Patents by Inventor Mitsunori Tabata
Mitsunori Tabata 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: 11296535Abstract: The control device for an electric motor according to this application provides a battery voltage detecting part for detecting a battery voltage at the time of driving a motor driven by a battery, and a minimum voltage holding part for keeping the battery voltage above the predetermined voltage by reducing the consumption current of the electric motor when the battery voltage detected by the battery voltage detecting part falls below a predetermined voltage during driving of the electric motor, so that it is possible to suppress a reduction in battery voltage during driving at low cost, and it is possible to keep the battery voltage above the predetermined voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Nobuaki Yoshioka, Kenichi Akita, Mitsunori Tabata
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Patent number: 10840844Abstract: To provide a controller for a rotary electric machine capable of suppressing occurrence of an angle interval when the rotary electric machine cannot output torque, even if the ON angle interval of the switching devices is set smaller than 120 degrees in the rectangular wave control. A controller for a rotary electric machine performs a rectangular wave control to a rotary electric machine which has 2 groups of three-phase windings, with a phase difference between groups; and switches a first control mode and a second control mode according to a switching condition; wherein the first control mode is a mode which sets an ON angle interval to an angle within a range from 120 degrees to 180 degrees; and wherein the second control mode is a mode which sets the ON angle interval to an angle within a range from 90 degrees to 120 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenichi Akita, Masahiko Fujita, Norio Matsumoto, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Mitsunori Tabata
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Patent number: 10610856Abstract: A catalyst for catalytic cracking of a hydrocarbon oil can produce a gasoline fraction having a high octane number in high yield while suppressing an increase in yield of a heavy distillate, and produce LPG having a high propylene content in high yield. The catalyst includes a specific amount of a granulated catalyst A that includes a zeolite having a sodalite cage structure, silicon derived from a silica sol, phosphorus and aluminum derived from mono aluminum phosphate, a clay mineral, and a rare-earth metal, and a specific amount of a granulated catalyst B that includes a pentasil-type zeolite, the ratio of the mass of phosphorus and aluminum derived from mono aluminum phosphate included in the granulated catalyst A to the mass of the pentasil-type zeolite included in the granulated catalyst B being 0.015 to 3000.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: COSMO OIL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Saka, Tetsuya Kimura, Norihito Chiyoda, Kenji Nagai, Mitsunori Tabata
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Publication number: 20190379235Abstract: The control device for an electric motor according to this application provides a battery voltage detecting part for detecting a battery voltage at the time of driving a motor driven by a battery, and a minimum voltage holding part for keeping the battery voltage above the predetermined voltage by reducing the consumption current of the electric motor when the battery voltage detected by the battery voltage detecting part falls below a predetermined voltage during driving of the electric motor, so that it is possible to suppress a reduction in battery voltage during driving at low cost, and it is possible to keep the battery voltage above the predetermined voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2016Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Nobuaki YOSHIOKA, Kenichi AKITA, Mitsunori TABATA
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Publication number: 20190372499Abstract: To provide a controller for a rotary electric machine capable of suppressing occurrence of an angle interval when the rotary electric machine cannot output torque, even if the ON angle interval of the switching devices is set smaller than 120 degrees in the rectangular wave control. A controller for a rotary electric machine performs a rectangular wave control to a rotary electric machine which has 2 groups of three-phase windings, with a phase difference between groups; and switches a first control mode and a second control mode according to a switching condition; wherein the first control mode is a mode which sets an ON angle interval to an angle within a range from 120 degrees to 180 degrees; and wherein the second control mode is a mode which sets the ON angle interval to an angle within a range from 90 degrees to 120 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenichi AKITA, Masahiko Fujita, Norio Matsumoto, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Mitsunori Tabata
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Patent number: 9755557Abstract: A field current limiting section includes a field current limitation instructing section for, when a field current limitation determining section determines that a determination value has reached a predetermined determination threshold value, generating a field current limiting instruction to a field current control section so as to limit field current to be equal to or smaller than a predetermined permissible value during a predetermined field current limitation time Tlim. A field current limitation releasing section outputs a field current limitation releasing instruction to the field current limiting section so as to release limitation of the field current during a predetermined field current limitation release time TC. When having received the field current limitation releasing instruction from the field current limitation releasing section, the field current limiting section releases limitation of the field current during the predetermined field current limitation release time.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2012Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenichi Akita, Masato Mori, Mitsunori Tabata
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Patent number: 9533580Abstract: Provided are a power converter for a vehicle generator-motor and a method for controlling a vehicle generator-motor, which is used for a field winding type vehicle generator-motor configured to perform control in accordance with an external operating command in which a power converter is connected to a rotating electrical machine including a field winding and an armature winding. When the generator-motor shifts from a driving state to another operating mode, a method of stopping a driving mode is switched in accordance with an operating mode to be shifted, to thereby shift the operating mode promptly without generating an unintended power generation, an excess power generation, and an excess torque fluctuation.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Mitsunori Tabata, Masato Mori, Kenichi Akita
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Patent number: 9444380Abstract: A control section is configured to, when it is detected that a voltage of a B-terminal of a power generator has exceeded a first predetermined voltage value, turn on all switching elements of a negative arm of a bridge circuit connected to one set of armature windings and turn off all switching elements of a positive arm, and reduce a field current flowing in a field winding. The control section is configured to thereafter turn off all the turned-on switching elements when a predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Mitsunori Tabata, Masato Mori, Kenji Nakajima, Kenichi Akita
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Patent number: 9294025Abstract: A field winding rotating electrical machine includes a field current detection section, a field current control section configured to calculate a duty ratio of a current supplied to the field winding based on a field current detection value, to thereby control current supply to the field winding by using a switching element, and a field current correction section configured to estimate a time point when the field current becomes 0 A based on a control state of the field current, to specify the field current detection value at the estimated time point to be a field current correction value, and to subtract the field current correction value from the field current detection value, to thereby calculate the corrected field current value. The field current control section controls the current supply based on the corrected field current value calculated by the field current correction section.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenichi Akita, Masato Mori, Mitsunori Tabata
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Publication number: 20150209771Abstract: A catalyst for catalytic cracking of a hydrocarbon oil can produce a gasoline fraction having a high octane number in high yield while suppressing an increase in yield of a heavy distillate, and produce LPG having a high propylene content in high yield. The catalyst includes a specific amount of a granulated catalyst A that includes a zeolite having a sodalite cage structure, silicon derived from a silica sol, phosphorus and aluminum derived from mono aluminum phosphate, a clay mineral, and a rare-earth metal, and a specific amount of a granulated catalyst B that includes a pentasil-type zeolite, the ratio of the mass of phosphorus and aluminum derived from mono aluminum phosphate included in the granulated catalyst A to the mass of the pentasil-type zeolite included in the granulated catalyst B being 0.015 to 3000.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: COSMO OIL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji SAKA, Tetsuya KIMURA, Norihito CHIYODA, Kenji NAGAI, Mitsunori TABATA
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Patent number: 9065379Abstract: Provided are a low-cost control device and the like for a vehicle generator-motor for minimizing the number of current sensors and the like, and estimating an output torque and a current consumption during drive of the generator-motor. The output torque and the current consumption during the drive of the generator-motor are estimated based on a field current, an rpm, a DC voltage, and a phase of an AC voltage to be supplied of the generator-motor, without providing a current sensor for detecting an input current from a power supply to an inverter device of the generator-motor, and a current sensor for detecting an output current from the inverter device to an armature winding of a rotary electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Mitsunori Tabata, Masato Mori, Kenichi Akita
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Publication number: 20150091534Abstract: A field current limiting section includes a field current limitation instructing section for, when a field current limitation determining section determines that a determination value has reached a predetermined determination threshold value, generating a field current limiting instruction to a field current control section so as to limit field current to be equal to or smaller than a predetermined permissible value during a predetermined field current limitation time Tlim. A field current limitation releasing section outputs a field current limitation releasing instruction to the field current limiting section so as to release limitation of the field current during a predetermined field current limitation release time TC. When having received the field current limitation releasing instruction from the field current limitation releasing section, the field current limiting section releases limitation of the field current during the predetermined field current limitation release time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2012Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Akita, Masato Mori, Mitsunori Tabata
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Publication number: 20150048773Abstract: A field winding rotating electrical machine includes a field current detection section, a field current control section configured to calculate a duty ratio of a current supplied to the field winding based on a field current detection value, to thereby control current supply to the field winding by using a switching element, and a field current correction section configured to estimate a time point when the field current becomes 0 A based on a control state of the field current, to specify the field current detection value at the estimated time point to be a field current correction value, and to subtract the field current correction value from the field current detection value, to thereby calculate the corrected field current value. The field current control section controls the current supply based on the corrected field current value calculated by the field current correction section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Akita, Masato Mori, Mitsunori Tabata
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Publication number: 20150019059Abstract: Provided are a power converter for a vehicle generator-motor and a method for controlling a vehicle generator-motor, which is used for a field winding type vehicle generator-motor configured to perform control in accordance with an external operating command in which a power converter is connected to a rotating electrical machine including a field winding and an armature winding. When the generator-motor shifts from a driving state to another operating mode, a method of stopping a driving mode is switched in accordance with an operating mode to be shifted, to thereby shift the operating mode promptly without generating an unintended power generation, an excess power generation, and an excess torque fluctuation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2012Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsunori Tabata, Masato Mori, Kenichi Akita
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Publication number: 20140292240Abstract: Provided are a low-cost control device and the like for a vehicle generator-motor for minimizing the number of current sensors and the like, and estimating an output torque and a current consumption during drive of the generator-motor. The output torque and the current consumption during the drive of the generator-motor are estimated based on a field current, an rpm, a DC voltage, and a phase of an AC voltage to be supplied of the generator-motor, without providing a current sensor for detecting an input current from a power supply to an inverter device of the generator-motor, and a current sensor for detecting an output current from the inverter device to an armature winding of a rotary electric machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2013Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Mitsunori TABATA, Masato MORI, Kenichi AKITA
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Publication number: 20140292286Abstract: A control section is configured to, when it is detected that a voltage of a B-terminal of a power generator has exceeded a first predetermined voltage value, turn on all switching elements of a negative arm of a bridge circuit connected to one set of armature windings and turn off all switching elements of a positive arm, and reduce a field current flowing in a field winding. The control section is configured to thereafter turn off all the turned-on switching elements when a predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsunori Tabata, Masato Mori, Kenji Nakajima, Kenichi Akita
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Patent number: 8829863Abstract: A field winding type rotary electric machine includes: a controller; a field current integration portion provided in the controller to calculate an integral value by integrating an excessive field current exceeding a field current threshold; a field current limiting portion provided in the controller and carrying out limiting processing to limit a field current to or below a predetermined value when the integral value reaches an integral value threshold defined as a reference value at or above which the field current is limited; a controller power supply connection switch switched ON and OFF for power feeding to the controller; a controller power supply connection determination portion switching ON and OFF the controller power supply connection switch; and a power feeding ON state maintaining portion maintaining an ON state of the power feeding to the controller from start to end of the limiting processing by the field current limiting portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenichi Akita, Kenji Nakajima, Masato Mori, Mitsunori Tabata
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Patent number: 8736235Abstract: A power-generation motor control system is a control system that controls a power-generation motor provided with an armature and a magnetic-field winding, and is characterized in that when the power-generation motor is operated as a motor, before a power source energizes the armature, a preliminary excitation current, with the value of which the induction voltage across the armature does not exceed the voltage of the power source, is applied to the magnetic-field winding in accordance with the rotation speed of the power-generation motor so that preliminary excitation of the power-generation motor is performed.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Mitsunori Tabata, Masato Mori, Kenji Nakajima, Kenichi Akita
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Patent number: 8736234Abstract: A power converter control apparatus includes a power converter part having a bridge circuit formed of a switching element and a field circuit controlling conduction of a field winding in an AC generator, and a control apparatus part having a field current detector, a temperature detector detecting a temperature of a generator part, the power converter part, or the control apparatus part, a field current instruction computation portion computing a field current instruction value of the generator, a temperature rise suppression portion computing a generated current suppression value on the basis of an output of the temperature detector and computing a field current suppression value on the basis of the computed generated current suppression value, a field current instruction selection portion selecting the field current instruction value or the field current suppression value whichever is the smaller, and a field current control portion controlling a field current.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenji Nakajima, Masato Mori, Kenichi Akita, Mitsunori Tabata
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Patent number: 8704400Abstract: A vehicle power converter including a plurality of switching elements having diodes connected thereto in parallel and constituting a multi-phase bridge circuit and a controller for conducting the switching element corresponding to each diode in synchronization with a conduction state of the diode concerned to perform synchronous rectification and is connected between a power generator-motor driven from the external to generate multi-phase AC power and DC equipment, further includes a load state detecting unit for detecting a load state of the power generator-motor when the multi-phase AC power occurs, wherein a shift from diode rectification to synchronous rectification or a shift from the synchronous rectification to the diode rectification is carried out in accordance with an output of the load state detecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenji Nakajima, Kenichi Akita, Masato Mori, Mitsunori Tabata, Katsuya Tsujimoto