Patents by Inventor Tomohisa Shoda
Tomohisa Shoda 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: 11848633Abstract: To provide a controller for AC rotary electric machine which can compensate error of the actual on-duty with respect to the command on-duty calculated from command voltage with good accuracy, with a simple circuit configuration. A controller for AC rotary electric machine detects an actual on-duty of the switching device based on the detection value of the midpoint potential which is the potential of the connection node of the series connection in the series circuit; calculates an on-duty error based on the difference between the command on-duty and the actual on-duty; and corrects the voltage command or the command on-duty based on the on-duty error.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shingo Harada, Keiichi Enoki, Nozomu Kamioka, Tomohisa Shoda, Yoshimasa Nishijima, Kazuhiko Otsuka
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Patent number: 11323061Abstract: A control device for an AC rotating electric machine includes: a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of a protection part; a maximum current adjustment unit configured to adjust a maximum current of an AC rotating electric machine so as to prevent the temperature of the protection part from exceeding a set temperature; an allowable torque calculation unit configured to calculate an allowable torque based on the maximum current adjusted; a torque command adjustment unit configured to adjust a torque command value directed to the AC rotating electric machine based on the allowable torque; an upper limit number-of-rotation calculation unit configured to calculate an upper-limit number of rotations of the AC rotating electric machine based on the maximum current adjusted; and a number-of-rotation adjustment unit configured to adjust the number of rotations of the AC rotating electric machine based on the upper-limit number of rotations.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shingo Harada, Keiichi Enoki, Nozomu Kamioka, Tomohisa Shoda, Yoshimasa Nishijima, Kazuhiko Otsuka
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Patent number: 11264928Abstract: A control device for an electric motor includes: a controller configured to apply switching control to an inverter configured to execute power conversion in accordance with a torque command, to thereby control AC power to be supplied to the electric motor; and a current sensor configured to detect a phase current, which flows through an AC cable configured to connect the electric motor and the inverter to each other, wherein the controller includes a disconnection detection unit configured to acquire the phase current detected by the current sensor as a phase current detection value, calculate based on the torque command a phase current command value directed to the electric motor, and determine presence or absence of a disconnection of the AC cable in each phase from a transition result of a difference value between the phase current command value and the phase current detection value in each phase.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomohisa Shoda, Masutaka Watanabe, Yoshimasa Nishijima
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Patent number: 11183964Abstract: Provided is a control device for an AC rotating electric machine, which includes: a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of a protection unit provided in an object to be protected when a current is supplied from a power conversion circuit including a switching element to the AC rotating electric machine and output, as a detected temperature, one of the temperature and a temperature of the object to be protected that is estimated from the temperature; a temperature compensation unit configured to calculate, through use of the detected temperature output from the temperature detection unit, a compensated temperature equal to or higher than the detected temperature; and a torque limiting unit configured to limit, through use of the compensated temperature calculated by the temperature compensation unit, a torque command value input thereto.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shingo Harada, Keiichi Enoki, Tomohisa Shoda, Nozomu Kamioka, Ryosuke Shigematsu, Kazuhiko Otsuka
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Publication number: 20210305931Abstract: A control device for an AC rotating electric machine includes: a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of a protection part; a maximum current adjustment unit configured to adjust a maximum current of an AC rotating electric machine so as to prevent the temperature of the protection part from exceeding a set temperature; an allowable torque calculation unit configured to calculate an allowable torque based on the maximum current adjusted; a torque command adjustment unit configured to adjust a torque command value directed to the AC rotating electric machine based on the allowable torque; an upper limit number-of-rotation calculation unit configured to calculate an upper-limit number of rotations of the AC rotating electric machine based on the maximum current adjusted; and a number-of-rotation adjustment unit configured to adjust the number of rotations of the AC rotating electric machine based on the upper-limit number of rotations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2018Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shingo HARADA, Keiichi ENOKI, Nozomu KAMIOKA, Tomohisa SHODA, Yoshimasa NISHIJIMA, Kazuhiko OTSUKA
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Publication number: 20210257954Abstract: To provide a controller for AC rotary electric machine which can compensate error of the actual on-duty with respect to the command on-duty calculated from command voltage with good accuracy, with a simple circuit configuration. A controller for AC rotary electric machine detects an actual on-duty of the switching device based on the detection value of the midpoint potential which is the potential of the connection node of the series connection in the series circuit; calculates an on-duty error based on the difference between the command on-duty and the actual on-duty; and corrects the voltage command or the command on-duty based on the on-duty error.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2018Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shingo HARADA, Keiichi ENOKI, Nozomu KAMIOKA, Tomohisa SHODA, Yoshimasa NISHIJIMA, Kazuhiko OTSUKA
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Publication number: 20210075355Abstract: A control device for an electric motor includes: a controller configured to apply switching control to an inverter configured to execute power conversion in accordance with a torque command, to thereby control AC power to be supplied to the electric motor; and a current sensor configured to detect a phase current, which flows through an AC cable configured to connect the electric motor and the inverter to each other, wherein the controller includes a disconnection detection unit configured to acquire the phase current detected by the current sensor as a phase current detection value, calculate based on the torque command a phase current command value directed to the electric motor, and determine presence or absence of a disconnection of the AC cable in each phase from a transition result of a difference value between the phase current command value and the phase current detection value in each phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomohisa SHODA, Masutaka WATANABE, Yoshimasa NISHIJIMA
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Publication number: 20200321903Abstract: Provided is a control device for an AC rotating electric machine, which includes: a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of a protection unit provided in an object to be protected when a current is supplied from a power conversion circuit including a switching element to the AC rotating electric machine and output, as a detected temperature, one of the temperature and a temperature of the object to be protected that is estimated from the temperature; a temperature compensation unit configured to calculate, through use of the detected temperature output from the temperature detection unit, a compensated temperature equal to or higher than the detected temperature; and a torque limiting unit configured to limit, through use of the compensated temperature calculated by the temperature compensation unit, a torque command value input thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shingo HARADA, Keiichi ENOKI, Tomohisa SHODA, Nozomu KAMIOKA, Ryosuke SHIGEMATSU, Kazuhiko OTSUKA
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Patent number: 10156217Abstract: Provided is a device for performing an automatic stop operation for an internal combustion engine when a predetermined automatic stop requirement is satisfied during an operation of the internal combustion engine and performing a restart operation for the internal combustion engine when a predetermined restart requirement is satisfied during an automatic stop time period of the internal combustion engine. In the device, restart control means (22) executes fuel injection control at the time of start of the restart operation by determining whether or not initial asynchronous injection of a fuel into a cylinder that is in an intake stroke is executable in accordance with an initially detected crank angle after the start of the restart operation and determining a next fuel injection cylinder and a fuel injection timing for the next fuel injection cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomohisa Shoda, Takeru Okabe, Osamu Ishikawa
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Patent number: 9989031Abstract: An engine automatic stop/restart device includes a ring gear which is linked to a crank shaft of the engine, a starter motor which is energized so as to be rotated, a pinion gear which transmits a rotation of the starter motor to the ring gear, and a pinion gear movement unit which is energized so as to move the pinion gear in a direction of the ring gear, whereby the pinion gear is engaged to the ring gear, in a state where the engine automatic stop/restart device automatically stops the engine when an engine automatic stop condition is established, and restarts the engine when an engine restart condition is established, and includes an inertially-rotating-restart-decision unit which permits or prohibits a restart of the engine, which is inertially rotating after the engine is automatically stopped, in accordance with a detection result of an oil temperature of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Osamu Ishikawa, Tomohisa Shoda
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Patent number: 9726134Abstract: A device for automatically stopping and restarting an internal combustion engine is provided with a crank angle sensor (1) that detects a crank angle of an engine (10), a fuel injection unit (11) that injects fuel into the engine, and the device is also provided with a starter activation prohibition determination means that prohibits activation of a starter (20) by determining that the engine is in reverse rotation during inertial rotation of the engine, and removes the starter activation prohibition depending on the crank angle when the engine starts reverse rotation.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2012Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takeru Okabe, Osamu Ishikawa, Tomohisa Shoda, Michitaka Fujiwara
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Patent number: 9680407Abstract: An electric motor control device drives a power converter (30) by two-phase modulation drive based on calculation of a driving method setting and element loss calculation section (16) when an electric motor (4) is equal to or less than a predetermined rotational speed; and switches switching signals from a switching signal generation section (14) to switch a switching operation of the switching elements when a loss integrated value of a first switching element with a large switching loss or a second switching element exceeds a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomohisa Shoda, Yasufumi Ogawa, Yoshimasa Nishijima
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Patent number: 9624894Abstract: In an automatically stopped internal combustion engine, a rotation speed at next and subsequent ignition timings is predicted at every ignition timing of the internal combustion engine after the internal combustion engine is stopped automatically. Whether self-restorable restarting is allowed is determined according to a comparison result of the predictive rotation speed and a self-restoration determination rotation speed, so that self-restorable restarting is performed in a reliable manner.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomohisa Shoda, Osamu Ishikawa, Takeru Okabe, Hiroaki Kitano
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Patent number: 9624897Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine capable of controlling an intake-pipe pressure within a range which allows restartability to be ensured. A control device for an internal combustion engine includes: an idle-stop control section for restarting the engine in response to generation of a restart request; and an intake-air amount control section for setting a control amount of an intake system so that the intake air amount becomes zero when an intake-pipe pressure of the engine upon generation of the automatic stop request is higher than a predetermined pressure and setting the control amount of the intake system so that the intake air amount becomes larger than the amount upon generation of the automatic stop request, and then becomes zero when the intake-pipe pressure is lower than the predetermined pressure.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takeru Okabe, Osamu Ishikawa, Tomohisa Shoda, Hideaki Tani, Toru Tanaka
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Publication number: 20160329856Abstract: An electric motor control device drives a power converter (30) by two-phase modulation drive based on calculation of a driving method setting and element loss calculation section (16) when an electric motor (4) is equal to or less than a predetermined rotational speed; and switches switching signals from a switching signal generation section (14) to switch a switching operation of the switching elements when a loss integrated value of a first switching element with a large switching loss or a second switching element exceeds a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohisa SHODA, Yasufumi OGAWA, Yoshimasa NISHIJIMA
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Publication number: 20160115931Abstract: An engine automatic stop/restart device includes a ring gear which is linked to a crank shaft of the engine, a starter motor which is energized so as to be rotated, a pinion gear which transmits a rotation of the starter motor to the ring gear, and a pinion gear movement unit which is energized so as to move the pinion gear in a direction of the ring gear, whereby the pinion gear is engaged to the ring gear, in a state where the engine automatic stop/restart device automatically stops the engine when an engine automatic stop condition is established, and restarts the engine when an engine restart condition is established, and includes an inertially-rotating-restart-decision unit which permits or prohibits a restart of the engine, which is inertially rotating after the engine is automatically stopped, in accordance with a detection result of an oil temperature of the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2013Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Osamu ISHIKAWA, Tomohisa SHODA
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Patent number: 9303614Abstract: Provided are an internal combustion engine automatic stop/restart device and an internal combustion engine automatic stop/restart method capable of appropriately releasing a drive inhibition state of a starter (200) depending on an RPM of an internal combustion engine (101). The drive inhibition state of the starter is released when a drive inhibition release determination period, which is set depending on a time interval between a time point when a first reverse rotation crank signal is detected and a time point when a second reverse rotation crank signal is detected and a drive permission lower limit value corresponding period corresponding to a starter drivable RPM lower limit value, elapses before a third reverse rotation crank signal is input.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomohisa Shoda, Takeru Okabe, Osamu Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20150345457Abstract: In an automatically stopped internal combustion engine, a rotation speed at next and subsequent ignition timings is predicted at every ignition timing of the internal combustion engine after the internal combustion engine is stopped automatically. Whether self-restorable restarting is allowed is determined according to a comparison result of the predictive rotation speed and a self-restoration determination rotation speed, so that self-restorable restarting is performed in a reliable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomohisa SHODA, Osamu ISHIKAWA, Takeru OKABE, Hiroaki KITANO
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Publication number: 20150252771Abstract: Provided is a device for performing an automatic stop operation for an internal combustion engine when a predetermined automatic stop requirement is satisfied during an operation of the internal combustion engine and performing a restart operation for the internal combustion engine when a predetermined restart requirement is satisfied during an automatic stop time period of the internal combustion engine. In the device, restart control means (22) executes fuel injection control at the time of start of the restart operation by determining whether or not initial asynchronous injection of a fuel into a cylinder that is in an intake stroke is executable in accordance with an initially detected crank angle after the start of the restart operation and determining a next fuel injection cylinder and a fuel injection timing for the next fuel injection cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2012Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Tomohisa Shoda, Takeru Okabe, Osamu Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20140345556Abstract: A device for automatically stopping and restarting an internal combustion engine is provided with a crank angle sensor (1) that detects a crank angle of an engine (10), a fuel injection unit (11) that injects fuel into the engine, and the device is also provided with a starter activation prohibition determination means that prohibits activation of a starter (20) by determining that the engine is in reverse rotation during inertial rotation of the engine, and removes the starter activation prohibition depending on the crank angle when the engine starts reverse rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takeru Okabe, Osamu Ishikawa, Tomohisa Shoda, Michitaka Fujiwara