Omron Corporation

Hiroyuki Ibuki

Katsumi Matsushita

Yasuyuki Ohba

Akihiro Ishii

Norihisa Takahashi

Tatsuya Adachi

Yasuyuki Oba

Yasuyuki Ooba

The present invention is provided with: a first detector (A) which detects, as an application result, whether a user could implement, as instructed, teaching content according to a program selected from a training menu; a second detector (B) which detects, as a compatibility result, whether effects of the teaching content were exhibited; a recording part () which cumulatively records the application result and the compatibility result as an execution result together with program identifying information; and a calculation part () which, on the basis of one or more than one execution results recorded in the recording part, calculates for each program, as a compatibility ratio, the ratio of the number of execution results having positive compatibility results to the number of execution results having positive application results.

Teaching compatibility determining device, system, method and recording medium

In order to control driving a moving body back and forth a driving-device control apparatus including a communication unit and a control unit receives a control command from a host controller and controls a driving device to drive a moving body back and forth based on the control command. The communication unit receives the control command including a round-trip instruction for causing the moving body to operate back and forth from the host controller. The control unit controls the driving device to operate the moving body back and forth based on instructions in the control command when the control command includes the round-trip instruction.

Driving-device control apparatus for driving moving body back and forth and game machine including driving-device control apparatus

Disclosed are an evaluation system, an evaluation device, a game machine, and an evaluation method for being able to evaluate a drive motor that drives various movable bodies called an accessory attached to a game machine such as a pachinko game machine. The game machine includes an accessory mechanism and a motor control mechanism that controls the drive motor of the accessory mechanism. The evaluation device is connectable to the game machine. The motor control mechanism controls the drive motor by outputting a control signal based on input from the evaluation device, and the motor control mechanism outputs a rotational position and a rotational speed of the controlled drive motor and the control signal to the evaluation device. The evaluation device evaluates the drive motor based on the input rotational position, rotational speed, and control signal.

Evaluation system, evaluation device, game machine, and evaluation method

A motor control device configured to control a motor, includes a first memory; a second memory different from the first memory; a communication interface circuit configured to receive a control command from an external device; a command parser configured to store control information in the first memory and in the second memory when the control command includes control information defining an operation of the motor, and to generate a response signal including the control information stored in the first memory when the control command includes a command for verifying a communication state and transmit the response signal to the external device via the communication interface circuit; a control unit configured to read the control information from the second memory; and a drive signal generator.

Motor control device and game machine

In a motor control device, a communication interface receives a control command defining a target rotation amount and a target rotation speed of a motor. A sensor interface receives a detection signal from a rotation angle sensor outputting a detection signal in every rotation of the motor at a predetermined angle. A controller decides a set value of a rotation speed of the motor. A drive signal generator generates and outputs a drive signal for rotating the motor. The controller calculates a difference between the target rotation amount and a total rotation amount of the motor from start of execution of the control command, based on the number of received detection signals, and determines whether an abnormality occurs in operation of the motor based on an update frequency of a minimum value of the difference or a non-update period when the minimum value of the difference is not updated.

A motor control device includes: a communication interface receiving from an external device a control command for defining a target rotation amount and a target rotation speed of the motor; a sensor interface connected with a first rotation angle sensor outputting a first detection signal in every rotation of the motor at a first angle or a second rotation angle sensor outputting a second detection signal in every rotation of the motor at a second angle larger than the first angle; a controller obtaining a measured value of a rotation speed of the motor based on a reception interval of the first or second detection signal, to decide a set value of the rotation speed to bring the measured value close to the target rotation speed; and a drive signal generator generating a drive signal for rotating the motor according to the set value, and outputting the drive signal.

A DC motor control device includes a communication circuit configured to receive a control command specifying a target rotation amount for a DC motor, a sensor interface configured to receive a detection signal from a rotational angle sensor that outputs the detection signal every time the DC motor rotates by a certain rotational angle, a step counter that outputs a count signal every time the detection signal has been received a certain number of times, a controller that, based on the number of times the count signal received, determines a step count representing the total amount of rotation, and generates a control signal that controls the DC motor in accordance with the step count and the target rotation amount, and a drive signal generation circuit that generates a drive signal that rotates the DC motor in accordance with the control signal.

DC motor control device and game machine

A movable body drive device that controls a drive unit configured to drive a movable body arranged on a game machine has a communication unit that receives a control command for regulating a destination position of the movable body, a storage unit that stores a current position of the movable body, and a control unit that determines, based on a difference between the destination position and the current position or a moving direction in an immediately previous action of the movable body, a moving direction in the next action of the movable body and to control the drive unit such that the movable body is moved along the moving direction in the next action until the movable body reaches the destination position.

Movable object driving device and game machine

A drive control system has: a plurality of drive control devices; and an upper-level control device to which each of the drive control devices is connected in parallel with each other via a common signal line. The upper-level control device transmits a common information acquirement request signal to each of the drive control devices. Upon receiving the information acquirement request signal, each of the drive control devices determines transmission start timing for a response signal based on transmission sequence information indicating its transmission sequence and a length of the response signal such that the response signal does not temporally overlap with a response signal being transmitted from another drive control device to the upper-level control device. Each of the drive control devices transmits the response signal to the upper-level control device via the signal line at its transmission starting timing.

Drive control device and drive control system

A motor control device has a communication unit that receives a control command comprising a motor type identification signal and a rotation signal, wherein the motor type identification signal indicates whether a control object motor is a stepping motor or a DC motor, and wherein the rotation signal designates a target rotation amount and a target rotation speed of the motor, a sensor interface that receives a detection signal from a rotation angle sensor when the control object motor is the DC motor, wherein the rotation angle sensor outputs the detection signal every time the motor rotates by a first rotation angle, a DC motor drive signal generator that generates and outputs a first drive signal rotating the DC motor at the target rotation speed, and a stepping motor drive signal generator that generates and outputs a second drive signal rotating the stepping motor at the target rotation speed.

A light source control device configured to control a plurality of light sources provided in a game machine, an anode of each of the plurality of light sources being connected to one of at least one first signal wire, a cathode being connected to one of a plurality of second signal wires, the light sources differing from each other in a set of the connected first signal wire and second signal wire, has a plurality of first output pins, a plurality of second output pins, an interface, a storage, a dynamic controller, a period-setting unit, and a gradation controller. Each of the plurality of first output pins is provided in corresponding one of the at least one first signal wire. The plurality of first output pins connect to a drive circuit that switches whether power is supplied to the first signal wire.

Light source control device and game machine

A game machine has a game machine main body, a plurality of light sources arranged on the game machine main body, a light source control device that controls the plurality of light sources, and a rendition control unit that controls a rendition depending on a state of a game. Each of the plurality of light sources has an anode connected to any one of a plurality of first signal lines, a cathode connected to any one of a plurality of second signal lines, and a different combination of the connected first signal lines and the connected second signal lines.

A drive control device having: a storage circuit configured to store a reference rotational speed table; a drive signal generation circuit configured to output a drive signal to the direct current motor; and a control circuit. When an absolute value of a difference between a second rotational speed corresponding to a first rotational direction and a third rotational speed corresponding to a second rotational direction is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, the control circuit creates separate rotational speed tables for the first rotational direction and the second rotational direction in which each rotational speed table indicates a relation between a rotational speed and an electric power amount per unit time, and determines an amount of electric power that is supplied to the direct current motor which corresponds to a designated rotational speed according to the rotational speed table selected in accordance with a designated rotational rotation.

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Ichinomiya, Japan

Hiroyuki Ibuki