Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Sony Corporation

Tachi-S Co., Ltd.

Sony Group Corporation

Shunsuke Hayashi

Toyoaki Yokoi

Hideo Matsukawa

Tatsuya Iwasaki

Makoto Imamura

Hiroaki Nakajima

Takanori Komuro

Makoto Korehisa

Kiyoharu Inou

Hitoshi Yasui

Kenji Fujino

Mamoru Tamba

Ikutomo Watanabe

Kenji Habaguchi

Kuniharu Akabane

Noriaki Kihara

Norihisa Narita

Yoshio Hasegawa

Hiroyuki Jimi

Takeshi Arimizu

Hajime Akai

Isao Domoto

Eiji Nakamoto

Takayuki Ooshima

Yoshitugu Morioka

An abnormality is diagnosed in a control system including a plurality of controllers adopting a redundant configuration, a diagnosing apparatus that diagnoses a control system. The control system includes a plurality of controllers adopting a redundant configuration; and an interface apparatus that outputs control output data, which is based on a plurality of redundant pieces of control data received from the plurality of controllers, to a device under control. The diagnosing apparatus includes a statistical information acquiring section that acquires statistical information including adoption/non-adoption of the control data from each of the plurality of controllers in the interface apparatus; and a diagnosing section that diagnoses the control system based on the statistical information.

Diagnosing apparatus, diagnosing method, and computer readable medium storing diagnosing program

A control system () includes hardware (), an inter-application interference prevention processing unit () that operates in the hardware (), controller applications () that operate on the inter-application interference prevention processing unit (), and a selection processing unit (). The controller applications () each perform a predetermined calculation on an input value and output a calculated value as a calculation result. The selection processing unit () selects one output value based on the calculated values outputted by the controller applications () and outputs the output value.

Control system and control apparatus

A control system, a control method and an equalization apparatus for improving process control reliability are provided. In each equalization apparatus, a received-data outputting unit sends, to a network, input data from a sensor measuring a state of a process; an other-apparatus-data receiving unit acquires the input data from the received-data outputting unit and receives, from the network, input data sent from each of other equalization apparatuses than itself; and a data selecting unit selects, as output data, a representative value of the input data acquired by the other-apparatus-data receiving unit. Each computing apparatus calculates a manipulative variable of an actuator based on the output data from a corresponding equalization apparatus.

Control system, control method and equalization apparatus

A seat for a vehicle includes a seat cushion, a seat back, and a reclining device configured to allow the seat back to be tilted to the seat cushion. The seat back includes a back frame having an opening and a pipe frame comprising a pipe member, and the pipe frame includes a distal end part. The lower part of the pipe frame extends through the opening such that the distal end part is located inside a space defined by the back frame and the reclining device, and the lower part of the pipe frame is fixed to the back frame at the opening. Rotation center of the reclining device is set so as to be aligned with axial center of the lower part of the pipe frame.

Seat for vehicle

A process control system includes an I/O module configured to be connected to a field device which is installed in a plant in which an industrial process is controlled, the I/O module autonomously transmitting data received from the field device, and a higher-level device that comprises a memory which temporarily stores the data autonomously transmitted from the I/O module, the higher-level device reading the data stored in the memory at a predetermined period.

Field bus system with industrial measurement device having automonous control operation

A signal processing apparatus includes an interface module and a signal processing module. The interface module includes an identification resistance for identifying the interface module, the interface module being connectable to a device configured to perform at least one of measuring of a measuring target and operating of an operation target. The signal processing module includes a first connection terminal connected to one end of the identification resistance, a first power source connected to the identification resistance via the first connection terminal, a detector configured to detect any one of voltage and electrical current at the first connection terminal, and a signal processor configured to process signals received from and transmitted to the device.

Signal processing apparatus

An input/output (I/O) module is configured to connect a controller and a field device. The I/O module includes a PWM (pulse width modulation) demodulator configured to demodulate a PWM signal that is input from the controller, a current source configured to output a current based on an output signal of the PWM demodulator to the field device, a resistance connected in line with the current source, and a feedback circuit configured to feed back an output current of the current source to the PWM demodulator via the controller.

I/O module

A timing detection device includes a draw back amount acquiring unit and a detecting unit. The draw back amount acquiring unit is configured to acquire a draw back amount of a received signal with respect to a peak value of the signal. The detecting unit is configured to detect the timing at which the draw back amount acquired by the draw back amount acquiring unit has exceeded a constant value as the timing at which a value of the signal is switched.

Timing detection device

A method of presenting information, capable of displaying an image including one or more objects being in the vicinity of the ground, the method including the steps of: acquiring viewpoint information; acquiring visual line information; acquiring posture information; acquiring additional information related to the object position information; calculating horizon line information in the image; determining a reference line on the image on the basis of the horizon line information and the posture information; calculating distance information from the viewpoint position to the object; determining a display attribute of the additional information including a display mode of the additional information and a display position of the additional information in the image with respect to the reference line; and presenting the additional information on the basis of the display mode so as to reveal a relationship between the additional information and the object when displaying the image on the display unit.

Information presentation apparatus, information presentation method, imaging apparatus, and computer program

A communication control system and method comprising, in one embodiment, a plurality of strobe signals are generated at different timings in a transmission circuit and a plurality of latch circuits equal to the number of strobe signals are provided in a receiver circuit so that data is retained in each latch circuit using the strobe signals one at a time.

Communication system and communication control method

A communication control system and method comprising, in one embodiment, a master station connected to a slave station using two redundant buses, wherein command frames having the same content are sent out to the buses and the communication process is changed depending on whether or not the contents of the command frames, when received by the receiving station, are identical.

A communication control system and method comprising, in one embodiment, a master station connected to a slave station using two redundant buses, wherein command frames having the same content are sent out to the buses and the communication process is changed depending on whether or not the contents of the command frames, when received by the a receiving station, are identical. In another embodiment, a plurality of units are connected to each bus in a multi-drop configuration, and a line length of each bus is defined so that reflected signals from other units reach a receiving unit on each bus after the transition period of a received signal at that receiving unit ends. In still another embodiment, a unit is connected to each bus and the unit is provided with a driver IC, wherein transmission data is first encoded into bit signals having a fixed number of bits, then the signals are supplied to the driver IC. In a further embodiment, a plurality of strobe signals are generated at different timings in a transmission circuit and a plurality of latch circuits equal to the number of strobe signals are provided in a receiver circuit so that data is retained in each latch circuit using the strobe signals one at a time. In a still further embodiment, an arbitration procedure is carried out using an arbitration bus when a bus master desires to use a data bus immediately after using the data bus, wherein it is determined whether arbitration has been carried out using the arbitration bus, and if none has been carried out, the arbitration procedure is omitted and the bus master is allowed to aquire the right to again use the data bus.

A dual computer system comprising a pair of processor units, and a dual control unit for controlling which of the two processor units are to be kept operating or on standby in case of failure of the operated unit; wherein the dual control unit controls which processor unit is to be operated through monitoring of the operating states of the two processor units, and comprising two independent interruption devices for indicating the switching of the two processor units through interruption. The system is effective in improving the continuity of the control at the time of switching.

Dual computer system

A switching power supply comprising a converting circuit; an analog-to-digital converter for converting a signal referring to an output signal from the converting circuit into digital form; a parallel-to-series converter for converting a bit train signal containing the output signal from the analog-to-digital converter into a pulse train; an isolation means for transmitting the pulse train to the primary winding of a transformer while concurrently electrically isolating the pulse train; a series-to-parallel converter for demodulating the pulse train into a parallel signal; and a control circuit. The converting circuit has a switching device which turns ON and OFF the voltage applied across the primary winding. The converting circuit provides rectification and smoothing of voltage induced in the secondary winding of the transformer, and supplies an output DC voltage to a load. The control circuit calculates control output for regulating the output voltage from the converting circuit which is received also by the series-to-parallel converter, to a given voltage. The control circuit further acts to produce an output signal which turns ON and OFF the switching device.

Switching power supply

A signal conditioner comprising a receiving part, a transmitting part, and a power supply part, wherein the main functions of these components are digitalized and common circuit elements are used for different functions. Signal conditions may be of several different types, each of which is a hardware which can accommodate various transmitters and actuators.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shunsuke Hayashi