Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Iriguchi

Hiroshi Iriguchi 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: 11435716
    Abstract: An information collecting device controls a plant based on process data acquired from controllers and field devices connected to the controllers. The information collecting device includes an arithmetic controller and an update controller. The arithmetic controller collects first information which is engineering information of the plant and second information which is device information from a controller, a field device or a combination of both selected from the controllers and the field devices. The update controller generates third information based on a definition in which the first information and the second information are set in advance, and updates the third information in a storage based on a preset update cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iriguchi, Eiji Nagai, Masatoshi Takubo, Jisong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11075828
    Abstract: An information collecting system collects information associated with (i) a controller connected to a control network and (ii) a host device connected to an information network located at a level higher than the control network, and includes a management device and an information collecting mediation device. The management device is connected to the information network, collects information associated with the host device, transmits an acquisition request for information associated with the controller to the information network, and manages the collected information associated with the host device and information associated with the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Nagai, Hiroshi Iriguchi, Masatoshi Takubo
  • Patent number: 10783117
    Abstract: An engineering apparatus that is used for supporting engineering of facilities in an industrial plant according to one aspect of the present invention includes a storage storing a first data file group including first data files, the first data files including element information indicating one or a plurality of functional blocks that are constituent elements of a control logic for controlling operation of the industrial plant, a processor configured to change the element information included in the first data files, and a determiner configured to acquire a second data file group including second data files, the second data files including the changed element information in another engineering apparatus, extract differential files including the changed element information from each of the first data file group and the second data file group, and determine whether there is mismatching between functional blocks indicated by the element information included in the differential files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Kambe, Hiroshi Iriguchi, Takaaki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20190094832
    Abstract: An information collecting device controls a plant based on process data acquired from controllers and field devices connected to the controllers. The information collecting device includes an arithmetic controller and an update controller. The arithmetic controller collects first information which is engineering information of the plant and second information which is device information from a controller, a field device or a combination of both selected from the controllers and the field devices. The update controller generates third information based on a definition in which the first information and the second information are set in advance, and updates the third information in a storage based on a preset update cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iriguchi, Eiji Nagai, Masatoshi Takubo, Jisong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190097906
    Abstract: An information collecting system collects information associated with (i) a controller connected to a control network and (ii) a host device connected to an information network located at a level higher than the control network, and includes a management device and an information collecting mediation device. The management device is connected to the information network, collects information associated with the host device, transmits an acquisition request for information associated with the controller to the information network, and manages the collected information associated with the host device and information associated with the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Nagai, Hiroshi Iriguchi, Masatoshi Takubo
  • Patent number: 10191477
    Abstract: A modification management system for a configuration system, includes, not limited to a comparator, a record generator and a link generator implemented in one or more processors. The comparator is configured to determine if a first modification item in a first instruction file is modified. The record generator is configured to create a first record and to store the first modification item in a first record when the first modification item is determined, by the comparator, to be modified. The link generator configured to generate a first link between the first record and the first instruction file, wherein the first instruction file is configured to define at least one modification item for the configuration system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iriguchi, Alexander Yap, Ka Wai Kathy Chu
  • Publication number: 20180231960
    Abstract: An engineering apparatus that is used for supporting engineering of facilities in an industrial plant according to one aspect of the present invention includes a storage storing a first data file group including first data files, the first data files including element information indicating one or a plurality of functional blocks that are constituent elements of a control logic for controlling operation of the industrial plant, a processor configured to change the element information included in the first data files, and a determiner configured to acquire a second data file group including second data files, the second data files including the changed element information in another engineering apparatus, extract differential files including the changed element information from each of the first data file group and the second data file group, and determine whether there is mismatching between functional blocks indicated by the element information included in the differential files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Kambe, Hiroshi Iriguchi, Takaaki Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9851712
    Abstract: A configuration system, for a process control system configured to perform process control, the configuration system includes, not limited to, a) an editor configured to perform one of generate and update one of a definition module and an application module, wherein a set of the definition module and the application module comprises control logic and design data for a part of an industrial plant. The editor includes, not limited to, a-1) a definition module generator configured to generate or update one of a definition module control logic and an application module control logic based on the definition module design data. The editor is implemented by one or more processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Kambe, Alexander Yap, Wilfred Woon Yew Teo, Hideki Murata, Prakash Mariappan, Acelython Ordillo Navarro, Hiroshi Iriguchi
  • Publication number: 20170123410
    Abstract: A modification management system for a configuration system, includes, not limited to a comparator, a record generator and a link generator implemented in one or more processors. The comparator is configured to determine if a first modification item in a first instruction file is modified. The record generator is configured to create a first record and to store the first modification item in a first record when the first modification item is determined, by the comparator, to be modified. The link generator configured to generate a first link between the first record and the first instruction file, wherein the first instruction file is configured to define at least one modification item for the configuration system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi IRIGUCHI, Alexander YAP, Ka Wai Kathy CHU
  • Patent number: 9513621
    Abstract: A manipulation monitoring device includes a first storage unit that stores screen information of a manipulation monitoring screen prepared for each manipulation monitoring area of a plant, a second storage unit that stores relevance information indicating logical relevance of process elements constituting a process realized in the plant, a display unit that displays the manipulation monitoring screen according to the screen information stored in the first storage unit as a first manipulation monitoring screen, a search unit that searches the first storage unit based on the relevance information stored in the second storage unit to obtain the screen information related to the first manipulation monitoring screen displayed on the display unit, and a display control unit that performs display control to cause a second manipulation monitoring screen according to the screen information obtained by the search unit to be displayed on the display unit with the first manipulation monitoring screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iriguchi, Mihoko Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160132048
    Abstract: A configuration system, for a process control system configured to perform process control, the configuration system includes, not limited to, a) an editor configured to perform one of generate and update one of a definition module and an application module, wherein a set of the definition module and the application module comprises control logic and design data for a part of an industrial plant. The editor includes, not limited to, a-1) a definition module generator configured to generate or update one of a definition module control logic and an application module control logic based on the definition module design data. The editor is implemented by one or more processors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro KAMBE, Alexander YAP, Wilfred, Woon Yew TEO, Hideki MURATA, Prakash MARIAPPAN, Acelython Ordillo NAVARRO, Hiroshi IRIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20120242629
    Abstract: A manipulation monitoring device includes a first storage unit that stores screen information of a manipulation monitoring screen prepared for each manipulation monitoring area of a plant, a second storage unit that stores relevance information indicating logical relevance of process elements constituting a process realized in the plant, a display unit that displays the manipulation monitoring screen according to the screen information stored in the first storage unit as a first manipulation monitoring screen, a search unit that searches the first storage unit based on the relevance information stored in the second storage unit to obtain the screen information related to the first manipulation monitoring screen displayed on the display unit, and a display control unit that performs display control to cause a second manipulation monitoring screen according to the screen information obtained by the search unit to be displayed on the display unit with the first manipulation monitoring screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iriguchi, Mihoko Tanaka