Patents by Inventor Toru Kogawara
Toru Kogawara 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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Patent number: 11822313Abstract: A synchronization control device (10) includes: a main axis command calculator (Cmm) that calculates a main axis command position based on time-series target position information; a main axis modeler (Mm) that calculates a predicted main axis feedback position by a dynamic characteristic model of a main axis servo control mechanism (20) by inputting the main axis command position, a main axis feedback position, and a predicted main axis command position after a predetermined time calculated based on the target position information; and a driven axis command calculator (Cms) that calculates a driven axis command position based on the predicted main axis feedback position. This configuration achieves synchronization control that improves the accuracy of synchronous drive of the driven axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Matsunaga, Hidehiko Sekimoto, Toru Kogawara, Junji Shimamura
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Publication number: 20220327206Abstract: A control system includes a control engine that cyclically updates internal state values on the basis of a signal exchanged with a control target; a security engine that executes an incident response operation in response to an incident that possibly occurs in the control system; and a phase update module that updates a phase value indicating an operation state of the control target on the basis of one or more values selected discretionarily in advance by a user from among the internal state values retained by the control engine. The security engine retains operation definition information in which the content of the incident response operation is defined for each phase, and executes a corresponding incident response operation defined in the operation definition information in accordance with the phase value updated by the phase update module.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Toru KOGAWARA, Taisei YAMAMOTO, Naoki HIROBE, Yuta NAGATA
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Publication number: 20220206465Abstract: A support device is connected to a controller system that controls a control target. The controller system can execute an incident response operation of changing a behavior in accordance with an incident that may occur in the controller system. The support device includes a selection module and a setting module. The selection module receives selection of a facility type corresponding to the control target among plural facility types which is preset. The setting module reflects a response rule corresponding to the selected facility type in the controller system by referring to a response rule that is prepared in advance for each of the facility types and defines a behavior for an incident.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Taisei YAMAMOTO, Toru KOGAWARA, Naoki HIROBE, Yuta NAGATA
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Publication number: 20220171858Abstract: A controller system according to the present invention includes: a control unit that executes control calculation for controlling a control target; a security unit that is connected to the control unit and that is in charge of security functions for a controller system; an attack pattern creation part for acquiring setting information in the controller system and creating an attack pattern for the controller system on the basis of the acquired setting information; and an attack execution part for executing an attack on the controller system according to the created attack pattern and evaluating whether or not the security functions set in the controller system are valid on the basis of the behavior of the controller system in response to the attack.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Naoki HIROBE, Toru KOGAWARA, Taisei YAMAMOTO, Yuta NAGATA
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Publication number: 20220019197Abstract: A synchronous control device (10) includes a spindle control part (11a) and a driven shaft control part (11b). The driven shaft control part (11b) includes a driven shaft command position variation suppression part (114) which generates as a driven shaft command phase (Ps) a projected driven shaft command phase obtained by adding an advance angle amount (Pa) corresponding to a spindle speed to a spindle phase (Pm) in a case where a sign of the spindle speed is reverse from a previous period, and generates as the driven shaft command phase (Ps) a value in which a sign of a shift from the driven shaft command phase in the previous period is not reverse from the sign of the spindle speed in a predetermined case where the sign of the spindle speed is not reverse from the previous period.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Daisuke MATSUNAGA, Toru KOGAWARA, Junji SHIMAMURA
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Publication number: 20210373530Abstract: A synchronization control device (10) includes: a main axis command calculator (Cmm) that calculates a main axis command position based on time-series target position information; a main axis modeler (Mm) that calculates a predicted main axis feedback position by a dynamic characteristic model of a main axis servo control mechanism (20) by inputting the main axis command position, a main axis feedback position, and a predicted main axis command position after a predetermined time calculated based on the target position information; and a driven axis command calculator (Cms) that calculates a driven axis command position based on the predicted main axis feedback position. This configuration achieves synchronization control that improves the accuracy of synchronous drive of the driven axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Daisuke MATSUNAGA, Hidehiko SEKIMOTO, Toru KOGAWARA, Junji SHIMAMURA
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Patent number: 10882179Abstract: The control system includes a master device control part controlling a master device with a certain number of control axes by using master information and a slave device control part controlling a slave device with a certain number of control axes by using slave information. The control system includes an abstracted master information creating part for creating abstracted master information having a fixed number of elements based on a predetermined manner for allocation and according to the number of elements of the received master information. The slave device control part extracts elements in a number in accordance with the number of elements of the slave information from the fixed number of elements included in the abstracted master information based on a predetermined manner for extraction and according to the number of elements of the slave information to create the slave information.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventor: Toru Kogawara
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Patent number: 10747189Abstract: The control system includes: a master device control part (20) controlling a master device (101) with a certain number of control axes (m) by using master information (Mm) composed of elements equal in number to the number of control axes; and a slave device control part (40) controlling a slave device (102) with a certain number of control axes (n) by using slave information (Sn) composed of elements equal in number to the number of control axes. A central control device (30) of the disclosure includes an abstracted master information creating part (31) for creating abstracted master information (AM6) having a fixed number of elements based on a predetermined manner for allocation and according to the number of elements of the received master information (Mm), and provides the abstracted master information (AM6) to the slave device control part (40) for creating the slave information (Sn).Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventor: Toru Kogawara
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Patent number: 10625417Abstract: A control system including a selective compliance assembly robot arm (SCARA) robot is provided. The SCARA robot includes a first arm configured to be rotatable around a first rotation shaft, a second arm configured to be rotatable around a second rotation shaft arranged parallel to the first rotation shaft and provided on the first arm, and a main shaft configured to be drivable in a direction parallel to the second rotation shaft and provided on the second arm. The control system includes a setting unit providing a user interface for receiving a setting of a two-dimensional operation prohibition region with respect to a point of interest on the SCARA robot. The operation prohibition region corresponds to an area on a plane orthogonal to the main shaft. The control system includes an extension unit two-dimensionally extending the operation prohibition region through an extension in a direction of the main shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Toru Kogawara, Igor Jovanovic, Diego Escudero-Rodrigo, Ferran Carlas Ponce, Raffaele Vito, Sandra Pallarés Gual
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Publication number: 20190275667Abstract: A control device which synchronizes and controls a master device and a slave device at a fixed period when the number of axes of the master device differs from the number of axes of the slave device is provided. A computing unit includes a coordinate transformation unit which performs coordinate transformation from a coordinate system of the master device into a coordinate system of the slave device for a command value for each axis or a measured current value of each axis of the master device at a fixed period and a synchronization computing unit which performs synchronization computation for maintaining the position of the master device and the position of the slave device in a predetermined corresponding relation for coordinate transformation result values obtained through the coordinate transformation. In this manner, a command value for each axis of the slave device is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Toru KOGAWARA, Junji SHIMAMURA
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Publication number: 20190275665Abstract: A control device which synchronizes and controls a master device and a slave device at a fixed period when the number of axes of the master device is less than the number of axes of the slave device can reduce the amount of calculations. A computing unit includes a synchronization computing unit which performs synchronization computation for maintaining the position of the master device and the position of the slave device in a predetermined corresponding relation for a command value for each axis or a measured current value of each axis of the master device at a fixed period and a coordinate transformation unit which performs coordinate transformation from a coordinate system of the master device into a coordinate system of the slave device for synchronization computation values obtained through the synchronization computation. In this manner, a command value for each axis of the slave device is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Toru KOGAWARA, Junji SHIMAMURA
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Patent number: 10395360Abstract: An inspection system for inspecting a workpiece includes: an omnidirectional camera; a movement device for causing the workpiece to circle around the omnidirectional camera in a state where a posture of the workpiece is maintained; an acquisition unit for outputting a capturing instruction to the omnidirectional camera at a plurality of timings while the movement device causes the workpiece to circle around the omnidirectional camera, and for acquiring, from the omnidirectional camera, a plurality of input images indicating the workpiece from different directions; and an inspector for inspecting the workpiece by using the plurality of input images.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventor: Toru Kogawara
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Publication number: 20190250576Abstract: The control system includes: a master device control part (20) controlling a master device (101) with a certain number of control axes (m) by using master information (Mm) composed of elements equal in number to the number of control axes; and a slave device control part (40) controlling a slave device (102) with a certain number of control axes (n) by using slave information (Sn) composed of elements equal in number to the number of control axes. A central control device (30) of the disclosure includes an abstracted master information creating part (31) for creating abstracted master information (AM6) having a fixed number of elements based on a predetermined manner for allocation and according to the number of elements of the received master information (Mm), and provides the abstracted master information (AM6) to the slave device control part (40) for creating the slave information (Sn).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventor: Toru Kogawara
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Publication number: 20190247996Abstract: The control system includes a master device control part controlling a master device with a certain number of control axes by using master information and a slave device control part controlling a slave device with a certain number of control axes by using slave information. The control system includes an abstracted master information creating part for creating abstracted master information having a fixed number of elements based on a predetermined manner for allocation and according to the number of elements of the received master information. The slave device control part extracts elements in a number in accordance with the number of elements of the slave information from the fixed number of elements included in the abstracted master information based on a predetermined manner for extraction and according to the number of elements of the slave information to create the slave information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventor: Toru KOGAWARA
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Publication number: 20190064780Abstract: To allow a user to easily set data to be communicated between a network master and a network slave. An information processing device sets operation conditions for an FA system that includes a network master and a network slave. The information processing device includes a network slave assignment setting unit that sets a role of the network slave based on a user's operation and a data setting unit that sets a type of data to be transmitted between the network slave and the network master based on the role.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Toru Kogawara, Yoshihide Tamura
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Publication number: 20180250816Abstract: A control system including a selective compliance assembly robot arm (SCARA) robot is provided. The SCARA robot includes a first arm configured to be rotatable around a first rotation shaft, a second arm configured to be rotatable around a second rotation shaft arranged parallel to the first rotation shaft and provided on the first arm, and a main shaft configured to be drivable in a direction parallel to the second rotation shaft and provided on the second arm. The control system includes a setting unit providing a user interface for receiving a setting of a two-dimensional operation prohibition region with respect to a point of interest on the SCARA robot. The operation prohibition region corresponds to an area on a plane orthogonal to the main shaft. The control system includes an extension unit two-dimensionally extending the operation prohibition region through an extension in a direction of the main shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2017Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Toru KOGAWARA, IGOR JOVANOVIC, DIEGO ESCUDERO-RODRIGO, Ferran CARLAS PONCE, RAFFAELE VITO, Sandra Pallarés Gual
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Publication number: 20180211372Abstract: An inspection system for inspecting a workpiece includes: an omnidirectional camera; a movement device for causing the workpiece to circle around the omnidirectional camera in a state where a posture of the workpiece is maintained; an acquisition unit for outputting a capturing instruction to the omnidirectional camera at a plurality of timings while the movement device causes the workpiece to circle around the omnidirectional camera, and for acquiring, from the omnidirectional camera, a plurality of input images indicating the workpiece from different directions; and an inspector for inspecting the workpiece by using the plurality of input images.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventor: Toru KOGAWARA
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Publication number: 20090167516Abstract: A look-away detecting system for a vehicle has an image pickup device having a camera configured to capture a face image of a driver, and a look-away detecting apparatus. The look-away detecting apparatus has a sight-line detecting unit configured to detect a direction of the driver's sight-line, a look-away detecting unit configured to detect the driver's look-away in vertical and horizontal directions based on the direction of the driver's sight-line, and to judge a degree of risk due to the driver's look-away, and a vehicle control unit that is configured to indicate the degree of risk to the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Kogawara, Takuya Okamoto, Miki Matsuoka