公开(公告)号：US11885656B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-30

申请号：US17274972

申请日：2019-03-14

Applicant: OMRON Corporation

Inventor： Yui Ishida ,  Naoki Yoshitake ,  Yoshitaka Tsurukame

IPC: G01F1/667 ,  G01F25/10 ,  G01F1/66 ,  G01N11/04

CPC classification number: G01F1/668 ,  G01F1/662 ,  G01F25/10 ,  G01N11/04

Abstract: A flow-rate measuring apparatus transmits a first measurement signal having at least one first frequency by a first transducer, and receives the first measurement signal by a second transducer through a fluid inside a pipe. The flow-rate measuring apparatus determines a second frequency based on the first measurement signal. The flow-rate measuring apparatus transmits a second measurement signal having the second frequency by a third transducer toward an interface between the pipe and the fluid, and receives the second measurement signal reflected at the interface by a fourth transducer. The flow-rate measuring apparatus calculates a flow rate of the fluid inside the pipe so as to reflect a viscosity of the fluid based on the first and second measurement signals.

公开(公告)号：US20160219442A1

公开(公告)日：2016-07-28

申请号：US14914807

申请日：2014-02-25

Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION

Inventor： Ryota Yamada ,  Hajime Umeki ,  Yusuke Yamaji ,  Yui Ishida

IPC: H04W24/02

CPC classification number: H04W24/02 ,  H04W40/22 ,  H04W40/246 ,  H04W84/18 ,  Y02D70/00 ,  Y02D70/144 ,  Y02D70/166 ,  Y02D70/39

Abstract: A transfer module transfers transmission target information on a predetermined transfer path including an information processing apparatus. This target transfer module appends transfer environment information indicating a degree of influence placed by the target transfer module on an information transfer result of the transmission target information transferred to the information processing apparatus and including at least one of module internal information about a transfer environment for the transmission target information in the transfer module or module surrounding information about a transfer environment associated with a surrounding of the target transfer module excluding an upstream transfer module to predetermined transmission information including the transmission target information received from the upstream transfer module to generate new predetermined transmission information, and transmits the new predetermined transmission information to a downstream transfer module.

Abstract translation: 传输模块在包括信息处理设备的预定传输路径上传送传输目标信息。 该目标传送模块将表示目标传送模块所施加的影响程度的传送环境信息附加到传送到信息处理装置的发送目标信息的信息传送结果，并且包括关于传送环境的模块内部信息中的至少一个 传输模块或模块中的传输目标信息，围绕与除上游传输模块之外的目标传送模块的周围相关联的传输环境的信息，包括从上游传输模块接收的包括传输目标信息的预定传输信息，以产生新的预定传输信息 并将新的预定传输信息发送到下游传送模块。

公开(公告)号：US11709083B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-25

申请号：US17274964

申请日：2019-03-14

Applicant: OMRON Corporation

Inventor： Naoki Yoshitake ,  Yui Ishida ,  Yoshitaka Tsurukame

IPC: G01F1/66

CPC classification number: G01F1/662

Abstract: A flow-rate measuring apparatus transmits and receives a measurement signal between first and second transducers through a fluid inside a pipe, the measurement signal having a plurality of frequencies and a time length. The flow-rate measuring apparatus calculates a correlation coefficient between a reference signal corresponding to the transmitted measurement signal, and the received measurement signal. The flow-rate measuring apparatus calculates a flow rate of the fluid inside the pipe based on the measurement signal, when a peak value of the correlation coefficient is higher than a threshold. The flow-rate measuring apparatus retransmits the measurement signal with changing at least one of the frequency and the time length of the measurement signal, when the peak value of the correlation coefficient is equal to or lower than the threshold.

公开(公告)号：US09980157B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-22

申请号：US14914807

申请日：2014-02-25

Applicant: OMRON Corporation

Inventor： Ryota Yamada ,  Hajime Umeki ,  Yusuke Yamaji ,  Yui Ishida

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W40/22 ,  H04W40/24 ,  H04W84/18

CPC classification number: H04W24/02 ,  H04W40/22 ,  H04W40/246 ,  H04W84/18 ,  Y02D70/00 ,  Y02D70/144 ,  Y02D70/166 ,  Y02D70/39

Abstract: A transfer module transfers transmission target information on a predetermined transfer path including an information processing apparatus. This target transfer module appends transfer environment information indicating a degree of influence placed by the target transfer module on an information transfer result of the transmission target information transferred to the information processing apparatus and including at least one of module internal information about a transfer environment for the transmission target information in the transfer module or module surrounding information about a transfer environment associated with a surrounding of the target transfer module excluding an upstream transfer module to predetermined transmission information including the transmission target information received from the upstream transfer module to generate new predetermined transmission information, and transmits the new predetermined transmission information to a downstream transfer module.

公开(公告)号：US12146776B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-19

申请号：US17769888

申请日：2020-09-25

Applicant: OMRON Corporation

Inventor： Naoki Yoshitake ,  Yui Ishida ,  Takeshi Fujiwara ,  Yoshitaka Tsurukame ,  Masaki Yawata

IPC: G01F1/667

Abstract: A device determines a propagation time of an acoustic signal through cross-correlation analysis between a transmission signal and a reception signal. The device generates the transmission signal to satisfy (1) a ratio of a height of a peak other than a maximum peak in an autocorrelation function of the transmission signal to a height of the maximum peak being 0.8 or less and (2) a duration of the transmission signal being at least five times a shortest period of the transmission signal or at least 20 times a half width at half maximum of the autocorrelation function of the transmission signal.

公开(公告)号：US11796361B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-24

申请号：US17273952

申请日：2019-03-11

Applicant: OMRON Corporation

Inventor： Yui Ishida ,  Naoki Yoshitake ,  Yoshitaka Tsurukame

IPC: G01F1/66 ,  G01F1/667 ,  G01F1/7082 ,  G01F1/712

CPC classification number: G01F1/667 ,  G01F1/662 ,  G01F1/7082 ,  G01F1/712

Abstract: A flow rate measurement apparatus includes first and second transducers provided at different positions in a longitudinal direction of a pipe, the at least two transducers including first and second transducers. The flow rate measurement apparatus further includes a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter transmits a transmission signal, which is an ultrasonic signal having a band wider than the ultrasonic signal, or a plurality of ultrasonic signals having a plurality of different frequency ranges. The receiver separates a target signal passing through a fluid from the received signal by utilizing that an attenuation rate of the ultrasonic signal in the fluid in a predetermined frequency band is different from an attenuation rate of the ultrasonic signal in the pipe in the frequency band, and measures a flow rate based on a separated target signal.

公开(公告)号：US09921247B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-20

申请号：US15114473

申请日：2015-01-14

Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION

Inventor： Yui Ishida

IPC: G01R15/18 ,  G01R19/25 ,  G01R21/133

CPC classification number: G01R15/18 ,  G01R19/2513 ,  G01R21/133 ,  G01R22/063

Abstract: A microcomputer section operates by use of electric power from a power supply section. The microcomputer section carries out control so that any one of a plurality of switching circuits is selected, the selected one of the plurality of switching circuits causes an electric current from a corresponding current transformer of a plurality of current transformers to flow to the microcomputer section, whereas the other unselected switching circuits cause electric currents from respective current transformers of the plurality of current transformers to flow to the power supply section, and the selection is carried out successively with respect to each of the plurality of switching circuits.

公开(公告)号：US12292319B2

公开(公告)日：2025-05-06

申请号：US18006397

申请日：2021-07-20

Applicant: OMRON Corporation

Inventor： Yoshitaka Tsurukame ,  Yui Ishida ,  Masaki Yawata

IPC: G01F1/667 ,  G01F1/66 ,  G01F25/10

Abstract: A device determines the propagation time of an acoustic signal by cross-correlation analysis between a transmission signal and a reception signal. The device determines the propagation time by cross-correlation analysis between the transmission signal and the reception signal from which reverberation has yet to be removed, removes, from the reception signal, as the reverberation, a signal component at and after a time point based on the determined propagation time, and redetermines a propagation time by cross-correlation analysis between the transmission signal and the reception signal from which the reverberation has been removed.

公开(公告)号：US09426740B2

公开(公告)日：2016-08-23

申请号：US14385073

申请日：2012-11-28

Applicant: OMRON Corporation

Inventor： Hajime Umeki ,  Ryota Yamada ,  Kosuke Hayama ,  Hisashi Ozawa ,  Manh Tai Nguyen ,  Yui Ishida

IPC: H04B1/16 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04Q9/00 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04W84/18

CPC classification number: H04W52/0225 ,  G08C2201/12 ,  H04L41/0833 ,  H04Q9/00 ,  H04Q2209/20 ,  H04Q2209/823 ,  H04Q2209/826 ,  H04Q2209/88 ,  H04Q2209/883 ,  H04W4/38 ,  H04W52/0248 ,  H04W52/0261 ,  H04W84/18 ,  Y02D70/22

Abstract: A sensor module that transmits at a predetermined transmission interval, via a network, data obtained by measurement to an externally installed information processing device sets, together with a nearby sensor module, a predetermined module group in which a plurality of sensor modules for transmitting measurement data according to data processing in the information processing device are put together. Then, together with the nearby sensor modules, one sensor module among the predetermined module group is set as a reference sensor module for which a transmission interval is maintained at a predetermined transmission interval, and transmission intervals of measurement data of sensor modules other than the reference sensor module are changed to a prolonged transmission interval that is longer than the predetermined transmission interval. With this, a reduction in power consumption is realized as much as possible in the sensor module that measures environmental parameters and transmits to the information processing device.

Abstract translation: 一种传感器模块，经由网络经由网络以测量获得的数据与附近的传感器模块一起以预定的传输间隔发送预定的模块组，其中用于发送测量数据的多个传感器模块 根据信息处理设备中的数据处理放在一起。 然后，与附近的传感器模块一起，将预定模块组中的一个传感器模块设置为基准传感器模块，其中将传输间隔保持在预定的传输间隔，以及传感器模块的测量数据的传输间隔 传感器模块改变为长于预定传输间隔的延长的传输间隔。 由此，在测量环境参数的传感器模块中尽可能多地实现功率消耗的降低，并将其发送到信息处理装置。

公开(公告)号：US20150050902A1

公开(公告)日：2015-02-19

申请号：US14385073

申请日：2012-11-28

Applicant: OMRON Corporation

Inventor： Hajime Umeki ,  Ryota Yamada ,  Kosuke Hayama ,  Hisashi Ozawa ,  Manh Tai Nguyen ,  Yui Ishida

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04W4/00

CPC classification number: H04W52/0225 ,  G08C2201/12 ,  H04L41/0833 ,  H04Q9/00 ,  H04Q2209/20 ,  H04Q2209/823 ,  H04Q2209/826 ,  H04Q2209/88 ,  H04Q2209/883 ,  H04W4/38 ,  H04W52/0248 ,  H04W52/0261 ,  H04W84/18 ,  Y02D70/22

Abstract: A sensor module that transmits at a predetermined transmission interval, via a network, data obtained by measurement to an externally installed information processing device sets, together with a nearby sensor module, a predetermined module group in which a plurality of sensor modules for transmitting measurement data according to data processing in the information processing device are put together. Then, together with the nearby sensor modules, one sensor module among the predetermined module group is set as a reference sensor module for which a transmission interval is maintained at a predetermined transmission interval, and transmission intervals of measurement data of sensor modules other than the reference sensor module are changed to a prolonged transmission interval that is longer than the predetermined transmission interval. With this, a reduction in power consumption is realized as much as possible in the sensor module that measures environmental parameters and transmits to the information processing device.

Abstract translation: 一种传感器模块，经由网络经由网络以测量获得的数据与附近的传感器模块一起以预定的传输间隔发送预定的模块组，其中用于发送测量数据的多个传感器模块 根据信息处理设备中的数据处理放在一起。 然后，与附近的传感器模块一起，将预定模块组中的一个传感器模块设置为基准传感器模块，其中传输间隔保持在预定传输间隔，传感器模块的测量数据的传输间隔除了参考 传感器模块改变为长于预定传输间隔的延长的传输间隔。 由此，在测量环境参数的传感器模块中尽可能多地实现功率消耗的降低，并将其发送到信息处理装置。