Patents by Inventor Maki Endo
Maki Endo 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: 11945120Abstract: A robot control device, abnormality diagnosis method, and non-transitory computer readable medium are provided. The robot control device (300) performs abnormality diagnosis of a robot body (200) including a motor (201) that rotates, from a starting angle position to a target angle position, a rotational shaft (204) for transmitting power to an arm (203) so that the arm performs a predetermined operation. The robot control device includes: a drive control unit (304) driving the motor so that the rotational shaft rotates from the starting angle position to the target angle position within a rotational speed range of the rotational shaft in which it is possible to detect a vibration component caused by an abnormality from among the vibration components generated along with the rotation of the rotational shaft; a vibration detection unit (305) detecting the vibration component; and a diagnosis unit performing abnormality diagnosis based on the detected vibration component.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yasumoto Mori, Maki Endo, Teruyuki Shiraki
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Patent number: 11850739Abstract: A deterioration degree of a robot body is precisely evaluated. A robot control device 300 includes: a drive control unit 309 controlling operation of a robot body 200; a detection unit 310 detecting a signal used for analysis of a feature amount quantitatively indicating a deterioration degree of the robot body 200 deteriorated over time as the robot body 200 is operated; a determination unit 304 determining whether a data section of the signal includes a constant speed section equal to or greater than a given section; a normalization unit 305 normalizing a signal in a non-constant speed section when the data section of the signal does not include the constant speed section equal to or greater than the given section; an analysis unit 307 analyzing the feature amount; and an estimation unit 308 estimating a remaining life of the robot body 200 based on the feature amount.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Teruyuki Shiraki, Maki Endo, Yasumoto Mori
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Patent number: 11465286Abstract: A remaining life of a robot body is precisely estimated. A robot control apparatus 300 includes: a drive control unit 305 that controls drive of a robot body 200; a detection unit 306 that detects a feature amount quantitatively indicating a deterioration degree of the robot body 200 that is deteriorated over time as the robot body 200 is driven; a determination unit 303 that determinates presence/absence of a sign of malfunction of the robot body 200 based on the feature amount; and an estimation unit 304 that estimates a remaining life of the robot body 200 when presence of a sign of malfunction of the robot body 200 is determined.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Maki Endo, Yasumoto Mori, Teruyuki Shiraki
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Patent number: 11366040Abstract: Degradation degree of a bearing mechanism is diagnosed. A diagnosis apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires measurement data relating to vibrations corresponding to a rotation of a bearing mechanism including rolling elements between an outer ring and an inner ring; an extraction unit that extracts a feature amount from a result of performing a frequency analysis on the measurement data; an estimation unit that estimates a size of a scratch generated on the outer ring or the inner ring based on a predetermined relationship between a change of the feature amount and a size of a scratch generated on the outer ring or the inner ring, and based on the feature amount extracted by the extraction unit; and an output unit that outputs an estimation result of the estimation unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Maki Endo, Teruyuki Shiraki
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Publication number: 20210078187Abstract: A deterioration degree of a robot body is precisely evaluated. A robot control device 300 includes: a drive control unit 309 controlling operation of a robot body 200; a detection unit 310 detecting a signal used for analysis of a feature amount quantitatively indicating a deterioration degree of the robot body 200 deteriorated over time as the robot body 200 is operated; a determination unit 304 determining whether a data section of the signal includes a constant speed section equal to or greater than a given section; a normalization unit 305 normalizing a signal in a non-constant speed section when the data section of the signal does not include the constant speed section equal to or greater than the given section; an analysis unit 307 analyzing the feature amount; and an estimation unit 308 estimating a remaining life of the robot body 200 based on the feature amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2019Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Teruyuki SHIRAKI, Maki ENDO, Yasumoto MORI
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Publication number: 20210072117Abstract: Degradation degree of a bearing mechanism is diagnosed. A diagnosis apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires measurement data relating to vibrations corresponding to a rotation of a bearing mechanism including rolling elements between an outer ring and an inner ring; an extraction unit that extracts a feature amount from a result of performing a frequency analysis on the measurement data; an estimation unit that estimates a size of a scratch generated on the outer ring or the inner ring based on a predetermined relationship between a change of the feature amount and a size of a scratch generated on the outer ring or the inner ring, and based on the feature amount extracted by the extraction unit; and an output unit that outputs an estimation result of the estimation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Maki ENDO, Teruyuki SHIRAKI
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Publication number: 20210016443Abstract: A remaining life of a robot body is precisely estimated. A robot control apparatus 300 includes: a drive control unit 305 that controls drive of a robot body 200; a detection unit 306 that detects a feature amount quantitatively indicating a deterioration degree of the robot body 200 that is deteriorated over time as the robot body 200 is driven; a determination unit 303 that determinates presence/absence of a sign of malfunction of the robot body 200 based on the feature amount; and an estimation unit 304 that estimates a remaining life of the robot body 200 when presence of a sign of malfunction of the robot body 200 is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Maki ENDO, Yasumoto MORI, Teruyuki SHIRAKI
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Publication number: 20200368908Abstract: A robot control device, abnormality diagnosis method, and non-transitory computer readable medium are provided. The robot control device (300) performs abnormality diagnosis of a robot body (200) including a motor (201) that rotates, from a starting angle position to a target angle position, a rotational shaft (204) for transmitting power to an arm (203) so that the arm performs a predetermined operation. The robot control device includes: a drive control unit (304) driving the motor so that the rotational shaft rotates from the starting angle position to the target angle position within a rotational speed range of the rotational shaft in which it is possible to detect a vibration component caused by an abnormality from among the vibration components generated along with the rotation of the rotational shaft; a vibration detection unit (305) detecting the vibration component; and a diagnosis unit performing abnormality diagnosis based on the detected vibration component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yasumoto MORI, Maki ENDO, Teruyuki SHIRAKI
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Patent number: 8977509Abstract: An operation information output device includes: a power data acquirer that acquires time-series data of a physical quantity consumed or generated when production equipment executes a process; a single-cycle detector that detects time-series data of predetermined duration from the time-series data acquired by the power data acquirer, and an operation information acquirer that acquires operation information of the production equipment by use of the time-series data detected by the single-cycle detector, hence it becomes possible to easily calculate and determine detailed operation information.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Kenji Yamamura, Hiroshi Saito, Shintaro Kitagawa, Taisuke Tateishi, Maki Endo, Chisato Nakashima
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Patent number: 8942934Abstract: A processing machine processes a work and repeats processes on the work, thereby consuming energy. Within the consumed energy, room for improvement is computed by an energy monitoring device and is referred to as an amount of energy that can be improved. An energy monitoring device includes a power data acquirer that acquires a time-series power data measured by a power meter, a cycle detector that detects a single-cycle power data from the power data acquired by the acquirer, a divider that divides the single-cycle power data detected by the detector into an added-value creating portion and an unproductive portion, and a computing unit that computes an amount of energy consumed in the unproductive portion divided by the divider and defines it as the amount of energy to be improved.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2011Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Omron CorporatinInventors: Shintaro Kitagawa, Taisuke Tateishi, Kenji Yamamura, Hiroshi Saito, Maki Endo, Chisato Nakashima
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Publication number: 20130268126Abstract: The air conditioning information estimation device estimates the amount of power consumed by an air conditioner which adjusts the temperature in a room based on a temperature set-point. The air conditioning information estimation device has a storage unit configured to store a temperature set-point, and a power consumption amount specification unit configured to specify the energy consumption amount of the air conditioner during a prescribed period during which the air conditioner performs air conditioning.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2011Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Taro Iwami, Kosuke Tsuruta, Maki Endo, Yumi Tsutsumi
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Publication number: 20120084030Abstract: A processing machine processes a work and repeats processes on the work, thereby consuming energy. Within the consumed energy, room for improvement is computed by an energy monitoring device and is referred to as an amount of energy that can be improved. An energy monitoring device includes a power data acquirer that acquires a time-series power data measured by a power meter, a cycle detector that detects a single-cycle power data from the power data acquired by the acquirer, a divider that divides the single-cycle power data detected by the detector into an added-value creating portion and an unproductive portion, and a computing unit that computes an amount of energy consumed in the unproductive portion divided by the divider and defines it as the amount of energy to be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro KITAGAWA, Taisuke TATEISHI, Kenji YAMAMURA, Hiroshi SAITO, Maki ENDO, Chisato NAKASHIMA
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Publication number: 20120084031Abstract: The invention is directed towards an equipment operation state measurer having a power data acquirer and an operation state determiner. The power date acquirer acquires power consumption of equipment changing according to an operation state of the equipment. Additionally, a cause inputter accepts an input of a stop cause of the equipment from an operator, with respect to a stopped state determined by the operation state determiner, and sets the stop cause of the stopped state based on the input. Also, a computing unit obtains electric energy consumption for each stop cause, by integrating a period during which the stopped state corresponding to the stop cause continues and the power consumption in the period during which the stopped state continues, and is capable of measuring duration of the stopped state and the electric energy consumption for each stop cause of the equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi SAITO, Maki ENDO
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Publication number: 20120078670Abstract: An operation information output device includes: a power data acquirer that acquires time-series data of a physical quantity consumed or generated when production equipment executes a process; a single-cycle detector that detects time-series data of predetermined duration from the time-series data acquired by the power data acquirer, and an operation information acquirer that acquires operation information of the production equipment by use of the time-series data detected by the single-cycle detector, hence it becomes possible to easily calculate and determine detailed operation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Yamamura, Hiroshi Saito, Shintaro Kitagawa, Taisuke Tateishi, Maki Endo, Chisato Nakashima