Patents by Inventor Yukio Yamashita

Yukio Yamashita 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).

  • Publication number: 20170306824
    Abstract: According to a device and a method for controlling an internal combustion engine, a control device (38) enables controllability of the internal combustion engine to be improved by preventing surging from occurring upon starting or stopping of the internal combustion engine, by opening a relief valve (28) as a turbine rotational speed reaches a surging rotational speed when the control device (38) causes a motor generator (32) to assist in rotation of the turbocharger (12) upon starting of a diesel engine body (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Yoshihisa Ono, Musashi Sakamoto, Takeshi Tsuji, Akihiro Miyanagi
  • Publication number: 20170298814
    Abstract: This surge determination device is provided with a surge determination unit for determining the presence or absence of a surge of a compressor that outputs compressed air to an engine on the basis of a rotation speed of the engine and an air flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi KUBO, Yukio YAMASHITA, Mitsufumi GOTO, Musashi SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9793844
    Abstract: An object is to provide a permanent magnet motor controller capable of suppressing the rotary bending vibration that occurs in the permanent magnet motor effectively with simple configuration. A permanent magnet motor controller uses the dq coordinate conversion. A dq target current setting part adds the current component (i*da) that cancels the magnetic attractive force acting in the radial direction of the rotational shaft of the rotor of the permanent magnet motor to the d-axis target current value, whereby the eccentricity of the rotational shaft of the rotor is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Noriyuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9777739
    Abstract: A rotation shaft supporting structure for an electric supercharger includes a rotation shaft that supports a compressor wheel, an electric motor including a motor rotator securely installed to the rotation shaft, and a stator for applying torque to the motor rotator. The supporting structure further includes a bearing provided on a bearing side end of the rotation shaft, which is adjacent to the compressor wheel, to support the rotation shaft, and a damper unit for absorbing shaft vibration of the rotation shaft. The compressor wheel is a wheel of a supercharging side, and the damper unit is provided at a shaft end on an opposite side to the bearing side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Hayashi, Yukio Yamashita, Byeongil An
  • Publication number: 20170276073
    Abstract: A control device that controls a drive device for driving an auxiliary machine that assists the output of a main machine that is a power source, the control device including: a drive control unit for controlling the drive device; and an auxiliary machine control unit that controls all the drive devices provided in the auxiliary machine which includes the drive device, and thereby controls the auxiliary machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio YAMASHITA, Hiroyoshi KUBO, Mitsufumi GOTO, Musashi SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160356206
    Abstract: A control unit (40) controls a first power converter so as to make the speed of a motor/generator coincide with a prescribed speed command. A speed command (N*) set by an upper stream control system (50) is inputted to a smoothing unit (41) of the control unit (40). In the smoothing unit (41), the speed command (N*) is smoothed by a first-order lag element (46), and the rate of change is limited by a rate limiter (48) to a prescribed value or less. For the speed command (Ns*) outputted from the smoothing unit (41), the difference (?N) from the actual speed (N) of the motor/generator is calculated in a difference calculator, a control command (S) based on this difference (?N) is generated in a control signal generator (43), and the first power converter is controlled on the basis of this control command (S). Fluctuations in the supply of power to the electric motor are thereby suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Musashi Sakamoto, Yoshihisa Ono
  • Publication number: 20160356210
    Abstract: A hybrid turbocharger includes a first power conversion unit that has a function by which direct-current power is converted into alternating-current power and is output to a generator motor, a smoothing capacitor that is provided between direct-current buses, and a control unit that controls the first power conversion unit so as to cause actual generator motor speed to comply with an engine speed command of the generator motor input from an upstream controller during a motoring operation of the generator motor. The control unit changes the engine speed command to a value which is equal to or greater than the actual generator motor speed if the engine speed command of the generator motor is less than the actual generator motor speed and a direct-current bus voltage is equal to or greater than a predetermined first threshold value during the motoring operation of the generator motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Musashi Sakamoto, Yoshihisa Ono, Keiichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 9490680
    Abstract: In a power generation facility, there are provided a plurality of diesel engines, a plurality of turbochargers driven by exhaust gas from the diesel engines, a plurality of power generators connected to the plurality of turbochargers, a plurality of converters for converting AC power generated by the plurality of power generators to DC power, one inverter for converting the DC power outputted from the plurality of converters to AC power, and a main controller for controlling the converters in accordance with the AC power from the inverter, by which stable electric power can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Keiichi Shiraishi, Yoshihisa Ono
  • Publication number: 20160305353
    Abstract: A control device (10) for a supercharging system for supplying compressed intake air to an engine (6) includes: an engine controller (10A) including an engine signal input part (10A1) and an engine control part (10A2) configured to control an operational state of the engine and to compute a target boost pressure of a supercharger (4); and a turbo controller (10B2) including a turbo signal input part (10B1) and a turbo control part (10B2) configured to compute a margin of the supercharger. The control device is configured to compute a target boost-pressure corrected value by correcting the target boost pressure in accordance with a magnitude of the margin computed by the turbo control part, and to control a boost-pressure control unit (12) so that the boost pressure of the supercharger reaches the target boost-pressure corrected value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SASE, Yukio YAMASHITA, Ko TAKAYANAGI, Atsushi MATSUO, Rikikazu HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160265422
    Abstract: An object is to enable low fuel-consumption operation of an engine by controlling a back pressure and a power generation amount taking account of a trade-off relationship between deterioration of fuel efficiency due to an increase in pumping loss due to a back-pressure rise of the engine and improvement of fuel efficiency due to recovery of exhaust energy by a turbo compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio YAMASHITA, Ko TAKAYANAGI, Ryo SASE, Atsushi MATSUO, Rikikazu HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9341163
    Abstract: A wind-turbine control device controls a wind turbine generator in which a rotor having a plurality of blades receives wind and rotates. The generator generates electrical power through the rotation of the rotor. The electrical power is supplied to a utility grid, and electric energy to be supplied to the utility grid can be changed according to a change in the frequency of the utility grid. The wind-turbine control device includes a subtracter to calculate a frequency change, which is the difference between a measurement value of the frequency of generated output power of the wind turbine generator and a set value of the frequency of the generated output power of the wind turbine generator. The wind-turbine control device further includes a limiter to limit a change in the electrical power corresponding to the frequency change calculated by the subtracter, based on the rotational speed of the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Wakasa, Hisanobu Shinoda, Masayuki Hashimoto, Yukio Yamashita, Takehiro Naka, Akira Yasugi, Takumi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9328656
    Abstract: Inside of a gas-tight housing, an electric motor, an inverter and a compressor are housed. Further, an intake air pipe is connected to the gas-tight housing. Inside of the gas-tight housing, an intake air flow passage is formed. Further, a connection opening of an outside air induction pipe provided with a flow rate regulating valve is arranged so as to face a suction opening of a compressor. When the delivery air flow rate as well as the delivery air pressure of the compressor is reduced due to the pressure loss and the like of the intake air ‘a’ which passes through the air flow passage and cools the electric motor and the inverter, an outside air ‘o’ of low temperature is induced so that: the capacity shortage as well as the performance deterioration of the compressor is constrained; and the over-heating of the compressor is constrained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Hayashi, Yukio Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20150330362
    Abstract: A method of controlling a floating-body wind turbine power generating apparatus including a wind turbine generator disposed on a floating body includes a pitch-angle increasing step of increasing a pitch angle of a blade of the wind turbine generator when the wind turbine generator is stopped, so that an aerodynamic braking force is applied to a rotor of the wind turbine generator. In the pitch-angle increasing step, a first change rate of the pitch angle of the blade in a first period during which the wind turbine generator is in an inclining motion toward an upwind side from a vertical direction due to sway of the floating body, is smaller than a second change rate of the pitch angle of the blade in a second period during which the wind turbine generator is in an inclining motion toward a downwind side from the vertical direction due to the sway of the floating body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: MHI VESTAS OFFSHORE WIND A/S
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi WAKASA, Satoshi IWASAKI, Yukio YAMASHITA, Yoshiyuki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150326095
    Abstract: In a power generation facility, there are provided a plurality of diesel engines, a plurality of turbochargers driven by exhaust gas from the diesel engines, a plurality of power generators connected to the plurality of turbochargers, a plurality of converters for converting AC power generated by the plurality of power generators to DC power, one inverter for converting the DC power outputted from the plurality of converters to AC power, and a main controller for controlling the converters in accordance with the AC power from the inverter, by which stable electric power can be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Yukio YAMASHITA, Keiichi SHIRAISHI, Yoshihisa ONO
  • Patent number: 9163546
    Abstract: In a power generation facility, there are provided a plurality of diesel engines, a plurality of turbochargers driven by exhaust gas from the diesel engines, a plurality of power generators connected to the plurality of turbochargers, a plurality of converters for converting AC power generated by the plurality of power generators to DC power, one inverter for converting the DC power outputted from the plurality of converters to AC power, and a main controller for controlling the converters in accordance with the AC power from the inverter, by which stable electric power can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Keiichi Shiraishi, Yoshihisa Ono
  • Publication number: 20150285122
    Abstract: An object is to improve fuel consumption, drivability and exhaust gas purification by efficiently converting waste heat of the engine into electrical power and storing the electrical power in a dedicated electric storage so that the boost pressure from the electric air compressor can be flexibly outputted. The electric supercharging device includes a steam cycle device configured to expand the steam generated by waste heat of an engine to rotate an expander, a first generator connected to the expander and configured to generate an electrical power by torque of the expander, a dedicated battery which stores the electrical power generated by the first generator, and an electric supercharger configured to drive a compressor with a motor driven by the electrical power of the dedicated battery to generate compressed air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Byeongil An, Motoki Ebisu, Musashi Sakamoto, Hiroshi Ogita
  • Patent number: 9112441
    Abstract: A turbo charger generator (1) generates power with a generator (7) by driving a gas turbine (3) and a compressor (6) with exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine (2). The generated AC power is supplied to an electric power system (12) via a power conversion unit (8). The power conversion unit (8) has a converter (13) for converting AC power into DC power, a unit (18) for estimating a rotor rotation angle ? based on a rotor magnetic flux, and a control unit (15) for coordinate-converting AC current into DC current by using the rotor rotation angle ? as the reference, and controlling the output DC power of the converter (13) such that the magnitude of the DC current is maintained at a target DC current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Keiichi Shiraishi, Yoshihisa Ono
  • Patent number: 9027344
    Abstract: Rotational speed of an electric turbocharger controlled so that the actual temperature of the motor does exceed the allowable level even over a long time span. A speed control device for the turbocharger, includes a temperature sensor, a speed limitation device which limits the speed of the motor in response to the temperature level detected by the temperature sensor wherein the speed limitation device is provided with a limit control start temperature correction device which decreases the limit control start temperature when the increase rate of the detected temperature exceeds a threshold. A speed limitation setting device sets a speed limit based on the temperature difference between the limit control start temperature and the detected temperature T on a rate of increase of the detected temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Noriyuki Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20140375235
    Abstract: An object is to provide a permanent magnet motor controller capable of suppressing the rotary bending vibration that occurs in the permanent magnet motor effectively with simple configuration. A permanent magnet motor controller uses the dq coordinate conversion. A dq target current setting part adds the current component (i*da) that cancels the magnetic attractive force acting in the radial direction of the rotational shaft of the rotor of the permanent magnet motor to the d-axis target current value, whereby the eccentricity of the rotational shaft of the rotor is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Noriyuki Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20140147306
    Abstract: An object is to increase portions (increase the amount of correction), where the rotational balance of a rotary shaft of a turbocharging device incorporating an electric motor is adjusted, and to maintain sufficient motor driving force even under a high temperature condition. In a balance adjusting structure for the turbocharging device incorporating an electric motor, a rotor core 5 formed by laminating electromagnetic steel plates 51 is interposed between rotor blades provided on one end or both ends, a rotational balance adjusting member made of iron (magnetic induction member) having a thickens larger than the thickness of each electromagnetic steel plate 51 is disposed on an end of the laminated electromagnetic steel plates 51, or between the laminated layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Noriyuki Hayashi, Seiichi Ibaraki, Katsuyuki Osako, Motoki Ebisu, Byeongil An, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hideaki Arita, Takashi Goto, Toshihiko Miyake