Patents by Inventor Takehiko Nishimura

Takehiko Nishimura 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: 10791297
    Abstract: A manufacturing-state display system that displays a manufacturing status of a product manufactured through a plurality of manufacturing processes, the manufacturing-state display system includes: displaying a graph that indicates a time elapsed from start to end of each of the manufacturing processes based on information on start times and end times of the manufacturing processes, each of the manufacturing processes being segmented in order of execution of the manufacturing processes and time axes being aligned in an identical direction; receiving designation of an area that indicates manufacturing for any product in any manufacturing process on the graph displayed; and reproducing a captured image that corresponds to a start time to an end time of manufacturing for a specific product in a specific manufacturing process, specified by the area of which the designation has been received, among captured images with regard to the manufacturing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuki Takahashi, Takehiko Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10540626
    Abstract: A manufacturing process management system includes: a display circuit; and a processor configured to: display, on the display circuit, a graph which represents an elapsed time from a start to a finish of each of a plurality of manufacturing processes through which a product is manufactured, based on information of starting times and finishing times of the manufacturing processes, in a state where the plurality of manufacturing processes are divided into each of manufacturing processes in an execution order and time axes are aligned in a same direction; specify, from among captured images of the plurality of manufacturing processes which are stored in a storage, a captured image which corresponds to the manufacturing process for a designated position on the displayed graph; and display the specified captured image on the display circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuki Takahashi, Takehiko Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10395400
    Abstract: A display method includes: displaying, in a first screen area, a line segment indicating a passage of time from start to end of a manufacturing process in each of process, with time axes being aligned in a same direction between the processes, in a state being segmented for each process in order of execution of the process, for each of one or more products manufactured by a manufacturing system; and displaying, in a second screen area, a graph indicating a passage of time from start to end of a manufacturing process, with time axes being aligned in a same direction as time axes in the first screen area, based on information of a start time and an end time of a manufacturing process in one or more manufacturing facilities included in a selected first process among the processes, for each of the manufacturing facilities in the first process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Nomamoto, Takehiko Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10388043
    Abstract: A display method includes: displaying a line segment indicating a passage of time from start to end of a manufacturing process, with time axes aligned in a same direction, based on information of a start time and an end time of a manufacturing process of a product in each process of a manufacturing system that manufactures a product through a plurality of processes sequentially, in a state being segmented for each process in order of execution of the process, for each of one or more products manufactured by the manufacturing system, by a processor; and displaying a symbol representing a manufacturing facility belonging to a corresponding process in a segment matched with a separating position of the segment, by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Nomamoto, Takehiko Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10268971
    Abstract: A display method of a manufacturing status to visualize a manufacturing status of products each manufactured through processing performed by a plurality of apparatuses included in a manufacturing line includes identifying, for each product to be manufactured in a certain manufacturing unit, a starting time or an ending time or both of the processing performed on the product by a first apparatus and a starting time or an ending time or both of the processing performed on the product by a second apparatus based on log information of the first apparatus and log information of the second apparatus, the first and the second apparatuses being included in the manufacturing line, the second apparatus performing the processing after the processing performed by the first apparatus, using a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takehiko Nishimura, Yuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20190012622
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a manufacturing-process visualizing program that causes a computer to execute a process including acquiring manufacture data including identification information for a manufacture product, identification information for a manufacturing process, and time information indicating a time captured at a time when the manufacture product has undergone the manufacturing process; determining all manufacturing processes which a specific manufacture product has undergone, and determining an order of each of manufacturing processes based on time information associated with each of the manufacturing processes; and arranging, in the determined order, identification information or symbol information, and generating a graph in which a time when the specific manufacture product undergoes each of the manufacturing processes is, along a predetermined time axis direction, associated with the identification information for each of the manufacturing processes or the
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takehiko Nishimura, Hiroyuki Matsushita, Yuki Sato, Kazuki Takahashi, Tomohiko Maeda
  • Patent number: 10140836
    Abstract: An abnormality detection system includes a processor configured to execute a process. The process includes: storing log data in a storage in which at least a production device number is associated with the event date and time; referring to the log data stored in the storage and calculating a temporal relationship between a first device and a second device that subsequently performs a process after the first device from among a plurality of production devices; detecting elapse of a reference time that is obtained from both the latest log data from among the pieces of log data related to the first device stored in the storage and the temporal relationship calculated at the calculating and that new log data related to the second device is not newly stored in the storage; and displaying an alarm when detection is obtained at the detecting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuki Takahashi, Sayaka Suwa, Takehiko Nishimura, Yoshihiko Nishida
  • Publication number: 20180286140
    Abstract: An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus configured to calculate a number of in-process products existing between a first process executed by a first device and a second process executed by a second device in a production line, the method includes acquiring, from the first device, an end log of the first process; adding a value to the number of in-process products according to the acquired end log; acquiring, from the second device, a start log of the second process; subtracting a value from the number of in-process products according to the acquired start log; and adjusting the number of in-process products to 0 when it is determined that no start log of the second process has occurred over a period longer than or equal to a threshold value in a state where the number of in-process products is greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takehiko Nishimura, Hiroki Nikai, Hiroyuki Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20180268580
    Abstract: A display method includes: displaying, in a first screen area, a line segment indicating a passage of time from start to end of a manufacturing process in each of process, with time axes being aligned in a same direction between the processes, in a state being segmented for each process in order of execution of the process, for each of one or more products manufactured by a manufacturing system; and displaying, in a second screen area, a graph indicating a passage of time from start to end of a manufacturing process, with time axes being aligned in a same direction as time axes in the first screen area, based on information of a start time and an end time of a manufacturing process in one or more manufacturing facilities included in a selected first process among the processes, for each of the manufacturing facilities in the first process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Nomamoto, Takehiko Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20180253874
    Abstract: A display method includes: displaying a line segment indicating a passage of time from start to end of a manufacturing process, with time axes aligned in a same direction, based on information of a start time and an end time of a manufacturing process of a product in each process of a manufacturing system that manufactures a product through a plurality of processes sequentially, in a state being segmented for each process in order of execution of the process, for each of one or more products manufactured by the manufacturing system, by a processor; and displaying a symbol representing a manufacturing facility belonging to a corresponding process in a segment matched with a separating position of the segment, by the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi NOMAMOTO, Takehiko Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10055863
    Abstract: A display control system includes: at least a display control device including a transparency control unit that, when displaying a first display component and a second display component such that at least parts of the first display component and the second display component overlap each other, increases a transparency of at least one of the first display component and the second display component in an overlapping portion according to one of a density of display contents contained in the first display component and a density of display contents contained in the second display component in the overlapping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takehiko Nishimura, Kazuki Takahashi, Ryota Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20180204148
    Abstract: A management system that performs, based on sensor information received from a sensor disposed in a manufacturing area, process management in the manufacturing area, the management system includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process including: acquiring information on a pause time slot of work in the manufacturing area; and displaying, when displaying temporal transition of a manufacturing process on a time axis based on the sensor information, the temporal transition on a display after having compressed duration from a start time to an end time of the acquired pause time slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takehiko Nishimura, Kazuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20180191988
    Abstract: A manufacturing-state display system that displays a manufacturing status of a product manufactured through a plurality of manufacturing processes, the manufacturing-state display system includes: displaying a graph that indicates a time elapsed from start to end of each of the manufacturing processes based on information on start times and end times of the manufacturing processes, each of the manufacturing processes being segmented in order of execution of the manufacturing processes and time axes being aligned in an identical direction; receiving designation of an area that indicates manufacturing for any product in any manufacturing process on the graph displayed; and reproducing a captured image that corresponds to a start time to an end time of manufacturing for a specific product in a specific manufacturing process, specified by the area of which the designation has been received, among captured images with regard to the manufacturing processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuki Takahashi, Takehiko Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20180129991
    Abstract: A manufacturing process management system includes: a display circuit; and a processor configured to: display, on the display circuit, a graph which represents an elapsed time from a start to a finish of each of a plurality of manufacturing processes through which a product is manufactured, based on information of starting times and finishing times of the manufacturing processes, in a state where the plurality of manufacturing processes are divided into each of manufacturing processes in an execution order and time axes are aligned in a same direction; specify, from among captured images of the plurality of manufacturing processes which are stored in a storage, a captured image which corresponds to the manufacturing process for a designated position on the displayed graph; and display the specified captured image on the display circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuki Takahashi, Takehiko Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9922435
    Abstract: A display system includes at least a display device. The display device includes a processor configured to execute a process including: identifying a processing period and a waiting period of a first device and a processing period and a waiting period of a second device based on log information of processing in the first device and log information of processing in the second device that performs processing subsequent to the first device; arranging the processing period and the waiting period of the first device identified on a first time axis that indicates changes of the processing period and the waiting period in the first device; calculating a distance between the first time axis and a second time axis; and displaying a graph in which transitions of the processing period and the waiting period are expressed with different band stripes based on the distance calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takehiko Nishimura, Kazuhiko Sunagawa, Ryota Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20180004194
    Abstract: A display method of a manufacturing status to visualize a manufacturing status of products each manufactured through processing performed by a plurality of apparatuses included in a manufacturing line includes identifying, for each product to be manufactured in a certain manufacturing unit, a starting time or an ending time or both of the processing performed on the product by a first apparatus and a starting time or an ending time or both of the processing performed on the product by a second apparatus based on log information of the first apparatus and log information of the second apparatus, the first and the second apparatuses being included in the manufacturing line, the second apparatus performing the processing after the processing performed by the first apparatus, using a processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takehiko NISHIMURA, Yuki SATO
  • Patent number: 9791853
    Abstract: A display method of a manufacturing status to visualize a manufacturing status of products each manufactured through processing performed by a plurality of apparatuses included in a manufacturing line includes identifying, for each product to be manufactured in a certain manufacturing unit, a starting time or an ending time or both of the processing performed on the product by a first apparatus and a starting time or an ending time or both of the processing performed on the product by a second apparatus based on log information of the first apparatus and log information of the second apparatus, the first and the second apparatuses being included in the manufacturing line, the second apparatus performing the processing after the processing performed by the first apparatus, using a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takehiko Nishimura, Yuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20160284109
    Abstract: A display system includes at least a display device. The display device includes a processor configured to execute a process including: identifying a processing period and a waiting period of a first device and a processing period and a waiting period of a second device based on log information of processing in the first device and log information of processing in the second device that performs processing subsequent to the first device; arranging the processing period and the waiting period of the first device identified on a first time axis that indicates changes of the processing period and the waiting period in the first device; calculating a distance between the first time axis and a second time axis; and displaying a graph in which transitions of the processing period and the waiting period are expressed with different band stripes based on the distance calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takehiko Nishimura, Kazuhiko Sunagawa, Ryota Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20160253828
    Abstract: A display control system includes: a display control device including a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process including: displaying, when displaying a plurality of graphs in a layered manner by performing translucent display, a layered structure of the graphs that represents an order of stacking of the graphs in a vertical direction and a width of each of the graphs in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takehiko NISHIMURA, Kazuki TAKAHASHI, Ryota SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160210765
    Abstract: A display control system includes: at least a display control device including a transparency control unit that, when displaying a first display component and a second display component such that at least parts of the first display component and the second display component overlap each other, increases a transparency of at least one of the first display component and the second display component in an overlapping portion according to one of a density of display contents contained in the first display component and a density of display contents contained in the second display component in the overlapping portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takehiko Nishimura, Kazuki Takahashi, Ryota Sakaguchi