Patents by Inventor Akihiro Imura
Akihiro Imura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8427088Abstract: In an apparatus, a predicting unit uses, as an initial value of a controlled variable, at least one of a first measured value of the controlled variable and a second measured value of a physical variable expressed as a function of the controlled variable. The predicting unit predicts, based on the initial value of the controlled variable, a value of the controlled variable when a driving mode of a switching element of a power converter is set. A driving unit has an integral element and determines, based on an output of the integral element to which a deviation between the predicted value of the controlled variable and a command value of the controlled variable is inputted, an actual driving mode of the switching element to thereby drive the switching element in the determined driving mode.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignees: Denso Corporation, Mie UniversityInventors: Akihiro Imura, Masami Fujitsuna, Hideji Yoshida, Muneaki Ishida, Tadanao Zanma
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Patent number: 8421386Abstract: A control apparatus controls an inverter (electric power converter circuit) which is connected for selectively applying a plurality of voltage levels to each phase of a polyphase rotary machine. In each of successive control periods, the apparatus determines the inverter operation state (combination of respective voltage levels applied to the phases) to be set for the succeeding control period, by performing prediction calculations based on a model of the rotary machine, for each of a plurality of candidates for the next operation state, to select an optimum candidate. The candidates are restricted to those operation states whereby the voltage level of no more than one of the phases will be changed, at changeover to the operation state of the next control period.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Tomoya Takahashi, Akihiro Imura
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Publication number: 20120293095Abstract: In a control unit that controls a control amount of a rotary device by controlling on and off states of switching elements of a power converting circuit, a relative rate predicting section temporally sets operation states of the power converting circuit and predicts a relative rate of a control amount according to each of the temporally set operation states relative to a command value thereof. Each of the operation states is indicated by a voltage vector defined by the on and off states of the switching elements. A determining section determines an operation state of the power converting circuit based on the relative rate predicted by the relative rate predicting section. An operating section operates the power converting circuit to the operation state determined by the determining section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro IMURA
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Patent number: 8310186Abstract: In an apparatus, a predicting unit predicts, based on a target value of a drive mode of a power converter at a next timing, a first value of a controlled variable. The drive mode is indicative of a switching-state of each of a plurality of switching elements. The target value of the drive mode of the power converter at the next timing is temporarily set at a present timing prior to the next timing. A driving unit drives the plurality of switching elements based on the target value of the drive mode at the next timing while limiting a number of switching-state changes in the plurality of switching elements from the present timing to the next timing as long as the deviation between the predicted first value of the controlled variable at the further next timing and a command value therefor is within a threshold range.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Akihiro Imura, Tomoya Takahashi
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Patent number: 8278854Abstract: A control device has a unit for selecting each of controlled voltages outputted from an inverter to a generator, a unit for judging a polarity of a current flowing through the generator, a unit for predicting a current of the generator from each selected voltage to be outputted from the inverter in the succeeding period, while performing the prediction based on the current polarity each time the selected voltage differs from the voltage already outputted from the inverter in the present period, a unit for determining one voltage corresponding to one predicted current nearest to an instructed current among the predicted currents, and a unit for controlling the generator by controlling the inverter to change the voltage already outputted from the inverter to the determined voltage and to apply the determined voltage to the generator in the succeeding period.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Akihiro Imura
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Patent number: 8164311Abstract: A control device has a unit for selecting each of states of an inverter applying a voltage to a generator, a unit for predicting a first current of the generator, flowing at a second time elapsed by one control period from a first time, from a detected current and the state of the inverter at the first time, a unit for predicting a second current of the generator at a third time elapsed by one control period from the second time while using the first current as an initial value of the second current, from information indicating one selected state set at the second time, for each selected state, a unit for determining one state corresponding to the second current nearest to instruction, and a unit for setting the inverter in the determined state at the second time to control current of the generator.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Akihiro Imura
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Publication number: 20120068641Abstract: A control device has a predicting unit for predicting a first current flowing through a motor in a next control period, at a predicting time during a predetermined period after a change of switching state in an inverter by using a current detected before the change and for predicting a second current of a control period later than the next control period by one control period by using the predicted first current, a determining unit for determining a next operating state of the inverter by using the predicted second current and an instructed value so as to reduce a change of switching state in the change of the operating state, and a control unit for controlling the inverter to be set in the determined operating state in the next control period and controlling the current of the motor depending on the operating state of the inverter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro IMURA
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Publication number: 20120026771Abstract: The vehicle-use power supply control apparatus is for controlling transmission of electric power between a vehicle-mounted power supply apparatus including switching elements turned on and off in accordance with manipulation signals and an external power supply located outside the vehicle. The vehicle-use power supply control apparatus includes a control section to output an electric power transmission command signal depending on an electric power transmission request signal received from an external device, and a manipulation signal generating section to generate the manipulation signals based on the electric power transmission command signal received from the control section. The control section is configured to operate in order that noise sound generated due to switching operation of the vehicle-mounted power supply apparatus is within an audio frequency range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Imura, Hideki Kashiwagi
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Patent number: 8063596Abstract: In an apparatus, a first drive unit drives, in a first range of a voltage utilization factor, a switching member to thereby control an output voltage of the power converter to be matched with a command voltage. A second drive unit drives, in a second range of the voltage utilization factor, the switching member to thereby generate a value of a controlled variable of a rotary machine. The second range of the voltage utilization factor is higher than the first range thereof. An estimating unit estimates, during the switching member being driven by the second drive unit, a value of a parameter associated with the output voltage of the power converter. The estimated value is required for the first drive unit to generate the value of the controlled variable generated by the second drive unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Akihiro Imura
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Publication number: 20110227515Abstract: The control apparatus for an electric rotating machine includes a prediction section to predict a controlled variable of the electric rotating machine applied with an output voltage of a power conversion circuit for each of prescribed operation states of the power conversion circuit, and a manipulation section to manipulate the power conversion circuit to operate in one of the respective operation states determined as an actual operation state based on the controlled variable predicted by the prediction section. The control apparatus further includes an average voltage direction calculating section to calculate a direction of an average output voltage vector of the power conversion circuit. The manipulation section includes a priority setting section to set priority for each of the operation states based on the direction of the average output voltage vector calculated by the average voltage direction calculating section in determining the actual operation state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Imura
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Publication number: 20110193505Abstract: A control device controls a power conversion circuit so as to adjust control values of a motor generator to optimum values. The power conversion circuit has switching elements for selectively connecting and disconnecting a battery and terminals of the motor generator. The control device sets a simulated voltage vector V(n+1) in one control-period forward to perform a prediction model control. On predicting a current, the control device uses a model in a rotary coordinate system, and sets the median value of the voltage vector V(n+1) in one control-period Tc to a value of the voltage vector V(n+1) in the rotary coordinate system. The control device sets, as the value of the voltage vector V(n+1) in the rotary coordinate system, the voltage vector V(n+1) when the half-time of the control-period Tc is elapsed from the time at the electric angle ?(n+1).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yousuke MATSUKI, Akihiro IMURA
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Patent number: 7992400Abstract: A complex fluid machine has an expansion-compressor device, a pump, and a motor generator, wherein the expansion-compressor device, the pump, and the motor generator are operatively connected and arranged in series, and a power transmitting device for disconnecting the pump from the motor generator, when the expansion-compressor device is driven by the motor generator so as to be operated as a compressor device.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Keiichi Uno, Hironori Asa, Yasuhiro Takeuchi, Hideji Yoshida, Akihiro Imura, Atsushi Inaba, Koichi Ban, Takashi Yamanaka, Shigeki Iwanami, Hiroshi Kishita, Hiroshi Ogawa
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Patent number: 7986116Abstract: The apparatus is for controlling a torque of an electric rotating machine at a command torque by supplying command voltages in accordance with the command torque to a power conversion circuit driving the electrical rotating machine. The apparatus includes a detecting function of detecting an input voltage of the power conversion circuit to be power-converted and thereafter applied to the electric rotating machine as a drive voltage, and a control function of setting a command current corresponding to one of two current components in a 2-phase coordinate system of the electric rotating machine in accordance with a command torque directed from outside, and thereafter determining command voltages corresponding to two voltage components of the 2-phase coordinate system on the basis of the command current and the input voltage of the power conversion circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2008Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Akihiro Imura, Tomoya Takahashi
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Publication number: 20110169436Abstract: A control apparatus controls an inverter (electric power converter circuit) which is connected for selectively applying a plurality of voltage levels to each phase of a polyphase rotary machine. In each of successive control periods, the apparatus determines the inverter operation state (combination of respective voltage levels applied to the phases) to be set for the succeeding control period, by performing prediction calculations based on a model of the rotary machine, for each of a plurality of candidates for the next operation state, to select an optimum candidate. The candidates are restricted to those operation states whereby the voltage level of no more than one of the phases will be changed, at changeover to the operation state of the next control period.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Akihiro IMURA
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Publication number: 20110050137Abstract: In an apparatus, a predicting unit predicts, based on a target value of a drive mode of a power converter at a next timing, a first value of a controlled variable. The drive mode is indicative of a switching-state of each of a plurality of switching elements. The target value of the drive mode of the power converter at the next timing is temporarily set at a present timing prior to the next timing. A driving unit drives the plurality of switching elements based on the target value of the drive mode at the next timing while limiting a number of switching-state changes in the plurality of switching elements from the present timing to the next timing as long as the deviation between the predicted first value of the controlled variable at the further next timing and a command value therefor is within a threshold range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro IMURA, Tomoya Takahashi
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Publication number: 20110006711Abstract: In an apparatus, a predicting unit uses, as an initial value of a controlled variable, at least one of a first measured value of the controlled variable and a second measured value of a physical variable expressed as a function of the controlled variable. The predicting unit predicts, based on the initial value of the controlled variable, a value of the controlled variable when a driving mode of a switching element of a power converter is set. A driving unit has an integral element and determines, based on an output of the integral element to which a deviation between the predicted value of the controlled variable and a command value of the controlled variable is inputted, an actual driving mode of the switching element to thereby drive the switching element in the determined driving mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, MIE UNIVERSITYInventors: Akihiro Imura, Masami Fujitsuna, Hideji Yoshida, Muneaki Ishida, Tadanao Zanma
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Publication number: 20100259204Abstract: A control device has a unit for selecting each of controlled voltages outputted from an inverter to a generator, a unit for judging a polarity of a current flowing through the generator, a unit for predicting a current of the generator from each selected voltage to be outputted from the inverter in the succeeding period, while performing the prediction based on the current polarity each time the selected voltage differs from the voltage already outputted from the inverter in the present period, a unit for determining one voltage corresponding to one predicted current nearest to an instructed current among the predicted currents, and a unit for controlling the generator by controlling the inverter to change the voltage already outputted from the inverter to the determined voltage and to apply the determined voltage to the generator in the succeeding period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro IMURA
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Publication number: 20100262307Abstract: A control device has a unit for selecting each of states of an inverter applying a voltage to a generator, a unit for predicting a first current of the generator, flowing at a second time elapsed by one control period from a first time, from a detected current and the state of the inverter at the first time, a unit for predicting a second current of the generator at a third time elapsed by one control period from the second time while using the first current as an initial value of the second current, from information indicating one selected state set at the second time, for each selected state, a unit for determining one state corresponding to the second current nearest to instruction, and a unit for setting the inverter in the determined state at the second time to control current of the generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro IMURA
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Patent number: 7678919Abstract: Taxan derivatives are produced efficiently and inexpensively, which are useful as oral-administrable antitumor compounds. A compound of formula (1) (wherein R1 is an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R2 is a hydroxyl group optionally having a protective group) is processed with an alkali metal permanganate to produce a compound of formula (2), which may be a starting material for oral-administrable antitumor compounds.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2008Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Imura, Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro Takayanagi, Seishiro Uchida
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Publication number: 20090322264Abstract: In an apparatus, a first drive unit drives, in a first range of a voltage utilization factor, a switching member to thereby control an output voltage of the power converter to be matched with a command voltage. A second drive unit drives, in a second range of the voltage utilization factor, the switching member to thereby generate a value of a controlled variable of a rotary machine. The second range of the voltage utilization factor is higher than the first range thereof. An estimating unit estimates, during the switching member being driven by the second drive unit, a value of a parameter associated with the output voltage of the power converter. The estimated value is required for the first drive unit to generate the value of the controlled variable generated by the second drive unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Imura