Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Electrics Corporation
  • Patent number: 11991206
    Abstract: A combination identification unit (27) identifies combinations of one or more components which constitute a target system and in each of which an intrusion detection system that detects unauthorized access can be installed. A combination reduction unit (28) extracts, from the combinations identified by the combination identification unit, a combination that satisfies an installation condition accepted by an installation condition input unit (22) and can detect unauthorized communications indicated by attack information accepted by an attack information input unit (24) at a rate higher than or equal to a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Asai, Kiyoto Kawauchi
  • Patent number: 11987170
    Abstract: A gear shift adjusting mechanism includes: an adjustment unit including a first slider; an adjustment target module including a second slider; and a switch unit including a first rotation shaft and a link member supported rotatably with respect to a fixing member about the first rotation shaft. The link member includes a first engaged part that is engaged with a first engaging part of the first slider and a second engaged part that is engaged with a second engaging part of the second slider. The switch unit moves at least one of the first rotation shaft, the first engaging part, or the second engaging part so that at least one of a first distance between the first rotation shaft and the first engaging part or a second distance between the first rotation shaft and the second engaging part is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Inatani, Muneharu Kuwata
  • Patent number: 11988566
    Abstract: A pulling detection device includes: a base in which, on a foundation portion, a first wall portion, a projection, and a second wall portion are provided; a movable rod including a switch operation body and a pulling rod, the switch operation body having a first wall portion opposed surface, a projection opposed surface, and a second wall portion opposed surface, the pulling rod extending from the second wall portion opposed surface, while movement of the movable rod toward one side is restricted by contact between the first wall portion and the first wall portion opposed surface and movement of the movable rod toward another side is restricted by contact between the projection and the projection opposed surface; an elastic body provided between the second wall portion opposed surface and the second wall portion; a first switch which operates by contact/separation; and a second switch which operates by contact/separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Kadota, Kota Yano, Yoshihiro Morimoto, Daisuke Mizuno, Yasuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 11990878
    Abstract: A differential amplifying unit includes a first input transistor and a second input transistor forming a differential pair, and a first tail current source and a second tail current source. An output stage includes a first output transistor and a second output transistor that can be driven by an output of the differential amplifying unit. A controller performs control such that during startup, a load is driven by the first tail current source and the first output transistor, and such that after startup, the load is driven by the first tail current source, the second tail current source, the first output transistor, and the second output transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu Kojima
  • Patent number: 11990894
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first switch and a first driver. The first switch selects and outputs one of a power supply potential and a generated potential as a first switch output potential based on a synchronization signal from a transmission circuit and a delayed signal delayed from the synchronization signal. The first driver charges a gate of a bipolar transistor element based on the synchronization signal of the transmission circuit and the first switch output potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Fukudome, Kazuya Hokazono, Mitsutaka Hano, Yuki Terado
  • Patent number: 11990990
    Abstract: A relay device includes a plurality of physical ports (111-1 to 111-N) that receive frames, and a layer-2 protocol processing unit (113) that transfers the frame received by one of the physical ports (111-1 to 111-N) from at least one of the physical ports (111-1 to 111-N). The layer-2 protocol processing unit (113) has a filtering function for blocking frames other than a clock-time synchronization frame during transfer involving a port selected from the plurality of physical ports (111-1 to 111-N) as a port that relays only the clock-time synchronization frame used for synchronizing clock time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakayasu, Sachiko Taniguchi, Ryusuke Kawate
  • Patent number: 11987275
    Abstract: A train control system includes: an image information conversion device that is mounted on a train and outputs first image information obtained by adding train information to image information imaged by an imaging device capable of capturing an area in front of the train; and an obstacle detection device that is installed on the ground and includes: an image information storage unit that records the first image information output from the image information conversion device; an image information comparison unit that compares the first image information with second image information recorded in the image information storage unit; and an image information result output unit that outputs a result from the image information comparison unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Tokumaru
  • Patent number: 11990807
    Abstract: In the electric rotating machine, a crank portion that is displaced in a radial direction of an armature iron core is provided in an apex portion of a coil end portion; a first oblique side that slants with respect to an axis-direction endface of the armature iron core connects a first coil conductor portion with the crank portion; a second oblique side that slants with respect to the axis-direction endface of the armature iron core connects a second coil conductor portion with the crank portion; at least one of the first oblique side and the second oblique side has an inflection point, before being connected with the crank portion, that functions as a base point of a bending portion that is bent toward a radially outside of the armature iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Jumpei Yasutomi
  • Patent number: 11990833
    Abstract: Provided is a low-cost noise filter having a noise suppression effect that is not reduced even when a resonance frequency changes according to changes in temperature. A noise filter includes: a noise detection unit which detects a common mode noise; a cancellation signal output unit; an injection unit which injects a cancellation signal; and a grounded capacitor. The cancellation signal output unit includes a filter part which generates the cancellation signal from the common mode noise, and an amplification part which amplifies the cancellation signal. A temperature dependence of a product of an inductance value and a capacitance value of a main circuit portion including the noise detection unit, the injection unit, and the grounded capacitor, and a temperature dependence of a product of an inductance value and a capacitance value of the filter part, are equal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Furusho, Ryota Asakura, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Mamoru Kamikura
  • Publication number: 20240157567
    Abstract: This picking system comprises: a workpiece posture calculator that calculates postures of workpieces from captured image data acquired from an imager, selects a workpiece to be picked, and determines a gripping position and an angle; a robot that grips and takes out the selected workpiece, on the basis of the determination by the workpiece posture calculator; a posture changing device that changes the posture of a grasped member; and a controller that, when the gripping position and the angle that are determined deviate from a gripping position and an angle that are set, causes the posture changing device instead to hold the workpiece gripped by the robot, and rotate the workpiece, and then causes the robot to grip again the workpiece so that the gripping position and the angle match the gripping position and the angle that are set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya KAWAI, Takehiro MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240162196
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device includes a power semiconductor chip being a chip of a power semiconductor element, a temperature sensing diode chip being a chip of a temperature sensing diode element mounted in a first region on a surface electrode being one of main electrodes of the power semiconductor chip, and a lead frame connected to a second region on the surface electrode. An insulating film is provided on a side surface of the lead frame facing the temperature sensing diode chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Rui KONISHI, Naoki YOSHIMATSU, Shintaro ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20240162829
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a housing, a door, a power converter, and a movable portion. Housing includes an opening and an internal space. Door is connected to housing. Power converter is disposed in internal space with a gap from housing. Movable portion is disposed in internal space. Movable portion is configured to be detachable with respect to power converter. Door is configured to be switchable between an open state in which opening is open and a closed state in which opening (OP) is closed. Power converter is configured to be grounded via movable portion in the open state of door. Power converter is configured to be disposed with a gap from movable portion in the closed state of door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushige MUKUNOKI, Takeshi HORIGUCHI, Hiroki SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20240159418
    Abstract: An object detection unit (212) uses a learned model to detect a plurality of vanes in a captured image in which an air-conditioning indoor unit is captured. A vane selection unit (214) selects a target vane from the plurality of vanes in the captured image. An image display unit (215) displays a superimposed image in which a target identification mark and an adjustment interface are superimposed. A designation acceptance unit (216) accepts adjustment details designated by operating the adjustment interface. An air-conditioning setting unit (217) sets the accepted adjustment details in the air-conditioning indoor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Futa WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240159403
    Abstract: An air-conditioner for performing a heating operation includes an indoor unit with an indoor heat exchanger set in an air-conditioning target space. There is an outdoor unit set outside the air-conditioning target space, the outdoor unit including a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, and an outdoor fan to supply outdoor air to the outdoor heat exchanger. Additionally, there is a humidifier to heat and evaporate condensed water in the outdoor unit to send the evaporated water into the indoor unit. The humidifier includes a water reservoir to store the condensed water in the outdoor unit, and a heating portion formed by a discharge pipe in which the refrigerant discharged from the compressor flows. The discharge pipe communicates between the compressor and the indoor heat exchanger in the heating operation, and the heating portion heats and evaporated the condensed water stored in the water reservoir with heat of the refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kota KURIHARA, Shohei ISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240159481
    Abstract: A corrugated fin of a heat exchanger is formed such that fin sections are joined together one after another in a tube axial direction of a plurality of flat heat-transfer tubes. Louvers in the fin sections of the corrugated fin are divided into a first louver group formed further upstream in a direction of flow of air than a drain slit in the corrugated fin and a second louver group formed further downstream in the direction of flow of air than the drain slit. Plate portions of the first louver group and plate portions of the second louver group are inclined to a flat-plate portion in the fin sections and inclined in respective directions that are opposite to each other. The drain slit includes a plurality of drain slits provided in a plurality of respective rows between the first louver group and the second louver group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji ONAKA, Rihito ADACHI, Nanami KISHIDA, Taisaku GOMYO, Tetsuji SAIKUSA, Yuki NAKAO, Atsushi KIBE, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240159572
    Abstract: A resolver includes a rotor attached to a shaft of a rotating body, a stator, an excitation circuit, and an angle computation unit configured to compute a rotation angle of the rotor. Each tooth of the stator has line-symmetry with respect to a line connecting a center of a core back of the stator and centers of the teeth in a circumferential direction as viewed from an axial direction. A rotor outline is expressed by a function Rr(x(?), y(?)) defined by Equations (1) to (3), where an x and a y axes are axes of an orthogonal coordinate system having a center of the shaft as an origin, and an angle from a reference axis is ?, where a minimum distance from the center of the core back to the teeth is Ri, and a maximum distance is Ro, and a number of salient poles of the rotor is Nx.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko IKEDA, Shohei FUJIKURA, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Yu HIROTANI, Hidenori SASAKI, Tatsuya MORI
  • Publication number: 20240157975
    Abstract: An autonomous driving integrated control system includes multiple roadside monitoring devices and an autonomous driving device, wherein the multiple roadside monitoring devices each have a sensor and a transmitter that transmits information of a detected object, and wherein the autonomous driving device has: a receiver unit; a vehicle abnormal state detection unit; an escape route generation unit that generates, per each of the roadside monitoring devices, intersection escape routes for escaping from the intersection; a selection unit that compares the thus-generated intersection escape routes with each other in terms of their collision-avoidance levels, to thereby make selections; a travelable distance calculation unit that calculates an abnormal-time travelable distance; a vehicle control unit that, when an abnormal state of the vehicle is detected, causes the vehicle to travel along a high-level intersection escape route corresponding to the abnormal-time travelable distance; and a vehicle operation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Michitoshi AZUMA, Kohei MORI, Toru HIGUCHI, Hiroshi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240159479
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a distributor; a plurality of heat-transfer tubes; and a refrigerant inflow pipe. The plurality of heat-transfer tubes connected to the distributor stick out into an internal space of the distributor such that when the plurality of heat-transfer tubes and a part defined as the internal space are projected on a plane perpendicular to an axial direction of the distributor, the plurality of heat-transfer tubes occupies one-half or greater of the part defined as the internal space. The distributor includes an orifice plate and dividing the internal space. The orifice plate is located above the lowest one of the plurality of heat-transfer tubes in the internal space. The orifice plate has an orifice through which the upper and lower spaces communicate with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Rihito ADACHI, Yoji ONAKA, Ryota AKAIWA, Yohei KATO, Yuta SATO
  • Publication number: 20240162223
    Abstract: An IGBT region and a diode region are provided on a semiconductor substrate. The IGBT region includes a plurality of active trenches penetrating through the base layer and the emitter layer from the first principal surface, a gate electrode provided inside the active trenches via a gate insulating film, and an implanted electrode provided inside the active trenches via the gate insulating film and positioned on the second principal surface side of the gate electrode. The diode region includes an anode layer of the second conductive type provided on the first principal surface side of the drift layer, a plurality of diode trenches provided from the first principal surface to the anode layer, and a diode electrode provided inside the diode trenches via a diode insulating film. A depth of the anode layer is deeper than a depth of the diode trenches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi NISHI, Kazuya KONISHI
  • Publication number: 20240159862
    Abstract: A passenger detection device for detecting a passenger in a vehicle in which a display device is disposed in such a way as to face a front seat ahead of the front seat, includes: a transmission unit that is mounted on the display device and transmits a radio wave to a vehicle interior; and a reception unit that is mounted on the display device and receives a reflected radio wave of the radio wave transmitted by the transmission unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki SUSUMAGO