Patents by Inventor Yuji SHINDO

Yuji SHINDO 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: 9768712
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a power converter to perform output to an output line connected to a single-phase power system; and a control device to control the power converter so it operates as a virtual synchronous generator. The control device includes: a voltage and current measurer to obtain, from a single-phase system voltage, an angular velocity and a phase of the system voltage by an estimation operation that uses the phase of the system voltage as a parameter; a power obtainer to obtain active power and reactive power; a governor model to calculate a phase difference; an AVR model to calculate an absolute value of an induced voltage of a virtual synchronous generator; a generator model to calculate current command values corresponding to an armature current of the virtual synchronous generator; and a current controller to generate and output a PWM signal to the power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Sakimoto, Yuko Hirase, Eiji Yoshimura, Shogo Katsura, Hidehiko Nakagawa, Osamu Noro, Yuji Shindo
  • Publication number: 20170047861
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a power converter to perform output to an output line connected to a single-phase power system; and a control device to control the power converter so it operates as a virtual synchronous generator. The control device includes: a voltage and current measurer to obtain, from a single-phase system voltage, an angular velocity and a phase of the system voltage by an estimation operation that uses the phase of the system voltage as a parameter; a power obtainer to obtain active power and reactive power; a governor model to calculate a phase difference; an AVR model to calculate an absolute value of an induced voltage of a virtual synchronous generator; a generator model to calculate current command values corresponding to an armature current of the virtual synchronous generator; and a current controller to generate and output a PWM signal to the power converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi SAKIMOTO, Yuko HIRASE, Eiji YOSHIMURA, Shogo KATSURA, Hidehiko NAKAGAWA, Osamu NORO, Yuji SHINDO
  • Patent number: 9425677
    Abstract: A power converter that includes: a power conversion unit; and a control unit configured to control the power conversion unit such that the power conversion unit operates as a virtual synchronous generator. The control unit includes: an AVR model unit; a governor and driving source model unit; a power generation torque arithmetic operation unit; a rotation angle arithmetic operation unit; a voltage d-q conversion unit; and a generator model unit configured to perform arithmetic operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Sakimoto, Kazushige Sugimoto, Yuji Shindo
  • Publication number: 20160006338
    Abstract: A power converter that includes: a power conversion unit; and a control unit configured to control the power conversion unit such that the power conversion unit operates as a virtual synchronous generator. The control unit includes: an AVR model unit; a governor and driving source model unit; a power generation torque arithmetic operation unit; a rotation angle arithmetic operation unit; a voltage d-q conversion unit; and a generator model unit configured to perform arithmetic operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Kenichi SAKIMOTO, Kazushige SUGIMOTO, Yuji SHINDO