Patents by Inventor Seigo Kurokawa

Seigo Kurokawa 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).

  • Patent number: 7953012
    Abstract: This present invention simplifies the installation work, the initialization, the operation confirmation, and the test run work of a monitor terminal in a field site that monitors a monitor object. Communication information and management information, such as a telephone number used to communicate with a communication terminal in a field site at test run time, are integrated. For example, the common values (default values) are set in the communication terminal, which will communicate with a monitoring apparatus, as communication information (IP address, user ID, password) to allow the monitoring apparatus to communicate with the communication terminal by setting only the telephone number of the communication terminal in the monitoring apparatus. During a test run, the monitoring apparatus performs operation to change the communication information and the management information in the communication terminal to the information suitable for a production run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Manabu Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20090196402
    Abstract: This present invention simplifies the installation work, the initialization, the operation confirmation, and the test run work of a monitor terminal in a field site that monitors a monitor object. Communication information and management information, such as a telephone number used to communicate with a communication terminal in a field site at test run time, are integrated. For example, the common values (default values) are set in the communication terminal, which will communicate with a monitoring apparatus, as communication information (IP address, user ID, password) to allow the monitoring apparatus to communicate with the communication terminal by setting only the telephone number of the communication terminal in the monitoring apparatus. During a test run, the monitoring apparatus performs operation to change the communication information and the management information in the communication terminal to the information suitable for a production run.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Ichiro TAKAHASHI, Seigo KUROKAWA, Manabu FUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 7518999
    Abstract: This present invention simplifies the installation work, the initialization, the operation confirmation, and the test run work of a monitor terminal in a field site that monitors a monitor object. Communication information and management information, such as a telephone number used to communicate with a communication terminal in a field site at test run time, are integrated. For example, the common values (default values) are set in the communication terminal, which will communicate with a monitoring apparatus, as communication information (IP address, user ID, password) to allow the monitoring apparatus to communicate with the communication terminal by setting only the telephone number of the communication terminal in the monitoring apparatus. During a test run, the monitoring apparatus performs operation to change the communication information and the management information in the communication terminal to the information suitable for a production run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Manabu Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20070293951
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus that captures data in a router into a monitoring apparatus to cope with a communication abnormality in a monitoring system that uses the router, a modem, and a network. The monitoring apparatus comprises input modules 343, 345 for being input with a signal from a monitored object 303; a CPU module 341 for processing the signal from the input modules 343, 345; a communication module 342; a data bus 352; and a power module 340. The communication module has two connectors 204, 206 or more each connected to the network; a connection terminal connected to a power supply buss 351; a connection terminal connected to the data bus 352; a memory; and a CPU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Takeaki Mishima
  • Publication number: 20070133766
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus having a plurality of communication units, each of which incorporates therein a communication control section, a control section and a memory section, and executes programs for communicating with monitoring terminals via a communication network; and memory units, each storing data therein. The monitoring apparatus has a function that at least one of the plural communication units decides on whether or not the operations of the other communication units are normal, depending on the contents of its communications with the other communication units, and also a function that the decision is displayed on a personal computer placed outside the monitoring apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Takeaki Mishima, Seigo Kurokawa, Ichiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20050005009
    Abstract: This present invention simplifies the installation work, the initialization, the operation confirmation, and the test run work of a monitor terminal in a field site that monitors a monitor object. Communication information and management information, such as a telephone number used to communicate with a communication terminal in a field site at test run time, are integrated. For example, the common values (default values) are set in the communication terminal, which will communicate with a monitoring apparatus, as communication information (IP address, user ID, password) to allow the monitoring apparatus to communicate with the communication terminal by setting only the telephone number of the communication terminal in the monitoring apparatus. During a test run, the monitoring apparatus performs operation to change the communication information and the management information in the communication terminal to the information suitable for a production run.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Manabu Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 6727813
    Abstract: An alarm notifying device comprises a circuit which performs communications via a communication line, a circuit which detects a signal indicative of an operating condition of a facility to be monitored, and an alarm signal sent therefrom, and a CPU. The alarm notifying device notifies an alarm to the outside when the alarm signal is detected. The alarm notifying device has the function of receiving a mail, the function of analyzing the contents of a text of the received mail, and the function of changing information lying inside the device according to the contents of the text of the received mail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Techno Engineering Co., Ltd., Hitchi Keiyo Engineering & Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Iwasaki, Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Kiyohiro Nakano, Manabu Fujimoto, Kouji Kakuta, Hiromitsu Kaneko
  • Patent number: 6700485
    Abstract: An alarm notifying device comprising apparatus for inputting an alarm signal of a facility to be monitored, apparatus for connecting to a mail server for delivering an electronic mail by way of a communication line, a memory for storing a guidance text corresponding to the contents of an alarm, and a CPU having the function of transmitting an electronic mail about the alarm. In the alarm notifying device, the CPU has the function of adding the contents of an alarm and a guidance text corresponding to the alarm contents to an electronic mail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Techno Engineering Co., Ltd., Hitachi Keiyo Engineering & Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Kaneko, Koji Nonaka, Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Kiyohiro Nakano, Manabu Fujimoto, Yasuhiko Iwasaki, Kouji Kakuta
  • Patent number: 6675167
    Abstract: An equipment management system structured by a monitoring apparatus to monitor equipment of a facility being monitored and retrieve operation data, a database apparatus in which the operation data retrieved by the monitoring apparatus is recorded, and a database client apparatus to send and receive information to and from the database apparatus via a network, display the data recorded in the database apparatus, and enter data. The database apparatus records maintenance reference values for the equipment of the facility being monitored and the monitoring apparatus or database client apparatus outputs a display or printout prompting an execution of maintenance work when the operation data is in excess of or close to the maintenance reference values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Keiyo Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Tatsuhiko Asano, Hiromitsu Kaneko
  • Patent number: 6604061
    Abstract: An equipment management system structured by a monitoring apparatus to monitor equipment of a facility being monitored and retrieve operation data, a database apparatus in which the operation data retrieved by the monitoring apparatus is recorded, and a database client apparatus to send and receive information to and from the database apparatus via a network, display the data recorded in the database apparatus, and enter data. The database apparatus records maintenance reference values for the equipment of the facility being monitored and the monitoring apparatus or database client apparatus outputs a display or printout prompting an execution of maintenance work when the operation data is in excess of or close to the maintenance reference values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Keiyo Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Tatsuhiko Asano, Hiromitsu Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20020158759
    Abstract: The present invention provides an alarm notifying device comprising means for inputting an alarm signal of a facility to be monitored, means for connecting to a mail server for delivering an electronic mail by way of a communication line, a memory for storing a guidance text corresponding to the contents of an alarm, and a CPU having the function of transmitting an electronic mail about the alarm. In the alarm notifying device, the CPU has the function of adding the contents of an alarm and a guidance text corresponding to the alarm contents to an electronic mail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Kaneko, Koji Nonaka, Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Kiyohiro Nakano, Manabu Fujimoto, Yasuhiko Iwasaki, Kouji Kakuta
  • Publication number: 20020158758
    Abstract: An alarm notifying device comprises a circuit which performs communications via a communication line, a circuit which detects a signal indicative of an operating condition of a facility to be monitored, and an alarm signal sent therefrom, and a CPU. The alarm notifying device notifies an alarm to the outside when the alarm signal is detected. The alarm notifying device has the function of receiving a mail, the function of analyzing the contents of a text of the received mail, and the function of changing information lying inside the device according to the contents of the text of the received mail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Iwasaki, Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Kiyohiro Nakano, Manabu Fujimoto, Kouji Kakuta, Hiromitsu Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20020082810
    Abstract: An equipment management system structured by a monitoring apparatus to monitor equipment of a facility being monitored and retrieve operation data, a database apparatus in which the operation data retrieved by the monitoring apparatus is recorded, and a database client apparatus to send and receive information to and from the database apparatus via a network, display the data recorded in the database apparatus, and enter data. The database apparatus records maintenance reference values for the equipment of the facility being monitored and the monitoring apparatus or database client apparatus outputs a display or printout prompting an execution of maintenance work when the operation data is in excess of or close to the maintenance reference values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Tatsuhiko Asano, Hiromitsu Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20020023075
    Abstract: An equipment management system structured by a monitoring apparatus to monitor equipment of a facility being monitored and retrieve operation data, a database apparatus in which the operation data retrieved by the monitoring apparatus is recorded, and a database client apparatus to send and receive information to and from the database apparatus via a network, display the data recorded in the database apparatus, and enter data. The database apparatus records maintenance reference values for the equipment of the facility being monitored and the monitoring apparatus or database client apparatus outputs a display or printout prompting an execution of maintenance work when the operation data is in excess of or close to the maintenance reference values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Tatsuhiko Asano, Hiromitsu Kaneko