Patents Assigned to OMRON
  • Publication number: 20220032462
    Abstract: A robot hand, and a robot hand control method and program are provided that are capable of performing an assembly task at high speed while alleviating shock between a gripped object (20) and an assembly target object (22). A robot hand (100) includes a hand (12), a displacement sensor (14), an estimation section, and a controller (16). The hand (12) includes an anti-slip mechanism at a contact portion with the gripped object (20) and a mechanism capable of anisotropic movement in three degrees of freedom under external force. The displacement sensor (14) is configured to detect a displacement amount of the hand (12) when an external force has been applied to the hand (12) from a state of mechanical equilibrium existing prior to application of the external force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Kawakami, Yukihisa Karako
  • Publication number: 20220032460
    Abstract: A robot control device includes: a first acquisition unit to acquire path information relating to a path of a robot and speed information relating to a speed the robot moves on the path; a second acquisition unit to acquire specification information relating to a specification of the robot; a determination unit to determine a segment where an action time of the robot is shortened even when a waypoint is added on the path; a correction unit to correct the path of the robot so as to make inertia of the robot smaller in a segment where an action time of the robot is shortened; a computation unit to compute a load acting on a joint of the robot; and an adjustment unit to adjust a control amount for controlling an acceleration of the robot joint such that the load computed by the computation unit satisfies a target load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Hosomi, Akane Nakashima, Akihiro Suzumura, Ryoichi Kuratani, Takeshi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20220035601
    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: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya HIROTA
  • Patent number: 11235478
    Abstract: In the disclosure, a failure of a device performing work while moving is more reliably detected while the data amount of failure diagnosis data is reduced. The disclosure includes a frequency analyzing part which performs a frequency analysis on acquired data from an acceleration sensor; a maximum frequency detecting part which detects a maximum frequency from a result of the frequency analysis; and a failure diagnosis data generating part which sets a frequency twice or more of the maximum frequency as a sampling frequency, samples the acquired data from the acceleration sensor, and generates the failure diagnosis data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekatsu Nogami, Yahiro Koezuka, Yoshimitsu Nakano, Arata Kataoka
  • Patent number: 11234596
    Abstract: An information processing device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a receiver configured to receive a packet for one-way communication including data from an external device, an application execution unit configured to execute an application which processes the data, and an intermittent reception parameter adjustment unit configured to adjust an intermittent reception parameter for controlling an intermittent reception operation of the receiver so that when the application is operating in a background, a duty ratio of the intermittent reception operation is smaller than when the application is operating in a foreground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Kubo, Toru Deno, Hideki Kondo
  • Patent number: 11240441
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, device, system and computer-program product for setting a lighting condition when an object is checked and a storage medium. The method includes that: the object is lighted by light sources capable of changing lighting parameters specifying the lighting condition when the object is captured, and the object with corresponding label data is captured by an image sensor under multiple such lighting parameters to obtain multiple captured images; estimation images of the object are generated on the basis of image data sets obtained by associating the captured images and the corresponding lighting parameters; and the estimation images and the corresponding label data are applied to learning of the machine learning model, and the lighting condition is set on the basis of a comparison result between an estimation result of a machine learning model and the label data. Therefore, operations are simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Naruse, Masashi Kurita
  • Patent number: 11237543
    Abstract: A control system includes a control device. The control device has a first communication unit and a second communication unit respectively connected to distinct networks distinct from each other, and a timer that manages a time-indicative value. The control device collects first communication data transmitted and/or received by the first communication unit, associates the collected first communication data with a value indicating a time point at which this communication data is transmitted and/or received, and stores the resulting first communication data. The control device collects second communication data transmitted and/or received by the second communication unit, associates the collected second communication data with a value indicating a time point at which this communication data is transmitted and/or received, and stores the resulting second communication data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yoichi Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11234603
    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 first axis based on DC components of pressure detecting elements included in element rows. Then, in a state where the sensor section is controlled to the optimal pitch angle, the sensor section is pressed against the body surface, and a pulse wave is detected based on pressure signals detected by pressure detecting elements in this state, and vital information is calculated based on the detected pulse wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura
  • Patent number: 11237644
    Abstract: A character input device according to one or more embodiments may include a controller including a suggestion controller and a display controller, and a database. The database stores a normal predictive conversion suggestion, a group including a plurality of group conversion suggestions each having a common element, and a symbol representing an attribute that classifies the plurality of group conversion suggestions by a characteristic different from the common element in the group. The suggestion controller may detect a reading of an input character and detects, in response to the reading of the input character at least partially matching a name of the group, the symbol representing the attribute of the group. The display controller may display the normal predictive conversion suggestion and the symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Ichikawa, Mieko Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11231301
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a housing and a sensor component mounted in the housing. The housing has two or more vents. The sensor component is located on a path connecting two of the vents. The sensor component may include a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, or a microphone. The sensor component may be located on a path connecting two vents in substantially facing surfaces of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Naotsugu Ueda, Kayo Nakamura, Ryusuke Sakai
  • Patent number: 11231270
    Abstract: The optical measuring device includes a light source that outputs light of a plurality of wavelengths; a sensor head including a conversion lens that converts light incident via a light guide part, which includes a plurality of cores, into parallel light, and an objective lens that irradiates the light in which chromatic aberration is generated to a measurement object; and a spectroscope that acquires reflected light reflected by the measurement object and condensed by the sensor head via the light guide part and measures a spectrum of the reflected light. In the sensor head, a shield that shields light is arranged between the conversion lens and the objective lens to inhibit light emitted from one core among the plurality of cores included in the light guide part from entering cores other than the one core as the reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Okuda, Mariko Marukawa, Hisayasu Morino
  • Publication number: 20220019197
    Abstract: A synchronous control device (10) includes a spindle control part (11a) and a driven shaft control part (11b). The driven shaft control part (11b) includes a driven shaft command position variation suppression part (114) which generates as a driven shaft command phase (Ps) a projected driven shaft command phase obtained by adding an advance angle amount (Pa) corresponding to a spindle speed to a spindle phase (Pm) in a case where a sign of the spindle speed is reverse from a previous period, and generates as the driven shaft command phase (Ps) a value in which a sign of a shift from the driven shaft command phase in the previous period is not reverse from the sign of the spindle speed in a predetermined case where the sign of the spindle speed is not reverse from the previous period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke MATSUNAGA, Toru KOGAWARA, Junji SHIMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11226814
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to prevent a conflict between variable names and unintended overwriting of data when a plurality of programs that define shared variables exist. A compiler device (12) includes: an identifier acquisition part (121a) for acquiring an identifier of a first user program; a shared variable name generation part (121b) for generating a shared variable name that includes a variable name of a shared variable and the identifier; a conversion part (121c) for converting the first user program to machine language; and an address determination part (122a) for determining an address of the shared variable. The address determination part (122a) associates the shared variable name and the address of the shared variable with each other and embeds these in the first user program that has been converted to machine language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Wataru Arai
  • Patent number: 11227731
    Abstract: A switch includes a housing, a movable member reciprocable in a movement direction relative to the housing and including an operation part located at an end of the movable member outside the housing, and a guide that guides the movable member in the movement direction. The operation part has a plurality of slopes extending linearly from the operation surface toward a distal end of the movable member outside the housing, sloping away from a central axis of the movable member toward the operation surface, and sloping in directions intersecting with one another as viewed in the movement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Kuroki, Yuya Kudo, Kenji Takahama
  • Patent number: 11226233
    Abstract: A confocal measuring apparatus (1) includes a light source (10), an optical system (30) configured to receive reflected light from a measurement surface, a light guide part (20) into which a plurality of cores including a first core (26) and a second core (28) is built and configured to propagate the reflected light by the plurality of cores, a displacement amount measurement part (40) including a spectroscope (42) configured to separate the reflected light propagated by the first core into each wavelength components and a detector (44) having a plurality of light receiving elements arranged to correspond to a spectral direction by the spectroscope, and a peripheral image measurement part (60) configured to form an image of the reflected light propagated by the second core on the plurality of image pickup elements and to generate a peripheral image with respect to a measurement position of the measurement surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Furukawa, Takahiro Suga, Hiroaki Takimasa
  • Patent number: 11226611
    Abstract: A control device includes: a physical first communication port that connects to a first network—to which an information processing device belongs; a physical second communication port that connects to a second network to which the drive device belongs; and a storage device that stores a user program created for controlling the drive device. The user program includes a filtering function for switching a filtering condition in accordance with a setting for the filtering condition that is input during execution of the user program. The filtering condition is used for determining whether or not to transmit communication data received from one device to another device. The one device is one of the drive device and the information processing device. The other device is the other of the drive device and the information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yoichi Kurokawa
  • Publication number: 20220011092
    Abstract: Provided is a confocal sensor having a wider measuring range. A confocal sensor 1 comprises: a light source 10 that emits light at a plurality of wavelengths; a diffractive lens 130 that causes a chromatic aberration with respect to the light along an optical axis and focuses the light onto an object 200 without another intervening lens; a pinhole 120 through which reflected light passes, the reflected light being a portion of the light that was focused onto and reflected from the object 200 and focused by the diffractive lens 130; and a measuring unit 40 that measures the distance from the diffractive lens 130 to the object 200 on the basis of a wavelength of the reflected light. A distance L2 from the pinhole 120 to the diffractive lens 130 is variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hisayasu MORINO, Jun TAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220011735
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to solve the new problem of appropriately protecting a control apparatus and a controller system including the control apparatus against a security event possible to occur. The support apparatus includes: a forming/editing part, providing a user interface for forming or editing a user program defining contents of the control arithmetic operation executed by the control apparatus; and an output part outputting the user program formed via the user interface provided by the forming/editing part. The forming/editing part provides a user interface receiving selection of a change instruction for changing a behavior of the security monitoring device carried out by executing the security protection process as an instruction constituting the user program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yutaka TAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220011736
    Abstract: Upon receipt of a signal indicating occurrence of anomalies, an information processor displays the nature of the anomalies. The information processor accepts for each anomaly, an input operation for assignment of a worker who is to handle an anomaly. Based on the assignment, the information processor notifies a terminal device of the worker of the nature of the anomaly to be handled by the worker. The terminal device displays contents of a remedy for the anomaly. The terminal device transmits progress information to the information processor. The information processor displays the progress information. The information processor further accepts an input operation for updating the assignment of a worker who is to handle the anomaly. Based on the assignment updated, the information processor notifies the terminal device of the worker of the nature of the anomaly to be handled by the worker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro ISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220007951
    Abstract: According to the present invention, blood pressure surges are detected from time-series data on blood pressure of a subject that varies with pulsation based on predetermined determination criteria. For each blood pressure surge thus detected, an envelope connecting a plurality of pulse-corresponding peaks forming the blood pressure surge is acquired as an individual waveform. Statistical processing is performed on a plurality of individual waveforms to obtain a representative waveform and waveform variation among the blood pressure surges in the time-series data. On a display screen, a curve indicating the representative waveform is displayed with the curve superimposed on a region indicating the waveform variation among the blood pressure surges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicants: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ayako KOKUBO, Mitsuo KUWABARA, Shingo YAMASHITA, Kazuomi KARIO