Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Fujiwara

Hiroshi Fujiwara 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).

  • Patent number: 10236620
    Abstract: A seal ring mounting portion has: an outer circumferential surface portion that is provided so as to come into close contact with an inner circumferential portion of a seal ring, and extends along a circumferential direction of the seal ring in a state of being in close contact with the inner circumferential portion of the seal ring; and a holding portion that has a first wall portion provided on one width-direction side of the outer circumferential surface portion and a second wall portion provided on another width-direction side of the outer circumferential surface portion, the holding portion sandwiching and holding the seal ring from two sides in a width direction of the seal ring by the first wall portion and the second wall portion in the state of the seal ring being in close contact with the outer circumferential surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Kono, Ryuji Kawaguchi, Seiji Yabuki, Hiroshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 10197986
    Abstract: A method, according to the present invention, of adjusting control parameters used in a control apparatus of an electric motor includes the steps of: computing a first frequency characteristic (Step 1); computing a present speed-proportional gain range (Step 2); computing a present mechanical-system characteristic constant (Step 3); computing a present proportional gain range (Step 4); computing a secular characteristic (Step 5); computing a secular speed-proportional gain range (Step 6); computing a secular proportional gain range (Step 7); and selecting proportional gain values (Step 8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Tazawa, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Masaru Nishizono
  • Publication number: 20180275628
    Abstract: A method, according to the present invention, of adjusting control parameters used in a control apparatus of an electric motor includes the steps of: computing a first frequency characteristic (Step 1); computing a present speed-proportional gain range (Step 2); computing a present mechanical-system characteristic constant (Step 3); computing a present proportional gain range (Step 4); computing a secular characteristic (Step 5); computing a secular speed-proportional gain range (Step 6); computing a secular proportional gain range (Step 7); and selecting proportional gain values (Step 8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Toru Tazawa, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Masaru Nishizono
  • Patent number: 10007249
    Abstract: A method, according to the present invention, of adjusting control parameters used in a control apparatus of an electric motor includes the steps of: computing a first frequency characteristic (Step 1); computing a present speed-proportional gain range (Step 2); computing a present mechanical-system characteristic constant (Step 3); computing a present proportional gain range (Step 4); computing a secular characteristic (Step 5); computing a secular speed-proportional gain range (Step 6); computing a secular proportional gain range (Step 7); and selecting proportional gain values (Step 8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Tazawa, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Masaru Nishizono
  • Patent number: 9975433
    Abstract: An electric vehicle controller includes an inverter that drives a motor by receiving power supplied from an overhead line, a brake chopper circuit that includes a switching device and a braking resistor and is connected in parallel with the inverter, a voltage detector that detects a bus voltage applied to DC buses, and a control unit that performs power consumption control of causing the braking resistor to consume regenerative power supplied from the motor and overvoltage suppression control of suppressing the bus voltage from being excessive. The control unit controls the switching device such that a second duty ratio used at the time of performing the overvoltage suppression control is lower than a first duty ratio used at the time of performing the power consumption control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujiwara, Yuri Yamamoto, Yu Hirayama
  • Publication number: 20180062303
    Abstract: A seal ring mounting portion has: an outer circumferential surface portion that is provided so as to come into close contact with an inner circumferential portion of a seal ring, and extends along a circumferential direction of the seal ring in a state of being in close contact with the inner circumferential portion of the seal ring; and a holding portion that has a first wail portion provided on one width-direction side of the outer circumferential surface portion and a second wall portion provided on another width-direction side of the outer circumferential surface portion, the holding portion sandwiching and holding the seal ring from two sides in a width direction of the seal ring by the first wall portion and the second wall portion in the state of the seal ring being in close contact with the outer circumferential surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori KONO, Ryuji KAWAGUCHI, Seiji YABUKI, Hiroshi FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20170232847
    Abstract: An electric vehicle controller includes an inverter that drives a motor by receiving power supplied from an overhead line, a brake chopper circuit that includes a switching device and a braking resistor and is connected in parallel with the inverter, a voltage detector that detects a bus voltage applied to DC buses, and a control unit that performs power consumption control of causing the braking resistor to consume regenerative power supplied from the motor and overvoltage suppression control of suppressing the bus voltage from being excessive. The control unit controls the switching device such that a second duty ratio used at the time of performing the overvoltage suppression control is lower than a first duty ratio used at the time of performing the power consumption control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJIWARA, Yuri YAMAMOTO, Yu HIRAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9525378
    Abstract: A motor control device of the present invention includes a position detector (107), a feedforward controller, a predistorter, a feedback controller, a vibration suppression controller, a torque controller, a torque estimator, and an adjustment calculator. The vibration suppression controller receives a manipulation-quantity command value derived by addition of a feedforward manipulation quantity and a feedback manipulation quantity, and outputs an actual manipulation-quantity command value corresponding to the received manipulation-quantity command value. The torque controller controls a manipulation quantity generated by the motor so that the manipulation quantity matches the actual manipulation-quantity command value. The adjustment calculator adjusts a transfer characteristic of the predistorter such that the transfer characteristic becomes equal to a transfer characteristic from the manipulation-quantity command value to the manipulation quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20160344326
    Abstract: A motor control device of the present invention includes a position detector (107), a feedforward controller, a predistorter, a feedback controller, a vibration suppression controller, a torque controller, a torque estimator, and an adjustment calculator. The vibration suppression controller receives a manipulation-quantity command value derived by addition of a feedforward manipulation quantity and a feedback manipulation quantity, and outputs an actual manipulation-quantity command value corresponding to the received manipulation-quantity command value. The torque controller controls a manipulation quantity generated by the motor so that the manipulation quantity matches the actual manipulation-quantity command value. The adjustment calculator adjusts a transfer characteristic of the predistorter such that the transfer characteristic becomes equal to a transfer characteristic from the manipulation-quantity command value to the manipulation quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: HIROSHI FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20160313721
    Abstract: A method, according to the present invention, of adjusting control parameters used in a control apparatus of an electric motor includes the steps of: computing a first frequency characteristic (Step 1); computing a present speed-proportional gain range (Step 2); computing a present mechanical-system characteristic constant (Step 3); computing a present proportional gain range (Step 4); computing a secular characteristic (Step 5); computing a secular speed-proportional gain range (Step 6); computing a secular proportional gain range (Step 7); and selecting proportional gain values (Step 8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellecyual Property Management Co., Lt
    Inventors: TORU TAZAWA, HIROSHI FUJIWARA, MASARU NISHIZONO
  • Publication number: 20160288845
    Abstract: A machine body has a front-rear direction and a right-left direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction. The machine body has right and left sides in the right-left direction. A cabin is mounted in the machine body between the right and left sides. Right and left traveling devices are arranged respectively on the right and left sides of the machine body. A boom has a front end part in the front-rear direction to be connected to a working tool. A first wall is provided on one side of the boom in the right-left direction. A second wall is provided on another side opposite to the one side with respect to the boom in the right-left direction. A urea aqueous solution tank is provided between the first and second walls to store a urea aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Keigo HONDA, Hiroaki NAKAGAWA, Daisuke SAKURAI, Hiroshi FUJIWARA
  • Patent number: 9423786
    Abstract: A motor drive device (2) of the present invention includes a command response setting unit (22), a position and speed controller (23), a load characteristic compensator (24), a servo adjuster (6), a command response setting function (221), a stiffness setting function (231), an evaluation indicator measuring function (27), and a storage (28). The servo adjuster (6) stores a plurality of command response indicators (61) and a plurality of stiffness indicators (62). The servo adjuster (6) also generates an evaluation indicator measuring pattern (63) by a combination of each command response indicator (61) and each stiffness indicator (62). A motor (3) is driven in accordance with the generated evaluation indicator measuring pattern (63) while the command response indicators (61) and the stiffness indicators (62) are sequentially changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Suke Imada, Kenichi Suzuki, Masaru Nishizono, Hiroshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9423782
    Abstract: Motor drive device (30) according to the present invention includes operation pattern generator (1), position and speed controller (23), load characteristic compensator (24), and load characteristic measurement unit (7). Operation pattern generator (1) increases an absolute value of acceleration, at which a motor speed or a motor position is changed, in each operation pattern. Load characteristic measurement unit (7) measures the load characteristic to set load characteristic compensator (24) when torque command indicator is less than or equal to a torque limit value. Load characteristic measurement unit (7) ends the measurement of the load characteristic without setting load characteristic compensator (24) when the torque command indicator is greater than the torque limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-suke Imada, Kenichi Suzuki, Masaru Nishizono, Hiroshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9366996
    Abstract: A sealing structure includes a housing to accommodate powder, a powder roller having a surface to bear and convey the powder, and an entrance seal disposed between the powder roller and the housing to allow powder remaining on a circumferential surface of the powder roller to enter the housing. A pair of left and right edge seals is provided in a circumferential direction of the powder roller to overlap with outer circumferential surfaces of both ends of the entrance seal, respectively. Both ends of the entrance seal include powder damming sections extended from both ends thereof along the pair of left and right edge seals, respectively. A pair of inner edges of the respective powder damming sections is each sandwiched between a corresponding one of the pair of left and right edge seals and the powder roller while substantially symmetrically inclining from the rotation direction of the powder roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinori Harada, Tomohiro Kubota, Hiroshi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20160070252
    Abstract: A motor drive device (2) of the present invention includes a command response setting unit (22), a position and speed controller (23), a load characteristic compensator (24), a servo adjuster (6), a command response setting function (221), a stiffness setting function (231), an evaluation indicator measuring function (27), and a storage (28). The servo adjuster (6) stores a plurality of command response indicators (61) and a plurality of stiffness indicators (62). The servo adjuster (6) also generates an evaluation indicator measuring pattern (63) by a combination of each command response indicator (61) and each stiffness indicator (62). A motor (3) is driven in accordance with the generated evaluation indicator measuring pattern (63) while the command response indicators (61) and the stiffness indicators (62) are sequentially changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: YU-SUKE IMADA, KENICHI SUZUKI, MASARU NISHIZONO, HIROSHI FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20160048116
    Abstract: Motor drive device (30) according to the present invention includes operation pattern generator (1), position and speed controller (23), load characteristic compensator (24), and load characteristic measurement unit (7). Operation pattern generator (1) increases an absolute value of acceleration, at which a motor speed or a motor position is changed, in each operation pattern. Load characteristic measurement unit (7) measures the load characteristic to set load characteristic compensator (24) when torque command indicator is less than or equal to a torque limit value. Load characteristic measurement unit (7) ends the measurement of the load characteristic without setting load characteristic compensator (24) when the torque command indicator is greater than the torque limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: YU-SUKE IMADA, KENICHI SUZUKI, MASARU NISHIZONO, HIROSHI FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20150344727
    Abstract: A catalyst containing a quaternary ammonium salt represented by the following general formula (1) is used as a catalyst for dissociation of a blocking agent. [In the formula, each of R1 to R3 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 14 carbon atoms; R4 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 9 to 20 carbon atoms; X represents at least one member selected from the group consisting of a phosphate group, a borate group, a hydrogencarbonate group, a monoalkylcarbonate group and a carbonate group; a is an integer in the range of 1 to 3; and b is an integer in the range of 1 to 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Tosoh Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJIWARA, Hiroyuki KISO
  • Patent number: 9187280
    Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a feeding device and a detector. The feeding device is configured to feed a sheet to a destination. The detector is configured to detect the sheet at the destination. If the detector does not detect the sheet within a predetermined time after the start of preparation for a feeding operation by the feeding device, it is determined that the sheet is misfed. Further, the start of the feeding operation of a sheet is changed in accordance with the result of detection by the detector of the presence or absence of a sheet standing by at the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshikane Nishii, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Tomoyoshi Yamazaki, Haruyuki Honda, Mizuna Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9179842
    Abstract: An optical tomography device 1 is provided as one capable of obtaining tomographic information of a measuring object with higher accuracy. In the optical tomography device 1, numerical apertures of reception fibers 12, 13 are different from each other. Therefore, the device has a configuration wherein the reception fibers 12, 13 receive two kinds of respective light beams with different solid angle distributions, whereby the device can also obtain angular information, in addition to intensity information of light emerging from a measuring object 100. As a result, the accuracy is enhanced for an analysis about the tomographic information of the measuring object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Kyoto University
    Inventors: Haruo Nakaji, Hidenao Fukuyama, Yuusuke Iso, Shinichi Urayama, Naoya Oishi, Hiroshi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20150234324
    Abstract: A sealing structure includes a housing to accommodate powder, a powder roller having a surface to bear and convey the powder, and an entrance seal disposed between the powder roller and the housing to allow powder remaining on a circumferential surface of the powder roller to enter the housing. A pair of left and right edge seals is provided in a circumferential direction of the powder roller to overlap with outer circumferential surfaces of both ends of the entrance seal, respectively. Both ends of the entrance seal include powder damming sections extended from both ends thereof along the pair of left and right edge seals, respectively. A pair of inner edges of the respective powder damming sections is each sandwiched between a corresponding one of the pair of left and right edge seals and the powder roller while substantially symmetrically inclining from the rotation direction of the powder roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinori Harada, Tomohiro Kubota, Hiroshi Fujiwara