Patents by Inventor Takamasa Ueda

Takamasa Ueda 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: 20240013313
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: calculate a risk degree based on information regarding a power consumption amount of a battery mounted on a moving object; and determine an insurance premium according to the risk degree. The risk degree indexes a danger that a charge amount of the battery becomes less than a predetermined amount while the moving object is traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuma IIDA, Takamasa UEDA, Masato WAGATSUMA, Iori UEDA
  • Patent number: 11762359
    Abstract: A relay apparatus is provided to achieve high-speed control, while suppressing costs for communication with a plurality of devices, by notifying additional information of the devices to a master apparatus and increasing the efficiency of transmission/reception of signals among the master apparatus and the devices. The relay apparatus communicates with a plurality of devices through a single device communication port. The relay apparatus receives additional information from each of the plurality of devices; and transmits/receives signals in units of groups to which each of the plurality of devices belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa Ueda, Yasuo Muneta, Keisaku Kikuchi, Toru Murata
  • Publication number: 20230118740
    Abstract: A charging management device according to the present disclosure includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: create a charging plan for inhibiting deterioration of a battery mounted on a moving object based on power consumption of the moving object predicted from a delivery plan and a characteristic of the battery; and determine whether the charging plan is replanned based on a reference battery power amount calculated in accordance with a remaining time period up to a target time point at which a target power amount indicated by the charging plan is achieved, when the remaining time period is shorter than a predetermined first time period in charging to the battery performed in accordance with the charging plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko IGUCHI, Takamasa UEDA, Takuma IIDA
  • Publication number: 20230093893
    Abstract: A delivery management device includes a hardware processor functioning as a delivery planning unit, a charging planning unit, and a delivery management unit. The delivery planning unit serves to create a delivery plan on the basis of delivery information. The charging planning unit serves to determine whether or not en-route charging is necessary. The en-route charging is performed to charge a battery mounted on a moving body midway through a delivery route defined in the delivery plan. The delivery management unit serves to determine whether or not to re-plan the delivery plan including the en-route charging. The determination is made on the basis of a deterioration state of the battery. Also, the determination is made in a case where the en-route charging is determined as being necessary and where a battery deterioration amount is set as a priority item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko IGUCHI, Takamasa UEDA, Takuma IIDA
  • Publication number: 20220376806
    Abstract: The communication master repeats transmission of first information indicating a counter value of a synchronization counter of the communication master to the one or more communication slaves through a network. Each of the one or more communication slaves updates the counter value of the synchronization counter of each of the one or more communication slaves based on the received first information upon receiving the first information from the communication master. The communication master manages a total number of pieces of the first information transmitted for each of the one or more communication slaves, and estimates synchronization accuracy with respect to the communication master for each communication slave based on a number of transmissions of the first information for each communication slave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takamasa UEDA
  • Patent number: 11169500
    Abstract: Provided is a control system, comprising: a processing unit which executes a user program; one or a plurality of function units; one or a plurality of communication units which relay data between the processing unit and the one or the plurality of function units; and a reflection means which, when in the user program a variable is designated which has been associated with any of the data which the function units retain and which denotes the validity of the data, reflects, as the value which the variable denotes, a result of having aggregated states of each of the communication units which are present upon a transmission path from the function units which retain the designated data to the processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunari Miyake, Shigeyuki Eguchi, Takamasa Ueda
  • Patent number: 10935935
    Abstract: A safety control unit includes: a memory; a computation control part; and an input and output unit for connecting the computation control part to a safety input device and an output device to be safely controlled. A system program includes a data refresh program for executing a data refresh of safety control data of the safety input device and the output device and the control data of the memory via the input and output unit. If the computation control part receives a change of a control program, the computation control part stops executing the control program. The computation control part executes the change of the control program while executing a part of the system program including the data refresh. The computation control part resumes executing the control program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kojima, Koji Yaoita, Takamasa Ueda, Katsushige Ohnuki
  • Patent number: 10908583
    Abstract: A safety control system that can realize comprehensive safety control for a manufacturing site is provided. A safety control system includes an arithmetic operation processing unit, a data storing unit that stores safety input/output data, and a plurality of communication processing units that exchange safety input/output data with a device that is a connection destination. Each of the plurality of communication processing units, independently from processes of the other communication processing units, periodically transmits safety output data for a target device stored in the data storing unit to the target device and writes safety input data from the target device into the data storing unit in accordance with a connection setting set in advance for each of the communication processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takamasa Ueda
  • Publication number: 20200089181
    Abstract: A relay apparatus is provided to achieve high-speed control, while suppressing costs for communication with a plurality of devices, by notifying additional information of the devices to a master apparatus and increasing the efficiency of transmission/reception of signals among the master apparatus and the devices. The relay apparatus communicates with a plurality of devices through a single device communication port, The relay apparatus receives additional information from each of the plurality of devices; and transmits/receives signals in units of groups to which each of the plurality of devices belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa UEDA, Yasuo MUNETA, Keisaku KIKUCHI, Toru MURATA
  • Patent number: 10572420
    Abstract: A control system synchronizes input timing and output timing between functional units, while achieving the contradictory aspect of shortening the communication cycle of data frames transferred on a network. An information processing apparatus calculates parameters for the functional units included in a slave device in accordance with a mode selected from a plurality of available modes. The modes include a first mode in which timing to obtain a status value from the control target and timing to update an output value for the control target are synchronized between all the functional units included in the slave device, and a second mode in which the timing to obtain a status value from the control target and the timing to update an output value for the control target are synchronized between specific functional units included in the slave device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimi Niwa, Takamasa Ueda, Katsuyuki Kawamata, Yuji Ikeo
  • Publication number: 20190361418
    Abstract: Provided is a control system, comprising: a processing unit which executes a user program; one or a plurality of function units; one or a plurality of communication units which relay data between the processing unit and the one or the plurality of function units; and a reflection means which, when in the user program a variable is designated which has been associated with any of the data which the function units retain and which denotes the validity of the data, reflects, as the value which the variable denotes, a result of having aggregated states of each of the communication units which are present upon a transmission path from the function units which retain the designated data to the processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunari MIYAKE, Shigeyuki EGUCHI, Takamasa UEDA
  • Patent number: 10461997
    Abstract: The convenience of a design of a system is improved by making it easier to verify consumed electric power when designing and constructing the system. An operation screen is displayed upon execution of on a PC for supporting the design of a control system. The configuration of a control system can be controlled in an editing region, and unit images representing an I/O unit are connected in order to a unit image representing a communication coupler. A power supply unit can be inserted into this configuration. An icon indicates a shortage of electric power to the units downstream of the unit indicated by a selected image. When a user mouses the pointer over the icon, the detailed meaning of the icon is displayed in a message. The designer is thus capable of easily verifying the position at which a power source supply unit should be added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Suzuki, Takamasa Ueda, Makoto Okuno
  • Publication number: 20190317466
    Abstract: A safety system includes: a memory; a processor connected to the memory and configured execute a safety program; a first communication unit configured to communicate data with one or more safety components via a first transmission line; and a second communication unit configured to communicate data with one or more safety components via a second transmission line. The second communication unit and the first communication unit independently of each other perform processing involved in communicating data. In the memory, a first data area that holds data communicated by the first communication unit and a second data area that holds data communicated by the second communication unit are arranged independently of each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa UEDA, Yasuo MUNETA, Takehiko HIOKA
  • Publication number: 20190302730
    Abstract: A safety control system that can realize comprehensive safety control for a manufacturing site is provided. A safety control system includes an arithmetic operation processing unit, a data storing unit that stores safety input/output data, and a plurality of communication processing units that exchange safety input/output data with a device that is a connection destination. Each of the plurality of communication processing units, independently from processes of the other communication processing units, periodically transmits safety output data for a target device stored in the data storing unit to the target device and writes safety input data from the target device into the data storing unit in accordance with a connection setting set in advance for each of the communication processing units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takamasa UEDA
  • Publication number: 20190305977
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a means for simplifying the configuration of network connection even when a plurality of control apparatuses are connected in a network. A control apparatus for controlling an object under control includes a first network controller and a second network controller for exchanging data according to a first communication protocol, and a packet transferring part for outputting a duplicate of a packet received by the first network controller from the second network controller and outputting a duplicate of a packet received by the second network controller from the first network controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takamasa UEDA
  • Publication number: 20190265669
    Abstract: A control system and a functional unit are capable of freely setting a place at which an operation for executing an access process is performed independently of an installation place of a controller. A CPU unit capable of communicating with a storage unit, and a plurality of functional units communicatively connected to the CPU unit are included. The functional unit includes an input unit including a switch that receives a user operation. The input unit generates a command for executing an access process when an input portion receives execution of the access process for accessing the storage unit from an IO unit. A designated IO unit executes the access process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunari MIYAKE, Ryosuke FUJIMURA, Daisuke YAGI, Takamasa UEDA, Yasuki YODA
  • Publication number: 20190268300
    Abstract: A communication device according to the disclosure includes an IP address setting part configured to set an IP address when the IP network is used. The IP address setting part sets a network address included in the IP address based on an instruction signal received via a communication part (a communication IF) and sets a host address based on an instruction signal from a hardware switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takamasa UEDA
  • Patent number: 10379946
    Abstract: A controller sets the processing in accordance with an error that may occur in data. A controller for controlling a machine or a facility includes a storage unit, a diagnosis unit that diagnoses the presence of an error in data written in a memory space of the storage unit or data read from the memory space, and a processing unit that performs processing in accordance with a diagnosis result obtained by the diagnosis unit. The processing unit performs appropriate processing when an error is detected in data within a set range of the memory space in which the diagnosis unit is to be enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa Ueda, Yasuo Muneta
  • Publication number: 20190212708
    Abstract: A safety control unit includes: a memory; a computation control part; and an input and output unit for connecting the computation control part to a safety input device and an output device to be safely controlled. A system program includes a data refresh program for executing a data refresh of safety control data of the safety input device and the output device and the control data of the memory via the input and output unit. If the computation control part receives a change of a control program, the computation control part stops executing the control program. The computation control part executes the change of the control program while executing a part of the system program including the data refresh. The computation control part resumes executing the control program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOJIMA, Koji YAOITA, Takamasa UEDA, Katsushige OHNUKI
  • Patent number: 10345798
    Abstract: A safety system according to one or more embodiments including a safety controller that executes a safety program. The safety system includes: a collection unit configured to collect an input value over a predetermined period, the input value being a value of an input signal selected previously in one or a plurality of input signals input to the safety controller; and a visualization unit configured to reproduce a behavior of the safety program over the predetermined period based on the input value collected over the predetermined period, and to express visually an operating state of the safety program at an appointed point of time in the predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa Ueda, Asahi Matsui, Nobuyuki Takuma, Hiromu Suganuma, Ryosuke Fujimura