Patents Examined by Rina I. Duda
  • Patent number: 11828804
    Abstract: A load test apparatus includes: a first resistance unit that has a plurality of first resistors and a first holding part holding the plurality of first resistors; and a first cooling part that includes a cooling device sending cooling air to the plurality of first resistors; a control part that includes a power source terminal part connected to a power source to be tested and an operation part; and a relay part that includes a switching device connected to the power source terminal part and the first resistance unit. The cooling device in the first cooling part faces one first opening in the first holding part. The first cooling part and the first resistance unit are arranged in a third direction (z direction) orthogonal to a first direction (x direction) and a second direction (y direction), and a first load test part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: TATSUMI RYOKI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Toyoshi Kondo, Nobuhide Hamano
  • Patent number: 11831265
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a PWM control unit, a carrier frequency setting unit, and a carrier frequency switching calculation unit. The PWM unite generates a signal to drive an inverter by pulse width modulation. The carrier frequency setting unit sets a carrier frequency used for pulse width modulation according to a number of rotations of a motor. The carrier frequency switching calculation unit calculates a frequency switching speed of the carrier frequency and is configured to perform a calculation method. The calculation method includes setting at least one of an emergency mode, a response priority mode, or a fluctuation suppression priority mode in response to various operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Midori Takaoka, Takafumi Hara, Shigehisa Aoyagi, Hirokazu Matsui, Shigeyuki Nonomura
  • Patent number: 11824476
    Abstract: Disclosed is a circuit for converting a temperature change amount into a voltage change amount in a motor drive system, including a positive temperature change rate voltage generation module, a circuit bias module, and a temperature detection module that are integrated on a same substrate. An external power supply voltage is processed by the positive temperature change rate voltage generation module and the circuit bias module, and then inputted to the temperature detection module. The temperature detection module detects in real time the temperature change amount in the motor drive system, convert the temperature change amount into the voltage change amount, and transfer the voltage change amount to the circuit bias module, to allow the circuit bias module to output the voltage change amount. In this way, the conversion from the temperature change amount into the voltage change amount is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hefei Aichuangwei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Pan, Lixiang Xu, Lixiang Wen, Lei Qiu, Dianwu Li, Wei Wang, Lei Han, Ke Wang
  • Patent number: 11804786
    Abstract: A power converting apparatus includes: a bridge circuit that includes at least two legs each including switching elements connected in series, and converts an alternating-current voltage output from an alternating-current power supply into a direct-current voltage; a power-supply current detecting unit that detects a current from the alternating-current power supply; a zero crossing detecting unit that detects a voltage polarity of the alternating-current power supply; and a control unit that controls ON and OFF of the switching elements depending on outputs of the power-supply current detecting unit and the zero crossing detecting unit, in which a dead time that is set for switching and includes a change in the voltage polarity of the alternating-current power supply is longer than a dead time that is set for switching and does not include a change in the polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Uemura, Satoru Ichiki, Takuya Shimomugi, Koichi Arisawa, Kenji Iwazaki
  • Patent number: 11804801
    Abstract: Disclosed is an AC motor drive (600) for a three phase, 400 Hz., AC induction motor. The application is a constant speed, constant load application. An AC power source with a wide variation in voltage and frequency is rectified to establish a DC bus. A three phase full wave bridge inverter operates on this source. A cascaded sinusoidal reference signal generator (225) generates three sinusoidal voltages 120° phase shifted from one another. These pure sinusoidal reference help reduce harmonic currents. A high PWM frequency is used to operate the power switches of the bridge to reduce current harmonics. The speed regulator (220) generates an error voltage between a speed command voltage and a feedback of DC voltage that is equivalent to the RMS value of the terminal voltage of the motor for speed regulation. The harmonic content of the DC bus current is extracted to provide short circuit protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: AMETEK ROTRON
    Inventors: Basil Issac, Leslie W. Yoho, David D. Heberle, Arthur Tong
  • Patent number: 11804768
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to improve the reliability of a power conversion system while reducing the size. In addition, the purpose of the present invention is to reduce noise. This power conversion system has a first power converting device that supplies power to a first motor and a second power converting device that supplies power to a motor different from the first motor, wherein the first power converting device and the second power converting device are each provided with a power converter for converting the power to be supplied to the motors, and a control unit for controlling the power converter, and the first power converting device is provided with a transformer unit for supplying power to the control units, and the transformer unit of the first power converting device supplies power to the control unit in the second power converting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Takanuki, Kiyomi Tashima
  • Patent number: 11795751
    Abstract: A driving device for a door opener includes a motor driving a first transmission member to rotate. Rotation of the first transmission member causes lateral displacement of a sliding member which moves jointly with a connecting rod. A return spring is mounted around the connecting rod. An adjusting ring is in threading connection with the connecting rod and abuts against the return spring. When the first transmission member does not rotate, rotation of the adjusting ring causes displacement of the adjusting ring in the lateral direction to change an extent of pre-compression of the return spring. When the first transmission member rotates in a direction, the connecting rod and the adjusting ring together move in the lateral direction towards the first transmission member, and the return spring is compressed. When the first transmission member rotates in a reverse direction, and the return spring restores its length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: I-TEK METAL MFG. CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hung-Jen Tien
  • Patent number: 11799371
    Abstract: A power converter has a pair of series connected switches defining a phase leg, a pair of gate driver circuits that respectively provide power to gates of the series connected switches, a positive rail electrically connected with the phase leg, and a clamping circuit including a clamping switch. The clamping circuit, responsive to one of the gate driver circuits being de-energized, activates the clamping switch with energy from the positive rail to clamp a gate of one of the series connected switches associated with the one of the gate driver circuits to another terminal of the one of the series connected switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yantao Song, Baoming Ge, Lihua Chen, Fan Xu, Serdar Hakki Yonak
  • Patent number: 11789470
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a sliding of a sliding component includes: obtaining a first detection signal value sent by the first Hall element and a second detection signal value sent by the second Hall element, corresponding to one or more first calibration positions reached during a sliding process of the sliding component; comparing the first detection signal value corresponding to each of the one or more first calibration positions with a preset first reference signal value, and comparing the second detection signal value corresponding to each of the one or more first calibration positions with a preset second reference signal value; and calibrating the first reference signal value based on the first detection signal value, and calibrating the second reference signal value based on the second detection signal value, in response that a number of times that comparison results belong to a preset abnormal range reaches a preset threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Zhong, Jianrong Zheng
  • Patent number: 11787293
    Abstract: An electric motor control device includes a target torque setting unit setting target torque for each of a right-side control circuit and a left-side control circuit, and a failure occurrence determination unit determining whether there is a failure occurrence in at least one of the two control circuits. The target torque setting unit sets, in response to there being a failure occurrence in a failure control circuit that is one of the two control circuits and there being a no failure occurrence in a normal control circuit that is the other of the two control circuits, fail-safe torque which is lower than a normal value of the target torque as the target torque for the failure control circuit, and sets failure-time target torque which is lower than the normal value of the target torque and being higher than the fail-safe torque as the target torque for the normal control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeru Kamio
  • Patent number: 11791757
    Abstract: A variable frequency drive system (300) includes a power converter (310) with a plurality of power cells supplying power to one or more output phases (A, B, C), a main power source (320) for providing main input power to the power converter (310), an auxiliary power source (330) for providing auxiliary input power to the power converter (310), and a control system (314) in communication with the power converter (310) and controlling operation of the plurality of power cells, wherein the control system (314) comprises one or more processor(s) (315) configured via computer executable instructions to detect a main input voltage drop of the main power source (320) below a predefined power threshold, disconnect the main power source (320) in response to the main input voltage drop, and enable the auxiliary power source (330) to provide auxiliary input power to the power converter (310) in response to the main input voltage drop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesllschaft
    Inventors: Mukul Rastogi, Ricardo Martinez
  • Patent number: 11784588
    Abstract: A motion control system and method for controlling a stick-slip piezo motor includes an electronic controller and an analog driver for moving a mechanical device. When operating in a digital circuit mode, an electronic controller controls a digital-to-analog converter for moving the stick-slip piezo motor at a low speed. When operating in a faster analog circuit mode, the electronic controller, via an analog driver, operates to control an analog hardware circuit to move the stick-slip piezo motor at a high speed. The electronic controller operates in the digital circuit mode at start-up of the piezo motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: William Culpi, Jérôme Kneipp
  • Patent number: 11777436
    Abstract: A method for a safety concept for an AC battery, in which the AC battery includes a central controller, a plurality of battery modules which respectively have a power board with a plurality of switching states, a plurality of contactors, a plurality of current sensors, a fault loop and a high-speed bus and is connected to a traction machine. The central controller has a hardware-programmable processor unit with at least one microprocessor core on which a control program is configured to control the battery modules, the plurality of contactors and the fault loop. A state machine is implemented by the control program. The battery modules are connected, starting from the central controller, via the high-speed bus and the fault loop. If an abort fault occurs, the AC battery is changed to a safe operating state. The safe state is achieved at least by emergency disconnection of the central controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventors: Harald Schöffler, Sven Lill, Hermann Helmut Dibos, Daniel Simon, Eduard Specht, Christian Korte, Jan Kacetl, Tomas Kacetl
  • Patent number: 11768475
    Abstract: A machine for working glass slabs includes a supporting structure, a slab grinding section having grinding heads, a conveyor assembly adapted to move the glass slab, and a slab drilling section having a conveyor adjacent to the conveyor assembly. The slab grinding section has suckers for keeping the glass slab next to a working plane spaced and/or offset with respect to the advancement plane, and a computerized numeric control assembly to perform workings on the glass slab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FORVET S.P.A. COSTRUZIONE MACCHINE SPECIALI
    Inventor: Davide Gariglio
  • Patent number: 11770091
    Abstract: A three-phase digital power inverter system controlled by a MCU thereof is provided, wherein during a constant current power source for accelerator control in combination with a three-wire potentiometer are inputted to a MCU for qualification and calculation base on a computation algorithm to obtain data, an accelerator line state and a brake line state are detected simultaneously for whether they are working well individually, so as to effectively prevent any electrical failure due to mechanical failure of the accelerator or the brake or open circuit/short circuit of the accelerator line or the brake line that may cause accident due to out of control of the accelerator or brake respectively. These are the potential risk factors of electric motor vehicles while the present invention can substantially eliminate such potential factor and provide a more reliable performance of electric motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Liu
  • Patent number: 11767698
    Abstract: The pinch detector includes a first portion that, in a first situation in which the member is being closed in a first closing movement but is stopped in an intermediate position not completely closed, obtains a reference value of a measured physical quantity of the motor, when braking the motor is ordered to stop the member, said reference value representing the physical quantity of the motor just before motor braking; a second portion that, in a second situation following the first situation and in which the member is moved in a second closing movement from said intermediate position not completely closed, compares current values of the measured physical quantity of the motor to a threshold value depending on said reference value in order to detect a pinch at closing member based on a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Mateusz Romaszko, Piotr Maj
  • Patent number: 11766920
    Abstract: Selective efficiency multi-phase traction inverters and chargers as heat sources for thermal conditioning of electric vehicles is provided. The traction inverter comprises a plurality of phases, each of the plurality of phases having at least one semiconductor switching device, the at least one semiconductor switching device configured to switch between at least three differing states, for thermal management of the electric vehicle components and compartments. The traction inverter includes a controller coupled to the plurality of phases, to operate the plurality of phases in a first mode of the traction inverter to drive the electric motor as a traction motor. The controller operates the plurality of phases in a second mode of the traction inverter as a first type of converter. The controller to operate the plurality of phases in a third mode of the traction inverter as a second type of converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: Andy Turudic
  • Patent number: 11760495
    Abstract: A control system for a hybrid electric powerplant of an aircraft can include a heat engine controller configured to receive one or more power settings and to determine a heat engine setting and an electric motor setting. The heat engine controller can be configured to use the heat engine setting to control a heat engine system as a function of the heat engine setting to control torque output by a heat engine. The heat engine controller can be configured to output the electric motor setting. The system can include an electric motor controller can be operatively connected to the heat engine controller. The electric motor controller configured to receive the electric motor engine setting from the heat engine controller and to control an electric motor system as a function of the electric motor setting to control torque output by an electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Michael Mark, Paul C. Imel, Leonid Guerchkovitch
  • Patent number: 11757395
    Abstract: An electric motor control device includes an electronic control unit configured to perform switching control of a switching element of an inverter in PWM control mode when a modulation degree is less than a first predetermined value, perform switching control of the switching element in square wave control mode when the modulation degree is greater than or equal to a second predetermined value, and perform switching control of the switching element in intermediate control mode when the modulation degree is greater than or equal to the first predetermined value and less than the second predetermined value. The intermediate control mode uses a switching pattern in which, in a pulse pattern in the square wave control mode, a slit or a short pulse having the same width as the slit is formed according to whether a pulse is present at the time when a phase current crosses zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Shamoto, Hiroyuki Oyanagi
  • Patent number: 11750113
    Abstract: An inverter device is provided which is capable of more quickly raising an internal temperature of an electrolytic capacitor within a permissible range of a ripple voltage to shorten a non-operating time. The inverter device includes an electrolytic capacitor, an inverter circuit, a temperature sensor, and a control device. When the ambient temperature of the electrolytic capacitor detected by the temperature sensor is lower than a predetermined temperature, the control device on-drives specific switching elements of the inverter circuit before the start of a normal operation of a motor, and executes a warming up operation of allowing a current capable of controlling a ripple voltage of a DC voltage within a permissible range to flow through the motor at a predetermined rate of increase while keeping the motor stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Makimura, Masataka Matsuda, Shogo Fujisaki, Masatoshi Saito