Patents by Inventor Shintaro Uchida

Shintaro Uchida 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: 20240117763
    Abstract: A gas turbine system includes: a combustor; an intake flow passage connected to the combustor; an exhaust flow passage connected to the combustor; a compressor provided in the intake flow passage; a turbine provided in the exhaust flow passage; an ammonia tank; and a hydrogen generator-separator having an ammonia supply port connected to the ammonia tank and a hydrogen discharge port connected to the combustor, the hydrogen generator-separator being arranged on a downstream side of the turbine in the exhaust flow passage or on a downstream side of the compressor in the intake flow passage, the hydrogen generator-separator including an ammonia cracking catalyst and a hydrogen separation membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro ITO, Toshiro FUJIMORI, Wonyoung CHOI, Masahiro UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230304552
    Abstract: Provided is a release device for a non-excitation type electromagnetic brake that receives power supply from a battery via a brake control device to release a braking state, including: a bypass circuit that connects the battery and the non-excitation type electromagnetic brake without intermediary of the brake control device; a first switch that turns on and off energization to the bypass circuit; and a first step-down circuit provided on the bypass circuit and that reduces a voltage supplied to the non-excitation type electromagnetic brake. The first step-down circuit includes a resistor and a second switch connected in parallel; and a timer circuit that controls on and off of the second switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shintaro UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230033879
    Abstract: A wear computing system (100, 200, 300) for computing a wear of a wheel (3) of a vehicle (2) comprises a revolution sensor (48) configured to detect a number of revolutions of the wheel (3), an acceleration sensor (49) configured to detect an acceleration of the vehicle (2) in a travel direction thereof, and a control unit (7) configured to compute a travel distance of the vehicle from the acceleration of the vehicle, and compute the wear from the travel distance and the number of revolutions of the wheel (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Taiki IIMURA, Ritsuya OSHIMA, Shintaro UCHIDA, Hiroshi IWAKAMI
  • Patent number: 9310443
    Abstract: A voltage detection apparatus includes a plurality of voltage detection units, each of which detects cell voltages of plural cells in each of blocks in a battery module. Each of blocks includes the plural cells connected in series. The plurality of voltage detection units are respectively supplied with power via power supply lines connected to the blocks. The plurality of voltage detection units are respectively provided with a plurality of current increase units for increasing dark currents so that the dark currents flowing through the power supply lines respectively become a same target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidehiko Shimizu, Kimihiro Matsuura, Yusuke Tatara, Shintaro Uchida, Takayuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8760172
    Abstract: An insulation measurement apparatus includes a path including a first resistor, a capacitor electrically floated from a ground, and a second resistor between a positive to a negative electrode side of a power supply, a first switching element between the power supply positive electrode side and the capacitor, a second switching element between the capacitor and the power supply negative electrode side, a detection section detecting a charge voltage on the capacitor and determining a power supply insulation state, and a voltage setting section executing a power supply voltage measurement mode controlling the first and second switching elements to charge the capacitor for a predetermined time period, and an insulation voltage measurement mode charging a terminal of a positive or negative electrode side of the capacitor via a resistor between the power supply positive or negative electrode and the ground for a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawamura, Takafumi Tsurumi, Shintaro Uchida
  • Publication number: 20130328568
    Abstract: A voltage detection apparatus includes a plurality of voltage detection units, each of which detects cell voltages of plural cells in each of blocks in a battery module. Each of blocks includes the plural cells connected in series. The plurality of voltage detection units are respectively supplied with power via power supply lines connected to the blocks. The plurality of voltage detection units are respectively provided with a plurality of current increase units for increasing dark currents so that the dark currents flowing through the power supply lines respectively become a same target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicants: Honda Motor Co., Ltd, Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehiko Shimizu, Kimihiro Matsuura, Yusuke Tatara, Shintaro Uchida, Takayuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120081135
    Abstract: An insulation measurement apparatus includes a path including a first resistor, a capacitor electrically floated from a ground, and a second resistor between a positive to a negative electrode side of a power supply, a first switching element between the power supply positive electrode side and the capacitor, a second switching element between the capacitor and the power supply negative electrode side, a detection section detecting a charge voltage on the capacitor and determining a power supply insulation state, and a voltage setting section executing a power supply voltage measurement mode controlling the first and second switching elements to charge the capacitor for a predetermined time period, and an insulation voltage measurement mode charging a terminal of a positive or negative electrode side of the capacitor via a resistor between the power supply positive or negative electrode and the ground for a predetermined time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshihiro KAWAMURA, Takafumi TSURUMI, Shintaro UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 8106667
    Abstract: An insulation measurement apparatus includes a path including a first resistor, a capacitor electrically floated from a ground, and a second resistor between a positive to a negative electrode side of a power supply, a first switching element between the power supply positive electrode side and the capacitor, a second switching element between the capacitor and the power supply negative electrode side, a detection section detecting a charge voltage on the capacitor and determining a power supply insulation state, and a voltage setting section executing a power supply voltage measurement mode controlling the first and second switching elements to charge the capacitor for a predetermined time period, and an insulation voltage measurement mode charging a terminal of a positive or negative electrode side of the capacitor via a resistor between the power supply positive or negative electrode and the ground for a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawamura, Takafumi Tsurumi, Shintaro Uchida
  • Patent number: 8013574
    Abstract: There is provided a discharge controller for a multiple cell battery that has a plurality of storage cells connected in series with each other. A discharge path from the storage cell is connected a load. The discharge controller includes: cell voltage detection units for detecting respective cell voltages of the storage cells; a switch group comprising a plurality of switches each connected between the storage cells; and a control unit for performing ON/OFF control on the respective switches individually in response to detection results detected by the cell voltage detection units so as to form the discharge path from the storage cell to the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Naganuma, Shintaro Uchida
  • Publication number: 20090289640
    Abstract: An insulation measurement apparatus includes a path including a first resistor, a capacitor in a state electrically floated from a ground potential, and a second resistor coupled in series sequentially from a positive electrode side of a power supply to a negative electrode side of the power supply, a first switching element provided in a path from the positive electrode side of the power supply to the capacitor, a second switching element provided in a path from the capacitor to the negative electrode side of the power supply, a detection section which detects a charge voltage set to the capacitor and determines an insulation state of the power supply, and a voltage setting section which executes a power supply voltage measurement mode for controlling the first and second switching elements to charge the capacitor by a voltage of the power supply for a predetermined voltage applying time period for measuring the voltage of the power supply, and an insulation voltage measurement mode for charging a terminal o
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawamura, Takafumi Tsurumi, Shintaro Uchida
  • Patent number: 7576511
    Abstract: The present invention employed a motor control device including: current sensors which detect currents in each phase of a three-phase motor; a coordinate conversion device which computes a d-axis actual current and a q-axis actual current in dq-coordinates from phase currents of three phases based on detection values of the current sensors; a voltage instruction computation device which computes a d-axis voltage instruction and a q-axis voltage instruction based on a deviation between a d-axis current instruction and the d-axis actual current and on a deviation between a q-axis current instruction and the q-axis actual current; a target phase current computation device which computes target phase currents for each phase from the d-axis current instruction and the q-axis current instruction; and a current difference computation device which computes, for each phase, a current difference between the phase current and the target phase current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisayoshi Takahashi, Tetsu Sugiyama, Shintaro Uchida
  • Publication number: 20090167242
    Abstract: A discharge control system of an electric storage pack controls a discharge line connected from a plurality of electric rechargeable cells to a rotary inductive load or a load driving feeding circuit. The electric rechargeable cells are provided in series within the electric storage pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro NAGANUMA, Shintaro Uchida
  • Publication number: 20090115372
    Abstract: A discharge control system of a electric storage pack has a plurality of electric rechargeable cells connected in series and a discharge line is connected from a electric rechargeable cell to a load driving feeding circuit. The discharge control system includes cell voltage detection units for detecting respective cell voltages of the plurality of cells, a switch group made up of a plurality of switches connected between the plurality of cells, and a control unit which designates a cell having a highest cell voltage in the plurality of electric rechargeable cells possessed by the electric storage pack in accordance with detection results by the cell voltage detection units and on/off controls the switches of the switch group individually so as to form a discharge line from a electric rechargeable cell of the group to the load driving feeding circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Naganuma, Shintaro Uchida
  • Publication number: 20090102422
    Abstract: There is provided a discharge controller for a multiple cell battery that has a plurality of storage cells connected in series with each other. A discharge path from the storage cell is connected a load. The discharge controller includes: cell voltage detection units for detecting respective cell voltages of the storage cells; a switch group comprising a plurality of switches each connected between the storage cells; and a control unit for performing ON/OFF control on the respective switches individually in response to detection results detected by the cell voltage detection units so as to form the discharge path from the storage cell to the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro NAGANUMA, Shintaro UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20070205743
    Abstract: The present invention employed a motor control device including: current sensors which detect currents in each phase of a three-phase motor; a coordinate conversion device which computes a d-axis actual current and a q-axis actual current in dq-coordinates from phase currents of three phases based on detection values of the current sensors; a voltage instruction computation device which computes a d-axis voltage instruction and a q-axis voltage instruction based on a deviation between a d-axis current instruction and the d-axis actual current and on a deviation between a q-axis current instruction and the q-axis actual current; a target phase current computation device which computes target phase currents for each phase from the d-axis current instruction and the q-axis current instruction; and a current difference computation device which computes, for each phase, a current difference between the phase current and the target phase current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisayoshi Takahashi, Tetsu Sugiyama, Shintaro Uchida
  • Patent number: 6902114
    Abstract: To generate a setting bar code for changing setting of an optical information reader, in setup items changed by the user, each item different from the default value is extracted and bar code original data is created. Further, if the amount of information to be encoded is large and the length of a setting bar code exceeds a predetermined value, the information to be encoded is divided into a plurality of parts as a plurality of setting bar codes so that each of the plurality of setting bar codes falls within the predetermined value. Each of the plurality of setting bar codes contains information concerning the total number of bar codes and the serial number relative to the total number of bar codes and check information indicating that the plurality of setting bar codes belong to the same setup contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Hashimoto, Shintaro Uchida
  • Publication number: 20020185540
    Abstract: To generate a setting bar code for changing setting of an optical information reader, in setup items changed by the user, each item different from the default value is extracted and bar code original data is created. Further, if the amount of information to be encoded is large and the length of a setting bar code exceeds a predetermined value, the information to be encoded is divided into a plurality of parts as a plurality of setting bar codes so that each of the plurality of setting bar codes falls within the predetermined value. Each of the plurality of setting bar codes contains information concerning the total number of bar codes and the serial number relative to the total number of bar codes and check information indicating that the plurality of setting bar codes belong to the same setup contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Hideki Hashimoto, Shintaro Uchida