Patents by Inventor Masakazu MATSUGAMI

Masakazu MATSUGAMI 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: 20230259093
    Abstract: To provide a drive system provided with a plurality of control units configured to control electric motors, in which a wiring line is further simplified, the wiring line allowing a signal related to stopping of the electric motor to be input to the drive system. The drive system includes a plurality of control units each controlling a corresponding electric motor according to a command supplied from a host device via a first wiring line, a management unit including an input port that receives input of a first signal related to stopping of the electric motor, and a second wiring line that connects the management unit to the plurality of control units and is different from the first wiring line. The management unit distributes the first signal input to the input port to each of the plurality of control units via the second wiring line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Megumu ASANO, Masakazu MATSUGAMI, Takao UEMURA, Ryuichi JIMBO
  • Patent number: 11309825
    Abstract: Provided is a motor control device comprising a motor control unit and a safety monitoring unit. The motor control unit switches a rotation direction of a motor with respect to an input instruction in accordance with a set motor-control rotation-direction specified value. The safety monitoring unit monitors, on the basis of a position or speed of the motor, a state of the motor deviating from any one of a plurality of safety state conditions prescribed by a plurality of set safety-monitoring parameter values, and the safety monitoring unit can treat the plurality of safety-monitoring parameter values as a value of a case when the rotation direction of the motor is a first direction or as a value of a case when the rotation direction of the motor is a second direction reverse to the first direction. The motor control device has a safety function being flexible in programming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Matsugami, Ryuichi Jimbo
  • Publication number: 20220035330
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to reduce a load associated with transfer of parameters. A control system is equipped with first and second controllers connected to a network, and a drive apparatus for driving a motor in accordance with an instruction from the first controller. The drive apparatus includes a memory that stores a safety program for implementing a safety function, and a parameter group referenced by this program. The second controller transmits an instruction related to work of the safety function to the drive apparatus. A support apparatus capable of being connected to the network generates the parameter group, and reduces a size of the parameter group when this parameter group is transferred to the drive apparatus in order that the parameter group can be restored by the drive apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji SUZUKI, Fumiaki SATO, Ryosuke FUJIMURA, Yoshihide Tamura, Masakazu MATSUGAMI, Yu TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210399659
    Abstract: An electromagnetic brake controller for controlling a negative-actuated electromagnetic brake includes an output terminal connectable to the electromagnetic brake and a brake control section that outputs, through the output terminal, a brake control signal to be provided to the electromagnetic brake. The brake control section outputs a brake control signal for releasing the electromagnetic brake in response to a normal brake command and a safety brake command both indicating ON and outputs a brake control signal for applying the electromagnetic brake in response to at least one of the normal brake command or the safety brake command indicating OFF. The electromagnetic brake controller performs both safety control and normal control over the electromagnetic brake connected to the output terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Takao UEMURA, Ryuichi JIMBO, Masakazu MATSUGAMI
  • Publication number: 20210382504
    Abstract: A control system for monitoring a control state of a target device that receives drive control by a motor includes a setting unit that sets an origin for position monitoring of the target device and a sensor that detects the target device reaching a predetermined position. The setting unit includes an obtainer that obtains, under predetermined drive control over the target device by the motor, leading and trailing edges in a detection signal from the sensor in response to the target device reaching the predetermined position, and a calculator that calculates the origin using first position information associated with a target device position and calculated based on the leading and trailing edges in the detection signal and second position information associated with the target device position and different from the first position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Ryuichi JIMBO, Takao UEMURA, Masakazu MATSUGAMI, Takaya KITANO, Fumiaki SATO
  • Publication number: 20210356925
    Abstract: A control system is provided with safety drivers having motion safety functions and with a standard controller that manages data exchanges among devices connected to a field network, wherein: when a connection in the field network is established, the standard controller transmits SRA parameters to the safety drivers via the field network, the SRA parameters including designation information to designate enabling or disabling for each of the motion safety functions; and the safety drivers disable particular motion safety functions that are designated to be disabled by the designation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke FUJIMURA, Fumiaki SATO, Yuji SUZUKI, Ryuichi JIMBO, Masakazu MATSUGAMI, Yu TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210159839
    Abstract: Provided is a motor control device comprising a motor control unit and a safety monitoring unit. The motor control unit switches a rotation direction of a motor with respect to an input instruction in accordance with a set motor-control rotation-direction specified value. The safety monitoring unit monitors, on the basis of a position or speed of the motor, a state of the motor deviating from any one of a plurality of safety state conditions prescribed by a plurality of set safety-monitoring parameter values, and the safety monitoring unit can treat the plurality of safety-monitoring parameter values as a value of a case when the rotation direction of the motor is a first direction or as a value of a case when the rotation direction of the motor is a second direction reverse to the first direction. The motor control device has a safety function being flexible in programming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu MATSUGAMI, Ryuichi JIMBO
  • Patent number: 10416663
    Abstract: When a motor replacement detection portion (4) detects replacement of a motor (M), a control portion (2) of the motor control apparatus executes limiting processing for limiting action of the motor (M), at least until an acceptance portion (5) accepts an input of confirmation information from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamawaki, Takao Ushiyama, Masakazu Matsugami, Takaya Kitano
  • Patent number: 10401821
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor control device, a control method, an information processing program and a recording medium, even though the network for receiving an output permission signal is not connected, the test run of the motor can be safely performed. Even though a signal generating element (104) of a servo driver (10) does not receive the output permission signal through a field network (30), if the connection to the field network (30) is determined to be not required, the signal generating element (104) does not generate the safety command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Ushiyama, Satoshi Yamawaki, Masakazu Matsugami, Yu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9887659
    Abstract: A safety system has higher user design flexibility. Motor controllers (20, 30) include a motor drive circuit (207) that outputs a motor voltage command signal for driving motors (90, 100) in accordance with a motor drive command value, an inverter (211) that supplies power for driving the motors (90, 100) by switching based on the motor voltage command signal, a safety control unit that outputs a drive permission signal for driving the motors (90, 100) in accordance with communication data received through a communication circuit (213), a cut-off circuit (209) that receives the drive permission signal and the voltage drive command signal and cuts off the voltage drive command signal to an inverter (211) when receiving no drive permission signal, and a safety input unit (205) that receives redundant safety input signals. The cut-off circuit (207) receives a logical AND of the safety input signal and the drive permission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Jimbo, Takao Ushiyama, Masakazu Matsugami
  • Publication number: 20170272025
    Abstract: A safety system has higher user design flexibility. Motor controllers (20, 30) include a motor drive circuit (207) that outputs a motor voltage command signal for driving motors (90, 100) in accordance with a motor drive command value, an inverter (211) that supplies power for driving the motors (90, 100) by switching based on the motor voltage command signal, a safety control unit that outputs a drive permission signal for driving the motors (90, 100) in accordance with communication data received through a communication circuit (213), a cut-off circuit (209) that receives the drive permission signal and the voltage drive command signal and cuts off the voltage drive command signal to an inverter (211) when receiving no drive permission signal, and a safety input unit (205) that receives redundant safety input signals. The cut-off circuit (207) receives a logical AND of the safety input signal and the drive permission signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi JIMBO, Takao USHIYAMA, Masakazu MATSUGAMI
  • Publication number: 20170261960
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor control device, a control method, an information processing program and a recording medium, even though the network for receiving an output permission signal is not connected, the test run of the motor can be safely performed. Even though a signal generating element (104) of a servo driver (10) does not receive the output permission signal through a field network (30), if the connection to the field network (30) is determined to be not required, the signal generating element (104) does not generate the safety command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takao USHIYAMA, Satoshi YAMAWAKI, Masakazu MATSUGAMI, Yu TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170261973
    Abstract: When a motor replacement detection portion (4) detects replacement of a motor (M), a control portion (2) of the motor control apparatus executes limiting processing for limiting action of the motor (M), at least until an acceptance portion (5) accepts an input of confirmation information from a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi YAMAWAKI, Takao USHIYAMA, Masakazu MATSUGAMI, Takaya KITANO