Patents by Inventor Nozomu Kamioka

Nozomu Kamioka 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: 11848633
    Abstract: To provide a controller for AC rotary electric machine which can compensate error of the actual on-duty with respect to the command on-duty calculated from command voltage with good accuracy, with a simple circuit configuration. A controller for AC rotary electric machine detects an actual on-duty of the switching device based on the detection value of the midpoint potential which is the potential of the connection node of the series connection in the series circuit; calculates an on-duty error based on the difference between the command on-duty and the actual on-duty; and corrects the voltage command or the command on-duty based on the on-duty error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Harada, Keiichi Enoki, Nozomu Kamioka, Tomohisa Shoda, Yoshimasa Nishijima, Kazuhiko Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11323061
    Abstract: A control device for an AC rotating electric machine includes: a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of a protection part; a maximum current adjustment unit configured to adjust a maximum current of an AC rotating electric machine so as to prevent the temperature of the protection part from exceeding a set temperature; an allowable torque calculation unit configured to calculate an allowable torque based on the maximum current adjusted; a torque command adjustment unit configured to adjust a torque command value directed to the AC rotating electric machine based on the allowable torque; an upper limit number-of-rotation calculation unit configured to calculate an upper-limit number of rotations of the AC rotating electric machine based on the maximum current adjusted; and a number-of-rotation adjustment unit configured to adjust the number of rotations of the AC rotating electric machine based on the upper-limit number of rotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Harada, Keiichi Enoki, Nozomu Kamioka, Tomohisa Shoda, Yoshimasa Nishijima, Kazuhiko Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11183964
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an AC rotating electric machine, which includes: a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of a protection unit provided in an object to be protected when a current is supplied from a power conversion circuit including a switching element to the AC rotating electric machine and output, as a detected temperature, one of the temperature and a temperature of the object to be protected that is estimated from the temperature; a temperature compensation unit configured to calculate, through use of the detected temperature output from the temperature detection unit, a compensated temperature equal to or higher than the detected temperature; and a torque limiting unit configured to limit, through use of the compensated temperature calculated by the temperature compensation unit, a torque command value input thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Harada, Keiichi Enoki, Tomohisa Shoda, Nozomu Kamioka, Ryosuke Shigematsu, Kazuhiko Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20210305931
    Abstract: A control device for an AC rotating electric machine includes: a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of a protection part; a maximum current adjustment unit configured to adjust a maximum current of an AC rotating electric machine so as to prevent the temperature of the protection part from exceeding a set temperature; an allowable torque calculation unit configured to calculate an allowable torque based on the maximum current adjusted; a torque command adjustment unit configured to adjust a torque command value directed to the AC rotating electric machine based on the allowable torque; an upper limit number-of-rotation calculation unit configured to calculate an upper-limit number of rotations of the AC rotating electric machine based on the maximum current adjusted; and a number-of-rotation adjustment unit configured to adjust the number of rotations of the AC rotating electric machine based on the upper-limit number of rotations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo HARADA, Keiichi ENOKI, Nozomu KAMIOKA, Tomohisa SHODA, Yoshimasa NISHIJIMA, Kazuhiko OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20210257954
    Abstract: To provide a controller for AC rotary electric machine which can compensate error of the actual on-duty with respect to the command on-duty calculated from command voltage with good accuracy, with a simple circuit configuration. A controller for AC rotary electric machine detects an actual on-duty of the switching device based on the detection value of the midpoint potential which is the potential of the connection node of the series connection in the series circuit; calculates an on-duty error based on the difference between the command on-duty and the actual on-duty; and corrects the voltage command or the command on-duty based on the on-duty error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo HARADA, Keiichi ENOKI, Nozomu KAMIOKA, Tomohisa SHODA, Yoshimasa NISHIJIMA, Kazuhiko OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20200321903
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an AC rotating electric machine, which includes: a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of a protection unit provided in an object to be protected when a current is supplied from a power conversion circuit including a switching element to the AC rotating electric machine and output, as a detected temperature, one of the temperature and a temperature of the object to be protected that is estimated from the temperature; a temperature compensation unit configured to calculate, through use of the detected temperature output from the temperature detection unit, a compensated temperature equal to or higher than the detected temperature; and a torque limiting unit configured to limit, through use of the compensated temperature calculated by the temperature compensation unit, a torque command value input thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo HARADA, Keiichi ENOKI, Tomohisa SHODA, Nozomu KAMIOKA, Ryosuke SHIGEMATSU, Kazuhiko OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20200141342
    Abstract: A throttle valve 11 that adjusts an amount of air flowing into an intake passage of an internal combustion engine 1, a fuel injection valve 9 that injects fuel into the internal combustion engine 1, and a generator-motor 6 that drives the internal combustion engine 1 via a drive belt 5 are controlled by an internal combustion engine control unit 13. The internal combustion engine control unit 13 opens the throttle valve 11 to a first throttle opening after detecting a request to start the internal combustion engine 1, then causes the fuel injection valve 9 to inject fuel while maintaining the first throttle opening, and then opens the throttle valve 11 to a second throttle opening that is larger than the first throttle opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Noriya Sagayama, Nozomu Kamioka, Satoshi Wachi, Toshiaki Date
  • Patent number: 10513995
    Abstract: A throttle valve 11 that adjusts an amount of air flowing into an intake passage of an internal combustion engine 1, a fuel injection valve 9 that injects fuel into the internal combustion engine 1, and a generator-motor 6 that drives the internal combustion engine 1 via a drive belt 5 are controlled by an internal combustion engine control unit 13. The internal combustion engine control unit 13 opens the throttle valve 11 to a first throttle opening after detecting a request to start the internal combustion engine 1, then causes the fuel injection valve 9 to inject fuel while maintaining the first throttle opening, and then opens the throttle valve 11 to a second throttle opening that is larger than the first throttle opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Noriya Sagayama, Nozomu Kamioka, Satoshi Wachi, Toshiaki Date
  • Patent number: 10017138
    Abstract: A second switch (7) is provided between a first power supply circuit including a first capacitor (4) connected in series with a first switch (6) and a second power supply circuit including a second capacitor (5). In a case where a predetermined condition that necessitates supply of electric power from one power supply circuit to the other power supply circuit is established, the first switch (6) is opened to disconnect the first capacitor (4) in the first power supply circuit, and then the second switch (7) is closed to connect between the first power supply circuit and the second power supply circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu Kamioka, Satoshi Wachi, Toshiaki Date, Shingo Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10006391
    Abstract: A start control device for an engine includes an engine control unit, a motor control unit, and a control unit which controls the engine control unit and the motor control unit, wherein the control unit, when transferring an engine restart control mode from a motoring control state to a fuel combustion control state, executes the transfer via a motor/engine combined control state, and sets the timing of transferring from the motoring control state to the motor/engine combined control state, to a timing at which a crank angle of a cylinder where fuel is combusted first after starting fuel injection reaches a crank angle at which it is estimated that torque is generated by the first combustion of fuel in the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu Kamioka, Satoshi Wachi, Toshiaki Date
  • Patent number: 9950630
    Abstract: While a current cutoff mechanism cuts off charging and discharging currents for a second electric storage device, a DC/DC converter is controlled so as to be in a state where electric power is supplied from a low-voltage side to a high-voltage side, applies voltage conversion to an input voltage of the low-voltage side so that an output voltage of the high-voltage side becomes a predetermined voltage, and after a predetermined state where the induction voltage of the AC power generator can be supplied to the low-voltage side is reached, control of the DC/DC converter is switched from the state where electric power is supplied from the low-voltage side to the high-voltage side to a state where electric power is supplied from the high-voltage side to the low-voltage side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Date, Yasukazu Murata, Satoshi Wachi, Shingo Yamaguchi, Nozomu Kamioka
  • Patent number: 9827979
    Abstract: A transmission control device (4) includes: a gear ratio calculating unit (4a) for calculating a target gear ratio of a transmission (2) based on a gear ratio control mode, to thereby control the transmission; an electric motor drive torque calculating unit (4b) for calculating a drive torque of an electric motor (9) based on the gear ratio control mode when drive of the electric motor (9) is permitted; and an engine torque calculating unit (4c) for calculating an output torque of an engine (1) based on the gear ratio control mode so as to achieve a best fuel efficiency operation state. The gear ratio calculating unit (4a) switches processing of calculating a gear ratio based on whether or not the drive of the electric motor (9) is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu Kamioka, Satoshi Wachi
  • Patent number: 9793749
    Abstract: A vehicle charging apparatus includes: an electric generator 3 that is driven by an internal combustion engine 1 and outputs an adjustable alternating-current voltage; a rectifier 4 that converts the outputted alternating-current voltage to a direct-current voltage; an electric storage device 5 that is charged with the converted direct-current voltage; and a voltage sensor 6 that measures an output voltage of the rectifier 4. The vehicle charging apparatus is provided with a control device 7 that controls the electric generator 3 for a charging voltage to be a target charging voltage calculated from the output voltage in order to suppress a charging current to be lower than a charging current upper limit value when the electric storage device 5 is charged. It thus becomes possible to achieve efficiency higher than that of a charging apparatus in the related art while preventing deterioration or damage of the electric storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujii, Nozomu Kamioka
  • Patent number: 9688285
    Abstract: A travel control device (1) provided to a vehicle travel device (100) performs correction calculation of the rate of change of a requested acceleration using a relatively small value when the rate of change of the requested acceleration obtained from an angle sensor (2) is small, and performs correction calculation of the rate of change of the requested acceleration using a relatively large value when the rate of change of the requested acceleration obtained from the angle sensor (2) is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu Kamioka, Noriya Sagayama, Satoshi Wachi, Toshiaki Date
  • Patent number: 9624859
    Abstract: An engine stopping section first selects, when an engine stop condition is satisfied, a power-generation braking mode in which a power-generation braking torque is applied to the engine by a power generation operation of the generator, to thereby apply the power-generation braking torque to the engine, and then selects a short-circuit braking mode in which a short-circuit braking torque is applied to the engine by short-circuiting each energization phase of an armature coil with a semiconductor switch and by causing a field current to flow through a field coil, to thereby apply the short-circuit braking torque to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu Kamioka, Satoshi Wachi, Toshiaki Date, Noriya Sagayama
  • Publication number: 20170009686
    Abstract: A start control device for an engine includes an engine control unit, a motor control unit, and a control unit which controls the engine control unit and the motor control unit, wherein the control unit, when transferring an engine restart control mode from a motoring control state to a fuel combustion control state, executes the transfer via a motor/engine combined control state, and sets the timing of transferring from the motoring control state to the motor/engine combined control state, to a timing at which a crank angle of a cylinder where fuel is combusted first after starting fuel injection reaches a crank angle at which it is estimated that torque is generated by the first combustion of fuel in the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomu KAMIOKA, Satoshi WACHI, Toshiaki DATE
  • Publication number: 20160312724
    Abstract: A throttle valve 11 that adjusts an amount of air flowing into an intake passage of an internal combustion engine 1, a fuel injection valve 9 that injects fuel into the internal combustion engine 1, and a generator-motor 6 that drives the internal combustion engine 1 via a drive belt 5 are controlled by an internal combustion engine control unit 13. The internal combustion engine control unit 13 opens the throttle valve 11 to a first throttle opening after detecting a request to start the internal combustion engine 1, then causes the fuel injection valve 9 to inject fuel while maintaining the first throttle opening, and then opens the throttle valve 11 to a second throttle opening that is larger than the first throttle opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Noriya SAGAYAMA, Nozomu KAMIOKA, Satoshi WACHI, Toshiaki DATE
  • Publication number: 20160082977
    Abstract: A travel control device (1) provided to a vehicle travel device (100) performs correction calculation of the rate of change of a requested acceleration using a relatively small value when the rate of change of the requested acceleration obtained from an angle sensor (2) is small, and performs correction calculation of the rate of change of the requested acceleration using a relatively large value when the rate of change of the requested acceleration obtained from the angle sensor (2) is large.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu KAMIOKA, Noriya SAGAYAMA, Satoshi WACHI, Toshiaki DATE
  • Patent number: 9283855
    Abstract: The power management apparatus provided in a vehicle includes: a switch 6 for bringing a state between the first and second electric power storage devices 1 and 2 into a non-conduction state during a normal operation and switching the state therebetween to a conduction state when a failure of the power converter 4 is detected; and a power management section 7 for controlling the motor-generator 3 so that a difference between voltages of the first and second electric power storage devices 1 and 2 is equal to or smaller than a predetermined voltage difference before the switch 6 is operated to perform switching from the non-conduction state to the conduction state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu Kamioka, Satoshi Wachi, Yasukazu Murata
  • Publication number: 20160001769
    Abstract: A transmission control device (4) includes: a gear ratio calculating unit (4a) for calculating a target gear ratio of a transmission (2) based on a gear ratio control mode, to thereby control the transmission; an electric motor drive torque calculating unit (4b) for calculating a drive torque of an electric motor (9) based on the gear ratio control mode when drive of the electric motor (9) is permitted; and an engine torque calculating unit (4c) for calculating an output torque of an engine (1) based on the gear ratio control mode so as to achieve a best fuel efficiency operation state. The gear ratio calculating unit (4a) switches processing of calculating a gear ratio based on whether or not the drive of the electric motor (9) is permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu KAMIOKA, Satoshi WACHI