Patents by Inventor Masaya Kimura

Masaya Kimura 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: 20240118223
    Abstract: A surface inspection device (1) according to the present invention comprises: a plate-shaped sample holding member (3) which can hold a sample (2); a spindle motor (4) for rotating the sample holding member (3); a turntable (5) which is fixed to the spindle motor (4) and rotated by the spindle motor (4); a frame (6) to which the spindle motor (4) is fixed; a plurality of support members (12) each having one end fixed to the sample holding member (3) and the other end fixed to the turntable (5), the support members supporting the sample holding member (3) such that the sample holding member is displaceable in a focus direction which is the height direction with respect to the turntable (5); and a sample drive unit (11) which displaces the sample holding member (3) in the focus direction with respect to the turntable (5). This surface inspection device (1) can accurately drive the sample (2) in the focus direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KIMURA, Yoshihiro SATOU, Masaya YAMAMOTO, Ayumi TOMIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11953384
    Abstract: A temperature measuring device includes an ultrasonic sensor attached to a rear surface side of the structural body having the multilayer structure, an acquisition unit configured to, through the ultrasonic sensor, acquire a signal of a reflected wave of an ultrasonic wave incident at the internal side of the structural body, an extraction unit configured to extract, from the signal of the reflected wave, a domain including a reflected wave reflected on a surface on the internal side of the structural body, and an identification unit configured to, based on a signal of the reflected wave in the extracted domain, identify the temperature of the surface on the internal side of the structural body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Kawano, Masahiro Sugihara, Tadashi Kimura, Shinsuke Sato
  • Patent number: 11912036
    Abstract: An ink tank that enables to check whether a cover of an ink tank is normally bonded to the ink tank includes a first chamber having a supply port for supplying ink to a printing head that ejects ink, a second chamber having an external air introduction port capable of introducing external air, a partition wall configured to separate the first chamber and the second chamber, a communication path provided in the partition wall and configured to place the first chamber and the second chamber in communication with each other, a first cover member configured to cover an opening of the first chamber without extending over an opening of the second chamber, and a second cover member configured to cover the opening of the second chamber without extending over the opening of the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koki Shimada, Hideaki Matsumura, Masaya Shimmachi, Yukimichi Kimura, Junichi Kubokawa, Takahiro Kiuchi, Yusuke Tanaka, Kyohei Sato
  • Publication number: 20240045387
    Abstract: Included are: a machining data acquiring unit to acquire machining data including data related to time-series machining conditions to perform machining for a plurality of steps and data related to a machining state for the plurality of steps on a basis of the machining conditions; an analysis unit to calculate an importance with respect to machining data; an extraction unit to extract transfer learning data for performing transfer learning of a first machine learning model on a basis of the importance; and a learning unit to perform the transfer learning of the first machine learning model by using the transfer learning data, and generate a second machine learning model that receives, as an input, data related to the machining conditions in time series for the plurality of steps and outputs data related to a machining state after execution for the plurality of steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koki NAKANE, Go SATO, Jun MARUTA, Hideyuki MASUI, Shinya NISHINO, Takeyuki KAWATA, Masaya KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220413453
    Abstract: A positioning control device, in which motion of a motor in positioning operation of causing a mechanical load connected to the motor to move by a target moving distance is specified by operational conditions and command parameters, includes an adjustment unit performing the positioning operation based on an adjustment condition and a trial parameter, which are an operational condition and a command parameter, and determining one of the command parameters to be an excellent parameter corresponding to the adjustment condition based on an evaluation result based on the state of the motor or the mechanical load during positioning operation performed; and an estimation unit determining one of the command parameters to be an estimated excellent parameter corresponding to a non-adjustment condition, which is one type of the operational conditions, based on an adjustment record being a pair of the adjustment condition and the excellent parameter corresponding to the adjustment condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto TAKANO, Masaya KIMURA, Hidetoshi IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220308531
    Abstract: A motor controller includes a drive control unit that drives a motor on the basis of a control command, operates a control target made up of the motor and a mechanical load, and performs an initialization operation of setting the control target in an initial state and an evaluation operation starting from the initial state. Further, there is a learning unit that determines the control command to be used in the evaluation operation, on the basis of the result of learning the control command used in the evaluation operation, and a state sensor signal in association with each other. Further, there is an adjustment management unit that determines, on the basis of the timing at which to perform a first process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto TAKANO, Masaya KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11339736
    Abstract: An electromagnetic valve driving device includes: a maximum detection unit configured to detect a maximum point when time-series data of a differential value of a counter electromotive voltage generated in a solenoid has changed from an increase to a decrease by retrospectively tracing the time-series data in an opposite direction of a time series; and a valve closing time detection unit configured to execute a determination process of retrospectively tracing the time-series data from the maximum point detected by the maximum detection unit in the opposite direction and scanning whether or not an amount of decrease in the differential value from the maximum point exceeds a predetermined threshold value and detect a maximum time, which is a time of the maximum point, as a valve closing time of a fuel injection valve when there is an event in which the amount of decrease exceeds the predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Kimura, Kyohei Matsumoto, Ryo Sasaki, Takuya Ikemoto, Daichi Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20220034276
    Abstract: An electromagnetic valve driving device includes: a maximum detection unit configured to detect a maximum point when time-series data of a differential value of a counter electromotive voltage generated in a solenoid has changed from an increase to a decrease by retrospectively tracing the time-series data in an opposite direction of a time series; and a valve closing time detection unit configured to execute a determination process of retrospectively tracing the time-series data from the maximum point detected by the maximum detection unit in the opposite direction and scanning whether or not an amount of decrease in the differential value from the maximum point exceeds a predetermined threshold value and detect a maximum time, which is a time of the maximum point, as a valve closing time of a fuel injection valve when there is an event in which the amount of decrease exceeds the predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Masaya KIMURA, Kyohei MATSUMOTO, Ryo SASAKI, Takuya IKEMOTO, Daichi KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20220004160
    Abstract: A positioning control device includes a position-command generation unit to generate a position command by which a shape of an acceleration in an accelerating section and a decelerating section is determined on the basis of a position command parameter, a drive control unit to drive a motor such that a detected position value of the motor or a control target follows the position command, an evaluation unit to calculate an evaluation value regarding positioning performance on the basis of a detected position value of the motor or the control target during execution of positioning control on the control target, and a learning unit to obtain a learning result by learning a relation between the position command parameter and the evaluation value when positioning control is executed plural times, while changing each of shapes of an acceleration in an accelerating section and a decelerating section independently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya KIMURA, Hidetoshi IKEDA, Naoto TAKANO, Hideyuki MASUI, Daisaku MATSUMOTO, Atsunori KANEMURA, Hideki ASOH
  • Patent number: 10734933
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes: an oscillation instruction unit outputting an oscillation instruction signal; a filter unit performing filtering processing having frequency characteristic defined by a filter parameter; an oscillation forcing unit configuring a control loop in an oscillation period together with the filter unit, a current control unit, a motor, and a velocity calculation unit and causing the control loop to oscillate during the oscillation period in which the oscillation instruction signal is in the on-state; an amplitude evaluation unit acquiring, as an evaluation value, the amplitude ratio of an input signal to an output signal of the oscillation forcing unit when the control loop oscillates; and a filter adjustment unit comparing evaluation values provided when filter parameter candidates are set in the filter unit sequentially, selecting one of the filter parameters achieving a smaller evaluation value, and setting the selected filter parameter in the filter unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Kimura, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Nobuhiro Shinohara
  • Patent number: 10480838
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus controller includes an expansion-valve controller configured to output an opening-degree command for an expansion valve based on a deviation between a discharge temperature of refrigerant discharged from a compressor and a set discharge temperature, and at least two control parameters including a proportionality coefficient and an integral coefficient, a flow-rate-correction-coefficient calculator configured to calculate a flow-rate correction coefficient from a refrigerant flow rate of refrigerant circulating through a refrigerant circuit and a preset flow-rate reference value, and a coefficient corrector configured to calculate the proportionality coefficient by correcting a preset proportionality-coefficient reference value based on the flow-rate correction coefficient, and calculate the integral coefficient by correcting a preset integral-coefficient reference value based on the flow-rate correction coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Fujitsuka, Masaya Kimura, Kazunori Tsuchino
  • Patent number: 10315876
    Abstract: The roller-to-roller conveyance control apparatus includes an amplitude target setting unit that sets an amplitude target value of the tension deviation; an adjustment execution command generation unit that provides a command to adjust the control gain; an adjustment manipulated-variable output unit that outputs an adjustment manipulated variable; a manipulated-variable amplitude determination unit that increases the amplitude of the adjustment manipulated variable until the amplitude of the tension deviation becomes larger than the amplitude target value; and a control-gain calculation device that calculates the control gain from the amplitude and the vibration period of the tension deviation. A tension-shaft speed controller controls a tension-control-shaft motor on the basis of the line speed reference and the adjustment manipulated variable during the adjustment of the control gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Onodera, Tsutomu Yamamoto, Masaya Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190123672
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes: an oscillation instruction unit outputting an oscillation instruction signal; a filter unit performing filtering processing having frequency characteristic defined by a filter parameter; an oscillation forcing unit configuring a control loop in an oscillation period together with the filter unit, a current control unit, a motor, and a velocity calculation unit and causing the control loop to oscillate during the oscillation period in which the oscillation instruction signal is in the on-state; an amplitude evaluation unit acquiring, as an evaluation value, the amplitude ratio of an input signal to an output signal of the oscillation forcing unit when the control loop oscillates; and a filter adjustment unit comparing evaluation values provided when filter parameter candidates are set in the filter unit sequentially, selecting one of the filter parameters achieving a smaller evaluation value, and setting the selected filter parameter in the filter unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya KIMURA, Hidetoshi IKEDA, Nobuhiro SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 10088813
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a control computing unit that generates an operation amount based on a control deviation, calculated by performing subtraction of a command value and a control amount, and a control gain; an adjustment-execution-command generating unit that generates an adjustment-execution command value indicating ON or OFF; a binary output unit that generates an adjustment-time addition value based on the control deviation and a hysteresis-width setting value; a standard-deviation estimating unit that calculates a low-frequency-component removed signal obtained by removing low-frequency components of the control amount or the control deviation and calculates a standard-deviation estimated value, which is an estimated value of a standard deviation; and a hysteresis-width computing unit that calculates a hysteresis-width computed value based on the standard-deviation estimated value and changes the hysteresis-width setting value of the binary output unit to the hysteresis-width computed value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Kimura, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Fumio Kometani
  • Patent number: 10029873
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling conveyance between rollers includes: a tension-control-amount-detector; a speed-shaft-speed-controller; a tension-shaft-speed-controller; a synchronous-speed-command-generation-unit synchronizing the speed-shaft speed command with a tension-shaft reference speed command; a tension-control-calculation-unit outputting a tension-control correction value based on proportional compensation based on a proportional gain, and integral compensation based on an integral gain; an adjustment-execution-command-generation-unit outputting an adjustment execution command during an automatic adjustment period; a binary-output-unit outputting one of positive and negative values of the additional-value amplitude as an additional value in adjustment during the automatic adjustment period; a tension-shaft-speed-command-generation-unit outputting a tension-shaft speed command based on the tension-shaft reference speed command, the tension-control correction value and the additional value in adjustment;
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ikeda, Masaya Kimura, Akio Saito, Yoshihiro Marushita
  • Patent number: 10023416
    Abstract: An inter-roller conveyance control device conveying an object to be conveyed between a speed shaft roller driven by a speed shaft motor and a tension shaft roller driven by a tension shaft motor while providing tension to the object includes a gain table that stores a plurality of pairs of a conveyance condition variable changing while the object to be conveyed is conveyed and affecting an appropriate value of a control parameter and a control parameter candidate value that is an appropriate control parameter where, when the conveyance condition variable is changed, the device performs calculation on the basis of the conveyance condition variable and a gain calculation result and writes, into the gain table, the control parameter candidate value and the conveyance condition variable in association with each other when the calculation is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Kimura, Hidetoshi Ikeda, Akio Saito, Yoshihiro Marushita
  • Patent number: 9966175
    Abstract: A voltage limiting circuit of a solenoid drive device includes a function to limit the value of a boost voltage generated by a boost voltage power source circuit. The voltage limiting circuit is equipped with a boost voltage comparing unit and a boost voltage discharge unit. The boost voltage comparing unit compares a voltage-divided value of the boost voltage with a reference voltage value, and in the case that the voltage-divided value is higher than the reference voltage value, the boost voltage discharge unit lowers the voltage-divided value to be less than or equal to the reference voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoshi Wakai, Masaya Kimura
  • Publication number: 20180010834
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus controller includes an expansion-valve controller configured to output an opening-degree command for an expansion valve based on a deviation between a discharge temperature of refrigerant discharged from a compressor and a set discharge temperature, and at least two control parameters including a proportionality coefficient and an integral coefficient, a flow-rate-correction-coefficient calculator configured to calculate a flow-rate correction coefficient from a refrigerant flow rate of refrigerant circulating through a refrigerant circuit and a preset flow-rate reference value, and a coefficient corrector configured to calculate the proportionality coefficient by correcting a preset proportionality-coefficient reference value based on the flow-rate correction coefficient, and calculate the integral coefficient by correcting a preset integral-coefficient reference value based on the flow-rate correction coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi FUJITSUKA, Masaya KIMURA, Kazunori TSUCHINO
  • Publication number: 20170277143
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a control computing unit that generates an operation amount based on a control deviation, calculated by performing subtraction of a command value and a control amount, and a control gain; an adjustment-execution-command generating unit that generates an adjustment-execution command value indicating ON or OFF; a binary output unit that generates an adjustment-time addition value based on the control deviation and a hysteresis-width setting value; a standard-deviation estimating unit that calculates a low-frequency-component removed signal obtained by removing low-frequency components of the control amount or the control deviation and calculates a standard-deviation estimated value, which is an estimated value of a standard deviation; and a hysteresis-width computing unit that calculates a hysteresis-width computed value based on the standard-deviation estimated value and changes the hysteresis-width setting value of the binary output unit to the hysteresis-width computed value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya KIMURA, Hidetoshi IKEDA, Fumio KOMETANI
  • Publication number: 20170267481
    Abstract: The roller-to-roller conveyance control apparatus includes an amplitude target setting unit that sets an amplitude target value of the tension deviation; an adjustment execution command generation unit that provides a command to adjust the control gain; an adjustment manipulated-variable output unit that outputs an adjustment manipulated variable; a manipulated-variable amplitude determination unit that increases the amplitude of the adjustment manipulated variable until the amplitude of the tension deviation becomes larger than the amplitude target value; and a control-gain calculation device that calculates the control gain from the amplitude and the vibration period of the tension deviation. A tension-shaft speed controller controls a tension-control-shaft motor on the basis of the line speed reference and the adjustment manipulated variable during the adjustment of the control gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo ONODERA, Tsutomu YAMAMOTO, Masaya KIMURA