Patents by Inventor Koji Obata
Koji Obata 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: 7764042Abstract: An inverter-driven rotating machine system is provided in which three-phase AC electric power of the inverter is supplied to a rear motor generator by using a cable. One end of an additional cable is connected to rotating machine terminals, namely motor input terminals of a motor case. The other end is connected to fixed voltage terminals, namely inverter additional terminals on an outer case of the inverter via resistors.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2007Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Obata, Yutaka Matsunobu, Takashi Yasuhara, Takayuki Koizumi
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Patent number: 7659651Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator core of a cylindrical shape, a rotor core coaxially rotating inside the stator core, and a plurality of coils each formed by winding magnet wires using a slot formed axially in either the stator core or the rotor core, or both: it is preferable that each of the coils be split into a plurality of coil groups, that starting sections of winding of the magnet wires in one of the coil groups be wound adjacently to ending sections of winding of the magnet wires in another of the coil groups, and that the starting sections and ending sections of winding of the magnet wires in the two coil groups be connected at respective outgoing wire ends to one another, outside the slots.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2007Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Obata, Masaharu Senoo, Takeshi Obata, Akihiro Sekine, Mituru Itou, Takashi Yasuhara, Takayuki Koizumi
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Publication number: 20090245124Abstract: There is provided a receiving device including: a receiving unit that receives a packet stream; an oscillator; a measuring unit that performs a measuring operation; an acquiring unit that reads the newest time stamp read from the packet stream received by the receiving unit and the newest measurement value measured by the measuring unit with a predetermined period, from a point of time when the packet stream starts to be received; a calculating unit that calculates an accumulation value of the time stamps and the measurement values acquired by the acquiring unit; a comparing unit that compares a difference between the accumulation value of the time stamps and the accumulation value of the measurement values calculated by the calculating unit, and a value corresponding to a network jitter; and a frequency control unit that controls the oscillation frequency of the oscillator based on the comparison result by the comparing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takahiro Ichikawa, Koji Obata, Tomoyuki Sato, Yoshikatsu Niwa, Junichi Otani, Tomoaki Takemura, Shinya Masunaga
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Patent number: 7557483Abstract: A stator coil is configured of a first group of six turns of conductive wire, and a second group also of six turns, with the first group of six turns being wound on a spool, leaving a gap the same as the diameter of the conductive wire between winds. Upon completion of winding the first group, the winding is turned back, and the second group of six turns is wound in the gap, so as to be adjacent to the turns of the first group. The article is then inserted into a slot in a stator core of a stator, thereby configuring a stator coil. This provides for a rotating electrical machine and manufacturing method thereof with improved insulation resistivity regarding inverter surge voltage, and moreover high output can be obtained with a machine of comparable external dimensions with conventional machines.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2005Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Yasuhara, Takayuki Koizumi, Ryozo Takeuchi, Koji Obata, Hidemitsu Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20090140595Abstract: The stator includes a plurality of concentrated winding coils disposed coupled into an annular form through yokes, and a plurality of conductors that couple the coil ends of the concentrated winding coils to each other in a multi-phase connection fashion. Conductors for a U-phase, a V-phase, a W-phase, and neutral points P are each formed of a plurality of holes for inserting therethrough coil ends and are substantially circular with different diameters, and are disposed on the same plane. A connection plate provided with a wall is inserted between the conductors and the concentrated winding coils. A rotating machine includes the above-mentioned stator and a rotor that is rotatable within the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi NAGANAWA, Takashi Ishigami, Koji Obata, Toshiaki Ueda, Katsuhiro Hoshino
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Patent number: 7496675Abstract: FIG. 3B shows buffer occupancy rate of a transport stream buffer 21 when a TS packet is transferred to the transport stream buffer 21 having a transport rate Rt and a leak rate Rx. A time T1 during which the buffer occupancy rate of the transport stream buffer 21 increases and a time T2 during which the buffer occupancy rate of the transport stream buffer 21 decreases are expressed by (Rt?Rx)×T1=Rx×T2 and T1=(188×8)/Rt. A time T is T=T1+T2=(188×8)/Rx. Therefore, the time T is equal to a time T? shown in FIG. 3C. Thus, when a TS packet is transferred in a cycle of the time T?, the transport stream buffer 21 will not overflow and the transport stream buffer 21 becomes empty at least once a second, whereby simulation for the transport stream buffer 21 is not required in the simulation for the T-STD model.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2001Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koji Obata, Noriaki Oishi, Tomoyuki Sato, Hajime Nitta, Kiyoshi Ota
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Publication number: 20080315705Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator core of a cylindrical shape, a rotor core coaxially rotating inside the stator core, and a plurality of coils each formed by winding magnet wires using a slot formed axially in either the stator core or the rotor core, or both: it is preferable that each of the coils be split into a plurality of coil groups, that starting sections of winding of the magnet wires in one of the coil groups be wound adjacently to ending sections of winding of the magnet wires in another of the coil groups, and that the starting sections and ending sections of winding of the magnet wires in the two coil groups be connected at respective outgoing wire ends to one another, outside the slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2007Publication date: December 25, 2008Inventors: Koji OBATA, Masaharu Senoo, Takeshi Obata, Akihiro Sekine, Mituru Itou, Takashi Yasuhara, Takayuki Koizumi
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Publication number: 20080265701Abstract: The power distribution unit for a rotary electric machine includes a connecting ring unit that connects stator coils of the same phase. The connecting ring unit includes at least one linear conductor integrally formed in a ring-like shape, and the connecting ring unit includes a terminal section integrally formed in the linear conductor. The terminal section is constituted by a hole through which a wiring end of the stator coil is inserted and a protrusion formed in a direction of the hole to which the wiring end of the stator coil is connected. Also disclosed are a rotary electric machine includes the power distribution unit and a method for assembling a rotary electric machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Ueda, Katsuhiro Hoshino, Shin Onose, Akira Toba, Koji Obata
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Publication number: 20080231136Abstract: An electrical rotating machine wherein the coil end portion and slot straight portion of a coil conductor are coated with insulation layers respectively. The insulation layers are different in thickness or insulation material, and an electric field lessening layer is coated on the coil conductor or the insulation layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventor: Koji OBATA
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Patent number: 7394851Abstract: An encoder to encode video streams representing a moving picture is provided whose video encoder calculates a bit storage quantity an STD video buffer should have when input of a stream ending with a first picture to the STD video buffer ends, calculates an initial bit storage quantity of a second picture of a stream concatenated to the end of the first picture and starting with the second picture, in a VBV buffer, based on the calculated bit storage quantity of the STD buffer, and encodes the stream based on the bit storage quantity. The video encoder further calculates a bit storage quantity of the STD video buffer, for decoding a picture of the stream in the STD video buffer, calculates, based on the calculated bit storage quantity, a bit storage quantity the VBV buffer should have for ending decoding of a fourth picture of a second stream concatenated to the beginning of a third picture and ending with the fourth picture, and encodes the stream based on the calculated bit storage quantity.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2004Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Motoki Kato, Koji Obata, Nobuhiro Igi, Yoshikazu Takashima
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Publication number: 20080007197Abstract: The present invention provides an inverter-driven rotating machine system improved in insulation reliability, a rotating machine and inverter used in the system and an electric vehicle using the system. Three-phase AC electric power of the inverter INV is supplied to a rear motor generator RMG by using a cable CA1. One end of an additional cable CA2 is connected to rotating machine terminals, namely motor input terminals IT1 of a motor case RMG-C. The other end is connected to fixed voltage terminals, namely inverter additional terminals AT1 on an outer case INV-C of the inverter INV via resistors R.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2007Publication date: January 10, 2008Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Obata, Yutaka Matsunobu, Takashi Yasuhara, Takayuki Koizumi
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Publication number: 20060152188Abstract: A stator coil is configured of a first group of six turns of conductive wire, and a second group also of six turns, with the first group of six turns being wound on a spool, leaving a gap the same as the diameter of the conductive wire between winds. Upon completion of winding the first group, the winding is turned back, and the second group of six turns is wound in the gap, so as to be adjacent to the turns of the first group. The article is then inserted into a slot in a stator core of a stator, thereby configuring a stator coil. This provides for a rotating electrical machine and manufacturing method thereof with improved insulation resistivity regarding inverter surge voltage, and moreover high output can be obtained with a machine of comparable external dimensions with conventional machines.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2005Publication date: July 13, 2006Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Yasuhara, Takayuki Koizumi, Ryozo Takeuchi, Koji Obata, Hidemitsu Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20040264566Abstract: An encoder to encode video streams representing a moving picture is provided whose video encoder calculates a bit storage quantity an STD video buffer should have when input of a stream ending with a first picture to the STD video buffer ends, calculates an initial bit storage quantity of a second picture of a stream concatenated to the end of the first picture and starting with the second picture, in a VBV buffer, based on the calculated bit storage quantity of the STD buffer, and encodes the stream based on the bit storage quantity. The video encoder further calculates a bit storage quantity of the STD video buffer, for decoding a picture of the stream in the STD video buffer, calculates, based on the calculated bit storage quantity, a bit storage quantity the VBV buffer should have for ending decoding of a fourth picture of a second stream concatenated to the beginning of a third picture and ending with the fourth picture, and encodes the stream based on the calculated bit storage quantity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Motoki Kato, Koji Obata, Nobuhiro Igi, Yoshikazu Takashima
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Patent number: 6825886Abstract: A picture signal processing method and apparatus in which the block distortion as well as the mosquito noise produced on encoding/decoding a picture is to be suppressed. The picture signal processing apparatus includes a filter for filtering a picture, an encoder 5 for block-encoding the picture, a decoder 13 for decoding an encoded picture from the encoder 5 and a noise reducing unit 14 for reducing at least the block distortion of a picture decoded by the decoding unit 13 to reduce the noise otherwise produced on encoding/decoding the picture.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2002Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kobayashi, Minoru Morio, Motoki Kato, Nobuhiro Igi, Koji Obata
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Patent number: 6795498Abstract: An image processing system comprising a decoder 10 and an encoder 30. The decoder 10 comprises a section 12 for decoding a bit stream to generate image data, generating coding parameters for each layer and generating an error flag indicating whether the coding parameters can be effectively used. The encoder 30 comprises a control section 41, an MB-parameter calculating section 36, an encoding section 38 and a variable-length encoding section 39. The section 41 determines, from the error flag, whether or not the coding parameters can be effectively used or not. The section 36 calculates coding parameters when the coding parameters generated by the section 12 are invalid. The sections 38 and 39 encodes the image data by using the coding parameters generated by the section 12 when these parameters are valid, and by using the coding parameters calculated by the section 36 when the coding parameters generated by the section 12 are invalid.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2000Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Motoki Kato, Koji Obata, Nobuhiro Igi, Hideyuki Narita
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Patent number: 6795499Abstract: An encoder to encode video streams representing a moving picture is provided whose video encoder calculates a bit storage quantity an STD video buffer should have when input of a stream ending with a first picture to the STD video buffer ends, calculates an initial bit storage quantity of a second picture of a stream concatenated to the end of the first picture and starting with the second picture, in a VBV buffer, based on the calculated bit storage quantity of the STD buffer, and encodes the stream based on the bit storage quantity. The video encoder further calculates a bit storage quantity of the STD video buffer, for decoding a picture of the stream in the STD video buffer, calculates, based on the calculated bit storage quantity, a bit storage quantity the VBV buffer should have for ending decoding of a fourth picture of a second stream concatenated to the beginning of a third picture and ending with the fourth picture, and encodes the stream based on the calculated bit storage quantity.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Motoki Kato, Koji Obata, Nobuhiro Igi, Yoshikazu Takashima
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Patent number: 6730255Abstract: A method for manufacture of a resin block includes setting high-voltage and low-voltage side conductors in dies, assembling the dies, extruding resin so as to form a resin block having the high-voltage side conductor and the low-voltage side conductor embedded therein, cooling the molded resin block, and taking out the molded resin block from the dies.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2003Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ryozo Takeuchi, Junpei Kusukawa, Koji Obata
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Publication number: 20030218273Abstract: A method for manufacture of a resin block includes setting high-voltage and low-voltage side conductors in dies, assembling the dies, extruding resin so as to form a resin block having the high-voltage side conductor and the low-voltage side conductor embedded therein, cooling the molded resin block, and taking out the molded resin block from the dies.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2003Publication date: November 27, 2003Inventors: Ryozo Takeuchi, Junpei Kusukawa, Koji Obata
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Patent number: 6649847Abstract: A resin block insulating system comprising a plurality of resin blocks laid so as to cover a high-voltage part. Each of the resin blocks has a side surface opposite to a side surface of an adjacent resin block via a gap formed therebetween. The side surfaces are substantially parallel with each other and extend in an inclined direction with reference to a thickness direction of the resin block insulating system so as to extend an insulation length of the gap.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2001Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ryozo Takeuchi, Junpei Kusukawa, Koji Obata
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Publication number: 20030142747Abstract: A bit stream generated in a first encoding process is supplied to an MPEG decoder. The MPEG decoder outputs decoded pictures. The decoded pictures are supplied as input decoded pictures to a frame memory through a recording/reproducing system. The frame memory supplies the input decoded pictures to an MPEG encoder and an MAD calculating circuit at a predetermined timing. The MAD calculating circuit calculates a MAD value (the sum of the differences between a mean value and each pixel value). A high pass filter extracts high frequency components from the input decoded pictures corresponding to the calculated result. The extracted high frequency components are supplied to a B picture determining circuit. The B picture determining circuit determines the picture type of the input decoded pictures corresponding to the high frequency components and supplies the determined result to the MPEG encoder. The MPEG encoder locks GOP phases of the input decoded pictures corresponding to the determined result.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 1999Publication date: July 31, 2003Inventors: KOJI OBATA, NOBUHIRO IGI, MOTOKI KATO