Patents Assigned to Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co.
  • Patent number: 11976788
    Abstract: A compressed air production facility that reduces an extension cost without stopping an operating air compressor in a case of increasing the number of air compressors to cope with an increase in demands for compressed air is provided. A compressed air system supplies compressed air to compressed air consuming devices connected to a compressed air distributions line, the compressed air system including a plurality of air compressor units connected to the compressed air distributions line via respective air tanks. Each of the air compressor units includes: an air compressor main body; an adjustor of pressure setpoint that adjusts a pressure setpoint of an air tank to which the air compressor unit including the adjustor of pressure setpoint is connected; and a controller of air compressor that operates a rotational frequency of the air compressor main body on the basis of the pressure setpoint adjusted by the adjustor of pressure setpoint and a pressure of the air tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Koizumi, Mitsuhiro Imai
  • Patent number: 11976648
    Abstract: Even when abnormal heat generation occurs during operation in a state where the temperature of a compressor is not increased, abnormality cannot be detected. A fluid machine includes a fluid machine body; a motor that drives the fluid machine body; a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the fluid machine body; and a control unit that controls the fluid machine body. The control unit changes a temperature threshold value based on at least one of a pressure of a fluid discharged by the fluid machine body and a frequency of a voltage input into the motor, and issues a notification when the temperature of the compressor body measured by the temperature sensor exceeds the temperature threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Daichi Oka
  • Patent number: 11973412
    Abstract: This power conversion device has: a main breaker and a main electromagnetic contactor connected to a main power supply; a converter body having a switching element; a power supply-side reactor and a device body-side reactor connected to the main electromagnetic contactor; a current detector; a smoothing capacitor; a DC voltage detector that detects a voltage of the smoothing capacitor; a control unit; and accessories. The accessories have: a power-supply phase detection transformer that detects the phase and the amplitude of a power supply voltage; a current limiting resistor that suppresses rush current to the smoothing capacitor at an initial turning-on stage of the main power supply; an electromagnetic contactor which is for turning on current limiting operation and which connects the current limiting resistor and the main power supply; and a filter circuit that removes current ripples caused by switching of the switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouga Suzuki, Toshihiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11971034
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine includes: a fixed scroll 11 having a helical wrap 16; an orbiting scroll 12 having a helical wrap 21; a drive shaft 13 that causes the orbiting scroll 12 to orbit relative to the fixed scroll 11; and a helical tip seal 29A inserted into a seal groove 28A of the wrap 21. The tip seal 29A has: a groove 36A that has an opening at a central portion of a sliding surface 30 in the seal width direction; and a communication groove 37A communicating between the inside of the groove 36A and a working chamber SH on the inner side in the wrap width direction. In groove 36A the differential pressure (PH-PL) is equal to or higher than 0.1 Mpa between the working chamber SH and a working chamber SL on the outer side in the wrap width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Kobayashi, Shumpei Yamazaki, Sho Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11965510
    Abstract: A compressor body includes a compression mechanism including a screw rotor that compresses gas, a casing that accommodates the compression mechanism and defines a compression working chambers therein, a suction side bearing that rotatably supports the screw rotor, a bearing chamber that accommodates the suction side bearing, and a liquid supply port that communicates with the compression working chambers and supplies liquid supplied from the outside of the casing into the compression working chambers. The casing has an internal liquid supply flow path that extends from a discharge side of the compression working chambers as an upstream side to a suction side of the compression working chambers as a downstream side and that supplies the liquid to the liquid supply port. The internal liquid supply flow path has a downstream portion reaching the bearing chamber and supplies the liquid to the suction side bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Yorikane, Masahiko Takano, Kenji Morita, Yoshitaka Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11947857
    Abstract: A network environment is built in an already-existing production line without significant cost to provide a novel and user-friendly inkjet printer system. A portable repeater 3 includes a carriageable storage unit and is interposed between an inkjet printer 6 and a server 5. The inkjet printer 6 and the repeater 3 are communicated with other over short-range wireless 2 to transmit print related data from the inkjet printer 6 to the repeater 3 or from the repeater 3 to the inkjet printer 6, and the repeater 3 and the server 5 are communicated with each other over a communication network 4 to transmit the print related data either from the server 5 to the repeater 3 or from the repeater 3 to the server 5. This enables building of the network environment in an already-existing production line without significant cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huilin Chen, Takahiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240093687
    Abstract: A compressor includes: a housing; a compressor body to compress gas; a motor to drive the compressor body; a control board to control the motor; and a tank to store the gas outputted from the compressor body, wherein the housing has: a machine chamber storing the compressor body and the motor; a B-chamber having piping to connect the compressor body with the tank; an A-chamber storing the tank; an A-partition separating the machine chamber from the A-chamber and B-chamber; and a B-partition between the A-chamber and the B-chamber, the A-chamber has an air intake port to introduce ambient air, the A-partition has an A-vent as a hole to communicate between the machine chamber and the A-chamber, and a suction port of the compressor body is located in vicinity to the A-vent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke WATABE, Hiroaki SAITO
  • Patent number: 11933677
    Abstract: A temperature detecting material comprises a first material containing a first temperature indicating material and a second material containing a second temperature indicating material, wherein the first temperature indicating material and the second temperature indicating material contain a leuco dye, a color developing agent, and a decoloring agent, and have a hysteresis characteristic in their color density-temperature curves, wherein the first temperature indicating material has a color developing temperature in a temperature increase process lower than a decoloring temperature in the temperature increase process, and turns to a non-crystalline state and is kept in a decoloring state when cooled down below the color developing temperature in the temperature increase process with a predetermined cooling speed or more after melting, wherein the second temperature indicating material, a color developing temperature is lower than a decoloring temperature in the temperature increase process, and wherein the co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohhei Aida, Shunsuke Mori, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kotaro Araya
  • Patent number: 11933291
    Abstract: A compressor, a monitoring system and a method of monitoring a compressor that make it possible to monitor the remaining lifetime of a semiconductor element of a motor control system while the processing load is reduced are provided. A compressor (1) includes: a motor control system (10) that controls the rotation speed of a motor (2); a compressor body (3) that compresses air by being driven by the motor (2); a pressure sensor (20) that is provided on the discharge side of the compressor body (3); and a running controller (11) that performs switching between load running and no-load running on the basis of the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Okubo, Norinaga Suzuki, Kiyomi Tashima, Akihiro Takanuki
  • Patent number: 11937410
    Abstract: A package-type fluid machine includes a compressor unit including a compression portion that compresses a fluid, a motor that drives the compression portion, and a cooling fan that is driven by the motor; a machine chamber in which the compressor unit is disposed; an inverter chamber which is adjacent to the machine chamber and in which an inverter is disposed; a partition wall that partitions off the machine chamber from the inverter chamber and has an opening; and an inverter intake port that is disposed in the inverter chamber to take in a cooling gas. The cooling fan is disposed on a side of the machine chamber, the opening being located on the side. The cooling fan is driven to cause the cooling gas to flow from the inverter intake port to the opening to cool the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Kato, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Hiroaki Saito, Daichi Oka, Akihiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11933300
    Abstract: This screw compressor is provided with a screw rotor, a casing accommodating the screw rotor, and a liquid feed mechanism for feeding a liquid into an operating chamber enclosed by the casing, wherein the pitch of the screw rotor changes in the axial direction from a suction end surface toward a discharge end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shota Tanimoto, Shigeyuki Yorikane, Tomohiro Komatsu, Takeshi Tsuchiya, Kotaro Chiba
  • Patent number: 11918994
    Abstract: Sample contamination is suppressed by strengthening the air barrier of a work opening portion. A safety cabinet includes: a work room; a front surface door covering a part of a front opening portion of the work room; and a work opening portion on a lower side of the front surface door allowing a worker to work with his or her hand in. An intake port suctions air in the work room and outside air through the work opening portion on a front surface side of a workbench in a lower portion of the work room. A straightening plate drawing an air flow and a linear light source are provided on the work room side of the front surface door and above a front portion of the work room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsumura, Takeshi Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240068466
    Abstract: A method of updating the program of a gas compressor system that supplies at least one of pressure and flow rate of gas discharged from the discharge piping system based on predetermined values comprising: the management device obtaining an update program, updating a program for an in-service compressor of the plurality of gas compressors whose program is to be updated, and driving other gas compressors of the plurality of gas compressors, which are different from the operating compressor whose program is to be updated, in accordance with the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke UCHIKI, Yuuji IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240072701
    Abstract: A electric motor control device comprising a converter section converting AC voltage to DC voltage, an inverter section converting DC voltage from the converter section to AC voltage and supplying said AC voltage to electric motor, an inverter control unit controlling said inverter section, a current detection unit detecting the current flowing in said electric motors and a power calculation unit estimating the temperature of said electric motors from said detected current, calculating the resistance of said electric motors from said estimated temperature, and calculating the copper loss from said calculated resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu ZHANG, Yuuri TAKANO, Hideto TAKADA
  • Patent number: 11909341
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a power conversion device capable of suppressing an increase in a current flowing through a motor even if a voltage command exceeds the amplitude of a carrier wave. In order to achieve the above object, the power conversion device controls the driving of a motor by converting a DC voltage into a voltage based on a voltage command by an operation of a switching circuit and includes: a modulated wave generator that generates a first modulated wave from the voltage command; and a control signal generator that generates a control signal for controlling the operation of the switching circuit from the first modulated wave and a carrier wave. The modulated wave generator generates a square wave based on a voltage command norm as the first modulated wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusaku Onuma, Takuya Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20240055950
    Abstract: Rotating electrical machine comprising: a housing storing a stator and a rotor, a fan cover covers the housing from the outside, an end bracket attached to the axial end face of the housing, a cooling fan installed in the fan cover, wherein output shaft side end face of the fan cover has a convex portion extending in the axial direction, the end bracket on the output shaft side has a concave first exhaust opening part relative to the convex part of the fan cover, the end bracket on the anti-output shaft side has a second exhaust opening part on the opposite side of the first exhaust opening part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinari FUJISAWA, Takuya KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11898544
    Abstract: A package type fluid machine includes a plurality of compressor bodies; a machine compartment in which the plurality of compressor bodies are disposed; an exhaust duct that exhausts a cooling gas from the machine compartment; a plurality of aftercoolers that are disposed inside the exhaust duct to cool a compressed fluid from the compressor bodies; and a shield that is disposed between the aftercoolers to shield a flow of the cooling gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke Sadakata, Hiroaki Saito, Daichi Oka
  • Publication number: 20240034060
    Abstract: A novel inkjet recording device that allows occurrence of scattering to be suppressed without limiting the size of a printed character (font size) is provided. The novel inkjet recording device is so configured that a deflection positive electrode, a deflection negative electrode, or both the deflection positive electrode and the deflection negative electrode constituting a print head can be moved along a direction of ejection of ink droplets in correspondence with the size of a printed character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichiro KISANUKI, Manabu KATO, Koma SATO, Taisuke SUGII
  • Patent number: 11885529
    Abstract: A pass box delivering an article with respect to a clean room includes a blower provided in an upper portion of the pass box, a first door on the clean room side, a first handle provided on the clean room side and opening and closing the first door, a first handle receiving portion rotating with the first handle in the pass box, a first handle receiving seat engaging with the first handle receiving portion in the pass box, and a storage stand provided in a lower portion of the pass box. The storage stand has a slit allowing air from the blower to be exhausted from an inner portion of the pass box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneko, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20240026874
    Abstract: A gas compression system that can continue control of the number of operated pieces of a compressor even when an abnormality has occurred and a control method thereof are provided. The gas compression system includes compressors, a number-of-pieces controller that executes master control to control the number of operated pieces of the compressor, and a communication network that connects the compressors and the number-of-pieces controller with each other in a mutually communicable manner. Each compressor includes a compressor main unit that compresses a gas and a controller that executes slave control to control the compressor main unit in response to a command from the number-of-pieces controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhijia REN, Norio AOYAGI