Patents by Inventor Nobuo Hayashi

Nobuo Hayashi 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: 20240136949
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes: a converter configured to convert AC power that is input from an AC power supply via a first conductive line pair, into DC power; an inverter configured to convert the DC power that is output from the converter to a second conductive line pair, into the AC power; and a capacitor connected between conductive lines of the first conductive line pair or between conductive lines of the second conductive line pair, between one or more reactors and the inverter, wherein, letting a carrier frequency for driving the inverter be fC, a resonance frequency of an LC filter constituted by the one or more reactors and the capacitor be fLC, and a maximum value of an output frequency of the inverter be MAX(f0), MAX(f0) satisfies 6 times MAX(f0)<fLC<fC?3 times MAX(f0).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki HANDA, Takuro OGAWA, Nobuo HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11941852
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measurement device includes an image data receiving unit, a camera position selecting unit, a stereoscopic image selecting unit, and a camera position calculator. The image data receiving unit receives data of multiple photographic images. The photographic images are obtained by photographing a measurement target object and a random dot pattern from multiple surrounding viewpoints by use of a camera. The camera position selecting unit selects camera positions from among multiple positions of the camera. The stereoscopic image selecting unit selects the photographic images as stereoscopic images from among the photographic images that are taken from the camera positions selected by the camera position selecting unit. The camera position calculator calculates the camera position from which the stereoscopic images are taken. The selection of the camera positions is performed multiple times in such a manner that at least one different camera position is selected each time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Kazusa DNA Research Institute
    Inventors: Atsushi Hayashi, Nobuo Kochi, Takanari Tanabata, Sachiko Isobe
  • Publication number: 20240039439
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus configured to convert an input power supplied from a power supply to an output alternating-current power having a predetermined voltage and a predetermined frequency is provided. The motor control apparatus includes an inverter circuit configured to supply the output alternating-current power to a motor, and is configured to perform a control to suppress an amplitude of a first harmonic component that occurs synchronously with a rotation rate of the motor in a power input into the motor to be lower than or equal to a predetermined value and to suppress an amplitude of a second harmonic component that occurs in an electromagnetic exciting force of the motor at a same frequency as the first harmonic component to be lower than the amplitude of the second harmonic component in a case of the amplitude of the first harmonic component being suppressed to a minimum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki NAKATA, Takayuki MIYAJIMA, Nobuo HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240011663
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes an indoor unit, outdoor unit, indoor unit power line, and outdoor unit power line. The power lines branch from a common power line. Each of the indoor and outdoor units includes a converter circuit, an inverter circuit, and a capacitor. A total of effective values of integer-order components from second to 40th orders in a total current, which is obtained by adding up an indoor-unit input current and an outdoor-unit input current and which flows through the common power line, is less than a sum of a total of effective values of integer-order components from the second to 40th orders included in the indoor-unit input current that flows through the indoor-unit power line and a total of effective values of integer-order components from the second to 40th orders included in the outdoor-unit input current that flows through the outdoor-unit power line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuo HAYASHI, Takurou OGAWA, Takayuki MIYAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11705843
    Abstract: A direct power conversion device includes a control unit. tb=1/|fdc?n×fL|. fdc is a frequency twice as high as a frequency of an AC power supply, fL is a frequency of periodic load fluctuations, and n is a positive integer that maximizes tb. In a half period of power supply during a period of tb, the half period including a timing at which peaks of a fundamental wave of load torque and an absolute value of a power supply voltage substantially coincide with each other, the control unit being configured to control the switching elements so that two or more local maximum points appear in the half period of power supply, in a waveform obtained by combining a second harmonic, a fourth harmonic, and a sixth harmonic of a power supply frequency contained in a waveform of an absolute value of a motor current vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ueki, Nobuo Hayashi, Takurou Ogawa, Morimitsu Sekimoto
  • Publication number: 20210408953
    Abstract: A direct power conversion device includes a control unit. tb=1/|fdc?n×fL|. fdc is a frequency twice as high as a frequency of an AC power supply, fL is a frequency of periodic load fluctuations, and n is a positive integer that maximizes tb. In a half period of power supply during a period of tb, the half period including a timing at which peaks of a fundamental wave of load torque and an absolute value of a power supply voltage substantially coincide with each other, the control unit being configured to control the switching elements so that two or more local maximum points appear in the half period of power supply, in a waveform obtained by combining a second harmonic, a fourth harmonic, and a sixth harmonic of a power supply frequency contained in a waveform of an absolute value of a motor current vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Daisuke UEKI, Nobuo HAYASHI, Takurou OGAWA, Morimitsu SEKIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10951152
    Abstract: In order to suppress vibration with a motor a load torque of which periodically fluctuates, an output torque of the motor is controlled to be periodically changed. In this case, in order to increase a vibration suppressing component by a direct power conversion apparatus, at least one of first control and second control is performed. In the first control, an output torque having a waveform including a fundamental frequency component of the load torque a fundamental frequency of which is a frequency in accordance with a fluctuation period of the load torque and at least one of a fourth harmonic and a sixth harmonic of a power source frequency of an AC power source is generated. In the second control, the output torque having a waveform including at least one of a second harmonic and a third harmonic of the fundamental frequency of the load torque and a second harmonic of the power source frequency of the AC power source is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Hayashi, Takurou Ogawa, Daisuke Ueki, Morimitsu Sekimoto
  • Publication number: 20200412292
    Abstract: In order to suppress vibration with a motor a load torque of which periodically fluctuates, an output torque of the motor is controlled to be periodically changed. In this case, in order to increase a vibration suppressing component by a direct power conversion apparatus, at least one of first control and second control is performed. In the first control, an output torque having a waveform including a fundamental frequency component of the load torque a fundamental frequency of which is a frequency in accordance with a fluctuation period of the load torque and at least one of a fourth harmonic and a sixth harmonic of a power source frequency of an AC power source is generated. In the second control, the output torque having a waveform including at least one of a second harmonic and a third harmonic of the fundamental frequency of the load torque and a second harmonic of the power source frequency of the AC power source is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo HAYASHI, Takurou OGAWA, Daisuke UEKI, Morimitsu SEKIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10811997
    Abstract: A power converter includes a plurality of switching elements, a converter circuit that rectifies an AC voltage of an AC power source, a DC link that receives output of the converter circuit and generates a DC voltage, an inverter circuit that converts the DC voltage into an AC voltage of a predetermined frequency through a switching operation, and a control unit that controls the switching operation. A capacitance value of a capacitor is set so that a maximum value of the DC voltage becomes twice or more of a minimum value. The control unit controls the switching elements such that two or more extrema appear in a power source half cycle in a waveform synthesized from second, fourth, and sixth harmonics that have a power source frequency as a fundamental frequency and are extracted from a waveform of an absolute value of a motor current vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Hayashi, Takurou Ogawa, Morimitsu Sekimoto, Tomoisa Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20200220481
    Abstract: A power converter includes a plurality of switching elements, a converter circuit that rectifies an AC voltage of an AC power source, a DC link that receives output of the converter circuit and generates a DC voltage, an inverter circuit that converts the DC voltage into an AC voltage of a predetermined frequency through a switching operation, and a control unit that controls the switching operation. A capacitance value of a capacitor is set so that a maximum value of the DC voltage becomes twice or more of a minimum value. The control unit controls the switching elements such that two or more extrema appear in a power source half cycle in a waveform synthesized from second, fourth, and sixth harmonics that have a power source frequency as a fundamental frequency and are extracted from a waveform of an absolute value of a motor current vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Nobuo HAYASHI, Takurou OGAWA, Morimitsu SEKIMOTO, Tomoisa TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9853559
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a power conversion device including a storage and a power conversion controller. The storage stores multiple values, each correlated to a disturbance that causes distortion in a current to a power converter, in association with a phase angle of a voltage of an AC power supply. The power conversion controller controls ON/OFF operations by using the values stored in the storage to compensate for a manipulated variable of control performed by the power converter in association with the phase angle of the voltage of the AC power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoisa Taniguchi, Morimitsu Sekimoto, Takurou Ogawa, Eiji Tooyama, Nobuo Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20170077829
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a power conversion device including a storage and a power conversion controller. The storage stores multiple values, each correlated to a disturbance that causes distortion in a current to a power converter, in association with a phase angle of a voltage of an AC power supply. The power conversion controller controls ON/OFF operations by using the values stored in the storage to compensate for a manipulated variable of control performed by the power converter in association with the phase angle of the voltage of the AC power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoisa TANIGUCHI, Morimitsu SEKIMOTO, Takurou OGAWA, Eiji TOOYAMA, Nobuo HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 7022238
    Abstract: An immersion type membrane filter apparatus 200 is intended for obtaining filtrate by filtrating a fluid to be processed stored within a storage bath 150 and primarily includes a filtration membrane module 300 and an air bubbles supply device 500 disposed therebelow. The filtration membrane module 300 has numerous tubular membranes 310 having on the inner surfaces thereof the function of filtrating a fluid to be processed packed within a cylindrical housing vessel 301 having a discharge port 303 for filtrate. The tubular membranes 310 are held in an opened state at both the ends of the housing vessel 301. The filtration membrane module 300 is soaked in a fluid to be processed in such a way that the tubular membranes 310 are opened in the vertical direction. When air bubbles are supplied to the filtration membrane module 300 from an air bubbles supply device 500, the fluid to be processed flows through the tubular membranes 310 from the down side upwards to naturally circulate within the storage bath 150.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Yuasa Corporation
    Inventors: Tamiyuki Eguchi, Shiro Tanso, Naoki Murakami, Nobuo Hayashi, Seiji Okuda
  • Publication number: 20030178369
    Abstract: An immersion type membrane filter apparatus 200 is intended for obtaining filtrate by filtrating a fluid to be processed stored within a storage bath 150 and primarily includes a filtration membrane module 300 and an air bubbles supply device 500 disposed therebelow. The filtration membrane module 300 has numerous tubular membranes 310 having on the inner surfaces thereof the function of filtrating a fluid to be processed packed within a cylindrical housing vessel 301 having a discharge port 303 for filtrate. The tubular membranes 310 are held in an opened state at both the ends of the housing vessel 301. The filtration membrane module 300 is soaked in a fluid to be processed in such a way that the tubular membranes 310 are opened in the vertical direction. When air bubbles are supplied to the filtration membrane module 300 from an air bubbles supply device 500, the fluid to be processed flows through the tubular membranes 310 from the down side upwards to naturally circulate within the storage bath 150.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Tamiyuki Eguchi, Shiro Tanso, Naoki Murakami, Nobuo Hayashi, Seiji Okuda
  • Patent number: 6058216
    Abstract: An encoding apparatus includes an interval register (250), a calculator (208, etc.), means for providing a potential shift-amount (Shift.sub.-- LSZ) of the interval register for the image data in a specific condition (LPS), a shift-amount decision circuit (258), a shift-amount register (259), and a shifter (251). The interval register stores plural bits of interval data to be used for encoding the image data. The calculator updates the interval data in the interval register. The shift-amount decision circuit generates an actual shift-amount of the interval register, in accordance with the potential shift-amount and the output of the calculator. The shift-amount register stores the actual shift-amount, supplied from the shift-amount decision circuit. The shifter shifts the interval data in the interval register a plurality of bits at one time, in accordance with the actual shift-amount stored in the shift-amount register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries Limited
    Inventors: Tsutomu Endo, Nobuo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 6055338
    Abstract: A conversion parameter for a (N)th image data is read from the information table (201) while converting a (N-1)th image data, which is inputted one clock prior to the (N)th image data. The (N)th image data is converted in accordance with the previously read conversion parameter when the conversion of the (N-1)th image data is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries Limited
    Inventors: Tsutomu Endo, Nobuo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5734724
    Abstract: In an audio communication control unit, audio signals from at least three terminals connected to a switching part are branched to left- and right-channels audio signals, then the left- and right-channel audio signals are processed using sound image control parameters in such a manner as to impart them with target positions different for each terminal, then all left-channel audio signals corresponding to the respective terminals are mixed together into a left-channel mixed audio signal and all the right-channel audio signals are mixed together into a right-channel mixed audio signal, and these left- and right-channel mixed audio signals are distributed and sent to all the connected terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Ikuichiro Kinoshita, Shigeaki Aoki, Manabu Okamoto, Nobuo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4887760
    Abstract: The bonding sheet of the present invention comprises a substrate having an opening, and a low-melting point bonding metal which closes the opening or is arranged on the peripheral portion of the opening, to project in the opening. According to a bonding sheet of the present invention, a low-melting point bonding metal is interposed between a conductor pattern of a substrate and electrode terminals of an electronic component, and is bonded by thermocompression at a low temperature without melting the low-melting point bonding metal, so that bonding of a large number of electrode terminals can be completed by a single bonding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Thunekazu Yoshino, Hiroshi Morita, Hirotaka Nakano, Nobuo Hayashi, Yuko Kubota