Patents by Inventor Masashi Yonemoto

Masashi Yonemoto 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: 8516745
    Abstract: A regulator device for a vehicle door window pane includes a lift arm connected to a door window pane and an equalizer arm rotatably connected to the lift arm, connected to the door and the door window pane. The lift arm includes a through-hole, a flange wall, and a protrusion that defines an annular clearance between the protrusion and the flange wall and protrudes by a greater amount. The equalizer arm includes a first arm in contact with the protrusion, and a second arm in contact with the other side of the lift arm. A rotational axial protrusion rotatably engaged in the through-hole is formed on one of the first and second arms, and a fixing portion fixed to the rotational axial protrusion outside the through-hole is formed on the other of the first and second arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Shiroki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Fujisaki, Masashi Yonemoto, Masako Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20120159854
    Abstract: A regulator device for a vehicle door window pane includes a lift arm connected to a door window pane and an equalizer arm rotatably connected to the lift arm, connected to the door and the door window pane. The lift arm includes a through-hole, a flange wall, and a protrusion that defines an annular clearance between the protrusion and the flange wall and protrudes by a greater amount. The equalizer arm includes a first arm in contact with the protrusion, and a second arm in contact with the other side of the lift arm. A rotational axial protrusion rotatably engaged in the through-hole is formed on one of the first and second arms, and a fixing portion fixed to the rotational axial protrusion outside the through-hole is formed on the other of the first and second arms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki FUJISAKI, Masashi Yonemoto, Masako Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 5637842
    Abstract: An elevator safety device in which a counterweight cam is attached to the counterweight and top terminal landing final limit switches are disposed below the bottom terminal landing of the hoistway so that it is operated by the counterweight cam. The top terminal landing final limit switches only need to be provided in accordance with the counterweight buffer stroke, regardless of to what extent the car has been flung upward, with the result that fewer final limit switches are required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Yonemoto, Hiroyasu Itoh
  • Patent number: 5083634
    Abstract: A safety device for an elevator which detects a trouble of the control device quickly to apply an emergency brake, thereby to ensure the safety of the people in the cage. The elevator safety device is so designed that the harmonic wave component produced by an inverter is detected with the aid of a band-pass filter, and when the harmonic wave component thus detected becomes abnormal, an emergency stop instruction is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 4928021
    Abstract: An elevator control apparatus comprises a torque control device for calculating a torque command for a motor for hoisting an elevator cage, a brake which operates in response to a braking command so as to restrain the motor, a brake abnormality detector adapted to operate when a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the torque command is less than a predetermined value, and a brake abnormality output circuit which delivers a predetermined signal when an inferior release of the brake has been detected by the operation of the brake abnormality detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 4749932
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an A-C powered induction motor for an elevator cage, said apparatus comprising a rectifier for converting 3-phase A-C power into D-C electric power, an inverter connected to the rectifier for converting the D-C power into A-C power of variable voltage and variable frequency, a current detector connected to detect input current of the inverter, a power detector for detecting power supplied to the inverter based upon an output of the current detector, a control unit for generating a command signal to control the inverter in accordance with slip of the induction motor as determined by the power supplied to the inverter, and a correcting unit operable responsive to the power detected by the power detector for correcting the slip of the motor to maintain the power supplied to the inverter at predetermined values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 4713595
    Abstract: In an elevator driven by an induction motor and having a slip control device for generating a slip frequency command signal on the basis of an error between a speed command value and a running speed value of the induction motor so as to control a VVVF type inverter which in turn provides a corresponding alternating current of variable voltage and frequency, the inverter having a smoothing capacitor on a D-C side thereof, a control apparatus for stabilizing torque of the induction motor by smoothly changing operation of the induction motor from a powering mode to a regenerative mode, the control apparatus comprising a current detector for detecting charging current of the smoothing capacitor having a portion for detecting polarity of the slip frequency command signal and a unit responsive to the charging current detected by the current detector and the slip frequency command signal generated by the slip control device for changing operation of the induction motor from the powering mode to the regenerative mode
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 4677361
    Abstract: A magnetic flux detecting coil for detecting a magnetic flux in the air gap between the stator is provided in the stator and rotor of an induction motor, the actual value of the secondary winding crossing magnetic flux is calculated on the basis of the detected output of the detecting coil, this value is compared with the secondary winding crossing magnetic flux command value to correct the secondary winding resistance value, thereby controlling to correct the slip frequency. Thus, the torque produced by the motor can be stabilized irrespective of the temperature rise of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 4600088
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an elevator having an induction motor for lifting the cage, a speed instruction device which produces a running speed instruction signal for the cage, a speed controller which generates a torque instruction for the induction motor, a current controller which produces a primary current for the induction motor to control it, a first speed detector which is coupled to the induction motor via a mechanism that increases the input speed to the detector and which feeds speed detection signals back to the speed controller, and a second speed detector which is directly coupled to the rotary shaft of the induction motor and which supplies speed detection signals to the current controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 4515246
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the arrival of an elevator cage at a target elevator floor in which the elevator cage is not stopped at an intermediate position between adjacent floors even when a detection displacement occurs when the actual cage position and a calculated cage position do not correspond wherein said cage is stopped at said target floor when it is detected that said actual cage position is less than or equal to said calculated elevator position and said cage is stopped at an adjacent floor to said target floor when said calculated cage position is greater than said calculated cage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1985
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kajiyama, Masashi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 4489811
    Abstract: An apparatus for decelerating an elevator at a terminating floor having a plurality of terminating detectors successively provided in the vicinity of the terminating floor for generating a terminating deceleration command value gradually decreasing upon operation of the detectors when the cage of the elevator approaches the terminating floor which comprises; a pulse generator for generating pulses corresponding to the moved distance of the cage; memories for storing the distances from the terminating floor to said respective terminating detectors; a counter for setting the distance information of the detectors of said memories upon operation of the detectors and counting the output pulses of said pulse generator, thereby subtracting the pulses from the set value; and a distance-to-speed converter for calculating the terminating deceleration command value corresponding to the output of said counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Yonemoto, Ryuichi Kajiyama
  • Patent number: 4473135
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an elevator, which comprises a managing first electronic computer for managing the service of the start and stop of an elevator cage and a controlling second electronic computer for controlling the speed of the cage in accordance with a command from said first computer, wherein when the managing first computer becomes defective, the cage is conveyed to the nearest floor by the controlling second computer and when the second computer becomes defective, the cage is conveyed at a low speed to the nearest floor by the first computer and a manual operating circuit. Therefore, regardless of which of the first and/or second computers become defective, the cage can be automatically operated to the nearest floor and the passengers in the cage can be rescued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 4446946
    Abstract: An elevator speed instruction generating system using an electronic computer to generate speed instruction data comprises a pulse generator adapted to generate a pulse whenever the cage runs a predetermined distance, a counter for subjecting the pulse thus generated to addition and subtraction according to the travelling direction of the cage, and memory means provided in the electronic computer for storing acceleration and deceleration instruction data. Acceleration instruction data are read out of the memory means every predetermined time in the acceleration operation, and in the deceleration operation deceleration instruction data corresponding to the differences between the absolute position of a destination floor and outputs of the counter are read. Adjustment of the elevator, which is required when it is installed in different buildings, can be achieved merely by changing the data stored in the memory means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kajiyama, Masashi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 4354577
    Abstract: A method for controlling the movement of an elevator cage in which a difference between first and second speed instruction values is made constant irrespective of speed so that no shock force is applied to the cage at a time of switching between speed instruction values. A predetermined distance is added to a remaining distance of the age to a target floor. A modified second speed instruction value corresponding to the resultant distance is compared with the first speed instruction value, and when this difference becomes smaller than a predetermined value, a switching preparation instruction is issued. The elevator is operated at a speed determined by the first speed instruction value until a predetermined period of time after the switching preparation instruction after which the elevator is operated in accordance with the second speed instruction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1982
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 4337846
    Abstract: An elevator relevelling control apparatus for controlling the movement of an elevator car (11) such that when the car is misaligned with the landing position of a selected landing floor, the car is restarted and brought into alignment. A traction motor (M) is controlled by a landing means (1) which generates a speed command signal (1a) of a magnitude which increases linearly with the extent of misalignment. First and second position detecting devices (15, 16, 17, 18) are provided in the hoistway to detect misalignment from the landing position by a first or second predetermined distance, respectively. The car is provided with load detecting means (12) for detecting whether or not the car is overloaded. If the load detecting means (12) detects that the car is not overloaded, and a switching device (15, 16) detects that the car is misaligned by a first predetermined distance, a speed command signal (1a) of suitable magnitude is supplied to the traction motor (M), thereby effecting relevelling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1982
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Yonemoto, Eiki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4117382
    Abstract: A dc voltage is applied to an R-C element through a Bootstrap type linearly charging circuit to form a command speed voltage smoothly and linearly increased from its null magnitude to a constant magnitude for the acceleration of an elevator car. Upon decelerating the car, the dc voltage is decreased stepwise by successively opening serially interconnected contact sets coupled to a shortcircuit resistor and applied to a unidirectional R-C element including a diode through the linearly charging circuit. An output from the element is coupled to the stepped voltage through an R-C discharge circuit to produce from the element a command speed signal smoothly and linearly decreased to its null magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1978
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yonemoto