Patents by Inventor Masato Mori

Masato Mori 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: 8818657
    Abstract: The shift control unit shifts the sub-transmission mechanism while changing the speed ratio of the variator in response to a change in the speed ratio of the sub-transmission mechanism so that the through speed ratio does not change after the through speed ratio is caused to reach the final through speed ratio by changing only the speed ratio of the variator if the speed ratio corresponding to the shift instruction from the driver is between a first speed ratio at which the sub-transmission mechanism is in the second gear position at the high speed side and the speed ratio of the variator is lowest and a second speed ratio at which the sub-transmission mechanism is in the first gear position at the low speed side and the speed ratio of the variator is highest when the manual mode is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Jatco Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Tanaka, Masahide Ito, Masato Mori, Takashi Eguchi, Ryousuke Nonomura, Seiichiro Takahashi, Mamiko Inoue
  • Patent number: 8818674
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle behavior controller capable of stabilizing a behavior of a vehicle with a high response when an unstable state of the vehicle is judged. The vehicle behavior controller includes: a running state detecting unit for detecting a running state of the vehicle; an unstable state judging unit for judging the unstable state of the vehicle based on the running state; a motor generator connected to an engine of the vehicle, the motor generator operating as a power generator for using an output of a prime mover to generate power and an electric motor for assisting the output of the prime mover; and a control unit for controlling an operation of the motor generator based on r.p.m. of the motor generator, in which the control unit controls the operation of the motor generator to generate braking torque when the unstable state is judged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajima, Masato Mori, Kenichi Akita
  • Patent number: 8736234
    Abstract: A power converter control apparatus includes a power converter part having a bridge circuit formed of a switching element and a field circuit controlling conduction of a field winding in an AC generator, and a control apparatus part having a field current detector, a temperature detector detecting a temperature of a generator part, the power converter part, or the control apparatus part, a field current instruction computation portion computing a field current instruction value of the generator, a temperature rise suppression portion computing a generated current suppression value on the basis of an output of the temperature detector and computing a field current suppression value on the basis of the computed generated current suppression value, a field current instruction selection portion selecting the field current instruction value or the field current suppression value whichever is the smaller, and a field current control portion controlling a field current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajima, Masato Mori, Kenichi Akita, Mitsunori Tabata
  • Patent number: 8736235
    Abstract: A power-generation motor control system is a control system that controls a power-generation motor provided with an armature and a magnetic-field winding, and is characterized in that when the power-generation motor is operated as a motor, before a power source energizes the armature, a preliminary excitation current, with the value of which the induction voltage across the armature does not exceed the voltage of the power source, is applied to the magnetic-field winding in accordance with the rotation speed of the power-generation motor so that preliminary excitation of the power-generation motor is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsunori Tabata, Masato Mori, Kenji Nakajima, Kenichi Akita
  • Patent number: 8718883
    Abstract: In a manual mode, a gear position of a continuously variable transmission is selected based on an input operation from a driver, a final through speed ratio is set based on the selected gear position and a variator and a sub-transmission mechanism are controlled to realize the final through speed ratio. Whether an input torque to the sub-transmission mechanism is positive or negative is determined based on an input torque to the sub-transmission mechanism when the manual mode is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Jatco Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Tanaka, Masahide Ito, Masato Mori, Takashi Eguchi, Ryousuke Nonomura, Seiichiro Takahashi, Mamiko Inoue
  • Publication number: 20140112676
    Abstract: When a cleaning operation is performed, a controller of an image forming apparatus controls to emit a light beam from a light emitting window so as to form a stripe image in a predetermined position of an intermediate transfer member so as to form a image defect part in the stripe image, which occurs when a cleaning member moving in a reciprocating manner in a main scanning direction along the light emitting window blocks the light beam. In addition, the controller detects the image defect part by a density detecting member. When a predetermined number of image defect parts are not formed in the predetermined position in the period from start to end of the cleaning operation, the controller determines that the cleaning member is within the scanning range of the light beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masato MORI
  • Patent number: 8704400
    Abstract: A vehicle power converter including a plurality of switching elements having diodes connected thereto in parallel and constituting a multi-phase bridge circuit and a controller for conducting the switching element corresponding to each diode in synchronization with a conduction state of the diode concerned to perform synchronous rectification and is connected between a power generator-motor driven from the external to generate multi-phase AC power and DC equipment, further includes a load state detecting unit for detecting a load state of the power generator-motor when the multi-phase AC power occurs, wherein a shift from diode rectification to synchronous rectification or a shift from the synchronous rectification to the diode rectification is carried out in accordance with an output of the load state detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajima, Kenichi Akita, Masato Mori, Mitsunori Tabata, Katsuya Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 8680819
    Abstract: A field winding type rotary electric machine includes a motor generator; a field current detection unit; a field current control unit which controls a field current; a field current limiting determination section which calculates a field current integration value and determines whether or not the field current integration value reaches a predetermined field current integration threshold value; and a field current limiting command section which, when it is determined that the field current integration value reaches the predetermined field current integration threshold value, outputs a command which sets the field current to be lower than or equal to a predetermined field current limiting value to the field current control unit during a predetermined limiting time, and outputs a command which changes the predetermined limiting time depending on the field current. Accordingly, a temperature rise of the machine is suppressed and limiting of the field current can be released as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Akita, Masato Mori, Kenji Nakajima, Mitsunori Tabata
  • Patent number: 8680796
    Abstract: To provide an upper limit of a generated voltage or generated torque, to thereby prevent the occurrence of an overvoltage or excessive torque during power generation, a control selection section (308) chooses and outputs a minimum value between a control output of a generated voltage control section (306) for controlling a field current so that a B-terminal voltage of a polyphase AC generator-motor coincides with a generated voltage command and a control output of a generated torque control section (307) for controlling, based on the B-terminal voltage and a rotation speed, the field current so that generated torque of the polyphase AC generator-motor coincides with a generated torque command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajima, Masato Mori, Kenichi Akita, Mitsunori Tabata
  • Patent number: 8676454
    Abstract: The shift control unit executes a control to cause the through speed ratio to follow the final through speed ratio by changing only the speed ratio of the variator if a shift instruction is given from the driver a plurality of times in a row when the manual mode is selected, and advances the start of a change in the speed ratio of the sub-transmission mechanism or accelerates the progression of the change of the speed ratio as compared with the case where the manual mode is not selected when the speed ratio of the variator is maximized or minimized and the through speed ratio cannot follow the final through speed ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Tanaka, Masahide Ito, Masato Mori, Takashi Eguchi, Ryousuke Nonomura, Seiichiro Takahashi, Mamiko Inoue
  • Patent number: 8666616
    Abstract: A transmission control unit reduces a hydraulic pressure of a release-side frictional engagement element which is to be released of a sub-transmission mechanism and reduces this reduction amount as an input torque to the sub-transmission mechanism increases at the time of starting a shift when a manual mode is selected, the input torque is positive and the sub-transmission mechanism is to be shifted down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Jatco Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Tanaka, Masahide Ito, Masato Mori, Takashi Eguchi, Ryousuke Nonomura, Seiichiro Takahashi, Mamiko Inoue
  • Publication number: 20130277098
    Abstract: The present invention has an aspect to provide a mounted structure of which heat-resistant fatigue characteristic is improved. A mounted structure is provided with a substrate having a substrate electrode, an electronic component having a component electrode, and a bonding part bonding the substrate electrode and the component electrode, wherein the bonding part is constituted by a solder reinforcing part and a solder bonding part, the solder reinforcing part is a side vicinity part of the bonding part, and is constituted by In of 3 wt % or more and 8 wt % or less and Sn of 88 wt % or more, and the solder bonding part is constituted by a Sn—Bi system solder material and In of 0 wt % or more and less than 3 wt %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Hine, Akio Furusawa, Masato Mori
  • Publication number: 20130093366
    Abstract: To provide an upper limit of a generated voltage or generated torque, to thereby prevent the occurrence of an overvoltage or excessive torque during power generation, a control selection section (308) chooses and outputs a minimum value between a control output of a generated voltage control section (306) for controlling a field current so that a B-terminal voltage of a polyphase AC generator-motor coincides with a generated voltage command and a control output of a generated torque control section (307) for controlling, based on the B-terminal voltage and a rotation speed, the field current so that generated torque of the polyphase AC generator-motor coincides with a generated torque command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji NAKAJIMA, Masato MORI, Kenichi AKITA, Mitsunori TABATA
  • Patent number: 8397847
    Abstract: In an electric power converter for a vehicle which is connected to an alternating-current generator for a vehicle and performs synchronous rectification, switching mistakes are reduced and efficiency is improved by setting an optimal control allowance time in generating a switching timing signal from a diode ON signal. A control allowance according to the operating state of a generator can be determined by obtaining a control allowance time as a sum of a control delay time which is constant irrespective of the operating state of the generator, and an allowance time which varies depending on the operating state of the generator. Thereby, optimal switching timing is obtained and the reduction of switching mistakes and an improvement in efficiency are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsunori Tabata, Masato Mori, Kenji Nakajima, Keinichi Akita
  • Patent number: 8384044
    Abstract: It is an objection of the present invention to provide a fluorescence reading apparatus in view of the influence of fluorescence derived from a fluorescence substance that is not involved with an interaction between a probe substance and a target substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignees: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Tadao Sugiura, Masato Mori, Eiji Inamoto
  • Patent number: 8339074
    Abstract: Generation voltage control or generation torque control is performed as suitable control based on an external command or a load of a generator motor, to thereby prevent a rapid change of a generation torque or excessive power generation. A power converter control apparatus includes: a power conversion unit including a bridge circuit for controlling energization of an armature winding and a field circuit for controlling energization of a field winding; and a control device including B-terminal voltage detection means, field current detection means, generation voltage control means, generation torque control means, and control selection means. The control selection means selects the one of the generation voltage control means and the generation torque control means based on one of a command from an outside and a load of the generator motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajima, Masato Mori, Kenichi Akita, Mitsunori Tabata
  • Patent number: 8334680
    Abstract: Provided is a field winding type generator-motor capable of minimizing cost increase and structure modification while preventing a failure due to a temperature rise, without mounting a temperature sensor. The field winding type generator-motor according to the present invention includes: a dynamo-electric machine that has a field winding; a field current detecting section for detecting field current; a field current restriction deciding section for deciding whether or not the decision value has reached a predetermined decision threshold value by calculating a decision value based on the field current detected by the field current detecting section; and a field current controller for controlling the field current flowing in the field winding so that the field current is restricted to a predetermined permissible value in a case where the field current restriction deciding section decides that the decision value has reached the predetermined decision threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Akita, Kenji Nakajima, Masato Mori
  • Publication number: 20120293139
    Abstract: A field winding type rotary electric machine includes: a controller; a field current integration portion provided in the controller to calculate an integral value by integrating an excessive field current exceeding a field current threshold; a field current limiting portion provided in the controller and carrying out limiting processing to limit a field current to or below a predetermined value when the integral value reaches an integral value threshold defined as a reference value at or above which the field current is limited; a controller power supply connection switch switched ON and OFF for power feeding to the controller; a controller power supply connection determination portion switching ON and OFF the controller power supply connection switch; and a power feeding ON state maintaining portion maintaining an ON state of the power feeding to the controller from start to end of the limiting processing by the field current limiting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi AKITA, Kenji NAKAJIMA, Masato MORI, Mitsunori TABATA
  • Publication number: 20120262130
    Abstract: A power converter control apparatus includes a power converter part having a bridge circuit formed of a switching element and a field circuit controlling conduction of a field winding in an AC generator, and a control apparatus part having a field current detector, a temperature detector detecting a temperature of a generator part, the power converter part, or the control apparatus part, a field current instruction computation portion computing a field current instruction value of the generator, a temperature rise suppression portion computing a generated current suppression value on the basis of an output of the temperature detector and computing a field current suppression value on the basis of the computed generated current suppression value, a field current instruction selection portion selecting the field current instruction value or the field current suppression value whichever is the smaller, and a field current control portion controlling a field current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji NAKAJIMA, Masato MORI, Kenichi AKITA, Mitsunori TABATA
  • Publication number: 20120261916
    Abstract: A power-generation motor control system is a control system that controls a power-generation motor provided with an armature and a magnetic-field winding, and is characterized in that when the power-generation motor is operated as a motor, before a power source energizes the armature, a preliminary excitation current, with the value of which the induction voltage across the armature does not exceed the voltage of the power source, is applied to the magnetic-field winding in accordance with the rotation speed of the power-generation motor so that preliminary excitation of the power-generation motor is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsunori TABATA, Masato MORI, Kenji NAKAJIMA, Kenichi AKITA