Patents by Inventor Shinji Murayama

Shinji Murayama 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: 11951753
    Abstract: A printing cassette includes: a case including a first case portion, a second case portion, and a third case portion; a first tape, at least a portion of which is accommodated in the third case portion; and a gear, a portion of which is accommodated in the second case portion and the other portion of which is located outside of the case, the gear being rotatable about a rotation axis parallel to a first direction. The first case portion has an outlet through which the first tape is discharged. The first case portion, the second case portion, and the third case portion are disposed in an order of the first case portion, the second case portion, and the third case portion in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Ukai, Kentaro Murayama
  • Publication number: 20220155745
    Abstract: A settings information generation device, for reducing the number of settings steps pertaining to a device in a superordinate device that communicates with a slave device to which the device is connected, includes: a selection unit for accepting a selection of a device to be connected; an acquisition unit for acquiring operational settings information including the input/output data length of the selected device; and a generation unit for generating, on the basis of the operational settings information, superordinate device settings information for setting a storage region for storing data exchanged with the device by a controller via a device management unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori HIGA, Makoto OKUNO, Shinji MURAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11171799
    Abstract: Reliability with which a control device at a transmission destination can receive data is improved. In a communication system in which a plurality of control devices for factory automation are connected to a network, a communication protocol among the control devices includes a publish/subscribe type. Each of the control devices includes: a data storage unit in which control data is stored; a publisher unit that transmits data including a state of the control device of the publisher unit itself to other control devices than the control device; and a subscriber unit that receives data from each of the other control devices. When a state of each of the other control devices that is received by the subscriber unit satisfies a reception allowing condition, the publisher unit transmits the control data of the control device of the publisher unit itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yoneda, Shigenori Sawada, Shinji Murayama, Yasuo Muneta
  • Publication number: 20200366513
    Abstract: Reliability with which a control device at a transmission destination can receive data is improved. In a communication system in which a plurality of control devices for factory automation are connected to a network, a communication protocol among the control devices includes a publish/subscribe type. Each of the control devices includes: a data storage unit in which control data is stored; a publisher unit that transmits data including a state of the control device of the publisher unit itself to other control devices than the control device; and a subscriber unit that receives data from each of the other control devices. When a state of each of the other control devices that is received by the subscriber unit satisfies a reception allowing condition, the publisher unit transmits the control data of the control device of the publisher unit itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro YONEDA, Shigenori SAWADA, Shinji MURAYAMA, Yasuo MUNETA
  • Patent number: 10579496
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a collection unit configured to collect an event log corresponding to an event generated in a control system including at least one network; an extraction and specification unit configured to extract at least one event log corresponding to an event generated arising from an identical factor from the collected event log, and to specify an event log representing the event generated arising from the identical factor in the at least one event log extracted; and an output unit configured to output the event log representing the event generated arising from the identical factor and event logs corresponding to other events generated arising from the identical factor while distinguishing the event log representing the event generated arising from the identical factor and the event logs corresponding to other events generated arising from the identical factor from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori Sawada, Shinji Murayama, Tianbing Li
  • Patent number: 10496279
    Abstract: A device is easily exchanged without changing a program of a controller. A device communication management unit generates digital input data that stores only ON/OFF information of a device in accordance with a copy setting information table set by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kitamura, Shinji Murayama, Masao Koga, Toshiyuki Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10491456
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a detection unit configured to detect an event generated in a control system including at least one network; a connection configuration expression unit configured to visually express a physical connection and a logical connection of the network included in the control system; and an event output unit configured to output the event detected by the detection unit while correlating the event with the physical connection and the logical connection of the network, the physical connection and the logical connection being visually expressed according to a place where the event is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori Sawada, Shinji Murayama, Tianbing Li
  • Publication number: 20180267711
    Abstract: A device is easily exchanged without changing a program of a controller. A device communication management unit generates digital input data that stores only ON/OFF information of a device in accordance with a copy setting information table set by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KITAMURA, Shinji MURAYAMA, Masao KOGA, Toshiyuki OZAKI
  • Publication number: 20180217914
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a collection unit configured to collect an event log corresponding to an event generated in a control system including at least one network; an extraction and specification unit configured to extract at least one event log corresponding to an event generated arising from an identical factor from the collected event log, and to specify an event log representing the event generated arising from the identical factor in the at least one event log extracted; and an output unit configured to output the event log representing the event generated arising from the identical factor and event logs corresponding to other events generated arising from the identical factor while distinguishing the event log representing the event generated arising from the identical factor and the event logs corresponding to other events generated arising from the identical factor from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori SAWADA, Shinji MURAYAMA, Tianbing LI
  • Publication number: 20180219721
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a detection unit configured to detect an event generated in a control system including at least one network; a connection configuration expression unit configured to visually express a physical connection and a logical connection of the network included in the control system; and an event output unit configured to output the event detected by the detection unit while correlating the event with the physical connection and the logical connection of the network, the physical connection and the logical connection being visually expressed according to a place where the event is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori SAWADA, Shinji MURAYAMA, Tianbing LI
  • Publication number: 20180011467
    Abstract: A Personal Computer (PC) includes a setting data generation processor that generates a setting data file referred to by a setting value writing FB of a PLC and a transmission processor that transmits the setting data file to the PLC. The setting value writing FB is a function block that changes an operation setting value of a control object device that is controlled by the PLC based on the setting data file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180011466
    Abstract: A programmable logic controller in which a control object device that changes an operation setting value includes a storage in which a setting data file referred to during operation of a setting value writing function block is stored and a destination specification unit that specifies a destination of the control object device. The destination specification unit can switch between the specification of the destination of the control object device based on destination information in the setting data file and the specification of the destination of the control object device based on separately-designated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji MURAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9770816
    Abstract: An angle wrench has a simple structure and is capable of accurately measuring rotation angle. The angle wrench is used for tightening an object to be tightened by means of the rotation angle method, and includes a handle having a grip; a head section having a tightening head for tightening the object to be tightened, and a tail section that extends from the tightening head pivotally supported with respect to the handle via a head pin; torque-detecting mechanisms for detecting when the torque for tightening the object being tightened reaches the specified torque; and a rotation angle-measuring section for measuring the rotation angle of the angle wrench in a tightening action, on the basis of the angular velocity of the angle wrench around the axis of the object being tightened, after the torque-detecting mechanism has detected that the specified torque has been reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: TOHNICHI MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yokoyama, Shinji Murayama, Nobuyoshi Kobayashi, Yoshiro Kanda
  • Publication number: 20150190911
    Abstract: An angle wrench has a simple structure and is capable of accurately measuring rotation angle. The angle wrench is used for tightening an object to be tightened by means of the rotation angle method, and includes a handle having a grip; a head section having a tightening head for tightening the object to be tightened, and a tail section that extends from the tightening head pivotally supported with respect to the handle via a head pin; torque-detecting mechanisms for detecting when the torque for tightening the object being tightened reaches the specified torque; and a rotation angle-measuring section for measuring the rotation angle of the angle wrench in a tightening action, on the basis of the angular velocity of the angle wrench around the axis of the object being tightened, after the torque-detecting mechanism has detected that the specified torque has been reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yokoyama, Shinji Murayama, Nobuyoshi Kobayashi, Yoshiro Kanda
  • Publication number: 20050132037
    Abstract: A communication interface, as a part of a programmable controller, serves to carry out command-response communications with an external general-purpose device connected through a specified communication line according to an execution command from a user program for controlling a control device connected to the programmable controller or according to a preliminarily stored program. When a communication command addressed to an external general-purpose device is received from a peripheral device, it is converted appropriately for communication through a serial line. When it is relayed to the external general-purpose device, it is judged whether it is in a wait condition for a response and the relaying is temporarily stopped. When the wait condition ends, communication is carried out with the external general-purpose and the converted command is relayed to the external general-purpose device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Kazuya Sawa, Shinji Murayama