Patents Assigned to OMRON
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Publication number: 20210161341Abstract: An autonomous traveling floor cleaner is disclosed that improves cleaning efficiency. A floor cleaner may include a suction nozzle that suctions suction matter collected by a rotary brush, an extension nozzle that suctions suction matter collected by an extension brush, and a collection box for collecting, through an inlet, the suction matter suctioned by the nozzles. The floor cleaner may have an elongated profile. The extension nozzle may be switchable between a retracted posture and a lateral cleaning posture. The extension nozzle in the lateral cleaning posture may be pivotable rearward. The extension nozzle in the lateral cleaning posture may have a protruding end in the width direction to be aligned with an end of a turning range of the floor cleaner in the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Tomokazu IMAE, Atsushi MIZOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210165676Abstract: A technique is provided for performing shutdown of a virtualization system. A control unit of a server may be configured with instructions to perform operations comprising operation as a first management unit that manages shutdown of a plurality of virtual machines that operate on a hypervisor, and a second management unit that, when all of the virtual machines are shut down, shuts down the server, and the first management unit, upon acquiring information indicating that shutdown of a virtual machine is completed, executes shutdown of another virtual machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventor: Tetsuo YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11021333Abstract: A method for allowing even a user with little experience in robot operation to be able to perform correct calibration is provided. A mobile device displays one or more patterns at predetermined positions and transmits information indicating a touch position to a control device according to touching applied to the touch position in a state that the patterns are displayed. The control device calculates a parameter set based on an image measurement result obtained by a visual sensor when the mobile device is disposed in an image visual field in a state that the patterns are displayed, a touch position when the mobile device is touched by a robot, and a distance between a position of the mobile device when disposed in the imaging visual field and a position when the mobile device is touched by the robot.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Junji Shimamura, Yosuke Iwai, Akiro Kobayashi, Taku Oya
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Patent number: 11024476Abstract: A push-button switch may include a housing, an operation unit, a lock lever unit, a transmission mechanism, a movement regulating portion, a contact mechanism, and a first biasing portion. The movement regulating portion enables movement of a lever body to a second position when an end of the operation unit on a housing portion side is positioned at an initial position, and disables movement of the lever body to the second position when the end of the operation unit on the housing portion side is positioned closer to an operation surface than the initial position in a movable direction. The first biasing portion biases the plunger from an operating position toward a return position.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Tadahiko Ogawa, Kazuaki Morita, Yusuke Komoguchi, Masami Nishida
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Patent number: 11022624Abstract: An environmental sensor including a plurality of sensor elements that measure a plurality of physical quantities associated with a surrounding environment detects moving of an environmental sensor based on an illuminance and a change in the illuminance among the plurality of physical quantities, and transmits an alert signal to a user when the moving of the environmental sensor is detected.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kayo Nakamura, Naotsugu Ueda, Ryusuke Sakai, Takanobu Yamauchi
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Patent number: 11020012Abstract: A flow rate control apparatus includes a flow rate detection unit that detects the flow rate of a fluid flowing through a solenoid valve, a correlation storage unit that stores a correlation between a flow start point voltage at which the fluid starts to flow through a sample solenoid valve, which has substantially the same characteristic as the solenoid valve, and a limit voltage at which the sample solenoid valve is fully open, and a control unit that, when starting control of the flow rate of the fluid, changes the driving voltage of the solenoid valve, obtains the driving voltage at a time when the start of flowing of the fluid is detected as the flow start point voltage, and uses the correlation for the sample solenoid valve to set the driving voltage of the solenoid valve within a range between the flow start point voltage and the limit voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hironori Sato, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Toshihiko Ogura, Yoshihiko Sano, Takeshi Kubo, Gaku Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11022560Abstract: An image inspection device which can image an object with a plurality of cameras in a state in which the object is optimally illuminated and which can also be downsized is provided. The image inspection device includes a plurality of imaging parts that image the object, an illumination part that is disposed between the object and the plurality of imaging parts and radiates light toward the object and has a light-transmissive property, and a control part that controls the plurality of imaging parts and the illumination part. The illumination part includes a plurality of illumination elements which are arranged in a matrix and are allowed to be turned on independently. The control part controls the plurality of illumination elements to cause the illumination part to illuminate a region of the object corresponding to a field of view of the plurality of imaging parts.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventor: Yutaka Kato
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Patent number: 11023706Abstract: A measurement system includes a first distance calculation unit that searches for a corresponding region, indicating a same array as an array of codes indicated by a predetermined number of reference patterns included in a unit region set in the projection pattern, from a set of the codes, and calculates a distance from an irradiation reference surface of the projection pattern to each portion of the object on the basis of a search result of the corresponding region, and a second distance calculation unit that attempts to estimate a distance for the defective portion for which the first distance calculation unit is not able to calculate the distance by reconstructing an incomplete code corresponding to the defective portion using peripheral information in the input image.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Nakatsuka, Toyoo Iida
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Patent number: 11020009Abstract: According to an embodiment, a user terminal includes a processor; a blood pressure sensor; and a temperature sensor. The processor is configured to control whether or not to enable transmission of the blood pressure data obtained by the blood pressure sensor based on whether or not any of at least one transmission condition is satisfied; and transmit the blood pressure data when the transmission of the blood pressure data was enabled. The transmission condition include a condition satisfied when a fluctuation of temperature in a latest unit time of measurement time of the blood pressure data exceeds a threshold, the temperature being indicated by the temperature data obtained by the temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Nakajima, Hirotaka Wada, Tamio Ueda, Daisuke Nozaki
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Patent number: 11025190Abstract: Provided is a motor control device generating a torque command such that a detection speed of a motor matches a command speed, and controlling the motor. The motor control device includes: a torque command differential component taking a differential of the torque command and obtaining a torque command differential value; a motor actual speed second order differential component taking a second order differential of the detection speed of the motor and obtaining a motor jerk; and a runaway detection component determining that the motor is in a runaway state in a case where an abnormal state in which a sign of the motor jerk and a sign of the torque command differential value do not match continues for a predetermined time or more. Accordingly, the runaway of the motor can be detected in a short time while the erroneous detection can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventor: Yasushi Ono
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Patent number: 11023335Abstract: An abnormality of a computer is diagnosed accurately. A CPU writes an event log into an event log part. When a WDT detects an abnormality of the CPU, a backup part writes backup data into a backup data part. The backup part associates the event log with the backup data and adds a number of starts of the CPU to the backup data.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masaichi Takai, Takamasa Mioki
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Publication number: 20210159839Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masakazu MATSUGAMI, Ryuichi JIMBO
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Publication number: 20210157293Abstract: The junction device includes a first error detection means that detects a transmission error by monitoring the periodic reception of a first communication frame, and a state switching means that switches, when a transmission error is detected by the first error detection means, a state of the junction device to either a first state in which the signal output from all of the functional units connected to the junction device is disabled or a second state in which the signal output from some of the functional units connected to the junction device is continuously updated based on the configuration of each functional unit connected to the junction device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventor: Shigenori SAWADA
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Publication number: 20210159731Abstract: A power transmission device 2 for a non-contact power supply device 1 has: a transmission coil 14; a coil 15 connected in series to the transmission coil 14 without joining to a reception coil 21 during power transmission, said reception coil being included in a resonance circuit 20 for a power reception device 3; a power supply circuit 10 that supplies, to the transmission coil 14, AC power having a switching frequency at which the transmission coil 14 does not resonate; and a control circuit 19 that controls the switching frequency and voltage of the AC power supplied to the transmission coil 14 and controls whether or not both ends of the coil 15 are short-circuited.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2018Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: Omron CorporationInventors: Goro Nakao, Yusuke Kawai, Atsushi Nomura, Toshiyuki Zaitsu
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Publication number: 20210160322Abstract: A sensor management unit according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a sensing data acquisition portion configured to acquire sensing data obtained by a sensor observing a target; a metadata generating portion configured to generate, for the acquired sensing data, metadata indicating an attribute of the sensor; an identification code generating portion configured to generate a first identification code for identifying the sensing data, and a second identification code for identifying the metadata; and a communicating portion configured to transmit, to an external device, at least one of the sensing data to which the second identification code is added and the metadata to which the first identification code is added.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2018Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Tetsuji YAMATO, Takeshi NAITO, Toshihiko ODA, Taiji YOSHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20210157285Abstract: The disclosure provides an additional learning device, an additional learning method, and a storage medium. The additional learning device includes: an acquisition unit acquires information based on data observed in a control object which is controlled by an instruction in accordance with an output from a previously learned model outputting an objective variable with respect to an explanatory variable. A determination unit determines whether or not the explanatory variable corresponding to the information acquired by the acquisition unit exists as learning data of the model, that is, whether or not the explanatory variable is unknown. When the explanatory variable is determined to be unknown by the determination unit, an additional learning unit acquires the objective variable corresponding to the unknown explanatory variable, correlates the unknown explanatory variable and the acquired objective variable, and additionally learns the model.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yuki UEYAMA, Yoshiki ITO, Yasuaki ABE, Shuji INAMOTO, Nobuyuki SAKATANI
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Publication number: 20210156677Abstract: A light-projecting and image-capturing part may include at least a first unit, and a second unit. A pattern storage part may store predetermined pattern. A calculation part may select target pixels from captured images of a measurement object and may calculate three-dimensional positions of the target pixels based on a predetermined pattern in captured images and predetermined pattern stored in the pattern storage part. A light-projecting and image-capturing part may project a first patterned light and a second patterned light individually onto the measurement object, and may capture images of the measurement object, onto which the first patterned light and the second patterned light are individually projected, with a first image capturing part and a second image capturing part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Xingdou FU, LIN MIAO
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Patent number: D920924Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Morita, Yusuke Komoguchi, Tadahiko Ogawa, Masami Nishida
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Patent number: D920925Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Morita, Yusuke Komoguchi, Tadahiko Ogawa, Masami Nishida
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Patent number: D920926Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Morita, Yusuke Komoguchi, Tadahiko Ogawa, Masami Nishida