Patents by Inventor Ichiro WAKE

Ichiro WAKE 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).

  • Publication number: 20250217525
    Abstract: Implementations herein leverage knowledge about historical process automation facilities to automate designing a new process automation facility. A first level design input may be processed to generate a first embedding that encodes design aspect(s) of the requested process automation facility with a degree of detail commensurate with a first level of a hierarchy reflected by design documents typically used to design a process automation facility. The first embedding may be used to find first level reference embeddings that encode design aspects of reference process automation facilities. Second level reference embedding(s) may be identified based on mapping(s) from the selected first level reference embedding(s). Each second level reference embedding may encode design aspect(s) of a respective reference process automation facility with a degree of detail that is commensurate with a second level of the design document hierarchy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: David Emerson, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, Hidenori Sawahara, Mark Hammer
  • Publication number: 20250217526
    Abstract: Implementations herein leverage knowledge about historical process automation facilities to automate designing a new process automation facility. A first level design input may be processed to generate a first embedding that encodes design aspect(s) of the requested process automation facility with a degree of detail commensurate with a first level of a hierarchy reflected by design documents typically used to design a process automation facility. The first embedding may be used to find first level reference embeddings that encode design aspects of reference process automation facilities. Second level reference embedding(s) may be identified based on mapping(s) from the selected first level reference embedding(s). Each second level reference embedding may encode design aspect(s) of a respective reference process automation facility with a degree of detail that is commensurate with a second level of the design document hierarchy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: David Emerson, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, Hidenori Sawahara, Mark Hammer
  • Patent number: 12323339
    Abstract: Implementations are described herein for automatic deployment of function block application programs (FBAPs) across process automation nodes of a process automation system. In various implementations, one or more constraints associated with execution of a FBAP may be identified. Based on the one or more constraints, a process automation system that includes a plurality of process automation nodes may be analyzed. Based on the analysis, a subset of two or more process automation nodes on which to distributively deploy the FBAP may be selected from the plurality of processing node. In response to selecting the subset, the FBAP may be distributively deployed across the two or more process automation nodes of the subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidenori Sawahara, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, David Emerson, Mark Hammer
  • Publication number: 20250130560
    Abstract: An information providing system includes a control device and a managing device. The managing device includes an acquiring unit that receives first tag information regarding a first tag set to a first component of a first controller from a first system, and receives second tag information regarding a second tag set to a second component of a second controller from a second system and a change notification unit that detects whether an effective tag has changed from the first tag to the second tag based on the first tag information and the second tag information, and that notifies the control device of a detection result. The control device includes a setting change unit that changes an access destination to the effective tag to the second controller based on the detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Ichiro WAKE, Masaaki TABUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250004960
    Abstract: A controller includes a receiver that receives specification of identification information representing a number that identifies a relay device that is connected to a plurality of instruments or a number that identifies a cable that connects the relay device and the controller; a search unit that searches an instrumentation database that records the identification information and input-output information on the instruments that are connected to the relay device in association with each other for input-output information corresponding to the specified identification information; and a setting unit that sets the searched input-output information in an input-output module of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventor: Ichiro WAKE
  • Publication number: 20230129503
    Abstract: Implementations herein leverage knowledge about historical process automation facilities to automate designing a new process automation facility. A first level design input may be processed to generate a first embedding that encodes design aspect(s) of the requested process automation facility with a degree of detail commensurate with a first level of a hierarchy reflected by design documents typically used to design a process automation facility. The first embedding may be used to find first level reference embeddings that encode design aspects of reference process automation facilities. Second level reference embedding(s) may be identified based on mapping(s) from the selected first level reference embedding(s). Each second level reference embedding may encode design aspect(s) of a respective reference process automation facility with a degree of detail that is commensurate with a second level of the design document hierarchy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: David Emerson, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, Hidenori Sawahara, Mark Hammer
  • Publication number: 20230053594
    Abstract: Implementations are described herein for automatic deployment of function block application programs (FBAPs) across process automation nodes of a process automation system. In various implementations, one or more constraints associated with execution of a FBAP may be identified. Based on the one or more constraints, a process automation system that includes a plurality of process automation nodes may be analyzed. Based on the analysis, a subset of two or more process automation nodes on which to distributively deploy the FBAP may be selected from the plurality of processing node. In response to selecting the subset, the FBAP may be distributively deployed across the two or more process automation nodes of the subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hidenori SAWAHARA, Ichiro WAKE, Patrick CLAY, Vien NGUYEN, Dave EMERSON, Mark HAMMER