Patents by Inventor Katsuhiro Hoshino

Katsuhiro Hoshino 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: 11967915
    Abstract: The vibration and noise generated in a permanent magnet synchronous motor are effectively suppressed. A motor control device 1 comprises: a triangular wave generation unit 17 which generates a triangular wave signal Tr that is a carrier wave, a carrier frequency adjustment unit 16 which adjusts a carrier frequency fc that represents a frequency of the triangular wave signal Tr, and a gate signal generation unit 18 which performs pulse-width modulation on three-phase voltage commands Vu*, Vv*, Vw* according to a torque command T* using the triangular wave signal Tr, thereby generating a gate signal for controlling an operation of an inverter. The carrier frequency adjustment unit 16 adjusts the carrier frequency fc so as to change a voltage phase error ??v representing a phase difference of the three-phase voltage commands Vu*, Vv*, Vw* and the triangular wave signal Tr based on the torque command T*, and a rotation speed ?r of a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaya Tsukagoshi, Takafumi Hara, Katsuhiro Hoshino, Toshiyuki Ajima
  • Patent number: 11716039
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a winding switching device capable of enhancing the reliability of electrical contact between a movable unit and a fixed unit, and a rotating electrical machine drive system including such a winding switching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Nishihama, Akeshi Takahashi, Katsuhiro Hoshino, Noriyuki Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20230188070
    Abstract: Provided is a motor controller that can estimate the magnetic flux of a magnet without changing a current of an electric motor. A motor controller 1 includes a current detecting unit 15 that detects a current of an electric motor 5, a current stability determining unit 10 that determines whether or not a current detected by the current detecting unit 15 is stable, and a magnetic flux calculating unit (filters 8a to 8e, a current conversion unit 4b, a resistance calculating unit 9, a magnet magnetic flux estimating unit 11) that based on a determination made by the current stability determining unit 10 as to current stability, calculates the magnetic flux of a magnet of the electric motor 5, according to a voltage equation in a rotating coordinate system, to output the calculated magnet flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuaki SATO, Keisuke SUZUKI, Katsuhiro HOSHINO, Hideki SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230155533
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to sufficiently suppress a vibration and noise generated in a motor. A motor control device includes a first inverter circuit and a second inverter circuit of a redundant system, the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit controlling a motor, and a control unit that controls the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit. The first inverter circuit converts the DC power into the AC power based on a PWM signal generated by using a first carrier signal. The second inverter circuit converts the DC power into the AC power based on a PWM signal generated by using a second carrier signal. The control unit shifts phases of the first carrier signal and the second carrier signal by using, as a reference, pulsation of an electromagnetic force caused by a magnetic circuit of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro HOSHINO, Takafumi HARA, Takaya TSUKAGOSHI
  • Publication number: 20230141601
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of properly performing motor control during overmodulation. In a motor control device 1, a carrier wave frequency adjusting unit 16 adjusts a carrier wave frequency fc so as to change a voltage phase error ??v representing the phase difference between three-phase voltage commands Vu*, Vv*, Vw* and a triangular wave signal Tr. When a modulation factor H in accordance with the voltage amplitude ratio between the DC power supplied from a high voltage battery to an inverter and AC power output from the inverter to a motor exceeds a predetermined value, for example, 1.15, a current control unit 14 corrects the amplitudes and phases of a d-axis voltage command Vd* and a q-axis voltage command Vq* on the basis of a carrier wave phase difference ??carr representing the phase of the triangular wave signal Tr.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi HARA, Toshiyuki AJIMA, Takaya TSUKAGOSHI, Katsuhiro HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20230078306
    Abstract: An abnormality of a component can be accurately detected. An on-vehicle device is an on-vehicle device that is mounted on a vehicle to communicate with a server. The on-vehicle device includes a first information generation unit that generates first information which is information on a state of a first component mounted on the vehicle by using an output of a sensor mounted on the vehicle, and an out-vehicle communication unit that transmits, to the server, the first information and second information which is information on a state of a second component which is a component different from the first component, and receives, from the server, a state signal indicating an abnormal state of the first component calculated by the server based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro HOSHINO, Takaki ITAYA
  • Publication number: 20230008549
    Abstract: The vibration and noise generated in a permanent magnet synchronous motor are effectively suppressed. A motor control device 1 comprises: a triangular wave generation unit 17 which generates a triangular wave signal Tr that is a carrier wave, a carrier frequency adjustment unit 16 which adjusts a carrier frequency fc that represents a frequency of the triangular wave signal Tr, and a gate signal generation unit 18 which performs pulse-width modulation on three-phase voltage commands Vu*, Vv*, Vw* according to a torque command T* using the triangular wave signal Tr, thereby generating a gate signal for controlling an operation of an inverter. The carrier frequency adjustment unit 16 adjusts the carrier frequency fc so as to change a voltage phase error ??v representing a phase difference of the three-phase voltage commands Vu*, Vv*, Vw* and the triangular wave signal Tr based on the torque command T*, and a rotation speed ?r of a motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Takaya TSUKAGOSHI, Takafumi HARA, Katsuhiro HOSHINO, Toshiyuki AJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220416709
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a rotating machine drive system comprising a winding switching device, wherein the rotating machine drive system has a relatively simple configuration, allows wear of electrical contacts during switching and sliding to be minimized, and is highly reliable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Akeshi TAKAHASHI, Kazuo NISHIHAMA, Noriyuki MAEKAWA, Katsuhiro HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20220345060
    Abstract: Conventionally, there is a problem that switching loss of an inverter increases in a case where a change such as improvement in a switching frequency is involved. The battery voltage E and the torque command T* are input to the first current command generation unit 111. The battery voltage E, the torque command T*, and a voltage utilization rate obtained by dividing a line voltage effective value by a battery voltage (DC voltage) are input to a second current command generation unit 112. A magnet temperature Tmag of a rotor magnet is input to a current command selection unit 113, and a current command output from the first current command generation unit 111 is selected in normal operation, and the second current command generation unit 112 is selected in a case where the magnet temperature exceeds a predetermined value. The second current command generation unit 112 is configured not to obtain the voltage utilization rate of 0.3 to 0.4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi HARA, Toshiyuki AJIMA, Katsuhiro HOSHINO, Noriyuki MAEKAWA
  • Patent number: 11482961
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to effectively reduce vibration or noise caused by a motor. An inverter circuit 300 generates an alternating current from a direct current supplied from a direct current power supply 10 by using a plurality of IGBTs 311 which are switching elements, supplies the generated alternating current to a motor 100, and drives the motor 100. This alternating current includes a fundamental harmonic current corresponding to a rotational speed of the motor 100, and a harmonic current of a switching operation of the IGBTs 311. A controller 200 controls a second phase such that a first phase and the second phase are not superimposed on each other at a predetermined motor rotational speed, the first phase being a phase of an excitation force cyclically produced in the motor 100 by the fundamental harmonic current, and the second phase being a phase of an excitation force cyclically produced in the motor 100 by the harmonic current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hoshino, Takafumi Hara, Masaru Yamasaki, Yosuke Tanabe, Masanori Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220337184
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a winding switching device capable of enhancing the reliability of electrical contact between a movable unit and a fixed unit, and a rotating electrical machine drive system including such a winding switching device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuo NISHIHAMA, Akeshi TAKAHASHI, Katsuhiro HOSHINO, Noriyuki MAEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220227238
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to control driving force and braking force of a motor while considering an SOC of a battery. A control device controlling a rotating electric machine including windings of a plurality of independent system. The rotating electric machine is controlled in: a first mode in which an AC current is energized to the windings of the plurality of systems to generate torque such that a combined magnetic field generated in the windings is greater than or equal to a predetermined value; and a second mode in which the AC current having a phase difference different from that in the first mode is energized to the windings of the plurality of systems, the combined magnetic field generated in the windings is made smaller than the predetermined value, and current greater than or equal to that in the first mode flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 11222150
    Abstract: The invention is directed to modeling of heat and vibration for structures. Therefore, with a traditional model division for each component, one-to-one correspondence between the models and the components is not necessarily realized. There has been a problem in that it is difficult to divide the models. To solve the above problem, a simulation program according to the present invention includes a first model for calculating a first vehicle characteristics parameter, a second model for calculating a second vehicle characteristics parameter to transfer energy without converting the energy, and an interface model for performing conversion calculation of the first vehicle characteristics parameter and the second vehicle characteristics parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taizou Miyazaki, Masaru Yamasaki, Takafumi Hara, Katsuhiro Hoshino, Kazuto Oyama, Takeshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11211883
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to reduce a torque pulsation. A control device of a rotary electric machine according to the invention includes a sinusoidal wave generation circuit which generates a sinusoidal wave signal according to a magnetic pole position of a rotor of the rotary electric machine, a current command circuit which generates a speed command, a torque command based on actual speed information, and a current command on the basis of the sinusoidal wave signal, and a current control circuit which controls an inverter circuit interposed between a stator winding and a DC power source to make a sinusoidal current flow to the stator winding on the basis of the current command and a current detection signal of the stator winding of the rotary electric machine, wherein the current control circuit periodically changes a current phase of the sinusoidal current when the rotary electric machine is driven by a predetermined torque and a predetermined rotation frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Matsunobu, Katsuhiro Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20210119558
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to reduce a torque pulsation. A control device of a rotary electric machine according to the invention includes a sinusoidal wave generation circuit which generates a sinusoidal wave signal according to a magnetic pole position of a rotor of the rotary electric machine, a current command circuit which generates a speed command, a torque command based on actual speed information, and a current command on the basis of the sinusoidal wave signal, and a current control circuit which controls an inverter circuit interposed between a stator winding and a DC power source to make a sinusoidal current flow to the stator winding on the basis of the current command and a current detection signal of the stator winding of the rotary electric machine, wherein the current control circuit periodically changes a current phase of the sinusoidal current when the rotary electric machine is driven by a predetermined torque and a predetermined rotation frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka MATSUNOBU, Katsuhiro HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 10873285
    Abstract: This is to reduce electromagnetic noise while reducing a calculation load of a microcomputer. An inverter drive device according to the present invention switches a first control mode, a second control mode, and a third control mode on the basis of vehicle speed information in a motor control device that controls a power converter that drives a polyphase motor by a PWM pulse signal based on a carrier signal, the first control mode being for updating a command voltage signal to the power converter only on a ridge side or a trough side of the carrier signal, the second control mode being for updating a command voltage signal to the power converter both on a ridge side and a trough side of the carrier signal, and the third control mode being for updating a command voltage signal to the power converter only once of ridge-trough-ridge or trough-ridge-trough of the carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Hara, Toshiyuki Ajima, Katsuhiro Hoshino, Akihiro Ashida, Kazuto Oyama
  • Patent number: 10868488
    Abstract: A six-wire three-phase motor that can realize both of increasing an output and reducing a torque ripple is provided. A six-wire three-phase motor is a six-wire three-phase motor including: a stator including a winding wire wound independently between phases; and a rotor including a plurality of magnets in a circumferential direction, wherein the stator or the rotor is configured in such a manner that a third harmonic current component in a motor current of when an overmodulation voltage based on a PWM signal is applied becomes higher than a third harmonic current component in a motor current of when a sinusoidal modulation voltage based on the PWM signal is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hoshino, Hideki Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10693410
    Abstract: A control device and a control method for a rotary electric motor, and a rotary electric motor drive system capable of reliably suppressing vibration of the rotary electric motor are provided. A rotary electric motor is controlled by PWM at a predetermined carrier frequency, and in a case where a vibration frequency in a space zero-order eigenmode of the rotary electric motor and a frequency of a frequency component of electromagnetic exciting force that generates the eigenmode overlap with each other, a value of the carrier frequency is switched from a first value to a second value different from the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yoshida, Takafumi Hara, Katsuhiro Hoshino, Kazuto Oyama
  • Publication number: 20200119678
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to effectively reduce vibration or noise caused by a motor. An inverter circuit 300 generates an alternating current from a direct current supplied from a direct current power supply 10 by using a plurality of IGBTs 311 which are switching elements, supplies the generated alternating current to a motor 100, and drives the motor 100. This alternating current includes a fundamental harmonic current corresponding to a rotational speed of the motor 100, and a harmonic current of a switching operation of the IGBTs 311. A controller 200 controls a second phase such that a first phase and the second phase are not superimposed on each other at a predetermined motor rotational speed, the first phase being a phase of an excitation force cyclically produced in the motor 100 by the fundamental harmonic current, and the second phase being a phase of an excitation force cyclically produced in the motor 100 by the harmonic current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro HOSHINO, Takafumi HARA, Masaru YAMASAKI, Yosuke TANABE, Masanori WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10516332
    Abstract: In a case where a switching element of an inverter does not operate properly due to failure or the like, a three-phase short circuit cannot be made, and an induced voltage cannot be suppressed. An induced voltage suppression device is electrically connected to the three-phase wiring between the power converter and the motor, in parallel to the power converter. A rectification circuit including a three-phase diode bridge circuit. A DC voltage source including a capacitor. A voltage detection circuit detects a voltage of both ends of the DC voltage source. In a short circuit, when a transistor of the voltage detection circuit is turned on, transistors are turned on to perform three-phase short-circuit operation to suppress an induced voltage of the motor. Since the induced voltage suppression device secures a DC voltage by the induced voltage of the motor as a drive source in a self-excited manner, it is possible to suppress the induced voltage even when an abnormality occurs in the power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seigo Yukutake, Hideki Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Hoshino