Patents by Inventor Masahiro Iezawa
Masahiro Iezawa 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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Publication number: 20170331404Abstract: To estimate a magnet magnetic flux or a magnet temperature with higher accuracy during a three-phase short circuit operation, than in a case only a d-axis current is used. A control device includes a phase short circuit unit for short-circuiting three-phase terminals of a permanent-magnet-type synchronous machine having a permanent magnet. During three-phase short circuit operation in which the three-phase terminals are short-circuited by the phase short circuit unit and the permanent-magnet-type synchronous machine is operated, the control device estimates a magnet state of the permanent magnet on the basis of a d-axis current, a q-axis current and a magnetic characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Fumiaki TAKAGI, Takahiko KOBAYASHI, Masahiro IEZAWA
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Publication number: 20170294857Abstract: A control device for rotating electric machine, which controls a rotating electric machine as a charging electric generator, using an inverter circuit, the control device including: an energization amount generating unit for generating a first electric generation mode in which an energization amount for a field winding and an energization amount for an armature winding of the rotating electric machine are controlled and the inverter circuit is driven to perform electric generation, and a second electric generation mode in which an energization amount for the field winding is controlled to perform electric generation; and an energization signal generating unit for, on the basis of variation-related information relevant to variation in one of electric generation torque and electric generation current of the rotating electric machine, performing switching between the first electric generation mode and the second electric generation mode, and generating energization signals for the field winding and the armatureType: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2016Publication date: October 12, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomohiro SEKI, Masahiro IEZAWA, Ryo NAKAMURA, Yuya HISANO
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Publication number: 20170288588Abstract: An object is to ensure torque accuracy by suppressing the occurrence of low-frequency fold-back noise caused by aliasing, and stable control performance with respect to environmental variations, such as angular errors, power voltage ripples, and so on. A motor control device includes a current detector (10) which, in generating a feedback current value on the basis of the detection result of a three-phase AC current supplied from an inverter (2) to a motor (1), generates a first current detection value based on a first sample timing and a second current detection value based on a second sample timing that is shorter than the first sample timing; a coordinates converter (11) which converts the coordinates of the first current detection value and the second current detection value to q and d axes; and a detection current processor (13) which generates a feedback current value from the coordinate conversion results.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomoya TACHIBANA, Masahiro IEZAWA, Daiki MATSUURA, Noriyuki WADA
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Publication number: 20170264232Abstract: There is provided a controller for a rotary electric machine drive apparatus capable of reducing data-processing load and amount of memories required for a data processing which calculates a voltage command value of the converter which reduces power loss. A controller calculates the required minimum voltage which is required in the case of performing a maximum torque/current control is calculated; calculates a converter loss coefficient which is a coefficient of a polynomial representing a power loss characteristic of the converter; calculates an inverter loss coefficient which is a coefficient of a polynomial representing a power loss characteristic of the inverter; calculates a sum total of loss coefficients for each order of polynomials; calculates the low loss voltage which the sum total power loss becomes a minimum, based on the sum total loss coefficients for each order; sets to the voltage command value of the converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2016Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masahiro IEZAWA, Noriyuki WADA, Hideaki KAWAMOTO, Daiki MATSUURA, Tomoya TACHIBANA
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Patent number: 9688280Abstract: In order to provide a traction control device capable of preventing an initial slip at a start, the traction control device includes a drive power source outputting drive power to a drive wheel of a vehicle; a vehicle speed sensor detecting the wheel speed of a non-drive wheel of the vehicle; and target restricted speed generating means for generating a target restricted speed for the vehicle by determining the state of a road surface from target drive torque of the vehicle, the wheel speed of the non-drive wheel, and a signal indicating the extent of operation of an accelerator by a driver. The target restricted speed generated by the target restricted speed generating means is switched stepwise in a speed region where the speed of the drive wheel is not detected in correspondence with a control mode that is classified according to the slipperiness of a road surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Masahiro Iezawa, Keiichi Enoki, Nobuhide Mori, Yasufumi Ogawa, Kotaro Nakano
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Patent number: 9641107Abstract: A motor controller for an electric vehicle sufficiently reduces vibration components caused by torque ripples passing through a resonance frequency of a vehicle body. The motor controller includes motor torque setting means for generating a first torque command, based on vehicle information, rotation position detection means for detecting a rotation position of the motor, rotation speed calculation means for calculating a rotation speed from a rotation position signal, a high-pass filter that extracts an AC signal component of a rotation speed signal, and a resonance suppression gain circuit that outputs a resonance suppression signal. A signal in which the resonance suppression signal is added to or subtracted from the first torque command is used as a second torque command so as to perform drive control for the motor.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Keiichi Enoki, Masahiro Iezawa, Nobuhide Mori, Yasufumi Ogawa, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20170111004Abstract: By providing a configuration for calculating motor control constants to be set in a motor control apparatus automatically on the basis of a target response time constant obtained from a target response time constant input unit, waveform parameters obtained from a waveform parameter input unit, a normalized time constant obtained from a normalized time constant calculation unit, and a motor load inertia obtained from a motor load inertia input unit, it is possible to obtain a motor control constant calculation device that can determine appropriate motor control constants for obtaining a desired response characteristic by automatic calculation while avoiding variation and an increase in the number of steps due to differences in the abilities of users.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2014Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kazuto YOKOYAMA, Masahiro IEZAWA, Keiichi ENOKI, Yasufumi OGAWA, Kotaro NAKANO
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Patent number: 9575127Abstract: Provided are a motor control device (1) for controlling a motor (2) having a plurality of phases, for quickly and accurately detecting a phase in which an open-state fault has occurred when the open-state fault occurs in a target phase. When a power-supply voltage (Vb) is equal to or higher than a predetermined voltage (Vthr), a motor rotation speed (?) is equal to or lower than a predetermined speed (?thr), a target x-phase voltage command (Vx*) is not in the vicinity of zero, a current (Ix) of the target x-phase is equal to or lower than a predetermined current (Iu_thr), and a state in which a control error is equal to or larger than a predetermined error is detected over a predetermined time period or longer, occurrence of an open-state fault in the target phase is determined.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Isao Kezobo, Masahiro Iezawa, Susumu Zeniya, Eiji Iwami, Yusuke Fujiki, Hiroyuki Kishioka, Sadaaki Kamei, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Jiro Okada
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Publication number: 20160167662Abstract: In order to provide a traction control device capable of preventing an initial slip at a start, the traction control device includes a drive power source outputting drive power to a drive wheel of a vehicle; a vehicle speed sensor detecting the wheel speed of a non-drive wheel of the vehicle; and target restricted speed generating means for generating a target restricted speed for the vehicle by determining the state of a road surface from target drive torque of the vehicle, the wheel speed of the non-drive wheel, and a signal indicating the extent of operation of an accelerator by a driver. The target restricted speed generated by the target restricted. speed generating means is switched stepwise in a speed region where the speed of the drive wheel s not detected in correspondence with a control mode that is classified according to the slipperiness of a road surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Masahiro IEZAWA, Keiichi ENOKI, Nobuhide MORI, Yasufumi OGAWA, Kotaro NAKANO
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Patent number: 9249770Abstract: The engine starter includes: a starter motor; a pinion unit (30) for sliding in an axial direction on an output shaft of the starter motor; and a ring gear (100) which meshes with a pinion pushed out by a push-out mechanism (60) and receives a transmission of a rotational force of the starter motor to thereby start an engine, and the pinion portion (30) includes a pinion gear divided in the axial direction into two pinion gears which are a first pinion gear (35) having a protruded shape for synchronization, for first colliding with the ring gear upon start of meshing with the ring gear, and a second pinion gear (34) for serving to transmit the rotational force after the meshing.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2011Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Daisuke Mizuno, Haruhiko Shimoji, Koichiro Kamei, Masami Abe, Kazuhiro Odahara, Masahiko Kurishige, Hiroaki Kitano, Yuhei Tsukahara, Masahiro Iezawa
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Patent number: 9212602Abstract: An electric motor control apparatus includes a phase correction portion that generates and outputs an amount of phase correction with which to correct a phase of a signal from a position sensor detecting a position of a magnetic pole of an electric motor. The phase correction portion generates and outputs an energization stop signal in a case where a rotation speed of the electric motor is within a predetermined range and stores an amount of phase correction generated therein according to a comparison between a signal from the position sensor or a first phase and an induced voltage of the electric motor to output the amount of phase correction.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuya Hisano, Hideyuki Tanaka, Masahiro Iezawa
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Publication number: 20150180386Abstract: A motor controller for an electric vehicle sufficiently reduces vibration components caused by torque ripples passing through a resonance frequency of a vehicle body. The motor controller includes motor torque setting means for generating a first torque command, based on vehicle information, rotation position detection means for detecting a rotation position of the motor, rotation speed calculation means for calculating a rotation speed from a rotation position signal, a high-pass filter that extracts an AC signal component of a rotation speed signal, and a resonance suppression gain circuit that outputs a resonance suppression signal. A signal in which the resonance suppression signal is added to or subtracted from the first torque command is used as a second torque command so as to perform drive control for the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2012Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi Enoki, Masahiro Iezawa, Nobuhide Mori, Yasufumi Ogawa, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8749105Abstract: A high-efficiency magnetic inductor rotary machine in which eddy current loss is reduced even if driven at super-high-speed rotation, and a fluid transfer apparatus that uses the same. In the magnetic inductor rotary machines, first and second stator cores are disposed coaxially such that circumferential positions of teeth are aligned, and first and second rotor cores are fixed coaxially to a rotating shaft such that salient poles are offset by a pitch of half a salient pole circumferentially, and are disposed on an inner peripheral side of the first and second stator cores. A salient pole width of the salient poles of the first and second rotor cores is configured so as to be greater than an opening width of slots of a stator.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hideaki Arita, Masaya Inoue, Masahiro Iezawa, Toshihiko Miyake
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Publication number: 20140054103Abstract: Provided are a motor control device (1) for controlling a motor (2) having a plurality of phases, for quickly and accurately detecting a phase in which an open-state fault has occurred when the open-state fault occurs in a target phase. When a power-supply voltage (Vb) is equal to or higher than a predetermined voltage (Vthr), a motor rotation speed (?) is equal to or lower than a predetermined speed (?thr), a target x-phase voltage command (Vx*) is not in the vicinity of zero, a current (Ix) of the target x-phase is equal to or lower than a predetermined current (Iu_thr), and a state in which a control error is equal to or larger than a predetermined error is detected over a predetermined time period or longer, occurrence of an open-state fault in the target phase is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Kezobo, Masahiro Iezawa, Susumu Zeniya, Eiji Iwami, Yusuke Fujiki, Hiroyuki Kishioka, Sadaaki Kamei, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Jiro Okada
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Patent number: 8648514Abstract: In a rotary electric motor a first stator core and a second stator core are disposed coaxially so as to be separated by a predetermined distance axially and such that circumferential positions of teeth are aligned, and a first rotor core and a second rotor core on which salient poles are disposed at a uniform angular pitch circumferentially are fixed coaxially to a rotating shaft so as to be positioned on inner peripheral sides of the first stator core and the second stator core, respectively, and so as to be offset circumferentially by a pitch of half a salient pole from each other. A first permanent magnet that is magnetically oriented such that a direction of magnetization is radially inward is disposed on an outer peripheral surface of a core back of the first stator core, and an outer peripheral surface of the first permanent magnet and the outer peripheral surface of the core back of the second stator core are linked by a frame that is made of a magnetic material.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2009Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hideaki Arita, Masaya Inoue, Masahiro Iezawa, Hayato Yoshino, Kazuhiko Baba, Hitoshi Kawaguchi, Toshihiko Miyake
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Publication number: 20130233128Abstract: The engine starter includes: a starter motor; a pinion unit (30) for sliding in an axial direction on an output shaft of the starter motor; and a ring gear (100) which meshes with a pinion pushed out by a push-out mechanism (60) and receives a transmission of a rotational force of the starter motor to thereby start an engine, and the pinion portion (30) includes a pinion gear divided in the axial direction into two pinion gears which are a first pinion gear (35) having a protruded shape for synchronization, for first colliding with the ring gear upon start of meshing with the ring gear, and a second pinion gear (34) for serving to transmit the rotational force after the meshing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2011Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Mizuno, Haruhiko Shimoji, Koichiro Kamei, Masami Abe, Kazuhiro Odahara, Masahiko Kurishige, Hiroaki Kitano, Yuhei Tsukahara, Masahiro Iezawa
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Publication number: 20130192419Abstract: An engine starting device includes: a starter motor; a pinion unit coupled to an output-shaft side of the starter motor by a spline, for sliding in an axial direction; and a ring gear which meshes with a pinion gear of the pinion unit pushed out by a push-out mechanism, and receives a transmission of a rotation force of the starter motor, thereby starting an engine. The pinion unit includes, on all teeth on distal end portions in a meshing axial direction of the pinion gear meshing with the ring gear, synchronization surfaces which are a pair of surfaces parallel with the meshing axial direction, and have a thickness thinner than a tooth thickness of the pinion gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2011Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Daisuke Mizuno, Haruhiko Shimoji, Koichiro Kamei, Masami Abe, Masahiko Kurishige, Hiroaki Kitano, Yuhei Tsukahara, Masahiro Iezawa, Kazuhiro Odahara
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Patent number: 8395345Abstract: In opening/closing control for the valve mechanism to which the return torque is applied in an opening direction or a closing direction of the valve, provided are a position control system for outputting a q-axis current command based on a position deviation between a target position command directed to the brushless DC motor and the coarse present position of the motor obtained by using the position detection sensor of a pulse output type, and a current control system in which a virtual current feedback is built for outputting a phase voltage command without a current sensor based on the q-axis current command and the coarse present position of the motor obtained by using the position detection sensor of the pulse output type.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naoki Imamura, Masahiro Iezawa, Satoshi Kawamura, Yoshitaka Onishi
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Publication number: 20130004334Abstract: An electric motor control apparatus includes a phase correction portion that generates and outputs an amount of phase correction with which to correct a phase of a signal from a position sensor detecting a position of a magnetic pole of an electric motor. The phase correction portion generates and outputs an energization stop signal in a case where a rotation speed of the electric motor is within a predetermined range and stores an amount of phase correction generated therein according to a comparison between a signal from the position sensor or a first phase and an induced voltage of the electric motor to output the amount of phase correction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya HISANO, Hideyuki TANAKA, Masahiro IEZAWA
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Patent number: 8245802Abstract: An automotive hybrid engine assist system that simultaneously mounts both an idling reduction system and an electric motor turbocharging system, and that is small, light, inexpensive, and fuel-efficient. Three-phase power terminals of a generator-motor and a super-high-speed rotary machine are respectively connected to an inverter by a large-current wiring. An electric power direction change-over switch is disposed in a path of the large-current wiring, and switches connection of the inverter to the generator-motor or to the super-high-speed rotary machine.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaya Inoue, Masahiro Iezawa, Hideaki Arita