Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Kimpara

Yoshihiko Kimpara 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: 11881804
    Abstract: Provided is a drive device for a rotating electric machine, including: a power conversion unit configured to convert DC power supplied from a storage battery into AC power, and to supply the AC power to a rotating electric machine; and a control unit output a switching signal to the power conversion unit. The control unit is configured to set, when the storage battery is to be charged, in a case in which a temperature of the storage battery input from an outside is lower than a set temperature suitable for charging, the switching signal for the power conversion unit so as to be different from the switching signal in a normal drive state of the rotating electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Kawamoto, Tomoya Tachibana, Matahiko Ikeda, Yoshihiko Kimpara
  • Patent number: 11784585
    Abstract: To provide a power converter which can distribute heat generation of the switching devices with good accuracy, even when the maximum heating phase of the positive electrode side and the maximum heating phase of the negative electrode side are different phases, and even when the maximum heating phase of the positive electrode side and the maximum heating phase of the negative electrode side changes before and after combining the offset voltage. The power converter calculates the offset voltage that makes the positive electrode side maximum heating evaluation value and the negative electrode side maximum heating evaluation value coincide with each other, in a state of controlling on/off the switching devices based on the combined AC voltage commands of the offset voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroya Natsuhara, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Isao Kezobo, Tatsuya Mori, Akira Furukawa
  • Patent number: 11716049
    Abstract: A rotating machine power conversion device is obtained which achieves operational continuation in a rotational speed range in which the operational continuation is enabled, even when a single phase of an electrical power conversion device made of switching devices causes a disconnection or turn-off failure. The rotating machine power conversion device comprises: a normality-case/abnormality-case current control device selection device for transferring between a normality-case current control device and an abnormality-case current control device in accordance with a determination result of an abnormality determination device; and an abnormality-case current control device/power conversion halt device selection device, using a rotational speed calculation device, for transferring between the abnormality-case current control device used when a rotational speed is lower than that being prespecified, and the power conversion halt device used when a rotational speed is higher than that being prespecified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Ichikawa, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Noriyuki Wada, Kotaro Nakano
  • Patent number: 11309817
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for a rotating machine including a magnetic pole position estimation unit, a vector calculation unit, a current command correction unit configured to correct a first d-axis current command and a first q-axis current command, to thereby output a second d-axis current command and a second q-axis current command, a voltage application unit configured to superimpose a high-frequency voltage including a specific frequency component on voltage commands on rotational coordinates. The magnetic pole position estimation unit is configured to estimate the position of the magnetic pole based on a state quantity of the specific frequency component. The current command correction unit is configured to correct the current commands so that a current amplitude of electrical angle frequency components is equal to or larger than a half of a current amplitude of the specific frequency component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya Tachibana, Yoshihiko Kimpara
  • Patent number: 11264901
    Abstract: There is provided an electric-power conversion system controller in which even when the temperatures of a switching device and a diode included in the driving circuit for a converter become high, the performances of the devices are prevented from being deteriorated and the lifetimes thereof are prevented from being shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro Nakano, Noriyuki Wada, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Shingo Kato, Tomonori Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220055486
    Abstract: To provide a controller for AC rotary machine and a motor vehicle which can solve the countermeasure against heat of the inverter, and the generation of sound or electric resonance, at the same time. A controller for AC rotary machine turns on and off a plurality of switching devices which the inverter has at PWM frequency, based on the n-phase voltage command values; detects the temperature of the inverter; changes the PWM frequency based on the detected temperature of the inverter; and changes the PWM frequency out of range of the avoidance frequency band, when the PWM frequency after change is within the range of the avoidance frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro NAKANO, Yoshihiko KIMPARA
  • Patent number: 11251727
    Abstract: The electric motor control device includes a rotation angle correction amount calculation unit that, based on a rotation angle signal for an alternating current electric motor output from an angle sensor and a current detection signal for the alternating current electric motor output from a detector, calculates a rotation angle correction amount to correct a rotation angle error between the rotation angle signal and a magnetic pole position of the alternating current electric motor, wherein the rotation angle correction amount calculation unit, based on a current detection signal when a short circuit is caused between winding terminals of the alternating current electric motor, calculates at least either one rotation angle correction amount of a direct current component rotation angle correction amount and an alternating current component rotation angle correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Iezawa, Yasufumi Ogawa, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Daiki Matsuura, Jun Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20220045643
    Abstract: Provided is a drive device for a rotating electric machine, including: a power conversion unit configured to convert DC power supplied from a storage battery into AC power, and to supply the AC power to a rotating electric machine; and a control unit output a switching signal to the power conversion unit. The control unit is configured to set, when the storage battery is to be charged, in a case in which a temperature of the storage battery input from an outside is lower than a set temperature suitable for charging, the switching signal for the power conversion unit so as to be different from the switching signal in a normal drive state of the rotating electric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki KAWAMOTO, Tomoya TACHIBANA, Matahiko IKEDA, Yoshihiko KIMPARA
  • Publication number: 20210391814
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for a rotating machine including a magnetic pole position estimation unit, a vector calculation unit, a current command correction unit configured to correct a first d-axis current command and a first q-axis current command, to thereby output a second d-axis current command and a second q-axis current command, a voltage application unit configured to superimpose a high-frequency voltage including a specific frequency component on voltage commands on rotational coordinates. The magnetic pole position estimation unit is configured to estimate the position of the magnetic pole based on a state quantity of the specific frequency component. The current command correction unit is configured to correct the current commands so that a current amplitude of electrical angle frequency components is equal to or larger than a half of a current amplitude of the specific frequency component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya TACHIBANA, Yoshihiko KIMPARA
  • Publication number: 20210067069
    Abstract: An electric motor control device such that a rotation angle correction value used in a phase correction of an angle sensor rotation angle signal can be calculated with high accuracy is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro IEZAWA, Yasufumi OGAWA, Yoshihiko KIMPARA, Daiki MATSUURA, Jun KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210067040
    Abstract: There is provided an electric-power conversion system controller in which even when the temperatures of a switching device and a diode included in the driving circuit for a converter become high, the performances of the devices are prevented from being deteriorated and the lifetimes thereof are prevented from being shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro NAKANO, Noriyuki WADA, Yoshihiko KIMPARA, Shingo KATO, Tomonori YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20210006193
    Abstract: A rotating machine power conversion device is obtained which achieves operational continuation in a rotational speed range in which the operational continuation is enabled, even when a single phase of an electrical power conversion device made of switching devices causes a disconnection or turn-off failure. The rotating machine power conversion device comprises: a normality-case/abnormality-case current control device selection device for transferring between a normality-case current control device and an abnormality-case current control device in accordance with a determination result of an abnormality determination device; and an abnormality-case current control device/power conversion halt device selection device, using a rotational speed calculation device, for transferring between the abnormality-case current control device used when a rotational speed is lower than that being prespecified, and the power conversion halt device used when a rotational speed is higher than that being prespecified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi ICHIKAWA, Yoshihiko KIMPARA, Noriyuki WADA, Kotaro NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20200412277
    Abstract: To provide a power converter which can distribute heat generation of the switching devices with good accuracy, even when the maximum heating phase of the positive electrode side and the maximum heating phase of the negative electrode side are different phases, and even when the maximum heating phase of the positive electrode side and the maximum heating phase of the negative electrode side changes before and after combining the offset voltage. The power converter calculates the offset voltage that makes the positive electrode side maximum heating evaluation value and the negative electrode side maximum heating evaluation value coincide with each other, in a state of controlling on/off the switching devices based on the combined AC voltage commands of the offset voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroya NATSUHARA, Yoshihiko KIMPARA, Isao KEZOBO, Tatsuya MORI, Akira FURKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200331335
    Abstract: A synchronous machine drive control device such that a rotation angle correction amount can be detected even when a synchronous machine is rotating at high speed, and the rotation angle correction amount can be detected over a wide range, is obtained. A rotation angle correction amount calculation unit that calculates a correction amount of a rotation angle of a synchronous machine is included in an inverter control device, and the correction amount of the rotation angle is calculated based on a current detected by a current sensor by a three-phase short circuit being implemented in a state wherein the synchronous machine is rotating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasufumi OGAWA, Yoshihiko KIMPARA, Daiki MATSUURA, Jun KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 10581367
    Abstract: The rotating-electric-machine control apparatus is provided with two or more torque compensation amount maps that each store a torque compensation amount corresponding to a detection rotation speed and a first torque command and a torque compensation amount map selector that selects a single torque compensation amount map from the two or more torque compensation amount maps, based on at least one of the detection rotation speed and control information indicating a control method utilized by the voltage applying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Kotaro Nakano, Daiki Matsuura, Noriyuki Wada, Yoshihiko Kimpara
  • Patent number: 10315692
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for a rotary machine including: a power feed unit configured to feed electric power in accordance with a power feed command to a rotary machine; a rotation-state detecting unit configured to detect a rotation state of the rotary machine; a torque detecting unit configured to detect an output torque output from the rotary machine; an abnormality determining unit configured to determine an abnormality in the rotation-state detecting unit or the torque detecting unit; and an excitation-command generating unit configured to generate an excitation command for oscillating the rotary machine, in which the power feed command is generated based at least on the excitation command, and the abnormality determining unit is configured to determine the abnormality in the detecting units based on a response of the rotation state and a response of the output torque to the excitation command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Kezobo, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Akira Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20190123677
    Abstract: The rotating-electric-machine control apparatus is provided with two or more torque compensation amount maps that each store a torque compensation amount corresponding to a detection rotation speed and a first torque command and a torque compensation amount map selector that selects a single torque compensation amount map from the two or more torque compensation amount maps, based on at least one of the detection rotation speed and control information indicating a control method utilized by the voltage applying device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi FUJII, Kotaro NAKANO, Daiki MATSUURA, Noriyuki WADA, Yoshihiko KIMPARA
  • Patent number: 10259492
    Abstract: An inverter system failure is detected on the basis of the currents of respective phases detected by a current detection unit when carrying out switching control in accordance with a first drive mode in which all switching elements on a lower-side arm are switched on and all switching elements on an upper-side arm are switched off, and the currents of respective phases detected by the current detection unit when carrying out switching control in accordance with a second drive mode in which all of the switching elements on the upper-side arm are switched on and all of the switching elements on the lower-side arm are switched off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Kezobo, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Shunsuke Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10116250
    Abstract: When there is an error between an actual resistance value of an AC rotary machine (ACRM) and an estimated resistance value estimated from a detected external temperature of the ACRM, the ACRM cannot be rotated smoothly. In view of this, provided are a control device for an ACRM and the like, including a resistance value estimation unit (10) configured to calculate an estimated resistance value (Rest) by adding to a basic estimated resistance value (Rest0), which is a value obtained by estimating a resistance value from a detected external temperature of the ACRM, an estimated resistance correction value (Radd), which is determined such that a range that can be taken by an error (?R) of the resistance value estimated in advance falls within a range of the error of the resistance value that enables the ACRM to be rotated smoothly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Tsuchimoto, Isao Kezobo, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Shunsuke Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9954472
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an AC rotary machine includes a current detection unit that detects a current of a first winding and a current of a second winding, a basic voltage calculation unit that calculates a basic voltage on the basis of a current command value, a first voltage calculation unit that calculates a voltage command value of the first winding on the basis of the current command value, the basic voltage, and the current of the first winding, and a second voltage calculation unit that calculates a voltage command value of the second winding on the basis of the current command value, the basic voltage, and the current of the second winding. At least the first voltage calculation unit calculates the voltage command value of the first winding by further taking into account the current of the second winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Mori, Akira Furukawa, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Isao Kezobo