Patents by Inventor Katsunori Yamamoto
Katsunori Yamamoto 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: 11515828Abstract: A motor drive control device 1 includes a drive voltage generation circuit 13 configured to generate a drive voltage Vin based on a first supply voltage Vdc inputted to a first terminal P1 and generate the drive voltage Vin based on a second supply voltage inputted to a second terminal P2 when a supply of the first supply voltage Vdc is stopped, a control circuit 21 configured to be operable by the drive voltage Vin, generate a drive control signal Sd based on a drive command signal Sc, generate a motor driving information signal So and output the motor driving information signal So from a third terminal P3 and a motor drive circuit 10 configured to output a drive signal to the motor 3, in which the control circuit 21 monitors the first supply voltage Vdc and outputs history information 300 relating to operation of the motor 3 from the third terminal P3 as the motor driving information signal So upon detecting that the supply of the first supply voltage Vdc is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: MlNEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Toshikazu Koshiba, Katsunori Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11303231Abstract: A motor driving control apparatus according to an embodiment includes a motor driving unit that selectively energizes the three-phase coils of a motor; a motor control unit that switches an energizing phase of the coils in a predetermined order, the energizing phase being a phase to which the motor driving unit energizes, by outputting a driving control signal to the motor driving unit; a brake control unit that outputs a brake control signal; an interphase short-circuiting unit that is connected to the coils, and that short-circuits the coils in each of three pairs that are different combinations of two coils of the coils, in response to a short-circuiting signal; and a short-circuiting signal output unit that is connected between the interphase short-circuiting unit and the coil, and that outputs the short-circuiting signal to the interphase short-circuiting unit when an input of the brake control signal is received.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Katsunori Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Kato
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Patent number: 11228261Abstract: A motor driving control apparatus according to an embodiment includes an interphase short-circuiting unit that is connected to at least two-phase coils of the three-phase coils, and that short-circuits at least a pair of coils among three pairs that are different combinations of two coils of the three-phase coils, in response to a short-circuiting signal; a short-circuiting signal output unit that is connected between the coil and the interphase short-circuiting unit, and that outputs a short-circuiting signal to the interphase short-circuiting unit when an input of the brake control signal is received; and a protecting operation unit that stops the interphase short-circuiting unit short-circuiting the coils, based on a voltage condition of a one-phase coil of the three-phase coils.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Katsunori Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Kato
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Publication number: 20210367537Abstract: A motor driving control apparatus according to an embodiment includes an interphase short-circuiting unit that is connected to at least two-phase coils of the three-phase coils, and that short-circuits at least a pair of coils among three pairs that are different combinations of two coils of the three-phase coils, in response to a short-circuiting signal; a short-circuiting signal output unit that is connected between the coil and the interphase short-circuiting unit, and that outputs a short-circuiting signal to the interphase short-circuiting unit when an input of the brake control signal is received; and a protecting operation unit that stops the interphase short-circuiting unit short-circuiting the coils, based on a voltage condition of a one-phase coil of the three-phase coils.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2019Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Katsunori YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki KATO
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Publication number: 20210359633Abstract: A motor drive control device 1 includes a drive voltage generation circuit 13 configured to generate a drive voltage Vin based on a first supply voltage Vdc inputted to a first terminal P1 and generate the drive voltage Vin based on a second supply voltage inputted to a second terminal P2 when a supply of the first supply voltage Vdc is stopped, a control circuit 21 configured to be operable by the drive voltage Vin, generate a drive control signal Sd based on a drive command signal Sc, generate a motor driving information signal So and output the motor driving information signal So from a third terminal P3 and a motor drive circuit 10 configured to output a drive signal to the motor 3, in which the control circuit 21 monitors the first supply voltage Vdc and outputs history information 300 relating to operation of the motor 3 from the third terminal P3 as the motor driving information signal So upon detecting that the supply of the first supply voltage Vdc is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Hiroyuki KATO, Toshikazu KOSHIBA, Katsunori YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 11146188Abstract: A motor driving control apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a motor driving unit that selectively energizes three-phase coils of a motor; a motor control unit that switches an energizing phase of the coils, the energizing phase being a phase to which the motor driving unit energizes, in a predetermined order by outputting a driving control signal to the motor driving unit; a brake control unit that outputs a brake control signal; an interphase short-circuiting unit that is connected between two-phase coils of the three-phase coils, and that short-circuits the two-phase coil in response to a short-circuiting signal; and a short-circuiting signal output unit that is connected between the interphase short-circuiting unit and one-phase coil that is not different from each of the two-phase coils of the three-phase coils, and that outputs a short-circuiting signal to the interphase short-circuiting unit when the brake control signal is received.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.Inventors: Katsunori Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Kato
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Publication number: 20210126560Abstract: A motor driving control apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a motor driving unit that selectively energizes three-phase coils of a motor; a motor control unit that switches an energizing phase of the coils, the energizing phase being a phase to which the motor driving unit energizes, in a predetermined order by outputting a driving control signal to the motor driving unit; a brake control unit that outputs a brake control signal; an interphase short-circuiting unit that is connected between two-phase coils of the three-phase coils, and that short-circuits the two-phase coil in response to a short-circuiting signal; and a short-circuiting signal output unit that is connected between the interphase short-circuiting unit and one-phase coil that is not different from each of the two-phase coils of the three-phase coils, and that outputs a short-circuiting signal to the interphase short-circuiting unit when the brake control signal is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2018Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Katsunori YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki KATO
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Publication number: 20210006184Abstract: A motor driving control apparatus according to an embodiment includes a motor driving unit that selectively energizes the three-phase coils of a motor; a motor control unit that switches an energizing phase of the coils in a predetermined order, the energizing phase being a phase to which the motor driving unit energizes, by outputting a driving control signal to the motor driving unit; a brake control unit that outputs a brake control signal; an interphase short-circuiting unit that is connected to the coils, and that short-circuits the coils in each of three pairs that are different combinations of two coils of the coils, in response to a short-circuiting signal; and a short-circuiting signal output unit that is connected between the interphase short-circuiting unit and the coil, and that outputs the short-circuiting signal to the interphase short-circuiting unit when an input of the brake control signal is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Katsunori YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki KATO
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Patent number: 10263560Abstract: A motor drive controller according to one aspect of the present disclosure including a monitoring unit monitoring a motor and detecting that the motor is in a driving state but is also in a predetermined abnormal state; and a incomplete lock determination unit executing a determination program at a point of time when the abnormal state is detected and causing the determination program to determine whether or not the motor is in an incomplete locked state in which a load not sufficient to stop the motor is applied to a rotating body rotated by driving of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.Inventors: Takamichi Kitano, Katsunori Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10256755Abstract: A motor drive controller including a monitoring unit monitoring whether or not a use state of a motor to be controlled satisfies a predetermined condition, and an output information switching unit switching information to be outputted to the outside from an information output path from motor driving information indicating a drive state of the motor to monitoring information indicating the use state if the use state satisfies the predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamichi Kitano, Katsunori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20170331411Abstract: A motor drive controller according to one aspect of the present disclosure including a monitoring unit monitoring a motor and detecting that the motor is in a driving state but is also in a predetermined abnormal state; and a incomplete lock determination unit executing a determination program at a point of time when the abnormal state is detected and causing the determination program to determine whether or not the motor is in an incomplete locked state in which a load not sufficient to stop the motor is applied to a rotating body rotated by driving of the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Takamichi KITANO, Katsunori YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20170331413Abstract: A motor drive controller including a monitoring unit monitoring whether or not a use state of a motor to be controlled satisfies a predetermined condition, and an output information switching unit switching information to be outputted to the outside from an information output path from motor driving information indicating a drive state of the motor to monitoring information indicating the use state if the use state satisfies the predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.Inventors: Takamichi KITANO, Katsunori YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20040203373Abstract: Provided is a wireless terminal device and a communications system that is able to maximize the effect of expanding the communication availability range by interposing a virtual base station. The wireless terminal device of this invention is used in a communications system where one terminal in a group of terminals becomes a master station, and the remaining terminals become slave stations. The wireless terminal device with switchable operation modes comprises at least: a standby mode for performing communications within the group and obtaining information regarding a terminal that is able to communicate with its own terminal; a master station mode; and a slave station mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2002Publication date: October 14, 2004Inventors: Minoru Ogino, Toshiaki Fujikura, Katsunori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20040203936Abstract: It is the objective of the present invention to realize a highly flexible communication system, in which a communication terminal can freely change from master station operating mode to slave station operating mode or vice versa at its own spontaneous request. In order to achieve this objective, a communication terminal of the present invention, by switching from one mode to the other, operates in either master station operating mode for communicating with a plurality of slave stations that constitute a communication system, and also for controlling the communication system, or slave station operating mode for operating as a slave station in response to a control message from a master station. When terminal 2 operating in slave station operating mode needs to operate as the master station, terminal 2 informs terminal 5, which is the master station, of a transition request REQ 1, for making the transition to the master station.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2002Publication date: October 14, 2004Inventors: Minoru Ogino, Yukihiro Yamada, Katsunori Yamamoto, Toshiaki Fujikura
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Publication number: 20040018848Abstract: Provided is a technique to execute stable one-to-N calls in a distributed system without a base station, by solving problems such as overhead due to the switching of the transmission terminal, variations in the combinations of terminals that can communicate with one another, and transmission collisions. The wireless terminal device of this invention operates either as a master station for transmitting data during a first time slot and receiving data during a second time slot, or as a slave station for transmitting data during the second time slot and receiving data during the first time slot. When the wireless terminal device of this invention operates as the master station, it comprises: a first unit for transmitting data input at its own terminal to another terminal; a second unit for, upon receiving data input at another terminal, transmitting the data to another terminal; and a switching unit to exclusively work the first and second units.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2002Publication date: January 29, 2004Inventors: Minoru Ogino, Toshiaki Fujikura, Katsunori Yamamoto
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Patent number: 5512804Abstract: A dynamic focus circuit of electromagnetic focusing type for a cathode ray tube of a video image displaying apparatus, is provided with a first oscillating circuit and a second oscillating circuit. The first oscillating circuit is provided with: an electric power source; a first switching device; and a capacitor, which are connected in series to form a loop, the first oscillating circuit being opened and closed by the first switching device. The second oscillating circuit is provided with: a second switching device; the capacitor, which is commonly used with the first oscillating circuit such that the first and second oscillating circuits are parallel with respect to the capacitor; and a focus coil for focusing an electron beam of the cathode ray tube, the second switching device, the capacitor and the focus coil being connected in series to form a loop, the second oscillating circuit being opened and closed by the second switching device.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1994Date of Patent: April 30, 1996Assignee: Pioneer Electronic CorporationInventor: Katsunori Yamamoto