Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Mitani

Mitsuru Mitani 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: 7242110
    Abstract: A control system for canceling load unbalance of a three-phase circuit includes phase current detectors for detecting phase currents caused to flow through a secondary circuit of a current transformer provided in high voltage distribution lines, respectively, phase change-over switches through which phases of the high voltage distribution lines, and primary sides of distribution transformers provided across high and low voltage distribution lines are connected to each other, a control center for, when a magnitude of a zero-phase current detected by the zero-phase current detector is larger than a predetermined value, on the basis of the phase currents, respectively, out putting a control signal so that the load of the phase having a maximum current appearing therein is changed over to the phase having a minimum current recognized therein, and a phase change-over slave station for controlling the phase change-over for the phase change-over switches in accordance with the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Matsumoto, Mitsuru Mitani, Seiji Tange
  • Patent number: 6988023
    Abstract: A monitoring and control system includes a center main system (209) installed in a sales office and a substitute center system (208). The monitoring and control system further includes a different substation terminal interconnection function that, in the case where there occurs an abnormality to a communication channel provided for each substation terminal and connects the substation terminal to the center main system (or the substitute center system), instructs a different substation terminal to perform the interconnection and communication with the center main system (or the substitute center system) instead of the substation terminal. With this construction, through the different substation terminal that received the instruction, the center main system monitors and controls a switch to be monitored by the substation terminal connected to the communication channel to which the abnormality occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Matsumoto, Tomoo Ashizawa, Mitsuru Mitani
  • Patent number: 6922318
    Abstract: A ground relay system is provided which includes: first current transformers located in the respective phases of a sending end of a high-voltage distribution provided from a distribution substation; over-current relays connected to the first transformers; distribution transformers located in the respective phases in the respective sections of the distribution; second current transformers connected to secondary sides of the distribution transformers; current converters connected to the second transformers; and a current comparator that introduces the currents of the respective phases of the sending end of the distribution from the relays to produce a first zero-phase current, introduces the currents of the respective phases of a load end of the high-voltage distribution from the current converters to produce a second zero-phase current, and operates a ground protection relay that opens a circuit breaker inserted at the sending end of the high-voltage distribution if the level of the first current is larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Matsumoto, Mitsuru Mitani, Toshio Nomura
  • Publication number: 20040196604
    Abstract: A control system for canceling load unbalance of a three-phase circuit includes phase current detectors for detecting phase currents caused to flow through a secondary circuit of a current transformer provided in high voltage distribution lines, respectively, phase change-over switches through which phases of the high voltage distribution lines, and primary sides of distribution transformers provided across high and low voltage distribution lines are connected to each other, a control center for, when a magnitude of a zero-phase current detected by the zero-phase current detector is larger than a predetermined value, on the basis of the phase currents, respectively, out putting a control signal so that the load of the phase having a maximum current appearing therein is changed over to the phase having a minimum current recognized therein, and a phase change-over slave station for controlling the phase change-over for the phase change-over switches in accordance with the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: TMT & D CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Matsumoto, Mitsuru Mitani, Seiji Tange
  • Publication number: 20030185150
    Abstract: A monitoring and control system includes a center main system (209) installed in a sales office and a substitute center system (208). The monitoring and control system further includes a different substation terminal interconnection function that, in the case where there occurs an abnormality to a communication channel provided for each substation terminal and connects the substation terminal to the center main system (or the substitute center system), instructs a different substation terminal to perform the interconnection and communication with the center main system (or the substitute center system) instead of the substation terminal. With this construction, through the different substation terminal that received the instruction, the center main system monitors and controls a switch to be monitored by the substation terminal connected to the communication channel to which the abnormality occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Matsumoto, Tomoo Ashizawa, Mitsuru Mitani
  • Publication number: 20030117755
    Abstract: A ground relay system is provided which includes: first current transformers located in the respective phases of a sending end of a high-voltage distribution provided from a distribution substation; over-current relays connected to the first transformers; distribution transformers located in the respective phases in the respective sections of the distribution; second current transformers connected to secondary sides of the distribution transformers; current converters connected to the second transformers; and a current comparator that introduces the currents of the respective phases of the sending end of the distribution from the relays to produce a first zero-phase current, introduces the currents of the respective phases of a load end of the high-voltage distribution from the current converters to produce a second zero-phase current, and operates a ground protection relay that opens a circuit breaker inserted at the sending end of the high-voltage distribution if the level of the first current is larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Matsumoto, Mitsuru Mitani, Toshio Nomura
  • Patent number: 6160690
    Abstract: A distribution control system that can isolate a fault section without fail, even if control of load break switches becomes impossible because of a communication error between a control center and a feeder terminal unit. If a communication error takes place between the control center and a particular feeder terminal unit, for example, feeder terminal units associated with the particular feeder terminal unit change the operation mode of their controlling load break switches from non-voltage unopened mode to non-voltage open mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Matsumoto, Mitsuru Mitani