Patents by Inventor Koji Demachi
Koji Demachi 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).
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Patent number: 10693318Abstract: An energy management system, provided with: a collector that collects information regarding energy efficiency of a production apparatus and a processor that performs at least one of monitoring, simulation, and optimization of energy efficiency in production activity performed by the production apparatus, on the basis of the information regarding energy efficiency collected by the collector, using a modeling unit in which information regarding energy efficiency of a constituent element of the production apparatus is modeled on the basis of a predefined rule.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventor: Koji Demachi
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Publication number: 20170256986Abstract: An energy management system, provided with: a collector that collects information regarding energy efficiency of a production apparatus and a processor that performs at least one of monitoring, simulation, and optimization of energy efficiency in production activity performed by the production apparatus, on the basis of the information regarding energy efficiency collected by the collector, using a modeling unit in which information regarding energy efficiency of a constituent element of the production apparatus is modeled on the basis of a predefined rule.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Koji DEMACHI
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Patent number: 8539110Abstract: An apparatus in a distributed control system having a network interface and wireless gateway coupled to the network interface. The network interface is configured to communicate with a network. The wireless gateway includes a wireless gateway function block application process configured to map process information between a wireless network having at least one wireless field device and the network. The wireless gateway further includes a wireless network management component configured to manage access to the wireless network and at least one wireless field device function block application process configured to define a resource and input and output process information of the wireless field device.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Fieldbus FoundationInventors: David A. Glanzer, Marcos Peluso, Berry Mulder, Alexander Chernoguzov, Koji Demachi, Bill Tatum
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Patent number: 8130636Abstract: A communication control system is provided that performs communications satisfying a request for industrial applications and a request for open protocol communications at the same time. To this end, in the invention, a high-priority communication section performing critical communications to provide real time property and reliability, and a low-priority communication section performing communications based on an open standard protocol coexist in a same communication station.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2004Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Demachi, Hiromichi Ebashi, Kuniharu Akabane, Takeshi Nakajima, Kenji Habaguchi, Masayuki Murakami, Toyoaki Yokoi, Takeshi Hongo, Akinori Ishii, Sadatoshi Sogo
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Patent number: 8054850Abstract: A communication control system is provided that satisfies the needs of industrial applications in terms of real time properties, scalability and flexibility. For this purpose, the invention causes a communication station performing communications in accordance with a standard protocol to perform multiplex communications based on time division of a communication band. Communication is performed by dividing a communication cycle into time slots, and assigning a set of communication stations and a type of a communication section to each of the time slots.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2004Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Demachi, Hiromichi Ebashi, Kuniharu Akabane, Takeshi Nakajima, Takeshi Hongo, Toyoaki Yokoi, Kenji Habaguchi, Masayuki Murakami
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Patent number: 7999661Abstract: A signal relay device, a communication network system and an operation system include: a standardized logic interface conversion unit for judging a control system type or a device type and converting a signal to a signal appropriate for a communication network; or a device side logic interface conversion unit for converting a signal from the communication network to a signal appropriate for the control system type or the device type. An operation monitoring station includes a an advanced control block for the control system or the device and transmits a control signal to the communication network.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2005Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Isao Uchida, Masanori Noguchi, Toshiro Tomita, Tetsuo Hoshi, Koji Demachi, Toshiki Ogawa, Yoji Saito, Hirofumi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20090177289Abstract: An apparatus in a distributed control system having a network interface and wireless gateway coupled to the network interface. The network interface is configured to communicate with a network. The wireless gateway includes a wireless gateway function block application process configured to map process information between a wireless network having at least one wireless field device and the network. The wireless gateway further includes a wireless network management component configured to manage access to the wireless network and at least one wireless field device function block application process configured to define a resource and input and output process information of the wireless field device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2008Publication date: July 9, 2009Inventors: David A. Glanzer, Marcos Peluso, Berry H. T. Mulder, Alexander Chernoguzov, Koji Demachi, William F. Tatum, III
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Publication number: 20090040031Abstract: A signal relay device, a communication network system and an operation system include: a standardized logic interface conversion unit for judging a control system type or a device type and converting a signal to a signal appropriate for a communication network; or a device side logic interface conversion unit for converting a signal from the communication network to a signal appropriate for the control system type or the device type. An operation monitoring station includes a advanced control block for the control system or the device and transmits a control signal to the communication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2005Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Uchida, Masanori Noguchi, Toshiro Tomita, Tetsuo Hoshi, Koji Demachi, Toshiki Ogawa, Yoji Saito, Hirofumi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20080281991Abstract: A field device is connected to a communication apparatus installed in a communication system. The communication apparatus performs radio communication with a control apparatus which controls a plant where the field device is installed, in accordance with a standardized communication protocol, and relays the communication between the field device and the control apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2005Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiki Ogawa, Toshiro Tomita, Tetsuo Hoshi, Koji Demachi, Hirofumi Takahashi, Yoji Saito, Masanori Noguchi
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Publication number: 20080062954Abstract: A communication control system is provided that satisfies the needs of industrial applications in terms of real time properties, scalability and flexibility. For this purpose, the invention causes a communication station performing communications in accordance with a standard protocol to perform multiplex communications based on time division of a communication band. Communication is performed by dividing a communication cycle into time slots, and assigning a set of communication stations and a type of a communication section to each of the time slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2004Publication date: March 13, 2008Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Demachi, Hiromichi Ebashi, Kuniharu Akabane, Takeshi Nakajima, Takeshi Hongo, Toyoaki Yokoi, Kenji Habaguchi, Masayuki Murakami
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Publication number: 20070250182Abstract: A communication control system is provided that performs communications satisfying a request for industrial applications and a request for open protocol communications at the same time. To this end, in the invention, a high-priority communication section performing critical communications to provide real time property and reliability, and a low-priority communication section performing communications based on an open standard protocol coexist in a same communication station.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2004Publication date: October 25, 2007Applicant: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Demachi, Hiromichi Ebashi, Kuniharu Akabane, Takeshi Nakajima, Kenji Habaguchi, Masayuki Murakami, Toyoaki Yokoi, Takeshi Hongo, Akinori Ishii, Sadatoshi Sogo
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Publication number: 20070213996Abstract: A know-how service system capable of handling integrally a life cycle management extended from installment to operation, maintenance, and scrapping of various equipments in a facility such as a plant, a factory, a hospital, a school, a vessel, or the like by utilizing a know-how scattered and held individually via a network, includes a know-how service providing portion, a know-how service utilizing portion, a know-how service applying portion, and a network to which respective portions are connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2005Publication date: September 13, 2007Applicant: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiro Tomita, Tetsuo Hoshi, Koji Demachi, Toshiki Ogawa, Yoji Saito, Hirofumi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20050265269Abstract: A signal transmission apparatus, to which at least one field device is connected and which transmits a signal obtained from the field device to a host computer, has at least one input terminal to which a signal transmitted from the field device is inputted, a signal processing unit which generates a communication frame in conformity with a wireless communication protocol based on a signal inputted through the input terminal, and a wireless transmission unit which transmits by wireless the communication frame to the host computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2005Publication date: December 1, 2005Applicant: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Yoji Saito, Masanori Noguchi, Hirofumi Takahashi, Toshiki Ogawa, Koji Demachi, Toshiro Tomita, Tetsuo Hoshi