Patents by Inventor Kihei Nakajima

Kihei Nakajima 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: 6563691
    Abstract: The mounting structure has a plurality of unit capacitors (1) comprising ceramic capacitor elements (2) with terminals (3), (4), and a three-tier substrate (10) comprising an insulating layer (11) sandwiched between two electrodes (12), (13). A plurality of apertures (15) is formed in the first electrode, in which are positioned bosses (16) being continuous with the second electrode (13), while the plurality of unit capacitors (1) is arranged on the first electrode (12), one terminal of each unit capacitor (1) being in contact with the first electrode (12) and the other with the second electrode (13) via a boss (16) so as to connect all the unit capacitors (1) electrically in parallel fashion. In this manner a mounting structure for capacitors is provided which permits of high capacity in a compact form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kenji Kijima, Kihei Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20020034059
    Abstract: The mounting structure has a plurality of unit capacitors (1) comprising ceramic capacitor elements (2) with terminals (3), (4), and a three-tier substrate (10) comprising an insulating layer (11) sandwiched between two electrodes (12), (13). A plurality of apertures (15) is formed in the first electrode, in which are positioned bosses (16) being continuous with the second electrode (13), while the plurality of unit capacitors (1) is arranged on the first electrode (12), one terminal of each unit capacitor (1) being in contact with the first electrode (12) and the other with the second electrode (13) via a boss (16) so as to connect all the unit capacitors (1) electrically in parallel fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Kenji Kijima, Kihei Nakajima
  • Patent number: 6125045
    Abstract: A power converter includes first and second power conversion units that are connected to each other by a d.c. reactor. The first power conversion unit is a converter in which arms consisting of thyristors are connected in a bridge configuration. The second power conversion unit is an inverter in which arms each of a series combination of a thyristor and a self-excited switch unit having a GTO for producing a commutation voltage for the thyristor are connected in a bridge configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Kihei Nakajima, Shoichi Irokawa, Hiroshi Uchino
  • Patent number: 5001619
    Abstract: In an apparatus for carrying out PWM control of an inverter having a filter connected to the a.c. output side thereof, pulse patterns adapted for determining switching timings for canceling a specified harmonic component, e.g., the fifth order harmonic component included in a voltage on the output side of the filter without exerting an influence on the output voltage fundamental wave, are stored in advance into a memory with respect to various vector quantities of the specified harmonic component to select, from a plurality of pulse patterns stored in the memory, each time a pulse pattern for reducing the specified harmonic component. The inverter is subjected to PWM control in accordance with the pulse pattern thus selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kihei Nakajima, Shinji Sato
  • Patent number: 4878208
    Abstract: In a system interconnecting inverter apparatus, an inverter for controlling power of an AC power system is coupled, via a coupling reactor, to the AC power system having a system voltage. A system phase signal indicating the phase of the system voltage is detected by a system phase detection circuit in real time. Another phase signal indicating the phase of the system voltage is detected by a comparison phase detection circuit with a predetermined delay time, and the detection result is temporarily stored in the circuit as a comparison phase signal. The system phase signal and the comparison phase signal are phase-compared by a stop circuit. When a phase difference between the system phase signal and the comparison phase signal exceeds a predetermined value, the stop circuit stops the operation of the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Nagataka Seki, Kiyoshi Ogawa, Kihei Nakajima
  • Patent number: 4649334
    Abstract: In a method of and a system for controlling a photovoltaic power system including a solar battery and a power converter receiving the output of the solar battery, the voltage of the solar battery is kept at a voltage reference which is determined in accordance with the operating condition of the system thereby to maximize the power of the solar battery. Operating mode is switched between a first mode in which the voltage reference is periodically decreased and a second mode in which the voltage reference is periodically increased. The switching between the first and the second mode is effected in accordance with the direction of change of the power and the voltage of the solar battery. Where there is a reactance between the solar battery and the point at which the voltage or the current is detected, or a time lag element in a voltage detector or a current detector, an arrangement may be provided to compensate detection error due to the reactance or the time lag element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kihei Nakajima
  • Patent number: 4517636
    Abstract: An inverter apparatus includes a plurality of gate-turn-off thyristors being provided at each end of thyristor-branches, and bias sources or capacitors connected in parallel with the gate-turn-off thyristors for applying reverse voltage to the thyristor-branches when the gate-turn-off thyristor is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1985
    Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Uchino, Kihei Nakajima, Ryoichi Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 4349867
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a cycloconverter includes m sets of bridge converters connected between the input terminals of an m-phase load (m.gtoreq.3) and is applied for a cycloconverter of which the common connection point of the bridge converters is disconnected from a neutral point of the load. The output voltage of each bridge converter is controlled by a reference voltage signal during a 1/m period of one cycle of the load voltage. The center of the 1/m period is located at a positive or negative maximum amplitude point of the load voltage. The output voltage is also controlled during the remaining period of (1-1/m) by a phase control input signal corresponding to a difference between a reference current signal and the load current. The reference voltage signal and the phase control input signal are selected by switching signals from a logic circuit for detecting phase voltages of the load to alternately be applied to the phase control circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Otsuka, Hiroshi Uchino, Kihei Nakajima
  • Patent number: 4246528
    Abstract: In a control system of an AC motor fed from a frequency converter including a thyristor rectifier and a thyristor inverter, the speed of the motor is controlled by a current control system comprising a speed control circuit responsive to a reference speed signal and an actual speed signal, and a current control circuit which produces a pulse signal supplied to the rectifier. The inverter is controlled by another pulse signal corresponding to the angular position of the rotor of the motor. An additional current instruction circuit is provided which in response to the two pulse signals described above controls the current control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1981
    Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kihei Nakajima