Patents Assigned to Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11859605
    Abstract: A system has a compressor for discharging compressed gas, an aftercooler for cooling the compressed gas, a first cooling liquid pathway for supplying a cooling liquid to the compressor and for cooling the cooling liquid by means of a cooling heat exchanger, and a second cooling liquid pathway for passing the cooling liquid through the aftercooler and for recovering waste heat from the cooling liquid by means of a heat recovery heat exchanger, in which the compressor system includes a first valve and a second valve disposed in a plurality of bypass pathways connecting the first cooling liquid pathway and the second cooling liquid pathway, a third valve and a fourth valve disposed in the first cooling liquid pathway, and a control unit, and in which the control unit performs first control to close the first valve and the second valve and open the third valve and the fourth valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takehiro Matsuzaka, Masakatsu Okaya
  • Patent number: 11842866
    Abstract: To provide a vacuum valve pressure diagnosis device for an opening/closing device equipped with a vacuum valve, the diagnosis device which permits downsizing of the vacuum valve and achieves enhanced safety and reliability. Accordingly, the vacuum valve pressure monitoring device is disposed in a vacuum breaker including: a main circuit opening/closing part including the vacuum valve and an insulating frame covering the vacuum valve; and an operation mechanism part for opening/closing a contact of the vacuum valve. The pressure monitoring device for vacuum valve includes: a first electrode disposed on one side surface of the insulating frame and grounded via an impedance; a second electrode disposed on another side surface of the insulating frame and grounded via a switch; and a potential measuring device connected in between the impedance and the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Satou, Takashi Sato, Shindai Satou, Masanori Shishido
  • Patent number: 11831262
    Abstract: This motor control device receives a speed command from an upper layer system control device having a position controller, the motor control device having: a position command estimator that calculates an estimate of a position command on the basis of the speed command and a motor axis position response; and a speed command generator that generates an actual speed command on the basis of the estimate so that an end section of a machine connected to the motor does not oscillate, wherein the actual speed command is output from the speed command generator to a speed controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Matsubara, Kazuaki Tobari, Yuuri Takano, Yusuke Uei, Tetsuo Yanada, Hironori Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11821428
    Abstract: Provided is a motor-integrated fluid machine that has improved performance and reliability by efficiently cooling a fluid machine body and a motor without increasing an installation space. The present invention is characterized by being provided with: a fluid machine unit that compresses or expands a fluid; a motor unit that has a drive shaft connected to the fluid machine unit; and a cooling fan that cools the motor unit and the fluid machine unit by sucking cooling air from the motor unit side and that is connected to the drive shaft at the side opposed to that connected to the fluid machine unit, wherein between the motor unit and the cooling fan, the minimum sectional area of a cooling air passage from the outside in the radial direction toward the drive shaft is larger than that of a cooling air passage from the motor unit side toward the cooling fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shumpei Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Fuminori Kato
  • Patent number: 11821423
    Abstract: Provided is a scroll compressor that can prevent liquid from being accumulated, the scroll compressor including: a fixed scroll; an orbiting scroll; and a rotation shaft that extends in the horizontal direction and causes the orbiting scroll to orbit relative to the fixed scroll. Liquid is injected into a working chamber. An enclosing point of a working chamber formed near the outer end of a fixed wrap of the fixed scroll is positioned below a center of the rotation shaft and at the lowest point of the contour of the working chamber having shifted to the lowest position. The fixed scroll has an inclined wall surface that is positioned below the center of the rotation shaft, is made to face upward, and extends from the dust wrap to the outer end of the fixed wrap. The inclined wall surface is formed so as to be sloped down gradually from the dust wrap toward the outer end of the fixed wrap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Watabe, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Yoshio Kobayashi, Hiroaki Saito
  • Patent number: 11821657
    Abstract: A waste-heat recovery system includes a waste-heat-recovery heat a tank, a circulation circuit, a circulation pump, and a control device that is configured to obtain the temperature of the heat medium flowing through a heat medium outlet piping of the circulation circuit and the temperature of the water stored in the tank. The control device stops the circulation pump or reduces the rotational frequency thereof in a case where the temperature of the heat medium flowing through the heat medium outlet piping is lower, or lower by a predetermined temperature or more, than the temperature of the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Yamamoto, Masahiko Takano
  • Patent number: 11804768
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to improve the reliability of a power conversion system while reducing the size. In addition, the purpose of the present invention is to reduce noise. This power conversion system has a first power converting device that supplies power to a first motor and a second power converting device that supplies power to a motor different from the first motor, wherein the first power converting device and the second power converting device are each provided with a power converter for converting the power to be supplied to the motors, and a control unit for controlling the power converter, and the first power converting device is provided with a transformer unit for supplying power to the control units, and the transformer unit of the first power converting device supplies power to the control unit in the second power converting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Takanuki, Kiyomi Tashima
  • Patent number: 11795949
    Abstract: The liquid level of a liquid supply compressor including a gas-liquid separator is dynamically monitored. A liquid supply gas compressor includes a compressor body; a gas-liquid separator separates liquid from compressed gas, to store the liquid; a liquid piping system supplies liquid stored to the compressor body; an internal pipe extends in an internal space of the gas-liquid separator, and includes at least two hole portions, with different disposition positions in a height direction, on an internal side to communicate with the piping system; and a sensor detecting pressure or temperature of fluid flowing through the piping system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Morita, Masahiko Takano, Shigeyuki Yorikane
  • Patent number: 11795943
    Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine includes a motor unit and a main body. The motor unit includes a rotor, a stator, a shaft provided with an eccentric portion at a distal end of the shaft and configured to rotate integrally with the rotor, a main bearing configured to support the shaft, and a motor cover configured to house the rotor and the stator. The main bearing is fixed to an inside of the motor cover by a fixing flange. The main bearing supports the shaft and is located between the fixing flange and an end bracket on an opposite side of the main body unit with respect to the fixing flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Kato, Shumpei Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Takanori Emi
  • Patent number: 11793901
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pass box with which not only surface sterilization by means of a germicidal lamp on an article delivered in the pass box but also isolation of different articles can be performed in a space-saving manner, the cleanliness in the pass box is maintained, and mutual contamination is prevented during article delivery in the pass box. Air is sent from a blower of an upper pass box to an upper space of the upper pass box through a filter, the air is supplied to a lower space of a lower pass box via the upper space, and an airflow circulation path is provided to return the air that has passed through the lower space to the upper blower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneko, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11773853
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-stage screw compressor with which an intermediate shaft section of a rotor can be made shorter. A two-stage screw compressor includes a front-stage compressing mechanism 1 which has a front-stage male rotor 11A and a front-stage female rotor 11B, and which compresses air, and a rear-stage compressing mechanism 2 which has a rear-stage male rotor 12A and a rear-stage female rotor 12B, and which further compresses the air compressed by the front-stage compressing mechanism 1. The front-stage male rotor 11A and the rear-stage male rotor 12A are configured to be coaxial, and the front-stage female rotor 11B and the rear-stage female rotor 12B are configured to be coaxial. An axial delivery pocket 34 of the front-stage compressing mechanism 1 and an axial intake pocket 39 of the rear-stage compressing mechanism 2 are arranged in a positional relation of partly overlapping with each other in the axial direction of the rotor, and are separated from each other by a separating wall 41.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kasahara, Sho Nikaido, Yuki Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 11773855
    Abstract: In order to reduce operation in a rotation-prohibited frequency range and to prevent resonance in a gas compressor wherein inverter control is performed, this gas compressor has: a compressor main body that compresses a gas; a motor that rotationally drives the compressor main body; an inverter that changes the rotational speed of the motor; a check valve arranged downstream from the compressor main body; a pressure detection means that detects load-side pressure downstream from the check valve; and a control device that, in accordance with the pressure detected by the pressure detection means, controls the frequency output by the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Yabe, Tomoo Suzuki, Yuuji Itou, Kohei Sakai
  • Patent number: 11777427
    Abstract: An estimated value of frequency of a vibration component for automatically adjusting a control unit that suppresses resonance characteristics of a machine is stably and reliably estimated without depending on the magnitude of amplitude of the vibration component and without risk of arithmetic overflow. A motor control device including an automatic adjustment device that adaptively adjusts a controller included in a motor control system based on a frequency of a vibration component superimposed on a response of the motor control system, the automatic adjustment device including a vibration extraction unit that receives the response of the motor control system and extracts the vibration component from the response of the motor control system; a notch filter unit that receives the vibration component from the vibration extraction unit; an encoding unit; a limiter unit that receives an output of the notch filter unit; an adaptive updating unit; and a unit conversion unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Matsubara, Kazuaki Tobari, Yuuri Takano, Yusuke Uei, Tetsuo Yanada
  • Patent number: 11768645
    Abstract: A print recording system, including: at least one print recording device; and a computer system that includes a database storing a plurality of print setting information items and is capable of sending and receiving data with respect to the print recording device. The computer system searches the print setting information corresponding to a search condition that is input from the database in accordance with the search condition, repeats the search in accordance with a new search condition when the print setting information does not match the search condition, and sends the print setting information obtained by the search or the repeated search to the print recording device to set the print recording device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huilin Chen, Takahiro Takahashi, Takashi Kawano
  • Patent number: 11761443
    Abstract: Provided are a compressor and a monitoring system that can specify a cause of an anomaly of a sensed value of a sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuya Ota, Tomoo Suzuki, Yoshio Anzai
  • Patent number: 11719241
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes plural screw rotors, plural suction-side bearings that each rotatably support the suction side of the plural screw rotors and plural discharge-side bearings that each rotatably support the discharge side of the plural screw rotors, and a casing that houses the plural screw rotors, the plural suction-side bearings, and the plural discharge-side bearings. Each screw rotor includes a lobe section with plural lobes and a suction-side shaft section and a discharge-side shaft section each disposed at both ends of the lobe section. The casing has a housing chamber that houses the lobe sections of the plural screw rotors and a lubrication path in which liquid that lubricates the plural suction-side bearings circulates. In the lubrication path, respective passages to lubricate each of the plural suction-side bearings are connected in series and a most downstream part is connected to the housing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Chiba, Masahiko Takano, Shigeyuki Yorikane, Kenji Morita
  • Patent number: 11666899
    Abstract: A safety cabinet includes an operation stage on which an operation is performed, an operation space in which an operator performs the operation, a front panel disposed in front of the operation space, an operation opening connected to the operation space, exhausting means that suctions air from the operation opening and exhausts air in the operation space outside the safety cabinet through air purifying means, and visualizing means that visualizes an air flow in the operation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneko, Takahiro Kashima
  • Patent number: 11662294
    Abstract: Provided is a fan filter unit with which the performance of a HEPA filter can be measured at multiple points with ease and in a short time. The fan filter unit has a first HEPA filter, a second HEPA filter, and exhaust means installed between the first HEPA filter and the second HEPA filter. The first HEPA filter, the second HEPA filter, and the exhaust means are integrated by a housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneko, Hirotoshi Sato, Toshihiko Suwa, Makoto Yokoyama, Haruhiko Adachi, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11635335
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a temperature sensing material that changes a color density continuously with the lapse of time at a temperature not lower or higher than a predetermined temperature and a temperature deviation time estimating system using it. In order to achieve the above object, the temperature sensing material according to the present invention is a temperature sensing material having a structure of dispersing a temperature indicating material that changes color by crystallization in a dispersion medium and is characterized in that an average particle size of the temperature indicating material is not larger than a resolution when observed and a volume fraction of the temperature indicating material to the temperature sensing material is not less than 5% to less than 90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohhei Aida, Shunsuke Mori, Shigetaka Tsubouchi, Shintarou Takeda, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kotaro Araya
  • Patent number: 11632073
    Abstract: A rotating machine drive system includes a power supply, an electric motor, a rotating machine, a belt drive transmission unit, an electrical information detection sensor, and a diagnostic unit. The electrical information detection sensor detects a current or a voltage. The diagnostic unit calculates estimated rotational speed information of the rotating machine based on the current or the voltage, calculates a reference rotational frequency from a rotational speed of the electric motor and a ratio between a diameter of the electric motor side pulley and a diameter of the rotating machine side pulley. The diagnostic unit uses a difference or a ratio between the estimated rotational speed information and the reference rotational frequency to determine whether or not there is the transmission abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Makaino, Nobuyuki Narisawa, Kenta Deguchi