Patents by Inventor Masakuni Asano

Masakuni Asano 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: 6545885
    Abstract: A power fluctuation monitoring unit which monitors and detects the power fluctuation at a receiving point 9 by means of the measurement results of the voltage at injection point 14 of an intermediate-order harmonic current and the current at incoming line 10, a power compensation unit which forms the compensation power injection signal for canceling out the power fluctuation based on the detection results of the power fluctuation, and an inverter device 18 which is driven and controlled by the signal resulting from the addition of the intermediate-order harmonic current injection signal and the compensation power injection signal and injects the intermediate-order harmonic current and the compensation power into the injection point, are equipped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Nissin Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Nishimura, Yoshifumi Minowa, Masakuni Asano, Noriaki Tokuda, Tokuo Emura, Yoshihiro Hada
  • Publication number: 20020039299
    Abstract: A power fluctuation monitoring unit which monitors and detects the power fluctuation at a receiving point 9 by means of the measurement results of the voltage at injection point 14 of an intermediate-order harmonic current and the current at incoming line 10, a power compensation unit which forms the compensation power injection signal for canceling out the power fluctuation based on the detection results of the power fluctuation, and an inverter device 18 which is driven and controlled by the signal resulting from the addition of the intermediate-order harmonic current injection signal and the compensation power injection signal and injects the intermediate-order harmonic current and the compensation power into the injection point, are equipped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Publication date: April 4, 2002
    Applicant: NISSIN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Nishimura, Yoshifumi Minowa, Masakuni Asano, Noriaki Tokuda, Tokuo Emura, Yoshihiro Hada
  • Patent number: 6335851
    Abstract: In a current-limiting device, a plurality of current-limiting elements are connected in series to one another, and are inserted between the system power source of an electric power system and the load thereof. In the device, transformers, the number of which is equal to that of the current-limiting element S1 through Sn, are arranged. The primary windings of the transformers are connected to the current-limiting elements in the same polarity, respectively, and all the secondary wings thereof are connected in parallel to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Nissin Electric Co., LTD
    Inventors: Jun Nishidai, Yoshio Matsubara, Noriaki Tokuda, Masakuni Asano
  • Patent number: 6147845
    Abstract: A system interconnection device connected between two systems, such as a commercial bus line carrying power from a commercial power line and a private bus line carrying power from a private power generator, is able to connect and disconnect the two systems, and, in the event of a fault, has a current-limiting effect, thus preventing instantaneous voltage drop of the respective bus lines. In the system interconnection device, unit parallel circuits made up of diodes and DC reactors are serially connected so that the diodes thereof have opposite directions. With this structure, in realizing operations equivalent to those of a conventional system interconnection device having a DC reactor between DC terminals of a single-phase rectifying bridge circuit, the number of diodes, which are rectifying elements, can be halved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Nissin Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Matsubara, Masakuni Asano, Noriaki Tokuda