Patents by Inventor Hiroshi UTASHIRO

Hiroshi UTASHIRO 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: 11993919
    Abstract: In an electric drive system in which a battery is not connected to a DC bus, even when a load on a traveling electric motor increases suddenly, it is made possible to avoid such a situation that the DC bus voltage drops to a level equal to or lower than an operating voltage of an inverter and the inverter stops working. To this end, a DC bus voltage drop prevention device controls such that, when the voltage of the DC bus drops below a first threshold value, the output torque of the traveling electric motor is decreased according to an amount of decrease in the voltage of the DC bus, and when the voltage of the DC bus drops below a second threshold voltage lower than the first threshold voltage, the output torque of the traveling electric motor is decreased to zero or a value within a range of magnitude with which a work vehicle stays stationary on a level ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Kaneko, Akinori Kamiya, Noritaka Itou, Hiroshi Utashiro
  • Patent number: 11466432
    Abstract: To provide a technique for reliably acquiring a required braking power during travel and for efficiently using a regenerative power generated during braking. A work vehicle calculates a regenerative power outputted from an electric motor and a target hydraulic driving power for driving a hydraulic pump, supplies the regenerative power to the generator motor operating as a motor and makes the generator motor consume the regenerative power in a case where the regenerative power is equal to or smaller than the target hydraulic driving power, and supplies the regenerative power to the generator motor operating as the motor and makes an exhaust brake consume a power equivalent to a difference between the regenerative power and the target hydraulic driving power in a case where the regenerative power is larger than the target hydraulic driving power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Utashiro, Akinori Kamiya, Noritaka Ito, Takatoshi Ooki, Satoshi Sekino
  • Publication number: 20210324607
    Abstract: In an electric drive system in which a battery is not connected to a DC bus, even when a load on a traveling electric motor increases suddenly, it is made possible to avoid such a situation that the DC bus voltage drops to a level equal to or lower than an operating voltage of an inverter and the inverter stops working. To this end, a DC bus voltage drop prevention device controls such that, when the voltage of the DC bus drops below a first threshold value, the output torque of the traveling electric motor is decreased according to an amount of decrease in the voltage of the DC bus, and when the voltage of the DC bus drops below a second threshold voltage lower than the first threshold voltage, the output torque of the traveling electric motor is decreased to zero or a value within a range of magnitude with which a work vehicle stays stationary on a level ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Satoru KANEKO, Akinori KAMIYA, Noritaka ITOU, Hiroshi UTASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20210262198
    Abstract: To provide a technique for reliably acquiring a required braking power during travel and for efficiently using a regenerative power generated during braking. A work vehicle calculates a regenerative power outputted from an electric motor and a target hydraulic driving power for driving a hydraulic pump, supplies the regenerative power to the generator motor operating as a motor and makes the generator motor consume the regenerative power in a case where the regenerative power is equal to or smaller than the target hydraulic driving power, and supplies the regenerative power to the generator motor operating as the motor and makes an exhaust brake consume a power equivalent to a difference between the regenerative power and the target hydraulic driving power in a case where the regenerative power is larger than the target hydraulic driving power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi UTASHIRO, Akinori KAMIYA, Noritaka ITO, Takatoshi OOKI, Satoshi SEKINO