Patents Assigned to Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
  • Publication number: 20200295716
    Abstract: A radio frequency circuit has an amplifier that amplifies an input radio frequency signal, a power supply path that is disposed between an output node of the amplifier and a power supply node to which a DC bias voltage is supplied, and includes a first inductor and a second inductor connected in series, a first resonator that comprises a third inductor and a first capacitor connected in series to the third inductor, and resonates at a series resonance frequency, a second resonator that resonates at a series resonance frequency corresponding to an inductance of the first inductor, a capacitance of the second capacitor, and a resistance value of the first resistor, and a third resonator that comprises a third capacitor connected in parallel with the second inductor, and resonates at a parallel resonance frequency corresponding to a capacitance of the third capacitor and an inductance of the second inductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200295639
    Abstract: An induction motor includes a stator generating a magnetic field and a rotor driven by the magnetic field. Conductive bars are inserted into slots in a core on a rotating shaft. A first and second rings respectively are connected to one and the other ends of the conductive bars. Gaps are formed between the core and the first or second ring. The conductive bars are connected to the first or second ring across the gaps from the slots. A section of each conductive bar perpendicular to a longitudinal direction thereof is a polygon having a first surface on the outer circumference side of the rotor, a second surface on the inner circumference side thereof, side surfaces between the first and second surfaces, and inclined surfaces between the first surface and the side surfaces in the gaps and inclined with respect to the first surface and the side surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke MISU, Taihei KOYAMA, Makoto MATSUSHITA, Toshio HASEBE
  • Publication number: 20200295719
    Abstract: An amplification apparatus as the embodiment of the present invention includes a switching amplifier and an adjuster. The switching amplifier is driven on the basis of a control signal and amplifies an input signal to be amplified to generate an amplified signal. The adjuster adjusts the control signal before it is inputted into the switching amplifier. Specifically, the adjuster adjusts at least one of a pulse width of the control signal and a delay time of the control signal with respect to the signal to be amplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMAOKA, Keiichi YAMAGUCHI, Yuuki FUNAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200295711
    Abstract: An amplification apparatus as the embodiment of the present invention includes a switching amplifier and an adjuster. The switching amplifier is driven on the basis of a control signal and amplifies an input signal to be amplified to generate an amplified signal. The adjuster adjusts at least one of the signal to be amplified and the control signal before being input into the switching amplifier. In addition, the adjuster adjusts so that timing when the control signal turns from LOW to HIGH aligns with timing when the signal to be amplified turns from LOW to HIGH, or aligns with timing when the signal to be amplified turns from HIGH to LOW.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMAOKA, Keiichi Yamaguchi, Yuuki Funahashi
  • Patent number: 10778052
    Abstract: A synchronous reluctance type rotary electric machine of an embodiment includes a shaft and a rotor core. The shaft rotates around a rotation axis. The rotor core is fixed to the shaft and includes multi-layered hollow parts having a convex shape toward a radially inward side formed for each pole in cross section. Then, when a center in a circumferential direction of one pole is a pole center, a hollow part closest to the shaft among the plurality of hollow parts is a first hollow part, a hollow part positioned next to the first hollow part is a second hollow part, and a hollow part positioned on a side opposite to the first hollow part with respect to the second hollow part is a third hollow part, a width W1 between the first hollow part and the second hollow part on the pole center and a width W2 between the second hollow part and the third hollow part on the pole center are set to satisfy W1?W2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corporation, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Matsumoto, Takashi Araki, Makoto Matsushita, Katsutoku Takeuchi, Toshio Hasebe
  • Patent number: 10766367
    Abstract: A train control device includes a train position detector, a storage, and an in-vehicle controller. The train position detector detects a traveling position of a train. The storage stores therein a traveling position of the train when a loss of contact of the current collector occurs, as a loss-of-contact position. When the train travels in a predetermined section including the loss-of-contact position with reference to the traveling position of the train and the storage, the in-vehicle controller causes the train to perform coasting traveling in the predetermined section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Junko Yamamoto, Hirotoshi Kawai, Satoshi Iba, Yohei Hattori, Yasuyuki Miyajima
  • Patent number: 10770907
    Abstract: A battery device includes battery module, each including an assembled battery and a battery monitoring circuit. The assembled battery comprises battery cells. The battery monitoring circuit measures voltages of the battery cells, current and temperature levels of the assembled battery. A control circuit is connected to the battery monitoring circuits through a communication line and supplies power to the battery monitoring circuits. The control circuit communicates with the battery monitoring circuits through the communication line. Each battery monitoring circuit is configured to monitor signals transmitted on the communication line for a predetermined time period after its startup, and then to select a communication ID to one that does not conflict with any other ID used to communicate through the communication line during the predetermined time period. The selected ID is then transmitted on the communication line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Okamoto, Fumio Shibasaki, Kazuo Shimizu, Takeshi Oosawa
  • Publication number: 20200280034
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electricity storage device includes a first box, a second box, a storage battery, and a flow path. The second box includes a side plate and is housed in the first box. The storage battery is disposed in the second box while being connected to the side plate. The flow path is configured to include the side plate of the second box inside the first box and outside the second box and vertically penetrates the first box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki KITAZAWA, Mitsuyo YAMASHITA, Naoyuki KURISU, Hiroaki YOSHINARI
  • Patent number: 10751759
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sorting apparatus includes a controller, a holding device, and a driver. The controller acquires holding position information corresponding to identification information of an article to be processed, and sets a holding position based on the holding position information. The holding device holds the article. The drive unit causes the holding device to hold the article in the holding position set by the controller, and moves the article held by the holding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Sezaki
  • Publication number: 20200261945
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an article management device includes a receiver, a processor, and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive article measurement information. The processor is configured to select a first divergence control signal or a second divergence control signal based on the article measurement information, the first divergence control signal being for forwarding the article to a sorter configured to sort the article according to sorting destination information corresponding to the article, the second divergence control signal being for forwarding the article to a carrier. The transmitter is configured to transmit the first or the second divergence control signal to a diverger configured to forward the article toward the sorter or the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Shota NAGAFUCHI, Hidetaka Kojima
  • Patent number: 10749420
    Abstract: According to one embodiment a synchronous reluctance rotating electrical machine of an embodiment has a shaft and a rotor core. The rotor core is fixed to the shaft, in which cavity portions being formed in a projected shape toward a radially inward direction are formed into multilayers for each pole and bridges are respectively formed between the cavity portions and an outer circumferential surface. The thickness of an outermost bridge positioned outermost on the pole end side among the plurality of bridges is formed to be gradually thicker from the pole center side toward the pole end side. Among the plurality of bridges, the thickness of an intermediate bridge positioned on the pole center side of the outermost bridge with one bridge interposed therebetween is formed to be gradually thicker from the pole end side toward the pole center side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Takahashi, Katsutoku Takeuchi, Makoto Matsushita, Daisuke Misu, Toshio Hasebe
  • Patent number: 10749169
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an active material is provided. The active material includes a first phase including a niobium-titanium composite oxide, and a second phase adjacent to the first phase and including an orthorhombic niobium oxide. The active material is a particle in which a second (010) plane of the orthorhombic niobium oxide is in contact with a first (010) plane of the niobium-titanium composite oxide in at least a part of a contact interface between the first phase and the second phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Harada, Norio Takami, Keigo Hoshina, Kazuomi Yoshima
  • Patent number: 10742151
    Abstract: A device according to an embodiment includes an circuit; a detector for detecting a current response output from the circuit; a vector converter for converting the current response into a d-axis current and a q-axis current by using a rotational phase angle of a motor connected to the circuit; a calculator for calculating, based on a torque command and a current phase angle command, a current amplitude command of the current response output from the circuit; a dq-axes converter for calculating a d-axis current command and a q-axis current command from the current amplitude command and the current phase angle command; and a controller for calculating a voltage command so that the d-axis current command and the q-axis current command are equal to the d-axis current and the q-axis current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation, Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shun Taniguchi, Kazuya Yasui, Tomoaki Shigeta
  • Patent number: 10732955
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus has a communication unit, a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and a controller. The communication unit communicates with a terminal apparatus. The first storage unit stores a first program. The second unit stores a patch program for the first program received from the terminal apparatus via the communication unit for each section. When executing the first program, the controller applies the latest patch program stored in each section in the second storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Aki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10735083
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication repeater device includes storage and a controller which detects, upon receiving a radio frame including pairs of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols and cyclic prefixes from the radio base station, switching timing between uplink and downlink according to similarity between certain sections of an original radio frame and a time-shifted radio frame. The controller estimates the subsequent switching timing between the uplink and the downlink from the detected switching timing and frame information stored in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Tango, Katsumi Kusama, Yasutaka Iida
  • Publication number: 20200238835
    Abstract: A controller of an embodiment includes a limiter receiving an active current command initial value, limiting a maximum value of the active current command initial value with a predetermined value, and outputting a first value; a circuit to calculate a reactive current command initial value; a calculator to calculate a reactive current command adjustment value; a unit receiving the first value as an input, and calculating a reactive current upper limit value such that a composite value of the first value and the reactive current upper limit value is equal to or smaller than an input current maximum value; and a limiter to output the reactive current command adjustment value or the reactive current upper limit value, whichever is smaller. The predetermined value is a value to set the reactive current upper limit value to a value larger than zero and smaller than the input current maximum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicants: Central Japan Railway Company, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Ken KUNOMURA, Toshimasa SHIMIZU, Kenji SATO, Hirokazu KATO, Kazuaki YUUKI, Toshiyuki UCHIDA, Masatsugu MORITA, Hiroki MIYAJIMA, Yukitaka MONDEN
  • Patent number: 10727460
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a first casing, a plurality of battery cells, and a second screw, for example. The first casing is supported by a support member and includes an insulating first outer wall. The battery cells are housed in the first casing. The first outer wall is provided with a second screw that is connectable to a first screw. The first casing is supported by the support member with the first screw fitted into the second screw, placing the support member in-between the first screw and the second screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori Uchida, Norio Shimizu, Kazuto Kuroda, Masahiro Sekino
  • Patent number: 10720818
    Abstract: A synchronous reluctance type rotary electric machine of an embodiment includes a shaft, a rotor core, rotor core pressers, a plurality of conductor bars, and short-circuit rings. The shaft rotates around a rotation axis. The rotor core is fixed to the shaft and includes multi-layered hollow parts having a convex shape toward a radially inward side formed for each pole in cross section. The rotor core pressers hold the rotor core by pressing the rotor core from both sides in a rotation axis direction. The plurality of conductor bars are disposed in the hollow parts to extend along the rotation axis and have both ends protruding through the rotor core pressers. The short-circuit rings are provided at both ends of each of the plurality of conductor bars and connect the plurality of conductor bars together. Thus, the conductor bars are fixed to the rotor core pressers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corporation, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Matsumoto, Takashi Araki, Makoto Matsushita, Katsutoku Takeuchi, Toshio Hasebe
  • Patent number: 10721008
    Abstract: A transmitting system includes an outputting apparatus and a multiplexing apparatus. The outputting apparatus transmits MMTP packets to which an NTP short format timestamp is added. The multiplexing apparatus multiplexes the MMTP packets. The multiplexing apparatus includes an extractor, a controller, a determiner, a management information generator, a continuity determiner, and a transmission timing adjuster. The transmission timing adjuster writes, for adjustment of a transmission timing of an MMTP packet being close to an MMTP packet in which an NTP short format timestamp value is discontinuous, time information taking a leap second processing into consideration, to the NTP short format timestamp of the MMTP packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoo Yamakage, Tatsuya Tanaka, Yasumichi Hashi, Keita Iwami
  • Patent number: 10706502
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a monitoring system includes a monitoring terminal and a server. The monitoring terminal includes a detector, a tracking unit, a first selector, and a transmitter. The server includes a receiver, a second selector, a collation unit, and an output unit. The receiver receives a first best shot images from the monitoring terminal. The second selector performs second selection processing, as part of a predetermined selection processing other than a first selection processing, of selecting a second best shot image suitable for collation with a predetermined image from among the first best shot images. The collation unit performs collation processing of collating the second best shot image with the predetermined image. The output unit outputs a result of the collation processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroo Saito