Patents by Inventor Tomofumi Okubo

Tomofumi Okubo 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: 20040113572
    Abstract: An electric motor driving system has a permanent magnet type synchronous motor, an inverter for driving the motor, a generator for issuing a rotational frequency command to the motor and a controller including a conversion gain for generating a control signal to the inverter on the basis of the rotational frequency command, an integrator, a zero generator, a qc-axis voltage command arithmetic unit, a dq inverter, a dq coordinate converter, a high-pass filter, and an adder, wherein the system includes the high-pass filter for correcting the rotational frequency command to the motor on the basis of current detection values flowing through the motor, and a step-out detector for comparing the correction amount with a threshold value previously set for the coordinate amount to judge when the correction amount exceeds the threshold value at least one or more times that the motor is in the step-out state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Iwaji, Tsunehiro Endo, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, Tomofumi Okubo
  • Publication number: 20030071588
    Abstract: An electric motor driving system has a permanent magnet type synchronous motor, an inverter for driving the motor, a generator for issuing a rotational frequency command to the motor and a controller including a conversion gain for generating a control signal to the inverter on the basis of the rotational frequency command, an integrator, a zero generator, a qc-axis voltage command arithmetic unit, a dq inverter, a dq coordinate converter, a high-pass filter, and an adder, wherein the system includes the high-pass filter for correcting the rotational frequency command to the motor on the basis of current detection values flowing through the motor, and a step-out detector for comparing the correction amount with a threshold value previously set for the coordinate amount to judge when the correction amount exceeds the threshold value at least one or more times that the motor is in the step-out state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Iwaji, Tsunehiro Endo, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, Tomofumi Okubo
  • Patent number: 6169670
    Abstract: An inverter apparatus operatable over an extended output frequency range having an increased upper limit with error contained in the output voltage being suppressed by eliminating dispersions of PWM pulse signals. A PWM command pulse signal and an output voltage detection signal derived from the output of the inverter are compared straightforwardly with each other for determining difference therebetween on the basis of which error contained in the inverter output voltage is canceled. An isolation device for isolating electrically a low-voltage-rated control circuitry and a high-voltage-rated main circuitry from each other is inserted between a PWM command pulse signal generating circuit and a pulse width correcting circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Keiyo Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Okubo, Masahiro Hiragi, Mutsuo Tokashiki