pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Mizuno, Tomoyuki Nishida, Hirokazu Tanaka, Noboru Kohara
  • Publication number: 20220067584
    Abstract: A model generation apparatus according to one or more embodiments may include: a generating unit that generates data using a generation model; a transmitting unit that transmits the generated data to a plurality of trained identification models that each have acquired, by machine learning using local learning data, a capability of identifying whether given data is the local learning data, and causes the identification models to perform an identification on the data; a receiving unit that receives results of identification with respect to the transmitted data executed by the identification models; and a learning processing unit that trains the generation model to generate data that causes identification performance of at least one of the plurality of identification models to be degraded, by performing machine learning using the received results of identification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo YONETANI
  • Publication number: 20220066404
    Abstract: A control device includes a control component that performs model predictive control for each control period using a dynamics model representing a relationship between a manipulated variable and the position of a controlled object to generate a manipulated variable to be output to the servo driver. The dynamics model includes a first dynamics model representing a relationship between the manipulated variable and a position of a servomotor, and a second dynamics model representing a relationship between the position of the servomotor and the position of the controlled object. The second dynamics model is created using a waveform parameter extracted from a vibration waveform of the controlled object. The waveform parameter includes a vibration frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki NAMIE, Yukio INAME, Yoshimasa USUI
  • Publication number: 20220066033
    Abstract: Without requiring that threshold values be set for each measurement condition, the present invention makes it possible to determine whether noise that can occur in measured values is present. An optical measurement device acquires measured values on the basis of the amount of reflected light that is received after being reflected by a target. The optical measurement device comprises a setting part for setting a threshold value for the amount of received reflected light per unit time on the basis of feature information regarding the light amount of the optical measurement device and a determination part for determining whether there is measured value noise on the basis of the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke KAJII, Tomonori KONDO
  • Publication number: 20220066028
    Abstract: Provided are a sensor unit and function activation method that make it possible to collectively activate the functions of a plurality of sensor units. A sensor unit 10, which can be connected to other sensor units 10 to form a unit series, comprises an activation unit 64 for activating a prescribed function on the basis of a signal from the outside and a signal output unit 65 for outputting a trigger signal for activating a prescribed function to the outside on the basis of a signal from the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki TATEHATA, Yusuke SHIBASAKI, Kiyohiko GONDO
  • Patent number: 11260223
    Abstract: A low-frequency treatment device and a treatment system with enhanced user convenience. An acquisition unit acquires an atmospheric pressure of a position where the low-frequency treatment device is located (step S102), a determination unit determines whether the atmospheric pressure is less than a threshold (step S104), and a treatment portion increases an intensity of low frequency treatment if the atmospheric pressure is less than the threshold (step S108).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Samejima, Yui Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11264132
    Abstract: A terminal device configured to be able to communicate with a measuring device for measuring biological information includes a first processing unit executing the processing of a first application and a second processing unit executing the processing of a second application. The first processing unit stores biological information acquired from the measuring device. The second processing unit determines whether the second application is able to use biological information, based on specifying information for specifying an application able to use biological information and the identification information of the second application. When the second application is able to use biological information, the second processing unit reads out biological information from the biological information storage unit and outputs the read biological information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshinori Matsui
  • Patent number: 11262238
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wavelength detection device (10) provided with: a plurality of optical filters (12a, 12b); a splitting unit (11) which splits light and allows the split light to pass through each of the plurality of optical filters (12a, 12b); a plurality of light receiving elements (13a, 13b) which detect the intensities of different beams of light which have passed through the optical filters, respectively; and a calculation unit (16) which calculates, from the outputs of the plurality of light receiving elements, physical quantities related to the transmittances of the plurality of optical filters, and calculates the wavelengths of the beams of light which have passed through the plurality of optical filters, on the basis of the transmittance characteristics, wherein the transmittance characteristics of the plurality of optical filters have an inclination section in different wavelength ranges of the wavelength range of the object to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Kimura, Masayuki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 11259713
    Abstract: A biological information measurement device includes: a pulse wave detection unit that continuously detects pulse waves from a living body; a biological information calculation unit that calculates biological information based on pulse waves detected by the pulse wave detection unit and stores, in a storage medium, biological information calculation results information including said biological information; a storage control unit that stores, in the storage medium, pulse wave detection results information by the pulse wave detection unit in order to calculate biological information included in biological information calculation results information; a measurement efficiency information generation unit that generates measurement efficiency information indicating measurement efficiency for biological information included in biological information calculation results information, generating same based on the biological information calculation results information and pulse wave detection results information; and a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Naoki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11262193
    Abstract: This three-dimensional measurement device includes: a light source, a lens guiding light from the light source to a subject, a photomask disposed on the optical axis between the light source and lens and having a predetermined pattern, a driving device changing the position of one member from the lens and photomask or changing an optical characteristic of the lens, and a control unit controlling the driving device. The control unit fixes an image formation position for light/dark pattern light formed by the photomask at the position of the subject by fixing the position of said member or the optical characteristic of the lens when specifying a first mode, and varies the position of the member or the optical characteristic of the lens to vary the image formation position for the light/dark pattern light such that the light/dark difference caused by the light/dark pattern light is smaller than in the first mode when specifying a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Motoharu Okuno, Hitoshi Nakatsuka
  • Publication number: 20220058525
    Abstract: A model integration apparatus according to one or more embodiments may include a model collecting unit that collects trained learning models from a plurality of learning apparatuses, an integration processing unit that executes integration processing of integrating the results of machine learning reflected in an integration range set in the common portion, with respect to the trained learning models, and a model updating unit that transmits a result of the integration processing to the learning apparatuses. The model updating unit may further update the trained learning models retained by the learning apparatuses by causing the learning apparatuses to each apply the result of the integration processing to the integration range in the trained learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo YONETANI, Masaki SUWA, Hiroyuki MIYAURA
  • Publication number: 20220058276
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to reduce threats to the security of a control unit. This controller system is provided with: a control unit that performs a control calculation for controlling a controlled object; and a security unit that is responsible for security. The control unit comprises: a first interface that brokers data exchange with an external device; a communication controller that is responsible for communication with the security unit; and a restriction means that restricts data from being exchanged with the external device via the first interface if a connection between the control unit and the security unit is detected via the communication controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke WAKABAYASHI, Yuta NAGATA
  • Patent number: 11255963
    Abstract: A sensing device detects an object in a blind spot in a surrounding environment of a mobile body. The sensing device includes a distance measurer, a detector, a controller, and a state receiver. The distance measurer acquires distance information indicating a distance from the mobile body to the surrounding environment. The detector detects the object in the blind spot. The controller controls operation of the detector. The state receiver acquires condition information indicating a state relating to slipperiness of the mobile body on a road surface on which the mobile body travels. The contoller detects the blind spot in the surrounding environment, based on the distance information acquired by the distance measurer. The controller controls precision at which the detector is caused to detect the object in the blind spot, according to the condition information acquired by the state receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshitake, Keiki Matsuura, Yoshitaka Tsurukame
  • Patent number: 11254355
    Abstract: An electronic control device controls an electronic power steering apparatus including a motor configured to assist steering of a steering wheel provided in a vehicle and a torque sensor configured to detect a steering torque applied to the steering wheel. The electronic control device includes: a torque current control unit that sets a first current command value to be supplied to the motor according to a value of the steering torque applied to the steering wheel; a differential control unit that calculates a torque differential value as a differential value of the steering torque and sets a second current command value according to the torque differential value and a rotation speed of the motor; and a command value calculation unit that calculates a motor current command value to be supplied to the motor based on the first current command value and the second current command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Kashiyama, Tomohiro Sakata, Yoshihisa Yamada
  • Patent number: 11255733
    Abstract: An environment sensor includes a heat generation component, a first sensor and a second sensor disposed such that conductive heat resistances between the first sensor and the heat generation component and between the second sensor and the heat generation component are different from each other, and a controller. The first sensor and the second sensor are capable of measuring a predetermined physical quantity. The first sensor and the second sensor obtain a measured value from the predetermined physical quantity. The measured value fluctuates depending on ambient temperature. The controller is configured to correct the measurement value of one of the first sensor and the second sensor based on the measurement value of the first sensor and the measurement value of the second sensor when the predetermined physical quantity is measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Kayo Nakamura, Naotsugu Ueda, Ryusuke Sakai, Hiroyuki Mino, Yuhei Motoki, Shuichi Misumi
  • Patent number: D945376
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa Yamaji, Heita Nada