Patents by Inventor Masaki Kanada

Masaki Kanada 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: 10222791
    Abstract: An operator of a nuclear plant is provided with an action margin time up to the execution of a next action to be performed in response to a detected accident based on sensor signals received from sensors for the plant. The operator is provided with a displayed graph showing the received sensor signals, estimated sensor signals for the future, the action margin time and an action threshold value corresponding to the next action. Accordingly, the operator can readily grasp how much time is available to perform the next action before the received sensor signals are predicted to exceed the action threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Kanada, Setsuo Arita, Yoshihiko Ishii, Kenichi Katono, Tadaaki Ishikawa, Ryota Kamoshida
  • Publication number: 20170097637
    Abstract: An operator of a nuclear plan is provided with a margin time up to the execution of the action at the time of an accident. The system includes: a sensor signal input device; an accident event estimation device; a procedure manual database; a procedure manual selection device; a procedure automatic check device that checks items in the procedure manual and determines a next action using the sensor signal; a plant state analysis device that analyzes a state of the plant in a case where the actions are executed at a plurality of action timings based on the accident event and the next action, and calculates predicted values of the sensor signals; an action threshold value database in which an action threshold values of the sensor signals corresponding to the action procedure at the time of the accident are stored; and an action margin time calculation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Masaki KANADA, Setsuo ARITA, Yoshihiko ISHII, Kenichi KATONO, Tadaaki ISHIKAWA, Ryota KAMOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20160195872
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a system for assisting operation at the time of a plant accident, which, even if a device malfunctions at the time of the plant accident, can determine normality of a sensor without being influenced by the malfunction. A system for assisting operation at the time of a plant accident, includes: a phenomenon identification apparatus for identifying a state of a plant; a plant behavior analysis apparatus for predicting progress of a process state after a phenomenon occurs by using at least a phenomenon identification result as an initial condition of plant behavior analysis; and a sensor normality determination apparatus for determining normality of a sensor by comparing a result of prediction of the progress of the process state which is output from the plant behavior analysis apparatus with a sensor signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Setsuo ARITA, Masaki KANADA, Yoshihiko ISHII, Ryota KAMOSHIDA, Tadaaki ISHIKAWA, Kenichi KATONO
  • Publication number: 20160077654
    Abstract: To eliminate or reduce stress for an operator who operates an operation panel. A touch panel-type operation panel includes a display with touch panel including an image display surface for displaying an operation part and a control device. The display with touch panel detects approach of an operation finger to the operation part and the position of the operation part and outputs signals of the detected approach of the operation finger and the detected position. The control device predicts and analyzes, in response to an input of the signals of the approach of the operation finger and the position, a state of a control target by operation corresponding to the operation part with reference to state data of the control target, determines appropriateness of the predicted and analyzed operation, and outputs a result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Tadaaki ISHIKAWA, Kenichi KATONO, Setsuo ARITA, Masaki KANADA, Yoshihiko ISHII, Ryota KAMOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20150269505
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an operation support system for plant accidents that estimates events reflecting plant states changing momentarily at plant accidents. The invention includes an event narrow-down device that narrows down occurring event candidates based on at least one of a sensor signal, a device state signal, and an alarm signal and a discriminant rule, an event analysis device that analyzes a plant behavior based on a plurality of event narrow-down results as output of the event narrow-down device, the sensor signal, the device state signal, and the alarm signal, and an event estimation device that estimates an occurring event by comparing an analysis result from an analysis of a process state as output of the event analysis device and the sensor signal, wherein the event estimation device outputs the analysis result of the process state and the sensor signal corresponding to the occurring event as an event estimation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Setsuo ARITA, Yoshihiko ISHII, Masaki KANADA, Ryota KAMOSHIDA, Kenichi KATONO, Tadaaki ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 8209040
    Abstract: A plant control apparatus has a measurement signal DB, an operation signal DB, a numerical value analysis executing unit, a numerical value analysis result DB, a model for estimating a value of a measurement signal for an operation signal, learning unit using the model, a learning information DB, a control logic DB for information used by an operation signal generating unit, a knowledge DB for plant running characteristics, and an analyzing unit processing information in the numerical value analysis result DB by information in the knowledge DB, learning information DB, operation signal DB, and measurement signal DB, wherein the analyzing unit includes at least one of a learning base analyzing unit checking adequacy of an operation method, a signal analyzing unit for evaluating an effect of the operation signal upon the plant and presence/absence of an abnormal signal, and a knowledge DB updating unit correcting information in the knowledge DB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiai, Akihiro Yamada, Yoshiharu Hayashi, Masaki Kanada, Toru Eguchi, Satoru Shimizu, Masayuki Fukai
  • Patent number: 7813819
    Abstract: A control system includes a basic control command operating unit, a fuel data storage unit, a running results database for storing past running results values of a control subject, a data creating unit configured to calculate a distance between data of the past running results values and the data sets and determining data set in which a distance between data becomes minimum, a modeling unit configured to model a relationship between operation parameters of a combustion apparatus and components in combustion gas of the combustion apparatus by using the data set determined by the data creating unit and a correcting unit for calculating combustion apparatus operation parameters with which components having a better condition than that of the components in a current gas are provided by using a model of the modeling unit and correcting operation command values of the basic control command operating unit by calculated operation parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Masaki Kanada, Takaaki Sekiai, Yoshiharu Hayashi, Naohiro Kusumi, Masayuki Fukai, Satoru Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20100114457
    Abstract: A control system includes a basic control command operating unit, a fuel data storage unit, a running results database for storing past running results values of a control subject, a data creating unit configured to calculate a distance between data of the past running results values and the data sets and determining data set in which a distance between data becomes minimum, a modeling unit configured to model a relationship between operation parameters of a combustion apparatus and components in combustion gas of the combustion apparatus by using the data set determined by the data creating unit and a correcting unit for calculating combustion apparatus operation parameters with which components having a better condition than that of the components in a current gas are provided by using a model of the modeling unit and correcting operation command values of the basic control command operating unit by calculated operation parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Masaki Kanada, Takaaki Sekiai, Yoshiharu Hayashi, Naohiro Kusumi, Masayuki Fukai, Satoru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7660639
    Abstract: A control system includes a basic control command operating unit, a fuel data storage unit, a running results database for storing past running results values of a control subject, a data creating unit configured to calculate a distance between data of the past running results values and the data sets and determining data set in which a distance between data becomes minimum, a modeling unit configured to model a relationship between operation parameters of a combustion apparatus and components in combustion gas of the combustion apparatus by using the data set determined by the data creating unit and a correcting unit for calculating combustion apparatus operation parameters with which components having a better condition than that of the components in a current gas are provided by using a model of the modeling unit and correcting operation command values of the basic control command operating unit by calculated operation parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Masaki Kanada, Takaaki Sekiai, Yoshiharu Hayashi, Naohiro Kusumi, Masayuki Fukai, Satoru Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20080168016
    Abstract: A plant control apparatus has a measurement signal DB, an operation signal DB, a numerical value analysis executing unit, a numerical value analysis result DB, a model for estimating a value of a measurement signal for an operation signal, learning unit using the model, a learning information DB, a control logic DB for information used by an operation signal generating unit, a knowledge DB for plant running characteristics, and an analyzing unit processing information in the numerical value analysis result DB by information in the knowledge DB, learning information DB, operation signal DB, and measurement signal DB, wherein the analyzing unit includes at least one of a learning base analyzing unit checking adequacy of an operation method, a signal analyzing unit for evaluating an effect of the operation signal upon the plant and presence/absence of an abnormal signal, and a knowledge DB updating unit correcting information in the knowledge DB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiai, Akihiro Yamada, Yoshiharu Hayashi, Masaki Kanada, Toru Eguchi, Satoru Shimizu, Masayuki Fukai
  • Publication number: 20070234781
    Abstract: A control system includes a basic control command operating unit, a fuel data storage unit, a running results database for storing past running results values of a control subject, a data creating unit configured to calculate a distance between data of the past running results values and the data sets and determining data set in which a distance between data becomes minimum, a modeling unit configured to model a relationship between operation parameters of a combustion apparatus and components in combustion gas of the combustion apparatus by using the data set determined by the data creating unit and a correcting unit for calculating combustion apparatus operation parameters with which components having a better condition than that of the components in a current gas are provided by using a model of the modeling unit and correcting operation command values of the basic control command operating unit by calculated operation parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Masaki Kanada, Takaaki Sekiai, Yoshiharu Hayashi, Naohiro Kusumi, Masayuki Fukai, Satoru Shimizu