Patents by Inventor Keiichi Teranishi

Keiichi Teranishi 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: 11054879
    Abstract: The present invention achieves high speed safe response performance. A safety controller (100) includes a first voltage monitoring circuit (12) and a second voltage monitoring circuit (22). The first voltage monitoring circuit (12) is an AD converter which operates upon receiving electric power from a second electric power source (21) and which transmits, to a second MPU (20), a signal that gives notification of occurrence of an anomaly in a first voltage value. The second voltage monitoring circuit (22) is an AD converter which operates upon receiving electric power from a first electric power source (11) and which transmits, to a first MPU (10), a signal that gives notification of occurrence of an anomaly in a second voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Teranishi, Daisuke Yagi, Akihiro Yonezawa, Shotaro Koga
  • Patent number: 10962959
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to stop the power supply to a specified device among a plurality of devices to be supplied with power, and maintain the power supply to the other device. An IO-Link master is provided with: an upper-level communication control unit which receives a specification of a device to which the power supply is to be stopped; and a power supply control unit which controls a device power supply switching unit corresponding to the device to which the power supply is to be stopped, to stop the power supply to said device while maintaining the power supply to the other device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kitamura, Toshiyuki Ozaki, Keiichi Teranishi
  • Publication number: 20200249741
    Abstract: The present invention achieves high speed safe response performance. A safety controller (100) includes a first voltage monitoring circuit (12) and a second voltage monitoring circuit (22). The first voltage monitoring circuit (12) is an AD converter which operates upon receiving electric power from a second electric power source (21) and which transmits, to a second MPU (20), a signal that gives notification of occurrence of an anomaly in a first voltage value. The second voltage monitoring circuit (22) is an AD converter which operates upon receiving electric power from a first electric power source (11) and which transmits, to a first MPU (10), a signal that gives notification of occurrence of an anomaly in a second voltage value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi TERANISHI, Daisuke YAGI, Akihiro YONEZAWA, Shotaro KOGA
  • Publication number: 20180239338
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to stop the power supply to a specified device among a plurality of devices to be supplied with power, and maintain the power supply to the other device. An IO-Link master is provided with: an upper-level communication control unit which receives a specification of a device to which the power supply is to be stopped; and a power supply control unit which controls a device power supply switching unit corresponding to the device to which the power supply is to be stopped, to stop the power supply to said device while maintaining the power supply to the other device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KITAMURA, Toshiyuki OZAKI, Keiichi TERANISHI
  • Patent number: 8887000
    Abstract: A safety device of the invention includes at least one of an input unit having one or more input terminals and an output unit having one or more output terminals, a testing unit having one or more test terminals, a rewritable nonvolatile memory configured to store setting information of a terminal specification which can be set from outside via the tool, and wherein the terminal specification of the one or more test terminals included in the testing unit is determined in accordance with the setting information of the terminal specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Teranishi, Yasuo Muneta, Chiaki Koshiro, Naoaki Ikeno, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Hiromu Suganuma, Asahi Matsui, Katsufumi Yoshida, Shohei Fujiwara, Takehiko Hioka
  • Patent number: 7882059
    Abstract: To smoothly reproduce data. A clip generation section 104 generates a clip information file that describes attribute information of each piece of essence data that are necessary to reproduce each piece of essence data generated by a data generation section 103 according to parameter information supplied from an information obtainment section 102. An index file update section 105 generates in an index file read from an optical disc 17 and stored in a RAM a clip element that describes attribute information of a clip necessary to reproduce the clip according to the parameter information supplied from the information obtainment section 102 and updates the index file. The present invention can be applied to a video program creation support system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Hirose, Takayoshi Kawamura, Hirofumi Murakami, Yoshiho Gotoh, Keiichi Teranishi, Tatsushi Bannai
  • Patent number: 7783902
    Abstract: A safety controller of building block type has an array of a plurality of IO units each including IO circuits and a single IO unifying unit connectable to these IO units. The IO unifying unit has an IO power-receiving terminal for receiving power from an external IO power source and an IO power distributing terminal for distributing the received power to the array of IO units after passing inside the IO unifying unit. The array of IO units includes distribution mains extending along the array and having a starting end connected to the IO power distributing terminal and distribution branch lines for supplying power to each of the IO circuits inside the IO units. An IO power shutoff circuit is provided to the IO unifying unit on upstream side of the IO power distributing terminal and to each of the distribution branch lines in each of the IO units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakamura, Keiichi Teranishi
  • Patent number: 7555353
    Abstract: This invention provides an input device of safety unit which enables an error diagnosis result referred to in a process of input processing for generating a control data from raw input signal to be referred by a side using the control data also in a safety unit such as a safety master and safety slave. An input device contains a function of outputting status data indicating the error diagnosis result referred to when input signal is converted to control data and the control data obtained by the conversion in pair, so that when the logical value of the control data is “LOW”, whether it originates from that the raw logical value is “LOW” or that “LOW” is compulsorily set due to an error in the terminal can be determined from the logical value of the status data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Teranishi, Yasuo Muneta, Chiaki Koshiro, Naoaki Ikeno, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Hiromu Suganuma, Asahi Matsui, Katsufumi Yoshida, Shohei Fujiwara, Takehiko Hioka
  • Patent number: 7380996
    Abstract: A camera platform for installing a camera in the inside of an automobile is designed in such a manner that even when a camera is rotated to capture rearward images, the camera does not interfere with a room mirror. Since the shaft of a rotation portion is divided into a rotation shaft and a ball shaft, an arm part of the camera platform is rotated without the necessity of rotating the camera main body in the vicinity of the room mirror, so that it becomes possible to carry out rearward image capturing operations. Moreover, since the rotation shaft of the arm part is designed to be offset from the camera attaching center line by 20 mm, it becomes possible to prevent a cable extending from above the camera from contacting with an arm attachment part of a mount, even when the camera is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Kouchi, Kazumi Teratani, Hisao Kobayashi, Keiichi Teranishi
  • Publication number: 20070285950
    Abstract: A safety controller of building block type has an array of a plurality of IO units each including IO circuits and a single IO unifying unit connectable to these IO units. The IO unifying unit has an IO power-receiving terminal for receiving power from an external IO power source and an IO power distributing terminal for distributing the received power to the array of IO units after passing inside the IO unifying unit. The array of IO units includes distribution mains extending along the array and having a starting end connected to the IO power distributing terminal and distribution branch lines for supplying power to each of the IO circuits inside the IO units. An IO power shutoff circuit is provided to the IO unifying unit on upstream side of the IO power distributing terminal and to each of the distribution branch lines in each of the IO units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakamura, Keiichi Teranishi
  • Publication number: 20070255727
    Abstract: To smoothly reproduce data. A clip generation section 104 generates a clip information file that describes attribute information of each piece of essence data that are necessary to reproduce each piece of essence data generated by a data generation section 103 according to parameter information supplied from an information obtainment section 102. An index file update section 105 generates in an index file read from an optical disc 17 and stored in a RAM a clip element that describes attribute information of a clip necessary to reproduce the clip according to the parameter information supplied from the information obtainment section 102 and updates the index file. The present invention can be applied to a video program creation support system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Inventors: Masaki Hirose, Takayoshi Kawamura, Hirofumi Murakami, Yoshiho Gotoh, Keiichi Teranishi, Tatsushi Bannai
  • Publication number: 20070192697
    Abstract: To allow the determination of whether data can be reproduced to be easily performed. When a plurality of clips generated by a photographing process are connected as an edit, an edit list management section 15 identifies encoding systems of a plurality of clips (video files) to be connected and writes the identified encoding systems to an edit list file that manages an edited result. An optical disc 30 on which a clip, an edit list file, and so forth have been recorded is loaded into another reproduction apparatus. When a command that causes an edited result recorded on the optical disc 30 to be reproduced is input to the other reproduction apparatus, the reproduction apparatus reads encoding systems written in the edit list file and determines whether the encoding systems are systems for which that the reproduction apparatus can decode data. In this manner, the reproduction apparatus determines whether it can reproduce the edited result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Takayoshi Kawamura, Hideki Ando, Hideaki Mita, Keiichi Teranishi, Tatsushi Bannai
  • Publication number: 20060271833
    Abstract: This invention provides an input device of safety unit which enables an error diagnosis result referred to in a process of input processing for generating a control data from raw input signal to be referred by a side using the control data also in a safety unit such as a safety master and safety slave. An input device contains a function of outputting status data indicating the error diagnosis result referred to when input signal is converted to control data and the control data obtained by the conversion in pair, so that when the logical value of the control data is “LOW”, whether it originates from that the raw logical value is “LOW” or that “LOW” is compulsorily set due to an error in the terminal can be determined from the logical value of the status data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Keiichi Teranishi, Yasuo Muneta, Chiaki Koshiro, Naoaki Ikeno, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Hiromu Suganuma, Asahi Matsui, Katsufumi Yoshida, Shohei Fujiwara, Takehiko Hioka
  • Publication number: 20060259837
    Abstract: A safety device of the invention includes at least one of an input unit having one or more input terminals and an output unit having one or more output terminals, a testing unit having one or more test terminals, a rewritable nonvolatile memory configured to store setting information of a terminal specification which can be set from outside via the tool, and wherein the terminal specification of the one or more test terminals included in the testing unit is determined in accordance with the setting information of the terminal specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Keiichi Teranishi, Yasuo Muneta, Chiaki Koshiro, Naoaki Ikeno, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Hiromu Suganuma, Asahi Matsui, Katsufumi Yoshida, Shohei Fujiwara, Takehiko Hioka
  • Publication number: 20060110155
    Abstract: A camera platform for installing a camera in the inside of an automobile is designed in such a manner that even when a camera is rotated to capture rearward images, the camera does not interfere with a room mirror. Since the shaft of a rotation portion is divided into a rotation shaft and a ball shaft, an arm part of the camera platform is rotated without the necessity of rotating the camera main body in the vicinity of the room mirror, so that it becomes possible to carry out rearward image capturing operations. Moreover, since the rotation shaft of the arm part is designed to be offset from the camera attaching center line by 20 mm, it becomes possible to prevent a cable extending from above the camera from contacting with an arm attachment part of a mount, even when the camera is rotated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Kouchi, Kazumi Teratani, Hisao Kobayashi, Keiichi Teranishi
  • Patent number: 5592398
    Abstract: A multiple channel multiplexing apparatus has a data compressor portion for producing compressed data, and a data expander portion for expanding the received compressed data. The data compressor portion has a data compression circuit for data compressing digital audio data and outputting the resulting data blocks, a sub-block divider for dividing the data blocks output from the data compression circuit into sub-blocks, a sub-block ID flag adding circuit for adding a sub-block identification flag identifying the sub-block arrangement, a multiplexer for generating sub-block groups by combining a plural channel group of sub-blocks with the added sub-block identification flags, and multiplexing the sub-block groups to the digital audio interface format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Terauchi, Keiichi Teranishi, Mitsuhiro Kazahaya, Katsuyuki Taguchi