Omron Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Daikin Seisakusho

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nitta Corporation Nara Factory

Toru Fujii

Reiko Hattori

Shiro Sugihara

Manabu Tsuda

Minoru Abe

Heiji Fukutake

Takayoshi Matsuyama

Shigeru Kanehara

Osamu Shirasaki

Hideo Koyama

Yuya Ota

Kohei Tomita

Takeshi Ashida

Kosuke Tsuruta

Hiroshi Kumamoto

Masaki Yamada

Hiroshi Kuribayashi

Yumi Saito

Shin Egami

Toshiya Hamasaki

Kinya Toda

Hideki Yachiku

Zhang Zhimming

Katuyuki Inage

Takemasa Kurokawa

Takeshi Yamamoto

Koji Hirose

Hiroki Koyama

Mineo Sono

An information processing device determines, based on a preset threshold, whether the production index belongs to either a first section or a second section contained in one maintenance cycle of the member, wherein a change in the production index is larger in the second section than in the first section. The information processing device executes at least one of first processing in which the production index determined to belong to the first section is used and second processing in which the production index determined to belong to the second section is used.

Information processing device and information processing method

There are provided a load state diagnosis device and a load state diagnosis method for a servomotor. A PLC diagnoses the load state of the servomotor which rotationally drives a rotary tool in a predetermined rotational drive direction at a constant speed. The PLC includes a detection part that detects the rotational direction of a torque acting on the servomotor, a determination part that determines whether the rotational direction of the torque detected by the detection part is consistent with the predetermined rotational drive direction, and a load index output part that outputs a load index indicating the load state of the servomotor based on a determination result of the determination part.

Load state diagnosis device and load state diagnosis method for servomotor

An arc detector includes a current sensor, a power spectrum conversion unit that converts an output from the current sensor to a power spectrum, a section value obtaining unit that divides an arc measurement section for the power spectrum into a plurality of regions, and obtains, from region values for the plurality of regions excluding a maximum one of the region values, a region value to be a section value of the arc measurement section, and an arc determination unit that determines a presence of an arc by comparing the section value with a threshold.

Arc detector and arc detection method

A data collection system includes: a contact information acquisition unit, for obtaining contact information; a state recognition unit, for obtaining, based on contact information acquired by the contact information acquisition unit, state information concerning the state of a equipment; a state coding unit, for transforming into coded contact associated information the state information obtained by the state recognition unit; and an output unit, for transmitting to an output apparatus contact information obtained by the contact information acquisition unit and for transmitting to a network apparatus contact associated information obtained by the state coding unit. With this arrangement, information concerning the operation of a equipment can be easily obtained, without requiring the reconstruction of a equipment or a great change in a sequence program, such as a programmable controller, mounted in the equipment.

Data collection system

An operating condition monitoring apparatus includes a load-time information acquisition unitobtaining load-time information, of one or more production apparatuses, concerning load time allocated to production within a predetermined period, an operating-time information acquisition unitobtaining operating-time information, of one or more production apparatuses, concerning operating time that is operable time for the production apparatuses within the predetermined period, an individual operating-rate calculation unitcalculating an individual operating rate of one or more production apparatusesby dividing the operating time indicated in the operating-time information by the load time indicated in the load-time information, and an output unitoutputting the individual operating rate, in order to identify the production apparatus causing the stoppage of a production line.

Operating condition monitoring apparatus, method for monitoring operating condition and program

An inspectional equation storage unitfor storing an inspectional equation calculating one or more principal component scores, the inspectional equation being obtained by performing a principal component analysis on measured data on a plurality of measuring objects in terms of two or more correlated measurement items, and the measuring objects being processed by the manufacturing apparatus whose adjustable conditions are changed while the manufacturing apparatus is in a normal state; an inspected measured-data acceptance unitfor accepting inspected measured data on the measuring objects processed by the manufacturing apparatus in terms of the measurement items corresponding to each term contained in the inspectional equation; a principal-component-score calculation unitfor calculating principal component scores using the inspected measured data with the inspectional equation; an inspecting unitfor inspecting the manufacturing apparatus using the calculated principal component scores; and an output unitfor outputting the inspecting results.

Combine-information processing apparatus, method for processing combine-information, program, and recording medium

A manufacture condition setting system includes a manufacture state acquisition unit to which static/dynamic conditions and a product quality in the case where the static/dynamic conditions do not change for, at least, a predetermined number of manufactured articles in an ordinary manufacture state are inputted together with reference information, a dynamic condition inference unit which estimates and outputs a corresponding optimal dynamic condition in a case where a combination of the static conditions is an experienced one, and a dynamic condition correction unit which, if necessary, corrects inference knowledge stored by the dynamic condition inference unit, by using information inputted from the manufacture state acquisition unit.

Manufacture condition setting system, manufacture condition setting method, control program, and computer-readable record medium recording control program therein

Various items of data collected at different process steps are associated on production sites where traceability is hard to conduct. A quality control apparatus controls a manufacturing process in order to manufacture products of predetermined quality, including a data storing part which collects measurement data measured by multiple devices disposed in a manufacturing process and stores the collected measurement data along with measured time or collected time; and a scheduler which associates the measurement data of the devices with each other in consideration of dead time generated between the devices at measured time or collected time.

Quality control apparatus and control method of the same, and recording medium recorded with quality control program

A quality variation display device that can surely identify periodic information about quality on a product number basis such as the occurrence of a failure for every prescribed number of products is provided. The device includes a quality data storing database that stores the measurement result of each product measured by a measuring unit in association with the manufacturing order, an interval statistic calculation portion that shifts an interval corresponding to a prescribed number of products by a prescribed shift number of products, obtains a statistic for each of the intervals, and produces a graph representing the statistics in the manufacturing order at equal intervals, and a display portion that displays the graph.

Quality variation display device, quality variation display method, quality variation display program, and storage medium storing such program

An information processing device is provided for facilitating analysis of operation states of production facilities. The information processing device includes: an operation state acquisition unit that sequentially acquires operation information indicating operation of a production facility on a production line and stop information indicating stop of the facility, for each production facility; a stop cause receiving unit that receives input of stop cause information indicating a cause of stop of the production facility, for each production facility; an data association unit that associates the stop cause information at least with the stop information and stores the operation information and the associated information into a storage unit; and a display control unit that displays both the stored operation information and the associated information with respect to plural production facilities in time series on a display screen.

Information processing device, operation state management device, information processing method, program, and computer-readable storage medium storing program

An adjusting apparatus includes a judging unit that receives a characteristic value of an article processed by one of processing machines from one of measuring machines and, on the basis of the characteristic value, judges whether or not the processed article meets regular quality, and an abnormality estimating unit that, when the processed article does not meet regular quality, specifies an device to be adjusted on the basis of whether a characteristic value out of the regular range appears for every two cycles or three cycles.

Adjusting apparatus, production processing system, and method of controlling adjusting apparatus

The bill counter has thickness detection units , and for detecting the thickness of a bill passing through a transport passage. The thickness detection units , and are separately placed on the transport passage. Waveform outputs from the thickness detection units , and , provided by detecting the thicknesses of predetermined parts of bill passing through the transport passage are compared with waveform data previously stored in a storage unit and the number of bills passing through the transport passage is determined.

Sheet counting apparatus, sheet counting method and transaction apparatus

A pier unit includes a float having substantially a box shape with an opening at the top and including a flange extending outward along a top peripheral edge thereof; a rectangular frame attached to the float; a deck provided on the frame; and a connecting member secured to at least one of four corners of the frame for connecting the pier unit to another pier unit.

Pier unit and floating pier including such a pier

A main tire body, mounted to the rim (3) of a wheel, includes in one embodiment, an annular tire material (6) and a fiat wound spring ring (8) disposed within the annular tire material (6). The annular tire material (6) is a material with a cross section that can form in a semi-circular annular space (7) between the rim (3). The flat wound spring ring (8) a is annularly arranged within the annular space (7). In another embodiment, the main tire body includes an annular first tire material (10), a second tire material (11), and a plurality of airtight chambers (15) which help to absorb impacts. The first tire material (10) is mounted to the rim (3). The second tire material (11) is an annular material with an elastic body attached to the outer peripheral side of the first tire material. The airtight chambers portion (15) are formed in the second tire material between the first tire material. In another embodiment, the main tire body includes an annular first tire material (20), and a second tire material (21). The second tire material (21) is an annular material with an elastic body attached to the outer peripheral side of the first tire material. An airtight annular chamber (22) is formed between the first tire material (20) and second tire material (21). A flat spring ring (24) disposed within the annular chamber (22) to absorb impacts.

Puncture proof tire

The shock absorber mechanism for a bicycle (10) is a device mounted between the handlebar stem (4) and fork stem (5) of a bicycle and includes a sleeve case (11), a spring (18), and a free cushion bushing (20). The sleeve case (11) is mounted to the lower edge of the handlebar stem (4) and joins when the upper portion of said fork stem (5) slides freely and does not rotate. The spring (18) is arranged between the sleeve case (11) and the fork stem (5). The free cushion bushing (20) is mounted to the lower edge of the sleeve case (11) and can be freely installed and removed as well as slide on the outer peripheral surface of the fork stem (5) controls relative movement of the handlebar stem (4) and the fork stem (5) caused by friction on the outer peripheral surface of the fork stem (5). One purpose of the present invention is to allow for easy adjustment of the dampening characteristics of a dampener depending on bicycle riding conditions and rider requirements.

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Kyoto, Japan

Toru Fujii