Patents Assigned to Toshiba Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Systems
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11555245
    Abstract: In a metal oxide film formation method of the present invention, the following steps are performed. In a solution vessel, a raw-material solution including aluminum as a metallic element is turned into a mist so that a raw-material solution mist is obtained. In a solution vessel provided independently of the solution vessel, a reaction aiding solution including a reaction aiding agent for formation of aluminum oxide is turned into a mist so that an aiding-agent mist is obtained. Then, the raw-material solution mist and the aiding-agent mist are fed to a nozzle provided in a reactor vessel via paths. Thereafter, the raw-material solution mist and the aiding-agent mist are mixed in the nozzle so that a mixed mist is obtained. Then, the mixed mist is fed onto a back surface of a heated P-type silicon substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignees: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation, Kyoto University, Kochi Prefectural Public University Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Hiramatsu, Hiroyuki Orita, Toshiyuki Kawaharamura, Shizuo Fujita, Takayuki Uchida
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11557894
    Abstract: A protection relay device includes a housing and a fuse unit. The fuse unit includes a connection conductor, an input conductor connected to the connection conductor and receiving an external power, a fuse connected to the connection conductor, and an external device connection conductor connected to the fuse on a side opposite to the input conductor, and to which an external device is connected. A short-circuit induction conductor is provided on at least one of the input conductor on a side opposite to the fuse and the flapper portion, the short-circuit induction conductor protruding toward the other of the input conductor and the flapper portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Inamasa, Kenji Uetani, Mitsuru Hano
  • Publication number: 20230011915
    Abstract: When the tracking point reaches the i-th stand, the continuous rolling system outputs, to an i-th stand, a roll gap operation value for bringing to zero a difference between a value which is obtained by correcting a strip thickness target value of the i-th stand with a target strip thickness correction value of the i-th stand and a value which is obtained by correcting a strip thickness actual recalculation value of the i-th stand with a gap correction value of the i-th stand. Here, the gap correction value is a correction value that brings to zero a difference between a head end gap error when a head end of the material to be rolled reaches the i-th stand and a non-head end gap error when a part other than the head end of the material to be rolled reaches the i-th stand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutoshi KITAGOH, Mitsuhiko SANO, Takahiro ONODA
  • Publication number: 20230001473
    Abstract: A cutting position control device according to an embodiment includes an arithmetic processing circuit that receives an input of first data relating to a production schedule and material information of a material to be produced, uses the first data to calculate a first cutting position of a first cutter for a first slab cast by continuous casting equipment, generates a first parameter for setting the first cutting position for a control program introduced to a process control device, and determines whether or not to use a second cutter to further cut a second slab of a second length cut from the first slab based on the first parameter by comparing the second length and a first length set to be from a front end of the first slab to the first cutting position, wherein the second cutter is located downstream of the first cutter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HOUSHUYAMA, Kanzo INABA, Kiyoyuki NOBUOKA, Kunitoshi ASADA
  • Publication number: 20220416648
    Abstract: A control device for a power converter includes a voltage command value limiting unit configured to limit each phase component or an absolute value of a vector of a voltage command value to be equal to or less than a value set in advance. With such a configuration, the control device for the power converter limits each phase component or the absolute value of the vector of the voltage command value to be equal to or less than the value set in advance. Therefore, it is possible to prevent overvoltage of the output from the power converter when impedance rapidly increases on the output side of the power converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Issei FUKASAWA
  • Publication number: 20220413024
    Abstract: A system includes an orthogonal coordinate signal generator that generates an orthogonal two-phase voltage signal from a three-phase voltage signal of three-phase alternating current power of a power system; and a frequency calculator including an angular frequency calculator calculating an angular frequency of the power system based on the two-phase voltage signal, and an arithmetic unit calculating a system frequency of the power system from the angular frequency. A prediction calculator calculates a predicted value of the angular frequency after a time has elapsed based on the angular frequency and a differential of the angular frequency. In a state in which the phase jump of the power system is not detected, the frequency calculator calculates the system frequency based on the angular frequency. When the phase jump of the power system is detected, the frequency calculator calculates the system frequency based on predicted value for a constant amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki MITSUGI, Takashi SHIGEMASA
  • Publication number: 20220410296
    Abstract: A method for making a screw hole in a workpiece including a plate-shaped portion includes: preparing an auxiliary member having a flat plate shape; forming, in the plate-shaped portion, a first pilot hole having a minor diameter smaller than a major diameter of the screw hole; forming, in the auxiliary member, a second pilot hole having a minor diameter smaller than the major diameter of the screw hole; fixing the auxiliary member to the plate-shaped portion so that the first pilot hole is concentric with the second pilot hole; and making the screw hole in the plate-shaped portion and the auxiliary member by inserting a tap in the first pilot hole and the second pilot hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumihiko INOUE, Masatsugu HIROSE
  • Patent number: 11534810
    Abstract: A cooling-water injection control device and a cooling-water injection control method for a rolling mill suppress influence by change in flow rate characteristics of water injection headers. The cooling-water injection control device for a rolling mill includes a water injection amount control unit. When a plurality of water injection headers are controlled to make temperature of a material to be rolled on a delivery side of a rolling mill coincident with a target value, in a case where a flow rate of any one of the plurality of water injection headers is less than a transient flow rate between a minimum flow rate and a maximum flow rate, the water injection amount control unit controls a flow rate of any one of the plurality of water injection headers based on priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiko Sano
  • Patent number: 11540426
    Abstract: The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor module, a cooling member, and a heat transfer member. The semiconductor module includes a switching element and a diode connected in antiparallel to each other. The heat transfer member is disposed between the semiconductor module and the cooling member so as to transfer heat generated by the switching element and the diode to the cooling member. The heat transfer member has a mounting surface on which the switching element and the diode are mounted side by side and a surface which is opposite to the mounting surface and is disposed in contact with the cooling member. In the heat transfer member, the thermal conductivity in a first direction parallel to the mounting surface is higher than the thermal conductivity in a second direction perpendicular to the mounting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihide Nakano, Kenji Suzuki, Koki Nakamura