Patents by Inventor Hiroki Ohtani
Hiroki Ohtani 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: 9088234Abstract: The invention includes a three-phase full-bridge power converter, a motor generator driven by the power converter, a pulse number generator which determines the number of pulses included in the driving signal for one electrical cycle, a voltage command generator which determines a modulation factor and a phase angle of driving voltage, and a pulse generator which generates the driving signal, and, in this invention, the pulse generator generates the driving signal having a pulse waveform which minimizes power loss in the power generator and the motor generator according to the number of pulses, the modulation factor, and the phase angle.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHOInventors: Hiromitsu Suzuki, Hiroki Ohtani, Hideo Nakai
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Patent number: 8169199Abstract: It is determined that a periodic zero current stagnation state is reached to correct a voltage command of a smoothing capacitor downward by a predetermined voltage when a state where a current (reactor current) flowing through a coil in a dead time when switching elements are both off immediately after the switching element (upper arm) is turned off from on stagnates at a value of 0 occurs at switching periods of the switching elements. This can prevent a voltage of the smoothing capacitor from becoming unexpectedly higher than the voltage command in the current stagnation state, prevent the smoothing capacitor from being damaged by an overvoltage and prevent excessive torque from being output from motors.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaki Okamura, Kiyotaka Matsubara, Shungo Tamura, Hiroki Ohtani, Hideo Nakai
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Patent number: 8018195Abstract: An AC motor drive control device includes a control mode judgment unit that performs a judgment based on required voltage amplitude required by a synchronous AC motor, in order to switch units for applying voltage to the AC motor to one of a rectangular wave voltage phase control unit, an overmodulation control unit, and a PWM current control unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Ohtani, Makoto Nakamura, Kenji Yamada, Masaki Okamura, Hideto Hanada
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Patent number: 7911177Abstract: An overmodulation PWM controller includes a voltage instruction calculation unit which calculates a d axis voltage instruction and a q axis voltage instruction in which a voltage amplitude exceeds a peak value of a triangular wave carrier; a voltage instruction correction unit which corrects the d axis voltage instruction and the q axis voltage instruction so that a pulse width modulation voltage applied to an AC motor has a fundamental wave amplitude corresponding to the voltage instruction amplitude, according to the synchronization value K which is the number of the triangular carriers per one cycle of the phase voltage instruction; and a voltage instruction conversion unit which converts the corrected d axis voltage instruction and the q axis voltage instruction into a phase voltage instruction. The pulse width modulation voltage is controlled according to the result of comparison between the phase voltage instruction and the triangular wave carrier.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Ohtani, Hideto Hanada, Makoto Nakamura, Kenji Yamada
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Publication number: 20100231151Abstract: An AC motor drive control device includes a control mode judgment unit that performs a judgment based on required voltage amplitude required by a synchronous AC motor, in order to switch units for applying voltage to the AC motor to one of a rectangular wave voltage phase control unit, an overmodulation control unit, and a PWM current control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2007Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventors: Hiroki Ohtani, Makoto Nakamura, Kenji Yamada, Masaki Okamura, Hideto Hanada
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Patent number: 7782037Abstract: A desired current is caused to flow through a coil by controlling switching of switching elements by a PWM controller. For a voltage sensor, a value of Vo??V, which is a difference between a midpoint voltage Vo of the switching elements and a predetermined threshold voltage ?V, and a value of Vo?(Vc??V), which is a difference between the midpoint voltage Vo and a value obtained by subtracting the threshold voltage ?V from a voltage Vc of an upper line, are determined. Then, the determined results obtained from the voltage sensor are input to the PWM controller through flip-flops and a dead time compensator to compensate for dead time, such as, for example, for a command for PWM control signal generation.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Ohtani, Masaki Okamura
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Patent number: 7772797Abstract: A motor controller for correcting offset of a drive current of a motor. An offset amount calculating section (14) calculates offset amounts (Iuofs, Ivofs, Iwofs) of the drive currents (Iu, Iv, Iw) when the motor is being driven. A drive signal correcting section (18) corrects offset of the drive currents (Iu, Iv, Iw) by correcting the duty ratios of drive signals (Suo, Svo, Swo) based on the offset amounts (Iuofs, Ivofs, Iwofs).Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2001Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo KenkyushoInventors: Eiji Sato, Hiroki Ohtani
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Publication number: 20100127656Abstract: An overmodulation PWM controller includes a voltage instruction calculation unit which calculates a d axis voltage instruction and a q axis voltage instruction in which a voltage amplitude exceeds a peak value of a triangular wave carrier; a voltage instruction correction unit which corrects the d axis voltage instruction and the q axis voltage instruction so that a pulse width modulation voltage applied to an AC motor has a fundamental wave amplitude corresponding to the voltage instruction amplitude, according to the synchronization value K which is the number of the triangular carriers per one cycle of the phase voltage instruction; and a voltage instruction conversion unit which converts the corrected d axis voltage instruction and the q axis voltage instruction into a phase voltage instruction. The pulse width modulation voltage is controlled according to the result of comparison between the phase voltage instruction and the triangular wave carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Ohtani, Hideto Hanada, Makoto Nakamura, Kenji Yamada
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Publication number: 20090302818Abstract: It is determined that a periodic zero current stagnation state is reached to correct a voltage command of a smoothing capacitor downward by a predetermined voltage when a state where a current (reactor current) flowing through a coil in a dead time when switching elements are both off immediately after the switching element (upper arm) is turned off from on stagnates at a value of 0 occurs at switching periods of the switching elements. This can prevent a voltage of the smoothing capacitor from becoming unexpectedly higher than the voltage command in the current stagnation state, prevent the smoothing capacitor from being damaged by an overvoltage and prevent excessive torque from being output from motors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2007Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Okamura, Kiyotaka Matsubara, Shungo Tamura, Hiroki Ohtani, Hideo Nakai
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Publication number: 20090001925Abstract: A desired current is caused to flow through a coil by controlling switching of switching elements by a PWM controller. For a voltage sensor, a value of Vo??V, which is a difference between a midpoint voltage Vo of the switching elements and a predetermined threshold voltage ?V, and a value of Vo?(Vc??V), which is a difference between the midpoint voltage Vo and a value obtained by subtracting the threshold voltage ?V from a voltage Vc of an upper line, are determined. Then, the determined results obtained from the voltage sensor are input to the PWM controller through flip-flops and a dead time compensator to compensate for dead time, such as, for example, for a command for PWM control signal generation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2007Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki Ohtani, Masaki Okamura
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Publication number: 20080040124Abstract: A business process system for transmitting and receiving various pieces of business data by connecting an indefinitely large number of enterprises through a network includes a client terminal possessed by an order source connected to an open network layer, equipped with an application for realizing a peer-to-peer network architecture, and serving as a member participating in the peer-to-peer network, an order reception database connected to a network layer inside an order reception base as a segment isolated from the open network layer, equipped with the application, connecting to the client terminal by a peer-to-peer connection upon execution of the application by the client terminal, recording data sent from the client terminal, and reading data to be sent out of the recorded data, and a node connected to an intermediate network layer at the order reception base serving as a segment isolated from the open network layer and from the inside network layer, collecting and temporally maintaining the data sent frType: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2005Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicants: Sony Chemicals & Information Device Corporation, Ariel Networks Inc., International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Masami Kinugasa, Seiichiro Inoue, Takahiro Hidaka, Hiroki Ohtani, Yuuki Shibuya, Tomoki Iwaoka
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Patent number: 7208903Abstract: In one coordinate system of arbitrary rectangular coordinate systems including a coordinate system in which the position of a stator is fixed, a coordinate system in which the position of a rotor is fixed, and a coordinate system which rotates at a rotational frequency which is n times (n is an integer which is not 0 or 1) that of the rotor, a filter on any other coordinate system is defined. Further, driving of a motor is controlled by utilizing this filter. As a result, a coordinate transformation operation need not be individually performed with respect to control variables.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Nakai, Hiroki Ohtani, Yukio Inaguma, Katsuhiro Asano, Hideto Hanada, Masaki Okamura
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Patent number: 7199548Abstract: A drive control apparatus, which controls an AC motor subjected to rotational drive by applying a rectangular wave voltage thereto, comprising: an actual torque detection section for detecting an actual torque value T outputted from the AC motor; an estimated torque calculation section for calculating an estimated torque value Tm based on a motor model with the AC motor in a simulated state; and a voltage phase calculation section wherein the voltage phase calculation section calculates a first voltage phase ?fb based on the actual torque value T and a command torque value T*, and a second voltage phase ?ff based on the estimated torque value Tm and the command torque value T* respectively, and outputs a value obtained by making the voltage phase subjected to weighting addition, as a voltage phase ?v.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo KenkyushoInventors: Yukio Inaguma, Hideo Nakai, Hiroki Ohtani, Masaki Okamura
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Patent number: 7129685Abstract: A switching operation of two switching elements is controlled by a controller. Specifically, by adjusting the duty ratio concerning the lower switching element, a capacitor voltage is controlled to a target value. This control is executed not only by simply performing a PI control with respect to the capacitor voltage based on a deviation from the target value, but also by performing feedback control with respect to battery power and output energy. Further, a scheduling factor based on battery voltage, capacitor voltage, and the like is employed to control the gain of the feedback control.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2005Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Tokyo Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Nakai, Hiroki Ohtani, Kazunari Moriya, Kenji Yamada
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Publication number: 20060214625Abstract: In one coordinate system of arbitrary rectangular coordinate systems including a coordinate system in which the position of a stator is fixed, a coordinate system in which the position of a rotor is fixed, and a coordinate system which rotates at a rotational frequency which is n times (n is an integer which is not 0 or 1) that of the rotor, a filter on any other coordinate system is defined. Further, driving of a motor is controlled by utilizing this filter. As a result, a coordinate transformation operation need not be individually performed with respect to control variables.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: September 28, 2006Inventors: Hideo Nakai, Hiroki Ohtani, Yukio Inaguma, Katsuhiro Asano, Hideto Hanada, Nasaki Okamura
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Patent number: 7078874Abstract: In one coordinate system of arbitrary rectangular coordinate systems including a coordinate system in which the position of a stator is fixed, a coordinate system in which the position of a rotor is fixed, and a coordinate system which rotates at a rotational frequency which is n times (n is an integer which is not 0 or 1) that of the rotor, a filter on any other coordinate system is defined. Further, driving of a motor is controlled by utilizing this filter. As a result, a coordinate transformation operation need not be individually performed with respect to control variables.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2005Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Nakai, Hiroki Ohtani, Yukio Inaguma, Katsuhiro Asano, Hideto Hanada, Masaki Okamura
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Publication number: 20060049796Abstract: In one coordinate system of arbitrary rectangular coordinate systems including a coordinate system in which the position of a stator is fixed, a coordinate system in which the position of a rotor is fixed, and a coordinate system which rotates at a rotational frequency which is n times (n is an integer which is not 0 or 1) that of the rotor, a filter on any other coordinate system is defined. Further, driving of a motor is controlled by utilizing this filter. As a result, a coordinate transformation operation need not be individually performed with respect to control variables.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2005Publication date: March 9, 2006Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideo Nakai, Hiroki Ohtani, Yukio Inaguma, Katsuhiro Asano, Hideto Hanada, Masaki Okamura
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Publication number: 20060022655Abstract: A switching operation of two switching elements is controlled by a controller. Specifically, by adjusting the duty ratio concerning the lower switching element, a capacitor voltage is controlled to a target value. This control is executed not only by simply performing a PI control with respect to the capacitor voltage based on a deviation from the target value, but also by performing feedback control with respect to battery power and output energy. Further, a scheduling factor based on battery voltage, capacitor voltage, and the like is employed to control the gain of the feedback control.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2005Publication date: February 2, 2006Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideo Nakai, Hiroki Ohtani, Kazunari Moriya, Kenji Yamada
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Publication number: 20060006825Abstract: A drive control apparatus, which controls an AC motor subjected to rotational drive by applying a rectangular wave voltage thereto, comprising: an actual torque detection section for detecting an actual torque value T outputted from the AC motor; an estimated torque calculation section for calculating an estimated torque value Tm based on a motor model with the AC motor in a simulated state; and a voltage phase calculation section wherein the voltage phase calculation section calculates a first voltage phase ?fb based on the actual torque value T and a command torque value T*, and a second voltage phase ?ff based on the estimated torque value Tm and the command torque value T* respectively, and outputs a value obtained by making the voltage phase subjected to weighting addition, as a voltage phase ?v.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2005Publication date: January 12, 2006Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHOInventors: Yukio Inaguma, Hideo Nakai, Hiroki Ohtani, Masaki Okamura
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Patent number: 6841968Abstract: A motor driver circuit including an inverter, a motor-drive-current detector, a current detector, and a controller operable to calculate a d-axis current difference between the detected d-axis current and a commanded d-axis current value, and a q-axis current difference between the detected q-axis current and a commanded q-axis current value. The controller is further operable on the basis of the calculated d-axis and q-axis current differences, to calculate a d-axis difference signal which is not influenced by a q-axis input voltage of the motor and which is influenced by a d-axis input voltage of the motor, and a q-axis difference signal which is not influenced by the d-axis input voltage and which is influenced by the q-axis input voltage. The controller controls the inverter, so as to zero the d-axis and q-axis difference signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2002Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eiji Sato, Hideo Nakai, Hiroki Ohtani