Patents Assigned to OMRON
  • Publication number: 20210408828
    Abstract: A power transmitter device of a non-contact power feeding device includes a transmitter coil configured to supply power to the power receiver device, a power supply circuit including a plurality of switching elements connected between a DC power supply and the transmitter coil in a full-bridge configuration or a half-bridge configuration. The power supply circuit may be configured to switch the plurality of switching elements to an on or off state at a switching frequency to convert DC power supplied from the DC power supply into AC power having the switching frequency and supply the AC power to the transmitter coil, and a phase control circuit including at least one LC series circuit connected to both ends of the transmitter coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Goro NAKAO, Kenichi TABATA, Yusuke KAWAI, Atsushi NOMURA, Takahiro TAKEYAMA, Masanobu NAKAJO
  • Patent number: 11208284
    Abstract: A banknote handling device is provided with which it is possible to constantly demonstrate sufficient device processing performance, and which prevents collisions between a transportation direction switching means and a banknote even when the operation speed of the transportation direction switching means changes. Accordingly, a paper sheet handling device for handling a plurality of paper sheets and switching the transportation direction includes: a transportation path for transporting at least one paper sheet and a transportation direction switching means for switching the direction of transportation of the paper sheet; and a paper sheet handling control means for controlling, in accordance with the constantly-changing operation speed of the transportation direction switching means, at least one of the operation timing of the transportation direction switching means, the speed of transportation of a paper sheet, and the distance between a paper sheet and a preceding paper sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI-OMRON TERMINAL SOLUTIONS, CORP.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kitauchi, Tooru Miyasaka, Junji Fujita
  • Patent number: 11209787
    Abstract: A method for controlling a field device coupled to an automation network, in which the field device has an associated tool device selected from a group of predetermined tool devices, includes the steps of: coupling the selected tool device to a control device having a physical port device; choosing a virtual link unit from a group of virtual link units included in the control device as a function of the selected tool device, wherein each of the virtual link units corresponds to one of the predetermined tool devices; and establishing a control link between the chosen control device and the selected tool device being associated to the field device via the physical port device using control data included in the chosen virtual link unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Arno Dijkhoff
  • Patent number: 11209790
    Abstract: An actuator control system includes: a transmission control unit configured to transmit final data, which is a final result of the computation by a sensor output computation unit, and to transmit intermediate data before transmitting the final data; and a command value computation unit configured to compute a command value for driving an actuator, based on the intermediate data and the final data transmitted by the transmission control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku Oya, Hiroyuki Yanagi, Yasuaki Abe, Yuki Taniyasu
  • Patent number: 11207780
    Abstract: A path planning apparatus is provided with a path planning unit that generates a path of a robot using a plurality of different path planning methods that respectively correspond to a plurality of different constraints determined from the posture of the robot and the characteristics of one or more obstacles that obstruct movement of the robot, an acquisition unit that acquires posture information indicating an initial posture of a robot for which a path is to be generated and a target posture of the robot, and obstacle information indicating a target obstacle that obstructs movement of the robot from the initial posture to the target posture, and a controller that controls the path planning unit so as to generate a path of the robot using a path planning method corresponding to a constraint determined from the posture information and the obstacle information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Moriya, Kennosuke Hayashi, Akane Nakashima, Takeshi Kojima, Haruka Fujii
  • Publication number: 20210394402
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a sensor. The sensor has a casing having an opening portion, a clamp having a recessed part on its outer periphery and having one end inserted into the opening portion, and a sealing ring attached to the recessed part and disposed between the casing and the clamp. The method includes using a first divided mold to form a first component of the clamp, the first component including a main body portion and a first part located at one end side of the main body portion and forming a part of the recessed part. The first divided mold is divided so that a dividing surface intersects the main body portion and separates in an axial direction of the main body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAYAMA, Daisuke INOUE, Yuki USHIRO, Takaaki SANDA, Hiroto KATSURA
  • Publication number: 20210397148
    Abstract: An analysis device according to one aspect of the present invention supplies a definition for a dependency relation between an input parameter and an output parameter of a standard function, which cannot be derived in a dependency analysis of a control program, the definition being supplied by use of function structure information which is external information. In other words, an analysis device according to this configuration identifies a dependency relation between an input parameter and an output parameter of the standard function on the basis of function structure information that defines a dependency relation between the input parameter and the output parameter of the standard function. Therefore, the dependency relation between the input and the output of a standard function becomes clear, so the dependency relations between a plurality of device variables that mediate the standard function can be identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya OTA, Reiko HATTORI, Kosuke TSURUTA, Akira NAKAJIMA, Shinsuke KAWANOUE
  • Publication number: 20210396926
    Abstract: A first light guide plate and a second light guide plate are arranged facing each other. A microprojection group comprising a plurality of microprojections is arranged in the visual recognition region of the surface facing the first light guide plate in the second light guide plate. The plurality of microprojections have a height and arrangement that ensure a distance where interference fringes are not visually recognized between the first light guide plate and the second light guide plate in contact with the second light guide plate. The microprojection group and the dimples configuring a design part formed on the second light guide plate are formed on an identical surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo IKEDA, Junya FUJITA, Jun KISHIMOTO, Masanori MORI, Mitsuru OKUDA
  • Patent number: 11206326
    Abstract: A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention performs a first step of determining a communication parameter value used for wireless communication with the external device by selecting one communication parameter set from a plurality of communication parameter sets each defining a communication parameter value or by receiving designation of a communication parameter value by a user, a second step of making a wireless communication attempt with the external device based on the determined communication parameter value, and a third step of reporting a result of the wireless communication attempt and terminal information of an own device to an external server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinori Matsui, Toshimasa Ietake
  • Publication number: 20210389744
    Abstract: A control system is provided with safety drivers having motion safety functions, a safety controller for outputting a safety command to the safety drivers according to a safety program, and with a support device, wherein the safety program includes information for disabling particular motion safety functions and wherein the support device includes: a reception unit for receiving a designation, given by a user, of enabling or disabling for each of the motion safety functions; a generation unit for generating the safety program in accordance with the designation; and a transfer unit for transferring the safety program to the safety controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke FUJIMURA, Fumiaki SATO
  • Publication number: 20210390194
    Abstract: A control device includes: a feature extraction unit that calculates one or more feature amounts from one or more state values; a processing unit that calculates a score based on the one or plurality of feature amounts calculated by the feature extraction unit with reference to a learning model; a determination unit that generates a determination result indicating whether any abnormality has occurred in a monitoring target based on the score; a first data storage unit that stores at least one of data related to processing in the feature extraction unit and data related to processing in the processing unit; a second data storage unit that stores an arbitrary state value capable of being referred to by the control device; and an authority management unit that restricts access to the first data storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ko KAWAI, Takahiro TOKU
  • Publication number: 20210389458
    Abstract: Provided are a sensor device and a detection method. The sensor device includes: a light emitting unit transmitting a transmission signal toward a target; a light receiving unit receiving a reflected signal of the transmission signal and generating a binarized signal; a TDC delay line measurement unit and a waveform integration unit generating waveform data indicating temporal changes in the binarized signal and integrating the waveform data to generate integrated waveform data; a stage number calculation unit and a distance conversion unit calculating a near-side distance value and a far-side distance value from intersections of the integrated waveform data and a high threshold value and a low threshold value, respectively; and a determination unit determining whether the target is present on the basis of a distance value calculated from the near-side distance value and the far-side distance value and on the basis of a predetermined distance threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shoichi OHNAKA, Kiyoshi IMAI, Yusuke IIDA, Ryosuke TSUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20210392062
    Abstract: The present invention acquires, from control data for an apparatus to be controlled in a normal operation, a relationship between a noise included in a reception signal from a cable and the apparatus to be controlled. An information processing device (13) is provided with a correlation derivation unit (13212, 13212d) for deriving a correlation value between a variation of a time-series data (1331) of a noise included in a signal input through a cable in a network and a variation of a time-series data (1332) of control data of an apparatus to be controlled (11, 16) in the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20210391047
    Abstract: A document creation apparatus includes a first unit that acquires health data indicating a user health condition, a second unit that acquires at least one of consciousness data indicating user health consciousness, environment data indicating an environment related to user health, or knowledge data indicating a knowledge level related to the user health, a determination unit that determines a type of the user health based on a position of a point corresponding to the data acquired by the first unit and the second unit in a space spanned by bases, the bases being a vector having the health data, and at least one vector of a vector having the consciousness data, a vector having the environment data, or a vector having the knowledge data, and a creation unit that creates document data for a document to be presented to the user according to the type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicants: OMRON Corporation, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seitaro MURA, Hiroshi USUI, Hirotaka WADA
  • Publication number: 20210389741
    Abstract: A control system includes one or a plurality of functional units, and a control device for exchanging communication data transmitted circularly among the functional units. The control device selects, in accordance with an instruction from a user or in accordance with a predetermined condition, one transfer system of a first transfer system in which a computation processing unit transfers the communication data and a second transfer system in which a DMA controller transfers the communication data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi IWAMI
  • Patent number: 11202197
    Abstract: Provided is a portable control device (100) comprising: a storage unit (105) for storing control data that includes a program for controlling a system and data used for the program; and a position control unit (104) for acquiring the position of the device itself. The portable control device (100) includes a main control unit (103) for deleting control data from the storage unit (105) when the position acquired by the position control unit (104) is outside a first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehiko Sekimoto, Yuta Nagata
  • Patent number: 11199822
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control device that executes model predictive control related to a predetermined control target corresponding to an actual target device which is an actual target of servo control in order to cause an output of the actual target device to track a predetermined command. The control device includes: an integrator which receives input of a deviation between the predetermined command and an output of the predetermined control target; and a model predictive control unit which has a prediction model that defines a correlation between a predetermined state variable and an input to the predetermined control target in a form of a predetermined state equation, and which performs model predictive control based on the prediction model according to a predetermined evaluation function in a prediction section having a predetermined time width using the output of the integrator as an input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Egi
  • Patent number: 11201023
    Abstract: A change-over switch includes a swing member configured to swing in response to an operation from the outside, a contact member configured to swing about the swing axis identical to the axis of the swing member and including a plurality of movable contacts extending in different directions, and a substrate on which a fixed contact is formed, the fixed contact configured to contact the plurality of movable contacts of the contact member. In the change-over switch, the movable contact that contacts the fixed contact formed on the substrate is changed over by swinging of the contact member in conjunction with swinging of the swing member. A switch device includes a power source switch configured to open and close a circuit which supplies electric power to a power load, and a change-over switch configured to change over electric power supplied to the power load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Koyama, Kazufumi Osaki, Akira Ueno
  • Patent number: 11199024
    Abstract: A key accessory has a low-cost and simple structure and allows a user to easily confirm on the spot that the user has performed locking even in a place where the user has gone out. A key accessory to be attached to surfaces of a holding part of a key includes: a deforming member configured to be deformed by a holding force applied when the user carries out a locking operation with the key; and a restoring member configured to cause the deforming member having a shape after having been deformed by the holding force to restore to its original shape before the deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Ike, Yasuhiro Yawata
  • Patent number: 11199993
    Abstract: There has been desired a technology for performing a publishing setting of a variable to an external device more easily. A development assistance device provides a development tool configured to develop a user program for controlling a controller. The user program includes at least one variable belonging to a predetermined namespace. The development tool is configured to accept, for the namespace, a publishing setting for causing the controller to determine whether to publish the variable belonging to the namespace to an external device that is communicatively connected to the controller. A communication interface transfers the user program and the publishing setting to the controller on the basis of acceptance of transfer operation of the user program by the development tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiaki Konishi, Yuta Nagata