Patents by Inventor Ayako SAGA

Ayako SAGA 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).

  • Patent number: 9632564
    Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit is configured by connecting, in parallel, a plurality of series circuits of an inverse-parallel connection circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. A control unit controls switching of a semiconductor switch so that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes zero voltage in equal periods ? before and after a center point shifted from one zero crossing point in one cycle of the input current by a compensation period (angle) ? calculated from a voltage applied to a resonance circuit constituted by the power receiving coil and a resonance capacitor Cr and an induced voltage of the power receiving coil, and becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between DC terminals in other periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Tadashi Sawada, Masayuki Tobikawa, Ayako Saga, Michio Tamate, Koji Maruyama, Tomotaka Nishijima
  • Patent number: 9231494
    Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit including a plurality of switching arms which is an inverse-parallel circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. The power supply device includes a control unit. The control unit switches the semiconductor switch such that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between the DC terminals only during prescribed time periods before and after a point that has deviated from each zero crossing point ZCP of a current i by a prescribed compensation period ? and such that the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage during the other time periods, and sets the compensation period ? such that a time period during which the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage is the shortest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sawada, Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Masayuki Tobikawa, Ayako Saga, Tomotaka Nishijima, Toshiya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20150023079
    Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit including a plurality of switching arms which is an inverse-parallel circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. The power supply device includes a control unit. The control unit switches the semiconductor switch such that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between the DC terminals only during prescribed time periods before and after a point that has deviated from each zero crossing point ZCP of a current i by a prescribed compensation period ? and such that the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage during the other time periods, and sets the compensation period ? such that a time period during which the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage is the shortest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicants: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi SAWADA, Toshiaki MURAI, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Masayuki TOBIKAWA, Ayako SAGA, Tomotaka NISHIJIMA, Toshiya KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20140372780
    Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit is configured by connecting, in parallel, a plurality of series circuits of an inverse-parallel connection circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. A control unit controls switching of a semiconductor switch so that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes zero voltage in equal periods ? before and after a center point shifted from one zero crossing point in one cycle of the input current by a compensation period (angle) ? calculated from a voltage applied to a resonance circuit constituted by the power receiving coil and a resonance capacitor Cr and an induced voltage of the power receiving coil, and becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between DC terminals in other periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicants: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki MURAI, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Tadashi SAWADA, Masayuki TOBIKAWA, Ayako SAGA, Michio TAMATE, Koji MARUYAMA, Tomotaka NISHIJIMA