Patents Assigned to Hitachi
  • Patent number: 11978794
    Abstract: In a SiC power MISFET having a lateral surface of a trench formed in an upper surface of a SiC epitaxial substrate as a channel region, a silicon carbide semiconductor device having low resistance, high performance, and high reliability is realized. As a means therefor, a SiC power MISFET is formed as an island-shaped unit cell on an upper surface of an n-type SiC epitaxial substrate that is provided with a drain region on a bottom surface thereof, the SiC power MISFET including: an n-type current diffusion region that surrounds a p-type body layer contact region and an n-type source region in the indicated order in a plan view; a p-type body layer and an n-type JFET region; a trench that is formed on the body layer so as to span between the source region and the current diffusion region adjacent each other in a first direction and extends in the first direction; and a gate electrode embedded in the trench with a gate insulating film therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeru Suto, Naoki Tega, Naoki Watanabe, Yuki Mori, Digh Hisamoto
  • Patent number: 11978167
    Abstract: The head-mounted display includes: an image display unit that generates an image to be displayed; and a first light guide plate and a second light guide plate which duplicate image light from the image display unit. Each of the first light guide plate and the second light guide plate includes a set of parallel main surfaces confining the image light with internal reflection, the first light guide plate includes an incident plane that reflects the image light to an inner side, and two or more emission/reflection planes from which the image light is emitted to the second light guide plate, the second light guide plate includes an input part that couples the image light transmitted from the first light guide plate to the inner side, and an output part from which the image light is emitted to a user's pupil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI-LG DATA STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Kuno, Toshiteru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11979231
    Abstract: A conversion apparatus includes a storage unit storing definition information in which position information and a type of the signal are associated with each other; a decoder referring to, when first reception data is input, the definition information of the first control target to determine a type of a first signal at a first position in the first reception data, and output first input data in which the determined type of the first signal and a value of the first signal in the first reception data are associated with each other; and an encoder referring to the definition information of a second control target to output second input data in which identification information of second computing units that corresponds to the type of the first signal, position information indicating a second position of the first signal, and a value of the first signal are associated with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Shimozawa, Shin Saito
  • Patent number: 11978612
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber in which a sample is subjected to plasma processing, a first radio frequency power supply that supplies radio frequency power for generating plasma, a sample stage on which the sample is mounted, and a second radio frequency power supply that supplies radio frequency power to the sample stage, the plasma processing apparatus further includes a DC power supply that applies a DC voltage, that is changed according to a periodically repeated waveform, to the sample stage, and the waveform of one cycle has a period in which amplitude changes by a predetermined amount or more during a predetermined time. Accordingly, charged particles on a wafer surface are removed, a trench shape with high verticality can be obtained, and damage to a film that is not to be etched inside a trench can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Mori, Masaru Izawa, Naoki Yasui, Norihiko Ikeda, Kazuya Yamada
  • Patent number: 11979066
    Abstract: A first circuit board 16 and a second circuit board 17, each of which have mounted thereon circuit components for controlling and driving an electric motor, are stacked with a space left therebetween such that one board surface of the first circuit board and one board surface of the second circuit board are opposed to and face each other in the direction of a rotation shaft 14 of the electric motor. In a state that the first circuit board 16 and the second circuit board 17 are attached to the motor housing, a receptacle connector 28 mounted on the first circuit board and a plug connector 34 mounted on the second circuit board form a “board-to-board connector” by which the circuit components of the first and second circuit boards are electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakano, Takuro Kanazawa, Narutoshi Yamada, Tomohiro Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11975775
    Abstract: A steering control device for reducing a steering load on the driver by adjusting a gain of a rear wheel steering angle with respect to a front wheel steering angle operated by the driver according to a relative relationship between the vehicle and the parking frame to enable fine steering of the own vehicle near the parking frame when the four-wheel steering vehicle is parked. The steering control device is configured to control a rear wheel steering angle by a rear wheel steering system based on a front wheel steering angle operated by a driver, and includes an arithmetic device configured to reduce an absolute value of a gain of the rear wheel steering angle with respect to the front wheel steering angle as a positional relationship between an own vehicle and a parking frame comes closer when an own vehicle shifts to a parking driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Go Sakayori, Hiroshi Nakano, Yoshiji Hasegawa, Tomoaki Fujibayashi, Junya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11978565
    Abstract: A sodium-cooled nuclear reactor includes at least one electromagnetic pump assembly and a backflow reduction pipe. The backflow reduction pipe may include an inlet, an outlet, at least one tubular section having a first length and a first diameter, and at least one fluid diode section between the inlet and the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: GE-HITACHI NUCLEAR ENERGY AMERICAS LLC
    Inventors: Eric Paul Loewen, Seth Ryan Paul Strege, Nicholas Francis O′Neill, Colin Christopher O′Connor, Chelsea Ann Curtin, Edwin Wu
  • 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: 11979095
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a power conversion device capable of specifying a failure location of an inverter in detail when an attempt of active discharge fails. There are provided an arithmetic operation circuit 102 that outputs a discharge instruction to control a discharge operation based on a voltage between both ends of a discharge circuit, and an output circuit 203 that outputs a drive signal based on the control signal. The arithmetic operation circuit 102 monitors an amount of the decreased voltage between both the ends of the discharge circuit, an LV read back signal being an output of the arithmetic operation circuit 102, and an HV read back signal being an output of the output circuit 203, and specifies a failure location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Murayama, Takeshi Yoshida, Takahiro Nishida, Itsuro Nomura
  • Patent number: 11975709
    Abstract: A vehicle parking control device has a processor and a memory to control the vehicle from a starting to a target parking position. The vehicle control device includes an obstacle detection unit detecting obstacles around the vehicle, a travelable area setting unit setting an area where the vehicle can travel based on a position of the obstacles, and sets the target parking position in the travelable area, a route generation unit calculating a travel route to the target parking position in the travelable area, and a parking execution unit that causes the vehicle to travel toward the target parking position on the basis of the travel route. The route generation unit generates a route from a parking start position to the target parking position, and corrects a distance of the section to a predetermined distance when the distance of the section is less than the predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Tashiro, Masashi Seimiya, Satoshi Matsuda, Masato Imai
  • Patent number: 11979022
    Abstract: Example approaches for power quality monitoring in a power distribution grid are described. In an example, monitoring data is received by a communication gateway from a node coupled to it. In an example, there may be multiple nodes in the power distribution grid. Local insights for power quality monitoring may be estimated, based on the monitoring data, using predictive analytics at the communication gateway. The monitoring data and the local insights associated with each of the plurality of nodes is transmitted to the server. Global insights for power quality monitoring may be estimating, using predictive analytics performed at the server, based on the monitoring data and the local insights. An indication to an operator is generated, based on the estimated local insights, global insights and the monitored data, to carry out preventive or corrective action for maintaining the power quality in the power distribution grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Energy Ltd
    Inventors: Hariram Satheesh, Ravish Kumar, Srijit Kumar
  • Patent number: 11978345
    Abstract: A moving object behavior prediction device improves prediction accuracy and includes: an input map generation unit that generates a single input map in which a region capable of containing a plurality of the moving objects is divided into a plurality of cells, in which each of the cells stores related information of a static object and related information of the moving object; a movement amount estimation unit that estimates a movement amount as a feature amount of each cell from the input map, using a trained convolutional neural network; a movement amount acquisition unit that acquires a movement amount at a current position of the moving object from a movement amount stored in a peripheral cell the moving object; and a future position prediction unit that predicts a future position of the moving object based on a feature amount at a current position of the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Ishikawa, Hideaki Suzuki, Hidehiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11979017
    Abstract: Provided is a novel power conversion device that enables estimation of a temperature of a power device without using a temperature sensing diode and can accurately estimate a temperature and a current of a current sensing element that observes a main current. A measurement voltage (Vref) is applied between source terminals (31s and 49s) of a main control element 31 and a current sensing element 49 in a state in which the main control element 31 and the current sensing element 49 are turned off, and a temperature of a power device 30 is estimated from a current (Ib) flowing between the source terminals (31s and 49s) of the main control element 31 and the current sensing element 49 at the time of the application by using the fact that a resistance value of a semiconductor substrate between the source terminals of the main control element 31 and the current sensing element 49 has temperature dependency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Yano, Shinichirou Wada, Yoichiro Kobayashi
  • 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: 11979058
    Abstract: An object is to assemble a housing to a mating bracket with high accuracy and to improve the reliability of a rotating electrical machine. A housing of a rotating electrical machine according to the present invention is a housing of a rotating electrical machine that accommodates a stator of the rotating electrical machine and is supported by a support member, the housing including: a first tab that forms a first through-hole through which a first screw passes; and a second tab that forms a second through-hole through which a second screw passes and forms a fitting portion that fits with a position adjustment member, wherein the first tab is formed such that a first facing surface facing the support member of the first tab is farther from the support member than a second facing surface facing the support member of the second tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinjirou Watari, Shinji Yamazaki, Tomohiro Fukuda, Mohdbasir Zulaika
  • Patent number: 11978609
    Abstract: An electron gun EG in which mixing of secondary electrons is suppressed is provided. The electron gun EG has an electron source 1, an extraction electrode 2 for extracting an electron beam E1 from the electron source 1, and an acceleration electrode for accelerating the extracted electron beam E1. The extraction electrode 2 includes a diaphragm 4 for allowing a part of the electron beam E1 to pass through, a shield 5 positioned above the diaphragm 4 apart from the diaphragm 4, and a shield 6 positioned below the diaphragm 4 apart from the diaphragm 4. The diaphragm 4 has an opening OP4 having an opening diameter D4, the shield 5 has an opening OP5 having an opening diameter D5 which is greater than the opening diameter D4, and the shield 6 has an opening OP6 having an opening diameter D6 which is greater than the opening diameter D4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11976704
    Abstract: A propeller shaft (1) that is a power transmission shaft has a shaft member (2) as a tubular body made of iron-based metal and a balance weight (3) made of iron-based metal and welded to an outer peripheral surface of this shaft member (2). At least a part of the balance weight (3) of the propeller shaft (1) is covered with a sacrificial metal coating (4) made of sacrificial corrosion prevention material that contains metal whose ionization tendency is higher than that of metal forming the shaft member (2). With this, it is possible to suppress local progression of corrosion at a periphery of the balance weight (3) and improve durability of the propeller shaft (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutomo Mabe, Kiyokazu Nakane, Hiromichi Komai, Xiaojin Zhu, Toshiyuki Masuda, Kenichiro Ishikura
  • Patent number: 11977876
    Abstract: Provided is an update device capable of appropriately updating the nodes used in business processing. The update device comprises a communication control unit which instructs the load balancer to stop distribution to the first cluster, a transfer unit which instructs the first management node and the second management node to transfer the first execution node from being under management of the first management node to being under management of the second management node, and an update unit which instructs the first management node to update the first management node on grounds that the first execution node being under management of the first management node has been transferred to being under management of the second management node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Keisuke Takagi
  • Patent number: 11976763
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) tube, the tube comprising a plurality of concentric layers of an FRP material forming a shell of the tube. At least one blind threaded longitudinal bolt hole is provided from a transverse end surface of the shell. The bolt hole extends in at least three of the plurality of layers, a middle layer encompassing a plane passing through a center of the bolt hole, an inner layer encompassing a plane of an innermost extent of the bolt hole, and an outer layer encompassing a plane of an outermost extent of the bolt hole. The fibre filament of each of the inner and outer layers has been wound at a first angle to the longitudinal axis and the fibre filament of the middle layer has been wound at a second angle to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY LTD
    Inventors: Anders C Johansson, Magnus U. Henriksson, Anders Holmberg
  • Patent number: 11977026
    Abstract: This invention addresses the abovementioned problem, and the purpose of this invention is to provide a far-infrared spectroscopy device that uses an is-TPG method to generate far-infrared light, and is capable of efficiently detecting is-TPG light without a detection optical system being fine-tuned. Even if the far-infrared light incidence angles on an Si prism for detection are the same when far-infrared light having a first frequency is incident on a non-linear optical crystal for detection and when far-infrared light having a second frequency is incident on the non-linear optical crystal for detection, this far-infrared spectroscopy device adjusts the incidence surface angle of pump light in relation to the non-linear optical crystal for detection such that the angle of the far-infrared light in relation to the pump light within the non-linear optical crystal for detection can be appropriately set for each far-infrared light frequency (see FIG. 1A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Mizuki Mohara, Kei Shimura, Kenji Aiko