Patents by Inventor Shiro Maruyama
Shiro Maruyama 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).
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Patent number: 11415698Abstract: A point group data processing device includes: an image data acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image; a point group data acquisition unit configured to acquire point group data indicating position information of a point group corresponding to a plurality of points included in the image; an area setting unit configured to set a target area which is an area surrounding a subject on the image and an enlargement area which is an area obtained by enlarging the target area; and a target point group specifying unit configured to specify a target point group corresponding to the subject based on depth information of a point group included in the target area and depth information of a point group included in the enlargement area, which are included in the point group data.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Maruyama, Daisuke Okanohara
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Publication number: 20200057905Abstract: A point group data processing device includes: an image data acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image; a point group data acquisition unit configured to acquire point group data indicating position information of a point group corresponding to a plurality of points included in the image; an area setting unit configured to set a target area which is an area surrounding a subject on the image and an enlargement area which is an area obtained by enlarging the target area; and a target point group specifying unit configured to specify a target point group corresponding to the subject based on depth information of a point group included in the target area and depth information of a point group included in the enlargement area, which are included in the point group data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro MARUYAMA, Daisuke OKANOHARA
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Patent number: 10074971Abstract: According to one embodiment, an excitation inrush current suppressing apparatus comprising: bus voltage measurement equipment which measures each phase voltage of the single-phase AC-side bus; transformer voltage measurement equipment which measures a single-phase-side voltage of the transformer; phase detector which detects a cutoff phase when opening the circuit breaker by monitoring each phase voltage measured by the bus voltage measurement equipment and the single-phase-side voltage measured by the transformer voltage measurement equipment, holds the detected cutoff phase, and outputs the same phase as the held cutoff phase; and close command output device which closes the circuit breaker by the same voltage phase as the cutoff phase output from the phase detector.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kei Kawasaki, Tadashi Koshizuka, Shiro Maruyama, Minoru Saito, Noriyuki Nagayama
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Patent number: 10018666Abstract: A partial discharge monitoring system includes: electromagnetic wave detection sensors disposed in insulating gas enclosures being objects to be monitored, converting devices, and an interface device. The interface device includes: a detecting part detecting a zero cross point of a voltage signal synchronous with a voltage signal applied to conductors disposed in the insulating gas enclosures, and deciding a sampling timing of signals of electromagnetic waves; a transmitting part notifying the sampling timing decided by the detecting part to the converting devices; an integrating part integrating digital data which are received from the converting devices on per converting device basis; and a transmitting part transmitting the integrated digital data to a monitoring device.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shiro Maruyama, Minoru Saito, Takashi Nakajima, Shin Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Hayata, Toshiyuki Saida
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Patent number: 9704664Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetizing inrush current suppressing device is configured to measure a three-phase alternating current flowing from the power supply bus to the load, detect a first interruption phase as a phase of an electric current which is interrupted first among the three phases, detect a phase of a phase voltage zero point through which a phase voltage of the first interruption phase of the three-phase AC voltage passes when changing from the same polarity as that of an electric current immediately before interruption of the first interruption phase to an opposite polarity, and close the circuit-breaker at a phase within 60° from the detected phase.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Shiro Maruyama, Minoru Saito, Hiroyuki Maehara, Koji Suzuki
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Patent number: 9583934Abstract: According to one embodiment, an excitation inrush current suppression device for suppressing excitation inrush currents flowing through a breaker of the three-phase collective operation type for opening and closing connection is configured to measure a three-phase AC voltage of the power supply bus bar to calculate prospective magnetic fluxes of the transformer, and to measure a three-phase AC voltage on the transformer side to calculate residual magnetic fluxes of the transformer after shutoff, so as to set the breaker closed when polarities of the prospective magnetic fluxes respectively agree with polarities of the residual magnetic fluxes in all of the phases respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kei Kawasaki, Tadashi Koshizuka, Shiro Maruyama, Minoru Saito, Noriyuki Nagayama
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Patent number: 9515479Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an inrush current suppression apparatus that suppresses an inrush current generated when shunt capacitors are connected to a power system, the apparatus including a voltage measurement unit measuring power source voltages, a current measurement unit measuring circuit breaker currents, a polarity determination unit determining the polarities of residual voltages, a phase section detector detecting a phase section in which the polarities of the residual voltages match the polarities of the power source voltages, and a circuit breaker closing unit closing the circuit breaker within the phase section.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Shiro Maruyama, Hiroyuki Maehara, Yoshimasa Sato
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Patent number: 9502189Abstract: According to an embodiment, when a transformer that is connected to a first power supply through a first breaker as well as to a second power supply through a second breaker is detected to be disconnected from the power supplies, a specific phase of the three phases of the first breaker is closed to suppress an excitation inrush current, based on calculated residual magnetic fluxes and a voltage of the first power supply, and thereafter, the remaining two phases are closed. Based on the calculated residual magnetic fluxes and a voltage of the second power supply, a specific phase of the three phases of the second breaker is closed to suppress an excitation inrush current, and thereafter, the remaining two phases are closed.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shiro Maruyama, Minoru Saito, Tadashi Koshizuka, Tomohiko Mitani
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Patent number: 9490627Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetizing inrush current suppressing device includes, a first closing unit closes the circuit-breaker at the notable phase by the first phase determined by the first-phase determination unit, a second-phase determination unit determines a second phase at which the notable phase detected by the notable phase detection unit from the three-phase AC voltage measured by the power-supply-side voltage measurement unit becomes a zero point after the first phase determined by the first-phase determination unit, and a second closing unit closes the circuit-breaker at two phases other than the notable phase by the second phase determined by the second-phase determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Shiro Maruyama, Minoru Saito, Hiroyuki Maehara, Koji Suzuki
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Patent number: 9425615Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an inrush current suppression apparatus that suppresses an inrush current generated when shunt capacitors are connected to a power system. The apparatus includes a power supply voltage measurement unit measuring a power supply voltage, a circuit breaker current measurement unit measuring a circuit breaker current, a residual voltage polarity determination unit determining the polarities of three phases of a residual voltage, a specific phase determination unit determining a specific phase, a closing phase detector detecting a closing phase, and a circuit breaker closing unit closing the circuit breaker in the closing phase.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Minoru Saito, Shiro Maruyama, Hiroyuki Maehara, Yoshimasa Sato
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Patent number: 9385525Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetizing inrush current suppression device. A closing phase determination unit determines a phase position for suppressing the magnetizing inrush current among phase positions in which the prospective magnetic flux calculated by the prospective magnetic flux calculation unit and the residual magnetic flux calculated by the residual magnetic flux calculation unit coincide between the lines of the minimum residual magnetic flux determined by the minimum residual magnetic flux determination unit, as a closing phase position. A closing unit simultaneously closes the three phases of the circuit-breaker at the determined closing phase position.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Minoru Saito, Shiro Maruyama, Hiroyuki Maehara, Koji Suzuki
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Publication number: 20150377950Abstract: A partial discharge monitoring system includes: electromagnetic wave detection sensors disposed in insulating gas enclosures being objects to be monitored, converting devices, and an interface device. The interface device includes: a detecting part detecting a zero cross point of a voltage signal synchronous with a voltage signal applied to conductors disposed in the insulating gas enclosures, and deciding a sampling timing of signals of electromagnetic waves; a transmitting part notifying the sampling timing decided by the detecting part to the converting devices; an integrating part integrating digital data which are received from the converting devices on per converting device basis; and a transmitting part transmitting the integrated digital data to a monitoring device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shiro Maruyama, Minoru Saito, Takashi Nakajima, Shin Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Hayata, Toshiyuki Saida
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Patent number: 9197057Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetizing inrush current suppression apparatus including an interrupting phase detection unit that detects a phase when the transformer that converts a three-phase alternating-current voltage to a single-phase alternating-current voltage is disconnected, a single-phase alternating-current voltage measurement unit that measures the single-phase alternating-current voltage on the power system side of the circuit breaker, and a closing unit that closes the circuit breaker in the detected phase, based on the measured single-phase alternating-current voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Keisuke Udagawa, Tadashi Koshizuka, Shiro Maruyama, Minoru Saitoh, Noriyuki Nagayama
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Publication number: 20150171626Abstract: Current measurement means inputs single-phase current that is output from current measurement equipment and calculates (current measurement step) the current flowing in the ganged three-phase operation breaker when the ganged three-phase operation breaker interrupts the inductive load. Based on the measurement results of this current measurement equipment, phase detection means detects (phase detection step) a first interrupting phase selected from the three phases of the ganged three-phase operation breaker and the current interrupted point of this first interrupting phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2015Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tadashi KOSHIZUKA, Shiro MARUYAMA, Minoru SAITO, Hiroyuki MATSUOKA
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Publication number: 20150124357Abstract: According to one embodiment, an excitation inrush current suppressing apparatus comprising: bus voltage measurement equipment which measures each phase voltage of the single-phase AC-side bus; transformer voltage measurement equipment which measures a single-phase-side voltage of the transformer; phase detector which detects a cutoff phase when opening the circuit breaker by monitoring each phase voltage measured by the bus voltage measurement equipment and the single-phase-side voltage measured by the transformer voltage measurement equipment, holds the detected cutoff phase, and outputs the same phase as the held cutoff phase; and close command output device which closes the circuit breaker by the same voltage phase as the cutoff phase output from the phase detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2015Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kei Kawasaki, Tadashi Koshizuka, Shiro Maruyama, Minoru Saito, Noriyuki Nagayama
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Publication number: 20150085404Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetizing inrush current suppressing device includes, a first closing unit closes the circuit-breaker at the notable phase by the first phase determined by the first-phase determination unit, a second-phase determination unit determines a second phase at which the notable phase detected by the notable phase detection unit from the three-phase AC voltage measured by the power-supply-side voltage measurement unit becomes a zero point after the first phase determined by the first-phase determination unit, and a second closing unit closes the circuit-breaker at two phases other than the notable phase by the second phase determined by the second-phase determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tadashi KOSHIZUKA, Shiro MARUYAMA, Minoru SAITO, Hiroyuki MAEHARA, Koji SUZUKI
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Patent number: 8981761Abstract: A partial discharge detector for gas-insulated electric apparatus of an embodiment detects an electromagnetic wave ascribable to partial discharge in a gas-insulated electric apparatus which is filled with insulating gas, and in which a conductor to which high voltage is applied is supported in conductor supporting holes provided at centers of a plurality of disk-shaped insulating plates, and a plurality of flanged-conductive pipes form a hermetically sealed container, with flange portions thereof pressingly sandwiching and holding peripheral edge portions of the insulating plates from both surface sides. The partial discharge detector for gas-insulated electric apparatus of this embodiment is characterized in that an antenna detecting the electromagnetic wave is disposed in close contact on a portion, of each of the insulating plates, exposed from the flange portions of the flanged conductive pipes, via an elastic member capable of transmitting the electromagnetic wave.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shiro Maruyama, Toshihiro Hoshino, Takaaki Sakakibara
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Publication number: 20150055266Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetizing inrush current suppressing device is configured to measure a three-phase alternating current flowing from the power supply bus to the load, detect a first interruption phase as a phase of an electric current which is interrupted first among the three phases, detect a phase of a phase voltage zero point through which a phase voltage of the first interruption phase of the three-phase AC voltage passes when changing from the same polarity as that of an electric current immediately before interruption of the first interruption phase to an opposite polarity, and close the circuit-breaker at a phase within 60° from the detected phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tadashi KOSHIZUKA, Shiro MARUYAMA, Minoru SAITO, Hiroyuki MAEHARA, Koji SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20140192443Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetizing inrush current suppression device. A closing phase determination unit determines a phase position for suppressing the magnetizing inrush current among phase positions in which the prospective magnetic flux calculated by the prospective magnetic flux calculation unit and the residual magnetic flux calculated by the residual magnetic flux calculation unit coincide between the lines of the minimum residual magnetic flux determined by the minimum residual magnetic flux determination unit, as a closing phase position. A closing unit simultaneously closes the three phases of the circuit-breaker at the determined closing phase position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tadashi KOSHIZUKA, Minoru SAITO, Shiro MARUYAMA, Hiroyuki MAEHARA, Koji SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20140168846Abstract: According to an embodiment, when a transformer that is connected to a first power supply through a first breaker as well as to a second power supply through a second breaker is detected to be disconnected from the power supplies, a specific phase of the three phases of the first breaker is closed to suppress an excitation inrush current, based on calculated residual magnetic fluxes and a voltage of the first power supply, and thereafter, the remaining two phases are closed. Based on the calculated residual magnetic fluxes and a voltage of the second power supply, a specific phase of the three phases of the second breaker is closed to suppress an excitation inrush current, and thereafter, the remaining two phases are closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shiro MARUYAMA, Minoru SAITO, Tadashi KOSHIZUKA, Tomohiko MITANI