Patents by Inventor Hideaki Moriya

Hideaki Moriya 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: 20100127442
    Abstract: An automobile vibration damping device for an automobile in which a power plant in which an engine, a transmission and the like are combined is supported by a vehicle body, including a vibrating means that generates vibration separate from vibration of the engine. Thereby, it is possible to reduce the vibration amplitude of a seat portion by the reaction force of the vibrating means. Also, if the vibration mode of the vehicle body is adjusted so as to become a node in the vicinity of the seat portion, the vibration amplitude decreases in the vicinity of the seat portion, and improves riding comfort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Muragishi, Takayoshi Fujii, Takashi Fukunaga, Hideaki Moriya, Katsuyoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Takashi Onoue, Yushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20100102797
    Abstract: An operating state detection technique is provided which makes it possible to accurately detect an abnormality of a high-frequency heating apparatus. An anode current detected by the anode current detection resistor 40 of a magnetron is inputted into the A/D converter terminal of a microcomputer 27 on a control panel circuit board side. The current is subjected to an analog-to-digital conversion to thereby obtain an anode voltage IaDC value. The microcomputer 27 determines an operating state based on a plurality of the anode voltage IaDC values thus read. Further, the microcomputer 27 obtains a summed value of the IaDC values corresponding to one period of the revolution of rotary antennas 68, 69 to thereby determines the operating state of the high-frequency heating apparatus 100 based on the summed value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Moriya, Nobuo Shirokawa, Haruo Suenaga, Shinichi Sakai, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20100102796
    Abstract: An operating state detection technique is provided which makes it possible to accurately detect an abnormality of a high-frequency heating apparatus. An anode current detected by the anode current detection resistor 40 of a magnetron is inputted into the A/D converter terminal of a microcomputer 27 on a control panel circuit board side. The current is subjected to an analog-to-digital conversion to thereby obtain an anode voltage IaDC value. The microcomputer 27 determines an operating state based on a plurality of the anode voltage IaDC values thus read. Further, the microcomputer 27 obtains a summed value of the IaDC values corresponding to one period of the revolution of rotary antennas 68, 69 to thereby determines the operating state of the high-frequency heating apparatus 100 based on the summed value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Moriya, Nobuo Shirokawa, Haruo Suenaga, Shinichi Sakai, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20100089908
    Abstract: A power control unit for high-frequency dielectric heating not affected by variations in the types or the characteristics of magnetrons, power supply voltage fluctuation, etc., is provided. The unit has an input current detection section 71, 72 for detecting input current of an inverter circuit 10 for rectifying 31 AC power supply voltage 20, performing high frequency switching, and converting into high frequency power, mixes input current waveform information 90 of the input current detection section and power control information 91 for controlling so that output of the input current detection section becomes a predetermined value in a mix circuit 81, outputs ON voltage information 92, makes a comparison between the ON voltage information and a sawtooth wave from a sawtooth wave generation circuit 83 in a PWM comparator 82, performs pulse width modulation, and outputs a drive signal for controlling turning on/off of a switching transistor 39 of an inverter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruo Suenaga, Kenji Yasui, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Hideaki Moriya, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20100065553
    Abstract: A power control unit for high-frequency dielectric heating not affected by variations in the types or the characteristics of magnetrons, power supply voltage fluctuation, etc., is provided. The unit has an input current detection section 71, 72 for detecting input current of an inverter circuit 10 for rectifying 31 AC power supply voltage 20, performing high frequency switching, and converting into high frequency power, mixes input current waveform information 90 of the input current detection section and power control information 91 for controlling so that output of the input current detection section becomes a predetermined value in a mix circuit 81, outputs ON voltage information 92, makes a comparison between the ON voltage information and a sawtooth wave from a sawtooth wave generation circuit 83 in a PWM comparator 82, performs pulse width modulation, and outputs a drive signal for controlling turning on/off of a switching transistor 39 of an inverter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Suenaga, Kenji Yasui, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Hideaki Moriya, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20100065554
    Abstract: A power control unit for high-frequency dielectric heating not affected by variations in the types or the characteristics of magnetrons, power supply voltage fluctuation, etc., is provided. The unit has an input current detection section 71, 72 for detecting input current of an inverter circuit 10 for rectifying 31 AC power supply voltage 20, performing high frequency switching, and converting into high frequency power, mixes input current waveform information 90 of the input current detection section and power control information 91 for controlling so that output of the input current detection section becomes a predetermined value in a mix circuit 81, outputs ON voltage information 92, makes a comparison between the ON voltage information and a sawtooth wave from a sawtooth wave generation circuit 83 in a PWM comparator 82, performs pulse width modulation, and outputs a drive signal for controlling turning on/off of a switching transistor 39 of an inverter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruo Suenaga, Kenji Yasui, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Hideaki Moriya, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20090289056
    Abstract: A power control unit for high-frequency dielectric heating not affected by variations in the types or the characteristics of magnetrons, power supply voltage fluctuation, etc., is provided. The unit has an input current detection section 71, 72 for detecting input current of an inverter circuit 10 for rectifying 31 AC power supply voltage 20, performing high frequency switching, and converting into high frequency power, mixes input current waveform information 90 of the input current detection section and power control information 91 for controlling so that output of the input current detection section becomes a predetermined value in a mix circuit 81, outputs ON voltage information 92, makes a comparison between the ON voltage information and a sawtooth wave from a sawtooth wave generation circuit 83 in a PWM comparator 82, performs pulse width modulation, and outputs a drive signal for controlling turning on/off of a switching transistor 39 of an inverter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruo Suenaga, Kenji Yasui, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Hideaki Moriya, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20090283518
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a high frequency heating apparatus for driving a magnetron such as a microwave oven, and has an object to provide a frequency modulating system capable of reducing power supply higher harmonic distortion of higher orders which are produced at phases in the vicinity of 0 degree and 180 degrees where an instantaneous voltage of a commercial power supply becomes the lowest voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruo Suenaga, Hideaki Moriya, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20090272735
    Abstract: A power control unit for a high-frequency dielectric heating not affected by variations in the magnetron type or characteristic, and power supply voltage fluctuation, etc., is provided. The power control unit for a high-frequency dielectric heating has an input current detection section 71, 72 for detecting input current of an inverter 10 for rectifying 31 an AC power supply voltage 20, performing high-frequency switching of the voltage, and converting the voltage to high-frequency power. The power control unit for a high-frequency dielectric heating converts a switching frequency control signal 92 provided by mixing input current waveform information 90 and power control information 91 into a drive signal of a semiconductor switching element 3, 4 of the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruo Suenaga, Kenji Yasui, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Hideaki Moriya, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20090230949
    Abstract: An operating state detection technique is provided which makes it possible to accurately detect an abnormality of a high-frequency heating apparatus. An anode current detected by the anode current detection resistor 40 of a magnetron is inputted into the A/D converter terminal of a microcomputer 27 on a control panel circuit board side. The current is subjected to an analog-to-digital conversion to thereby obtain an anode voltage IaDC value. The microcomputer 27 determines an operating state based on a plurality of the anode voltage IaDC values thus read. Further, the microcomputer 27 obtains a summed value of the IaDC values corresponding to one period of the revolution of rotary antennas 68, 69 to thereby determines the operating state of the high-frequency heating apparatus 100 based on the summed value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Moriya, Nobuo Shirokawa, Haruo Suenaga, Shinichi Sakai, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20090206073
    Abstract: Occurrence of a defect of the moding phenomenon, etc., accompanying rise in output of a magnetron after power down control is prevented and the reliability of a high-voltage dielectric heating apparatus is further improved. After power down control, when the temperature of a thermistor T1 falls again, the resistance value of the thermistor T1 increases and potential Vpc at a point PC also rises and when the potential Vpc becomes higher than Vc3 of another input potential of a comparator C3 (Vpc>Vc3), the comparator C3 outputs “0.” In association with this, a switch S2 is turned off and PD (power down) 2 of a resistor R7 is turned off and thus the input voltage to a positive terminal A and a negative terminal B of a comparator C1 is again restored to 3 V. When the temperature of the thermistor T1 further falls, the resistance value of the thermistor T1 increases and the potential Vpc at the point PC also starts to rise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Kinoshita, Haruo Suenaga, Kenji Yasui, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Hideaki Moriya
  • Publication number: 20090134153
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a power supply for a high frequency heating that suppresses an over-shoot of an input current generated under an unstable state immediately after a magnetron begins oscillating. When processes from a non-oscillation to an oscillation of a magnetron (12) are finely classified, the non-oscillation (a start mode), the oscillation (a start mode) and the oscillation (a steady mode) are obtained. A problem resides in an unstable state immediately after the oscillation. When a PWM setting value at this time is set to a value lower than a PWM setting value in the steady mode, even if the PWM setting value during the steady mode is set to a maximum output value, the input current is not controlled to a large current including the over-shoot immediately after the oscillation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Moriya, Haruo Suenaga, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20090079353
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a magnetron drive power supply for performing stable inverter operation and good in development efficiency. According to the invention, the potential difference between emitter terminal potential (121) of a switching element (12) and minus terminal potential (101) of a rectifying device (1) can be minimized and stable switching operation and abnormal voltage detection can be realized. There can be provided an optimum magnetron drive power supply responsive to the power supply voltage and good in development efficiency because of unification of chassis, etc., with commonality of component placements, particularly ground connection positions (41) and filament output positions (42) of a magnetron drive power supply in the rated voltage range of 100 V to 120 V and a magnetron drive power supply in the rated voltage range of 200 V to 240 V.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Haruo Suenaga, Hideaki Moriya, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20090014442
    Abstract: A magnetron driving power source can detect the abnormal condition during no-load running with low cost and space saving. The magnetron driving power source includes a high voltage transformer (12) for supplying a high voltage to a magnetron (11), a switching part (13) for driving the high voltage transformer at a high frequency, a first control part (14) for giving a drive signal to the switching part, a second control part (16) for issuing an output command to the first control part, and a third control part (19) for correcting the output command in accordance with a decrease in the oscillation threshold value of the magnetron, wherein the first control part (14) performs a power down control in accordance with a signal from the third control part. Accordingly, the magnetron driving power source of the invention can treat the signal on the control side of the inverter and detect the abnormal condition during no-load running with low cost and space saving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Haruo Suenaga, Hideaki Moriya, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20090001073
    Abstract: A resonance type high frequency heating apparatus comprising; a direct current power supply; a series connection circuit consisting of a pair of semiconductor switching elements connected in parallel to the direct current power supply; another series connection circuit having a primary coil of a leakage transformer and a capacitor connected to both ends of one of the pair of semiconductor switching elements; and a drive means for driving each of the pair of semiconductor switching elements; wherein a variable dead time preparation circuit is provided in the drive means, and the variable dead time preparation circuit enables dead time to remain constant at below a predetermined frequency and causes the dead time to increase sharply at a point above a predetermined frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Moriya, Haruo Suenaga, Hisashi Morikawa, Shinichi Sakai, Toyotsugu Matsukura, Nobuo Shirokawa
  • Publication number: 20090001074
    Abstract: To attain a more reliable prevention of an electric shock by checking whether the earth states for two circuit boards are good. There is detected a voltage generated at an anode current sensing resistor 20 inserted into a path where the anode current of a magnetron 8 flows and a signal is transmitted to a microcomputer 27. The microcomputer 27 uses a selector switch 28 to determine the earth states for an inverter circuit board and a control panel circuit board before operation of a device. In case either one or both of the circuit boards are in a floating state, operation of a high-frequency heating device is inhibited. Otherwise, operation of the high-frequency heating device is permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Shirokawa, Shinichi Sakai, Hideaki Moriya, Haruo Suenaga, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20080272115
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide an inverter circuit capable of suppressing an overshooting phenomenon of an input current at an instantaneous time when an initiating operation of the inverter circuit is switched to the normal operation thereof, and thus, capable of preventing damages of IGBTs and a magnetron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruo Suenaga, Hideaki Moriya, Shinichi Sakai, Hisashi Morikawa, Toyotsugu Matsukura, Nobuo Shirokawa
  • Patent number: 7432484
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high frequency heating apparatus and provides a tracking method of a frequency modulation in order to prevent an extension of the harmonic current component of an oscillation threshold ebm which varies from moment to moment in accordance with a change in the temperature of a magnetron. A driving signal for driving a first semiconductor switching element (3) and a second semiconductor switching element (4) is transmitted to a driving control IC unit (14), and an input reference signal Ref is used to perform an input current fixed control. In this case, a variation amount of the input current of the input reference signal Ref is understood as an accumulation information POW and a constant is optimally configured in a resistor network in an ebm-tracking bias circuit (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Moriya, Haruo Suenaga, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Manabu Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 7414228
    Abstract: There is constructed a constitution such that a shunt resistor 30 is interposed in series with a portion capable of measuring an output current of a unidirectional power source portion 1 of a high frequency heating apparatus and a voltage generated at the shunt resistor 30 is outputted by a buffer 31. Further, an operational amplifier 3101 having a high input impedance is used for the buffer 31. Further, a diode bridge 101 and a semiconductor switching element 205 are fixed to a common heat radiating plate 33, the heat radiating plate 33 is formed with a notched portion 33a to thereby ensure insulating distances to the diode bridge 101 and the semiconductor switching element 205, and the shunt resistor 30 is arranged on a straight line the same as that between the diode bridge 101 and the semiconductor switching element 205.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruo Suenaga, Hideaki Moriya, Hisashi Morikawa, Shinichi Sakai, Makoto Mihara, Nobuo Shirokawa, Toyotsubu Matsukura, Masato Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20080061055
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high frequency heating apparatus and provides a tracking method of a frequency modulation in order to prevent an extension of the harmonic current component of an oscillation threshold ebm which varies from moment to moment in accordance with a change in the temperature of a magnetron. A driving signal for driving a first semiconductor switching element (3) and a second semiconductor switching element (4) is transmitted to a driving control IC unit (14), and an input reference signal Ref is used to perform an input current fixed control. In this case, a variation amount of the input current of the input reference signal Ref is understood as an accumulation information POW and a constant is optimally configured in a resistor network in an ebm-tracking bias circuit (20). Sequentially, a portion in which an operating frequency ascends is provided by giving a bias to a frequency modulation waveform, and then a frequency modulation tracking is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Moriya, Haruo Suenaga, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Manabu Kinoshita