Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Rokunohe

Toshiaki Rokunohe 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: 11494888
    Abstract: Provided is an oil leakage detection apparatus by which oil leakage detection is performed even for colorless oil with high detection accuracy and without complicating the apparatus. The oil leakage detection apparatus of the invention includes a distance measurement unit configured to measure a distance to the oil-input machine, an ultraviolet light source configured to irradiate the oil-input machine with ultraviolet light, a color imaging unit configured to capture an image of the oil-input machine irradiated with ultraviolet light, an image processing unit configured to diagnose oil leakage of the oil-input machine based on the distance measured by the distance measurement unit and the captured image of the color imaging unit, and a display unit configured to display a processed image processed by the image processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Lu, Akira Nishimizu, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Akira Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11249137
    Abstract: A diagnostic method of switchgear and a device of switchgear that allow regularly grasping a state with high accuracy with a simple configuration is provided. The diagnostic method of switchgear includes: obtaining signals from an acceleration sensor mounted to a switchgear and a load current flowing through the switchgear; determining a frequency to be focused from a spectrum analysis result of the signals from the acceleration sensor in an advance preparation phase of diagnosis of the switchgear, generating learning data using at least the frequency and the load current as feature values; and regularly diagnosing the state of the switchgear from the feature values obtained during diagnosis and the learning data during the diagnosis of the switchgear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Tatemi, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Masanori Otsuki, Akira Takahama
  • Publication number: 20210192710
    Abstract: Provided is an oil leakage detection apparatus by which oil leakage detection is performed even for colorless oil with high detection accuracy and without complicating the apparatus. The oil leakage detection apparatus of the invention includes a distance measurement unit configured to measure a distance to the oil-input machine, an ultraviolet light source configured to irradiate the oil-input machine with ultraviolet light, a color imaging unit configured to capture an image of the oil-input machine irradiated with ultraviolet light, an image processing unit configured to diagnose oil leakage of the oil-input machine based on the distance measured by the distance measurement unit and the captured image of the color imaging unit, and a display unit configured to display a processed image processed by the image processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Li LU, Akira NISHIMIZU, Toshiaki ROKUNOHE, Akira YAMAGISHI
  • Publication number: 20200363473
    Abstract: A diagnostic method of switchgear and a device of switchgear that allow regularly grasping a state with high accuracy with a simple configuration is provided. The diagnostic method of switchgear includes: obtaining signals from an acceleration sensor mounted to a switchgear and a load current flowing through the switchgear; determining a frequency to be focused from a spectrum analysis result of the signals from the acceleration sensor in an advance preparation phase of diagnosis of the switchgear, generating learning data using at least the frequency and the load current as feature values; and regularly diagnosing the state of the switchgear from the feature values obtained during diagnosis and the learning data during the diagnosis of the switchgear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Masaru TATEMI, Toshiaki ROKUNOHE, Masanori OTSUKI, Akira TAKAHAMA
  • Patent number: 10755442
    Abstract: An oil leakage detector of the present invention includes an image processing unit wherein the image processing unit calculates the values of saturation and intensity of each pixel in the color image of the object after an ultra-violet light is irradiated thereon, draws an intensity-saturation characteristic line of the saturation expressed in an X-axis and the intensity expressed in a Y-axis, sets an upper limit and a lower limit of intensity of each saturation as a threshold value based on an area without oil adhesion on the surface of the object, and determines, in the intensity-saturation characteristic line, an area corresponding to a pixel group where the intensity exceeds the threshold value of the upper limit and a pixel group where the intensity falls below the threshold value of the lower limit, to be an oil leakage adhered area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Lu, Satoshi Ichimura, Tomohiro Moriyama, Jun Nukaga, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Akira Yamagishi, Yasutomo Saito
  • Patent number: 10615590
    Abstract: A symptom of malfunction regarding operating characteristics of a switch should be detected exactly. A switch operating characteristic monitoring device is comprised of a current sensor that measures a close command current of a switch, an auxiliary switch that outputs signals from at least two or more auxiliary contacts with reference to positions of a contactor, a measurement unit that measures signals from the current sensor and the auxiliary switch, a diagnosis unit that judges whether or not a malfunction occurs, and a display unit that displays a malfunction when a malfunction has been determined. A threshold is obtained in advance from multiple results of an opening/closing test performed beforehand. A calculation is made for characteristic times which are obtained from the close command current and signals from the auxiliary switch during actual operation of a circuit breaker. If a deviation is found by comparison with a threshold, a malfunction is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Tatemi, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Makoto Hirose, Hideaki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10509021
    Abstract: There is provided a diagnosing device for an on-load tap changing apparatus of a transformer, which can diagnose the degradation degree of insulating oil at high accuracy by a relatively simple device configuration. A diagnosing device for an on-load tap changing apparatus has an insulating oil tank in which insulating oil is sealed, a changeover switching device that is disposed within the insulating oil tank and performs the tap changing operation of a tap winding, a tap selector that selects the tap position of the tap winding, and a polarity (transposition) changer that inverts the polarity of the tap winding or a winding connected to the tap winding. The diagnosing device includes an arc discharge light detector that detects arc discharge light that is emitted at changing the tap position of the tap selector. The degradation degree of the insulating oil is diagnosed based on the arc discharge light detected by the arc discharge light detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Lu, Yoshio Hamadate, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Akira Yamagishi, Hideyuki Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20190101521
    Abstract: There is provided a diagnosing device for an on-load tap changing apparatus of a transformer, which can diagnose the degradation degree of insulating oil at high accuracy by a relatively simple device configuration. A diagnosing device for an on-load tap changing apparatus has an insulating oil tank in which insulating oil is sealed, a changeover switching device that is disposed within the insulating oil tank and performs the tap changing operation of a tap winding, a tap selector that selects the tap position of the tap winding, and a polarity (transposition) changer that inverts the polarity of the tap winding or a winding connected to the tap winding. The diagnosing device includes an arc discharge light detector that detects arc discharge light that is emitted at changing the tap position of the tap selector. The degradation degree of the insulating oil is diagnosed based on the arc discharge light detected by the arc discharge light detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Li LU, Yoshio HAMADATE, Toshiaki ROKUNOHE, Akira YAMAGISHI, Hideyuki MIYAHARA
  • Patent number: 10190935
    Abstract: A gas leak detection device includes a learning section, which has a correlation between a gas temperature inside gas pressure containers and a surface temperature of the gas pressure containers in a learning period corresponding to a current value flowing in the conductor, to make database, and a diagnosis section, which extracts a gas temperature corresponding to the measured current value and the surface temperature from the learning section in a diagnosis period, corrects a gas pressure value corresponding to an arbitrary surface temperature to a gas pressure value of a reference temperature using the extracted gas temperature, and detects a leak of the insulating gas based on the corrected gas pressure value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisao Inami, Makoto Hirose, Hiroyuki Nakamichi, Masaru Tatemi, Toshiaki Rokunohe
  • Patent number: 10113933
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting leakage oil with a high degree of accuracy while avoiding the complexity of the system and the influence of noise light comprise: ultraviolet light sources arranged to irradiate an oil-filled device from a plurality of different incidence angles, and are switched on and off at the respective incidence angles in sequence, and include a wavelength exciting oil; an imaging device to photograph the oil-filled device irradiated with ultraviolet light emitted from the ultraviolet light sources when the ultraviolet light sources are switched on; a recorder to record respective images photographed by the imaging device; and a display to display the respective images. The respective images are compared, a site where a light emitting position does not change always is judged as a leakage oil site, and a site emitting light or not emitting light occasionally is judged as a noise light site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Lu, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Tomohiro Moriyama, Jun Nukaga, Akira Yamagishi, Yasutomo Saito
  • Publication number: 20180137652
    Abstract: An oil leakage detector of the present invention includes an image processing unit wherein the image processing unit calculates the values of saturation and intensity of each pixel in the color image of the object after an ultra-violet light is irradiated thereon, draws an intensity-saturation characteristic line of the saturation expressed in an X-axis and the intensity expressed in a Y-axis, sets an upper limit and a lower limit of intensity of each saturation as a threshold value based on an area without oil adhesion on the surface of the object, and determines, in the intensity-saturation characteristic line, an area corresponding to a pixel group where the intensity exceeds the threshold value of the upper limit and a pixel group where the intensity falls below the threshold value of the lower limit, to be an oil leakage adhered area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Li LU, Satoshi ICHIMURA, Tomohiro MORIYAMA, Jun NUKAGA, Toshiaki ROKUNOHE, Akira YAMAGISHI, Yasutomo SAITO
  • Publication number: 20180062382
    Abstract: A symptom of malfunction regarding operating characteristics of a switch should be detected exactly. A switch operating characteristic monitoring device is comprised of a current sensor that measures a close command current of a switch, an auxiliary switch that outputs signals from at least two or more auxiliary contacts with reference to positions of a contactor, a measurement unit that measures signals from the current sensor and the auxiliary switch, a diagnosis unit that judges whether or not a malfunction occurs, and a display unit that displays a malfunction when a malfunction has been determined. A threshold is obtained in advance from multiple results of an opening/closing test performed beforehand. A calculation is made for characteristic times which are obtained from the close command current and signals from the auxiliary switch during actual operation of a circuit breaker. If a deviation is found by comparison with a threshold, a malfunction is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Masaru TATEMI, Toshiaki ROKUNOHE, Makoto HIROSE, Hideaki UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9898830
    Abstract: An oil leakage detector of the present invention includes an image processing unit wherein the image processing unit calculates the values of saturation and intensity of each pixel in the color image of the object after an ultra-violet light is irradiated thereon, draws an intensity-saturation characteristic line of the saturation expressed in an X-axis and the intensity expressed in a Y-axis, sets an upper limit and a lower limit of intensity of each saturation as a threshold value based on an area without oil adhesion on the surface of the object, and determines, in the intensity-saturation characteristic line, an area corresponding to a pixel group where the intensity exceeds the threshold value of the upper limit and a pixel group where the intensity falls below the threshold value of the lower limit, to be an oil leakage adhered area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Lu, Satoshi Ichimura, Tomohiro Moriyama, Jun Nukaga, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Akira Yamagishi, Yasutomo Saito
  • Patent number: 9899172
    Abstract: The invention is intended to provide a circuit breaker or a circuit breaker operating method enabling a current interruption action to be performed efficiently. A circuit breaker is characterized in that includes a fixed contact and a movable contact that comes in and goes out of contact with the fixed contact; a main circuit conductor that is electrically connected to the fixed contact and the movable contact; an operating mechanism including a mover configured by concatenating permanent magnets or magnetic materials alternately having opposite N and S magnetic polarities along the direction of motion axis of the movable contact and magnetic poles disposed to face the N and S magnetic polarities of the mover and wound with windings; a current detector that detects a current flowing through the main circuit conductor; and a control device that varies the amount of a current to be supplied to the windings of the magnetic poles, depending on a current value detected by the current detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Urai, Yasuaki Aoyama, Hiroaki Hashimoto, Katsuhiko Shiraishi, Tatsuro Kato, Ayumu Morita, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Yoichi Oshita
  • Publication number: 20170234762
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting leakage oil with a high degree of accuracy while avoiding the complexity of the system and the influence of noise light comprise: ultraviolet light sources arranged to irradiate an oil-filled device from a plurality of different incidence angles, and are switched on and off at the respective incidence angles in sequence, and include a wavelength exciting oil; an imaging device to photograph the oil-filled device irradiated with ultraviolet light emitted from the ultraviolet light sources when the ultraviolet light sources are switched on; a recorder to record respective images photographed by the imaging device; and a display to display the respective images. The respective images are compared, a site where a light emitting position does not change always is judged as a leakage oil site, and a site emitting light or not emitting light occasionally is judged as a noise light site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Li LU, Toshiaki ROKUNOHE, Tomohiro MORIYAMA, Jun NUKAGA, Akira YAMAGISHI, Yasutomo SAITO
  • Publication number: 20170030799
    Abstract: A gas leak detection device includes a learning section, which has a correlation between a gas temperature inside gas pressure containers and a surface temperature of the gas pressure containers in a learning period corresponding to a current value flowing in the conductor, to make database, and a diagnosis section, which extracts a gas temperature corresponding to the measured current value and the surface temperature from the learning section in a diagnosis period, corrects a gas pressure value corresponding to an arbitrary surface temperature to a gas pressure value of a reference temperature using the extracted gas temperature, and detects a leak of the insulating gas based on the corrected gas pressure value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hisao INAMI, Makoto HIROSE, Hiroyuki NAKAMICHI, Masaru TATEMI, Toshiaki ROKUNOHE
  • Patent number: 9520699
    Abstract: An object is to provide a switchgear having a simple structure. To solve the problem, a switchgear according to the invention is characterized by having a fixed side electrode 3, a movable side electrode 4 configured to come into contact with or separate from the fixed side electrode 3, and an operating mechanism configured to allow drive force for movement of the movable side electrode 4 to be generated, wherein the operating mechanism for operating the movable side electrode 4 includes one operating mechanism, and the one operating mechanism allows the movable side electrode 4 to stop at three or more positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Urai, Yasuaki Aoyama, Hiroaki Hashimoto, Tatsuro Kato, Ayumu Morita, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Yoichi Oshita
  • Publication number: 20160275699
    Abstract: An oil leakage detector of the present invention includes an image processing unit wherein the image processing unit calculates the values of saturation and intensity of each pixel in the color image of the object after an ultra-violet light is irradiated thereon, draws an intensity-saturation characteristic line of the saturation expressed in an X-axis and the intensity expressed in a Y-axis, sets an upper limit and a lower limit of intensity of each saturation as a threshold value based on an area without oil adhesion on the surface of the object, and determines, in the intensity-saturation characteristic line, an area corresponding to a pixel group where the intensity exceeds the threshold value of the upper limit and a pixel group where the intensity falls below the threshold value of the lower limit, to be an oil leakage adhered area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Li LU, Satoshi ICHIMURA, Tomohiro MORIYAMA, Jun NUKAGA, Toshiaki ROKUNOHE, Akira YAMAGISHI, Yasutomo SAITO
  • Publication number: 20160049268
    Abstract: Magnetic force of a permanent magnet can be converted into arc driving force efficiently, and the permanent magnet can be insulated from arc heat so as to suppress magnetic deterioration, whereby breaking performance can be secured over a long period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki ROKUNOHE, Tatsuro KATO, Jun NUKAGA, Tomohiro MORIYAMA, Kenji TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20150131207
    Abstract: An object is to provide a switchgear having a simple structure. To solve the problem, a switchgear according to the invention is characterized by having a fixed side electrode 3, a movable side electrode 4 configured to come into contact with or separate from the fixed side electrode 3, and an operating mechanism configured to allow drive force for movement of the movable side electrode 4 to be generated, wherein the operating mechanism for operating the movable side electrode 4 includes one operating mechanism, and the one operating mechanism allows the movable side electrode 4 to stop at three or more positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Hajime Urai, Yasuaki Aoyama, Hiroaki Hashimoto, Tatsuro Kato, Ayumu Morita, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Yoichi Oshita