Patents by Inventor Atsuo Suga
Atsuo Suga 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: 9515361Abstract: A battery module of includes a plurality of cells, a cooling plate, and a channel part formed in the cooling plate. The channel part includes a first channel part extending in an arrangement direction of the plurality of cells, a second channel part extending in parallel to the first channel part along the arrangement direction with a first partition part interposed between the first channel part and the second channel part, and a first communication part which brings one end of the first channel part of the arrangement direction and one end of the second channel part of the arrangement direction into communication with each other, and which turns a flowing direction of coolant in the first channel part and the second channel part.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Harada, Atsuo Suga, Atsushi Sekine
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Patent number: 9425490Abstract: A storage battery system includes: a secondary battery; a holding member comprising a flow channel of a cooling medium for cooling the secondary battery, which holds the secondary battery; a medium temperature measuring unit that measures temperatures T1 and T2 of the cooling medium at two locations in the flow channel; a battery temperature measuring unit that measures a temperature T3 of the secondary battery; and a judging unit that repetitively calculates a coefficient ? and that judges a cooling performance of the secondary battery based on a variation of the coefficient ?, the coefficient ? being defined as (T3?T1)/(T2?T1), (T3?T2)/(T2?T1), or (T3?T2)/(T3?T1).Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Atsuo Suga
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Patent number: 9159973Abstract: Equalization of a temperature distribution in a flow direction on a cooling plate is facilitated so that temperatures of plural cells that thermally contact with the cooling plate are equalized, to reduce variability in the state of charge-discharge and the lifetimes of the respective cells. A battery module includes a cooling plate having a refrigerant channel in which a refrigerant circulates, and plural cells that are thermally conductively coupled onto a surface of the cooling plate, in which the refrigerant channel is formed with plural large diameter pipes that decelerate the refrigerant, and plural small diameter pipes that accelerate the refrigerant, a channel sectional area of the large diameter pipes is larger than a refrigerant channel sectional area of the small diameter pipes arranged on an inflow side of the large diameter pipes.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Hitachi Automotive System, Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Harada, Atsuo Suga, Sadayuki Aoki
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Publication number: 20150140388Abstract: A battery module of includes a plurality of cells, a cooling plate, and a channel part formed in the cooling plate. The channel part includes a first channel part extending in an arrangement direction of the plurality of cells, a second channel part extending in parallel to the first channel part along the arrangement direction with a first partition part interposed between the first channel part and the second channel part, and a first communication part which brings one end of the first channel part of the arrangement direction and one end of the second channel part of the arrangement direction into communication with each other, and which turns a flowing direction of coolant in the first channel part and the second channel part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2012Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Harada, Atsuo Suga, Atsushi Sekine
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Patent number: 8962168Abstract: A storage battery module 20 includes plural battery cells 320 in which a wound electrode group 322 having positive and negative electrodes, and positive and negative electrode collector plates 327a and 327b connected to the positive and negative electrodes are accommodated in a battery cell 321, and positive and negative external terminals 331 and 341 are provided to be exposed to outside of the battery case 321, a circuit board 350 including a temperature detecting wiring 302 of the battery cell 320 connected to the positive and negative external terminals 331 and 341, and a temperature sensor 381 for detecting a temperature of the battery cell 320 provided above the wiring 302.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Atsuo Suga
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Patent number: 8947023Abstract: In a memory, the surface temperature and the internal resistance of an assembled battery detected under the condition where a difference between the surface and the internal temperature is within a predetermined value are stored, and an internal temperature diagnosis unit that diagnoses whether or not the internal temperature estimated by an internal temperature estimation unit is correct, detects the internal resistance with an internal resistance calculation unit when the internal temperature estimation unit estimates the internal temperature, searches for an internal resistance corresponding to the surface temperature equal to the estimated internal temperature value from among the stored internal resistances, and diagnoses the estimated internal temperature value based upon the result of comparison of a search result of the internal resistance and the internal resistance detected during internal temperature estimation.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Youhei Kawahara, Akihiko Emori, Akihiko Kudo, Atsuo Suga, Masato Isogai, Kenji Kubo
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Publication number: 20140023897Abstract: A storage battery module 20 includes plural battery cells 320 in which a wound electrode group 322 having positive and negative electrodes, and positive and negative electrode collector plates 327a and 327b connected to the positive and negative electrodes are accommodated in a battery cell 321, and positive and negative external terminals 331 and 341 are provided to be exposed to outside of the battery case 321, a circuit board 350 including a temperature detecting wiring 302 of the battery cell 320 connected to the positive and negative external terminals 331 and 341, and a temperature sensor 381 for detecting a temperature of the battery cell 320 provided above the wiring 302.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2011Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: HITACHI VEHICLE ENERGY, LTD.Inventor: Atsuo Suga
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Publication number: 20130011713Abstract: Equalization of a temperature distribution in a flow direction on a cooling plate is facilitated so that temperatures of plural cells that thermally contact with the cooling plate are equalized, to reduce variability in the state of charge-discharge and the lifetimes of the respective cells. A battery module includes a cooling plate having a refrigerant channel in which a refrigerant circulates, and plural cells that are thermally conductively coupled onto a surface of the cooling plate, in which the refrigerant channel is formed with plural large diameter pipes that decelerate the refrigerant, and plural small diameter pipes that accelerate the refrigerant, a channel sectional area of the large diameter pipes is larger than a refrigerant channel sectional area of the small diameter pipes arranged on an inflow side of the large diameter pipes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd.Inventors: Susumu HARADA, Atsuo SUGA, Sadayuki AOKI
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Publication number: 20120256569Abstract: In a memory, the surface temperature and the internal resistance of an assembled battery detected under the condition where a difference between the surface and the internal temperature is within a predetermined value are stored, and an internal temperature diagnosis unit that diagnoses whether or not the internal temperature estimated by an internal temperature estimation unit is correct, detects the internal resistance with an internal resistance calculation unit when the internal temperature estimation unit estimates the internal temperature, searches for an internal resistance corresponding to the surface temperature equal to the estimated internal temperature value from among the stored internal resistances, and diagnoses the estimated internal temperature value based upon the result of comparison of a search result of the internal resistance and the internal resistance detected during internal temperature estimation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2009Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventors: Youhei Kawahara, Akihiko Emori, Akihiko Kudo, Atsuo Suga, Masato Isogai, Kenji Kubo
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Publication number: 20110262784Abstract: A storage battery system includes: a secondary battery; a holding member comprising a flow channel of a cooling medium for cooling the secondary battery, which holds the secondary battery; a medium temperature measuring unit that measures temperatures T1 and T2 of the cooling medium at two locations in the flow channel; a battery temperature measuring unit that measures a temperature T3 of the secondary battery; and a judging unit that repetitively calculates a coefficient ? and that judges a cooling performance of the secondary battery based on a variation of the coefficient ?, the coefficient ? being defined as (T3?T1)/(T2?T1), (T3?T2)/(T2?T1), or (T3?T2)/(T3?T1).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd.Inventor: Atsuo SUGA
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Patent number: 6927931Abstract: A magnetic head is disposed opposite to a magnetic disk having a first recording area capable of facilitating writing information to the magnetic disk when the surrounding temperature is low, and a second recording area capable of surely holding information written to the magnetic disk when the surrounding temperature is high. Information is written to the first recording area when the surrounding temperature is low and is transferred later to the second recording area.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Harata, Atsuo Suga, Yuji Suzuki, Nobuhiro Kuwamura
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Publication number: 20040223250Abstract: A magnetic head is disposed opposite to a magnetic disk having a first recording area capable of facilitating writing information to the magnetic disk when the surrounding temperature is low, and a second recording area capable of surely holding information written to the magnetic disk when the surrounding temperature is high. Information is written to the first recording area when the surrounding temperature is low and is transferred later to the second recording area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2003Publication date: November 11, 2004Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Harata, Atsuo Suga, Yuji Suzuki, Nobuhiro Kuwamura
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Patent number: 5636316Abstract: A digital processing unit for converting a digital picture signal into data by blocks and for correction encoding a variable-length encoded signal. This digital processing unit includes a digital data compressing section for dividing a picture signal into a plurality of number of blocks, and compressingly outputting digital data of this picture signal based on a processing unit of one or a few blocks, a buffer section for sequentially storing the digital data, and an error correction encoding section for sequentially reading the digital data from this buffer section, and structuring an inner code for each inner block structured by this digital data and structuring an outer code for each predetermined unit of inner blocks, to thereby structure two-dimensional error correction code blocks, to output an error correction code signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1994Date of Patent: June 3, 1997Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masuo Oku, Yukio Fujii, Masaru Takahashi, Kenji Ichige, Keizo Nishimura, Atsuo Suga, Shigemitsu Higuchi, Tomohide Sorihashi
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Patent number: 5521769Abstract: A magnetic tape drive in a helical scan system can shorten retry operation time. A data signal reproduced from magnetic tape through reproducing heads is supplied to a regenerative signal processing circuit. If an uncorrectable error is contained in the signal, the regenerative signal processing circuit outputs error information to a system controller. Then, the system controller sends a retry instruction to a movable head controller. When receiving the retry instruction, the movable head controller supplies movable head control signals to displacement elements which then displace the reproducing heads along a rotating shaft of a rotary drum for re-scanning an error occurrence data track. This retry operation is repeated until no error is detected. The magnetic tape is run at lower speed or is stopped as required during the repetitive retry operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1993Date of Patent: May 28, 1996Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsuo Suga, Shigemitsu Higuchi, Kouji Fujita, Toshiro Aizawa, Minoru Kosuge
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Patent number: 5500775Abstract: A data recording and reproducing apparatus of a helical scanning system includes a unit for recording and reproducing an information signal in an oblique information track on a magnetic tape by a rotary magnetic head and a unit for recording and reproducing a control signal on the magnetic tape in a longitudinal direction thereof. Further, the data recording and reproducing apparatus includes a memory unit for storing a difference (X-value error information) between a predetermined X value and a distance (X value) between a record starting position of the information track and a recorded position of the control signal, a unit for recording X-value error information on the magnetic tape individually each time information is recorded, a unit for reproducing X-value error information on the magnetic tape, and a unit for shifting a reproduced phase of the control signal in accordance with the X-value error information.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1993Date of Patent: March 19, 1996Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Fujita, Shigemitsu Higuchi, Toshiro Aizawa, Atsuo Suga, Minoru Kosuge
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Patent number: 5438459Abstract: The precedingly reproduction signal reproduced by a precedingly reproducing head is recorded on a tape. If it is detected that the reproduction signal includes abnormality owing to a reason such as poor error rate, the recording operation is stopped. Then, for retrial of the recording, the information on the position where the abnormality has occurred is held. A memory may be provided to always rewrite and store the signal reproduced by the precedingly reproducing head, and also a simultaneously reproducing head which is different from the precedingly reproducing head may be provided to immediately monitor the recording state of the signal recorded on the tape. If it is detected that the signal reproduced by the simultaneously reproducing head includes abnormality, the recording operation is stopped, the information on the position where the abnormality has occurred is held.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1992Date of Patent: August 1, 1995Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsuo Suga, Shigemitsu Higuchi, Hideo Nishijima, Hiromasa Fujii
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Patent number: 5392163Abstract: For the purpose of data compression and expansion in the playback mode reproducing data including video data and audio data recorded on a magnetic tape, a relative speed signal is generated from a circuit on the basis of the moving speed of the magnetic tape and the rotation speed of a head drum, and the characteristic of the recorded data is controlled according to this relative speed signal. The tension of the magnetic tape is detected by a circuit, and the phase difference between the detected tape tension signal and a reel rotation speed command signal is detected by a circuit so as to control the tape tension according to the detected phase difference.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 1993Date of Patent: February 21, 1995Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigemitsu Higuchi, Atsuo Suga, Yuji Inaba, Toshiro Aizawa
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Patent number: 5144453Abstract: Disclosed is a digital video signal record/play-back apparatus in which when a time code signal is recorded/played-back onto/from a recording medium correspondingly to a video signal, the time code signal is recorded/played-back with a time delay which is given by a delay time corresponding to the time taken for signal processing necessary for the recording/play-back of the video signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1989Date of Patent: September 1, 1992Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsuo Suga, Shigemitsu Higuchi
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Patent number: 5057949Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus having a construction in which a digital signal including index signals recorded on a magnetic tape is reproduced and rotary magnetic heads are movable. The digital signal is reproduced by digital signal reproducing means including the rotary magnetic heads. A particular index signal among the index signals is detected by index signal detecting means. Further, the timing for reproducing the particular index signal is detected by timing detecting means. The rotary magnetic heads are moved and deviated in the direction of the rotary shaft of the rotary cylinder by rotary magnetic head position deviating means. Tape speed detecting means compares a reproduction clock with a reference clock and outputs a tape speed signal. First rotary magnetic head position deviation control means forms a control input for the rotary magnetic head position deviating means on the basis of the tape speed signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1989Date of Patent: October 15, 1991Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsuo Suga, Shigemitsu Higuchi, Hideo Nishijima, Kaneyuki Okamoto, Masataka Sekiya