Patents by Inventor Yu OTORII

Yu OTORII 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).

  • Publication number: 20210293436
    Abstract: An outdoor unit includes: two fan motors that respectively drive two outdoor fans arranged one above the other; a controller including a fan motor power supply capable of separately supplying power to each of the two fan motors connected to two fan motor connectors; and an electrical component temperature sensor that measures temperatures of electrical components. The controller includes a control circuitry that detects which of the two fan motor connectors each of the two fan motors is connected to and supplies power in such a way as to drive the upper one of the outdoor fans based on a result of the detection at the time of single-fan operation. The detection is performed based on comparison between temperatures of the electrical components at the start of the single-fan operation and temperatures of the electrical components after a set time has elapsed since the start of the single-fan operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventor: Yu OTORII
  • Patent number: 8941347
    Abstract: A converter control device comprises: a voltage-zero-cross detection unit detecting zero cross of the alternate-current voltage and outputting a voltage zero-cross signal; a power-source-current detection unit detecting a power source current of the alternate-current power source; a bus-line-voltage detection unit detecting a bus-line voltage between terminals of the smoothing capacitor; a PWM-signal generation unit generating a PWM-signal for on/off-controlling the switching unit, based on the power-source current, the bus-line voltage and a bus-line-voltage command value as a target voltage of the bus-line voltage; a power-source voltage-state detection unit detecting a signal state of the alternate-current voltage based on the voltage zero-cross signal; and a fundamental-switching-frequency selection unit selecting a fundamental switching frequency of the PWM-signal based on the signal state of the alternate-current voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Otorii, Katsuhiko Saito, Masahiro Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20140225553
    Abstract: A converter control device comprises: a voltage-zero-cross detection unit detecting zero cross of the alternate-current voltage and outputting a voltage zero-cross signal; a power-source-current detection unit detecting a power source current of the alternate-current power source; a bus-line-voltage detection unit detecting a bus-line voltage between terminals of the smoothing capacitor; a PWM-signal generation unit generating a PWM-signal for on/off-controlling the switching unit, based on the power-source current, the bus-line voltage and a bus-line-voltage command value as a target voltage of the bus-line voltage; a power-source voltage-state detection unit detecting a signal state of the alternate-current voltage based on the voltage zero-cross signal; and a fundamental-switching-frequency selection unit selecting a fundamental switching frequency of the PWM-signal based on the signal state of the alternate-current voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yu OTORII, Katsuhiko SAITO, Masahiro FUKUDA