Patents by Inventor Masakazu Komai

Masakazu Komai 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: 20220275804
    Abstract: A pump apparatus which can save space and is easy to handle is proposed. The pump apparatus includes a pipe-shaped casing including a suction port and a discharge port arranged in the same straight line and defining a flow channel that connects the suction port and the discharge port; a motor disposed inside the casing, the motor including a rotating shaft extending along a flow channel direction directing from the suction port to the discharge port, a rotor rotating integrally with the rotating shaft, a stator provided on an outer peripheral side of the rotor, and a can for isolating a rotor chamber and a stator chamber, the rotor chamber having the rotor disposed therein and the stator chamber having the stator disposed therein; and an inverter disposed in the interior of the casing for exercising variable speed control over the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu KOMAI, Kazuya HIRAMOTO, Kaoru YAGI, Seiichiro YAMADA
  • Patent number: 9780713
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for driving an electric motor, such as a synchronous motor or an induction motor, and more particularly to a driving apparatus which performs a vector control based on an output current of an inverter. The driving apparatus of the present invention includes an inverter, a current detector configured to detect an output current of the inverter, and a vector controller configured to transform the output current, detected by the current detector, into a torque current and a magnetization current and to control the torque current and the magnetization current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Tsukakoshi, Masakazu Komai
  • Patent number: 9602035
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a driving apparatus which performs vector control based on an output current of an inverter. The driving apparatus of the present invention includes a vector controller (11) for transforming three-phase output currents of an inverter (10) into a torque current and a magnetization current, and controlling the torque current and the magnetization current. The vector controller (11) includes a torque-voltage control section (21) for determining a torque-voltage command value based on a deviation between a torque-current command value and the torque current, a magnetization-voltage output section (23) for outputting 0 as a magnetization-voltage command value, a target-magnetization-current determination section (26) for determining a magnetization-current command value based on a deviation between a torque-voltage command value and a target-output-voltage value, and a target-output-voltage determination section (27) for determining the target-output-voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Tsukakoshi, Masakazu Komai
  • Publication number: 20170070171
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for driving an electric motor, such as a synchronous motor or an induction motor, and more particularly to a driving apparatus which performs a vector control based on an output current of an inverter. The driving apparatus of the present invention includes an inverter, a current detector configured to detect an output current of the inverter, and a vector controller configured to transform the output current, detected by the current detector, into a torque current and a magnetization current and to control the torque current and the magnetization current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Kenta TSUKAKOSHI, Masakazu KOMAI
  • Publication number: 20160261218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a driving apparatus which performs vector control based on an output current of an inverter. The driving apparatus of the present invention includes a vector controller (11) for transforming three-phase output currents of an inverter (10) into a torque current and a magnetization current, and controlling the torque current and the magnetization current. The vector controller (11) includes a torque-voltage control section (21) for determining a torque-voltage command value based on a deviation between a torque-current command value and the torque current, a magnetization-voltage output section (23) for outputting 0 as a magnetization-voltage command value, a target-magnetization-current determination section (26) for determining a magnetization-current command value based on a deviation between a torque-voltage command value and a target-output-voltage value, and a target-output-voltage determination section (27) for determining the target-output-voltage value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Kenta Tsukakoshi, Masakazu Komai
  • Patent number: 9190887
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor, an inverter for changing rotational speed of the motor, a cooling fan coupled to a rotational shaft of the motor, a guide cover for guiding a gas flow generated by rotation of the cooling fan to the inverter, and at least two support members coupling the inverter to a side surface of the motor. The support members are located on both sides of a center line connecting a central axis of the motor to a center of the inverter as viewed from an axial direction of the motor. A space serving as a passage of the gas flow from the cooling fan is formed between the support members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoji Ito, So Kuroiwa, Masakazu Komai, Masaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20130181554
    Abstract: A motor assembly (2) includes a motor (5), an inverter (6) for changing rotational speed of the motor (5), a cooling fan (8) coupled to a rotational shaft (10) of the motor (5), a guide cover (20) for guiding a gas flow generated by rotation of the cooling fan (8) to the inverter (6), and at least two support members (11) coupling the inverter (6) to a side surface of the motor (5). The support members (11) are located on both sides of a center line (C) connecting a central axis of the motor (5) to a center of the inverter as viewed from an axial direction of the motor (5). A space serving as a passage of the gas flow from the cooling fan (8) is formed between the support members (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoji Ito, So Kuroiwa, Masakazu Komai, Masaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20110223038
    Abstract: A controller-integrated motor pump is disclosed. The motor pump includes: a pump; a motor configured to drive the pump; a control unit configured to control the motor; and a pressure measuring device configured to measure pressure of fluid at a discharge side of the pump. The control unit is mounted on a motor casing. The control unit includes an inverter configured to produce alternating-current power having a frequency within a band that includes frequencies more than or equal to a commercial frequency, a pump controller configured to produce a torque command value for controlling operation of the pump, and a vector controller configured to determine a voltage command value for the inverter based on the torque command value. The motor has a rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Takahiko OGAWA, Tadashi KATAOKA, Takahide OZAWA, Masakazu KOMAI
  • Patent number: 6455966
    Abstract: A magnetic bearing device for use with a motor-combined structure having magnetic bearings supporting a rotatable shaft out of contact therewith and a motor for rotating the rotatable shaft. A common power supply supplies electric power to the magnetic bearings and the motor, and a motor drive power supply limits variations of the electric power supplied to the motor to at most a predetermined level with respect to variations of electric power supplied to the common power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Barada, Atsushi Ooyama, Toshiharu Nakazawa, Shinichi Sekiguchi, Masakazu Komai