Patents by Inventor Chihiro Fukui

Chihiro Fukui 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: 8880234
    Abstract: Supervisory control equipment for smart grids provided with a plurality of generators and loads and operated in interconnection with a commercial power system through an interconnected circuit breaker, comprising a frequency control ability calculation part for calculating the frequency control ability of the interconnected system by using a total power demand and a bus bar frequency; and an islanding and interconnection detection part for calculating frequency control ability of the commercial power system according to the frequency control ability of the system of the frequency control ability calculation part to discriminate between the interconnected and islanding operations according to the magnitude of the frequency control ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Sekoguchi, Chihiro Fukui, Tetsuo Yamada
  • Publication number: 20120029716
    Abstract: Supervisory control equipment for smart grids provided with a plurality of generators and loads and operated in interconnection with a commercial power system through an interconnected circuit breaker, comprising a frequency control ability calculation part for calculating the frequency control ability of the interconnected system by using a total power demand and a bus bar frequency; and an islanding and interconnection detection part for calculating frequency control ability of the commercial power system according to the frequency control ability of the system of the frequency control ability calculation part to discriminate between the interconnected and islanding operations according to the magnitude of the frequency control ability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Masahiro SEKOGUCHI, Chihiro Fukui, Tetsuo Yamada
  • Patent number: 7478070
    Abstract: With regard to electric-power-supply control, there is provided an electric power supply control system for implementing load control used to be executed for each individual customer consuming electric power as coordinated control for all customers and for selecting an optimum electric-power supplier in case there are a plurality of electric-power suppliers supplying electric power to the customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chihiro Fukui, Takaharu Ishida
  • Publication number: 20070168492
    Abstract: The system includes: an equipment data recording block 313 for recording one or more than one equipment information; a profile recording block 312 for storing a customer profile describing a customer request; an analysis block 311 for analyzing the equipment data recorded in the equipment data recording block 313, according to the customer profile, and creating a maintenance service assisting program and a maintenance enterprise assisting program; and a communication block 314 for transmitting the maintenance service assisting program to the customer, and the maintenance enterprise assisting program to the maintenance enterprise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichiro TANIKOSHI, Yasuo SATO, Hideaki SUZUKI, Chihiro FUKUI
  • Patent number: 7222102
    Abstract: A portal site for serving data monitored and observed, which can not only act for monitoring and observing services, instead of a facility owner, but also process the data into economically valuable data with the use of the result of monitoring and observation, is connected to a computer network so as to gather sequential data which is observed in time series by a not less than one sensor as to an operation running condition of a facility belonging the facility owner, and event data monitored invariantly, and incorporates a function of obtaining a data disclosure profile for designating a degree of disclosure of the data, from the facility owner, and a function of onerously serving an item of secondary data obtained by processing the data in a range satisfying the data disclosure profile, to a data user different from the facility owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Sato, Chihiro Fukui, Hideaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7222103
    Abstract: A portal site for serving data monitored and observed, which can not only act for monitoring and observing services, instead of a facility owner, but also process the data into economically valuable data with the use of the result of monitoring and observation, is connected to a computer network so as to gather sequential data which is observed in time series by a not less than one sensor as to an operation running condition of a facility belonging the facility owner, and event data monitored invariantly, and incorporates a function of obtaining a data disclosure profile for designating a degree of disclosure of the data, from the facility owner, and a function of onerously serving an item of secondary data obtained by processing the data in a range satisfying the data disclosure profile, to a data user different from the facility owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Sato, Chihiro Fukui, Hideaki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20070005479
    Abstract: This enterprise portfolio simulation system includes the mechanisms of selecting companies having a large mutual influence from a company's own project portfolio, a business partner company, other competing companies, and still other companies giving an influence on the company's own project portfolio, the business partner company, and the other competing companies; configuring a company network with the own company, the business partner company, and the other competing companies; making each of the own company, the business partner company, and the other competing companies perform a reasonable intention decision while mutually giving an influence; and performing a numerical experiment of an economic activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ikeda, Shigeru Kawamoto, Osamu Kubo, Chihiro Fukui
  • Patent number: 6885914
    Abstract: To permit a customer to reduce environmental load without reducing their electric power, a green power supply system is provided which includes a power supply request acceptance part which accepts from a customer a request to supply power having small environmental loads to the customer, a storage-of-power-supply-content requesting part which stores the state of power supply from each power generation facility, a green degree calculating part which determines the proportion of power which is supplied from the power generation facility having the small environmental loads, in power supplied to the customer, and a customer-directed green-degree notification part which notifies the customer of the degree of environmental load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Shimode, Chihiro Fukui
  • Patent number: 6870480
    Abstract: A maintenance service system for home electric appliances is disclosed which comprises a home electric appliance, a portable terminal which can communicate with the home electric appliance and an information providing server which can communicate with the portable terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Suzuki, Chihiro Fukui, Masayuki Tani
  • Publication number: 20040214566
    Abstract: A maintenance service system for home electric appliances is disclosed which comprises a home electric appliance, a portable terminal which can communicate with said home electric appliance and an information providing server which can communicate with said portable terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Hideaki Suzuki, Chihiro Fukui, Masayuki Tani
  • Publication number: 20040199478
    Abstract: To realize the multinational energy and power interchange, understanding the characteristics and differences of energy and power system of respective countries, electric power facilities of respective countries must be totally operated thus providing economic effects such as lowering of energy charge and the stable power supply. To this end, the respective power systems of many countries and regions such as North America, Russia, China, South East Asia, Australia, South America and the like belonging to the Asian-Pacific rim which have characteristics and difference are connected by direct current interconnecting facilities or alternating power transmission facilities thus ensuring the balance of power supply and enabling the total or partial operation of the entire system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Arita, Masahiro Watanabe, Junichi Makino, Tadashi Senda, Youichi Ohshita, Genichiro Ichihari, Naoyuki Yamada, Tetsuo Horiuchi, Chihiro Fukui, Hiroyuki Kudo
  • Publication number: 20030220720
    Abstract: To permit a customer to reduce environmental load without reducing their electric power, a green power supply system is provided which includes a power supply request acceptance part which accepts from a customer a request to supply power having small environmental loads to the customer, a storage-of-power-supply-content requesting part which stores the state of power supply from each power generation facility, a green degree calculating part which determines the proportion of power which is supplied from the power generation facility having the small environmental loads, in power supplied to the customer, and a customer-directed green-degree notification part which notifies the customer of the degree of environmental load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventors: Shinichi Shimode, Chihiro Fukui
  • Publication number: 20030154100
    Abstract: A portal site for serving data monitored and observed, which can not only act for monitoring and observing services, instead of a facility owner, but also process the data into economically valuable data with the use of the result of monitoring and observation, is connected to a computer network so as to gather sequential data which is observed in time series by a not less than one sensor as to an operation running condition of a facility belonging the facility owner, and event data monitored invariantly, and incorporates a function of obtaining a data disclosure profile for designating a degree of disclosure of the data, from the facility owner, and a function of onerously serving an item of secondary data obtained by processing the data in a range satisfying the data disclosure profile, to a data user different from the facility owner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Sato, Chihiro Fukui, Hideaki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20030093309
    Abstract: The system includes: an equipment data recording block 313 for recording one or more than one equipment information; a profile recording block 312 for storing a customer profile describing a customer request; an analysis block 311 for analyzing the equipment data recorded in the equipment data recording block 313, according to the customer profile, and creating a maintenance service assisting program and a maintenance enterprise assisting program; and a communication block 314 for transmitting the maintenance service assisting program to the customer, and the maintenance enterprise assisting program to the maintenance enterprise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Koichiro Tanikoshi, Yasuo Sato, Hideaki Suzuki, Chihiro Fukui
  • Publication number: 20030018749
    Abstract: A portal site for serving data monitored and observed, which can not only act for monitoring and observing services, instead of a facility owner, but also process the data into economically valuable data with the use of the result of monitoring and observation, is connected to a computer network so as to gather sequential data which is observed in time series by a not less than one sensor as to an operation running condition of a facility belonging the facility owner, and event data monitored invariantly, and incorporates a function of obtaining a data disclosure profile for designating a degree of disclosure of the data, from the facility owner, and a function of onerously serving an item of secondary data obtained by processing the data in a range satisfying the data disclosure profile, to a data user different from the facility owner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Yasuo Sato, Chihiro Fukui, Hideaki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20020130784
    Abstract: A maintenance service system for home electric appliances is disclosed which comprises a home electric appliance, a portable terminal which can communicate with said home electric appliance and an information providing server which can communicate with said portable terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Hideaki Suzuki, Chihiro Fukui, Masayuki Tani
  • Publication number: 20020128853
    Abstract: In an electric appliance renting system, a use contractor leases an e-information terminal together with an e-air conditioner, an e-refrigerator and an e-television from a service providing company. The work information of these electric appliances is sent from the e-information terminal to a rent managing server, which the service providing company possesses, through the Internet. The rent managing server sends the data relating to the rent inclusive of the electric power rate of the rented electric appliances to the e-information terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Hiroshige Kikuchi, Tadakatsu Nakajima, Keiji Sasao, Chihiro Fukui
  • Publication number: 20020128749
    Abstract: To realize the multinational energy and power interchange, understanding the characteristics and differences of energy and power system of respective countries, electric power facilities of respective countries must be totally operated thus providing economic effects such as lowering of energy charge and the stable power supply. To this end, the respective power systems of many countries and regions such as North America, Russia, China, South East Asia, Australia, South America and the like belonging to the Asian-Pacific rim which have characteristics and difference are connected by direct current interconnecting facilities or alternating power transmission facilities thus ensuring the balance of power supply and enabling the total or partial operation of the entire system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Arita, Masahiro Watanabe, Junichi Makino, Tadashi Senda, Youichi Ohshita, Genichiro Ichihari, Naoyuki Yamada, Tetsuo Horiuchi, Chihiro Fukui, Hiroyuki Kudo
  • Publication number: 20020060497
    Abstract: To realize the multinational energy and power interchange, understanding the characteristics and differences of energy and power system of respective countries, electric power facilities of respective countries must be totally operated thus providing economic effects such as lowering of energy charge and the stable power supply. To this end, the respective power systems of many countries and regions such as North America, Russia, China, South East Asia, Australia, South America and the like belonging to the Asian-Pacific rim which have characteristics and difference are connected by direct current interconnecting facilities or alternating power transmission facilities thus ensuring the balance of power supply and enabling the total or partial operation of the entire system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 1999
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: HIROSHI ARITA, MASAHIRO WATANABE, JUNICHI MAKINO, TADASHI SENDA, YOUICHI OHSHITA, GENICHIRO ICHIHARI, NAOYUKI YAMADA, TETSUO HORIUCHI, CHIHIRO FUKUI, HIROYUKI KUDO
  • Publication number: 20020019762
    Abstract: An electric power demand prediction service method and a system therefor may derive an estimated value and/or predicted value of electric power demand of an arbitrary customer group and provide the derived information to electric power suppliers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Inventors: Yasushi Tomita, Yasushi Harada, Harumi Uchigasaki, Chihiro Fukui, Yutaka Kokai, Hiroshi Inoue, Nobuhisa Kobayashi