Patents by Inventor Kempei Seki

Kempei Seki 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).

  • Publication number: 20150204920
    Abstract: A frequency-coefficient calculating unit calculates, as a frequency coefficient (fc), a value ((v21+v23)/(2v22)) obtained by normalizing, with a differential voltage instantaneous value (v22) at intermediate time, an average ((v21+v23)/2) of a sum (v21+v23) of differential voltage instantaneous values at time other than the intermediate time among differential voltage instantaneous value data (v21, v22, and v23) at three points representing an inter-distal end distance between voltage instantaneous value data at adjacent two points in voltage instantaneous value data at continuous at least four points extracted, out of voltage instantaneous value data obtained by sampling a measurement target alternating-current voltage at a predetermined data collection sampling frequency, at a gauge sampling frequency lower than the data collection sampling frequency and equal to or higher than a frequency of the alternating-current voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Publication number: 20130338954
    Abstract: An alternating-current electrical quantity measuring apparatus calculates, as a frequency coefficient, a value obtained by normalizing, with a differential voltage instantaneous value at intermediate time, a mean value of a sum of differential voltage instantaneous values at times other than the intermediate time among differential voltage instantaneous value data at three points each representing an inter-point distance between voltage instantaneous value data at adjacent two points in voltage instantaneous value data at continuous at least four points obtained by sampling an alternating voltage set as a measurement target at a sampling frequency twice or more as high as a frequency of the alternating voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Publication number: 20130030731
    Abstract: According to a present alternating-current electric quantity measuring apparatus, a voltage amplitude calculated by a square integral operation of at least three continuous voltage instantaneous values sampled at a sampling frequency twice or higher than a frequency of an alternating-current voltage to be measured is normalized. A voltage chord length calculated by the square integral operation of three voltage chord length instantaneous values representing an end-to-end distance between two adjacent voltage instantaneous values in at least four continuous voltage instantaneous values including the three voltage instantaneous values, which are sampled at the sampling frequency and used in calculating the normalized voltage amplitude, is normalized. A rotation phase angle in one period time of sampling is calculated using the normalized voltage amplitude and the normalized voltage chord length. A frequency of the alternating-current voltage is calculated using the calculated rotation phase angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsbbishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Patent number: 8198904
    Abstract: Voltage instantaneous value time-series estimation data and a present-time voltage estimation value are calculated by using an actually-measured frequency and voltage instantaneous value time-series data according to a least square method. A present-time voltage effective value is determined by using the calculated voltage instantaneous value time-series estimation data, and a present-time synchrophasor, a voltage distortion degree and an inter-bus-line synchrophasor phase angle difference are determined by using the present-time voltage effective value and the present-time voltage estimation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Patent number: 8190387
    Abstract: The invention relates to a frequency measurement apparatus which is arranged in such a way as to obtain an amplitude, chord length and rotation phase angle of a voltage rotation vector by means of an integration method, and furthermore, obtain a change rate of the rotation phase angle, and a rotational acceleration change rate of the rotation vector, and measure a dynamic frequency by determining a frequency change rate for every step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Patent number: 8129980
    Abstract: In the present invention, a measured realtime accurate frequency is used to determine estimated instantaneous voltage/current time-series data for each phase component in accordance with the least-squares method. The estimated instantaneous voltage/current time-series data are used to determine effective voltage, effective current, instantaneous active electric power, instantaneous reactive electric power, effective active electric power, and effective reactive electric power of each phase component and symmetrical component. The measured AC electric quantities are applied to any type of electric power system control/protection apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Patent number: 7701090
    Abstract: An active filter that can remove harmonic noises other than the fundamental wave in a system having many unspecified harmonics and can contribute to the stable operation of the system, and improvement in the quality of power is provided. Using the following power equation (1) for a single-phase circuit as a basic expression, an active power effective value P and a reactive power effective value Q are obtained by integration operation with an active power instantaneous value and a reactive power instantaneous value, an instantaneous voltage estimation value is calculated, the system side fundamental wave current is obtained based on these values, and then the system side fundamental wave current is subtracted from the load current to obtain compensation current as the output of the active filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Publication number: 20100072978
    Abstract: Voltage instantaneous value time-series estimation data and a present-time voltage estimation value are calculated by using an actually-measured frequency and voltage instantaneous value time-series data according to a least square method. A present-time voltage effective value is determined by using the calculated voltage instantaneous value time-series estimation data, and a present-time synchrophasor, a voltage distortion degree and an inter-bus-line synchrophasor phase angle difference are determined by using the present-time voltage effective value and the present-time voltage estimation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Publication number: 20100019758
    Abstract: In the present invention, a measured realtime accurate frequency is used to determine estimated instantaneous voltage/current time-series data for each phase component in accordance with the least-squares method. The estimated instantaneous voltage/current time-series data are used to determine effective voltage, effective current, instantaneous active electric power, instantaneous reactive electric power, effective active electric power, and effective reactive electric power of each phase component and symmetrical component. The measured AC electric quantities are applied to any type of electric power system control/protection apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Publication number: 20100010762
    Abstract: The invention relates to a frequency measurement apparatus which is arranged in such a way as to obtain an amplitude, chord length and rotation phase angle of a voltage rotation vector by means of an integration method, and furthermore, obtain a change rate of the rotation phase angle, and a rotational acceleration change rate of the rotation vector, and measure a dynamic frequency by determining a frequency change rate for every step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Patent number: 7504818
    Abstract: The rotation phase angle measuring device measures a voltage instantaneous value of an electric power system in a period of 1/(4 N) of one period of a reference wave and integrates voltage amplitude of a squared value of the voltage instantaneous value in arbitrary timing for measuring the voltage instantaneous value. The rotation phase angle measuring device calculates chord lengths of the voltage rotation vectors in the above two timings by the integral arithmetic calculation with respect to a difference between two measured adjacent voltage instantaneous values in one pitch period including the above timing. The rotation phase angle measuring device also has a rotation phase angle calculator for calculating a phase angle of the voltage rotation vector in one pitch period including the above timing on the basis of the voltage amplitude value and the chord length value calculated by the above calculations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Publication number: 20080174183
    Abstract: An active filter that can remove harmonic noises other than the fundamental wave in a system having many unspecified harmonics and can contribute to the stable operation of the system, and improvement in the quality of power is provided. Using the following power equation (1) for a single-phase circuit as a basic expression, an active power effective value P and a reactive power effective value Q are obtained by integration operation with an active power instantaneous value and a reactive power instantaneous value, an instantaneous voltage estimation value is calculated, the system side fundamental wave current is obtained based on these values, and then the system side fundamental wave current is subtracted from the load current to obtain compensation current as the output of the active filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Publication number: 20070279039
    Abstract: The rotation phase angle measuring device measures a voltage instantaneous value of an electric power system in a period of 1 4N-th (N is a positive integer) of one period of a reference wave when the voltage instantaneous value of the electric power system is expressed by a voltage rotation vector on a complex plane. The rotation phase angle measuring device calculates a voltage amplitude value by an integral arithmetic calculation of a squared value of the voltage instantaneous value in arbitrary timing for measuring the voltage instantaneous value. The rotation phase angle measuring device calculates chord lengths of the voltage rotation vectors in the above two timings by the integral arithmetic calculation with respect to a difference between two measured adjacent voltage instantaneous values in one pitch period including the above timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Patent number: 7006935
    Abstract: A synchronous vector measuring device can measure an absolute phase angle of a synchronous vector excellent in continuous numerical stability at high speed and with high accuracy in a noisy electric power system. A voltage measuring part measures the voltage of the electric power system at a period equal to 1/4N (N being a positive integer) of one period of a reference wave. A voltage root-mean-square value calculation part calculates, at each voltage measuring timing, a voltage root-mean-square value at a specific timing from the voltages measured at past 4N timings including the specific timing. An absolute phase angle calculation part makes, at each voltage measuring timing, an inverse cosine of a value obtained by dividing the voltage measured at the specific timing by the product of the voltage root-mean-square value and the square root of 2, as the absolute phase angle of the synchronous vector at the specific timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Patent number: 6985824
    Abstract: A frequency measuring device can measure the frequency of a noisy power system at high speed. The system voltage is measured at timings obtained by equally dividing one reference-wave period. Voltage vectors are calculated which have tip ends, each voltage vector consisting of a real part of a first measured voltage and an imaginary part of another voltage measured at timing 90 degrees before the first measured voltage. The length of a chord connecting tip ends of adjacent voltage vectors is calculated. A voltage root-mean-square value is calculated from voltages measured between two timings spaced from each other by the one reference-wave period. Chord lengths obtained between two timings spaced from each other by the one reference-wave period are summed. Based on the total of the chord lengths and the voltage root-mean-square value, there is calculated a phase angle between two adjacent voltage vectors, from which the system frequency is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: TMT & D Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Publication number: 20050151532
    Abstract: A synchronous vector measuring device can measure an absolute phase angle of a synchronous vector excellent in continuous numerical stability at high speed and with high accuracy in a noisy electric power system. A voltage measuring part measures the voltage of the electric power system at a period equal to 1/4N (N being a positive integer) of one period of a reference wave. A voltage root-mean-square value calculation part calculates, at each voltage measuring timing, a voltage root-mean-square value at a specific timing from the voltages measured at past 4N timings including the specific timing. An absolute phase angle calculation part makes, at each voltage measuring timing, an inverse cosine of a value obtained by dividing the voltage measured at the specific timing by the product of the voltage root-mean-square value and the square root of 2, as the absolute phase angle of the synchronous vector at the specific timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventor: Kempei Seki
  • Publication number: 20040243329
    Abstract: A frequency measuring device can measure the frequency of a noisy power system at high speed. The system voltage is measured at timings obtained by equally dividing one reference-wave period. Voltage vectors are calculated which have tip ends, each voltage vector consisting of a real part of a first measured voltage and an imaginary part of another voltage measured at timing 90 degrees before the first measured voltage. The length of a chord connecting tip ends of adjacent voltage vectors is calculated. A voltage root-mean-square value is calculated from voltages measured between two timings spaced from each other by the one reference-wave period. Chord lengths obtained between two timings spaced from each other by the one reference-wave period are summed. Based on the total of the chord lengths and the voltage root-mean-square value, there is calculated a phase angle between two adjacent voltage vectors, from which the system frequency is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Applicant: TMT & D Corporation
    Inventor: Kempei Seki