Patents by Inventor Eiichiro Hashimoto

Eiichiro Hashimoto 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: 8269436
    Abstract: To prevent a step-out of a permanent magnet synchronous type motor (1), a motor control device (3a) is provided to include a flux control unit (16) for deriving an excitation current command value (i?*) according to the rotation speed (?e) of the motor, and a voltage shortage determination unit (30) for determining whether or not the supply voltage to the motor is running short based on the excitation current command value (i?*). When a negative excitation current command value (i?*) is smaller than a negative determination threshold value, the motor control device determines that the supply voltage is running short and prohibits an increase of the rotation speed or decreases the rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Hashimoto, Yoshio Tomigashi
  • Patent number: 8115431
    Abstract: An inverter control apparatus that controls a three-phase inverter which transforms a direct-current voltage into an alternating three-phase voltage, the inverter control apparatus includes: a voltage command vector generation portion that generates a first voltage command vector for specifying a vector of a voltage to be applied to a three-phase load that is connected to the inverter; a voltage command vector correction portion that in performing overmodulation with the inverter, corrects the first voltage command vector by setting a limit onto a coordinate-axis component of the first voltage command vector on an ab coordinate system to generate a second voltage command vector, wherein the inverter is so controlled that a voltage depending on the second voltage command vector is applied to the load, and the ab coordinate system is a coordinated system that depending on a phase of the first voltage command vector with respect to a predetermined fixed axis on a two-dimensional fixed coordinate system, rotates
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Hashimoto, Yoshio Tomigashi
  • Patent number: 8084976
    Abstract: A motor control device performing vector control for a motor that drives a load whose load torque varies periodically. The motor control device has: a motor speed deriving portion estimating or detecting a motor speed; a speed controller producing a specified torque current value such that the motor speed is made to follow a specified motor speed value fed from outside; a resonance filter producing a corrected torque current value by receiving a control value that varies with variations in the load torque and emphasizing a periodic variation component of the control value; a torque current corrector producing a specified superimposed torque current value by superimposing the corrected torque current value on the specified torque current value; and an adjusting portion adjusting, based on the specified superimposed torque current value, a degree of emphasis placed on the variation component by the resonance filter. The vector control is performed according to the specified superimposed torque current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiichiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8084977
    Abstract: A motor control device performing vector control for a motor that drives a load whose load torque varies periodically. The motor control device has: a motor speed deriving portion estimating or detecting a motor speed; a speed controller producing a specified torque current value such that the motor speed is made to follow a specified motor speed value fed from outside; a resonance filter producing a corrected torque current value by receiving a control value that varies with variations in the load torque and emphasizing a periodic variation component of the control value; a torque current corrector producing a specified superimposed torque current value by superimposing the corrected torque current value on the specified torque current value; and an adjusting portion adjusting, based on the specified superimposed torque current value, the phase of the corrected torque value by controlling the resonance filter. The vector control is performed according to the specified superimposed torque current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiichiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7710066
    Abstract: A motor control device that controls a permanent-magnet synchronous motor has: a magnetic flux controller that derives, as a specified excitation current value, a specified current value corresponding to a d-axis component of a current passing through an armature winding; and a current controller that controls, based on the specified excitation current value, the current passing through the armature winding. The magnetic flux controller makes the specified excitation current value vary periodically, based on an estimated or detected rotor position, in a current range in which the magnetic flux produced by the permanent magnet is weakened, and changes the specified excitation current value according to a rotation speed of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Hashimoto, Yoshio Tomigashi
  • Publication number: 20100060211
    Abstract: An inverter control apparatus that controls a three-phase inverter which transforms a direct-current voltage into an alternating three-phase voltage, the inverter control apparatus includes: a voltage command vector generation portion that generates a first voltage command vector for specifying a vector of a voltage to be applied to a three-phase load that is connected to the inverter; a voltage command vector correction portion that in performing overmodulation with the inverter, corrects the first voltage command vector by setting a limit onto a coordinate-axis component of the first voltage command vector on an ab coordinate system to generate a second voltage command vector, wherein the inverter is so controlled that a voltage depending on the second voltage command vector is applied to the load, and the ab coordinate system is a coordinated system that depending on a phase of the first voltage command vector with respect to a predetermined fixed axis on a two-dimensional fixed coordinate system, rotates
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichiro HASHIMOTO, Yoshio TOMIGASHI
  • Patent number: 7598698
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a current detecting portion that detects phase current of one phase among three phase currents supplied from an inverter to a motor, and a current estimator that estimates phase current of phases other than the detected phase current by using a specified current value indicating current to be supplied to the motor, and derives control current corresponding to the specified current value from the estimated phase current and the phase current of one phase. The motor control device controls the motor via the inverter so that the control current follows the specified current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Hashimoto, Hajime Hida
  • Publication number: 20090237015
    Abstract: To prevent a step-out of a permanent magnet synchronous type motor (1), a motor control device (3a) is provided to include a flux control unit (16) for deriving an excitation current command value (i?*) according to the rotation speed (?e) of the motor, and a voltage shortage determination unit (30) for determining whether or not the supply voltage to the motor is running short based on the excitation current command value (i?*). When a negative excitation current command value (i?*) is smaller than a negative determination threshold value, the motor control device determines that the supply voltage is running short and prohibits an increase of the rotation speed or decreases the rotation speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Hashimoto, Yoshio Tomigashi
  • Publication number: 20090039808
    Abstract: A motor control device performing vector control for a motor that drives a load whose load torque varies periodically. The motor control device has: a motor speed deriving portion estimating or detecting a motor speed; a speed controller producing a specified torque current value such that the motor speed is made to follow a specified motor speed value fed from outside; a resonance filter producing a corrected torque current value by receiving a control value that varies with variations in the load torque and emphasizing a periodic variation component of the control value; a torque current corrector producing a specified superimposed torque current value by superimposing the corrected torque current value on the specified torque current value; and an adjusting portion adjusting, based on the specified superimposed torque current value, the phase of the corrected torque value by controlling the resonance filter. The vector control is performed according to the specified superimposed torque current value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eiichiro HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20080315816
    Abstract: A motor control device performing vector control for a motor that drives a load whose load torque varies periodically. The motor control device has: a motor speed deriving portion estimating or detecting a motor speed; a speed controller producing a specified torque current value such that the motor speed is made to follow a specified motor speed value fed from outside; a resonance filter producing a corrected torque current value by receiving a control value that varies with variations in the load torque and emphasizing a periodic variation component of the control value; a torque current corrector producing a specified superimposed torque current value by superimposing the corrected torque current value on the specified torque current value; and an adjusting portion adjusting, based on the specified superimposed torque current value, a degree of emphasis placed on the variation component by the resonance filter. The vector control is performed according to the specified superimposed torque current value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eiichiro HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 7394222
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus has a battery that is composed of a plurality of battery modules connected in series, a voltage detector that detects the relative voltages at the individual nodes between the battery modules with respect to a predetermined reference node, an erroneous detection checker that checks whether each of the detected relative voltages is an erroneously detected voltage and a normally detected voltage, and a calculation circuit that calculates the voltages of the individual battery modules based on those relative voltages that are judged to be normally detected voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Hashimoto, Kimihiko Furukawa, Ryuji Yoshihara
  • Publication number: 20080079385
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a current detecting portion that detects phase current of one phase among three phase currents supplied from an inverter to a motor, and a current estimator that estimates phase current of phases other than the detected phase current by using a specified current value indicating current to be supplied to the motor, and derives control current corresponding to the specified current value from the estimated phase current and the phase current of one phase. The motor control device controls the motor via the inverter so that the control current follows the specified current value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Hashimoto, Hajime Hida
  • Publication number: 20080018296
    Abstract: A motor control device that controls a permanent-magnet synchronous motor has: a magnetic flux controller that derives, as a specified excitation current value, a specified current value corresponding to a d-axis component of a current passing through an armature winding; and a current controller that controls, based on the specified excitation current value, the current passing through the armature winding. The magnetic flux controller makes the specified excitation current value vary periodically, based on an estimated or detected rotor position, in a current range in which the magnetic flux produced by the permanent magnet is weakened, and changes the specified excitation current value according to a rotation speed of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Hashimoto, Yoshio Tomigashi
  • Publication number: 20050225290
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus has a battery that is composed of a plurality of battery modules connected in series, a voltage detector that detects the relative voltages at the individual nodes between the battery modules with respect to a predetermined reference node, an erroneous detection checker that checks whether each of the detected relative voltages is an erroneously detected voltage and a normally detected voltage, and a calculation circuit that calculates the voltages of the individual battery modules based on those relative voltages that are judged to be normally detected voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Eiichiro Hashimoto, Kimihiko Furukawa, Ryuji Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 6850035
    Abstract: A BCU control system (10) includes a BCU (14) that calculates various kinds of measured data based on battery states such as a temperature, voltage, current, etc., of an automobile battery (12) so as to control actuators such as fans (18A, 18B), a relay (12C), etc., and a computer (16) connected to the BCU by a communication line, thereby enabling to carry out a data communication. A data collection command and an actuator control command are transmitted from the computer (16) to the BCU (14), and the computer collects various kinds of data from the battery and the BCU so as to carry out processes such as a data display, a data analysis, etc., and control the BCU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiichiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 6736160
    Abstract: A support member 10 having a tubular portion 11 is joined at an end portion of a muffler pipe 1. The support member 10 forms a flange 12 as a valve seat and a support bracket 14. The support bracket 14 has a valve disk 20 supported rotatably via a hinge axis 15. The valve disk 20 has an outer peripheral portion 12 as a contact surface with the valve seat, and a weight 30 is welded to a bead portion 23 with an inner portion thereof projecting to the back face. A spring is wound around the hinge axis, with one end 18 engaging a back face of the valve wall 21 for the valve disk, the other end engaging a support bracket. The resonance frequency is decreased by the weight, thereby preventing the beat sound from arising in a normal range of the engine speed. The weight is welded to the bead portion, thereby not causing the outer peripheral portion 23 as the contact surface to be distorted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Nagai, Eiichiro Hashimoto, Masaomi Fukuhara, Kai Shiraishi, Tamio Oshima
  • Publication number: 20040027091
    Abstract: A BCU control system (10) includes a BCU (14) that calculates various kinds of measured data based on battery states such as a temperature, voltage, current, and etc. of an automobile battery (12) so as to control actuators such as fans (18A, 18B), a relay (12C), and etc., and a computer (16) connected to the BCU by a communication line, thereby enabling to carry out a data communication. A data collection command and an actuator control command are transmitted from the computer (16) to the BCU (14), and the computer collects various kinds of data from the battery and the BCU so as to carry out processes such as a data display, a data analysis, and etc., and control the BCU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventor: Eiichiro Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20020104503
    Abstract: A support member 10 having a tubular portion 11 is joined at an end portion of a muffler pipe 1. The support member 10 forms a flange 12 as a valve seat and a support bracket 14. The support bracket 14 has a valve disk 20 supported rotatably via a hinge axis 15. The valve disk 20 has an outer peripheral portion 12 as a contact surface with the valve seat, and a weight 30 is welded to a bead portion 23 with an inner portion thereof projecting to the back face. A spring is wound around the hinge axis, with one end 18 engaging a back face of the valve wall 21 for the valve disk, the other end engaging a support bracket. The resonance frequency is decreased by the weight, thereby preventing the beat sound from arising in a normal range of the engine speed. The weight is welded to the bead portion, thereby not causing the outer peripheral portion 23 as the contact surface to be distorted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Nagai, Eiichiro Hashimoto, Masaomi Fukuhara, Kai Shiraishi, Tamio Oshima