Patents by Inventor Yuji Nojiri

Yuji Nojiri 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: 10447172
    Abstract: A power regenerative converter, includes: a power module configured to include rectifiers and regenerative switches; a smoothing capacitor connected to direct-current power supply terminals, and that accumulates direct-current power during an alternating-current to direct-current conversion; a bus current detector that detects a bus current flowing between either of the direct-current power supply terminals and the smoothing capacitor; a power supply phase detector that detects a phase of an input power supply; a base drive signal generator that generates base drive signals that perform ON/OFF control of the regenerative switching elements based on a power supply phase detected by the power supply phase detection unit; a regeneration controller that performs a start and stop process of a power regenerative operation based on a detection result of the bus current detector and the base drive signals; and an overload detector that detects overload of a power regenerative converter based on the detection result o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitomo Hayashi, Yoji Tsutsumishita, Masaya Harakawa, Yuji Nojiri
  • Publication number: 20180198396
    Abstract: A power regenerative converter, includes: a power module configured to include rectifiers and regenerative switches; a smoothing capacitor connected to direct-current power supply terminals, and that accumulates direct-current power during an alternating-current to direct-current conversion; a bus current detector that detects a bus current flowing between either of the direct-current power supply terminals and the smoothing capacitor; a power supply phase detector that detects a phase of an input power supply; a base drive signal generator that generates base drive signals that perform ON/OFF control of the regenerative switching elements based on a power supply phase detected by the power supply phase detection unit; a regeneration controller that performs a start and stop process of a power regenerative operation based on a detection result of the bus current detector and the base drive signals; and an overload detector that detects overload of a power regenerative converter based on the detection result o
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitomo HAYASHI, Yoji TSUTSUMISHITA, Masaya HARAKAWA, Yuji NOJIRI
  • Patent number: 9570972
    Abstract: A CR snubber circuit capable of increasing a reduction effect of the effective inductance component and suppressing a ringing component generated at the time of switching the switching element is obtained. A first current path formed on one surface of the substrate and a second current path formed on the other surface, which is the opposite side of the one surface of the substrate, are opposed to each other with the substrate being sandwiched therebetween, and the capacitor 5 and the resistor 6 are arranged such that current flows in opposite directions in the first current path and the second current path, and a band elimination filter is formed by the capacitor 5, the resistor 6, and an effective inductance component obtained by coupling an inductance component included in the first current path and an inductance component included in the second current path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Kanda, Shizuri Tamura, Akira Hatai, Yasuhiro Sekimoto, Yuji Nojiri, Yoshitomo Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20160344279
    Abstract: A CR snubber circuit capable of increasing a reduction effect of the effective inductance component and suppressing a ringing component generated at the time of switching the switching element is obtained. A first current path formed on one surface of the substrate and a second current path formed on the other surface, which is the opposite side of the one surface of the substrate, are opposed to each other with the substrate being sandwiched therebetween, and the capacitor 5 and the resistor 6 are arranged such that current flows in opposite directions in the first current path and the second current path, and a band elimination filter is formed by the capacitor 5, the register 6, and an effective inductance component obtained by coupling an inductance component included in the first current path and an inductance component included in the second current path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko KANDA, Shizuri TAMURA, Akira HATAI, Yasuhiro SEKIMOTO, Yuji NOJIRI, Yoshitomo HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9281776
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a power-conversion circuit unit that includes at least two voltage-type bridge circuits of an upper and lower arm configuration including switching elements connected in series, each of the switching elements including a transistor and a free wheel diode connected to the transistor in inverse parallel. Each of the voltage-type bridge circuits is configured to include, as the free wheel diodes: a SiC-SBD (SiC-Schottky-Barrier Diodes) in both upper and lower arms; a SiC-SBD only in the upper arm; a SiC-SBD only in the lower arm; or a diode other than the SiC-SBD in both the upper and lower arms; and the power-conversion circuit unit is configured by combining at least two configurations among the four configurations for the voltage-type bridge circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Nojiri, Masanori Kato, Akira Imanaka, Masaya Harakawa
  • Publication number: 20130307500
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a power-conversion circuit unit that includes at least two voltage-type bridge circuits of an upper and lower arm configuration including switching elements connected in series, each of the switching elements including a transistor and a free wheel diode connected to the transistor in inverse parallel. Each of the voltage-type bridge circuits is configured to include, as the free wheel diodes: a SiC-SBD (SiC-Schottky-Barrier Diodes) in both upper and lower arms; a SiC-SBD only in the upper arm; a SiC-SBD only in the lower arm; or a diode other than the SiC-SBD in both the upper and lower arms; and the power-conversion circuit unit is configured by combining at least two configurations among the four configurations for the voltage-type bridge circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Nojiri, Masanori Kato, Akira Imanaka, Masaya Harakawa
  • Patent number: 5436674
    Abstract: An apparatus capable of detecting with improved accuracy a motion vector representing an object moved on a picture plane comprises a memory section for storing an input picture signal renewed for every predetermined time interval, a spatial filter section for applying a spatial band limitation to two signal portions of the renewed picture signal stored in the memory, which signal portions corresponding to the different time intervals, and a detecting section including at least one detecting stage for detecting the motion vector in accordance with the gradient method on the basis of the two picture signals and a minute value to be added to a gradient determined from one reference picture signal represented by one of the two picture signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Nippon Hoso Kyokai
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hirabayashi, Yuji Nojiri, Yasuaki Kanatsugu, Shoichi Suzuki, Hajime Sonehara, Junji Kumada, Iwao Obata, Kenji Nakashima