Patents by Inventor Hidetoshi Ikeda

Hidetoshi Ikeda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20140306641
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes a reference model unit configured to generate a model output representing a desired operation of the controlled object and a model input for driving the controlled object to the desired operation, a feedback unit configured to generate a feedback for causing the control output to follow the model output, and an adder configured to add up the model input and the feedback and generate a control input to the controlled object. The reference model unit includes a storing unit configured to retain, as a vector, a present value of the target value and one or a plurality of past values of the target value, a numerical model configured to simulate a characteristic of the controlled object and generate the model output and a state variable on the basis of the model input, a model controller configured to generate the model input, and a controller determining unit configured to determine the model controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yuji Igarashi, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Takashi Iwasaki, Takeshi Hatanaka, Masayuki Fujita
  • Patent number: 8860355
    Abstract: A motor-control-device main unit includes a pressure-command-signal generating section, a pressure control section, a speed control section, a current control section, and a parameter-adjusting section. With respect to a parameter for a control computation by the pressure control section, the parameter-adjusting section includes an information-acquiring section and a parameter-calculating section. The information-acquiring section acquires, from an exterior, each of pieces of information including an elastic constant of a pressurized target, a reaction-force constant indicating information of a reaction force, a transfer characteristic from a motor torque to a motor speed, and parameters of the speed control section. The information-acquiring section previously acquires information of a control law of the speed control unit. The parameter-calculating section calculates a parameter for the pressure control section based on the information acquired by the information-acquiring section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Ueda, Hidetoshi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20140300308
    Abstract: A reference model unit calculates a model position, with which a model of a controlled object follows a position command, and a model torque for the model of the controlled object to operate to coincide with the model position. A gain changing unit changes, during the operation of the controlled object, at least a value of one control gain of first-order and second-order control gains used for calculation of a variable compensation value output to an integral compensator by a variable-compensation calculating unit based on at least one of the model position, a position detection value, and a torque command output to the controlled object by a torque adder, and reflects the value on calculation of the variable compensation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ikeda, Akio Saito, Yuji Igarashi
  • Patent number: 8786219
    Abstract: A motor control device includes: a feedforward computing section for computing a motion reference value and a feedforward driving force based on a motion command; a deviation compensation computing section for outputting a deviation compensation driving force by a control computation for reducing a control deviation; a driving-force command synthesizing section for outputting a driving-force command based on the feedforward driving force and the deviation compensation driving force; a reaction-force compensation computing section for computing a motion correction value based on a predetermined reaction-force reference value and the deviation compensation driving force; and a control-deviation computing section for computing the control deviation based on a deviation between the motion reference value and a motor motion detection value, and the motion correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ikeda, Yoshihiro Marushita, Koichiro Ueda, Yuji Igarashi, Kiyoshi Maekawa
  • Patent number: 8786245
    Abstract: A motor control device main unit includes a pressure command signal generation module, a simulated pressure control module, a simulated position calculation module, a simulated pressure signal generation module, a pressure control module, a speed control module, and a current control module. The speed control module receives a motor speed command signal, which is a signal of a sum of an actual motor speed command value of an actual motor speed command signal from the pressure control module and a simulated speed calculated value of a simulated motor speed signal. The speed control module carries out speed control calculation based on a motor speed command value of the motor speed command signal and an actual motor speed of an actual motor speed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Ueda, Hidetoshi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20140197770
    Abstract: A load characteristic estimating apparatus for a driving machine includes an action-command generating unit for generating an action command for a position and speed of a driving machine, a driving-force-command generating unit for generating a driving force command to cause an action of the driving machine to follow the action command, a driving unit for generating driving force corresponding to the driving force command and drive the driving machine, a sign determining unit for determining, based on driving speed of the driving machine, the state of the driving machine, a load-driving-force estimating unit for calculating, based on the driving force command, a load driving force signal, and a normal reverse-rotation-average calculating unit and a reverse-rotation-average calculating unit, configured to calculate a sequential average of the load driving force signal, respectively when the determination result is a normal and reverse rotation action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Shimoda, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Takashi Isoda
  • Patent number: 8779712
    Abstract: A motor control device including: a following control unit that calculates a pre-correction torque command based on a difference between an operation command signal for commanding an operation of a motor and a detection signal resulting from detecting an operation of the motor; an adder that outputs a post-correction torque command by adding the pre-correction torque command to a correction torque command; and an electric-current control unit that outputs a drive current driving the motor based on the post-correction torque command, wherein the motor control device executes control so that the detection signal matches the operation command signal, and further including: a reference-periodic-signal computation unit; an amplitude/phase estimation unit; and a correction-torque computation unit, so that the correction torque command is updated such that a difference between the correction torque command and the post-correction torque command becomes smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Tanabe, Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Hidetoshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8736211
    Abstract: Provided is a motor control device which realizes automatic adjustment of control of a motor for driving a mechanical load through a simple operation. The motor control device includes: a follow-up control unit (6) for receiving detection information of a detector (3) to output a torque command signal and output a status of motor control of a motor (1) as a control status amount signal, when a command signal regarding the motor control to be output from an upper-level controller is absent; an oscillation detection unit (9) for receiving the control status amount signal and detecting oscillation of a control status amount to output an oscillation detection signal; and an automatic adjustment unit (10) for receiving the oscillation detection signal to monitor a control status of the motor (1) and adjust a control parameter of the follow-up control unit (6) only when abnormality is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Tanabe, Yoshihiro Marushita, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Kei Terada, Tetsuya Tanabe, Masahiko Yoshida, Masanori Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20140117919
    Abstract: A servo control device includes a follow-up control unit that controls a control target that drives a mechanical system by a motor, a command function unit that has input therein a phase signal ? indicating a phase of a cyclic operation performed by the control target, and that calculates a machine motion command according to the phase signal ? by a preset first function, a second derivative unit that uses a second function obtained by second-order differentiating the first function with respect to the phase signal to calculate a value of the second function according to the phase signal as a second-order differential base signal, a correction-value computation unit that computes a first command correction value for correcting the motor motion command by using a product of a square value of the phase velocity, the second-order differential base signal, and a first constant, and a correction-value addition unit that calculates the motor motion command based on an added value of the first command correction val
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ikeda, Yoshihiro Marushita, Koji Mahara, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Hidemasa Ogi
  • Publication number: 20140077746
    Abstract: A motor control device includes an operation determination unit that determines whether a motor is in an operating state or in a stopped state based on an operation command signal or an operation signal and an amplitude estimation unit that, based on a determination result of the operation determination unit, sequentially estimates a vibration amplitude value from a control state quantity of a feedback control unit or a current control unit separately for a case where the motor is operated and a case where the motor is stopped and outputs the vibration amplitude value. A function of outputting an amplitude of a high-frequency vibration that occurs in a mechanical device including a control system as information useful for estimating an occurrence factor of the vibration is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Kiyoshi Maekawa, Takashi Isoda, Shuya Sano
  • Patent number: 8559250
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix, a plurality of word lines arranged corresponding to each row of the memory cells, a plurality of bit line pairs arranged corresponding to each column of the memory cells, a column selector that selects any of the plurality of bit line pairs based on a column selection signal and connects the selected bit line pair to a data line pair, a precharge circuit that precharges the data line pair, a sense amplifier that amplifies a potential difference of the data line pair, and a control circuit that controls current for driving the sense amplifier based on potentials of the data line pair after a lapse of a specified period from start of amplification of the potential difference of the precharged data line pair by the sense amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ikeda, Koichi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20130234642
    Abstract: A motor control device that controls motion of a control target including a motor and a vibratable element includes a generating unit configured to generate, according to state information representing a state of the control target related to a vibration characteristic of the control target, a first parameter representing the vibration characteristic of the control target, a first calculating unit configured to calculate a second parameter corresponding to a temporal change amount of the first parameter generated by the generating unit, a second calculating unit configured to calculate, using a motion target value, the first parameter, and the second parameter, model torque such that the control target does not excite vibration, and a developing unit configured to develop, according to the model torque calculated by the second calculating unit, a torque command such that the motion of the control target follows the motion target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Igarashi, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Hiroto Takei
  • Patent number: 8525461
    Abstract: There are provided a command speed calculation means (101) for outputting a command speed (?r) from a base speed (?b) and a ratio gain (?), reference speed generation means (108) calculating a reference speed (?a) so as to follow the command speed (?r) based on the command speed (?r), control deviation calculation means (103) for outputting a control deviation (e) from a speed deviation (?e) and a speed deviation correction value (?ec), speed control means (104) for outputting a compensation torque (?m) for decreasing the control deviation (e), speed deviation correction means (105) for calculating the speed deviation correction value (?ec) from at least the compensation torque (?m), command torque calculation means (107) for outputting a command torque (?r) from at least the compensation torque (?m) and ratio calculation means (102) for calculating the ratio gain (?) from the speed deviation (?e).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Marushita, Hidetoshi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20130214718
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a feedback filter that has filter characteristics that a frequency response gain is substantially one at frequencies equal to or lower than a filter cutoff frequency, a frequency response gain decreases with increase in frequency in a range from the filter cutoff frequency ?fL to a filter upper limit frequency ?fH higher than the filter cutoff frequency ?fL, and a frequency response gain is substantially constant at frequencies equal to or higher than the filter upper limit frequency ?fH, and performs computing to apply the filter characteristics to a feedback transfer function, wherein a control-constant set unit sets a speed gain Kv and at least one of the filter cutoff frequency ?fL and the filter upper limit frequency ?fH to reduce a ratio of the filter upper limit frequency ?fH to the filter cutoff frequency ?fL with increase in the speed gain Kv.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ikeda, Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Yuji Igarashi, Shuya Sano, Takashi Isoda
  • Publication number: 20130200835
    Abstract: To improve estimation accuracy of a frequency and an attenuation coefficient of residual vibration in which a plurality of frequencies are superimposed, a motor control device includes a vibration-damping-control setting unit 7 configured to designate one of a plurality of candidate frequencies of a vibration-damping frequency, a signal-for-estimation computing unit 51 configured to output, based on an operation signal Xm related to a controlled object 1, a signal for estimation Xs in which signal components of the other candidate frequencies excluding the designated one candidate frequency are reduced from a vibration component of a control system, and a resonance-characteristic estimating unit 41 configured to estimate one resonance frequency from the output signal for estimation Xs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Takashi Isoda, Shuya Sano
  • Publication number: 20130063068
    Abstract: A motor-control-device main unit includes a pressure-command-signal generating section, a pressure control section, a speed control section, a current control section, and a parameter-adjusting section. With respect to a parameter for a control computation by the pressure control section, the parameter-adjusting section includes an information-acquiring section and a parameter-calculating section. The information-acquiring section acquires, from an exterior, each of pieces of information including an elastic constant of a pressurized target, a reaction-force constant indicating information of a reaction force, a transfer characteristic from a motor torque to a motor speed, and parameters of the speed control section. The information-acquiring section previously acquires information of a control law of the speed control unit. The parameter-calculating section calculates a parameter for the pressure control section based on the information acquired by the information-acquiring section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Ueda, Hidetoshi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20130057194
    Abstract: There are provided a command speed calculation means (101) for outputting a command speed (?r) from a base speed (?b) and a ratio gain (?), reference speed generation means (108) calculating a reference speed (?a) so as to follow the command speed (?r) based on the command speed (?r), control deviation calculation means (103) for outputting a control deviation (e) from a speed deviation (?e) and a speed deviation correction value (?ec), speed control means (104) for outputting a compensation torque (?m) for decreasing the control deviation (e), speed deviation correction means (105) for calculating the speed deviation correction value (?ec) from at least the compensation torque (?m), command torque calculation means (107) for outputting a command torque (?r) from at least the compensation torque (?m) and ratio calculation means (102) for calculating the ratio gain (?) from the speed deviation (?e).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Marushita, Hidetoshi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20130057186
    Abstract: A motor control device including: a following control unit that calculates a pre-correction torque command based on a difference between an operation command signal for commanding an operation of a motor and a detection signal resulting from detecting an operation of the motor; an adder that outputs a post-correction torque command by adding the pre-correction torque command to a correction torque command; and an electric-current control unit that outputs a drive current driving the motor based on the post-correction torque command, wherein the motor control device executes control so that the detection signal matches the operation command signal, and further including: a reference-periodic-signal computation unit; an amplitude/phase estimation unit; and a correction-torque computation unit, so that the correction torque command is updated such that a difference between the correction torque command and the post-correction torque command becomes smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Tanabe, Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Hidetoshi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20130038265
    Abstract: To stably control a driving object to approach and contact a pressure object at a low impact, to suppress a vibration generated when the driving object presses the pressure object, and to enable a motor controller to operate based on a simple command, a regression torque controller of the motor controller limits a torque-control velocity command to up to a velocity limit value vlim defined based on a contact velocity between a driving object and a pressure object and outputs the torque-control velocity command, and a velocity controller of the motor controller calculates a torque command so that a motor velocity can follow the torque-control velocity command output from the regression torque controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Igarashi, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Kiyoshi Maekawa, Kei Terada
  • Publication number: 20130035914
    Abstract: A servo controller includes: a reference model unit which inputs a reference to generate a model output and a model input; a feedback control unit which generates a feedback input so that a control output of a plant follows the model output; and an adder which adds the model input and the feedback input, in which the reference model unit includes: a mathematical model which simulates characteristics of the plant, and generates the model output and a state variable from the model input; a model input memory which outputs a past model input; a model controller which inputs the reference, the state variable, and the past model input to generate the model input; and a model controller determining unit which determines the model controller based on the reference, the state variable, and the past model input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Igarashi, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Kiyoshi Maekawa, Takashi Iwasaki