Patents by Inventor Jun Araki
Jun Araki 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).
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Patent number: 10239414Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information providing system for providing information about a wireless power transfer system including a power receiver mounted on a moving object and one or more power transmitters installed in one or more charging stations includes a search unit configured to extract location information of a charging station in which a power transmitter capable of feeding power to the power receiver is installed, by referring to a station storage unit that stores station information indicating correspondence between the location information of the charging station and the power transmitter of the charging station and to a history storage unit that stores a usage history indicating one or more power transmitters previously used by the power receiver, and an output unit configured to output the location information of the charging station extracted by the search unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Jun Araki
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Publication number: 20190079537Abstract: A virtual guide sensor processing unit of an automatic guided vehicle (AGV) computes the position of a virtual guide tape on the basis of the position of the AGV which a vehicle body coordinate value calculation processing unit has computed, and virtual guide tape layout data. A guide sensor switching processing unit outputs to a vehicle body deviation degree calculation processing unit the position of a magnetic guide tape which a magnetic guide sensor has detected, or the position of the virtual guide tape which the virtual guide sensor processing unit has computed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2016Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Toru Yoshida, Jun Araki, Michiaki Okubo, Hiroki Maemoto, Atsushi Nakajima, Hiroaki Akimoto
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Publication number: 20190050123Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a display control unit, a detection unit, and an instruction unit. The display control unit displays a first user interface related to start of actuation of a target system, or a second user interface related to a function other than the start of actuation of the target system on a touch panel. The detection unit detects an operation of the first user interface or the second user interface. The instruction unit transmits an instruction signal according to the detected operation to the target system. A first time interval from an operation of the first user interface to a transmission of a first instruction signal for the start of actuation is longer than a second time interval from an operation of the second user interface to a transmission of a second instruction signal for the other function.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Atsushi ASANO, Jun ARAKI
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Patent number: 10177591Abstract: A power-transmitting device transmits AC power generated in an inverter circuit to a power receiving device in a wireless manner by magnetically coupling a power-transmitting coil to a power-receiving coil of the power receiving device. The power-transmitting device is provided with a power transmission controller which controls the aforementioned inverter circuit to change the AC power in accordance with information relating to the state of power transmission to a load connected to the power-receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Takatsu, Jun Araki
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Publication number: 20190006886Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a power transmitter includes a first coil configured to wirelessly transmit power to a second coil of a power receiver, a direct current (DC)/alternating current (AC) converter configured to convert DC power into AC power and supply the AC power to the first coil, and a controller configured to perform frequency control for selecting a frequency of the AC power. The controller at least selects the frequency so that the DC power is less than or equal to withstand power of the DC/AC converter regardless of an amount of misalignment of the second coil with respect to the first coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Takayoshi BANDO, Jun ARAKI
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Publication number: 20180358168Abstract: A power transmission coil device includes a first helical coil having a first conductive wire forming a helical shape around an axis, and a second helical coil having a second conductive wire forming a helical shape around the axis, in which the first helical coil is electrically connected in parallel to the second helical coil, and the first conductive wire and the second conductive wire arranged along a direction of the axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2016Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Kentarou FURIYA, Susumu TOKURA, Kenji NISHIMURA, Jun ARAKI, Hideki NAGANO
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Publication number: 20180254136Abstract: A coil device according to an aspect of this disclosure includes a coil portion including a conductive wire and a holding member that holds the conductive wire, and a cooling flow path through which a cooling fluid flows is provided in the holding member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Akio UEDA, Susumu TOKURA, Kenji NISHIMURA, Motonao NIIZUMA, Jun ARAKI
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Publication number: 20180166210Abstract: A first coil device includes a first coil portion that faces a second coil portion of a second coil device in a first direction and includes a conductive wire, and at least one nonmagnetic member that includes a protrusion protruding to an outside of the first coil portion in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The nonmagnetic member includes an eddy current interrupter that interrupts a part of an eddy current generated in the nonmagnetic member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2016Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Jun ARAKI, Motonao NIIZUMA, Susumu TOKURA, Kentarou FURIYA, Toshio NAKAMURA, Kenji NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20180109149Abstract: A wireless power supply system includes a power transmitter having a power-transmitting coil to which AC power of a frequency is input from a power source; and a power receiver having a power-receiving coil magnetically coupled to the power-transmitting coil at a coupling coefficient, and a first power-receiving-side series element coupled in series to the power-receiving coil and having imaginary impedance, in which the frequency, the coupling coefficient and the imaginary impedance are determined on the basis of satisfying a predetermined relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiko MURAYAMA, Jun ARAKI, Toshio NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20180072182Abstract: A cooling system includes a cooling unit configured to cool at least one of a power reception unit configured to wirelessly receive power from a power transmission unit and a power storage unit configured to store the power received by the power reception unit; and a controller configured to control the cooling unit. The cooling unit is operated by the power received by the power reception unit, and the controller controls the cooling unit on the basis of a necessary amount of charge of the power storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Jun ARAKI, Motonao NIIZUMA, Susumu TOKURA, Eiichi URUSHIBATA, Hideo NAGANUMA
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Patent number: 9902279Abstract: A foreign-matter-removing device for a coil device includes a liquid-jetting unit that washes away a foreign matter, which is present in an area through which a magnetic field generated in wireless supply of power using magnetic coupling of a receiving-side pad and a transmitting-side pad passes, by a jet of liquid.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Araki, Motonao Niizuma, Susumu Tokura
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Publication number: 20180026482Abstract: A foreign object detection device for a coil device including a second coil to transmit power to a first coil wirelessly or receive power from the first coil wirelessly including: a foreign object detection coil configured to be located between the first coil and the second coil; and a cover configured to cover an upper portion of the foreign object detection coil, wherein a top surface of the cover includes at least one inclined surface inclined relative to a coil plane of the second coil, and the inclined surface is inclined downward from a low sensitivity region where detection sensitivity of the foreign object detection coil is relatively lower to a high sensitivity region where the detection sensitivity of the foreign object detection coil is relatively higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi ASANO, Kentarou FURIYA, Jun ARAKI, Masahiko GOTO
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Publication number: 20170373544Abstract: According to an embodiment, a management system manages a power transmitter capable of wirelessly transmitting power to a power receiver of a movable object. The management system includes a detection unit configured to detect a state of the power transmitter, a storage unit configured to store a relationship between the state of the power transmitter and a power transmission level indicating possibility of power transmission of the power transmitter, an identification unit configured to identify the power transmission level corresponding to the state detected by the detection unit, and an output unit configured to output the identified power transmission level before the power transmitter starts transmitting power.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Motonao NIIZUMA, Susumu TOKURA, Eiichi URUSHIBATA, Hideo NAGANUMA, Jun ARAKI
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Publication number: 20170314093Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel sheet and a steel pipe as a material suitable for a heat-resistant component that is required to have especially excellent formability are provided. The ferritic stainless steel sheet contains 10 to 20 mass % of Cr and a predetermined amount of C, Si, Mn, P, S, Al and one or both of Ti and Nb, a {111}-orientation intensity being 5 or more and {411}-orientation intensity being less than 3 at a portion in the vicinity of a sheet-thickness central portion of the ferritic stainless steel sheet. Further, with similar composition and by setting {111}<110>-orientation intensity at 4.0 or more and {311}<136>-orientation intensity at less than 3.0, a relationship rm??1.0t+3.0 (t (mm): sheet thickness, rm: average r-value) is satisfied, thereby providing a ferritic stainless steel sheet and a steel pipe with excellent formability.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi HAMADA, Kou NISHIMURA, Jun ARAKI, Nozomu FUKUDA, Toshio TANOUE
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Publication number: 20170256993Abstract: A wireless power-supplying system according to the present disclosure includes a power-transmitting device and a power-receiving device. The power-transmitting device includes a power-transmitting coil to which AC power of a certain frequency is input from a power supply and a controller which controls a frequency. The power-receiving device includes a power-receiving coil magnetically coupled with the power-transmitting coil with a certain coupling coefficient and a power-receiving side series element connected to the power-receiving coil in series and having imaginary impedance jZS2i. The imaginary impedance is defined so that impedance when a power-receiving side is seen from the power supply is independent of the coupling coefficient when the frequency and the coupling coefficient are predetermined values.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2017Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio NAKAMURA, Takahiko MURAYAMA, Jun ARAKI
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Publication number: 20170237291Abstract: Provided is a first coil device that faces a second coil device in a facing direction, and wirelessly transmits or receives power, the first coil device including a first coil portion, and a first auxiliary magnetic member provided adjacent to the first coil portion in a first direction orthogonal to the facing direction. The first auxiliary magnetic member is configured to be closer to the second coil device with increasing distance in the first direction from the first coil portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Susumu TOKURA, Masakazu HARA, Kentarou FURIYA, Jun ARAKI
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Publication number: 20170217319Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information providing system for providing information about a wireless power transfer system including a power receiver mounted on a moving object and one or more power transmitters installed in one or more charging stations includes a search unit configured to extract location information of a charging station in which a power transmitter capable of feeding power to the power receiver is installed, by referring to a station storage unit that stores station information indicating correspondence between the location information of the charging station and the power transmitter of the charging station and to a history storage unit that stores a usage history indicating one or more power transmitters previously used by the power receiver, and an output unit configured to output the location information of the charging station extracted by the search unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Jun ARAKI
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Publication number: 20170158066Abstract: A power reception coil device is a power reception coil device attached to a movable body, for wirelessly receiving power from a power transmission coil device, and includes a power reception coil portion including a conductive wire, and a nonmagnetic body disposed between the movable body and the power reception coil portion. The nonmagnetic body includes a first overhang protruding in a first direction outwardly from one end portion of a region onto which the power reception coil portion is projected in a second direction. The first direction is orthogonal to the second direction in which the power reception coil device opposes the power transmission coil device. The first overhang is longer than or equal to a maximum permissible misalignment permissible between the power reception coil portion and a power transmission coil portion of the power transmission coil device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Susumu TOKURA, Masakazu HARA, Kentarou FURIYA, Jun ARAKI
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Publication number: 20170103850Abstract: A coil device includes a first coil portion which faces a second coil portion of another coil device and has a conductive wire, and at least one non-magnetic member disposed on an opposite side from a side facing the second coil portion. The non-magnetic member includes an eddy current interrupter for changing a state of an eddy current formed in the non-magnetic member by interrupting a portion of the eddy current.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Kentarou FURIYA, Susumu TOKURA, Masakazu HARA, Jun ARAKI
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Publication number: 20170093225Abstract: A power-receiving device is provided with a load circuit including a load and a switching element that are connected in series between a pair of output terminals of a power-receiving side power converter. The load of the load circuit has such a resistance value that the voltage of elements of a power-receiving side pad or the power-receiving side power converter does not reach a breakdown voltage before a power-transmission device stops power transmission to the power-receiving device after the power-receiving device and the load device are disconnected from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiko MURAYAMA, Yuji TAKATSU, Takayoshi BANDO, Yuji MAEKAWA, Jun ARAKI