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: 12261554
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Sato, Keisuke Suzuki, Katsuhiro Hoshino, Hideki Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 12252140
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hoshino, Takaki Itaya
  • Patent number: 12199539
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hoshino, Takafumi Hara, Takaya Tsukagoshi
  • Publication number: 20240380337
    Abstract: An inverter control device includes: a carrier wave generation unit that generates a carrier wave; a carrier frequency adjustment unit that adjusts a frequency of the carrier wave; and a PWM control unit that performs pulse width modulation on a voltage command using the carrier wave and generates a PWM pulse signal for controlling an operation of an inverter. The carrier frequency adjustment unit determines a phase shift amount for reducing a voltage amplitude of a specific order component among order components of a voltage ripple superimposed on a DC voltage, and adjusts a frequency of the carrier wave so as to change a phase difference between the voltage command and the carrier wave according to the determined phase shift amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Takafumi HARA, Takaya TSUKAGOSHI, Katsuhiro HOSHINO, Shigehisa AOYAGI
  • Patent number: 12132430
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akeshi Takahashi, Kazuo Nishihama, Noriyuki Maekawa, Katsuhiro Hoshino
  • Patent number: 12119766
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Hoshino
  • Patent number: 12074542
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Hara, Toshiyuki Ajima, Katsuhiro Hoshino, Noriyuki Maekawa
  • Patent number: 12074551
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Hara, Toshiyuki Ajima, Takaya Tsukagoshi, Katsuhiro Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20240262413
    Abstract: A motor control device includes: an inverter circuit that drives a motor; and a control unit that generates a current command value on the basis of a torque command to the motor, and outputs a PWM pulse to the inverter circuit on the basis of the current command value to control the inverter circuit, and the control unit sets a phase shift amount of a carrier wave of the PWM pulse, estimates a fluctuating torque according to the phase shift amount, and corrects the current command value on the basis of the fluctuating torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro HOSHINO, Takafumi HARA, Takaya TSUKAGOSHI
  • Publication number: 20240227771
    Abstract: A motor control device controls driving of an AC motor that is connected to a power transformer that performs power transform from DC power to AC power and outputs a rotational driving force generated by driving using the AC power via a speed reducer, and includes a carrier generator that generates a carrier wave, a carrier frequency adjuster that adjusts a frequency of the carrier wave, and a gate signal generator that performs pulse width modulation on a voltage command according to a torque command using the carrier wave and generates a gate signal for controlling an operation of the power transformer, wherein the carrier frequency adjuster changes a phase difference between the voltage command and the carrier wave based on the torque command and a rotational speed of the AC motor, and adjusts the frequency of the carrier wave such that a difference between a meshing frequency of the speed reducer and a harmonic component of a fundamental harmonic current according to the voltage command falls within a pre
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya TSUKAGOSHI, Takafumi HARA, Katsuhiro HOSHINO, Shigehisa AOYAGI
  • Publication number: 20240204705
    Abstract: A motor control device includes: an inverter that supplies an alternating current to a motor mounted on a vehicle; a current detection unit that detects the alternating current; a position detection unit that detects a rotor phase angle of the motor; and an inverter control unit that controls the inverter based on a current value detected by the current detection unit and the rotor phase angle detected by the position detection unit, wherein the inverter control unit, in response to a timing at which vibration of the vehicle is generated, changes a current phase angle of the motor, and makes a cycle of a waveform of a resultant current of the alternating current irregular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuaki SATO, Keisuke SUZUKI, Katsuhiro HOSHINO, Hideki SEKIGUCHI
  • 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