Patents by Inventor Hirokazu KIKUTA

Hirokazu KIKUTA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11703833
    Abstract: A server that is a program providing device includes: a provision processing unit that provides a program part constituting a control program being a program to be executed in a controller; an authentication unit that authenticates an operation simulation module being a program for simulatively performing operation in accordance with the program part on a basis of a result of verification on whether or not the operation simulation module can simulate operation of the controller to be performed by execution of the program part; and an operation checking unit that checks operation of the program part by using the authenticated operation simulation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamaoka, Chisato Ushida, Kenji Mine, Hirokazu Kikuta
  • Publication number: 20230185267
    Abstract: A malfunction analysis support program causes a computer to perform a log data acquisition step, an action reproduction step, a three-dimensional data display step, a processing step being at least one of a program operation display step, a waveform display step, or a video display step, and a time synchronization step. The log data acquisition step obtains log data temporally sequentially recording a state of an operational part and input-output data of a control signal. The action reproduction step generates action reproduction simulation data obtained by causing a virtual object-to-be-controlled to reproduce an action based on the log data. The three-dimensional data display step displays the action reproduction simulation data as three-dimensional data. The time synchronization step synchronizes time between three-dimensional data displayed by the three-dimensional data display step and data displayed by the processing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki YAMAOKA, Motohiko NAKAMURA, Kenji MINE, Hirokazu KIKUTA
  • Publication number: 20230011646
    Abstract: A server that is a program providing device includes: a provision processing unit that provides a program part constituting a control program being a program to be executed in a controller; an authentication unit that authenticates an operation simulation module being a program for simulatively performing operation in accordance with the program part on a basis of a result of verification on whether or not the operation simulation module can simulate operation of the controller to be performed by execution of the program part; and an operation checking unit that checks operation of the program part by using the authenticated operation simulation module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki YAMAOKA, Chisato USHIDA, Kenji MINE, Hirokazu KIKUTA
  • Publication number: 20220092558
    Abstract: A maintenance assistance device includes a database in which maintenance assistance data is entered, an information obtaining unit to obtain, from a production facility, problem identification information indicating a problem having occurred in the production facility, an information retrieval unit to retrieve, from a plurality of pieces of maintenance assistance data entered in the database, maintenance assistance data corresponding to problem identification information obtained by the information obtaining unit, and a display control unit to display, on a display unit, a measure-taking method for a problem indicated by problem identification information obtained by the information obtaining unit, and a location of problem-causing factor, the location being the position of a target component on which the measure-taking method is implemented in the production facility, on the basis of maintenance assistance data retrieved by the information retrieval unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji MINE, Chisato USHIDA, Hirokazu KIKUTA, Takayuki YAMAOKA