Patents by Inventor Shuya Sano

Shuya Sano 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: 9869991
    Abstract: Provided is a control device that includes a plurality of communication units that receive data from measurement control devices; a control unit that calculates an operation signal for controlling a controlled device on the basis of the data from the communication units and that outputs the operation signal to the controlled device; a storage unit that stores the data; a first monitoring unit and a second monitoring unit that perform a calculation on the basis of the data to calculate a calculation value, that determine whether the calculation value satisfies a blocking condition, and that output a blocking signal when the calculation value satisfies the blocking condition; and a first blocking unit and a second blocking unit that block the operation signal to the controlled device upon receiving the blocking signal output from at least either one of the first monitoring unit and the second monitoring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yorimasa Yasuda, Shuya Sano, Tomohiro Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 9640980
    Abstract: A power interrupting device has: an output terminal connected to a load; interruption circuits connected in parallel between a power source and the output terminal; and a control device controlling each interruption circuit. Each interruption circuit has: a switch element connected between the power source and an intermediate node, and ON/OFF controlled by an interruption signal output from the control device; and a rectifier connected such that a forward direction thereof is from the intermediate node to the output terminal. The control device sets the interruption circuits as a diagnosis target circuit in turn. The control device sets the interruption signal output to each interruption circuit such that the switch element of the diagnosis target circuit is OFF. Moreover, the control device determines, based on a voltage of the intermediate node of the diagnosis target circuit, whether an abnormality occurs in the diagnosis target circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka Ieda, Shuya Sano
  • Patent number: 9525739
    Abstract: An FA network LSI is provided in a communication device performing a communication process in a network layer or higher through a plurality of protocols. The FA network LSI includes a data-link layer processing unit that performs a process in a data link layer for control data, and a protocol processing unit that performs a process in the network layer or higher for the control data. The data-link layer processing unit includes a first data-link layer processing unit to process dedicatedly to correspond to a protocol required high speed processing, a second data-link layer processing unit to process in a standard data link layer, for a protocol other than the protocol required the high speed processing, and a data-link-layer-processing selection unit to select one of the two units mentioned-above. The data-link layer processing unit is formed by hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohisa Yamaguchi, Shuya Sano, Hisafumi Komoto
  • Publication number: 20160336735
    Abstract: A power interrupting device has: an output terminal connected to a load; interruption circuits connected in parallel between a power source and the output terminal; and a control device controlling each interruption circuit. Each interruption circuit has: a switch element connected between the power source and an intermediate node, and ON/OFF controlled by an interruption signal output from the control device; and a rectifier connected such that a forward direction thereof is from the intermediate node to the output terminal. The control device sets the interruption circuits as a diagnosis target circuit in turn. The control device sets the interruption signal output to each interruption circuit such that the switch element of the diagnosis target circuit is OFF. Moreover, the control device determines, based on a voltage of the intermediate node of the diagnosis target circuit, whether an abnormality occurs in the diagnosis target circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka IEDA, Shuya SANO
  • Publication number: 20160233804
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a motor-speed detection unit detecting and outputting a detected motor speed based on an output signal of an encoder connected to a motor that is a synchronous motor; a motor electric-angle detection unit detecting and outputting a detected motor electric angle based on the output signal; a motor electric-angle estimation unit receiving a motor voltage, a motor current, and the detected motor speed, and estimating and outputting an estimated motor electric angle based on the motor voltage and the motor current; and a switching unit receiving the detected motor electric angle and the estimated motor electric angle, determining whether the encoder is operating normally based on the detected motor electric angle and the estimated motor electric angle, outputting the detected motor electric angle when the encoder is operating normally, and outputting the estimated motor electric angle when the encoder is not operating normally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi FURUTANI, Shuya SANO, Keita HORII, Hiroto TAKEI, Kazuya INAZUMA
  • Patent number: 9395421
    Abstract: A circuit fault detection device includes: an interruption-signal generation unit that outputs an interruption signal for a drive circuit stopping driving of a drive target on a basis of the interruption signal; a pulse generation unit that includes an adjustment unit adjusting a time during which a pulse signal is in an OFF state and that generates the pulse signal; a signal synthesis unit that outputs a logical AND of the interruption signal and the pulse signal; a filter circuit that inputs, as an output, a signal obtained by delaying an output signal of the signal synthesis unit to the drive circuit; and a monitoring unit that determines whether a circuit fault has occurred on a basis of an output voltage of the filter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka Ieda, Shuya Sano, Masaaki Ono
  • Publication number: 20160112519
    Abstract: An FA network LSI is provided in a communication device performing a communication process in a network layer or higher through a plurality of protocols. The FA network LSI includes a data-link layer processing unit that performs a process in a data link layer for control data, and a protocol processing unit that performs a process in the network layer or higher for the control data. The data-link layer processing unit includes a first data-link layer processing unit to process dedicatedly to correspond to a protocol required high speed processing, a second data-link layer processing unit to process in a standard data link layer, for a protocol other than the protocol required the high speed processing, and a data-link-layer-processing selection unit to select one of the two units mentioned-above. The data-link layer processing unit is formed by hardware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohisa YAMAGUCHI, Shuya SANO, Hisafumi KOMOTO
  • Patent number: 9310798
    Abstract: A motor drive device in embodiments includes: a motor drive unit that generates a current for driving a motor on a basis of a position command and a position detection value of the motor; a motor-coil ambient-temperature estimation unit that calculates a motor-coil ambient-temperature estimation value by correcting an output value of a temperature sensor provided in a peripheral portion of a motor coil of the motor by using a filter including both a phase-lead characteristic and a low-pass characteristic; a motor-coil increased-temperature estimation unit that calculates a motor-coil increased-temperature estimation value on a basis of the current; and a motor-coil protection unit that limits the current on a basis of the motor-coil ambient-temperature estimation value and the motor-coil increased-temperature estimation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Nagata, Shuya Sano, Hiroshi Sugie
  • Patent number: 9214889
    Abstract: There is provided a motor drive control apparatus that includes a resistor, which directly or indirectly detects a driving current supplied to a motor and generates a voltage corresponding to the driving current, converts, with an AD converter, the voltage corresponding to the motor driving current detected by the resistor into a numerical value, and reflects the motor driving current converted into the numerical value on driving control for the motor, wherein a plurality of the resistors is connected in series to form a resistor string, and voltage between arbitrary two points of the resistor string is AD-converted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shuya Sano, Kiyonari Kawajiri, Toshiki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150316621
    Abstract: A circuit fault detection device includes: an interruption-signal generation unit that outputs an interruption signal for a drive circuit stopping driving of a drive target on a basis of the interruption signal; a pulse generation unit that includes an adjustment unit adjusting a time during which a pulse signal is in an OFF state and that generates the pulse signal; a signal synthesis unit that outputs a logical AND of the interruption signal and the pulse signal; a filter circuit that inputs, as an output, a signal obtained by delaying an output signal of the signal synthesis unit to the drive circuit; and a monitoring unit that determines whether a circuit fault has occurred on a basis of an output voltage of the filter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka IEDA, Shuya SANO, Masaaki ONO
  • Patent number: 9141523
    Abstract: In a control apparatus for performing serial data communication, a transmitting section includes a memory to store data for other control apparatuses and a transmission control section to generate a frame containing the data and memory storage information indicating a storage position of the data in buffer memories of the receiving sections of the other control apparatuses. A receiving section includes a reception control section to extract the memory storage information and the data from the frame, a buffer memory to store the extracted data, and a data-storage processing section to store the extracted data in an address of the buffer memory designated by the memory storage information. The memory storage information is set for each of the control apparatuses. A control section reads out the data from an address of the buffer memory for each of the other control apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shuya Sano, Daisuke Koyama, Hiroki Imai
  • Patent number: 9122258
    Abstract: A motor control device includes an operation determination unit that determines whether a motor is in an operating state or in a stopped state based on an operation command signal or an operation signal and an amplitude estimation unit that, based on a determination result of the operation determination unit, sequentially estimates a vibration amplitude value from a control state quantity of a feedback control unit or a current control unit separately for a case where the motor is operated and a case where the motor is stopped and outputs the vibration amplitude value. A function of outputting an amplitude of a high-frequency vibration that occurs in a mechanical device including a control system as information useful for estimating an occurrence factor of the vibration is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Kiyoshi Maekawa, Takashi Isoda, Shuya Sano
  • Patent number: 9024566
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a feedback filter that has filter characteristics that a frequency response gain is substantially one at frequencies equal to or lower than a filter cutoff frequency, a frequency response gain decreases with increase in frequency in a range from the filter cutoff frequency ?fL to a filter upper limit frequency ?fH higher than the filter cutoff frequency ?fL, and a frequency response gain is substantially constant at frequencies equal to or higher than the filter upper limit frequency ?fH, and performs computing to apply the filter characteristics to a feedback transfer function, wherein a control-constant set unit sets a speed gain Kv and at least one of the filter cutoff frequency ?fL and the filter upper limit frequency ?fH to reduce a ratio of the filter upper limit frequency ?fH to the filter cutoff frequency ?fL with increase in the speed gain Kv.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ikeda, Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Yuji Igarashi, Shuya Sano, Takashi Isoda
  • Publication number: 20150073599
    Abstract: Provided is a control device that includes a plurality of communication units that receive data from measurement control devices; a control unit that calculates an operation signal for controlling a controlled device on the basis of the data from the communication units and that outputs the operation signal to the controlled device; a storage unit that stores the data; a first monitoring unit and a second monitoring unit that perform a calculation on the basis of the data to calculate a calculation value, that determine whether the calculation value satisfies a blocking condition, and that output a blocking signal when the calculation value satisfies the blocking condition; and a first blocking unit and a second blocking unit that block the operation signal to the controlled device upon receiving the blocking signal output from at least either one of the first monitoring unit and the second monitoring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yorimasa Yasuda, Shuya Sano, Tomohiro Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8970157
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a feedback filter that has filter characteristics that a frequency response gain is substantially one at frequencies equal to or lower than a filter cutoff frequency, a frequency response gain decreases with increase in frequency in a range from the filter cutoff frequency ?fL to a filter upper limit frequency ?fH higher than the filter cutoff frequency ?fL, and a frequency response gain is substantially constant at frequencies equal to or higher than the filter upper limit frequency ?fH, and performs computing to apply the filter characteristics to a feedback transfer function, wherein a control-constant set unit sets a speed gain Kv and at least one of the filter cutoff frequency ?fL and the filter upper limit frequency ?fH to reduce a ratio of the filter upper limit frequency ?fH to the filter cutoff frequency ?fL with increase in the speed gain Kv.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ikeda, Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Yuji Igarashi, Shuya Sano, Takashi Isoda
  • Publication number: 20150048772
    Abstract: A motor drive device in embodiments includes: a motor drive unit that generates a current for driving a motor on a basis of a position command and a position detection value of the motor; a motor-coil ambient-temperature estimation unit that calculates a motor-coil ambient-temperature estimation value by correcting an output value of a temperature sensor provided in a peripheral portion of a motor coil of the motor by using a filter including both a phase-lead characteristic and a low-pass characteristic; a motor-coil increased-temperature estimation unit 6 that calculates a motor-coil increased-temperature estimation value on a basis of the current; and a motor-coil protection unit 9 that limits the current on a basis of the motor-coil ambient-temperature estimation value and the motor-coil increased-temperature estimation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Nagata, Shuya Sano, Hiroshi Sugie
  • Patent number: 8872462
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a vibration-damping-control setting unit to designate one of a plurality of candidate frequencies of a vibration-damping frequency, a signal-for-estimation computing unit to output, based on an operation signal related to a controlled object, a signal for estimation in which signal components of the other candidate frequencies excluding the designated one candidate frequency are reduced from a vibration component of a control system, and a resonance-characteristic estimating unit to estimate one resonance frequency from the output signal for estimation. The vibration-damping-control setting unit designates each of the candidate frequencies individually as one candidate frequency and sets, in a feedforward control unit, each of resonance frequencies estimated by the resonance-characteristic estimating unit related to the individually designated each one candidate frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Takashi Isoda, Shuya Sano
  • Patent number: 8866431
    Abstract: A host apparatus includes a command-pattern changing unit. A detector includes a detector-communication-parameter changing unit. A motor drive control apparatus includes a communication-parameter changing unit and a control-gain changing unit. The command-pattern changing unit, the detector-communication-parameter changing unit, and the communication-parameter changing unit change, based on determination of detector communication by a communication-abnormality determining unit, plural communication parameters, control gains, and command patterns, which are determined in advance, in synchronization with one another to control drive of a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyonari Kawajiri, Toshiki Tanaka, Shuya Sano
  • Publication number: 20140077746
    Abstract: A motor control device includes an operation determination unit that determines whether a motor is in an operating state or in a stopped state based on an operation command signal or an operation signal and an amplitude estimation unit that, based on a determination result of the operation determination unit, sequentially estimates a vibration amplitude value from a control state quantity of a feedback control unit or a current control unit separately for a case where the motor is operated and a case where the motor is stopped and outputs the vibration amplitude value. A function of outputting an amplitude of a high-frequency vibration that occurs in a mechanical device including a control system as information useful for estimating an occurrence factor of the vibration is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Kiyoshi Maekawa, Takashi Isoda, Shuya Sano
  • Publication number: 20130297897
    Abstract: In a control apparatus for performing serial data communication, a transmitting section includes a memory to store data for other control apparatuses and a transmission control section to generate a frame containing the data and memory storage information indicating a storage position of the data in buffer memories of the receiving sections of the other control apparatuses. A receiving section includes a reception control section to extract the memory storage information and the data from the frame, a buffer memory to store the extracted data, and a data-storage processing section to store the extracted data in an address of the buffer memory designated by the memory storage information. The memory storage information is set for each of the control apparatuses. A control section reads out the data from an address of the buffer memory for each of the other control apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuya Sano, Daisuke Koyama, Hiroki Imai