Patents by Inventor Minoru Matsuo
Minoru Matsuo 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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Publication number: 20240148821Abstract: The present inventors found cyclic peptide compounds that interact with Ras, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the cyclic peptide compounds or salts thereof, or solvates thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Mikimasa TANADA, Koji TAKANO, Atsushi MATSUO, Minoru TAMIYA, Aya CHIYODA, Toshiya ITO, Takeo IIDA, Atsushi OHTA
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Publication number: 20230294966Abstract: An information processing method includes acquiring information on a first route being a travel route of a first mobile body during a first time period and information on a second route being a travel route of a second mobile body during a second time period after the first time period, and setting a route for standby position as a travel route of the first mobile body during a third time period after the first time period and before the second time period when a target position of the first route is located on the second route. The route for standby position is a route from the target position to a standby position. The standby position is a position not overlapping with the second route.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Minoru MATSUO, Kenji TAKAO, Atsuyoshi SAIMEN
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Publication number: 20230146834Abstract: A control device includes: a variation command unit that changes a command value, which is a command value sent to a system including a compressor, affecting an operating state of the compressor; a proportional coefficient calculation unit that calculates a proportional coefficient of a variation in a parameter, which indicates a state of the compressor or an electric motor that drives the compressor when the system is operated based on the command value, with respect to the command value; and a control unit that performs control for avoiding or suppressing surging in the compressor, based on a value of the proportional coefficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takaharu Hiroe, Minoru Matsuo, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Akihiro Nakaniwa, Yasunori Tokimasa
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Patent number: 11221166Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator system with which refrigerators can be operated efficiently. This refrigerator system has: an upstream refrigerator having a first compressor that compresses a refrigerant, a first condenser that condenses the refrigerant compressed by the first compressor, and a first evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant condensed by the first condenser and cools cold water; a downstream refrigerator having a second compressor that compresses a refrigerant, a second condenser that condenses the refrigerant compressed by the second compressor, and a second evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant condensed by the second condenser and cools the cold water that has passed through the first evaporator; and a higher-level control device that controls the operation of the upstream refrigerator and the downstream refrigerator. The first compressor is a variable-speed device, and the second compressor is a constant-speed device.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Hazui, Toshiaki Ouchi, Minoru Matsuo, Satoshi Nikaido, Noriyasu Maehara
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Patent number: 11060741Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to maintain a water supply temperature close to a target water supply temperature at the time of a change in the number of heat source machines operating. A heat source system of the present invention anticipates a case where a prescribed minimum flow rate is set for heat source machines that are subject to addition or removal, and calculates, as compensation temperatures, hot and cold water outlet temperatures of the heat source machines so that the water supply temperature in such a case will match a target water supply temperature, and changes the hot and cold water outlet temperature settings of the operating heat source machines to the compensation temperatures. After that, the heat source machines that are subject to addition or removal are either started up or stopped, and the set flow rate for the heat source machines that are subject to addition or removal is set to the minimum flow rate.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Ouchi, Minoru Matsuo, Koki Tateishi, Satoshi Nikaido
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Patent number: 10697680Abstract: A heat source system that optimizes a load on compressors in multiple heat source machines with respective independent refrigeration cycles that are situated in series. This is accomplished by using an information acquisition unit that acquires measurement values of operation frequencies of compressors from the respective heat source machines, a load distribution change unit that changes a load distribution currently assigned to each of the heat source machines, and a temperature setting unit that sets the hot/chilled water outlet temperatures of respective heat source machines.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2013Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Minoru Matsuo, Takeshi Fuchimoto
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Publication number: 20200158356Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to maintain a water supply temperature close to a target water supply temperature at the time of a change in the number of heat source machines operating. A heat source system of the present invention anticipates a case where a prescribed minimum flow rate is set for heat source machines that are subject to addition or removal, and calculates, as compensation temperatures, hot and cold water outlet temperatures of the heat source machines so that the water supply temperature in such a case will match a target water supply temperature, and changes the hot and cold water outlet temperature settings of the operating heat source machines to the compensation temperatures. After that, the heat source machines that are subject to addition or removal are either started up or stopped, and the set flow rate for the heat source machines that are subject to addition or removal is set to the minimum flow rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki OUCHI, Minoru MATSUO, Koki TATEISHI, Satoshi NIKAIDO
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Patent number: 10655868Abstract: A controller for controlling a number of operating heat sources is provided. The controller detects a change in a number of secondary pumps that supply a heat transfer medium to a load device, determines the number of operating heat sources that changes as a load demand of the state of a load device changes, and switches the number of operating heat sources. The controller determines the number of operating heat sources when the change in the number of secondary pumps due to the change in the load demand is detected, and changes the number of heat sources for as long as at least one of a prescribed period has passed from a time when the change in the number of secondary pumps is detected or a prescribed condition with respect to a value that varies due to the change in the number of secondary pumps is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Koki Tateishi, Satoshi Nikaido, Minoru Matsuo, Toshiaki Ouchi
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Patent number: 10533781Abstract: A machine quantity controlling device which controls a quantity of a heat source device to operate in a heat source system including a first heat source device and a second heat source device, the first heat source device being a waste heat recovery type absorption chiller, the second heat source device other than a waste heat recovery type absorption chiller, the machine quantity controlling device including an acquisition unit that obtains a waste heat utilization maximum load which is a maximum load when the first heat source device receives only supply of the waste heat; a determination unit that determines a predetermined load range from the waste heat utilization maximum load to be a first optimal load range as an optimal load range of the first heat source device; and a machine quantity control unit that controls a quantity of the second heat source device to operate so that the sum of a total of minimum values of the optimal load range of the first heat source device to operate and a total of minimumType: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Nikaido, Kenji Ueda, Yoshie Togano, Minoru Matsuo, Koki Tateishi
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Patent number: 10215470Abstract: Provided is a heat pump system that can appropriately manage the number of heat pumps in operation even when any of the heat pumps is defrosting, and that can always operate at a capacity that corresponds to a load. Also provided is an operation method for the heat pump system. A heat pump system (1) wherein a plurality of heat pumps (10A-10C (13A-13D)) are connected to a system load and wherein a system management unit (27) successively calculates the capacity that can be output by the heat pumps (10A-10C (13A-13D)) in operation, compares the calculated capacity value, as a threshold value, to the thermal load of the system load, and manages the number of heat pumps (10A-10C (13A-13D)) in operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Nikaido, Takeshi Fuchimoto, Minoru Matsuo, Toshiaki Ouchi
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Patent number: 10197301Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to avoid frequent repetition of an increase/decrease stage caused by the inclusion, in a heat source system, of a machine the capacity of which has been degraded. A heat source system of the present invention is provided with a plurality of heat source machines. A higher-level control device (20) controls each of the heat source machines so that a heat medium delivery temperature, which is the temperature of a heat medium being supplied to an external load, will be a set temperature. The higher-level control device (20) is provided with a number-of-machines control unit (22), a degraded machine detection unit (24), and a priority ranking modification unit (25). The number-of-machines control unit (22) controls the number of heat source machines in accordance with operational priority ranking information in which each of the heat source machines and an operational priority ranking are associated together.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Nikaido, Toshiaki Ouchi, Minoru Matsuo, Koki Tateishi
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Patent number: 10139815Abstract: This chiller control device (74) is provided with: a storage unit (18) which stores operation data detected at each site in a turbo chiller; a compression unit (34) which, when the size of the operation data accumulated over time in the storage unit (18) becomes too large, converts the operation data each time a condition depending on the type of operation data is met, thereby compressing the data size; and a diagnostic unit (36) which evaluates the state of the turbo chiller on the basis of the operation data converted by the compression unit (34). By this means, the state of the chiller can be diagnosed without increasing the storage capacity of the storage medium that stores operation data of the turbo chiller.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takaaki Miura, Kenji Ueda, Yoshie Kanki, Minoru Matsuo
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Patent number: 10119717Abstract: In order to achieve a reduction in energy consumption in a cooling water supply device without using a database, an equipment control device (70a) of a cooling water supply device: uses the load of a chiller, and a cooling water outlet temperature lower limit setpoint determined in accordance with the set temperature for the cooling water outlet of the chiller, to set a cooling water inlet temperature lower limit setpoint; sets, as the cooling water inlet temperature setpoint, the higher of the lower limit setpoint and the cooling water inlet temperature lower limit value as determined from the outside wet-bulb temperature; and generates a control command for a cooling tower fan and a control command for the cooling water flow volume, so as to match the cooling water inlet temperature and the cooling water outlet temperature respectively with the cooling water inlet temperature setpoint and the cooling water outlet temperature lower limit setpoint which have been set.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Minoru Matsuo, Satoshi Nikaido, Koki Tateishi, Toshiaki Ouchi
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Publication number: 20180187938Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator system with which refrigerators can be operated efficiently. This refrigerator system has: an upstream refrigerator having a first compressor that compresses a refrigerant, a first condenser that condenses the refrigerant compressed by the first compressor, and a first evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant condensed by the first condenser and cools cold water; a downstream refrigerator having a second compressor that compresses a refrigerant, a second condenser that condenses the refrigerant compressed by the second compressor, and a second evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant condensed by the second condenser and cools the cold water that has passed through the first evaporator; and a higher-level control device that controls the operation of the upstream refrigerator and the downstream refrigerator. The first compressor is a variable-speed device, and the second compressor is a constant-speed device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2016Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yusuke HAZUI, Toshiaki OUCHI, Minoru MATSUO, Satoshi NIKAIDO, Noriyasu MAEHARA
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Patent number: 10006725Abstract: To swiftly start, at the time of power recovery after a power failure, heat source machines, the number of which is equal to the number of machines before the power failure, without including an uninterruptible power supply in an apparatus for controlling the number of machines that is adapted to control the number of heat source machines. There is provided a heat source system, in which a host control device (20) includes a nonvolatile first storage unit (22) that stores the number of heat source machines in operation immediately before the power failure. When power is recovered, control on the number of heat source machines at the time of power recovery is performed in accordance with the number of heat source machines stored in the first storage unit (22).Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Nikaido, Takaaki Miura, Minoru Matsuo, Koki Tateishi, Toshiaki Ouchi
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Publication number: 20180120000Abstract: A machine quantity controlling device which controls a quantity of a heat source device to operate in a heat source system including a first heat source device and a second heat source device, the first heat source device being a waste heat recovery type absorption chiller, the second heat source device other than a waste heat recovery type absorption chiller, the machine quantity controlling device including an acquisition unit that obtains a waste heat utilization maximum load which is a maximum load when the first heat source device receives only supply of the waste heat; a determination unit that determines a predetermined load range from the waste heat utilization maximum load to be a first optimal load range as an optimal load range of the first heat source device; and a machine quantity control unit that controls a quantity of the second heat source device to operate so that the sum of a total of minimum values of the optimal load range of the first heat source device to operate and a total of minimumType: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2016Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi NIKAIDO, Kenji UEDA, Yoshie TOGANO, Minoru MATSUO, Koki TATEISHI
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Patent number: 9957970Abstract: To achieve energy saving in the cooling towers as a whole in a heat source system including a plurality of cooling towers connected in parallel to a common chiller. In a heat source system, a plurality of cooling towers are connected in parallel to a common chiller. The cooling towers cool cooling water used and thereby heated in the chiller, and supplies the cooled cooling water to the chiller. A cooling tower control device for controlling the cooling towers starts all the cooling towers at the start of the heat source system.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2013Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Koki Tateishi, Satoshi Nikaido, Minoru Matsuo, Toshiaki Ouchi
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Patent number: 9823633Abstract: A control device and method for preventing the start and stop of heat source machines from being frequently repeated. The control device determining whether or not basic conditions for decreasing the number of machines are satisfied when the number of currently operating machines is increased by one is determined if a current operational status satisfies basic conditions for increasing the number of machines, and one heat source machine is started if it is determined that the basic conditions for decreasing the number of machines are not satisfied, and determining whether or not the basic conditions for increasing the number of machines are satisfied when the number of currently operating machines is decreased by one are satisfied if a current operational status satisfies the basic conditions for decreasing the number of machines, and one heat source machine is stopped if it is determined that the basic conditions for increasing the number of machines are not satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Koki Tateishi, Minoru Matsuo, Satoshi Nikaido, Toshiaki Ouchi
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Publication number: 20170328593Abstract: A control device for an air conditioning system is provided with: an outdoor-unit control part capable of communication with an outdoor unit (B) through a communication medium, the outdoor-unit control part acquiring, through the communication medium, information about machinery installed in the outdoor unit (B) and outputting control commands to the machinery installed in the outdoor unit (B); and an indoor-unit control part capable of communication with an indoor unit (A) through a communication medium, the indoor-unit control part acquiring, through the communication medium, information about machinery installed in the indoor unit (A) and outputting control commands to the machinery installed in the indoor unit (A).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi ENYA, Takahide ITO, Minoru MATSUO
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Publication number: 20170314801Abstract: A control device (3) for an air conditioning system (1) is provided with: an outdoor-unit control part (43) capable of communication with an outdoor unit (B) through a communication medium, the outdoor-unit control part (43) acquiring, through the communication medium, information about machinery installed in the outdoor unit (B) and outputting control commands to the machinery installed in the outdoor unit (B); and an indoor-unit control part (41) capable of communication with an indoor unit (A) through a communication medium, the indoor-unit control part (41) acquiring, through the communication medium, information about the machinery installed in the indoor unit (A) and outputting control commands to the machinery installed in the indoor unit (A).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi ENYA, Takahide ITO, Minoru MATSUO