Omron Corporation

Nidec Corporation

Omron Healthcare Company Ltd.

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.

Murata Manufacturingco., Ltd.

Shikino High-tech Co., Ltd.

Keisuke Saito

Takehiro Kawai

Daichi Ueki

Kosuke Hayama

Taiji Yoshikawa

Hideyuki Ohara

Yasuhiro Kawabata

Takeshi Honda

Yasuaki Nakahara

Satoshi Yase

Shinichiro Okamura

Hisashi Ozawa

Keigo Kamada

Ayaka Iwade

Masayuki Sugano

Tetsuji Yamato

Hisashi Fujihara

Hajime Umeki

Manh Tai Nguyen

Kazuto Nakamura

Takashi Shiraishi

Soji Ohmae

Hirofumi Muto

Tomohiro Yamaoka

Tomohiro Ozaki

Asako Sakashita

Osamu Fujimoto

Junichi Uno

Koichi Furutani

Harshad Bokil

Yusuke Toda

In an apparatus for measuring biological information using a radio wave, a technique for acquiring an index related to a setting position of the apparatus with respect to a measurement site is provided. A biological information measurement apparatus () according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a transmitter () configured to transmit a radio wave toward a measurement site of a living body; a receiver () configured to receive a reflected wave of the radio wave reflected by the measurement site and output a waveform signal of the reflected wave; a feature extraction unit () configured to extract information indicative of a feature of a waveform from the waveform signal; a determination unit () configured to determine whether a setting position of the biological information measurement apparatus with respect to the measurement site satisfies a condition corresponding to a preset reference position based on the extracted information indicative of the feature of the waveform; and an output unit () configured to output information indicative of a determination result determined by the determination unit.

Biological information measurement apparatus, method, and program

An embodiment of the present invention provides a sphygmomanometer that is worn on a measured part of the left wrist of a subject (user) for use. In the sphygmomanometer, on an inner peripheral surface of a band-like body that constitutes a base of a band, a portion for installing a pressure cuff and a protrusion for installing an antenna substrate are separately provided, and the pressure cuff and the antenna substrate are respectively installed on these portions.

Biological information measuring device

A method of manufacturing a rotor includes forming plates each including a scrap portion that has a center hole and core plate portions that are disposed continuously with the scrap portion on an inner side of the center hole and that each defines a portion of a corresponding one of the outer cores forming a multilayer body including the outer cores by stacking the plates, setting at least a portion of the multilayer body and a portion of the inner core in a mold with a gap therebetween in the radial direction, forming a molded body by pouring a molten filling material into a gap in the mold and forming the filling section, at least a portion of the filling section being positioned between the outer cores, and separating the scrap portion and the core plate portions from each other.

Method of manufacturing rotor, rotor, and motor

A Huffman decoding unit includes: a code analysis unit configured to analyze compressed image data in encoded data sequentially received, and sequentially recognize zero run information, group number information, and additional bit information; and a frequency conversion unit configured to generate coefficient information based on the recognized zero run information, group number information and additional bit information. The code analysis unit receives the encoded data sequentially received and cutout information for cutting out a partial image from an entire image that is decodable based on the compressed image data. When the cutout information is received, only in a case where the compressed image data sequentially received is compressed image data intended for cutout, the code analysis unit outputs, to the frequency conversion unit, the zero run information, the group number information, and the additional bit information, each of which is recognized by analyzing the compressed image data.

Image decoding device for expanding a partial image from an entire image

A rotor includes a rotor core including laminated thin plate cores. A single thin plate core includes an inner plate portion defining a portion of an inner core portion and outer plate portions defining a portion of an outer core portion. At least some of the laminated thin plate cores include a connecting portion. A number of connecting portion is one or a plurality, and, when the number of connecting portions is a plurality, the connecting portions at positions other than both left and right sides of each other in a circumferential direction, and, in plan view, the thin plate core includes the connecting portion at a position different from that of a connecting portion in another thin plate core adjacent in an axial direction.

Rotor, motor, and rotor manufacturing method

A battery pack includes a battery section including one or a plurality of battery cells, a microcomputer configured to communicate with outside, a power supply terminal connected to the battery section, a communication terminal of the battery pack connected to a communication terminal of the microcomputer, a high voltage detector configured to detect high voltage by comparing voltage applied to the communication terminal of the battery pack with a preset threshold value, and a switch configured to disconnect the communication terminal of the microcomputer from the communication terminal of the battery pack in response to an output from the high voltage detector.

Battery pack, electronic device, and method of controlling battery pack

Provided is a battery module including a battery part including one battery cell or a plurality of battery cells connected in series, first and second leads respectively led out from a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the battery part, a first FET in which the first FET is an N-channel type and a drain of the first FET is connected to the first lead and a source of the first FET is connected to a positive output terminal, a negative output terminal connected to the second lead, a pre-discharge circuit provided in parallel with a drain-source path of the first FET and is configured to raise a potential of the positive output terminal prior to an ON state of the first FET at discharging, and a forced OFF circuit configured to turn off the first FET by short-circuiting between a gate and the source of the first FET.

Battery module including one or more battery cells connected in series and battery device including same

A wireless communication device acquires, from a predetermined wireless slave device included in one or more wireless slave devices different from the wireless communication device, unrelated transmission information that is transmission information wirelessly transmitted to a master device, corresponding to the predetermined wireless slave device, in accordance with the predetermined time division multiple access scheme and that includes identification information identifying the predetermined wireless slave device, the unrelated transmission information being acquired at the time of the wireless transmission. On the basis of the identification information included in the unrelated transmission information, the acquisition time of the unrelated transmission information, and information relating to a transmission sequence, the wireless communication device determines a predetermined time slot for the wireless communication device to transmit the predetermined information to the master device corresponding thereto in accordance with the predetermined time division multiple access scheme; and transmits the predetermined information.

Wireless communication device, wireless information collection system, and wireless communication method

Provided is a radio formed to be capable of performing wireless communication with one driving apparatus, and configured to be connected, through one communication port via wired communication, to a slave control apparatus configured to be communicably connected to a master control apparatus with a predetermined communication method, the radio including an identification information collection unit collecting, from the one driving apparatus, identification information for identifying the one driving apparatus, when the radio is initially connected to the one driving apparatus via wireless communication, and a transfer control unit mediating data transfer between the master control apparatus and the one driving apparatus, such that the one driving apparatus is directly connected to the one communication port in a virtual manner, based on the identification information of the one driving apparatus collected by the identification information collection unit.

Radio

Provided is a wireless power supply control system including a control apparatus controlling driving of one or more driving devices in accordance with a plurality of predetermined driving patterns, a first radio having a directional antenna, and a second radio driven by power supply radio waves transmitted from the first radio. Target driving directivity information corresponding to a target driving pattern acquired by an acquisition unit is selected from among pieces of driving directivity information relating to a directivity applied to the directional antenna, in a state in which driving of the driving devices is controlled by the control apparatus in accordance with the driving patterns, the selected target driving directivity information is applied to the directional antenna of the first radio, and wireless power supply from the first radio to the second radio is executed.

Wireless power supply control system and method for producing directivity information

Provided is a radio formed to be capable of performing wireless communication with a sensor that measures a predetermined environmental parameter in a predetermined closed space, the radio including an antenna portion disposed in the predetermined closed space and for performing wireless communication with the sensor, and a control unit that controls a mode by which the antenna portion transmits and receives wireless radio waves such that standing waves envisaged to be formed in the predetermined closed space based on radio waves transmitted from the sensor to the antenna portion, or standing waves envisaged to be formed in the predetermined closed space based on radio waves transmitted from the antenna portion to the sensor change with the lapse of time during the wireless communication.

Provided is a wireless communication control system including a control apparatus that controls driving of one or more driving devices in accordance with a plurality of predetermined driving patterns, a first radio having a directional antenna, and a second radio. Target driving directivity information corresponding to a target driving pattern acquired by an acquisition unit is selected from among pieces of driving directivity information relating to a directivity applied to the directional antenna in a state in which driving of the one or more driving devices is controlled by the control apparatus in accordance with the plurality of driving patterns, the selected target driving directivity information is applied to the directional antenna of the first radio, and wireless communication between the first radio and the second radio is executed.

Wireless communication control system, wireless communication control apparatus, method for controlling wireless communication, and method for producing directivity information

A wireless communication control system includes a first radio having a directional antenna, a second radio, a directivity control unit controlling the directivity of the directional antenna, and a directivity information storage unit storing directivity information relating to a directivity, the directivity information being applied to the directional antenna in relation to wireless communication between the first and second radios in accordance with a plurality of change patterns indicating a temporal change in a received signal intensity. The directivity control unit acquires a temporal change in a received signal intensity during wireless communication between the first and second radios, selects, from among pieces of the directivity information stored in the directivity information storage unit, directivity information corresponding to the change pattern corresponding to the temporal change in the received signal intensity, applies the selected directivity information, and executes wireless communication between the first and second radios.

Wireless communication control system, wireless communication control apparatus, method for controlling wireless communication, method for producing directivity information, and radio

Provided is a radio formed to be capable of performing wireless communication with sensors, and configured to be connected, through one communication port via wired communication, to a slave control apparatus configured to be communicably connected to a master control apparatus with a predetermined communication method. The radio generates one communication packet formed with the predetermined communication method and transmitted from the radio to the slave control apparatus, such that pieces of measured data measured by the sensors are included in the one communication packet in accordance with a predetermined order in which the slave control apparatus or the master control apparatus can determine which sensor measured which piece of the measured data of the sensors, and the radio transmits the generated one communication packet to the slave control apparatus via wired communication.

Radio and slave control apparatus

In a wireless control terminal configured to control a control target connected to a control apparatus by working in cooperation with a wireless assistant terminal capable of transmitting a predetermined control instruction for controlling the control target to the control apparatus by using a predetermined control wireless scheme with supply of power from a battery included in the wireless assistant terminal, a wireless control terminal-side battery is provided within the wireless control terminal so as to supply driving power required for control regarding emergency stop of the control target performed with a predetermined wireless scheme of the wireless control terminal. At least remaining storage power information regarding a remaining amount of storage power in the wireless control terminal-side battery is output to a notification apparatus provided in the wireless control terminal or the wireless assistant terminal.

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Suita, Japan

Keisuke Saito