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).
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Publication number: 20240013313Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuma IIDA, Takamasa UEDA, Masato WAGATSUMA, Iori UEDA
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Patent number: 11762359Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takamasa Ueda, Yasuo Muneta, Keisaku Kikuchi, Toru Murata
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Publication number: 20230118740Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiko IGUCHI, Takamasa UEDA, Takuma IIDA
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Publication number: 20230093893Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko IGUCHI, Takamasa UEDA, Takuma IIDA
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Publication number: 20220376806Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventor: Takamasa UEDA
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Patent number: 11169500Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazunari Miyake, Shigeyuki Eguchi, Takamasa Ueda
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Patent number: 10935935Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Kojima, Koji Yaoita, Takamasa Ueda, Katsushige Ohnuki
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Patent number: 10908583Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventor: Takamasa Ueda
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Publication number: 20200089181Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2017Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takamasa UEDA, Yasuo MUNETA, Keisaku KIKUCHI, Toru MURATA
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Patent number: 10572420Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yoshimi Niwa, Takamasa Ueda, Katsuyuki Kawamata, Yuji Ikeo
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Publication number: 20190361418Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazunari MIYAKE, Shigeyuki EGUCHI, Takamasa UEDA
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Patent number: 10461997Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yuji Suzuki, Takamasa Ueda, Makoto Okuno
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Publication number: 20190317466Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takamasa UEDA, Yasuo MUNETA, Takehiko HIOKA
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Publication number: 20190302730Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventor: Takamasa UEDA
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Publication number: 20190305977Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventor: Takamasa UEDA
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Publication number: 20190265669Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazunari MIYAKE, Ryosuke FUJIMURA, Daisuke YAGI, Takamasa UEDA, Yasuki YODA
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Publication number: 20190268300Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2018Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventor: Takamasa UEDA
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Patent number: 10379946Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takamasa Ueda, Yasuo Muneta
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Publication number: 20190212708Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2017Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Tatsuya KOJIMA, Koji YAOITA, Takamasa UEDA, Katsushige OHNUKI
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Patent number: 10345798Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takamasa Ueda, Asahi Matsui, Nobuyuki Takuma, Hiromu Suganuma, Ryosuke Fujimura