Patents by Inventor Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA

Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA 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: 10141789
    Abstract: An equivalent circuit of a converter (4) is represented by a series connection between an equivalent capacitor (41) and an equivalent resistor (42), and the converter (4) includes a controller that adjusts a power factor of the input power by controlling a capacitive reactance (Xc) of the equivalent capacitor (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, TOYO ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kashiwagi, Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Tadashi Sawada, Takayoshi Tanaka, Takehisa Kashima
  • Patent number: 9984806
    Abstract: Provided is a coil mounting structure for a device that comprises a primary coil to be supplied with an alternating current, and a secondary coil arranged facing the primary coil and configured to supply an electric power to a load provided in a housing by using an induced voltage generated by an electromagnetic field produced by the primary coil. The coil mounting structure comprises at least one mounting part provided in a region of the housing, the region facing the primary coil, and the at least one mounting part is configured to hold the secondary coil to the housing. The at least one mounting part comprises at least one gap area configured to interrupt a circuit generated by the at least one mounting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Daisuke Shimode, Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Masayuki Tobikawa, Yukio Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20180109143
    Abstract: An equivalent circuit of a converter (4) is represented by a series connection between an equivalent capacitor (41) and an equivalent resistor (42), and the converter (4) includes a controller that adjusts a power factor of the input power by controlling a capacitive reactance (Xc) of the equivalent capacitor (41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicants: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, TOYO ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki KASHIWAGI, Toshiaki MURAI, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Tadashi SAWADA, Takayoshi TANAKA, Takehisa KASHIMA
  • Patent number: 9632564
    Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit is configured by connecting, in parallel, a plurality of series circuits of an inverse-parallel connection circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. A control unit controls switching of a semiconductor switch so that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes zero voltage in equal periods ? before and after a center point shifted from one zero crossing point in one cycle of the input current by a compensation period (angle) ? calculated from a voltage applied to a resonance circuit constituted by the power receiving coil and a resonance capacitor Cr and an induced voltage of the power receiving coil, and becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between DC terminals in other periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Tadashi Sawada, Masayuki Tobikawa, Ayako Saga, Michio Tamate, Koji Maruyama, Tomotaka Nishijima
  • Patent number: 9590428
    Abstract: An electric power receiving device in one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure comprises an electric power receiving section and a converting section. The converting section comprises a compensation voltage generating section. The compensation voltage generating section generates a compensation voltage capable of canceling out a reactance component in the electric power receiving section, and applies the compensation voltage to the electric power receiving section. The compensation voltage generating section comprises a phase changing section, a physical quantity detecting section, and a searching section. The searching section searches a target phase of the compensation voltage that brings the electric power receiving device into a substantially resonant state, based on a physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detecting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Yuki Kashiwagi, Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Tadashi Sawada
  • Patent number: 9231494
    Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit including a plurality of switching arms which is an inverse-parallel circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. The power supply device includes a control unit. The control unit switches the semiconductor switch such that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between the DC terminals only during prescribed time periods before and after a point that has deviated from each zero crossing point ZCP of a current i by a prescribed compensation period ? and such that the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage during the other time periods, and sets the compensation period ? such that a time period during which the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage is the shortest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sawada, Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Masayuki Tobikawa, Ayako Saga, Tomotaka Nishijima, Toshiya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20150279543
    Abstract: Provided is a coil mounting structure for a device that comprises a primary coil to be supplied with an alternating current, and a secondary coil arranged facing the primary coil and configured to supply an electric power to a load provided in a housing by using an induced voltage generated by an electromagnetic field produced by the primary coil. The coil mounting structure comprises at least one mounting part provided in a region of the housing, the region facing the primary coil, and the at least one mounting part is configured to hold the secondary coil to the housing. The at least one mounting part comprises at least one gap area configured to interrupt a circuit generated by the at least one mounting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Daisuke SHIMODE, Toshiaki MURAl, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Masayuki TOBIKAWA, Yukio TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20150249345
    Abstract: An electric power receiving device in one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure comprises an electric power receiving section and a converting section. The converting section comprises a compensation voltage generating section. The compensation voltage generating section generates a compensation voltage capable of canceling out a reactance component in the electric power receiving section, and applies the compensation voltage to the electric power receiving section. The compensation voltage generating section comprises a phase changing section, a physical quantity detecting section, and a searching section. The searching section searches a target phase of the compensation voltage that brings the electric power receiving device into a substantially resonant state, based on a physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Yuki KASHIWAGI, Toshiaki MURAl, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Tadashi SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20150023079
    Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit including a plurality of switching arms which is an inverse-parallel circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. The power supply device includes a control unit. The control unit switches the semiconductor switch such that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between the DC terminals only during prescribed time periods before and after a point that has deviated from each zero crossing point ZCP of a current i by a prescribed compensation period ? and such that the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage during the other time periods, and sets the compensation period ? such that a time period during which the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage is the shortest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicants: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi SAWADA, Toshiaki MURAI, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Masayuki TOBIKAWA, Ayako SAGA, Tomotaka NISHIJIMA, Toshiya KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20140372780
    Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit is configured by connecting, in parallel, a plurality of series circuits of an inverse-parallel connection circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. A control unit controls switching of a semiconductor switch so that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes zero voltage in equal periods ? before and after a center point shifted from one zero crossing point in one cycle of the input current by a compensation period (angle) ? calculated from a voltage applied to a resonance circuit constituted by the power receiving coil and a resonance capacitor Cr and an induced voltage of the power receiving coil, and becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between DC terminals in other periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicants: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki MURAI, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Tadashi SAWADA, Masayuki TOBIKAWA, Ayako SAGA, Michio TAMATE, Koji MARUYAMA, Tomotaka NISHIJIMA