Patents by Inventor Kotaro Nakano

Kotaro Nakano 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: 11962480
    Abstract: An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is not performed on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hideki Matsushima, Motoji Ohmori, Natsume Matsuzaki, Yuichi Futa, Toshihisa Nakano, Manabu Maeda, Yuji Unagami, Hiroshi Amano, Kotaro Hakoda
  • Patent number: 11855496
    Abstract: A motor drive system includes a motor that drives a vehicle so as to travel, a motor control device that includes an inverter and a control device that controls the inverter, and which controls the motor, and a communication electronic control unit connected to the control device, wherein the communication electronic control unit transmits information regarding a drive system of the motor transmitted from the control device to an exterior of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Iezawa, Kotaro Nakano
  • Patent number: 11716049
    Abstract: A rotating machine power conversion device is obtained which achieves operational continuation in a rotational speed range in which the operational continuation is enabled, even when a single phase of an electrical power conversion device made of switching devices causes a disconnection or turn-off failure. The rotating machine power conversion device comprises: a normality-case/abnormality-case current control device selection device for transferring between a normality-case current control device and an abnormality-case current control device in accordance with a determination result of an abnormality determination device; and an abnormality-case current control device/power conversion halt device selection device, using a rotational speed calculation device, for transferring between the abnormality-case current control device used when a rotational speed is lower than that being prespecified, and the power conversion halt device used when a rotational speed is higher than that being prespecified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Ichikawa, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Noriyuki Wada, Kotaro Nakano
  • Patent number: 11648840
    Abstract: There has been a drawback in that current command values need to be set for a current command unit of a power conversion device in accordance with efficiency, and thus the number of operation steps increases. In the power conversion device connected between a three-phase AC rotating machine and a DC power supply and configured to convert DC power into AC power, a DC voltage value, of the DC power supply, that is to be inputted to a current command unit of the power conversion device is corrected on the basis of an efficiency index, and a current command value to be outputted by the current command unit is changed on the basis of the corrected DC voltage value and a torque command value, whereby the efficiencies of the power conversion device and the three-phase AC rotating machine are controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Ichikawa, Masahiro Iezawa, Noriyuki Wada, Kotaro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20220368265
    Abstract: In a rotating machine control device which controls an alternating current voltage command which is transmitted to an electric power converter, the alternating current voltage command is generated so that 1f component of the phase current may follow a current command. However, when the rotor position information by a position detecting element which detects the position of the rotor of a rotating machine has an error, an offset component is produced in the phase current. A controller includes an offset compensation part which calculates an offset compensation amount, from a detection result of the detection current so that the offset component of the detection current of the current detecting element may be decreased, and performs an addition or subtraction operation of an offset compensation command to the alternating current voltage command which a voltage command generation part outputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Kondo, Masahiro Iezawa, Kotaro Nakano
  • Patent number: 11296630
    Abstract: To provide a controller for rotary electric machine apparatus which can calculate the voltage command value of the converter which reduces power loss with good accuracy, in the case where the normal modulation control and the overmodulation control are switched and performed. A controller for rotary electric machine apparatus sets a system voltage that power loss becomes the minimum as the converter voltage command value, based on a power loss characteristics of the normal modulation control which is a power loss characteristics of at least the inverter with respect to the system voltage in performing the normal modulation control, and a power loss characteristics of the overmodulation control which is a power loss characteristics of at least the inverter with respect to the system voltage in performing the overmodulation control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Iezawa, Shingo Kato, Noriyuki Wada, Hideaki Kawamoto, Kotaro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20220077752
    Abstract: A motor drive system includes a motor that drives a vehicle so as to travel, a motor control device that includes an inverter and a control device that controls the inverter, and which controls the motor, and a communication electronic control unit connected to the control device, wherein the communication electronic control unit transmits information regarding a drive system of the motor transmitted from the control device to an exterior of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro IEZAWA, Kotaro NAKANO
  • Patent number: 11264901
    Abstract: There is provided an electric-power conversion system controller in which even when the temperatures of a switching device and a diode included in the driving circuit for a converter become high, the performances of the devices are prevented from being deteriorated and the lifetimes thereof are prevented from being shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro Nakano, Noriyuki Wada, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Shingo Kato, Tomonori Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220055486
    Abstract: To provide a controller for AC rotary machine and a motor vehicle which can solve the countermeasure against heat of the inverter, and the generation of sound or electric resonance, at the same time. A controller for AC rotary machine turns on and off a plurality of switching devices which the inverter has at PWM frequency, based on the n-phase voltage command values; detects the temperature of the inverter; changes the PWM frequency based on the detected temperature of the inverter; and changes the PWM frequency out of range of the avoidance frequency band, when the PWM frequency after change is within the range of the avoidance frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro NAKANO, Yoshihiko KIMPARA
  • Publication number: 20210211078
    Abstract: To provide a controller for rotary electric machine apparatus which can calculate the voltage command value of the converter which reduces power loss with good accuracy, in the case where the normal modulation control and the overmodulation control are switched and performed. A controller for rotary electric machine apparatus sets a system voltage that power loss becomes the minimum as the converter voltage command value, based on a power loss characteristics of the normal modulation control which is a power loss characteristics of at least the inverter with respect to the system voltage in performing the normal modulation control, and a power loss characteristics of the overmodulation control which is a power loss characteristics of at least the inverter with respect to the system voltage in performing the overmodulation control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro IEZAWA, Shingo KATO, Noriyuki WADA, Hideaki KAWAMOTO, Kotaro NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20210067040
    Abstract: There is provided an electric-power conversion system controller in which even when the temperatures of a switching device and a diode included in the driving circuit for a converter become high, the performances of the devices are prevented from being deteriorated and the lifetimes thereof are prevented from being shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro NAKANO, Noriyuki WADA, Yoshihiko KIMPARA, Shingo KATO, Tomonori YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20210006193
    Abstract: A rotating machine power conversion device is obtained which achieves operational continuation in a rotational speed range in which the operational continuation is enabled, even when a single phase of an electrical power conversion device made of switching devices causes a disconnection or turn-off failure. The rotating machine power conversion device comprises: a normality-case/abnormality-case current control device selection device for transferring between a normality-case current control device and an abnormality-case current control device in accordance with a determination result of an abnormality determination device; and an abnormality-case current control device/power conversion halt device selection device, using a rotational speed calculation device, for transferring between the abnormality-case current control device used when a rotational speed is lower than that being prespecified, and the power conversion halt device used when a rotational speed is higher than that being prespecified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi ICHIKAWA, Yoshihiko KIMPARA, Noriyuki WADA, Kotaro NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20200324656
    Abstract: There has been a drawback in that current command values need to be set for a current command unit of a power conversion device in accordance with efficiency, and thus the number of operation steps increases. In the power conversion device connected between a three-phase AC rotating machine and a DC power supply and configured to convert DC power into AC power, a DC voltage value, of the DC power supply, that is to be inputted to a current command unit of the power conversion device is corrected on the basis of an efficiency index, and a current command value to be outputted by the current command unit is changed on the basis of the corrected DC voltage value and a torque command value, whereby the efficiencies of the power conversion device and the three-phase AC rotating machine are controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi ICHIKAWA, Masahiro IEZAWA, Noriyuki WADA, Kotaro NAKANO
  • Patent number: 10581367
    Abstract: The rotating-electric-machine control apparatus is provided with two or more torque compensation amount maps that each store a torque compensation amount corresponding to a detection rotation speed and a first torque command and a torque compensation amount map selector that selects a single torque compensation amount map from the two or more torque compensation amount maps, based on at least one of the detection rotation speed and control information indicating a control method utilized by the voltage applying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Kotaro Nakano, Daiki Matsuura, Noriyuki Wada, Yoshihiko Kimpara
  • Patent number: 10469014
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for a permanent magnet-type rotating electrical machine (100), which includes a current coordinate transformation unit (109) configured to output a d-axis current and a q-axis current by coordinate transformation of three-phase AC currents respectively detected by current detection units (111, 112, 113), a current correction direction calculation unit (108) configured to calculate a current correction direction through use of the d-axis current and the q-axis current, and a current correction amount addition unit (102) configured to correct a d-axis current command and a q-axis current command based on the current correction direction. In this manner, an induced voltage is converged to lie within a maximum voltage circle in accordance with a power supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro Nakano, Noriyuki Wada, Daiki Matsuura, Hideaki Kawamoto, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190123677
    Abstract: The rotating-electric-machine control apparatus is provided with two or more torque compensation amount maps that each store a torque compensation amount corresponding to a detection rotation speed and a first torque command and a torque compensation amount map selector that selects a single torque compensation amount map from the two or more torque compensation amount maps, based on at least one of the detection rotation speed and control information indicating a control method utilized by the voltage applying device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi FUJII, Kotaro NAKANO, Daiki MATSUURA, Noriyuki WADA, Yoshihiko KIMPARA
  • Patent number: 10224853
    Abstract: To provide an AC rotary machine controller which can improve setting accuracy of torque command correction value in a region where change of torque command correction value to change of rotational speed and torque becomes large and where nonlinearity is high, and can suppress increase in data amount of correction value setting map. In correction value setting map, one or both of a torque axis unequal interval setting that sets interval of the torque command map axis to unequal interval in each rotational speed; and a rotation axis unequal interval setting that sets interval of the rotational speed map axis to unequal interval were done.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro Nakano, Noriyuki Wada, Yasufumi Ogawa, Daiki Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20180367076
    Abstract: To provide an AC rotary machine controller which can improve setting accuracy of torque command correction value in a region where change of torque command correction value to change of rotational speed and torque becomes large and where nonlinearity is high, and can suppress increase in data amount of correction value setting map. In correction value setting map, one or both of a torque axis unequal interval setting that sets interval of the torque command map axis to unequal interval in each rotational speed; and a rotation axis unequal interval setting that sets interval of the rotational speed map axis to unequal interval were done.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro NAKANO, Noriyuki WADA, Yasufumi OGAWA, Daiki MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20180302013
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for a permanent magnet-type rotating electrical machine (100), which includes a current coordinate transformation unit (109) configured to output a d-axis current and a q-axis current by coordinate transformation of three-phase AC currents respectively detected by current detection units (111, 112, 113), a current correction direction calculation unit (108) configured to calculate a current correction direction through use of the d-axis current and the q-axis current, and a current correction amount addition unit (102) configured to correct a d-axis current command and a q-axis current command based on the current correction direction. In this manner, an induced voltage is converged to lie within a maximum voltage circle in accordance with a power supply voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro NAKANO, Noriyuki WADA, Daiki MATSUURA, Hideaki KAWAMOTO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9889744
    Abstract: In the case where a virtual vehicle speed selection means selects one of a first virtual vehicle speed and a second virtual vehicle speed so as to perform switching from the other one to said one of the first virtual vehicle speed and the second virtual vehicle speed, the rotation speed of an electric motor is decelerated to a threshold value with which travel of the vehicle stabilizes and the deceleration of the electric motor is stopped when the rotation speed of the electric motor becomes lower than the threshold value, and then traction of the vehicle is controlled based on the selected virtual vehicle speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro Nakano, Hiroyuki Kobayashi