Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Electrics Corporation
  • Patent number: 8252672
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device having a silicon carbide layer, the method including a step of implanting at least one of Al ions, B ions and Ga ions having an implantation concentration in a range not lower than 1E19 cm?3 and not higher than 1E21 cm?3 from a main surface of the silicon carbide layer toward the inside of the silicon carbide layer while maintaining the temperature of the silicon carbide layer at 175° C. or higher, to form a p-type impurity layer; and forming a contact electrode whose back surface establishes ohmic contact with a front surface of the p-type impurity layer on the front surface of the p-type impurity layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomokatsu Watanabe, Sunao Aya, Naruhisa Miura, Keiko Sakai, Shohei Yoshida, Toshikazu Tanioka, Yukiyasu Nakao, Yoichiro Tarui, Masayuki Imaizumi
  • Patent number: 8253287
    Abstract: An inverter power module includes: a heatsink that is shaped into a ring-shaped flat plate; a plurality of power MOSFETs that are mounted onto substrates, and mounted to a front surface of the heatsink; a circuit board that is a resin-molded body into which a plurality of inserted conductors are insert molded; and a bus bar that is fixed to the heatsink so as to be disposed on an opposite side of the circuit board facing the heatsink, and that is connected to a power source line of an inverter power circuit by means of a battery electric potential connecting terminal, the heatsink is electrically connected to the rear bracket by being fixed to the rear bracket, and the rear bracket is connected to a ground line of the inverter power circuit by means of the ground electric potential connecting terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Isoda, Masahiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 8253236
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device includes power semiconductor elements joined to wiring patterns of a circuit substrate, cylindrical external terminal communication sections, and wiring means for forming electrical connection between, for example, the power semiconductor elements and the cylindrical external terminal communication sections. The power semiconductor elements, the cylindrical external terminal communication sections, and the wiring means are sealed with transfer molding resin. The cylindrical external terminal communication sections are arranged on the wiring patterns so as to be substantially perpendicular to the wiring patterns, such that external terminals are insertable and connectable to the cylindrical external terminal communication sections, and such that a plurality of cylindrical external terminal communication sections among the cylindrical external terminal communication sections are arranged two-dimensionally on each of wiring patterns that act as main circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Oi, Seiji Oka, Yoshiko Obiraki, Osamu Usui, Yasushi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8254952
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunication system includes a telecommunication device emitting signals in an area located in a moving conveyance while the moving conveyance is moving. Information is obtained representative of a destination area of the moving conveyance in which the signals emitted by the telecommunication device in the area located in a moving conveyance are not received. The signals emitted by the telecommunication device are obtained in the area located in a moving conveyance. The obtained signals are emitted in the destination area of the moving conveyance prior to the arrival of the moving conveyance in the destination area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nicolas Voyer, Herve Bonneville
  • Patent number: 8251514
    Abstract: A rear projection image display device according to an aspect of the present invention for projecting an image from a projection device onto a screen from a rear side, includes a plane reflection mirror for changing an optical path of the image from the projection device, fixing members for fixing more than one points on the periphery of the reflection mirror, rod-shaped reinforcement members fastened along the periphery and arranged inside the periphery in the rear side of the reflection mirror, support members being movable in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the reflection mirror, for supporting predetermined points between the fixing members on the periphery of the reflection mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 8254289
    Abstract: A train car-to-car communication device includes: a terminal; an intra-composition transmission line connected to the terminal within the same composition for transmitting information; a composition-to-composition communication relay unit connected to the intra-composition transmission line for receiving first information from the terminal within the composition and transmitting the first information to an adjacent composition, and receiving second information from the adjacent composition and transmitting the second information to the terminal within the composition of interest; and a composition-to-composition transmission line for connecting the composition-to-composition communication relay units of the adjacent compositions and transmitting the information, and the composition-to-composition communication relay unit determines a difference between composition directions of the composition as a transmission source of the received information and the composition to which the composition-to-composition comm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Tatsumi, Ryoichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8255067
    Abstract: An operation device position monitoring apparatus stores operation device position data outputted from the plant operation control system and the backup plant operation control system and further displays the operation device position data on a display device. Moreover, a processing device outputs a switching permission signal (Sk) to a switching device that performs switching from the plant operation control system to the backup plant operation control system when operation device position data outputted from the plant operation control system and operation device position data outputted from the backup plant operation control system are the same as each other, so that the operation device position is prevented from differing from the position upon normal operation when the plant operation control system is replaced by the backup plant operation control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Nishijima
  • Patent number: 8254783
    Abstract: Provided is a point-to-multipoint optical communication system capable of extending a transmission distance between a subscriber apparatus and a station apparatus without changing wavelengths of an upstream optical signal and a downstream optical signal, which are used in both of the apparatuses. The point-to-multipoint optical communication system includes, as a basic configuration thereof, an optical network for connecting one station apparatus (1) to a plurality of (n) subscriber apparatuses (4). Among m basic configurations, one station-side wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer (22), one optical fiber transmission line (30), and one subscriber-side wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer (12) are shared. The point-to-multipoint optical communication system further includes a station-side repeating unit (20) and a subscriber-side repeating unit (10) each including the one wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer (22 or 12) and m wavelength converters (21 or 11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Nakagawa, Masamichi Nogami
  • Patent number: 8255537
    Abstract: A vehicle communication device for using a plurality of applications in an inter-vehicle communication, and performing a control to avoid congestion of its own vehicle and the other vehicles. There is a vehicle communication device including a plurality of application units for performing the inter-vehicle communication, a lower protocol unit for transmitting and receiving data between vehicles, and a middleware unit intervening between said application units and the lower protocol unit. The middleware unit includes a transfer service processing unit, a communication control service unit, and a transmission/reception control processing unit. The communication control service unit controls a congestion avoiding process of its own vehicle and other vehicles based on application priority received for each of the application units, priority for each vehicle, and channel usage rate obtained from the lower protocol unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Hamada, Yoshitsugu Sawa, Masahiko Ikawa, Hiroshi Araki, Yukio Goto
  • Patent number: 8253163
    Abstract: A high voltage semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a p type base region in a first main surface, an n+ type emitter region in the p type base region, an n+ type cathode region adjacent to an end surface of the semiconductor substrate and not penetrating the semiconductor substrate, a p+ type collector region in a second main surface, a first main electrode, a second main electrode, a third main electrode, and a connection portion connecting the second main electrode and the third main electrode. A resistance between the p type base region and the n+ type cathode region is greater than a resistance between the p type base region and the p+ type collector region. In the high voltage semiconductor device in which an IGBT and a free wheel diode are formed in a single semiconductor substrate, occurrence of a snap-back phenomenon is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Kusunoki, Junji Yahiro, Yoshihiko Hirota
  • Patent number: 8253863
    Abstract: A receiver receives differential analog video signals from a long distance transmission line and converts them into unbalanced analog video signals to output to an analog video signal line that is internal wiring. A frequency response characteristics corrector inside the receiver corrects the frequency response characteristics attenuated mainly by the long distance transmission line, and a delay corrector corrects differences of propagation delay. A transmitter receives the unbalanced analog video signals form the analog video signal line and converts them into balanced differential analog video signals to transmit to a long distance transmission line as differential analog video signals. A video output circuit outputs the unbalanced analog video signals or unbalanced digital video signals to a video signal line as unbalanced video signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ashizaki, Hideki Tanizoe
  • Publication number: 20120214278
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises the steps of (a) applying a resin member onto a front surface of a semiconductor wafer having an uneven structure on the front surface thereof, and (b) flattening a surface of the resin member by heating the resin member, and in the method, the resin member is formed also on a side surface of the semiconductor wafer. The method further comprises the steps of (c) performing a thinning process for the semiconductor wafer on a back surface thereof after the step (b), and (d) removing the resin member from the semiconductor wafer after the step (c). By the method, it is possible to uniformize the thickness of a semiconductor wafer which is thinned and reduce the number of foreign matters remaining on a surface of the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunari NAKATA, Yoshiaki Terasaki
  • Publication number: 20120212307
    Abstract: An electromagnetically operated switching device according to the present invention includes a pair of electromagnetically operated mechanisms for driving a main circuit contact of a switch via a link mechanism symmetrically arranged with respect to an operational center axis, and a length of a spring retaining plate can be regulated in accordance with a change of a link ratio, which is caused by a design change of the main circuit contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Kimura, Tomotaka Yano
  • Publication number: 20120211309
    Abstract: An elevator system includes a group control device controlling a plurality of elevators as a group, a security gate mounted with a personal identification device that identifies a passing user and issues identification information, an access control device that issues validation information based on the information about the user included in the identification information, a communication device transmitting a service floor call registration request for each user to the group control device based on the validation information, an assignment controlling function that is provided on the group control device to determine the elevator assigned pursuant to the service floor call registration request for each user, and issue assigned elevator information for each user, and an assigned elevator notification device installed on the security gate to notify each user of the assigned elevator information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Sakurako Tokura
  • Publication number: 20120210741
    Abstract: To provide a noise control system capable of generating a noise cancellation field where noise is reduced at a desired position in a space. An error scanning filter generates a noise cancellation signal using an adaptive control algorithm based on error scanning, the signal having a phase opposite to that of an acoustic signal component detected by a reference sensor. A control speaker radiates the noise cancellation signal to create a noise cancellation field near the head of a person receiving sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Susumu Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20120211756
    Abstract: An array substrate includes: a plurality of display areas, an outer area of the display area, in which a common wiring and an external connection terminal, which is connected to one of the scanning wiring, the signal wiring, and the common wiring, are provided; a connection wiring, which connects the external connection terminal with the common wiring of an adjacent display panel; and a connection part, which has a contact hole provided at the common wiring of the adjacent display panel, wherein the connection wiring is disposed across the cutting position of the insulation substrate and is connected to the contact hole at the connection part, and wherein the connection part is disposed at an area, at which a sealing member to bond an opposite substrate disposed to face the display area, or the inner side of the sealing member, which is the display area side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu TANAHARA
  • Publication number: 20120212168
    Abstract: An AC motor drive control device including: an inverter, having a plurality of switching elements subjected to on-off control, for converting a DC voltage to an AC voltage with a desired frequency to drive an AC motor; a motor opening contactor connected between the inverter and the AC motor; a switching operation beforehand detection unit for detecting a switching operation of the motor opening contactor prior to the contact or detach of main contacts and outputting a switching operation beforehand detection signal; and a control unit having an inverter control unit for performing the on-off control for the plurality of switching elements and switching control for the motor opening contactor, and controlling the inverter based on the switching operation beforehand detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Tsukima, Hidetoshi Kitanaka
  • Publication number: 20120211050
    Abstract: Connection tabs include: a first connection tab 72 that is electrically connected to a connection electrode 62 on a rear side of the first solar battery cell 11 and extends to a rear side of the second solar battery cell 21; and a second connection tab 71 that is electrically connected to a connection electrode 52 on a light-receiving side of the second solar battery cell 21 and has a bent folded-back portion which extends to the rear side of the second solar battery cell 21 near the first solar battery cell 11 from the second solar battery cell. The first connection tab 71 and the second connection tab 72 are connected in a connection region that is within an overlapping region in which the first connection tab 72 and the second connection tab 21 overlap in a rear side of the second solar battery cell 21, and that is narrower than the overlapping region in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yoichiro Nishimoto
  • Publication number: 20120212814
    Abstract: A transmitted light selecting device includes a first light selecting unit (2a) having a polarizing filter (4a) for allowing an image light ray having one polarization direction to pass therethrough, and a phase difference film (5A) for providing phase differences to the light ray passing through the polarizing filter (4a) to emit light in which light rays having polarization directions coexist toward a viewer, and a second light selecting unit (2b) having a polarizing filter (4b) having a polarized light transmission axis perpendicular to that of the polarizing filter (4a), and a phase difference film (5B) for providing phase differences to a light ray passing through the polarizing filter (5b) to emit light in which light rays having polarization directions coexist toward the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao ENDO, Yuzo Nakano, Takayuki Yanagisawa, Yoshihito Hirano
  • Publication number: 20120212163
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus of an electric vehicle includes: a power converter for driving an induction machine based on arbitrary d- and q-axis voltage commands Vd* and Vq*, and a control unit for controlling the power converter based on a power running command P and a brake command B from outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Kono, Keita Hatanaka