Patents by Inventor Shoji Isoda

Shoji Isoda 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).

  • Patent number: 9816737
    Abstract: A DC power-supply device that suppresses an excessive inrush current, can prevent breakage of elements and burnout of circuits, and converts alternating current from a three-phase AC power supply into direct current to supply it to a load, includes a rectifier circuit having a reactor connected to input or output side thereof and rectifying the alternating current from the three-phase AC power supply; first and second capacitors and connected in series between output terminals to the load; a charging unit selectively charges one or both of the first and second capacitors; and a control unit controlling the charging unit. When charging of the first and second capacitors is started, the control unit reduces the on-duty ratio, and then, until the on-duty ratio during a normal operation is reached, the control unit executes control such that the on-duty ratio is gradually increased as a predetermined time period is passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Kamiya, Kazunori Hatakeyama, Norikazu Ito, Kenta Yuasa, Shoji Isoda
  • Patent number: 9692289
    Abstract: A DC power-supply device that suppresses an increase of a harmonic current and deterioration of a power factor without causing any imbalance among respective phase currents, in a configuration in which a three-phase alternating current is converted into a direct current and supplied to a load. The DC power-supply device includes a rectifier circuit, a reactor connected to an input side or an output side of the rectifier circuit, a first capacitor and a second capacitor serially connected between output terminals to a load, and a charging unit. During a cycle combining a charging period and a non-charging period of a pair of the first capacitor and the second capacitor, the charging unit is controlled so that a charging frequency becomes 3n times (n is a natural number) the frequency of the three-phase alternating current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Kamiya, Kazunori Hatakeyama, Norikazu Ito, Kenta Yuasa, Shoji Isoda
  • Patent number: 9533550
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning control device calculates, through a thermal load calculating unit, a vehicle interior thermal load Q on the basis of, for example, a vehicle interior temperature Tin, a vehicle interior humidity Hin, a vehicle exterior temperature Tout, a passenger load factor ?, and a vehicle-interior-temperature set value Tset. Through an air conditioning output calculating unit, the vehicle air conditioning control device calculates an output command value for an air conditioner on the basis of a vehicle-interior-temperature upper-limit value Tmax, a vehicle-interior-temperature lower-limit value Tmin, the thermal load Q, power-running/regenerative electric power P, and then, corrects the calculated output command value for the air conditioner on the basis of power-running/regenerative electric power Pf at or after a prediction time point and of a passenger load factor ?f at or after the prediction time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shoichi Kitamura, Hiroyuki Hashimoto, Kazuyuki Mori, Satoru Takahashi, Shoji Isoda
  • Publication number: 20160265822
    Abstract: A DC power-supply device that suppresses an excessive inrush current, can prevent breakage of elements and burnout of circuits, and converts alternating current from a three-phase AC power supply into direct current to supply it to a load, includes a rectifier circuit having a reactor connected to input or output side thereof and rectifying the alternating current from the three-phase AC power supply; first and second capacitors and connected in series between output terminals to the load; a charging unit selectively charges one or both of the first and second capacitors; and a control unit controlling the charging unit. When charging of the first and second capacitors is started, the control unit reduces the on-duty ratio, and then, until the on-duty ratio during a normal operation is reached, the control unit executes control such that the on-duty ratio is gradually increased as a predetermined time period is passed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Shota KAMIYA, Kazunori HATAKEYAMA, Norikazu ITO, Kenta YUASA, Shoji ISODA
  • Publication number: 20160079845
    Abstract: A DC power-supply device that suppresses an increase of a harmonic current and deterioration of a power factor without causing any imbalance among respective phase currents, in a configuration in which a three-phase alternating current is converted into a direct current and supplied to a load. The DC power-supply device includes a rectifier circuit, a reactor connected to an input side or an output side of the rectifier circuit, a first capacitor and a second capacitor serially connected between output terminals to a load, and a charging unit. During a cycle combining a charging period and a non-charging period of a pair of the first capacitor and the second capacitor, the charging unit is controlled so that a charging frequency becomes 3n times (n is a natural number) the frequency of the three-phase alternating current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Shota KAMIYA, Kazunori HATAKEYAMA, Norikazu ITO, Kenta YUASA, Shoji ISODA
  • Publication number: 20150306937
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning control device calculates, through a thermal load calculating unit, a vehicle interior thermal load Q on the basis of, for example, a vehicle interior temperature Tin, a vehicle interior humidity Hin, a vehicle exterior temperature Tout, a passenger load factor ?, and a vehicle-interior-temperature set value Tset. Through an air conditioning output calculating unit, the vehicle air conditioning control device calculates an output command value for an air conditioner on the basis of a vehicle-interior-temperature upper-limit value Tmax, a vehicle-interior-temperature lower-limit value Tmin, the thermal load Q, power-running/regenerative electric power P, and then, corrects the calculated output command value for the air conditioner on the basis of power-running/regenerative electric power Pf at or after a prediction time point and of a passenger load factor Of at or after the prediction time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi KITAMURA, Hiroyuki HASHIMOTO, Kazuyuki MORI, Satoru TAKAHASHI, Shoji ISODA
  • Publication number: 20140196480
    Abstract: A first air-conditioning apparatus disposed in a frame mounted on a vehicle is updated to a second air-conditioning apparatus is disposed in the frame. A compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, pressure reducing means, and an indoor heat exchanger of the first air-conditioning apparatus are removed from the frame. The second air-conditioning apparatus is assembled such that a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, pressure reducing means, and an indoor heat exchanger are arranged at predetermined positions in the frame, and the second air-conditioning apparatus is charged with HFC refrigerant. An inverter driving the compressor controls the compressor on the basis of a measured value of at least one of a pressure sensor and an outside air temperature sensor arranged on a discharge side of the compressor such that the amount of refrigerant circulating in the second air-conditioning apparatus is larger than that in the first air-conditioning apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shoji Isoda, Shiro Takatani
  • Publication number: 20090159256
    Abstract: To propose a vehicle air-conditioning system capable of further reducing a temperature fluctuation of blowing-out air when temperature-conditioned air is supplied to an in-car space. The vehicle air-conditioning system including a cooling apparatus 5 capable of changing an amount of withdrawn heat in a stepwise manner, heaters 6A, 6B, and 6C, each having different heat release capability, which constitutes a heating apparatus 6 capable of changing an amount of generated heat in a stepwise manner, and a control device 30 including a supplying amount of heat calculating portion 30A for calculating a supplying amount of heat to an in-car space 2 and an amount of generated and withdrawn heat setting portion 30B for setting amounts of withdrawn and generated heat of the cooling apparatus 5 and the heating apparatus 6 on the basis of the supplying amount of heat calculated by means of the supplying amount of heat calculating portion 30A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Shoji Isoda