Patents by Inventor Itsuo Shuto

Itsuo Shuto 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: 9275793
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a current input converter includes a first metal plate having a solid shape, which has one end attached to the terminal table and one other end attached to one end of a primary-side coil of the transformer, and connects the terminal table and the one end of the primary-side coil of the transformer to each other, and a second metal plate having a solid shape, which has one end attached to the terminal table and one other end attached to one other end of the primary-side coil of the transformer, and connects the terminal table and the other end of the primary-side coil of the transformer to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yusuke Yanagihashi, Hiroyuki Shirakawa, Toshio Tanaka, Hiroyuki Maehara, Noriyoshi Suga, Itsuo Shuto
  • Patent number: 8861163
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a protection relay. The protection relay includes an input circuit that detects a state of an external device according to whether or not an external input voltage is larger than a preset threshold voltage. The input circuit includes switching unit that is made conductive by a divided voltage obtained by voltage-dividing resistors that divide the external input voltage when the external input voltage is higher than or equal to the threshold voltage, and a photocoupler that is operated by a constant current of a constant current output circuit supplying a constant current and outputs an operation signal to the operation unit when the switching unit is made conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shirakawa, Yusuke Yanagihashi, Hiroyuki Maehara, Toshio Tanaka, Noriyoshi Suga, Itsuo Shuto
  • Publication number: 20120229122
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a current input converter includes a first metal plate having a solid shape, which has one end attached to the terminal table and one other end attached to one end of a primary-side coil of the transformer, and connects the terminal table and the one end of the primary-side coil of the transformer to each other, and a second metal plate having a solid shape, which has one end attached to the terminal table and one other end attached to one other end of the primary-side coil of the transformer, and connects the terminal table and the other end of the primary-side coil of the transformer to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Yusuke YANAGIHASHI, Hiroyuki SHIRAKAWA, Toshio TANAKA, Hiroyuki MAEHARA, Noriyoshi SUGA, Itsuo SHUTO
  • Publication number: 20120229946
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a protection relay. The protection relay includes an input circuit that detects a state of an external device according to whether or not an external input voltage is larger than a preset threshold voltage. The input circuit includes switching unit that is made conductive by a divided voltage obtained by voltage-dividing resistors that divide the external input voltage when the external input voltage is higher than or equal to the threshold voltage, and a photocoupler that is operated by a constant current of a constant current output circuit supplying a constant current and outputs an operation signal to the operation unit when the switching unit is made conductive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SHIRAKAWA, Yusuke Yanagihashi, Hiroyuki Maehara, Toshio Tanaka, Noriyoshi Suga, Itsuo Shuto
  • Patent number: 8218278
    Abstract: A current differential relay device is described. The device has two transmission parts provided in parallel and communicating with an other end of a power transmission line through two transmission paths and transmitting and receiving a quantity data of electricity of each of the terminals to and from an other end in the form of the digital data obtained through analog/digital conversion. Two current differential operation parts are connected to each of the two transmission parts and perform a current differential operation independently for each of the transmission paths by using the digital data of the quantity data of electricity of the one end of the power transmission line and of the other end of the power transmission line. A signal generation part generates a trip signal from the current differential operation result of the two current differential operation parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masamichi Saga, Itsuo Shuto, Mitsuaki Mizunoue
  • Publication number: 20090174976
    Abstract: Two current differential relay devices 1 are installed at each terminal 3 of a two-terminal power transmission line 2, and connected to each other via two transmission paths 5 and 6, and perform current differential operations by transmitting and receiving the quantity data of electricity to each other. In the current differential relay device 1, two transmission means 14 normally each perform communications with the current differential relay device 1 of the other end of the power transmission line in parallel through the two transmission paths 5 and 6. Two current differential operation means 14 are connected to the two transmission means 14 respectively and perform independently two-series of current differential operations independently for each series associated with each of the transmission paths 5 and 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Masamichi Saga, Itsuo Shuto, Mitsuaki Mizunoue
  • Patent number: 7199989
    Abstract: In a digital protection relay with a time sync function, the sampling timing of which is specified based on a reference timing transmitted from a time signal generator to a time sync unit, with a determination value. The time sync unit includes a reception circuit that receives a discrimination code and time data transmitted from the time signal generator, a code discrimination circuit that discriminates the reference timing on condition that the received discrimination code coincides with a desired code, a time calculation circuit that calculates the sampling timing on the basis of the discriminated reference timing and the time data, and a sampling sync circuit that specifies the sampling timing of a digital quantity of electricity on the basis of the calculated sampling timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Daiju Itagaki, Hiroaki Ayakawa, Itsuo Shuto
  • Patent number: 6847691
    Abstract: A time synchronization system comprises a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver for receiving a time signal from a Global Positioning System (GPS), and outputting a UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) synchronization reference signal synchronizing with UTC and a UTC synchronization absolute time signal, and a time signal distributor for generating a reference time signal synchronizing with UTC from the synchronization reference signal and the absolute time signal, and transmits this reference time signal in distribution to a plurality of distributed control oriented terminal devices. The time synchronization between the plurality of distributed control oriented terminal devices can be thereby taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hideki Torikoshi, Shigekazu Morita, Koichi Hamamatsu, Itsuo Shuto
  • Patent number: 6731655
    Abstract: In transmitting signals to an opposing terminal by introducing a system current from a terminal of this side, a dummy bit interpolator (105) is provided for inserting dummy bits among the fixed frame lengths of the transmission signals to adjust the length of the transmission data by using dummy bits in order to maintain synchronism in the sampling timings even when there does not hold a multiple relationship between the sampling frequency and the rate of transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Itsuo Shuto, Hajime Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20040070909
    Abstract: In a digital protection relay with a time sync function, the sampling timing of which is specified based on a reference timing transmitted from a time signal generator to time sync means, with a determination value, the time sync means includes a reception circuit that receives a discrimination code and time data transmitted from the time signal generator, a code discrimination circuit that discriminates the reference timing on condition that the received discrimination code coincides with a desired code, a time calculation circuit that calculates the sampling timing on the basis of the discriminated reference timing and the time data, and a sampling sync circuit that specifies the sampling timing of a digital quantity of electricity on the basis of the calculated sampling timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: TM T&D CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiju Itagaki, Hiroaki Ayakawa, Itsuo Shuto
  • Patent number: 6714148
    Abstract: A digital protective relay comprises a protective relay arithmetic processing unit for judging, based on a relay judgement quantity obtained by converting a system electric quantity into a digital value, whether in an operating state or in a non-operating state, and a time synchronizing unit for inputting a time reference signal from outside and synchronizing an internal timer of the digital protective relay with an external reference time. The time synchronizing unit includes an A/D converting unit for A/D converting the time reference signal inputted from outside with a resolution of at least 2 bits, and a decoding unit for decoding a time code signal by making a judgement as to a magnitude of the time reference signal with respect to a digital value obtained by the A/D converting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masamichi Saga, Itsuo Shuto
  • Patent number: 6678134
    Abstract: A digital protective relay system is capable of making sampling timing the same among plural protective relay device which operate independent from each other by using a signal from a GPS satellite. The sampling timing is made the same regardless of the time lag from which it is sent downstream with the concomitant transmission delay time in the case of data communications, or regardless of the time lag from which it is sent upstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugiura, Itsuo Shuto, Hachidai Ito, Masamichi Saga
  • Patent number: 6459960
    Abstract: A short-circuit distance relay has a short-circuit distance relay element that calculates a fault impedance from voltage and current which are introduced from a power system and that compares the fault impedance with a set impedance and uses the fault impedance comparison result within its protection zone. It calculates the amplitudes of the phase-to-phase differences of these voltage amplitudes and a sensitivity constant Vk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Itsuo Shuto, Yasuhiro Kurosawa, Hidenori Amou
  • Publication number: 20020057544
    Abstract: A digital protective relay system is capable of making sampling timing the same among plural protective relay device which operate independent from each other by using a signal from a GPS satellite. The sampling timing is made the same regardless of the time lag from which it is sent downstream with the concomitant transmission delay time in the case of data communications, or regardless of the time lag from which it is sent upstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugiura, Itsuo Shuto, Hachidai Ito, Masamichi Saga
  • Publication number: 20010017600
    Abstract: A time synchronization system comprises a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver for receiving a time signal from a Global Positioning System (GPS), and outputting a UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) synchronization reference signal synchronizing with UTC and a UTC synchronization absolute time signal, and a time signal distributor for generating a reference time signal synchronizing with UTC from the synchronization reference signal and the absolute time signal, and transmits this reference time signal in distribution to a plurality of distributed control oriented terminal devices. The time synchronization between the plurality of distributed control oriented terminal devices can be thereby taken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Publication date: August 30, 2001
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hideki Torikoshi, Shigekazu Morita, Koichi Hamamatsu, Itsuo Shuto