Patents Assigned to Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20180231969
    Abstract: An abnormality predictor diagnosis system includes: a sensor data acquisition means that acquires sensor data including a detection value of a sensor installed in a mechanical facility; a learning means that sets a learning target of sensor data in a period in which the mechanical facility is known to be normal, and learns a time-series waveform of the sensor data as a normal model; and a diagnosis means that diagnoses the mechanical facility for the presence of an abnormality predictor based on comparison between the normal model and the time-series waveform of the sensor data of a diagnosis target. The abnormality predictor diagnosis system can diagnose the mechanical facility for the presence of an abnormality predictor with high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI POWER SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toujirou NODA, Takashi YOSHIZAWA, Shouzou MIYABE
  • Patent number: 9940184
    Abstract: In an anomaly detecting method by using multi-dimensional time series sensor signals including, generating anomaly model by using data of a learning period including neither that period nor any exclusion candidate period, calculating anomaly measurements on the basis of the distance from the normal model and, making a period containing the maximum anomaly measurement value but no exclusion candidate period, learning exclusion periods and anomaly determining thresholds are determined as learned data on the basis of the result in each round, generates anomaly model data in a learning period except learning-exclusion periods regarding acquired data or data in a designated evaluation period, an anomaly measurement at each time point is calculated on the basis of the distance from the normal model, and data at each time point is determined to be anomaly or normal by comparing the anomaly measurements with anomaly determining thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, HITACHI POWER SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hisae Shibuya
  • Publication number: 20180095454
    Abstract: A pre-processor pre-processes sensor data, and includes: an interval setting unit that acquires chronological sensor data, calculates a first index and a second index indicating different influences for noise included in the sensor data, and sets an interval in which influence of the noise is suppressed in accordance with the first index and the second index; a division processing unit that sets a dividing point at which a trend of the sensor data changes in units of intervals in which the influence of the noise is suppressed, the intervals being set by the interval setting unit; and a dividing point extraction processing unit that generates a dividing point vector from a time of the dividing point set by the division processing unit and outputs the dividing point vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI POWER SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pushe ZHAO, Junichi TANAKA, Masaru KURIHARA, Toujirou NODA, Shigeyoshi CHIKUMA
  • Patent number: 9933338
    Abstract: An objective is to identify the health state of mechanical equipment and provide information usable for determining maintenance work timing or the like. A health management system includes a time-series data acquisition unit configured to acquire multi-dimensional sensor data and environmental data from mechanical equipment; a first discrimination unit configured to quantify the equipment state of the mechanical equipment by a statistical method using normal data as learning data; a second discrimination unit configured to quantify the health state indicating the performance or quality of the mechanical equipment by a statistical method using normal data; and an output unit configured to display and/or output to the outside the quantified equipment state and health state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignees: HITACHI POWER SOLUTIONS CO., LTD., TSURU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Toujirou Noda, Tadashi Suzuki, Naoki Miyakoshi, Toshiaki Kobari, Shouzou Miyabe, Hisae Shibuya, Shunji Maeda
  • Publication number: 20170330721
    Abstract: Provided are a magnetron whose resonance frequency is easily adjusted and a method of adjusting a resonance frequency of the magnetron. A magnetron includes an anode cylinder extending in a cylindrical shape along a central axis, a plurality of tabular vanes each having at least one end fixed to the anode cylinder and extending toward the central axis from an inner surface of the anode cylinder, and pressure-equalizing rings disposed coaxially with respect to the central axis of the anode cylinder, and alternately electrically connecting the tabular vanes to each other. The tabular vanes have protrusions facing the pressure-equalizing rings in an axial direction of the anode cylinder, and notches serving as base points for deforming the protrusions toward the pressure-equalizing rings sides or opposite sides thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI POWER SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Reiji TORAI
  • Patent number: 9711820
    Abstract: The stacked cell manufacturing method includes the steps of executing zigzag-folding of a band-like separator by the intermediary of a zigzag-folding mechanism, alternately feeding a positive-plate and a negative-plate onto the separator as folded back every time the separator is folded back by the zigzag-folding. A positive-plate transfer head and a negative-plate transfer head are set so as to alternately undergo a linearly reciprocating transfer in a horizontal direction at least on the table, the direction of a horizontal and reciprocating transfer made by the positive-plate transfer head and the negative-plate transfer head is set to coincide with a folding-back direction of the zigzag-folding of the separator, and a force caused by the horizontal and reciprocating transfer alternately made by each of these transfer heads is imparted to the separator guided onto the table, thereby executing the zigzag-folding while the separator is drawn onto the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Nakakuki, Shuji Yonai, Mitsunori Sekiya
  • Publication number: 20170176397
    Abstract: The invention is applied to an ultrasound inspection apparatus including an array probe such that wetting is substantially limited to an inspection surface of the work. The ultrasound inspection apparatus includes: a work holder that holds a work with an inspection surface thereof facing downward; an array probe that probes the work with an ultrasonic wave; a water tank in which the array probe is immersed in water; an arm that holds the array probe such that the array probe faces an underside of the inspection surface of the work; X-axial direction scanning means that horizontally scans the work, with a liquid surface coming into contact with the inspection surface of the work due to surface tension of a liquid stored in the water tank; and Y-axial direction scanning means that horizontally scans the array probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru OONO, Kenta SUMIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9659250
    Abstract: In case-based anomaly indication detection in a facility, there are problems such as error generation due to insufficient learning data or execution difficulty due to increased memory capacity and calculation time when the learning data period has been increased to obtain the learning data sufficiently. Provided is a method for monitoring facility state on the basis of a time series signal outputted from the facility, wherein an operation pattern label for each fixed interval is assigned on the basis of the time series signal, learning data is selected on the basis of the operation pattern label for each fixed interval, a normal model is created on the basis of the selected learning data, an anomaly measure is calculated on the basis of the time series signal and the normal model, and the facility state is determined to be anomaly or normal on the basis of the calculated anomaly measure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisae Shibuya, Shunji Maeda
  • Patent number: 9643495
    Abstract: A pantograph device of a trolley-type truck includes: a base frame; a bottom frame rockably attached to the base frame; a top frame rockably attached to the vicinity of the top end portion of the bottom frame through a connecting shaft; a collector shoe rockably supported in proximity to the top end portion of the top frame; a hydraulic cylinder for raising and lowering the bottom frame, attached to the base frame; and a spring which acts so as to rotate the top frame upward through the connecting shaft. By erecting the bottom frame by the hydraulic cylinder, the tensile force produced in the spring is increased and the top frame is rotated upward through the connecting shaft. This makes it possible to obtain a wide movable range without use of a long and strong spring and enhance the followability to overhead wires without increasing pressing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: HITACHI POWER SOLUTIONS CO., LTD., HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Shinji Akino, Toshio Shikama
  • Publication number: 20170067857
    Abstract: To minimize contact between water and a work piece that should avoid water and obtain good images in ultrasonic inspection, an ultrasonic probe that irradiates a work piece with an ultrasonic wave and receives reflected wave thereof, an X and Y-axis driving devices that allow the ultrasonic probe 21 to scan the work piece in a horizontal direction, a Z-axis driving device that moves up and down the ultrasonic probe with respect to the work piece, a water supply part provided in the ultrasonic probe and supplying water in a predetermined amount between the probe tip end portion and the work piece, and a water suction part provided in the ultrasonic probe and suctioning the water after water supply by the water is supplied are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI POWER SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko OONUKI, Kaoru KITAMI, Masafumi TAKADA, Seiya MINAKAWA
  • Patent number: 9577464
    Abstract: A wireless charging system includes a first winding portion, a second winding portion which is disposed with an interval between the first winding portion and the second winding portion in an axis direction of the first winding portion, and a pair of magnetic members which are disposed so as to sandwich the first winding portion and the second winding portion in the axis direction. In this case, protrusion portions which protrude toward the other magnetic member are provided in one magnetic member. Also, the magnetic member is held so as to be able to move forward and backward toward the other magnetic member. As a result, since the coefficient of magnetic coupling between a transmitting unit and a receiving unit during charging is enhanced, a charging efficiency can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9465387
    Abstract: The anomaly diagnosis system includes the state measure calculator acquiring sensor data from sensors in a machine facility as time series data; an approximation formula calculator calculating a state measure being an index indicating a state of the machine facility, such as anomaly and a performance by a statistical method in which the time series data is used as learned data; and a state measure estimating unit estimating the state measures until future time using the approximation formula. Whenever the latest time series data is acquired, the reference period in which the time series data corresponding to the state measure referred to calculate the approximation formula by the reference period setting unit, is successively extended by addition of time when the latest time series data is acquired. The approximation formula calculator calculates the approximation formula using the state measure of the time series data acquired in the reference period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toujirou Noda, Shigeyoshi Chikuma, Masami Kusano, Naoki Miyakoshi, Tadashi Suzuki, Hisae Shibuya
  • Patent number: 9393874
    Abstract: A trolley-type truck is provided with a pantograph and travels in a trolley mode under electric power from an overhead wire and a non-trolley mode without obtaining electric power. The pantograph has a base frame, a bottom frame and a top frame rockably attached to the base frame, and a collector shoe supported by the top end portion of the top frame. A fixing member is disposed on the top end side of the top frame for fixing the pantograph, a hook device is disposed on the base frame, and a hook receiver is disposed on the base frame in order to receive the fixing member. When a frame assembly formed of the bottom frame and the top frame is folded, the fixing member becomes seated in the hook receiver and is pressed by means of the hook device, thereby securely fixing the frame assembly to the base frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignees: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd., Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakajima, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Tomohiko Yasuda
  • Patent number: 9395336
    Abstract: A scanning acoustic tomograph has a water tank which accommodates water, a sample stand which is disposed in the water tank and on which a subject is placed, a first ultrasonic transducer which irradiates ultrasonic waves toward the subject, and a second ultrasonic transducer which receives the ultrasonic waves transmitted through the subject, the first and second ultrasonic transducers are disposed opposed to each other in a vertical direction, and a hydrophilic film is formed on a lower surface side of the sample stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Tomita, Hirokazu Nagaoka, Kaoru Kitami, Masafumi Takada
  • Patent number: 9326752
    Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging device includes an ultrasonic probe including a piezoelectric device transmitting ultrasonic waves to a sample and receiving echo waves, an X axis scanner and a Y axis scanner scanning the sample and positions the probe at a scanning position, a frequency controller controlling a frequency of a received signal in accordance with the position of the scanning position, a signal processing unit processing the received signal, and an image generator generating an ultrasonic wave image at the frequency based on an output of the signal processing unit. The frequency controller generates and supplies a burst signal having a predetermined frequency by a burst wave oscillator to the piezoelectric device of the ultrasonic probe to generate the ultrasonic waves having a predetermined frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamichi Umeda, Kaoru Kitami, Natsuki Sugaya, Masafumi Takada
  • Patent number: 9143001
    Abstract: Wireless charging system suppressing reduction of an electric power feeding efficiency due to imperfect alignment caused between a transmitter and a receiver unit. Included are a first 18 and a second coil portion 15 fixed to a first 14 and a second magnetic member 21, respectively, and close to each other to be disposed so as to face each other, thereby feeding electric power from one coil portion to the other coil portion. Further included is a convex portion 24 mounted to the first magnetic member to protrude toward the second magnetic member when the first and the second coil portion are coaxially disposed; a cover 27 covering the second coil portion; and a concave portion 29 provided in the cover so as to face the convex portion when the first and the second coil portion are coaxially disposed. The convex portion contains as a material thereof a magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI POWER SOLUTIONS, CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8970058
    Abstract: For reducing a storage capacity of a storage battery system and an installation cost at a constant-output control type of wind power plant, a wind power generation control device sets as a planned generation power value PT: an average wind generated power value PA, when a current battery charging rate SOC of the storage battery system is within the range of the upper and lower limit values of the targeted battery charging rate range SOCT (S12); a value obtained by multiplying a positive constant greater than 1 to the said PA, when the current battery charging rate SOC is above the upper limit value of the said SOCT (S14): and a value obtained by multiplying a positive constant less than 1 to the said PA, when the current battery charging rate SOC is below the lower limit value of the said SOCT (S15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yugo Hoshihira, Naoki Hoshino, Masaya Takahashi, Shinichi Kondou, Nobuhiro Kusuno
  • Publication number: 20150034441
    Abstract: A trolley-type truck is provided with a pantograph and travels in a trolley mode under electric power from an overhead wire and a non-trolley mode without obtaining electric power. The pantograph has a base frame, a bottom frame and a top frame rockably attached to the base frame, and a collector shoe supported by the top end portion of the top frame. A fixing member is disposed on the top end side of the top frame for fixing the pantograph, a hook device is disposed on the base frame, and a hook receiver is disposed on the base frame in order to receive the fixing member. When a frame assembly formed of the bottom frame and the top frame is folded, the fixing member becomes seated in the hook receiver and is pressed by means of the hook device, thereby securely fixing the frame assembly to the base frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI POWER SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakajima, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Tomohiko Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20150002091
    Abstract: A wireless charging system includes a first winding portion, a second winding portion which is disposed with an interval between the first winding portion and the second winding portion in an axis direction of the first winding portion, and a pair of magnetic members which are disposed so as to sandwich the first winding portion and the second winding portion in the axis direction. In this case, protrusion portions which protrude toward the other magnetic member are provided in one magnetic member. Also, the magnetic member is held so as to be able to move forward and backward toward the other magnetic member. As a result, since the coefficient of magnetic coupling between a transmitting unit and a receiving unit during charging is enhanced, a charging efficiency can be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI POWER SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20140318252
    Abstract: A scanning acoustic tomograph has a water tank which accommodates water, a sample stand which is disposed in the water tank and on which a subject is placed, a first ultrasonic transducer which irradiates ultrasonic waves toward the subject, and a second ultrasonic transducer which receives the ultrasonic waves transmitted through the subject, the first and second ultrasonic transducers are disposed opposed to each other in a vertical direction, and a hydrophilic film is formed on a lower surface side of the sample stand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi TOMITA, Hirokazu NAGAOKA, Kaoru KITAMI, Masafumi TAKADA