Patents by Inventor Yoshikatsu Ikawa

Yoshikatsu Ikawa 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: 11334414
    Abstract: An abnormality detecting apparatus that is configured to detect a presence or absence of an abnormality in a rotating machine includes a processor that is configured to execute a measured value acquisition process of acquiring, on the basis of a detection signal output from a vibration sensor that is configured to measure vibration caused by rotation of the rotating machine, a measured value including an amplitude and a phase of the vibration; a Mahalanobis distance calculation process of calculating a Mahalanobis distance of the measured value acquired at a time point at which the rotating machine is evaluated on the basis of a unit space configured with a plurality of measured values acquired at a plurality of past time points; and a determination process of determining that an abnormality has occurred in the rotating machine in a case where the calculated Mahalanobis distance exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaharu Hiroe, Kazunari Ide, Yoshikatsu Ikawa, Ryo Sase
  • Patent number: 11112760
    Abstract: A control device (70) of a plant which controls operation amounts of a plurality of types of equipment constituting the plant, the control device includes a prediction model deriving unit (71) that derives a prediction model from which a monitoring target value is output, an adjustment amount calculating unit (72) that calculates adjustment amounts of operation amounts in the case where the monitoring target value becomes a desired value and calculates differences between the operation amounts of existing control and the calculated operation amounts as first adjustment amounts, a constraint condition setting unit (73) that sets constraint conditions based on a measurement value and operation conditions of the plant 1, and an operation amount calculating unit (74) that calculates second adjustment amounts to which the constraint conditions are applied and calculates a plurality of the adjusted operation amounts based on each of the calculated second adjustment amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunari Ide, Takaharu Hiroe, Ryo Sase, Yoshikatsu Ikawa, Toshio Ishiwaki, Tomohiro Doi, Hiroshi Kitayama
  • Patent number: 11093316
    Abstract: An abnormality detection device includes a processor and a storage unit connected to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaharu Hiroe, Kazunari Ide, Yoshikatsu Ikawa, Ryo Sase
  • Publication number: 20200325876
    Abstract: A wind turbine group power generation amount evaluation device includes a criterial correlation acquisition unit which acquires a criterial correlation between a target power generation amount by a target wind turbine group and a reference power generation amount by a reference wind turbine group, a set value changing unit configured to change a set value of an output control parameter of at least one of the wind turbines in the target wind turbine group, a power generation amount acquisition unit configured to acquire the target power generation amount and the reference power generation amount measured after a change in the set value, a target power generation amount estimation unit configured to calculate, an estimated value before the change of the target power generation amount, and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a target power generation amount based on a comparison between the target power generation amount and the estimated value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu IKAWA, Masayuki HASHIMOTO, Kazunari IDE, Atsushi YUGE
  • Publication number: 20200285531
    Abstract: An abnormality detecting apparatus that is configured to detect a presence or absence of an abnormality rotating machine includes a processor that is configured to execute a measured value acquisition process of acquiring, on the basis of a detection signal output from a vibration sensor that is configured to measure vibration caused by rotation of the rotating machine, a measured value including an amplitude and a phase of the vibration; a Mahalanobis distance calculation process of calculating a Mahalanobis distance of the measured value acquired at a time point at which the rotating machine is evaluated on the basis of a unit space configured with a plurality of measured values acquired at a plurality of past time points; and a determination process of determining that an abnormality has occurred in the rotating machine in case where the calculated Mahalanobis distance exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Takaharu HIROE, Kazunari IDE, Yoshikatsu IKAWA, Ryo SASE
  • Publication number: 20200263669
    Abstract: An operating condition of a wind turbine facility or at least one wind turbine is acquired, and an estimated value of a measurable physical quantity corresponding to the operating condition is calculated. It is determined whether an abnormality is present in the wind turbine by comparing the estimated value and the actual value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Eriko SHINKAWA, Kentaro HAYASHI, Atsushi YUGE, Masayuki HASHIMOTO, Yoshikatsu IKAWA, Takahiro NAKANO
  • Patent number: 10697440
    Abstract: A method of detecting a damage of a wind turbine blade of a wind turbine rotor includes: a light input step of inputting light into a fiber-optic sensor mounted to the wind turbine blade; a light detection step of detecting reflection light from the grating portion; an obtaining step of obtaining a wavelength fluctuation index representing a fluctuation amount of a wavelength of the reflection light detected in the light detection step; and a detection step. The detection step includes detecting the presence or the absence of the damage of the wind turbine blade based on the wavelength fluctuation index taking account of a correlation between the wavelength fluctuation index of the wind turbine blade and a load index related to a load applied to the wind turbine blade, or a correlation between the wavelength fluctuation index and a temperature index related to a temperature of the wind turbine blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Ikawa, Katsuhiko Takita, Takao Kuroiwa, Mitsuya Baba, Kazunari Ide, Takuya Koyanagi
  • Publication number: 20200057690
    Abstract: An abnormality detection device includes a processor and a storage unit connected to the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaharu Hiroe, Kazunari Ide, Yoshikatsu Ikawa, Ryo Sase
  • Publication number: 20190324414
    Abstract: A control device (70) of a plant which controls operation amounts of a plurality of types of equipment constituting the plant, the control device includes a prediction model deriving unit (71) that derives a prediction model from which a monitoring target value is output, an adjustment amount calculating unit (72) that calculates adjustment amounts of operation amounts in the case where the monitoring target value becomes a desired value and calculates differences between the operation amounts of existing control and the calculated operation amounts as first adjustment amounts, a constraint condition setting unit (73) that sets constraint conditions based on a measurement value and operation conditions of the plant 1, and an operation amount calculating unit (74) that calculates second adjustment amounts to which the constraint conditions are applied and calculates a plurality of the adjusted operation amounts based on each of the calculated second adjustment amounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kazunari IDE, Takaharu HIROE, Ryo SASE, Yoshikatsu IKAWA, Toshio ISHIWAKI, Tomohiro DOl, Hiroshi KITAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180230971
    Abstract: A method of detecting a damage of a wind turbine blade of a wind turbine rotor includes: a light input step of inputting light into a fiber-optic sensor mounted to the wind turbine blade; a light detection step of detecting reflection light from the grating portion; an obtaining step of obtaining a wavelength fluctuation index representing a fluctuation amount of a wavelength of the reflection light detected in the light detection step; and a detection step. The detection step includes detecting the presence or the absence of the damage of the wind turbine blade based on the wavelength fluctuation index taking account of a correlation between the wavelength fluctuation index of the wind turbine blade and a load index related to a load applied to the wind turbine blade, or a correlation between the wavelength fluctuation index and a temperature index related to a temperature of the wind turbine blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu IKAWA, Katsuhiko TAKITA, Takao KUROIWA, Mitsuya BABA, Kazunari IDE, Takuya KOYANAGI
  • Patent number: 9162184
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system includes a feedforward controller 47, a feedback controller 49 outputting a correcting variable for achieving a target temperature of DPF 7, and a variable adding unit 51 that adds the correcting variable output from the feedback controller 49 to a basic variable output from the feedforward controller 47 to compute a manipulated variable. The system further includes either one of an integrator resetter 55 that resets the integral value of an integrator that forms the feedback controller 49 when the amount of exhaust gas has suddenly dropped, and a basic variable calculating unit that calculates the basic variable to be output from the feedforward controller based on a signal representing the flow rate of exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunari Ide, Yoshikatsu Ikawa
  • Patent number: 8893474
    Abstract: A DPF target temperature setting unit has a temperature increase rate setting portion which sets a temperature increase change rate such that, until a target set temperature at which PM is burnt is reached after the start of late post injection, the temperature increase change rate is reduced in accordance with an increase in temperature or a period of time elapsed since the start of the late post injection, a stepwise temperature increase change rate in the temperature increase rate setting portion includes two stages of a first-stage change rate A and a second-stage change rate B lower than the first-stage change rate, and a target temperature of the DPF temperature is calculated by using the temperature increase rate of the temperature increase rate setting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Ikawa, Hiroyuki Endo, Kazunari Ide, Ko Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 8869606
    Abstract: Providing a PM emission amount estimation device for the diesel engine wherein the accuracy of the correction in correcting the basic level of the PM emission amount by use of the PM emission amount estimation map can be enhanced; and, the PM emission amount particularly during the transient state of the engine operation condition can be accurately computed so as to estimate, with high precision, the PM emission amount and the PM emission accumulated-amount (integrated amount) during the whole engine operation conditions including the transient state as well as the steady state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Ikawa, Masato Mitsuhashi, Kazunari Ide
  • Patent number: 8736094
    Abstract: A turbine controller of a wind turbine generator includes a generated-output-power command value creating section that creates a generated-output-power command value and an optimum-upper-and-lower-limit limiting section that limits the generated-output-power command value by means of an upper limit value and a lower limit value of the generated output power that are determined based on a power curve indicating the relationship between the generated output power and the rotational speed of the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Wakasa, Akira Yasugi, Yoshikatsu Ikawa, Takehiro Naka, Hisanobu Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20130177482
    Abstract: A DPF target temperature setting unit has a temperature increase rate setting portion which sets a temperature increase change rate such that, until a target set temperature at which PM is burnt is reached after the start of late post injection, the temperature increase change rate is reduced in accordance with an increase in temperature or a period of time elapsed since the start of the late post injection, a stepwise temperature increase change rate in the temperature increase rate setting portion includes two stages of a first-stage change rate A and a second-stage change rate B lower than the first-stage change rate, and a target temperature of the DPF temperature is calculated by using the temperature increase rate of the temperature increase rate setting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Ikawa, Hiroyuki Endo, Kazunari Ide, Ko Takayanagi
  • Publication number: 20130108511
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system includes a feedforward controller 47, a feedback controller 49 outputting a correcting variable for achieving a target temperature of DPF 7, and a variable adding unit 51 that adds the correcting variable output from the feedback controller 49 to a basic variable output from the feedforward controller 47 to compute a manipulated variable. The system further includes either one of an integrator resetter 55 that resets the integral value of an integrator that forms the feedback controller 49 when the amount of exhaust gas has suddenly dropped, and a basic variable calculating unit that calculates the basic variable to be output from the feedforward controller based on a signal representing the flow rate of exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Kazunari Ide, Yoshikatsu Ikawa
  • Publication number: 20120174653
    Abstract: Providing a PM emission amount estimation device for the diesel engine wherein the accuracy of the correction in correcting the basic level of the PM emission amount by use of the PM emission amount estimation map can be enhanced; and, the PM emission amount particularly during the transient state of the engine operation condition can be accurately computed so as to estimate, with high precision, the PM emission amount and the PM emission accumulated-amount (integrated amount) during the whole engine operation conditions including the transient state as well as the steady state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Ikawa, Masato Mitsuhashi, Kazunari Ide