Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki SONODA

Nobuyuki SONODA 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).

  • OPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20220404809
    Abstract: An operation control system includes: a storing processing part configured to store collected information on abnormality in countermeasure progress information storage parts in which information on an abnormality or countermeasure information on a countermeasure to the abnormality is stored; an equipment abnormality monitor part configured to, when a length of a time period during which the abnormality continues exceeds a prescribed time period, update a state of the abnormality; a countermeasure monitor part configured to monitor a state of the countermeasure, and, when the state of the countermeasure changes, update the state of the countermeasure; and an output processing part configured to change how to output alarm information in accordance with the length of the time period during which the abnormality continues and the state of the countermeasure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuhiro TAKAHASHI, Tomoko ISHINO, Nobuyuki SONODA
  • Operation control apparatus, operation control method, and operation control program for displaying a selected KPI in a time-series manner on the same screen that the responsible department is displayed
    Patent number: 11328242
    Abstract: An operation control apparatus of the invention includes a KPI tree preparation field for accepting an issues-structure tree indicating a causal relation of an issue of an organization having a plurality of departments, and KPI definition information having a KPI for evaluating the issue mutually associated with the department responsible for the KPI, and a KPI tree generation field for generating a KPI tree indicating the causal relation of the KPI from the issues-structure tree indicating the causal relation of the issue by accepting a user's association of the KPI with the issue constituting the issues-structure tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoko Ishino, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Nobuyuki Sonoda
  • OPERATION CONTROL APPARATUS, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, AND OPERATION CONTROL PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20210089991
    Abstract: An operation control apparatus of the invention includes a KPI tree preparation field for accepting an issues-structure tree indicating a causal relation of an issue of an organization having a plurality of departments, and KPI definition information having a KPI for evaluating the issue mutually associated with the department responsible for the KPI, and a KPI tree generation field for generating a KPI tree indicating the causal relation of the KPI from the issues-structure tree indicating the causal relation of the issue by accepting a user's association of the KPI with the issue constituting the issues-structure tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoko ISHINO, Yasuhiro TAKAHASHI, Nobuyuki SONODA