Patents by Inventor Kouichi Yasukawa

Kouichi Yasukawa 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: 8829915
    Abstract: The leakage resistance detection device includes a coupling capacitor having one terminal connected to an on-board high voltage device and another terminal connected to a repetitive signal output circuit, and measures a leakage resistance as a function of a transition time during which a monitoring voltage, which is a potential at the another terminal of the coupling capacitor to be charged/discharged in response to an operation of a charge/discharge switching element that operates in response to a repetitive pulse signal, changes from one predetermined voltage to reach another predetermined voltage. When the measured leakage resistance has become equal to or smaller than a predetermined limit leakage resistance, the leakage resistance detection device generates a resistance abnormality determination output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsunori Nishida, Yuji Zushi, Kouichi Yasukawa
  • Publication number: 20130245869
    Abstract: The leakage resistance detection device includes a coupling capacitor having one terminal connected to an on-board high voltage device and another terminal connected to a repetitive signal output circuit, and measures a leakage resistance as a function of a transition time during which a monitoring voltage, which is a potential at the another terminal of the coupling capacitor to be charged/discharged in response to an operation of a charge/discharge switching element that operates in response to a repetitive pulse signal, changes from one predetermined voltage to reach another predetermined voltage. When the measured leakage resistance has become equal to or smaller than a predetermined limit leakage resistance, the leakage resistance detection device generates a resistance abnormality determination output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsunori NISHIDA, Yuji ZUSHI, Kouichi YASUKAWA
  • Patent number: 7023170
    Abstract: An inverter that executes a d q-axis control of a three-phase synchronous motor needs a rotational position sensor that detects rotational positions of an electric motor for mutual conversion between two-phase and three-phase. An angle error of this rotational position sensor affects accuracy in the d q-axis control, so that it is necessary to make a compensation with accuracy. In the conventional method, however, there is a problem of occurrence of an ignorable error due to influence of noise. An origin offset calculation method according to the invention includes a first process of forcibly making d q-axis current command values zero; a second process of multiplying a magnetic flux component voltage command value at this time by a proportional integral gain; and a third process of storing a rotational position sensor phase error when a magnetic flux component voltage command value becomes zero being a result of the second process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouichi Yasukawa, Shinji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20060012328
    Abstract: An inverter that executes a d q-axis control of a three-phase synchronous motor needs a rotational position sensor that detects rotational positions of an electric motor for mutual conversion between two-phase and three-phase. An angle error of this rotational position sensor affects accuracy in the d q-axis control, so that it is necessary to make a compensation with accuracy. In the conventional method, however, there is a problem of occurrence of an ignorable error due to influence of noise. An origin offset calculation method according to the invention includes a first process of forcibly making d q-axis current command values zero; a second process of multiplying a magnetic flux component voltage command value at this time by a proportional integral gain; and a third process of storing a rotational position sensor phase error when a magnetic flux component voltage command value becomes zero being a result of the second process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Kouichi Yasukawa, Shinji Nishimura