Patents by Inventor Ryo SHINOHARA

Ryo SHINOHARA 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: 20240146182
    Abstract: The electric-power conversion apparatus comprises: switching devices each permitting a current to flow therethrough or shutting off that current; a device temperature detector that detects a temperature of one or more of the switching devices; a cooler that cools down the switching devices; a cooling-medium state detector that detects a state of a cooling medium passing through the cooler; and a control unit that controls the switching devices to perform electric-power conversion, and performs overheat prevention control of the switching devices; wherein the control unit determines a temperature threshold value for judging whether the overheat prevention control is necessary or not, on the basis of the state of the cooling medium detected by the cooling-medium state detector, and performs the overheat prevention control by restricting operations of the switching devices, when the temperature detected by the device temperature detector is higher than the temperature threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20230396198
    Abstract: An electrical power conversion apparatus is provided in which a heat generation abnormality-state such as an abnormal state of a cooling device is determined earlier in its determination, so that it becomes possible to securely perform a protective operation even in the heat generation abnormality-state. A control device estimates a change rate of a temperature detection value on the basis of a switching-element loss calculation value of a semiconductor switching element(s) calculated at least based on an electric current detection value, and compares a temperature-detection change-rate calculation value calculated from a temperature detection value with a temperature-detection change-rate estimation value, so that a heat generation abnormality-state of the semiconductor switching element(s) is estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 11749981
    Abstract: A control device for an AC rotating machine includes: switching control means for controlling inverters and motor relays 15; and abnormality detection means for detecting an abnormality in each system and outputting a result of the detection to the switching control means. When the abnormality detection means detects an abnormality in at least one of the systems, the switching control means causes the motor relay to block a circuit between windings and the inverter in the system in which the abnormality has been detected, and continues normal control in a system other than the system in which the abnormality has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20220180491
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image synthesizer configured to correct input images based on first-correction data to generate corrected images, and to generate a synthesized image by stitching the corrected images together, a determiner configured to determine whether the corrected images are appropriately stitched together in the synthesized image by using a first-trained model learned whether images are appropriately stitched together, a second-correction-data generator configured to generate second-correction data by supplying the input images to a second-trained model learned relationships between correction data used to correct source images to generate corrected images appropriately stitched together and the source images, and an image updater configured to output the synthesized image when a determination result of the determiner is affirmative and output an updated synthesized image generated by causing the image synthesizer to update the synthesized image based on the second-correction da
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryo SHINOHARA, Naoto MATOBA
  • Publication number: 20220158441
    Abstract: A control device for an AC rotating machine includes: switching control means for controlling inverters and motor relays 15; and abnormality detection means for detecting an abnormality in each system and outputting a result of the detection to the switching control means. When the abnormality detection means detects an abnormality in at least one of the systems, the switching control means causes the motor relay to block a circuit between windings and the inverter in the system in which the abnormality has been detected, and continues normal control in a system other than the system in which the abnormality has been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20220073045
    Abstract: The objective is to suppress a delay in the response of pressing force of an electric brake, when braking and non-braking are alternately repeated in an electric-brake control apparatus. An electric-brake control amount calculation unit of an electric-brake control apparatus according to the present disclosure calculates a control amount for securing a clearance between a brake pad and a brake disk, based on a position of the brake pad, calculated by a position calculator at a non-braking time, and secures the clearance by changing the control amount in two or more separate steps at a time when the braking is switched to the non-braking. As a result, it is made possible to obtain an electric-brake control apparatus that can suppress a delay in the response of pressing force of an electric brake, when braking and non-braking are alternately repeated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro NISHIWAKI, Ryo SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 11253160
    Abstract: A measuring apparatus includes: a measuring section which performs an invasive blood pressure measurement, and which detects that a predetermined abnormal condition occurs in a blood pressure during the measurement; a detector which detects whether or not a zero point calibration is being executed on a transducer to be used in the measurement; and a notification controller which, in a case where the blood pressure measured by the measuring section is in the predetermined abnormal condition, controls whether an alarm is output or not, based on a detection state of the detector. The notification controller can select a first mode in which an alarm sound is output, or a second mode in which the alarm sound is not output, based on an elapsed time period from a predetermined timing relating to the zero point calibration, and an output from the measuring section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Shinohara, Kazuri Higashi, Yukio Koyama
  • Patent number: 10541622
    Abstract: An electric motor drive device includes a smoothing capacitor and an inverter, and further includes an overvoltage protection unit for overvoltage protection for the smoothing capacitor, and a phase short-circuit control unit. The overvoltage protection unit includes: a discharge circuit having a discharge resistor and an IGBT connected in series; and a first determination circuit which determines, with determination delay, that smoothing capacitor voltage exceeds first set voltage, and turns on the IGBT. The phase short-circuit control unit is provided in a control device for drive-controlling the inverter and includes a second determination circuit which determines, with a determination period longer than the determination delay of the first determination circuit, that smoothing capacitor voltage exceeds second set voltage lower than the first set voltage, to perform phase short-circuit control for the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Onda, Yoshihiro Takeshima, Hiroyasu Iwabuki, Masahiro Iezawa, Ryo Shinohara, Hideki Sugita
  • Publication number: 20190149063
    Abstract: An electric motor drive device includes a smoothing capacitor and an inverter, and further includes an overvoltage protection unit for overvoltage protection for the smoothing capacitor, and a phase short-circuit control unit. The overvoltage protection unit includes: a discharge circuit having a discharge resistor and an IGBT connected in series; and a first determination circuit which determines, with determination delay, that smoothing capacitor voltage exceeds first set voltage, and turns on the IGBT. The phase short-circuit control unit is provided in a control device for drive-controlling the inverter and includes a second determination circuit which determines, with a determination period longer than the determination delay of the first determination circuit, that smoothing capacitor voltage exceeds second set voltage lower than the first set voltage, to perform phase short-circuit control for the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei ONDA, Yoshihiro TAKESHIMA, Hiroyasu IWABUKI, Masahiro IEZAWA, Ryo SHINOHARA, Hideki SUGITA
  • Publication number: 20180325393
    Abstract: A measuring apparatus includes: a measuring section which performs an invasive blood pressure measurement, and which detects that a predetermined abnormal condition occurs in a blood pressure during the measurement; a detector which detects whether or not a zero point calibration is being executed on a transducer to be used in the measurement; and a notification controller which, in a case where the blood pressure measured by the measuring section is in the predetermined abnormal condition, controls whether an alarm is output or not, based on a detection state of the detector. The notification controller can select a first mode in which an alarm sound is output, or a second mode in which the alarm sound is not output, based on an elapsed time period from a predetermined timing relating to the zero point calibration, and an output from the measuring section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Ryo SHINOHARA, Kazuri HIGASHI, Yukio KOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9998061
    Abstract: A switching control unit that ON/OFF-controls switching elements of a power conversion circuit includes a power supply side abnormality determination unit, and a regeneration abnormality response processing selection unit that selects either three-phase short circuit processing, in which all upper stage side switching elements or all lower stage side switching elements are switched ON, or six-switch opening processing, in which all of the switching elements of the power conversion circuit are switched OFF, as processing to be executed when the power supply side abnormality determination unit determines that a power supply side abnormality has occurred, the three-phase short circuit processing and the six-switch opening processing being selected in accordance with a motor operating condition of the AC motor at the time of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20170237381
    Abstract: A switching control unit that ON/OFF-controls switching elements of a power conversion circuit includes a power supply side abnormality determination unit, and a regeneration abnormality response processing selection unit that selects either three-phase short circuit processing, in which all upper stage side switching elements or all lower stage side switching elements are switched ON, or six-switch opening processing, in which all of the switching elements of the power conversion circuit are switched OFF, as processing to be executed when the power supply side abnormality determination unit determines that a power supply side abnormality has occurred, the three-phase short circuit processing and the six-switch opening processing being selected in accordance with a motor operating condition of the AC motor at the time of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 9627998
    Abstract: The electric motor control device includes: an inverter circuit 20 which converts DC power of a DC power supply 90 into AC power; and a switching control section 60 which performs on/off control of a semiconductor switching element composing the inverter circuit. The switching control section 60 includes: a power-supply-side abnormality determination section 62 which determines whether a power-supply-side abnormal state is established in which regenerative energy from an electric motor 10 cannot be regenerated to the DC power supply; and a switching frequency changeable section 63 which changes, when the power-supply-side abnormality determination section has determined that the power-supply-side abnormal state has been established, a switching frequency of the semiconductor switching element such that an overall loss, which is a total of loss in the inverter and loss in the electric motor, is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20160248347
    Abstract: The electric motor control device includes: an inverter circuit 20 which converts DC power of a DC power supply 90 into AC power; and a switching control section 60 which performs on/off control of a semiconductor switching element composing the inverter circuit. The switching control section 60 includes: a power-supply-side abnormality determination section 62 which determines whether a power-supply-side abnormal state is established in which regenerative energy from an electric motor 10 cannot be regenerated to the DC power supply; and a switching frequency changeable section 63 which changes, when the power-supply-side abnormality determination section has determined that the power-supply-side abnormal state has been established, a switching frequency of the semiconductor switching element such that an overall loss, which is a total of loss in the inverter and loss in the electric motor, is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo SHINOHARA