Patents Assigned to Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12294328
    Abstract: With the aim of improving the reliability of a power conversion device for driving a motor, this power conversion device is provided with a rectifying portion for rectifying an AC voltage and outputting a DC voltage, a smoothing capacitor for smoothing the DC voltage, an inverter portion into which the DC voltage is input and which outputs AC power, an inverter drive portion for outputting a gate signal to the inverter portion, a regenerative braking portion connected in parallel with the smoothing capacitor, a regenerative braking drive portion for outputting a gate signal to the regenerative braking portion, a control portion for outputting drive signals to the inverter drive portion and the regenerative braking drive portion, a regenerative braking overcurrent detecting portion for outputting an overcurrent detection signal if the current flowing through the regenerative braking portion exceeds a determination value, and a latch portion into which the overcurrent detection signal output from the regenerati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihiro Sato, Keisuke Tanabe, Naoki Takata, Daisuke Matsumoto, Shigetoshi Yagihara, Masahiro Hiraga
  • Patent number: 12255551
    Abstract: A power conversion device capable of shortening the time required for acceleration of a motor and a metal processing device including the power conversion device are provided. Then, a power conversion device 10 includes a converter 100 configured to convert an AC voltage from outside to a DC voltage Vo and a converter controller 107 configured to control the converter 100. The converter 100 includes a voltage doubler circuit 104 configured to boost the DC voltage Vo when activated, and outputs the DC voltage Vo having a voltage value different in accordance with the activation and stop of the voltage doubler circuit 104. The converter controller 107 activates the voltage doubler circuit 104 at a first time that is earlier by a predetermined period than a second time at which a speed command value ?* of the motor 130 rises from a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mizuki Nakahara, Hirooki Tokoi, Kenji Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12240985
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an ink for ink-jet printers, the ink being able to be reduced in the content of an electroconductive agent and having low resistance. The ink for ink-jet printers of a charge control type according to the present invention, which is provided in order to overcome the problem, is characterized by comprising a resin, a pigment, an electroconductive agent, and a nonaqueous solvent, the electroconductive agent having a salt structure which generates an anion and a cation in the nonaqueous solvent, the anion having a trifluoromethylsulfonyl group and the cation being a quaternary ammonium cation or having an unsaturated heterocyclic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sasaki, Takuya Otowa, Masahiko Ogino, Keisuke Nagai, Tamaki Wada
  • Patent number: 12219086
    Abstract: A communication module includes a plurality of communication interfaces that support a plurality of different types of communication interface standards to implement a general-purpose communication module that enables data communication not depending on types of equipment. A plurality of programs to be executed in the communication module include a first app to be executed on an OS (Operating System) and one or a plurality of second apps to be executed on the OS. Each of one or more second apps is an app that performs communication in accordance with one or more types of communication protocol on one or more communication interface standards and is an app that can be arbitrarily installed and arbitrarily uninstalled. The first app is an app as middleware between the OS and the one or the plurality of second apps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Kohiyama, Takayoshi Fujioka, Naoya Tobisawa
  • Patent number: 12216528
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus includes: an input unit that accepts equipment identifying information for identifying monitoring object equipment and an analysis purpose; and an output unit that, when analysis item data corresponding to the analysis purpose among operation data indicating an operating status of the identified monitoring object equipment is a value within a specified range on the basis of the equipment identifying information and the analysis purpose which have been input, outputs a tendency of the analysis item data compared with predetermined comparison item data. According to the above-described configuration, the status of the monitoring object equipment can be diagnosed and visualized for the sake of the condition based maintenance to perform maintenance in accordance with the status of each equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Kono, Yuusuke Nakagawa, Hidetoshi Honjo, Kenji Kimura
  • Patent number: 12172446
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inkjet recording device capable of automatically cleaning the head tip and a cleaning method for inkjet recording apparatus. An inkjet recording apparatus has a printhead that receives a supply of ink and prints, a main unit that supplies said ink to said printhead, and a cleaning unit that has a cleaning tank into which said entire printhead is inserted and injects a cleaning solution from a cleaning nozzle to said printhead for cleaning. The cleaning unit has a cleaning nozzle that sprays cleaning liquid into the cleaning tank and a cleaning base section that has a housing section that accommodates the tip of the printhead and allows said cleaning liquid to flow into the housing section. The cleaning liquid is allowed to flow into the housing section to clean the tip of the printhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Okamoto, Takahiro Arima, Sho Mizoguchi, Akira Miyao, Tatsuo Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20240375033
    Abstract: A safety work device having a plurality of HEPA filters in an exhaust system suppresses leakage of contaminants. The work device includes: a work space; a front shutter covering part of a front opening surface of the work space; a work opening portion below the front shutter, through which a worker puts hands to perform work; a rear port provided at a lower portion of a back surface of the work space to suction air; and an exhaust flow path provided behind the back surface of the work space to exhaust the air in the work space. A first HEPA filter for exhaust is disposed in a vertical direction in the exhaust flow path and behind the rear port, and a second HEPA filter for exhaust is disposed in the vertical direction in the exhaust flow path and on a downstream side of the first HEPA filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi KANEKO
  • Patent number: 12139624
    Abstract: This invention provides an ink for inkjet printers with both properties; i.e., good visibility of printing dots after heating and high dissolution stability. The ink for inkjet printers of the invention comprises a color material, a solvent, and resin, wherein the color material comprises a first metal complex and a second metal complex comprising metal ions selected from among iron ions, manganese ions, copper ions, cobalt ions, and chromium ions and ligands bound thereto, and the ligands comprise diketone structures incorporated in the chemical structures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Otowa, Hiroshi Sasaki, Tatsunosuke Suzuki, Masahiko Ogino
  • Patent number: 12135032
    Abstract: A screw compressor for compressing a working medium sucked through a suction opening and discharging the compressed working medium through a delivery opening, wherein the screw compressor includes: a male rotor and a female rotor that rotate while meshing with each other; a casing that houses the male rotor and the female rotor and is provided with a bore which forms a working chamber designed, together with the male rotor and the female rotor, to compress the working medium; a drive unit that rotationally drives at least one of the male rotor and the female rotor; a working chamber closing unit that forms a suction port for sucking the working medium into the working chamber and closes the working chamber when the working chamber reaches a specified capacity; and a suction space that connects the suction opening and the suction port to allow communication therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Tsuchiya, Kotaro Chiba, Shuhei Nagata, Shigeyuki Yorikane, Kenji Morita, Yuta Kajie
  • Patent number: 12130047
    Abstract: A laminar flow at a high air speed can be maintained, and contamination caused by operation of a device or operation of the device by a person can be suppressed as much as possible. There is provided a safety cabinet that supplies clean air into a work room from above, the cabinet including: an opening portion in a front surface of the work room; a front shutter; partition plates provided on right and left side surfaces and a back surface on an upper side of the work room; and a partition on a front upper side of the work room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneko, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 12123413
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid supply mechanism including: a plurality of liquid supply sections each including a plurality of branch paths whose central axes intersect with each other, and a supply path having a side surface to which the plurality of branch paths of the plurality of liquid supply sections are directly connected, respectively, and supplying liquid, which is supplied from an upstream, to the branch paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Chiba, Masahiko Takano, Shigeyuki Yorikane, Kenji Morita, Yoshitaka Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12119756
    Abstract: Provided is a power conversion device which comprises a main circuit board, a first board, and a second board and which has a reduced size. The main circuit board has a rectifier circuit and an inverter circuit which are disposed in a high-power section, the rectifier circuit rectifying AC voltage and The second board is provided with a The first board is connected to the main circuit board and to the second board, and is provided with: a first circuit disposed in a low-power section. The second board is provided with a second circuit disposed in a low-power section. section from each other in a reinforced manner; an insulating transformer disposed in the reinforced insulation region and constituting a constituent component of a power supply circuit for receiving the DC voltage and supplying power to the first circuit and to the second circuit; and an insulating element disposed in the reinforced insulation region and allowing a signal to be exchanged between the first circuit and the second circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihiro Sato, Keisuke Tanabe, Koji Hamano, Kiyotaka Tomiyama, Hiroyoshi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 12116996
    Abstract: There is provided a compressor including: a piston that reciprocates inside a cylinder; a valve plate that closes an end portion of the cylinder; a connecting rod that supports the piston; a crankshaft that applies a rotating force to an end portion of the connecting rod; and a crankcase that rotatably supports the crankshaft. The piston is an oscillating piston that reciprocates while oscillating inside the cylinder according to rotation of the crankshaft. An outer peripheral surface of the piston is a curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Narisawa, Ken Umeda, Sho Goto, Tatsuya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12110889
    Abstract: A casing of a screw compressor has a delivery inner wall face facing delivery end faces of a male rotor and a female rotor. The delivery inner wall face of the casing has a shield area that shields at least a part of a track of an axial fluid communication path, which is a clearance that periodically occurs at the delivery end faces according to variation of intermeshing of the male and female rotors upon rotation thereof and is bounded by trailing flanks of the male and female rotors. The shield area of the casing is provided with a groove group made up of a plurality of grooves having longitudinal directions. The grooves of the groove group are juxtaposed in the circumferential direction of at least one rotor of the male and female rotors and are arranged such that their sides extending in the longitudinal directions are disposed adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Chiba, Masahiko Takano, Shigeyuki Yorikane, Kenji Morita, Yuta Kajie
  • Patent number: 12113467
    Abstract: A power conversion system includes a power conversion device supplying electric power to a motor and a power supply device supplying electric power to the power conversion device. The power conversion device includes a reverse converter that converts the electric power, a control circuit that controls the reverse converter, and a current detector that detects current flowing through the reverse converter. The power supply device includes a storage device that stores electric power in accordance with a voltage, a step-up/down power supply circuit that changes the voltage of the storage device based on a voltage command, and a voltage command computing circuit that computes the energy stored in the storage device and output it as the voltage command to the step-up/down power supply circuit. When the characteristics of the motor are restricted, the voltage command computing circuit temporarily changes the voltage command to improve the motor characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Uei, Takuya Ishigaki, Hideto Takada, Yutaka Matsumoto, Masaki Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20240301882
    Abstract: Provided is a compressor including a compressor unit that includes a compressor body that compresses gas and a motor that drives the compressor body, and a controller that carries out the operation number control for a plurality of the compressor units. The plurality of compressor units are connected to the same pipe. The controller causes, while continuing the operation number control for the compressor units that are a target of the operation number control, the compressor unit excluded from the target of the operation number control to start.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMAMOTO, Yoshiyuki KANEMOTO, Zhijia REN
  • Patent number: 12088228
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a power conversion device capable of suppressing an increase in current flowing through a motor even if a voltage command exceeds the amplitude of a carrier wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusaku Onuma, Takuya Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 12085452
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a temperature detection ink, which allows color initialization by a simple method and discolors with addition of time and temperature at a reaction temperature or higher. To solve the problem, the temperature detection ink according to the present invention includes a temperature detection material and a solvent. The temperature detection material has a structure in which a thermosensitive material containing a leuco dye, a color-developing agent, and a decolorant is contained in a microcapsule, or a structure in which a phase containing the thermosensitive material is phase-separated from a matrix material. The thermosensitive material is solidified while being decolored by cooling from a molten state to a glass transition temperature or lower at a predetermined rate or higher. The thermosensitive material has a glass transition temperature of ?20 to 60° C., and a melting point that is 60 to 250° C. and lower than the boiling point of the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohhei Aida, Shunsuke Mori, Kotaro Araya, Shigetaka Tsubouchi, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 12078172
    Abstract: A multi-stage screw compressor includes a plurality of stages of compressor bodies that compress a gas in sequence. Each of the stages of compressor bodies has both male and female rotors that are housed revolvably in a casing in a mutually meshing state. The male and female rotors each include a rotor lobe section having a suction-side end face and a discharge-side end face on one end and the other end thereof in the axial direction and having a twisted lobe extending from the suction-side end face to the discharge-side end face. The male and female rotors in a downstream-stage compressor body of at least one certain stage, excluding an upstream-stage compressor body as the first stage, among the plurality of stages of compressor bodies are each configured such that their lead increases from the suction side in the axial direction of the rotor lobe section toward the discharge side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Tsuchiya, Kotaro Chiba, Toshiaki Yabe, Shigeyuki Yorikane
  • Patent number: D1048107
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Ishizuka, Yuuji Itou, Kazumasa Kanai, Toshiaki Yabe