Patents by Inventor Daisuke Hirono

Daisuke Hirono 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).

  • Publication number: 20190190526
    Abstract: The present invention aims to reduce power consumption in an ADC that performs AD conversion of a single-ended signal. A pair of sampling capacitors samples the single-ended signal. After the single-ended signal has been sampled, the connection control unit performs positive-side connection control of connecting both ends of one of the pair of sampling capacitors across a positive-side signal line and a predetermined ground potential and performs negative-side connection control of connecting both ends of the other of the pair of sampling capacitors across a negative-side signal line and the predetermined ground potential. A conversion unit converts a differential signals from the positive-side signal line and the negative-side signal line that have respectively undergone the positive-side connection control and the negative-side connection control into a digital signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: TAIKI IGUCHI, SHINICHIROU ETOU, YOSUKE UENO, DAISUKE HIRONO
  • Publication number: 20190074781
    Abstract: To provide a motor control device capable of determining a rotor position with high accuracy not only in normal control but also in flux-weakening control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Takeo TSUKAMOTO, Masafumi HOTTA, Daisuke HIRONO
  • Patent number: 9811062
    Abstract: There is provided a power supply switching circuit including a first control signal output unit that outputs a signal exceeding a predetermined potential using a main power supply as a first control signal when a power supply voltage of the main power supply exceeds a predetermined reference voltage, a second control signal output unit that outputs the signal exceeding the predetermined potential using a standby power supply from a battery as a second control signal when a potential of the first control signal does not exceed the predetermined potential, and a power supply output unit that outputs the main power supply when the first control signal exceeds the predetermined potential and outputs the standby power supply when the second control signal exceeds the predetermined potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Sachio Akebono, Kiyoshi Makigawa, Daisuke Hirono, Moonjae Jeong, Taiki Iguchi
  • Patent number: 9595899
    Abstract: A motor control device capable of executing a start mode that takes into consideration both the start performance with respect to a residual load and the life of a drive circuit is provided. A motor control device for executing a start mode in which a rotor is rotated by forced commutation control: stores a current value at the time when a stop command to a synchronous motor is issued; and decides, when a start command to the synchronous motor is issued after the issuance of the stop command, a target current value based on the stored current value in the start mode in response to the start command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeo Tsukamoto, Daisuke Hirono, Yuan Wang
  • Patent number: 9395395
    Abstract: There is provided a voltage detector including a reference voltage generator that generates a constant reference voltage when a power supply voltage is higher than a predetermined threshold voltage, and a detector that, when the power supply voltage exceeds a voltage that is higher than the threshold voltage by a predetermined potential, detects whether the power supply voltage is higher than a defined voltage based on the reference voltage and outputs a detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Sachio Akebono, Kiyoshi Makigawa, Daisuke Hirono, Moonjae Jeong, Taiki Iguchi
  • Patent number: 9360515
    Abstract: To provide a fault detection device for an inverter system, that detects a fault in the inverter system including an inverter circuit 2 that converts DC power into AC power and a motor 5 driven thereby. When a driving start signal Sig1 of the inverter circuit 2 is input, a test voltage applying unit 20 applies a predetermined first test voltage to a current measuring unit 10 that measures current flowing in the inverter circuit 2, and it is determined whether the current measuring unit 10 has failed, based on the first test voltage. A control unit 30 applies a predetermined second test voltage to the inverter circuit 2 and the motor 5, and it is determined whether the inverter circuit 2 and a motor coil have failed, based on the second test voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Hirono
  • Patent number: 9246420
    Abstract: Proposed is a motor control device that executes rotational control that follows load fluctuations in a startup mode. The proposed motor control device is provided with: detection means 4 that detects a current peak value Ip and a current electrical angle ?i based on phase currents Iu to Iw; detection means 5 that detects an induced voltage peak value Ep and an induced voltage electrical angle ?e based on phase currents Iu to Iw and applied voltages Vu to Vw; rotor position detection means 6 that detects a rotor position ?m using ?m=?i???90° or ?m=?e???90°; velocity fluctuation detection means 15 that detects a rotational velocity ? based on this ?m; and startup means 10 that outputs a startup voltage instruction value Vp and a startup voltage phase instruction value ?v, increases the rotational velocity of the synchronous motor M with predetermined acceleration, and makes the rotational velocity ? detected by the velocity fluctuation detection means 15 be reflected in ?v.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Hirono
  • Patent number: 9219431
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor control device provided with the function of detecting the rotor position of a synchronous motor in a sensor-less fashion. The motor control device previously stores a current phase ? defined by the two parameters that are an induced voltage peak value Ep and the subtracted value (?e??i) obtained by subtracting an induced voltage electrical angle ?e from a current electrical angle ?i, and based on the actual detected Ep, ?i, and ?e, selects ? by referring to the ? previously stored, and calculates the rotor position ?m by subtracting the selected ? from the actual detected ?i. Then, in case of selecting ?, the actual detected Ep and ?e are corrected according to changes in the current flowing through the coil. As a result, a detection accuracy for the rotor position during a transition period is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Hirono
  • Patent number: 9184683
    Abstract: An applied-voltage electrical angle setting method for a synchronous motor includes detecting applied voltage and current of the synchronous motor M, calculating current peak value Ip based on the detected values while calculating present applied voltage phase ?, calculating target current phase ?targ based on the current peak value Ip followed by calculating target applied voltage phase ?targ corresponding to the target current phase in a target value setting unit 20, and calculating new applied voltage electrical angle instruction value ?vtarg, based on change angle ??v obtained by correcting a difference between the present applied voltage phase ? and the target applied voltage phase ?targ by response time constant L/R of the synchronous motor, rotational speed ? calculated based on the applied voltage and the current, and the previous applied voltage electrical angle instruction value ?vtarg, in a voltage electrical angle instruction value setting unit 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Hirono
  • Patent number: 9143067
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a feed-forward control unit configured to detect a change amount of any one of the target voltage, the applied voltage peak value, and the revolution number difference, which are a monitoring target. The control unit is also configured to manipulate an operation amount of a predetermined operation target on the basis of a magnitude of the change amount to correct the number of revolutions of the motor recognized by a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Hirono
  • Patent number: 9077265
    Abstract: A phase voltage setting unit is configured to define an actual current phase region including a current phase error range based on parameters to which is added an individual difference of at least any one of a motor and an inverter. The phase voltage setting unit defines a stable operation current phase region in which a rotor position can be detected through sensorless control, and sets, as a target current, an electric current obtained by adding a phase difference corresponding to the number of revolutions detected by the revolution number detecting unit to an electric current set by current vector control, such that the actual current phase region is within the stable operation current phase region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeo Tsukamoto, Daisuke Hirono
  • Publication number: 20150155806
    Abstract: A motor control device capable of executing a start mode that takes into consideration both the start performance with respect to a residual load and the life of a drive circuit is provided. A motor control device for executing a start mode in which a rotor is rotated by forced commutation control: stores a current value at the time when a stop command to a synchronous motor is issued; and decides, when a start command to the synchronous motor is issued after the issuance of the stop command, a target current value based on the stored current value in the start mode in response to the start command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeo Tsukamoto, Daisuke Hirono, Yuan Wang
  • Patent number: 9035581
    Abstract: A motor control device that can improve stability of sensorless control of a permanent magnetic synchronous motor. Rotor position detection (10) includes motor parameter correction (30) for correcting a parameter (winding resistance of a coil, a magnetic flux amount of a permanent magnet), which is a machine constant of a motor, in order to eliminate an induced voltage difference between a detected induced voltage peak value and a detected estimated induced voltage peak value. The rotor position is detected on the basis of the corrected parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Hirono
  • Patent number: 9024555
    Abstract: A motor control device has an overcurrent test unit to send a first test voltage Vt1 lower than a reference voltage Vref for overcurrent determination and a second test voltage Vt2 not lower than the reference voltage Vref to an overcurrent determination unit when a synchronous motor is not rotated. The motor control device determines that an abnormality occurs in the overcurrent detection unit when the overcurrent determination unit determines that the first test voltage Vt1 causes an overcurrent on the basis of a comparison result, or the second test voltage Vt2 causes no overcurrent on the basis of the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sanden Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Hirono
  • Publication number: 20150002179
    Abstract: There is provided a voltage detector including a reference voltage generator that generates a constant reference voltage when a power supply voltage is higher than a predetermined threshold voltage, and a detector that, when the power supply voltage exceeds a voltage that is higher than the threshold voltage by a predetermined potential, detects whether the power supply voltage is higher than a defined voltage based on the reference voltage and outputs a detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Sachio Akebono, Kiyoshi Makigawa, Daisuke Hirono, Moonjae Jeong, Taiki Iguchi
  • Publication number: 20150005976
    Abstract: There is provided a power supply switching circuit including a first control signal output unit that outputs a signal exceeding a predetermined potential using a main power supply as a first control signal when a power supply voltage of the main power supply exceeds a predetermined reference voltage, a second control signal output unit that outputs the signal exceeding the predetermined potential using a standby power supply from a battery as a second control signal when a potential of the first control signal does not exceed the predetermined potential, and a power supply output unit that outputs the main power supply when the first control signal exceeds the predetermined potential and outputs the standby power supply when the second control signal exceeds the predetermined potential
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Sachio Akebono, Kiyoshi Makigawa, Daisuke Hirono, Moonjae Jeong, Taiki Iguchi
  • Publication number: 20140347067
    Abstract: To provide a fault detection device for an inverter system, that detects a fault in the inverter system including an inverter circuit 2 that converts DC power into AC power and a motor 5 driven thereby. When a driving start signal Sig1 of the inverter circuit 2 is input, a test voltage applying unit 20 applies a predetermined first test voltage to a current measuring unit 10 that measures current flowing in the inverter circuit 2, and it is determined whether the current measuring unit 10 has failed, based on the first test voltage. A control unit 30 applies a predetermined second test voltage to the inverter circuit 2 and the motor 5, and it is determined whether the inverter circuit 2 and a motor coil have failed, based on the second test voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventor: Daisuke Hirono
  • Publication number: 20140159699
    Abstract: A bandgap reference circuit includes: a first PMOSFET connected to a power supply node; a first resistor connected to a drain of the first PMOSFET; a first diode connected to the first resistor and a ground node; a second PMOSFET connected to the power supply node; a second diode connected to a drain of the second PMOSFET and the ground node; a second resistor connected between the first PMOSFET and ground node; a third resistor connected between the second PMOSFET and ground node; a third PMOSFET connected to the power supply node and an output node of a reference voltage; a fourth resistor connected between the third PMOSFET and ground node; and an operational amplifier having a non-inverting input terminal connected to the first PMOSFET and an inverting input terminal connected to the second PMOSFET, an output voltage being applied to each gate of the first to third PMOSFETs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taiki Iguchi, Sachio Akebono, Daisuke Hirono, Kiyoshi Makigawa, Moonjae Jeong
  • Publication number: 20140070745
    Abstract: An applied-voltage electrical angle setting method for a synchronous motor includes detecting applied voltage and current of the synchronous motor M, calculating current peak value Ip based on the detected values while calculating present applied voltage phase ?, calculating target current phase ?targ based on the current peak value Ip followed by calculating target applied voltage phase ?targ corresponding to the target current phase in a target value setting unit 20, and calculating new applied voltage electrical angle instruction value ?vtarg, based on change angle ??v obtained by correcting a difference between the present applied voltage phase ? and the target applied voltage phase ?targ by response time constant L/R of the synchronous motor, rotational speed ? calculated based on the applied voltage and the current, and the previous applied voltage electrical angle instruction value ?vtarg, in a voltage electrical angle instruction value setting unit 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventor: Daisuke Hirono
  • Patent number: 8664906
    Abstract: Problems to be Solved To provide is a motor control device capable of detecting a rotor position of a synchronous motor under a certain accuracy and a low processing load. Means for Solving the Problems The motor control device detects the rotor position ?m by directly finding a rotor position ?m from a rotor position expression (?m=?i???90°) containing, as a variable, a current electrical angle ?i from among a phase current peak value Ip and a phase current electrical angle ?i detected in a phase current peak value and electrical angle detection unit 19 and an induced voltage peak value Ep and an induced voltage electrical angle ?e detected in an induced voltage peak value and electrical angle detection unit 20, and containing, as a variable, a current phase ? capable of being selected using [a phase current peak value Ip] and [an induced voltage electrical angle ?e?a phase current electrical angle ?i] as parameters from a predefined data table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sanden Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Hirono