Patents by Inventor Tadashi Koshizuka

Tadashi Koshizuka 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: 20150085404
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi KOSHIZUKA, Shiro MARUYAMA, Minoru SAITO, Hiroyuki MAEHARA, Koji SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20150055266
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi KOSHIZUKA, Shiro MARUYAMA, Minoru SAITO, Hiroyuki MAEHARA, Koji SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20140192443
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi KOSHIZUKA, Minoru SAITO, Shiro MARUYAMA, Hiroyuki MAEHARA, Koji SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20140168846
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shiro MARUYAMA, Minoru SAITO, Tadashi KOSHIZUKA, Tomohiko MITANI
  • Patent number: 8749100
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method is disclosed that includes measuring a waveform of a power source side voltage of a circuit breaker; measuring a waveform of a transmission line side voltage of the circuit breaker; calculating a waveform of a voltage between contacts of the circuit breaker that is a difference between the waveform of the power source side voltage and the waveform of the transmission line side voltage; calculating a waveform of an absolute value of the waveform of the voltage between contacts; extracting a waveform of a component in a frequency band which is lower than a frequency of the power source and higher than a frequency of a DC component from the waveform of the absolute value; detecting a cycle of the extracted waveform; and closing the circuit breaker based on the cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Minoru Saito, Hiroyuki Maehara, Yoshimasa Sato
  • Publication number: 20140139959
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kei KAWASAKI, Tadashi KOSHIZUKA, Shiro MARUYAMA, Minoru SAITO, Noriyuki NAGAYAMA
  • Patent number: 8680713
    Abstract: An overvoltage suppression device which suppresses overvoltage that occurs when breakers which turn on/off the connection between a power source bus and a power transmission line, are turned on after the breakers are turned off. The overvoltage suppression device measures the waveform of voltage on the side of the power source and the voltage on the side of the power transmission line, and extracts the waveform of a component in a predetermined frequency band on the basis of the waveform obtained by multiplying the wave shape of the voltage on the side of the power source by the waveform of the voltage on the side of the power transmission line. The breakers are turned on on the basis of a cycle wherein the waveform is peaked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Minoru Saito, Hiroshi Kusuyama, Hiroyuki Maehara, Yoshimasa Sato
  • Publication number: 20140035559
    Abstract: A common tangent line drawn between a rise portion present from the origin to a second reference voltage and a rise portion corresponding to the second reference voltage can be easily generated through a waveform conversion. A transient recovery voltage measuring device includes a memory storing a transient recovery voltage waveform of a multiple frequency, a waveform conversion unit converting the transient recovery voltage waveform, a wave height determination unit determining two points having the same maximum value on the converted waveform, an adjustment unit adjusting the proportional constant of the waveform conversion unit to determine those two points by the wave height determination unit, a contact point detection unit obtaining two points corresponding to the determined two points determined by the wave height determination unit, and a tangent line generation unit generating a first tangent line passing through the detected two points on the transient recovery voltage waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Kietsu Kudo, Tetsuya Nakamoto
  • Publication number: 20140016235
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi KOSHIZUKA, Minoru SAITO, Shiro MARUYAMA, Hiroyuki MAEHARA, Yoshimasa SATO
  • Publication number: 20130300215
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Shiro Maruyama, Hiroyuki Maehara, Yoshimasa Sato
  • Patent number: 8564159
    Abstract: Inrush current suppression apparatus for suppressing a transformer inrush current including a transformer side voltage measurement unit which measures a voltage at a side of a transformer, a residual magnetic flux calculation unit which calculates three line-to-line residual magnetic fluxes, a power supply side voltage measurement unit which measures a voltage at a side of a power supply, a stable-state magnetic flux calculation unit which calculates three line-to-line stable-state magnetic fluxes, based on the voltage at the side of the power supply, a phase determination unit which determines a phase in which phases of the three line-to-line stable-state magnetic fluxes are respectively the same in polarity as phases of the three line-to-line residual magnetic fluxes, and a closing unit which closes the circuit breaker in the phase determined by the phase determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Keisuke Udagawa, Tadashi Koshizuka, Shiro Maruyama, Minoru Saito, Noriyuki Nagayama
  • Publication number: 20130176021
    Abstract: A residual magnetic flux estimation device 1 includes a DC power-source control device 11 which controls a DC power source 300 to apply a DC voltage across two terminals of a ? connection that is a secondary winding or a tertiary winding, a voltage measuring device 12 which measures a terminal voltage at the primary side of a three-phase transformer 200, a computing device 13 that determines a phase having a high voltage between the two phases other than the phase to which the voltage is applied, and a residual magnetic flux measuring device 14 that measures a phase-to-phase residual magnetic flux between the two phases other than the high-voltage phase, and estimates a measured value of the phase-to-phase residual magnetic flux as a maximum residual magnetic flux in the measurement-target three-phase transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventors: Keisuke Udagawa, Tadashi Koshizuka, Minoru Saitoh, Yoshimasa Sato, Hiroyuki Maehara
  • Patent number: 8217536
    Abstract: A first calculation part calculates the phase-to-phase steady-state magnetic flux of the three phases of the power supply. A second calculation part calculates the phase-to-phase residual magnetic flux of the three phases in the primary windings side of the transformer when the circuit breakers interrupt the transformer. A phase detection part detects a voltage phase at which polarity and magnitude of the calculated steady-state magnetic flux and residual magnetic flux coincide. Closing control part firstly causes only the circuit breakers of the two phases to close at the detected voltage phase, and then causes the circuit breaker of the remaining one phase to close.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Minoru Saito, Koichi Futagami, Hiroshi Kusuyama, Yoshimasa Sato
  • Publication number: 20110211288
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method is disclosed that includes measuring a waveform of a power source side voltage of a circuit breaker; measuring a waveform of a transmission line side voltage of the circuit breaker; calculating a waveform of a voltage between contacts of the circuit breaker that is a difference between the waveform of the power source side voltage and the waveform of the transmission line side voltage; calculating a waveform of an absolute value of the waveform of the voltage between contacts; extracting a waveform of a component in a frequency band which is lower than a frequency of the power source and higher than a frequency of a DC component from the waveform of the absolute value; detecting a cycle of the extracted waveform; and closing the circuit breaker based on the cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Minoru Saito, Hiroyuki Maehara, Yoshimasa Sato
  • Publication number: 20110204727
    Abstract: An overvoltage suppression device which suppresses overvoltage that occurs when breakers which turn on/off the connection between a power source bus and a power transmission line, are turned on after the breakers are turned off. The overvoltage suppression device measures the waveform of voltage on the side of the power source and the voltage on the side of the power transmission line, and extracts the waveform of a component in a predetermined frequency band on the basis of the waveform obtained by multiplying the wave shape of the voltage on the side of the power source by the waveform of the voltage on the side of the power transmission line. The breakers are turned on on the basis of a cycle wherein the waveform is peaked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Minoru Saito, Hiroshi Kusuyama, Hiroyuki Maehara, Yoshimasa Sato
  • Publication number: 20110181989
    Abstract: Inrush current suppression apparatus for suppressing a transformer inrush current including a transformer side voltage measurement unit which measures a voltage at a side of a transformer, a residual magnetic flux calculation unit which calculates three line-to-line residual magnetic fluxes, a power supply side voltage measurement unit which measures a voltage at a side of a power supply, a stable-state magnetic flux calculation unit which calculates three line-to-line stable-state magnetic fluxes, based on the voltage at the side of the power supply, a phase determination unit which determines a phase in which phases of the three line-to-line stable-state magnetic fluxes are respectively the same in polarity as phases of the three line-to-line residual magnetic fluxes, and a closing unit which closes the circuit breaker in the phase determined by the phase determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Keisuke UDAGAWA, Tadashi KOSHIZUKA, Shiro MARUYAMA, Minoru SAITO, Noriyuki NAGAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20100039737
    Abstract: To provide a magnetizing inrush current suppression device for transformer and control method of same, which accurately calculates the residual magnetic flux when a transformer installed in a non-solidly earthed system, is interrupted by circuit breakers, and which enables suppression of the magnetizing inrush current occurring when three single-phase circuit breakers or single-phase circuit breakers are used for simultaneously supplying power to three phases of the transformer, without providing a circuit breaker with a resistor or other equipment to enlarge the circuit breaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Koshizuka, Minoru Saito, Koichi Futagami, Hiroshi Kusuyama, Yoshimasa Sato