Patents by Inventor Makoto Nunoya

Makoto Nunoya 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: 20240128800
    Abstract: A contactless power feeding facility includes a coupling unit electromagnetically coupling a target feeder line and an adjacent feeder line. A target power supply apparatus includes: a phase detector detecting the induced current phase which is the phase of an induced current flowing through the target feeder line by the electromagnetic induction via the coupling unit while an alternating current is supplied to the adjacent feeder line by an adjacent power supply apparatus; an alternating-current generator generating the alternating current to be supplied to the target feeder line; and a phase controller controlling the alternating-current generator such that the phase of the alternating current to be supplied to the target feeder approaches the induced current phase detected by the phase detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventor: Makoto Nunoya
  • Publication number: 20230146550
    Abstract: An adjustment system causes a target power supply device to execute first processing and second processing while causing at least one adjacent power supply device to perform a regular power supply operation. The first processing is processing for measuring a first voltage value while a power supply circuit of the target power supply device does not output an alternating current. The second processing is processing for measuring a second voltage value while the power supply circuit of the target power supply device outputs an alternating current. The adjustment system obtains a feeder circuit reactance of a feeder circuit based on the difference between the first voltage value and the second value, and executes adjustment processing for adjusting circuit characteristics with use of an adjustment unit in accordance with the obtained feeder circuit reactance in such a manner that the feeder circuit impedance is a predetermined impedance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Makoto Nunoya, Masaaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9184597
    Abstract: Three power supply devices 31 are connected in series via a transmission and receiving coupler 32 to the feeder 12, a short-circuit switch 38 that short-circuits both ends of each transmission coupler 32B is provided, a circuit including three receiving couplers 32A and the feeder 12 is set to a series resonant circuit at a predetermined frequency f, impedance of a circuit including each transmission coupler 32B, and a line connecting the power supply device 31 and the transmission coupler 32B is set to capacitive reactance at the predetermined frequency f, and an voltage to be output to the circuit including the line is controlled while a current flowing through the feeder 12 is being fed back to output a constant current of the predetermined frequency f to the feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Nunoya, Akira Murota
  • Publication number: 20130009475
    Abstract: Three power supply devices 31 are connected in series via a transmission and receiving coupler 32 to the feeder 12, a short-circuit switch 38 that short-circuits both ends of each transmission coupler 32B is provided, a circuit including three receiving couplers 32A and the feeder 12 is set to a series resonant circuit at a predetermined frequency f, impedance of a circuit including each transmission coupler 32B, and a line connecting the power supply device 31 and the transmission coupler 32B is set to capacitive reactance at the predetermined frequency f, and an voltage to be output to the circuit including the line is controlled while a current flowing through the feeder 12 is being fed back to output a constant current of the predetermined frequency f to the feeder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Makoto Nunoya, Akira Murota
  • Patent number: 7733676
    Abstract: A non-contact power supply system is provided in which current phases of induction lines are matched. According to the output current of a power supply unit (21) and the power consumption of induction lines (19), a lead time corresponding to a phase difference between the output currents of the induction lines is determined. A signal for driving transistors (52) is advanced ahead of a drive synchronization signal (?) according to the lead time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Nunoya, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20090003022
    Abstract: A non-contact power supply system is provided in which current phases of induction lines are matched. According to the output current of a power supply unit (21) and the power consumption of induction lines (19), a lead time corresponding to a phase difference between the output currents of the induction lines is determined. A signal for driving transistors (52) is advanced ahead of a drive synchronization signal (?) according to the lead time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Makoto Nunoya, Kazutoshi Takeda