Patents by Inventor Noriaki Hino
Noriaki Hino 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).
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Publication number: 20240120793Abstract: Provided are a stator for a rotary electric machine and the rotary electric machine. The stator includes a stator core, and a stator winding formed in a plurality of phases, the stator winding including a slot conductor and a crossover conductor configured to connect ends of a pair of the slot conductors, the ends placed at a same side of the pair of slot conductors.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Miku TAKAHASHI, Yuji KOBAYASHI, Yasuyuki SAITO, Noriaki HINO, Shinji YAMAZAKI, Takuya MIYAGI, Keisuke TATENO
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Publication number: 20230283131Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a structure capable of stably holding a bonded magnet into a magnet insertion part of a rotor core. A rotor of a rotating electrical machine includes a bonded magnet 112, an elastic member 113 having a bent part 113a, and a rotor core provided with a magnet storage part storing the bonded magnet 112 and the elastic member 113. The elastic member 113 is embedded in the bonded magnet 112 in a state where at least a part of the bent part 113a is exposed from the bonded magnet 112, and an exposed part 113c of the bent part 113a from the bonded magnet 112 comes into contact with an inner wall of the magnet storage part 114 and elastically deforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro HORI, Takeshi TOKUYAMA, Noriaki HINO, Masanori SAWAHATA
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Patent number: 10840755Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided between poles of any adjacent two magnets from among the plurality of magnets, and a magnetoresistance variation unit provided in the magnetically-assisted salient pole member along an axial direction of the rotation axis at a position offset in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis from a q-axis passing through a salient pole center of the magnetically-assisted salient pole member. The amount of offset of the magnetoresistance variation unit from the q-axis varies depending on positions of the magnetically-assisted salient pole members so that torque fluctuations cancel each other when power is applied.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Saito, Tsuyoshi Goto, Kenichi Nakayama, Noriaki Hino, Shinji Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20200136446Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided between poles of any adjacent two magnets from among the plurality of magnets, and a magnetoresistance variation unit provided in the magnetically-assisted salient pole member along an axial direction of the rotation axis at a position offset in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis from a q-axis passing through a salient pole center of the magnetically-assisted salient pole member. The amount of offset of the magnetoresistance variation unit from the q-axis varies depending on positions of the magnetically-assisted salient pole members so that torque fluctuations cancel each other when power is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Yasuyuki SAITO, Tsuyoshi GOTO, Kenichi NAKAYAMA, Noriaki HINO, Shinji SUGIMOTO
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Patent number: 10547222Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided between poles of any adjacent two magnets from among the plurality of magnets, and a magnetoresistance variation unit provided in the magnetically-assisted salient pole member along an axial direction of the rotation axis at a position offset in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis from a q-axis passing through a salient pole center of the magnetically-assisted salient pole member. The amount of offset of the magnetoresistance variation unit from the q-axis varies depending on positions of the magnetically-assisted salient pole members so that torque fluctuations cancel each other when power is applied.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Saito, Tsuyoshi Goto, Kenichi Nakayama, Noriaki Hino, Shinji Sugimoto
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Patent number: 10358984Abstract: The gas turbine power generation system of the present invention repeats either the supply or absorption of power, in addition to generating power. A frequency converter for converting a frequency of power is connected between the rotating electrical machine and a power system via a power line, and a controller obtains a request for an output from the gas turbine power generation system and controls the combustor on the basis of the request. With respect to the frequency converter, the controller performs frequency converter control for changing the rotational speed of the rotating electrical machine on the basis of the request. The rotating electrical machine supplies or absorbs power in accordance with the change in the rotational speed. With respect to the speed adjustment mechanism, the controller performs speed adjustment mechanism control for setting the rotational speed to a reference value.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Noriaki Hino, Naohiro Kusumi, Aung Ko Thet, Tomofumi Shiraishi, Masatoshi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20190115796Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided between poles of any adjacent two magnets from among the plurality of magnets, and a magnetoresistance variation unit provided in the magnetically-assisted salient pole member along an axial direction of the rotation axis at a position offset in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis from a q-axis passing through a salient pole center of the magnetically-assisted salient pole member. The amount of offset of the magnetoresistance variation unit from the q-axis varies depending on positions of the magnetically-assisted salient pole members so that torque fluctuations cancel each other when power is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Yasuyuki SAITO, Tsuyoshi GOTO, Kenichi NAKAYAMA, Noriaki HINO, Shinji SUGIMOTO
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Patent number: 10263550Abstract: A gas turbine power generation system having an improved function to stabilize the power system is disclosed. The gas turbine power generation system has a dual-shaft gas turbine, an electric generator mechanically connected to a low pressure turbine of the dual-shaft gas turbine and electrically connected to an electric power system, a rotary electric machine mechanically connected to a high pressure turbine through a compressor of the dual-shaft gas turbine and electrically connected to the electric power system, wherein a power oscillation is suppressed by operation of the rotary electric machine as a motor or as a generator.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Aung Ko Thet, Noriaki Hino, Naohiro Kusumi, Tomofumi Shiraishi, Masatoshi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 10202906Abstract: A two-shaft gas turbine having high operability is provided. The two-shaft gas turbine includes: a gas generator having a compressor, a combustor and a high pressure turbine; a power turbine having a low pressure turbine; a load connected to the power turbine; a motor/generator capable of rotatably driving the gas generator and capable of extracting power from the gas generator; electric equipment controlling the rotational driving and the power extraction by delivering electric power between the electric equipment and the motor/generator; and a control device controlling the electric equipment, wherein the combustor has a plurality of combustion regions to which a fuel is supplied through fuel adjustment means which are independent from each other, and the control device controls a delivery amount of the electric power delivered by the electric equipment corresponding to the number of combustion regions to which the fuel is supplied.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuro Morisaki, Naohiro Kusumi, Noriaki Hino, Tomomichi Ito, Kazuo Takahashi
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Patent number: 10193383Abstract: The dual-shaft gas turbine power generation system includes: a high-pressure gas turbine; a first rotating shaft connecting a compressor and the high-pressure gas turbine; an electric motor connected to the first rotating shaft; a governor which adjusts the amount of air taken into the compressor; a low-pressure gas turbine; a second rotating shaft connected to the low-pressure gas turbine; a synchronous power generator connected to the second rotating shaft; a frequency converter which converts the frequency of power transmitted between the synchronous power generator and the electric motor; and a control device which controls a frequency converter control device for controlling the frequency converter, and the governor, on the basis of a power output command value indicating the power to be outputted to an external grid.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Noriaki Hino, Naohiro Kusumi, Kazuo Takahashi, Tomomichi Ito
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Patent number: 10193487Abstract: There are provided a voltage command calculator that calculates a voltage command value that is a command value of an AC voltage to be applied to a rotary electric machine that is driven by a power conversion device, a carrier wave generator that generates a carrier wave, a comparator that generates a pulse signal to be supplied to the power conversion device on the basis of a comparison result between the voltage command value and the carrier wave, and a reset signal receiving unit that changes a value of the carrier wave into a predetermined value when a predetermined reset signal is input.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Yoshimura, Mamoru Kimura, Noriaki Hino
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Patent number: 10184406Abstract: A multi-shaft variable speed gas turbine apparatus includes a multi-shaft gas turbine having a gas turbine compressor, a gas turbine burner, a gas generator provided with a first turbine for rotationally driving the gas turbine compressor, and a power turbine, provided with a second turbine that is mechanically separated from the gas generator, rotationally driven by exhaust gas of the gas generator, and having a main generator. A sub-electric motor/generator is connected to the gas generator, and a frequency converter controls the sub-electric motor/generator. A fuel flow rate control valve adjusts output using a fuel flow rate to be injected into the gas turbine burner. Variation of the fuel flow rate is restricted, and a control device determines a drive load of the gas turbine compressor in accordance with an output load for a request load, and controls the sub-electric motor/generator using the frequency converter.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Naohiro Kusumi, Noriaki Hino, Aung Ko Thet
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Patent number: 10177615Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided between poles of any adjacent two magnets from among the plurality of magnets, and a magnetoresistance variation unit provided in the magnetically-assisted salient pole member along an axial direction of the rotation axis at a position offset in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis from a q-axis passing through a salient pole center of the magnetically-assisted salient pole member. The amount of offset of the magnetoresistance variation unit from the q-axis varies depending on positions of the magnetically-assisted salient pole members so that torque fluctuations cancel each other when power is applied.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Saito, Tsuyoshi Goto, Kenichi Nakayama, Noriaki Hino, Shinji Sugimoto
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Patent number: 10094297Abstract: In order to enhance the tracking performance of power generation equipment with respect to a load variation and increase the reliability of the power generation equipment, a dynamic characteristic model simulating the dynamic characteristics of a multi-shaft gas turbine is used to calculate an output prediction value of a first power generator in a case where a combustor is controlled so as to match the output of the first power generator to an output target value; on the basis of the output target value and the output prediction value of the first power generator, a first power generator output instruction value as an instruction value for the output from the first power generator to a power system and a second power generator output instruction value as an instruction value for the output from a second power generator to the power system are calculated; and the combustor is controlled on the basis of the first power generator output instruction value and a frequency convertor is controlled on the basis of tType: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Naohiro Kusumi, Noriaki Hino, Aung Ko Thet, Tomofumi Shiraishi, Masatoshi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 10084405Abstract: A control device for power conversion device controls a power conversion device in a system driven by the power conversion device to which an electric motor outputs AC power, and includes: a control pulse generation unit configured to generate a control pulse of the power conversion device; and a negative phase creation unit configured to input a pulse signal output by the control pulse generation unit and rotational speed information of the electric motor, and to generate an inverted signal of an output signal of the control pulse generation unit, wherein the pulse signal of a half cycle during one cycle of voltage, the pulse signal being generated by the control pulse generation unit, and a pulse signal of a next half cycle during the one cycle of voltage, the pulse signal being generated by the negative phase creation unit, are symmetrical in positive and negative relationship of voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Yoshimura, Naohiro Kusumi, Noriaki Hino, Tomofumi Shiraishi, Aung Ko Thet
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Patent number: 9982555Abstract: A gas turbine power generation system has a dual-shaft gas turbine, an electric generator mechanically connected to a low pressure turbine of the dual-shaft gas turbine and electrically connected to an electric power system, a rotary electric machine mechanically connected to a high pressure turbine through a compressor of the dual-shaft gas turbine and electrically connected to the electric power system, and an electric power output from the electric generator side to the electric power system is adjusted by operation of the rotary electric machine as a motor or as a generator.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Aung Ko Thet, Noriaki Hino, Naohiro Kusumi
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Publication number: 20180128165Abstract: Abrupt output fluctuation of renewable energy is smoothed by output control of a prime mover driven generator and curtailment of renewable energy. The generator is a doubly-fed induction generator and a rotor creates a rotating magnetic field by being energized with AC through a power converter and makes a frequency of the AC variable so as to change speed of the rotor and receive and output inertial energy that the rotor has. In a case where an output of renewable energy is abruptly increased and curtailment of the prime mover is not made in time, output fluctuation is smoothed by suppressing the output of renewable energy at the same time while increasing the speed of the rotor to be absorbed as inertial energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Noriaki HINO, Mamoru KIMURA, Masatoshi YOSHIMURA, Kazuhiro MAEZAWA
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Patent number: 9935578Abstract: A control device of a power converter controls a system including a converter that converts alternating current (AC) power of a power supply into direct current (DC) power, an inverter that converts the DC power into AC power, a capacitor that is charged with and discharges the DC power, and a rotary electric machine that is driven by the AC power supplied from the inverter or regenerates the AC power to the power supply, the control device including: a vibration suppression control unit that outputs a torque current command correction value for canceling an axial vibration component due to a vibration frequency of a transmission system including the rotary electric machine and an output compensation control unit that outputs a correction value for suppressing AC power of the power supply fluctuated by the vibration suppression control unit to a voltage control unit of the converter.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Yoshimura, Naohiro Kusumi, Noriaki Hino, Tomofumi Shiraishi, Aung Ko Thet
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Publication number: 20180048198Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided between poles of any adjacent two magnets from among the plurality of magnets, and a magnetoresistance variation unit provided in the magnetically-assisted salient pole member along an axial direction of the rotation axis at a position offset in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis from a q-axis passing through a salient pole center of the magnetically-assisted salient pole member. The amount of offset of the magnetoresistance variation unit from the q-axis varies depending on positions of the magnetically-assisted salient pole members so that torque fluctuations cancel each other when power is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Yasuyuki SAITO, Tsuyoshi GOTO, Kenichi NAKAYAMA, Noriaki HINO, Shinji SUGIMOTO
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Publication number: 20180034402Abstract: There are provided a voltage command calculator that calculates a voltage command value that is a command value of an AC voltage to be applied to a rotary electric machine that is driven by a power conversion device, a carrier wave generator that generates a carrier wave, a comparator that generates a pulse signal to be supplied to the power conversion device on the basis of a comparison result between the voltage command value and the carrier wave, and a reset signal receiving unit that changes a value of the carrier wave into a predetermined value when a predetermined reset signal is input.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Masatoshi YOSHIMURA, Mamoru KIMURA, Noriaki HINO