Patents by Inventor Naoki Hirobe
Naoki Hirobe 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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Publication number: 20230093865Abstract: A control system includes a control unit configured to control a control object and communicate with an external device, and a relay unit configured to relay access from the external device to the control unit. The relay unit includes a reception unit configured to receive an authentication request from a request source, an authentication unit configured to authenticate validity of the request source upon receipt of the authentication request by the reception unit, and an access management unit configured to control a restriction level of access from the external device to the control unit when the validity of the request source is authenticated by the authentication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kotaro OKAMURA, Naoki HIROBE
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Publication number: 20220327206Abstract: A control system includes a control engine that cyclically updates internal state values on the basis of a signal exchanged with a control target; a security engine that executes an incident response operation in response to an incident that possibly occurs in the control system; and a phase update module that updates a phase value indicating an operation state of the control target on the basis of one or more values selected discretionarily in advance by a user from among the internal state values retained by the control engine. The security engine retains operation definition information in which the content of the incident response operation is defined for each phase, and executes a corresponding incident response operation defined in the operation definition information in accordance with the phase value updated by the phase update module.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Toru KOGAWARA, Taisei YAMAMOTO, Naoki HIROBE, Yuta NAGATA
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Publication number: 20220317649Abstract: A control device that has received a request for starting the execution of a control program issues a comparison request to two control devices that store shared information, the control devices that have received the comparison request each compare unique information created by the own control device with unique information on the own control device contained in a piece of the shared information stored in each control device, and when the comparison result satisfies a prescribed condition, the execution of the control program is permitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yasuhisa WATANABE, Naoki HIROBE, Yasuhiro KITAMURA
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Publication number: 20220206465Abstract: A support device is connected to a controller system that controls a control target. The controller system can execute an incident response operation of changing a behavior in accordance with an incident that may occur in the controller system. The support device includes a selection module and a setting module. The selection module receives selection of a facility type corresponding to the control target among plural facility types which is preset. The setting module reflects a response rule corresponding to the selected facility type in the controller system by referring to a response rule that is prepared in advance for each of the facility types and defines a behavior for an incident.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Taisei YAMAMOTO, Toru KOGAWARA, Naoki HIROBE, Yuta NAGATA
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Publication number: 20220171858Abstract: A controller system according to the present invention includes: a control unit that executes control calculation for controlling a control target; a security unit that is connected to the control unit and that is in charge of security functions for a controller system; an attack pattern creation part for acquiring setting information in the controller system and creating an attack pattern for the controller system on the basis of the acquired setting information; and an attack execution part for executing an attack on the controller system according to the created attack pattern and evaluating whether or not the security functions set in the controller system are valid on the basis of the behavior of the controller system in response to the attack.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Naoki HIROBE, Toru KOGAWARA, Taisei YAMAMOTO, Yuta NAGATA
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Publication number: 20220155747Abstract: A control system including a controller system and a support device is provided. The controller system controls a control target. The support device supports setting of the controller system. The support device includes a system-configuration input part, a threat analysis database, a threat-scenario creating part, a countermeasure database, a countermeasure creating part, and a security setting part. The countermeasure creating part creates a countermeasure scenario containing a countermeasure for each of protected assets of the controller system according to a threat scenario and countermeasures of the countermeasure database.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Naoki HIROBE, Yuta NAGATA, Yutaka TAHARA
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Publication number: 20220147623Abstract: A controller system is provided with a control unit, a security unit, and a presentation means (HMI). The security unit stores countermeasure scenarios corresponding to threat analyses concerning the device configuration and protected assets of the controller system, and sets security functions in accordance with the countermeasure scenarios. The presentation means presents a user with points requiring security countermeasures in the controller system in accordance with the countermeasure scenarios.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Naoki HIROBE, Yuta NAGATA
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Patent number: 8405515Abstract: A control device has a first sensor set with a first detection region, a second sensor set with a second detection region, and a control unit for controlling a predetermined operation based on a detection result by the first sensor and a detection result by the second sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2008Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Ishihara, Yosuke Tomita, Naoki Hirobe, Tadao Nishiguchi, Shoji Mafune
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Publication number: 20100244782Abstract: A battery state monitoring portion intermittently monitors the low voltage battery for supplying power to electrical components arranged in a vehicle while the power supply to the low voltage system load other than a +B load is stopped, a DCDC converter is stopped, and a +B power supply mode in which the vehicle cannot travel is set. A charging control portion starts up the DCDC converter and charges the low voltage battery with the power of a high voltage battery as a power source of the vehicle through the DCDC converter when the voltage of the low voltage battery becomes lower than or equal to a charging start voltage when the +B power supply mode is set. The present invention can be applied to a charging device of a battery of an electric vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi Nagayama, Hiroyuki Sueyasu, Yusaku Ido, Naoki Hirobe, Koji Hachiya, Hiroshi Nakao
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Publication number: 20100214112Abstract: A control device has a first sensor set with a first detection region, a second sensor set with a second detection region, and a control unit for controlling a predetermined operation based on a detection result by the first sensor and a detection result by the second sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2008Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Naoyuki Ishihara, Yosuke Tomita, Naoki Hirobe, Tadao Nishiguchi, Shoji Mafune