Patents Assigned to Toshiba Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Systems
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Publication number: 20230170825Abstract: According to an embodiment, a power converter (1) includes a main circuit (10), an electrification control unit (25), and an analysis unit (24). The main circuit includes a plurality of switching devices (Q1 to Q4), converts direct-current power into multiphase alternating-current power through switching of the plurality of switching devices, is able to supply the multiphase alternating-current power to an alternating-current load (2) connected to an output side, and output a detection result of a device short circuit current flowing in each of the plurality of switching devices. The electrification control unit electrifies the plurality of switching devices for a predetermined time based on one of a plurality of pre-decided analysis test electrification patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2020Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu KUSUNOKI
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Publication number: 20230156949Abstract: A substrate unit of an embodiment includes a plurality of substrates and a holding part. The plurality of substrates are arranged at a constant interval in a thickness direction. The holding part integrally holds the plurality of substrates and allows, relative to one substrate of the plurality of substrates, another substrate to be movable along a plane direction of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsuru HANO
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Publication number: 20230152375Abstract: Provided is a deterioration estimation device and a deterioration estimation program for a power conversion device that can estimate the deterioration of a switching element without providing a special sensor. A deterioration estimation device includes a calculating device calculating the variation of the characteristics of an IGBT in an inverter from a voltage command treated as a target of the output voltage of the power conversion device and the output voltage value of the power conversion device, a determining device determining whether the variation of the characteristics calculated by the calculating device has changed from an initial state by a threshold value or greater, and a notifying device issuing a warning when the determining device has determined that the change in the variation of the characteristics is equal to or greater than the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicants: NAGASAKI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE, TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Fujio KUROKAWA, Ritaka NAKAMURA, Hajime SHIRAISHI
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Publication number: 20230155519Abstract: A power conversion device including a power conversion circuit, an AC filter circuit, and a calculation unit. The power conversion circuit converts DC input power from a DC power supply to output a first AC output current and a first AC output voltage. The AC filter circuit filters the first AC output current and the first AC output voltage to generate a second AC output current and a second AC output voltage. The calculation unit calculates an estimated value of an upper impedance based on a difference value between a first voltage value and a second voltage value, the first voltage value being a value of the second AC output voltage at a time of stop of the power conversion circuit or at a time of zero output from the power conversion circuit or at a time of a certain amount of output from the power conversion circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro TAWADA, Kenta YAMABE
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Publication number: 20230145367Abstract: A SCADA web HMI system dynamically distributes server connection priority lists from web HMI servers to HMI clients in accordance with order of assignment which takes load balancing into account. As a result, preliminary settings associated with connection priority do not need to be made on the HMI clients. Also, since the server connection priority lists are assigned to the HMI clients in accordance with the order of assignment which takes load balancing into account, the numbers of clients connected to the individual web HMI servers are equalized and the load balancing can be ensured. The SCADA web HMI system can reduce the operating costs necessary in client settings while ensuring redundancy and load balancing of servers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2019Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems CorporationInventors: Ryosuke HIGASHIYA, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU, Ryo SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 11644810Abstract: A hybrid rendering HMI terminal device (32) is provided with a web browser (321) and an HMI Web Runtime (322). The web browser (321) displays an HMI screen on which a first part and a second part that represent the state of a monitoring target device (7) are arranged. When signal data from the monitoring target device (7) is analog numerical data, a WebGL rendering processing unit (322i) renders the first part associated with the signal data by WebGL rendering. When signal data from the monitoring target device (7) is data other than analog numerical data, an SVG rendering processing unit (322h) renders the second part associated with the signal data by SVG rendering.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Fujieda, Nobuo Shimizu, Akira Nojima, Kyohei Miyake
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Publication number: 20230134153Abstract: A plurality of UPSs are connected in parallel between an AC power supply and a load. The UPSs each include a first switch connected between the AC power supply and an AC node. During the first power feeding mode, a control device turns on the first switch, and controls a power conversion device so as to receive AC power from the AC node and generate AC power. During a second power feeding mode, the control device turns off the first switch, and controls the power conversion device so as to receive DC power from a power storage device and generate AC power. When the AC power supply recovers during the second power feeding mode, the control device successively switches the plurality of UPSs to the first power feeding mode by successively turning on a plurality of the first switches each of which corresponds to each of the plurality of UPSs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki YAMASHITA, Tomohiro TANAKA
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Patent number: 11632035Abstract: According to an embodiment, a capacitor diagnosis device includes a sensor, a frequency spectrum analysis unit, a frequency component extraction unit, and a diagnosis processing unit. The sensor detects a physical quantity that changes with an current flowing through a capacitor in a power conversion unit (PCU) for converting DC power smoothed by the capacitor connected in parallel to DC link(s) into AC power according to a power running operation. The frequency spectrum analysis unit generates a frequency spectrum based on a detection result of the sensor detected during the power running operation of the PCU. The frequency component extraction unit extracts a component of a specific frequency band related to a frequency depending on a configuration of the PCU based on the frequency spectrum. The diagnosis processing unit diagnoses a state of the capacitor based on at least a magnitude of the extracted component of the specific frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Haruyuki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11606022Abstract: The insulation deterioration monitoring apparatus comprises a computer on which software is installed. The software causes the computer to execute at least first to fourth processes. In the first process, during stopping of at least one inverter unit, the computer selects one inverter unit out of the stopped inverter units and causes the inverter corresponding to the selected inverter unit to generate a direct current voltage. In the second process, the computer measures the current value of the ground current while the corresponding motor driving inverter generates the direct current voltage. In the third process, the computer records the measured current value of the ground current for each inverter unit in association with the selected inverter unit. Then, in the fourth process, based on the measured current value of the ground current recorded for each inverter unit, the computer analyzes the tendency of insulation deterioration of each inverter unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Shimizu, Naotake Miyasaka, Takato Sonoda
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Publication number: 20230071413Abstract: A power conversion device according to one embodiment has an inverter that converts direct-current power supplied from a direct-current power source to alternating-current power, a determination unit that determines whether or not a negative-phase sequence voltage on an alternating-current side of the inverter is a predetermined value or greater, and a stop control unit that performs control to stop the inverter in a case where the determination unit determines that the negative-phase sequence voltage is the predetermined value or greater. Further, the stop control unit may perform control to stop the inverter in a case where a positive-phase sequence voltage on the alternating-current side of the inverter is within a predetermined range.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Mohammad BANI SHAMSEH
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Patent number: 11601068Abstract: A power conversion device includes a power conversion circuit and a power conversion control circuit. The power conversion control circuit is configured to calculate a positive-phase sequence current command signal based on a positive-phase sequence voltage of the three-phase AC output voltage and a positive-phase sequence current of the three-phase AC output current, calculate a negative-phase sequence current command signal based on the first axis negative-phase sequence current command value, the second axis negative-phase sequence current command value, the first axis negative-phase sequence current value, and the second axis negative-phase sequence current value, and generate the switching control signal based on the positive-phase sequence current command signal and the negative-phase sequence current command signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Mohammad Bani Shamseh, Issei Fukasawa
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Publication number: 20230058969Abstract: A power converter includes: plural inverter units connected in parallel to a DC power supply, including a storage battery, on a DC side and a DC fuse in each of current paths between the DC power supply and the inverter units, the DC fuse configured to, when a short-circuit failure occurs in any of the inverter units, be blown in the current path between the DC power supply and the inverter unit having the short-circuit failure. The number of the inverter units is a number with which a condition that, when the DC fuse between the DC power supply and the inverter unit having the short-circuit failure is blown, none of a plurality of the DC fuses between the DC power supply and a plurality of other inverter units that do not have the short-circuit failure are blown is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshinori TSURUMA
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Publication number: 20230039409Abstract: An uninterruptible power supply includes a plurality of vacuum circuit breakers and a bypass circuit connected in series between a commercial AC power supply and a load, a control device that turns on both of the plurality of vacuum circuit breakers and the bypass circuit when the commercial AC power supply is normal and turns off a vacuum circuit breaker different from a vacuum circuit breaker turned off on the occurrence of previous power failure of the plurality of vacuum circuit breakers and turns off the bypass circuit when the commercial AC power supply fails, and a power converter that converts DC power of a battery into AC power and supplies AC power to the load when the commercial AC power supply fails.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2020Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaochen ZHANG, Yousuke HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230039054Abstract: A master device (10) of a drive system (1) transmits identification information of each first period and a first transmission synchronization signal for each first period of a reference period including a plurality of first periods or transmits identification information of each first period, a first transmission synchronization signal, and a second transmission synchronization signal for each first period of the reference period. A first controller (31) adjusts a phase of each first control period such that the first control period is synchronized with a timing associated with a specific first synchronization signal out of a plurality of first synchronization signals which are acquired by reception of the first transmission synchronization signal a plurality of times using the identification information and controls a first power converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Soichiro ICHIKAWA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Takumi ITO
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Publication number: 20230034041Abstract: An active gas generation apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a base flange having a central bottom surface region and a peripheral protruding part; a cooling plate provided on the peripheral protruding part of the base flange; an insulating plate provided between the cooling plate and the high voltage apply electrode part; and an electrode holding member provided on a lower surface of the cooling plate to support the high voltage apply electrode part from a lower side. Provided is a gas separation structure of separating a gas flow between an in-housing space and a discharge space by the cooling plate, the electrode holding member, and the high voltage apply electrode part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Kensuke WATANABE, Ren ARITA
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Patent number: 11567482Abstract: A manufacturing process monitoring apparatus capable of determining a manufacturing process is anomaly, without requiring any threshold value for determining the as anomaly is provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Tezuka, Haruki Inami, Wataru Kameyama, Mutsumi Suganuma
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Publication number: 20230025809Abstract: A housing in an active gas generator according to the present disclosure includes a peripheral stepped region formed along an outer periphery of a central bottom region, the peripheral stepped region being higher in formed height than the central bottom region. A high-voltage-electrode dielectric film on the peripheral stepped region forms a gas separation structure for separating a gas stream into a feeding space and an active gas generating space including a discharge space. A vacuum pump disposed outside the housing sets the feeding space under vacuum.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Ren ARITA, Kensuke WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230020139Abstract: A capacitor unit includes: a base portion with a mount surface, and a locking member. The locking member includes a shaft portion to be inserted in a hole provided in the mount surface and a head portion. A first guide member and a second guide member guide along an anteroposterior direction, a first end and a second end of the base portion in a lateral direction, respectively. The hole is located between the capacitor and the first end in the lateral direction, and arranged at a position more distant from an opening than the first guide member in the anteroposterior direction. At a first engagement position, the locking member abuts on the first guide member. At a second engagement position, abutment of the locking member on the first guide member is canceled.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Keishi YAMANE
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Publication number: 20230013017Abstract: Provided in an active gas generation apparatus according to the present disclosure is a gas separation structure of separating a gas flow between an in-housing space and a discharge space by a cooling plate, an electrode holding member, and a high voltage apply electrode part. The active gas generation apparatus further includes an auxiliary metal electrode provided on an upper surface of an electrode dielectric film in the high voltage apply electrode part. The auxiliary metal electrode is provided to overlap with part of an active gas transmission path in a plan view, and set to ground potential.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Ren ARITA, Kensuke WATANABE
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Patent number: 11555715Abstract: A resolver signal processing device includes an output signal state detection unit and a disconnection detection unit. The output signal state detection unit calculates a sum of squares of a signal with a first phase and a signal with a second phase which are output signals of a two-phase output type resolver based on the output signals. The disconnection identification unit outputs information representing a disconnection state of any of a first signal system which supplies an excitation signal of the resolver and a second signal system of the output signals based on a size of a variation range in which the sum of squares periodically changes.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Chikara Morito