Patents by Inventor Ryo Sase

Ryo Sase 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: 20200410042
    Abstract: An abnormality detection device that detects an abnormality of a target device includes a processor that executes a process of acquiring a plurality of types of measured values of the target device, a process of calculating Mahalanobis distances of the acquired plurality of types of measured values, a process of extracting the plurality of Mahalanobis distances calculated in a past predetermined period from a point in time of evaluation of the target device and calculating a moving average value of a square value of each of the extracted Mahalanobis distances, and a process of determining whether or not an abnormality has occurred in the target device on the basis of the moving average value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Takaharu HIROE, Kazunari IDE, Ryo SASE
  • Publication number: 20200372377
    Abstract: A prediction device that predicts an output of a prediction target in the future includes a processor and a recording device that is connected to the processor and stores an input measurement value that is a measured value of an input of the prediction target and an output measurement value that is a measured value of the output. The processor executes: an identification process of identifying a first coefficient for the input using a moving average filter from a plurality of input measurement values and a plurality of output measurement values stored in the past; and a prediction process of predicting the output of the prediction target in the future on the basis of a prediction model formed from the input measurement values, the output measurement values, and the first coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Takaharu HIROE, Kazunari IDE, Ryo SASE
  • Publication number: 20200285531
    Abstract: An abnormality detecting apparatus that is configured to detect a presence or absence of an abnormality rotating machine includes a processor that is configured to execute a measured value acquisition process of acquiring, on the basis of a detection signal output from a vibration sensor that is configured to measure vibration caused by rotation of the rotating machine, a measured value including an amplitude and a phase of the vibration; a Mahalanobis distance calculation process of calculating a Mahalanobis distance of the measured value acquired at a time point at which the rotating machine is evaluated on the basis of a unit space configured with a plurality of measured values acquired at a plurality of past time points; and a determination process of determining that an abnormality has occurred in the rotating machine in case where the calculated Mahalanobis distance exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Takaharu HIROE, Kazunari IDE, Yoshikatsu IKAWA, Ryo SASE
  • Publication number: 20200232408
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device and method for detecting a misfire in an engine, the device being provided with: a rotation speed sensor (43) as a supercharger rotation speed measurement unit for measuring a rotation speed (Nt) of a supercharger (23); a misfire index calculation unit (51) that calculates a misfire index (Yt) from a degree of change in the rotation speed (Nt) of the supercharger (23), the rotation speed being measured by the rotation speed sensor (43); and a misfire determination unit (52) that determines a misfire in an engine (10) when the misfire index (Yt) calculated by the misfire index calculation unit (51) exceeds a pre-set determination value (D).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SASE, Shintarou NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10677149
    Abstract: A surge avoidance control method that includes a surge detection step of determining whether the operation point of the compressor is positioned in a surge operation region at each predetermined timing; a surge avoidance opening-degree calculation step calculating a surge avoidance opening degree of the operation device necessary for moving the operation point of the compressor determined to be positioned in the surge operation region in the surge detection step out of the surge operation region; a correction opening-degree calculation step calculating a correction opening degree of the operation device on the basis of a moving velocity of the operation point of the compressor which is determined to be positioned in the surge operation region in the surge detection step; and an opening-degree command value calculation step calculating an opening-degree command value of the operation device on the basis of the surge avoidance opening degree and the correction opening degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Sase, Naoki Yahata
  • Publication number: 20200165994
    Abstract: An engine abnormality detection device for detecting variation of a combustion state of each of a plurality of cylinders of an engine, the engine abnormality detection device includes: a rotation information acquisition part configured to obtain rotation information related to a rotation state of the engine; a frequency analysis part configured to perform frequency analysis of the rotation information, the frequency analysis part being configured to calculate a component of fNe and a component fcyl through the frequency analysis of the rotation information, where fNe is a frequency of a single cycle of the engine and fcyl is a frequency of pulsation of the engine; and a detection part configured to detect variation of exhaust energy of each cylinder on the basis of the component of fNe and the component of fcyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SASE, Shintarou NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10634150
    Abstract: A method of detecting surging in a turbocharger provided for an internal combustion engine, includes: a first characteristic quantity calculation step of calculating a first characteristic quantity in at least one first frequency region corresponding to at least one first peak frequency component unique to the time of occurrence of surging in the turbocharger on the basis of a time-variable waveform indicating a time-series change of a rotation speed of the turbocharger; a second characteristic quantity calculation step of calculating a second characteristic quantity in a second frequency region including the at least one first frequency region on the basis of the time-variable waveform; and a detection step of detecting surging in the turbocharger on the basis of a relationship between the first characteristic quantity and the second characteristic quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Sase, Naoki Yahata
  • Publication number: 20200057690
    Abstract: An abnormality detection device includes a processor and a storage unit connected to the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaharu Hiroe, Kazunari Ide, Yoshikatsu Ikawa, Ryo Sase
  • Publication number: 20190324414
    Abstract: A control device (70) of a plant which controls operation amounts of a plurality of types of equipment constituting the plant, the control device includes a prediction model deriving unit (71) that derives a prediction model from which a monitoring target value is output, an adjustment amount calculating unit (72) that calculates adjustment amounts of operation amounts in the case where the monitoring target value becomes a desired value and calculates differences between the operation amounts of existing control and the calculated operation amounts as first adjustment amounts, a constraint condition setting unit (73) that sets constraint conditions based on a measurement value and operation conditions of the plant 1, and an operation amount calculating unit (74) that calculates second adjustment amounts to which the constraint conditions are applied and calculates a plurality of the adjusted operation amounts based on each of the calculated second adjustment amounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kazunari IDE, Takaharu HIROE, Ryo SASE, Yoshikatsu IKAWA, Toshio ISHIWAKI, Tomohiro DOl, Hiroshi KITAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10428748
    Abstract: A control device (10) for a supercharging system for supplying compressed intake air to an engine (6) includes: an engine controller (10A) including an engine signal input part (10A1) and an engine control part (10A2) configured to control an operational state of the engine and to compute a target boost pressure of a supercharger (4); and a turbo controller (10B2) including a turbo signal input part (10B1) and a turbo control part (10B2) configured to compute a margin of the supercharger. The control device is configured to compute a target boost-pressure corrected value by correcting the target boost pressure in accordance with a magnitude of the margin computed by the turbo control part, and to control a boost-pressure control unit (12) so that the boost pressure of the supercharger reaches the target boost-pressure corrected value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Sase, Yukio Yamashita, Ko Takayanagi, Atsushi Matsuo, Rikikazu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180363541
    Abstract: A surge avoidance control method of avoiding surging in an exhaust turbocharger which comprises a turbine rotated by exhaust gas from an engine and a compressor rotatably driven by the turbine, by controlling an opening degree of an operation device capable of adjusting an operation point of the compressor between fully open and fully closed, includes: a surge detection step of determining whether the operation point of the compressor is positioned in a surge operation region at each predetermined timing; a surge avoidance opening-degree calculation step of calculating a surge avoidance opening degree of the operation device necessary for moving the operation point of the compressor determined to be positioned in the surge operation region in the surge detection step out of the surge operation region; a correction opening-degree calculation step of calculating a correction opening degree of the operation device on the basis of a moving velocity of the operation point of the compressor which is determined to b
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SASE, Naoki YAHATA
  • Publication number: 20180355876
    Abstract: A method of detecting surging in a turbocharger provided for an internal combustion engine, includes: a first characteristic quantity calculation step of calculating a first characteristic quantity in at least one first frequency region corresponding to at least one first peak frequency component unique to the time of occurrence of surging in the turbocharger on the basis of a time-variable waveform indicating a time-series change of a rotation speed of the turbocharger; a second characteristic quantity calculation step of calculating a second characteristic quantity in a second frequency region including the at least one first frequency region on the basis of the time-variable waveform; and a detection step of detecting surging in the turbocharger on the basis of a relationship between the first characteristic quantity and the second characteristic quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SASE, Naoki YAHATA
  • Patent number: 10082093
    Abstract: Provided are a knocking determination device and a knocking control device for an internal combustion engine, with which a large amount of knocking can be detected quickly and with which knocking is easily determined. A knocking time window and a bandpass filter (BPF) are used (B1-B2) to extract a knocking frequency waveform signal from a knock sensor signal (Sg1), and integration is performed to obtain a first calculated value (B3). A reference time window and a BPF are used (B4-B5) to extract a reference frequency waveform signal from the knock sensor signal (Sg1), and integration is performed to obtain a second calculated value (B6). The average value of multiple instances of the second calculated value is obtained (B7), and the first calculated value is divided by the average value to obtain a signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio (B8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ko Takayanagi, Masataka Shiraishi, Ryo Sase
  • Patent number: 10047666
    Abstract: An object is to enable low fuel-consumption operation of an engine by controlling a back pressure and a power generation amount taking account of a trade-off relationship between deterioration of fuel efficiency due to an increase in pumping loss due to a back-pressure rise of the engine and improvement of fuel efficiency due to recovery of exhaust energy by a turbo compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Ko Takayanagi, Ryo Sase, Atsushi Matsuo, Rikikazu Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9724643
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system of engine configured to classify a PM accumulation state of DPF into multiple evaluation stages based on a plurality of evaluation indices, and to repeatedly perform determination of the current evaluation stage by the current stage determination part and determination of whether to move up the current evaluation stage to the evaluation stage of the next rank by the evaluation stage determination part, wherein upon a defect of a sensor among different types of sensors being detected by the defect detection part, the current evaluation stage is newly redetermined by the current stage redetermination part as substituted for the current evaluation stage determined by the current stage determination part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ko Takayanagi, Keisuke Okuda, Ryo Sase
  • Publication number: 20160333806
    Abstract: Provided are a knocking determination device and a knocking control device for an internal combustion engine, with which a large amount of knocking can be detected quickly and with which knocking is easily determined. A knocking time window and a bandpass filter (BPF) are used (B1-B2) to extract a knocking frequency waveform signal from a knock sensor signal (Sg1), and integration is performed to obtain a first calculated value (B3). A reference time window and a BPF are used (B4-B5) to extract a reference frequency waveform signal from the knock sensor signal (Sg1), and integration is performed to obtain a second calculated value (B6). The average value of multiple instances of the second calculated value is obtained (B7), and the first calculated value is divided by the average value to obtain a signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio (B8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Ko Takayanagi, Masataka Shiraishi, Ryo Sase
  • Publication number: 20160305353
    Abstract: A control device (10) for a supercharging system for supplying compressed intake air to an engine (6) includes: an engine controller (10A) including an engine signal input part (10A1) and an engine control part (10A2) configured to control an operational state of the engine and to compute a target boost pressure of a supercharger (4); and a turbo controller (10B2) including a turbo signal input part (10B1) and a turbo control part (10B2) configured to compute a margin of the supercharger. The control device is configured to compute a target boost-pressure corrected value by correcting the target boost pressure in accordance with a magnitude of the margin computed by the turbo control part, and to control a boost-pressure control unit (12) so that the boost pressure of the supercharger reaches the target boost-pressure corrected value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SASE, Yukio YAMASHITA, Ko TAKAYANAGI, Atsushi MATSUO, Rikikazu HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160265422
    Abstract: An object is to enable low fuel-consumption operation of an engine by controlling a back pressure and a power generation amount taking account of a trade-off relationship between deterioration of fuel efficiency due to an increase in pumping loss due to a back-pressure rise of the engine and improvement of fuel efficiency due to recovery of exhaust energy by a turbo compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio YAMASHITA, Ko TAKAYANAGI, Ryo SASE, Atsushi MATSUO, Rikikazu HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9074505
    Abstract: A PM accumulation amount estimation unit 50 is provided with an exhaust amount computation unit 51 for computing PM exhaust amount which is discharged in an exhaust gas passage 3, and a passive regeneration amount computation unit 52 for computing a PM regeneration amount in a DPF 7, and is configured to estimate the PM accumulation amount in the DPF 7 from the difference between the PM exhaust amount computed by the exhaust amount computation unit 51 and the PM regeneration amount computed by the passive regeneration amount computation unit 52. The PM accumulation amount estimation unit 50 is further configured such that, when an abnormality is found in an airflow meter 31, the PM regeneration amount from NO2 is computed, and the PM accumulation amount in the DPF is estimated, without using the airflow amount measured by the airflow meter 31.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Sase, Ko Takayanagi, Keisuke Okuda
  • Publication number: 20140308170
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system of engine configured to classify a PM accumulation state of DPF into multiple evaluation stages based on a plurality of evaluation indices, and to repeatedly perform determination of the current evaluation stage by the current stage determination part and determination of whether to move up the current evaluation stage to the evaluation stage of the next rank by the evaluation stage determination part, wherein upon a defect of a sensor among different types of sensors being detected by the defect detection part, the current evaluation stage is newly redetermined by the current stage redetermination part as substituted for the current evaluation stage determined by the current stage determination part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Ko Takayanagi, Keisuke Okuda, Ryo Sase