Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Shimoda
Toshiaki Shimoda 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: 11001481Abstract: An output-torque estimation unit obtains a value of a current input to a motor, from a power converter, and calculates an estimated output torque value which is an estimated value of output torque of the motor, from the obtained value of the current. A load estimation unit estimates a load value of a hanging cargo based on the estimated output torque value which is calculated by the output-torque estimation unit, a speed reduction ratio of a speed reducer, an effective radius of a winch drum, and the winding number which is set by the number setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Kawai, Takashi Hiekata, Koji Inoue, Takashi Tokuyama, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Toshiaki Shimoda, Shintaroh Sasai, Tetsuya Ogawa, Toshiro Yamashita
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Patent number: 10907324Abstract: There is provided a construction machine that can detect a positional displacement of a detection unit, the machine including a body, a plurality of distance sensors, a position information acquisition unit, and a positional displacement detection unit. The distance sensors are disposed so that detection areas of the distance sensors partially overlap. When a predetermined target is placed in an overlapping detection area, the positional displacement detection unit compares position information of the target that is acquired from distance image data of one distance sensor by the position information acquisition unit to position information of the target that is acquired from distance image data of the other distance sensor by the position information acquisition unit to detect a positional displacement of at least one of the one distance sensor and the other distance sensor with respect to the body.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Shimoda, Takashi Hiekata, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10574103Abstract: This interior magnet rotary electric machine (1) is provided with a rotor (2) that has a rotor core (11) having two sets of permanent magnets (12, 13) embedded therein, and with a stator (3) that is disposed facing the rotor (2). The two sets of permanent magnets (12, 13) each comprise a pair of magnets (12a, 12b, 13a, 13b) of like polarity disposed adjacently along the circumferential direction of the rotor 2. In the rotor core (11), magnet embedding holes (11b), which accommodate the magnets (12a, 12b, 13a, 13b) of like polarity, are formed for each of the magnets of like polarity. The thickness (a), in the rotor (2) circumferential direction, of the portions (18) of the rotor core (11) between like poles is less than the thickness (b) of the portions (19) of the rotor core (11) between unlike poles.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Shimoda, Shingo Kasai
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Publication number: 20190360176Abstract: There is provided a construction machine that can detect a positional displacement of a detection unit, the machine including a body, a plurality of distance sensors, a position information acquisition unit, and a positional displacement detection unit. The distance sensors are disposed so that detection areas of the distance sensors partially overlap. When a predetermined target is placed in an overlapping detection area, the positional displacement detection unit compares position information of the target that is acquired from distance image data of one distance sensor by the position information acquisition unit to position information of the target that is acquired from distance image data of the other distance sensor by the position information acquisition unit to detect a positional displacement of at least one of the one distance sensor and the other distance sensor with respect to the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki SHIMODA, Takashi HIEKATA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 10476330Abstract: This interior magnet rotary electric machine (1) is provided with: a rotor (2) that has a rotor core (11) having permanent magnets (12, 13) embedded therein; a stator (3) that is disposed facing the rotor (2); and a fiber-reinforced plastic tube (4) that is fitted over and fixed to the rotor core (11).Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Shimoda, Shingo Kasai
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Publication number: 20190300339Abstract: An output-torque estimation unit obtains a value of a current input to a motor, from a power converter, and calculates an estimated output torque value which is an estimated value of output torque of the motor, from the obtained value of the current. A load estimation unit estimates a load value of a hanging cargo based on the estimated output torque value which is calculated by the output-torque estimation unit, a speed reduction ratio of a speed reducer, an effective radius of a winch drum, and the winding number which is set by the number setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2017Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki KAWAI, Takashi HIEKATA, Koji INOUE, Takashi TOKUYAMA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Toshiaki SHIMODA, Shintaroh SASAI, Tetsuya OGAWA, Toshiro YAMASHITA
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Patent number: 10287137Abstract: Disclosed is a winch control apparatus for a crane, which comprises: a first compensation torque value calculation section which calculates, when a hoisting manipulation being input, based on a difference speed between a detected rotational speed and a target speed according to a manipulation amount of the hoisting manipulation, a first compensation torque value for enabling an electric motor to generate a reverse-rotation-preventing torque which is a torque in a hoisting direction and corresponding to the difference speed; and a second compensation torque value calculation section which calculates, when the hoisting manipulation being input, based on a detected load value, a second compensation torque value for enabling the electric motor to generate a load bearing torque which is a torque in the hoisting direction and necessary for bearing a load of the load value.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Kawai, Takashi Tokuyama, Toshiaki Shimoda, Koji Inoue, Tetsuya Ogawa, Shintaroh Sasai
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Publication number: 20180229976Abstract: Disclosed is a winch control apparatus for a crane, which comprises: a first compensation torque value calculation section which calculates, when a hoisting manipulation being input, based on a difference speed between a detected rotational speed and a target speed according to a manipulation amount of the hoisting manipulation, a first compensation torque value for enabling an electric motor to generate a reverse-rotation-preventing torque which is a torque in a hoisting direction and corresponding to the difference speed; and a second compensation torque value calculation section which calculates, when the hoisting manipulation being input, based on a detected load value, a second compensation torque value for enabling the electric motor to generate a load bearing torque which is a torque in the hoisting direction and necessary for bearing a load of the load value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki KAWAI, Takashi TOKUYAMA, Toshiaki SHIMODA, Koji INOUE, Tetsuya OGAWA, Shintaroh SASAI
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Publication number: 20170317541Abstract: This interior magnet rotary electric machine (1) is provided with a rotor (2) that has a rotor core (11) having two sets of permanent magnets (12, 13) embedded therein, and with a stator (3) that is disposed facing the rotor (2). The two sets of permanent magnets (12, 13) each comprise a pair of magnets (12a, 12b, 13a, 13b) of like polarity disposed adjacently along the circumferential direction of the rotor 2. In the rotor core (11), magnet embedding holes (11b), which accommodate the magnets (12a, 12b, 13a, 13b) of like polarity, are formed for each of the magnets of like polarity. The thickness (a), in the rotor (2) circumferential direction, of the portions (18) of the rotor core (11) between like poles is less than the thickness (b) of the portions (19) of the rotor core (11) between unlike poles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Toshiaki SHIMODA, Shingo KASAI
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Publication number: 20170310177Abstract: This interior magnet rotary electric machine (1) is provided with: a rotor (2) that has a rotor core (11) having permanent magnets (12, 13) embedded therein; a stator (3) that is disposed facing the rotor (2); and a fiber-reinforced plastic tube (4) that is fitted over and fixed to the rotor core (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Toshiaki SHIMODA, Shingo KASAI
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Publication number: 20080267423Abstract: An object sound extraction apparatus includes sound source separation sections for separating and generating an object sound separation signal corresponding to an object sound and reference sound separation signals corresponding to the other reference sound based on each combination of a main acoustic signal and sub acoustic signals, an object sound separation signal synthesis section for synthesizing the object sound separation signals, and a spectrum subtraction processing section for extracting an acoustic signal corresponding to the object sound from the synthesis signal by performing a spectrum subtraction processing between the synthesis signal and the reference sound separation signals. Accordingly, in acoustic environments where the object sound and the noises are mixed in the acoustic signals obtained via the microphones, and the mixed conditions can vary, a high object sound extraction performance can be ensured by a small object sound extraction apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventors: Takashi Hiekata, Takashi Morita, Yohei Ikeda, Toshiaki Shimoda
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Patent number: 6377979Abstract: A multiple-processor system uses transfer blocks each having a size equal to or less than the capacity of a shared memory when transferring data from a master system to a slave system via the shared memory. Each transfer block includes a data to be transferred from the master system or a plurality of divisional data obtained by dividing the data to be transferred; information representing a writing-start address at which the data to be transferred or the plurality of divisional data starts to be written in storage for the slave system; and information representing the length of the data or the plurality of divisional data.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1998Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Toshiro Yamashita, Toshiaki Shimoda, Tetsuya Takahashi, Kazushige Harada
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Patent number: 6339804Abstract: A digital information reproduction apparatus for compressing frames of data so as to intermittently reproduce the data in fast-forward speed. A data re-write device retrieves a reproduction-target frame for the fast-forward reproduction and a parameter-calculation-target frame exclusively for calculation of the frame data parameters. The frames then are transferred to a RAM. A decoder determines the frame data in the RAM, calculates the parameter-calculation frame data, and decodes the reproduction frame data by use of the parameter obtained as above. The described operation prevents expending the reproduction frame data with an incorrect parameter so as to normally fast-forward reproduce the compressed data. Furthermore, the present can select a frame used in the fast forward reproduction according to a feature index so that a section subjected to the fast-forward reproduction can be easily grasped by the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 1999Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Seiko Sho.Inventors: Toshiaki Shimoda, Takashi Morita, Toshiro Yamashita, Tetsuya Takahashi, Yoshiro Nishimoto, Kazushige Harada
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Patent number: 6292847Abstract: A digital information reproducing apparatus in accordance with a prior art that uses a semiconductor memory to realize a memory means cannot reproduce digital data which has been encoded according to a compression coding form different from the one adopted by an incorporated decoding circuit. According to the present invention, a decoding program stored in a second semiconductor memory is selected according to a compression coding form adopted for digital data stored in a first semiconductor memory. The selected decoding program is used to decode the digital data by means of an arithmetic circuit. Thus, digital information can be reproduced irrespective of a compression coding form adopted for provided digital information.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1998Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho.Inventors: Yoshiro Nishimoto, Takashi Morita, Toshiro Yamashita, Tetsuya Takahashi, Toshiaki Shimoda, Kazushige Harada