Patents Assigned to Hitachi, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11855564
    Abstract: This control device for controlling an inverter circuit calculates an input current of the inverter circuit on the basis of an output current instruction value for controlling an output current of the inverter circuit, and calculates, on the basis of the calculated input current, an output voltage compensation amount according to the fluctuation amount of an input voltage of the inverter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Araki, Daiki Komatsu
  • Patent number: 11852294
    Abstract: Provided is a diagnosis technique with high reliability when a state of lubricating oil of a rotary machine such as a wind power generator is diagnosed by a state monitoring sensor. A diagnosis system of lubricating oil includes a lubricating oil utilization device, a lubricating oil tank for storing lubricating oil to be supplied to the lubricating oil utilization device, and a sensor which measures characteristics of the lubricating oil. In this system, the state of the lubricating oil is diagnosed by using sensor data obtained after a time required for air bubbles in the lubricating oil generated at the time of use of the device disappear elapses since the lubricating oil utilization device is regularly or irregularly stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoko Kojima, Mitsuru Saeki, Shinichiro Aikawa
  • Patent number: 11853260
    Abstract: A data search system includes an agent server that includes a storage and stores data in the storage, and a host server that manages tag management information in which a tag as a term for searching the data and a storage as a storage location of the data are associated with the data, receives a query including a search designation tag, and acquires data associated with the search designation tag from the storage location of the data by referring to the tag management information and responds to the query. The host server continuously updates the tag management information according to content and the storage location of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Watanabe, Yuichiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 11853175
    Abstract: A cluster system including a plurality of nodes, a plurality of clusters included in each node and a management module managing the cluster system and an arithmetic module, which are included in each of the clusters, wherein, among all the management modules included in the cluster system, one management module is set representative management module, in the individual clusters, one is set as a master management module, and another is set as a standby management module. Each of the management modules includes a failure monitoring unit and a failover control unit. When a failure in the representative management module is detected by any of the failure monitoring units, any of the management modules included in the non-representative management modules, is set as a new representative management module. A recovery unit restores the failure monitoring unit and the failover control unit in the management module in which a failure is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Murata
  • Patent number: 11855778
    Abstract: A network interface for a storage controller includes a processor and a memory that stores an instruction code to be executed by the processor. The processor executes protocol processing for transmitting and receiving packets via a network. The processor reproduces a first packet not received from the network, from a plurality of other received packets included in an error correction packet group same as that of the first packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Yokoi, Hiroka Ihara, Akira Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20230409707
    Abstract: A storage system controller executes an abnormal behavior detection process including at least one of: a first abnormal behavior detection process that detects that the first parameter is smaller than a first threshold parameter as an abnormal behavior; a second abnormal behavior detection process that detects that the second parameter is greater than a second threshold parameter as the abnormal behavior; and a third abnormal behavior detection process that detects that the third parameter is smaller than a third threshold parameter as the abnormal behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shabin XU, Masakazu KOBAYASHI, Akihito MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230406369
    Abstract: A rail vehicle's pillow beam (9) has a plurality of radial ribs (20) radially disposed, horizontally oriented, projecting shapes on a flat plate surface arranged radially from the center of the vertical load input (17) and curvature provided along the longitudinal or width direction of the vehicle, gradually curving along the longitudinal or width direction of the vehicle as it moves away from the center of the vertical load input, and a plurality of circular ribs (21) arranged intermittently around the vertical load input seating surface so as to overlap the plurality of radial ribs (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei ISOSAKI, Takashi MIYANAGA
  • Publication number: 20230409401
    Abstract: A management node that manages performance resource amount information indicating a relationship between a resource amount of hardware allocated to software executed in a predetermined node and performance of the software includes a storage unit and a processor connected to the storage unit. The management node is configured to store a performance model management table in which a performance model is associated with an execution environment in which an application of a computing node is executed, in the storage unit, acquire operation information capable of specifying performance of the application executed in the execution environment, and modify the performance model corresponding to the execution environment based on the operation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Hayasaka, Kazumasa Matsubara, Akio Shimada
  • Patent number: 11849533
    Abstract: In a circular accelerator that applies a radiofrequency wave in a main magnetic field to accelerate charged particle beam while increasing an orbit radius, another radiofrequency wave with a frequency different from the radiofrequency wave used for acceleration is applied to the charged particle beam in order to extract the charged particle beam. Thereby, in the circular accelerator that accelerates charged particle beam while increasing an orbit radius by applying a radiofrequency wave in a main magnetic field, the high precision control on extraction of the charged particle beam from the circular accelerator is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Hae, Takayoshi Seki, Kazuyoshi Saitou, Fumiaki Noda, Takamichi Aoki, Kazuo Hiramoto
  • Patent number: 11845273
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to prevent the flow of air flowing from the outside of a cover part into the cover part via an ink droplet passing hole as air accompanying printing droplets outflows. An inkjet recording device is provided with: a recording mechanism (printing mechanism) having an ink room 101 that ejects an ink column 107, charging electrodes 103A and 103B that charge ink droplets 106 generated from the ink column 107, and deflection electrodes 105A and 105B that deflect charged ink droplets 106A; and a cover part 118 that has an ink droplet passing hole 117 through which the ink droplets 106A deflected by the deflection electrodes 105A and 105B pass and covers the recording mechanism. The inkjet recording device causes the ink droplets 106A to land onto a recording object 116 that moves relative to a recording head 100 to perform recording. A vent hole 130 is provided in a lateral surface of the cover part 118.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Ishii, Koma Sato, Shoichiro Kisanuki
  • Publication number: 20230401071
    Abstract: An information processing terminal includes a processor, a memory, a communication unit, a container reception module, a container execution module and a sensor. The container reception module receives a container image via the communication unit. The container execution module boots the container when the container image is received and executes the application contained in the container image. The container boots the application based on the recognition situation about the sensor is recognized. The application executes a predetermined processing for sensing data acquired from the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Riu HIRAI, Keiki NAKAMURA, Tasuku SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20230400982
    Abstract: A storage system includes: a central processing unit; a main memory; first management information that associates a hash value of received data with an address in a volume; and an I/O processing package. The I/O processing package includes an I/O processor and an I/O memory. The I/O processor executes protocol processing. The I/O processor executes at least a part of search processing of an address associated with a hash value of first received data in the first management information. The central processing unit controls execution of deduplication processing of the first received data based on data of an address associated with the hash value of the first received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroka IHARA, Nobuhiro YOKOI, Takashi NAGAO, Yoshihiro YOSHII
  • Publication number: 20230401010
    Abstract: Disclosed is a storage system that achieves performance improvement, quality enhancement, and function addition requiring a drive data layout change while maintaining I/O functionality. The storage system creates a redundancy group for forming a redundant configuration of data to be stored in a storage drive, and stores data of the redundancy group in a plurality of the storage drives. A processor in a storage node discards data stored in a unit storage area, recovers the discarded data according to a changed data format, and re-stores the recovered data in the storage drive. The processor in the storage node performs an I/O process on the data to be discarded during a data format change, by achieving recovery based on the data of the redundancy group that is stored in an area other than the unit storage area where the data format is to be changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachie TAJIMA, Hideo SAITO, Takaki NAKAMURA, Shintaro ITO, Naruki KURATA, Takahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230398880
    Abstract: A motion control device independently drives left and right wheels by calculating a wheel torque value from a difference between a reference vehicle state quantity or an operation instruction of a higher driving device and an actual vehicle state quantity regarding a motion and a posture of the vehicle, and controlling a plurality of motors based on the wheel torque value. The motion control device calculates a momentum error from a difference between a reference momentum based on wheel speed and a tire steering angle and an actual momentum based on the the motion and the posture of the vehicle, extracts a momentum error, calculates a wheel torque correction amount based on the extracted momentum error caused by the torque difference of the motor, adds the wheel torque correction amount to the wheel torque value, and outputs a wheel torque command to the plurality of motors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaru YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 11842055
    Abstract: Provided is a data processing system which includes a processor and a storage device, and inputs/outputs data using a learned compander that compresses and expands data, wherein the data processing system comprises an estimation unit which uses learning data and estimates a region of interest to a data model, and a learning unit which causes the compander to learn according to an evaluation function in which each region was weighted based on the region of interest, and a result of the compander compressing and expanding the learning data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Naruko, Hiroaki Akutsu, Akifumi Suzuki, Katsuto Sato
  • Patent number: 11841779
    Abstract: In the disaster recovery system exemplified by the information processing system, the cloud management node manages the importance information indicating the importance placed on the performance of each application to be executed by the primary site in correspondence with the virtual computer for executing the application, determines the DR method applied to the virtual computer and the application by selection from multiple types of DR methods based on the importance information of the corresponding application for each of the virtual computers, and determines a content of a predetermined set item applied to transfer of data to be used by the virtual computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Ai Satoyama, Akira Deguchi
  • Patent number: 11841402
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a battery state estimation device capable of accurately estimating a deterioration state of an entire battery system in consideration of an SOH distribution of battery cells. The battery state estimation device according to the present invention estimates an SOH of a battery cell by using a correspondence between a time derivative of an output voltage during a pause period of the battery cell and a battery temperature, and estimates a deterioration state of an entire battery system by using the SOHs of a plurality of battery cells (see FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Emha Bayu Miftahullatif, Toru Kouno
  • Patent number: 11842308
    Abstract: A computer system stores management information that manages a workflow and a deletion flag that indicates deletion of data in the workflow hidden from a user. The computer system executes a workflow that includes one or more processes that convert input data into output data. The computer system includes a lineage of the executed workflow including information of the input data and the output data in the management information. The computer system deletes data selected from data in the executed workflow, and sets the deletion flag of the selected data in the management information. The computer system, in response to an access to first data to which the deletion flag is set, regenerate the first data based on the management information and removes the deletion flag of the first data in the management information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Nomura, Mitsuo Hayasaka, Mutsumi Hosoya
  • Patent number: 11842269
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein can dynamically adapt to changing nature of sensor data traffic and through artificial intelligence (AI, strike a good tradeoff between reducing volume of sensed data, and retain enough data fidelity so that subsequent analytics applications perform well. The example implementations eliminate heuristic methods of setting sensing parameters (such as DAQ sampling rate, resolution etc.) and replaces them with an automated, AI driven edge solution core that can be readily ported on any Internet of Things (IoT) edge gateway that is connected to the DAQ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Andrew Walker, Joydeep Acharya
  • Publication number: 20230393948
    Abstract: Acquiring a snapshot of a logical volume involves generating snapshot-related catalog information including at least a location for storing actual data in the snapshot and a reference destination for identifying another snapshot in parent-child relation to the snapshot, and storing the actual data in the snapshot to the physical storage device and/or to the cloud service. In a case where at least one of a plurality of snapshots is to be designated and restored, catalog information is referenced to identify the storage location of the actual data and acquire the actual data stored in the physical storage device and the actual data not stored in the physical storage device from the cloud service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki FUJII, Masahiro ARAI, Akira DEGUCHI