Patents Assigned to Toshiba Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Systems
  • Publication number: 20230170825
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironobu KUSUNOKI
  • Publication number: 20230156949
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuru HANO
  • Publication number: 20230152375
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicants: NAGASAKI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE, TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fujio KUROKAWA, Ritaka NAKAMURA, Hajime SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20230155519
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro TAWADA, Kenta YAMABE
  • Publication number: 20230145367
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke HIGASHIYA, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU, Ryo SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11644810
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujieda, Nobuo Shimizu, Akira Nojima, Kyohei Miyake
  • Publication number: 20230134153
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki YAMASHITA, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11632035
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Haruyuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11606022
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Shimizu, Naotake Miyasaka, Takato Sonoda
  • Publication number: 20230071413
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mohammad BANI SHAMSEH
  • Patent number: 11601068
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mohammad Bani Shamseh, Issei Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20230058969
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinori TSURUMA
  • Publication number: 20230039409
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaochen ZHANG, Yousuke HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230039054
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soichiro ICHIKAWA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Takumi ITO
  • Publication number: 20230034041
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke WATANABE, Ren ARITA
  • Patent number: 11567482
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Tezuka, Haruki Inami, Wataru Kameyama, Mutsumi Suganuma
  • Publication number: 20230025809
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ren ARITA, Kensuke WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230020139
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keishi YAMANE
  • Publication number: 20230013017
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ren ARITA, Kensuke WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11555715
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chikara Morito