Patents by Inventor Seiji Ishida

Seiji Ishida 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: 20170274891
    Abstract: A motor generator (27) is connected mechanically to an engine (21) and a hydraulic pump (23). The hydraulic pump (23) delivers pressurized oil to cylinders (11D) to (11F) in a working mechanism (11), a traveling hydraulic motor (25) and a revolving hydraulic motor (26). The revolving hydraulic motor (26) drives a revolving device (3) in cooperation with a revolving electric motor (33). The motor generator (27) and the revolving electric motor (33) are connected electrically to an electricity storage device (31). An HCU (36) sets a target electricity storage rate (SOC0) of the electricity storage device (31) and a pump output limit (POL0) of the hydraulic pump (23) corresponding to a mode selected by a mode selection device (38). The HCU (36) controls the engine (21), the motor generator (27), the revolving electric motor (33) and the electricity storage device (31) corresponding to the target electricity storage rate (SOC0) and the pump output limit (POL0).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Masafumi HITA, Seiji ISHIDA, Ken TAKEUCHI, Shinya IMURA
  • Publication number: 20170145658
    Abstract: Provided is a hybrid work machine capable of performing a warm-up operation on an electric storage device by charging and discharging while suppressing the occurrence of lug-down or over-revolution to an engine. The hybrid work machine includes: an engine; an assist motor mechanically connected to the engine, causing a discharge by generating a drive torque, and generating electric power by generating a brake torque; a hydraulic pump driven by a total torque of the engine and the assist motor; an electric storage device storing the electric power generated by the assist motor and supplying the electric power when the assist motor is discharged; and a controller outputting a torque command signal in order to control the drive torque or the brake torque of the assist motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Shinya IMURA, Masafumi HITA, Hiroaki AMANO, Seiji ISHIDA, Ken TAKEUCHI, Itaru NAYA, Chiaki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9617715
    Abstract: A construction machine including an internal combustion engine controlled based on a torque command, an electric motor mechanically connected to the internal combustion engine, and an electric energy storage device that supplies electric power to the electric motor, the construction machine performing work by driving a hydraulic pressure generator using the internal combustion engine and the electric motor, the construction machine including: a speed control device that controls a speed of the electric motor based on a speed command; and a torque limiter that limits the torque command relative to a torque target, wherein the torque command is limited by the torque limiter in such a manner that a rate of change with time of the torque command is limited to be equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Ishida, Hidetoshi Satake, Yusuke Kajita, Shiro Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20170009427
    Abstract: A control device of construction machine that performs tasks by driving a hydraulic pump by means of an electric motor that is driven by electric power of a battery device that is capable to charge and discharge and an engine that is mechanically coupled to the electric motor, includes: a charging/discharging control unit that controls the charging/discharging of the battery device in such a manner that, in case that a heavy load task where an output of the hydraulic pump is large and a light load task where the output of the hydraulic pump is small are alternately performed, when the output of the hydraulic pump during the heavy load task is increased or a time proportion of the heavy load task in the unit period is increased, an average value of charging current of the battery device per the unit period increases, and when the output of the hydraulic pump during the heavy load task is further increased or the time proportion of the heavy load task in the unit period is further increased, then the average va
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji ISHIDA, Shinya IMURA, Masafumi HITA
  • Patent number: 9431879
    Abstract: To uniformly cool down armature windings along the circumferential direction of a stator in a generator motor. A generator motor includes a stator 1 fixed to the inner diameter side of a housing 18, a rotor 130 rotatably supported by bearings 5, and armature windings wound around the teeth of a stator core 110. Each of brackets 200 provided via the bearings 5 has a passage 201, 202 through which cooling oil flows and injection holes 204 which communicate with the passage and inject cooling oil at positions opposite to winding ends of the armature windings. Cooling oil is injected toward the winding ends of the armature windings from the injection holes 204 of the brackets 200 arranged on opposite axial sides of a shaft 6. In the flow rate distribution of the oil from the plurality of the injection holes 204, the flow rate of the oil from any of the injection holes 204 is set to be greater as the position of the injection hole 204 is higher above the level of the shaft 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kikuchi, Seiji Ishida, Tsutomu Miyoshi, Itsuro Sawada, Makoto Ishijima, Shigenori Aoki
  • Patent number: 9421873
    Abstract: Construction machine capable of incorporating an engine and using an external power source. The construction machine includes an electrical storage device performing a charge with the external power source, uses the electrical storage device to provide assist when the power of the engine is insufficient, uses an electrical charge in the electrical storage device systematically in accordance with work time, and efficiently uses the electrical storage device by controlling its discharge amount in accordance with load status. The construction machine includes the engine, accessory loads connected to the engine, an assist electric motor driven by the engine, electrical power converters for converting an AC current, which is the output current of the assist electric motor, to a DC current, and the electrical storage device connected to the DC side of each electrical power converter. The electrical storage device becomes charged through a charging device from the external power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Ishida, Masataka Sasaki, Yusuke Kajita, Hidetoshi Satake, Takako Satake, Manabu Edamura, Kazuo Fujishima, Shiho Izumi
  • Patent number: 9399856
    Abstract: A hydraulic working machine has an assist electric motor connected to an engine and a hydraulic pump. The emissions of air pollutants in the exhaust gas from the engine are minimized regardless of fluctuations in the load torque of the hydraulic pump. A specific revolution speed suitable for reducing the emissions of air pollutants is stored, and an engine is controlled using the specific revolution speed as a target revolution speed. The absorption torque of a hydraulic pump is subjected to high-pass filtering whereby a high-frequency component devoid of a trend component is obtained. Target assist torque is computed from the high-frequency component, and the assist electric motor is subjected to power running/generation control accordingly. A specific output torque range suitable for reducing the emissions of air pollutants is stored, and the target assist torque is corrected so that the trend component does not exceed the specific output torque range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Fujishima, Yusuke Kajita, Mitsuo Sonoda, Masatoshi Hoshino, Akira Nakayama, Junji Yamamoto, He Bao, Seiji Ishida, Shiro Yamaoka, Takashi Okada
  • Publication number: 20160153176
    Abstract: A construction machine including an internal combustion engine controlled based on a torque command, an electric motor mechanically connected to the internal combustion engine, and an electric energy storage device that supplies electric power to the electric motor, the construction machine performing work by driving a hydraulic pressure generator using the internal combustion engine and the electric motor, the construction machine including: a speed control device that controls a speed of the electric motor based on a speed command; and a torque limiter that limits the torque command relative to a torque target, wherein the torque command is limited by the torque limiter in such a manner that a rate of change with time of the torque command is limited to be equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji ISHIDA, Hidetoshi SATAKE, Yusuke KAJITA, Shiro YAMAOKA
  • Patent number: 9108645
    Abstract: Provided is a high mobility railroad vehicle system configured to reciprocally carry out a direct drive between a non-electrically driven section and an electrically driven section without installing new facilities such as oil supply equipment and without considering distinction between the non-electrically and electrically driven sections. A railroad vehicle system is provided with an overall control apparatus to respectively control an external electric power supply means, an internal electric power supply means, an electricity storage means, electric power conversion means and a motor driving means. The railroad vehicle system judges or previously notifies as to whether the present driving railroad section is the electrically driven section or non-electrically driven section in accordance with driving position information received from a position information generation means such as a ground facility on a railroad equipped outside of the vehicle and a global positioning system (GPS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Motomi Shimada, Takashi Kaneko, Kento Mochizuki, Seiji Ishida
  • Patent number: 9065361
    Abstract: In a hybrid construction machine, there is provided a drive control device which realizes in, as a simple a structure as possible, control means of a motor generator, which is capable of preventing rapid decreases in the state of charge. The control means, which calculates a motor torque command value to be output to the motor generator, is characterized by calculating the motor torque command value, based on a difference between an actual state-of-charge and a prescribed target state-of-charge and a torque margin obtained by a difference between a maximum torque of an engine determined based on an actual rotational speed of the engine and an actual torque of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Ishihara, Shinya Imura, Seiji Ishida, Masatoshi Hoshino, Manabu Edamura, Mitsuo Sonoda, Takatoshi Ooki, Takako Satake
  • Patent number: 9020707
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hybrid-type construction machine equipped with a swing hydraulic motor 27 and a swing electric motor 25 in combination to save energy, the construction machine ensuring high operability of a swing body 20 and providing high energy efficiency. In accordance with the amount of manipulation of a swing control lever 72, the construction machine changes a rate of a torque of the swing electric motor 25 with respect to that of the swing hydraulic motor 27. The construction machine also controls a relief pressure and the torque of the swing electric motor 25 in accordance with the amount of manipulation of a swing control lever 72, a pressure of the swing hydraulic motor 27, and a rotating speed of the swing electric motor 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Imura, Seiji Ishida, Kouji Ishikawa, Yusuke Kajita, Hidetoshi Satake, Takatoshi Ooki, Manabu Edamura
  • Patent number: 8950180
    Abstract: A hybrid construction machine drives the upper swing structure using a hydraulic motor and an electric motor together and is capable of regenerating the energy of the upper swing structure in deceleration or stopping into electric power and using the regenerated electric power for assisting the hydraulic motor for driving the upper swing structure. The opening area characteristics of a meter-out restrictor and a bleed-off restrictor of a swing directional control valve are set to become larger than for construction machines driving the upper swing structure with the hydraulic motor alone. Torque of the electric motor is controlled so that the total sum of the actual torque occurring in the hydraulic and electric motors in deceleration or acceleration of the hydraulic motor equals the torque occurring when the opening area of the meter-out restrictor or the bleed-off restrictor is set at the prescribed opening area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Ooki, Yusuke Kajita, Hidetoshi Satake, Seiji Ishida, Shiho Izumi, Kouji Ishikawa, Shinya Okumura, Manabu Edamura
  • Patent number: 8924100
    Abstract: A hybrid construction machine is provided with a variable displacement hydraulic pump 1 which supplies hydraulic oil to a hydraulic actuator, an engine 2 which is provided to be able to drive and rotate the hydraulic pump 1, an electric motor 3 which is provided to be able to drive and rotate the hydraulic pump 1, an engine control dial 4, a controller 4 and an operating lever 5. The controller changes the rotation speed of the engine 2 to reduce fuel consumption according to power generated by the engine 2, and changes displacement of the hydraulic pump 1 based on the rotation speed of the engine 2, the dial position of the engine control dial 4 and the amount of operation on the operating lever 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Imura, Seiji Ishida, Yusuke Kajita, Kazuo Fujishima, Takatoshi Ooki, Takako Satake
  • Publication number: 20140217842
    Abstract: To uniformly cool down armature windings along the circumferential direction of a stator in a generator motor. A generator motor includes a stator 1 fixed to the inner diameter side of a housing 18, a rotor 130 rotatably supported by bearings 5, and armature windings wound around the teeth of a stator core 110. Each of brackets 200 provided via the bearings 5 has a passage 201, 202 through which cooling oil flows and injection holes 204 which communicate with the passage and inject cooling oil at positions opposite to winding ends of the armature windings. Cooling oil is injected toward the winding ends of the armature windings from the injection holes 204 of the brackets 200 arranged on opposite axial sides of a shaft 6. In the flow rate distribution of the oil from the plurality of the injection holes 204, the flow rate of the oil from any of the injection holes 204 is set to be greater as the position of the injection hole 204 is higher above the level of the shaft 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Satoshi Kikuchi, Seiji Ishida, Tsutomu Miyoshi, Itsuro Sawada, Makoto Ishijima, Shigenori Aoki
  • Publication number: 20140188321
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a construction machine that can reduce particulate matter (PM) or nitrogen oxide (NOx) discharged from an internal combustion engine mounted on the construction machine. The construction machine 200 includes a diesel engine 101 controlled based on a torque command, an electric motor 102 mechanically connected to the diesel engine, an electric energy storage device 111 that supplies electric power to the electric motor, and a hydraulic pump 103. The construction machine performs work by driving the hydraulic pump using the diesel engine and the electric motor. A speed control device 118 controls a speed of the electric motor 102 based on a speed command. A torque limiter 115 obtains the torque command having a rate of change with time limited based on a torque target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: Seiji Ishida, Hideloshi Satake, Yusuke Kajita, Shiro Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20140147238
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a construction machine that is capable of effectively charging electrical power into the capacitor in consideration of the drive of a swing section and hydraulic work device. To achieve the object, the present invention grasps the status of the construction machine (2) in advance to calculate energy, predicts the next operation, determines the amount of energy to be charged into a capacitor (13), and controls a DC-DC converter (15) accordingly. Consequently, the loss in a conventional battery (lead storage battery) during regeneration can be reduced to provide increased efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Masataka Sasaki, Manabu Edamura, Yusuke Kajita, Seiji Ishida, Shiho Izumi, Takako Satake, Kazuo Fujishima
  • Publication number: 20140103874
    Abstract: Construction machine capable of incorporating an engine and using an external power source. The construction machine includes an electrical storage device performing a charge with the external power source, uses the electrical storage device to provide assist when the power of the engine is insufficient, uses an electrical charge in the electrical storage device systematically in accordance with work time, and efficiently uses the electrical storage device by controlling its discharge amount in accordance with load status. The construction machine includes the engine, accessory loads connected to the engine, an assist electric motor driven by the engine, electrical power converters for converting an AC current, which is the output current of the assist electric motor, to a DC current, and the electrical storage device connected to the DC side of each electrical power converter. The electrical storage device becomes charged through a charging device from the external power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventors: Shiho Izumi, Manabu Edamura, Takako Satake, Yusuke Kajita, Masataka Sasaki, Seiji Ishida, Kazuo Fujishima
  • Publication number: 20140020375
    Abstract: A hydraulic working machine has an assist electric motor connected to an engine and a hydraulic pump. The emissions of air pollutants in the exhaust gas from the engine are minimized regardless of fluctuations in the load torque of the hydraulic pump. A specific revolution speed suitable for reducing the emissions of air pollutants is stored, and an engine is controlled using the specific revolution speed as a target revolution speed. The absorption torque of a hydraulic pump is subjected to high-pass filtering whereby a high-frequency component devoid of a trend component is obtained. Target assist torque is computed from the high-frequency component, and the assist electric motor is subjected to power running/generation control accordingly. A specific output torque range suitable for reducing the emissions of air pollutants is stored, and the target assist torque is corrected so that the trend component does not exceed the specific output torque range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Fujishima, Yusuke Kajita, Mitsuo Sonoda, Masatoshi Hoshino, Akira Nakayama, Junji Yamamoto, He Bao, Seiji Ishida, Shiro Yamaoka, Takashi Okada
  • Publication number: 20130197768
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a hybrid construction machine which can provide the same operation feeling as an ordinary construction machine that is not hybrid without changing the discharge flow rate of a hydraulic pump even when the rotation speed of an engine is changed according to power absorbed by the hydraulic pump. [Solution] A hybrid construction machine is provided with a variable displacement hydraulic pump 1 which supplies hydraulic oil to a hydraulic actuator, an engine 2 which is provided to be able to drive and rotate the hydraulic pump 1, an electric motor 3 which is provided to be able to drive and rotate the hydraulic pump 1, an engine control dial 4, a controller 4 and an operating lever 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Shinya Imura, Seiji Ishida, Yusuke Kajita, Kazuo Fujishima, Takatoshi Ooki, Takako Satake
  • Publication number: 20130193892
    Abstract: In a hybrid construction machine, there is provided a drive control device which realizes in, as a simple a structure as possible, control means of a motor generator, which is capable of preventing rapid decreases in the state of charge. The control means, which calculates a motor torque command value to be output to the motor generator, is characterized by calculating the motor torque command value, based on a difference between an actual state-of-charge and a prescribed target state-of-charge and a torque margin obtained by a difference between a maximum torque of an engine determined based on an actual rotational speed of the engine and an actual torque of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Shinji Ishihara, Shinya Imura, Seiji Ishida, Masatoshi Hoshino, Manabu Edamura, Mitsuo Sonoda, Takatoshi Ooki, Takako Satake