Patents by Inventor Osamu Noro

Osamu Noro 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: 10770905
    Abstract: While a power storage installation operates as a virtual generator to maintain an power storage amount, a power generating installation calculates a first generated power change rate command value from a deviation between a frequency of a power distribution system and a frequency command value, calculates a second generated power change rate command value from received power measured by a received power measurer, calculates a second active power command value by integrating a generated power change rate command value to which the first generated power change rate command value and the second generated power change rate command value are added, and controls an output of the power generating installation based on the second active power command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazushige Sugimoto, Kenichi Sakimoto, Tomoyuki Hirai, Shogo Hamano, Shimpei Kobayashi, Yuko Hirase, Kensho Abe, Osamu Noro, Shogo Katsura, Eiji Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20190334352
    Abstract: While a power storage installation operates as a virtual generator to maintain an power storage amount, a power generating installation calculates a first generated power change rate command value from a deviation between a frequency of a power distribution system and a frequency command value, calculates a second generated power change rate command value from received power measured by a received power measurer, calculates a second active power command value by integrating a generated power change rate command value to which the first generated power change rate command value and the second generated power change rate command value are added, and controls an output of the power generating installation based on the second active power command value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazushige SUGIMOTO, Kenichi SAKIMOTO, Tomoyuki HIRAI, Shogo HAMANO, Shimpei KOBAYASHI, Yuko HIRASE, Kensho ABE, Osamu NORO, Shogo KATSURA, Eiji YOSHIMURA
  • Patent number: 9768712
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a power converter to perform output to an output line connected to a single-phase power system; and a control device to control the power converter so it operates as a virtual synchronous generator. The control device includes: a voltage and current measurer to obtain, from a single-phase system voltage, an angular velocity and a phase of the system voltage by an estimation operation that uses the phase of the system voltage as a parameter; a power obtainer to obtain active power and reactive power; a governor model to calculate a phase difference; an AVR model to calculate an absolute value of an induced voltage of a virtual synchronous generator; a generator model to calculate current command values corresponding to an armature current of the virtual synchronous generator; and a current controller to generate and output a PWM signal to the power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Sakimoto, Yuko Hirase, Eiji Yoshimura, Shogo Katsura, Hidehiko Nakagawa, Osamu Noro, Yuji Shindo
  • Publication number: 20170047861
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a power converter to perform output to an output line connected to a single-phase power system; and a control device to control the power converter so it operates as a virtual synchronous generator. The control device includes: a voltage and current measurer to obtain, from a single-phase system voltage, an angular velocity and a phase of the system voltage by an estimation operation that uses the phase of the system voltage as a parameter; a power obtainer to obtain active power and reactive power; a governor model to calculate a phase difference; an AVR model to calculate an absolute value of an induced voltage of a virtual synchronous generator; a generator model to calculate current command values corresponding to an armature current of the virtual synchronous generator; and a current controller to generate and output a PWM signal to the power converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi SAKIMOTO, Yuko HIRASE, Eiji YOSHIMURA, Shogo KATSURA, Hidehiko NAKAGAWA, Osamu NORO, Yuji SHINDO
  • Patent number: 6882060
    Abstract: A turbine generating apparatus includes a control unit which controls the turbine generating apparatus as follows. During a system connection running mode, a fuel is fed to the gas turbine at a fuel flow rate corresponding to a preset load. The converter prepares a pseudo-system in which a frequency conforms to a set rotational speed of the gas turbine at the preset load, and converts an output of the generator to a direct current in a state that a number of revolutions of the gas turbine is specified by operating the generator synchronously with the pseudo-system. A power to be taken out is controlled depending on a magnitude of a turbine output. The inverter converts a DC voltage output from the converter to an AC voltage by a pulse width modulation at a system voltage and a system frequency so as to keep the DC voltage output from the converter at a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuya Matsuo, Masahide Kawamura, Osamu Noro, Tatsuo Fujii
  • Publication number: 20040066044
    Abstract: A turbine generating apparatus includes a control unit which controls the turbine generating apparatus as follows. During a system connection running mode, a fuel is fed to the gas turbine at a fuel flow rate corresponding to a preset load. The converter prepares a pseudo-system in which a frequency conforms to a set rotational speed of the gas turbine at the preset load, and converts an output of the generator to a direct current in a state that a number of revolutions of the gas turbine is specified by operating the generator synchronously with the pseudo-system. A power to be taken out is controlled depending on a magnitude of a turbine output. The inverter converts a DC voltage output from the converter to an AC voltage by a pulse width modulation at a system voltage and a system frequency so as to keep the DC voltage output from the converter at a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Matsuo, Masahide Kawamura, Osamu Noro, Tatsuo Fujii
  • Patent number: 5260629
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a control device containing a device detecting a velocity or an acceleration parameter of the main robot body. The velocity or acceleration parameters are expressed in a robot coordinate system and is detected from the detection device. The output from the detection device is even added to a desired value that is expressed in an absolute coordinate system that is in an inertial reference frame for an arm of the robot. In this way, the robot arm can be made to follow any desired path, by using desired positions in the absolute coordinate system that is an inertial coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Ioi, Osamu Noro, Osamu Miki, Takashi Katsuragawa
  • Patent number: 4683723
    Abstract: A heat pump has a hot displacer and a cold displacer disposed opposite to each other in a state wherein the two displacers are guided by two guide projections so as to form two gas springs, respectively, and the two displacers continue to move reciprocally due to change of pressure of working gas without any outer mechanical driving force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1987
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiki Doi, Mitsuo Inabe, Osamu Noro