Patents by Inventor Masao Akiyoshi

Masao Akiyoshi 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: 12217921
    Abstract: A coupling bellows includes a first bellows and a second bellows having a higher spring constant than the first bellows. A coupling member is joined to each of the first bellows and the second bellows adjacent to each other, and includes a hole inserted with a movable shaft. A pressing member moves in an axial direction of the movable shaft toward the coupling member along with movement of the movable shaft in the direction in which a movable contactor is separated from a fixed contactor, and presses the coupling member, thereby contracting the second bellows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Tomizawa, Takuma Sasai, Masao Akiyoshi
  • Patent number: 12135207
    Abstract: This device includes: an input unit for receiving a shape of an inspection target surface of a wedge exposed from a slot with no force applied to the wedge; a relation storage unit which acquires and stores, as a deformation reaction force relation, a relation between a reaction force of a spring at the inspection target surface of the wedge and deformation distribution from the shape of the inspection target surface of the wedge inputted to the input unit; a measurement unit for measuring measurement deformation distribution of the inspection target surface of the wedge; an estimation unit for estimating an estimation reaction force from the measurement deformation distribution and the deformation reaction force relation; and a judgement unit for judging proper/fault about looseness of the wedge from the estimation reaction force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GENERATOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norihiko Hana, Masao Akiyoshi, Daichi Goto, Kazuaki Ogura
  • Publication number: 20240353287
    Abstract: An inspection device includes: a data recording unit which records, in advance, change of a natural frequency caused when a rigidity of a supported part of an inspection target object and a damage size of the inspection target object are changed; a measurement unit which measures vibration response of the vibration-applied inspection target object; and an estimation unit which estimates the rigidity of the supported part of the inspection target object and the damage size of the inspection target object, simultaneously, on the basis of change of the natural frequency between a natural frequency of the inspection target object calculated from the vibration response and a natural frequency obtained by measuring the inspection target object whose damage state has already been known, and the change of the natural frequency recorded in the data recording unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiko HANA, Masao AKIYOSHI, Masaki UMEDA, Kenji AMAYA, Takuya IWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12080673
    Abstract: The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor element including a body portion formed in a plate shape, a protection film provided at an outer periphery on one surface of the body portion, and a metal thin film provided adjacently to an inner side of the protection film on the one surface of the body portion; a metal member joined to a surface of the metal thin film on a side opposite to the body portion, by solder; and a mold resin sealing the semiconductor element and the metal member, wherein the surface of the metal thin film on the side opposite to the body portion has, on at least a part of an outer periphery thereof, a projection portion projecting from the surface of the metal thin film, and the solder is not provided on an outer peripheral side from a top of the projection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kitagawa, Shin Uegaki, Masao Akiyoshi, Masaaki Taruya, Dai Yoshii, Kazuhiro Tada
  • Patent number: 11913991
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. An imaging device images a test target portion which is a part of the rotor, to generate image data of the test target portion, and transmits the generated image data to an image processing device. The image processing device generates strain change information representing change in the strain distribution in the test target portion by digital image correlation on the basis of the test image data generated by the imaging device. The state of the rotor is tested using the generated strain change information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiko Hana, Masao Akiyoshi, Yoshihide Kikuichi
  • Patent number: 11892510
    Abstract: Provided is an inspection device for a rotating electric machine, including: a storage unit configured to store tendency information indicating a relationship among a position of damage that occurs in an inspection target portion being a range to be inspected of a rotor included in a rotating electric machine, a scale of the damage, and an amount of deformation that occurs in a measurement target portion set on an outer surface of the rotor; a measurement unit configured to measure the amount of deformation that has occurred in the measurement target portion; and a damage estimating unit configured to estimate the position and the scale of the damage that has occurred in the measurement target portion based on the tendency information and the amount of deformation in the measurement target portion, which has been measured by the measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiko Hana, Masao Akiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20230251170
    Abstract: A crack estimation device which accurately estimates a crack inside a structure is provided. The crack estimation device includes: a measurement unit which measures deformation of a measurement plane as a measurement plane deformation vector; a model generation unit which sets deformation of the measurement plane when a crack is generated in a crack generation plane, as a measurement plane estimated change vector for multiple types of crack candidates; and a crack state analysis unit which obtains a similarity between the measurement plane deformation vector and the measurement plane estimated change vector, normalizes the similarity, and estimates the crack generated in the crack generation plane from a result obtained by multiplying a vector of a state quantity indicating a state of the crack generation plane by the normalized similarity for each crack candidate, and adding together results of the multiplication for all the crack candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiko HANA, Masao AKIYOSHI, Masaki UMEDA, Kenji AMAYA
  • Publication number: 20230145798
    Abstract: A coupling bellows includes a first bellows and a second bellows having a higher spring constant than the first bellows. A coupling member is joined to each of the first bellows and the second bellows adjacent to each other, and includes a hole inserted with a movable shaft. A pressing member moves in an axial direction of the movable shaft toward the coupling member along with movement of the movable shaft in the direction in which a movable contactor is separated from a fixed contactor, and presses the coupling member, thereby contracting the second bellows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke TOMIZAWA, Takuma SASAI, Masao AKIYOSHI
  • Patent number: 11646614
    Abstract: In a rotor of a rotating electric machine, a slot includes a winding insertion portion and a widened portion. A width dimension of the widened portion is larger than a width dimension of the winding insertion portion. A pair of step portions are formed on both sides of an end portion of the winding insertion portion on the widened portion side. A wedge member is spaced from and opposed to the pair of step portions. An insulation includes: an insulation main body arranged between a rotor winding and a damper bar; and an extended portion, which is arranged in at least a part of a space between the wedge member and the pair of step portions, and is configured to suppress movement of the damper bar in a circumferential direction of a rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiko Hana, Masao Akiyoshi, Yosuke Uchida
  • Publication number: 20230049804
    Abstract: Provided are a shape model setting circuitry for setting a shape model of a target structure, a crack candidate plane in the shape model, and an observation plane of the shape model, an estimation model generator for generating an estimation model obtained from a numerical analysis of a structural analysis model by sequentially changing a boundary condition of the crack candidate plane in the structural analysis model generated from the shape model, and a crack state analyzer for estimating a position and a size of the crack by obtaining a distribution of load and displacement in the crack candidate plane at the same time by probabilistic inference through the application of an observation plane deformation vector indicating deformation of the observation plane obtained from measurement values, the estimation model, and a latent variable indicating presence or absence of the crack in the crack candidate plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiko HANA, Masao AKIYOSHI, Kenji AMAYA
  • Publication number: 20230003626
    Abstract: This crack estimation device includes: a data determination unit which determines a shape model of a target structure to be inspected, and a crack occurrence plane and an observation plane in the shape model; an estimation data calculation unit which outputs an estimation model for estimating a state of the crack occurrence plane from a state of the observation plane, on the basis of a matrix that associates, with each other, the state of the crack occurrence plane and the state of the observation plane, obtained through numerical analysis of a structural analysis model generated from the shape model; and a crack estimation unit which estimates a state of a crack at the crack occurrence plane on the basis of the estimation model and a measurement value for the target structure actually measured at the observation plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiko HANA, Masao AKIYOSHI, Kenji AMAYA
  • Publication number: 20220407393
    Abstract: Provided is an inspection device for a rotating electric machine, the inspection device including a photographing device, a drive mechanism, a display, and a controller. The photographing device photographs a pattern formed on a surface of a wedge constituting part of an armature. The drive mechanism moves the photographing device with respect to a stator functioning as the armature. The controller detects strain of the wedge by comparing image data of the pattern photographed by the photographing device with reference data of the pattern. In this manner, the inspection device for a rotating electric machine can easily detect the strain of the wedge. Further, the controller estimates loosening of the wedge based on the strain of the wedge, and informs an operator of the rotating electric machine through the display that the loosening of the wedge has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiko HANA, Masao AKIYOSHI, Hiroshi ARAKI, Daichi GOTO, Kazuaki OGURA
  • Publication number: 20220276045
    Abstract: This device includes: an input unit for receiving a shape of an inspection target surface of a wedge exposed from a slot with no force applied to the wedge; a relation storage unit which acquires and stores, as a deformation reaction force relation, a relation between a reaction force of a spring at the inspection target surface of the wedge and deformation distribution from the shape of the inspection target surface of the wedge inputted to the input unit; a measurement unit for measuring measurement deformation distribution of the inspection target surface of the wedge; an estimation unit for estimating an estimation reaction force from the measurement deformation distribution and the deformation reaction force relation; and a judgement unit for judging proper/fault about looseness of the wedge from the estimation reaction force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiko HANA, Masao AKIYOSHI, Daichi GOTO, Kazuaki OGURA
  • Patent number: 11428612
    Abstract: A measurement device is configured to set an observation surface on a surface of a structure as a measurement surface to measure a change of the measurement surface as a measurement surface change vector. An estimator is configured to generate an estimation model based on a shape model obtained by modeling a shape of the structure. The estimator is configured to acquire a coefficient vector by solving a norm minimization problem by setting, as parameters, a measurement surface change vector and a part of the estimation model. The coefficient vector forms a sparse solution. The estimator is configured to estimate a change of a crack occurrence surface by determining a candidate surface, which is inside the structure and assumed to have a crack, as the crack occurrence surface, based on the coefficient vector and another part of the estimation model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Norihiko Hana, Masao Akiyoshi, Dehong Liu
  • Publication number: 20220262761
    Abstract: The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor element including a body portion formed in a plate shape, a protection film provided at an outer periphery on one surface of the body portion, and a metal thin film provided adjacently to an inner side of the protection film on the one surface of the body portion; a metal member joined to a surface of the metal thin film on a side opposite to the body portion, by solder; and a mold resin sealing the semiconductor element and the metal member, wherein the surface of the metal thin film on the side opposite to the body portion has, on at least a part of an outer periphery thereof, a projection portion projecting from the surface of the metal thin film, and the solder is not provided on an outer peripheral side from a top of the projection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya KITAGAWA, Shin UEGAKI, Masao AKIYOSHI, Masaaki TARUYA, Dai YOSHII, Kazuhiro TADA
  • Publication number: 20220206071
    Abstract: Provided is an inspection device for a rotating electric machine, including: a storage unit configured to store tendency information indicating a relationship among a position of damage that occurs in an inspection target portion being a range to be inspected of a rotor included in a rotating electric machine, a scale of the damage, and an amount of deformation that occurs in a measurement target portion set on an outer surface of the rotor; a measurement unit configured to measure the amount of deformation that has occurred in the measurement target portion; and a damage estimating unit configured to estimate the position and the scale of the damage that has occurred in the measurement target portion based on the tendency information and the amount of deformation in the measurement target portion, which has been measured by the measurement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiko HANA, Masao AKIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20220158510
    Abstract: In a rotor of a rotating electric machine, a slot includes a winding insertion portion and a widened portion. A width dimension of the widened portion is larger than a width dimension of the winding insertion portion. A pair of step portions are formed on both sides of an end portion of the winding insertion portion on the widened portion side. A wedge member is spaced from and opposed to the pair of step portions. An insulation includes: an insulation main body arranged between a rotor winding and a damper bar; and an extended portion, which is arranged in at least a part of a space between the wedge member and the pair of step portions, and is configured to suppress movement of the damper bar in a circumferential direction of a rotor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiko HANA, Masao AKIYOSHI, Yosuke UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220082482
    Abstract: A measurement device is configured to set an observation surface on a surface of a structure as a measurement surface to measure a change of the measurement surface as a measurement surface change vector. An estimator is configured to generate an estimation model based on a shape model obtained by modeling a shape of the structure. The estimator is configured to acquire a coefficient vector by solving a norm minimization problem by setting, as parameters, a measurement surface change vector and a part of the estimation model. The coefficient vector forms a sparse solution. The estimator is configured to estimate a change of a crack occurrence surface by determining a candidate surface, which is inside the structure and assumed to have a crack, as the crack occurrence surface, based on the coefficient vector and another part of the estimation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Norihiko HANA, Masao AKIYOSHI, Dehong LIU
  • Publication number: 20220034968
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. An imaging device images a test target portion which is a part of the rotor, to generate image data of the test target portion, and transmits the generated image data to an image processing device. The image processing device generates strain change information representing change in the strain distribution in the test target portion by digital image correlation on the basis of the test image data generated by the imaging device. The state of the rotor is tested using the generated strain change information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiko HANA, Masao AKIYOSHI, Yoshihide KIKUICHI
  • Patent number: 10874014
    Abstract: A cover covering a rectifying device includes a cover end wall portion, a cover outer wall portion, and a cover intermediate portion interposed between the cover end wall portion and the cover outer wall portion. The cover end wall portion includes an inner peripheral side intake portion, and the cover intermediate portion includes an outer peripheral side intake portion. The outer peripheral side intake portion includes an axial direction covering portion existing in a position that is closer to a rotary electric machine main body than the cover end wall portion in an axial direction, and a radial direction covering portion that connects the axial direction covering portion to an outer peripheral portion of the cover end wall portion. Intake holes are provided respectively in the inner peripheral side intake portion, the axial direction covering portion, and the radial direction covering portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Akiyoshi, Yuzuru Kobayashi, Kentaro Honsho