Patents by Inventor Eisuke Kuroda

Eisuke Kuroda 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: 11916394
    Abstract: Provided are an operation limit value management unit managing an operation limit value related to the power flow power of system equipment and a determination unit calculating the power flow state for each set time of the future of a power system based on load dispatching information including a power generation plan value, a predicted output value, and a predicted value of power demand and determining whether or not stable is each power flow state by comparison with the operation limit value. The determination unit sequentially changes the first output power of a first power source defined by the power generation plan value of the first power source and calculates each power flow state based on power including the changed first output power and a predicted value of the output of a second power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kokai, Eisuke Kuroda, Kunihiko Tsunedomi
  • Publication number: 20230420937
    Abstract: A power system operation plan creation assistance device and method capable of maintaining or improving system stability or economy includes an optimization target snapshot power flow determination unit that uses one or more pieces of foundational information to determine an optimization target snapshot power flow. The foundational information includes a power generation plan, a total demand prediction, a sales plan, a renewable energy prediction, a work stoppage plan, system data, and a setting value. A system manipulation variable candidate extraction unit uses the one or more pieces of foundational information and the optimization target snapshot power flow to extract a candidate for a variable for a variable manipulating the system. An optimal system configuration calculation unit uses the one or more pieces of foundational information and the system manipulation variable candidate to calculate an optimal system configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Eisuke KURODA, Kunihiko TSUNEDOMI, Daiki NISHIMURA, Shinya OHARA, Yasuyuki TADA
  • Publication number: 20230221716
    Abstract: A power system monitoring control system and method that retains a control table and, when a failure occurs, controls a target according to a type of the failure according to the control table in which the method includes: estimating a contingency point which is an occurrence point of the failure that is assumed in the power system based on prescribed disaster information; estimating an assumed disaster content which is a content of a disaster at each contingency point based on the disaster information and an estimation result of the contingency point; changing contingency data based on an estimation result of the assumed disaster content at each contingency point, contingency data including an occurrence site and an aspect of each of the failures that are assumed to occur, and a contingency change rule including a contingency data change rule; and updating the control table based on changed contingency data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Eisuke Kuroda, Masahiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230012079
    Abstract: Provided are an operation limit value management unit managing an operation limit value related to the power flow power of system equipment and a determination unit calculating the power flow state for each set time of the future of a power system based on load dispatching information including a power generation plan value, a predicted output value, and a predicted value of power demand and determining whether or not stable is each power flow state by comparison with the operation limit value. The determination unit sequentially changes the first output power of a first power source defined by the power generation plan value of the first power source and calculates each power flow state based on power including the changed first output power and a predicted value of the output of a second power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka KOKAI, Eisuke KURODA, Kunihiko TSUNEDOMI
  • Patent number: 11349311
    Abstract: A voltage stability monitoring device and a method capable of obtaining information of voltage stability that can be served to practical use within a range of assumed conditions during a predetermined monitoring period are provided. The present invention provides a voltage stability monitoring device for estimating a voltage stability by using a voltage stability curve representing the voltage stability in an electric power system, including a voltage stability limit prediction unit for predicting a voltage stability limit, a voltage stability calculation condition determination unit for determining voltage stability calculation conditions by using a prediction result of voltage stability limit, a voltage stability curve calculation unit for calculating the voltage stability curve using a result of the voltage stability calculation condition determination, and a voltage stability margin calculation unit for calculating a voltage stability margin using a calculation result of the voltage stability curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eisuke Kuroda, Masahiro Watanabe, Masahiro Yatsu
  • Patent number: 10892640
    Abstract: The voltage and reactive power monitoring/control method includes: measurement data for the power system and data for the system equipment of the power system are used to calculate the system status for the power system at the time of measurement; data for a status estimation calculation result and predicted data for the power generation and load of the power system are used to predictively calculate a system status at a future time from the time of the power system measurement; a fluctuation component is obtained for the predicted value of the data obtained from the power system; the reactive power required to suppress the fluctuation component is obtained, as a required reactive power amount; a reactive power distribution subject is selected from a plurality of pieces of control subject equipment; an output distribution calculation is performed for the required reactive power amount for the selected control subject equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Eisuke Kuroda, Toshiyuki Miyake, Nao Saito, Masahiro Yatsu, Taichirou Kawahara
  • Patent number: 10790667
    Abstract: There is provided a voltage/reactive power control device, method, and a voltage/reactive power control system that allow a proper control even with a control delay or in a situation where the system conditions at the time of setting the voltage reference value may not be always reproduced. A voltage/reactive power control system is applied to a power system in which a monitoring point is set in a local system divided as appropriate from the power system and the local system includes a voltage/reactive power control device capable of adjusting voltage and reactive power at the monitoring point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Miyake, Eisuke Kuroda, Masahiro Yatsu
  • Publication number: 20200273120
    Abstract: In order to provide a power grid decision-making support device and method which are capable of providing operator decision-making support, and quickly presenting control candidates, and a system which applies the same, one representative embodiment of the present invention provides a power grid decision-making support device characterized by comprising: a control candidate learning unit for deriving, by learning, a plurality of control candidate models for stabilizing a power grid; a control candidate extraction unit for extracting, from the plurality of control candidate models derived by the control candidate learning unit, control candidates using power grid measurement data and extraction parameters; a control candidate evaluation unit for evaluating the control candidates using a power grid model and the control candidates; and an information presentation unit for presenting information about the evaluation results and the control candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Kenta KIRIHARA, Eisuke KURODA, Nao SAITO, Hiroo HORII, Masahiro YATSU
  • Patent number: 10673235
    Abstract: In a power system voltage reactive power monitoring control device, a balance between the power system voltage and the reactive power can be maintained even when, for example, the output of renewable energy varies over time due to the weather, or the power supply configuration or system configuration changes, and the economic efficiency can be improved. In the power system voltage reactive power monitoring control device, which supplies transmission data to individual devices capable of adjusting the voltage and the reactive power of a power system, indices indicating the stability of the power system are used to determine one or more target value restrictions, information about the target value is obtained from the target value restrictions, transmission data containing information about the target value is supplied to the individual devices, and the voltage and reactive power at the relevant installation site are adjusted by the individual devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eisuke Kuroda, Daichi Kato, Osamu Tomobe, Haruki Miyoshi, Shintaro Ueno
  • Patent number: 10628896
    Abstract: A system stability monitoring device monitors the stability of a power system and is equipped with: a storage unit for storing spot information indicating the positional relationship between a plurality of measurement spots in the power system; a receiving unit for receiving time-series measurement information measured by a measuring device provided at each of the measurement spots; and a calculation unit for detecting the frequency components of the power fluctuation from the measurement information, selecting, based on the frequency components, measurement spot group candidates that are measurement spots among the plurality of measurement spots, obtaining the electrical distances between the measurement spot group candidates on the basis of the spot information, and categorizing the measurement spot group candidates into at least one measurement spot group on the basis of the electrical distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Yamazaki, Masahiro Yatsu, Sumito Tobe, Yasuo Sato, Osamu Tomobe, Eisuke Kuroda
  • Patent number: 10581245
    Abstract: The setting range of the voltage and the reactive power of a power system is maintained during variations of voltage and power flow due to the output variation of renewable energy of a large number of power supplies which fluctuate due to weather. A voltage/reactive power operation assisting device is provided with a first database for storing the data to be evaluated, target value data, individual control device control method data, and individual control device data of an individual control device for adjusting the voltage/reactive power of a power system. A second database stores the device operation data of the individual control device; and the operation of the individual control device is predicted from the data stored in the first database to obtain individual control device operation prediction data. A display unit displays the individual control device operation prediction data and the device operation data in a contrastive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eisuke Kuroda, Nao Saito, Kouichi Hara, Masahiro Yatsu, Taichiro Kawahara, Shota Omi
  • Patent number: 10473700
    Abstract: A voltage stability monitoring device, which monitors voltage stability of a power system, produces a plurality of assumed change scenarios indicating a scenario of a change that is assumed based on at least one of a system configuration of the power system and a change of a tide state, calculates the voltage stability using the assumed change scenario, calculates a voltage stability margin indicating margin degree of the voltage stability, based on the voltage stability selects an assumed change scenario with high severity of the voltage stability for each assumed change scenario, based on the voltage stability margin calculates which buses in the power system are vulnerable buses that decrease voltage stability, based on the assumed change scenario which is selected, and changes a monitoring target of the voltage stability, based on information of the vulnerable bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eisuke Kuroda, Yasuo Sato, Osamu Tomobe, Jun Yamazaki, Masahiro Yatsu, Kouichi Hara, Haruki Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 10461538
    Abstract: A system stabilization control device controls a control instrument within a power system on the basis of measurement information from a plurality of measurement points within the power system. The system stabilization control device includes an equipment information database storing information of system equipment interconnected with the power system; a control priority determining unit determining the control priority of the control instrument on the basis of the information of the system equipment; a control target determining unit determining a control target on the basis of the measurement information from the plurality of measurement points and the control priority; a destabilization time calculating unit calculating destabilization time of the power system from the measurement information from the plurality of measurement points; and a control time determining unit determining control time of the control instrument on the basis of the destabilization time and the information of the system equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Yamazaki, Osamu Tomobe, Eisuke Kuroda, Akira Tsubota, Sumito Tobe, Masahiro Yatsu
  • Publication number: 20190280481
    Abstract: The setting range of the voltage and the reactive power of a power system is maintained during variations of voltage and power flow due to the output variation of renewable energy of a large number of power supplies which fluctuate due to weather. A voltage/reactive power operation assisting device is provided with a first database for storing the data to be evaluated, target value data, individual control device control method data, and individual control device data of an individual control device for adjusting the voltage/reactive power of a power system. A second database stores the device operation data of the individual control device; and the operation of the individual control device is predicted from the data stored in the first database to obtain individual control device operation prediction data. A display unit displays the individual control device operation prediction data and the device operation data in a contrastive manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Eisuke KURODA, Nao SAITO, Kouichi HARA, Masahiro YATSU, Taichiro KAWAHARA, Shota OMI
  • Patent number: 10389133
    Abstract: In order to maintain a system frequency within a permissible range under limitations of the output of a power source to be controlled, a calculation device pertaining to a load-frequency-controlling device of the present invention: predicts time-series data indicating the status of individual power sources in a future control period, the prediction being carried out on the basis of system model data, system data, and renewable energy data; calculates, on the basis of power source data, and for each of the power sources, at least any one of a deviation state indicating the degree to which the time-series data deviates from the limitations and/or a surplus state indicating the degree to which the time-series data shows a surplus with respect to the limitations; resolves the deviation state; and calculates the amount of adjustment in the output of each of the power sources, on the basis of the deviation state and the surplus state, under the condition that the total output of the power sources is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Eisuke Kuroda, Osamu Tomobe, Masahiro Yatsu
  • Patent number: 10371592
    Abstract: When vibration information calculated using measurement information is classified using a distance between measurement points which is calculated using the point information, even in a case in which a plurality of vibration modes with close vibration frequencies are present at the same time, stability determination at a high speed and a high accuracy is realized. A system stability monitoring apparatus which monitors system stability of a power system includes a measurement information collecting unit that collects measurement information of a plurality of points in the power system, a vibration analyzing unit that calculates vibration information indicating vibration of a system state in the plurality of points using the measurement information, an information storage unit that stores point information including position information of the plurality of points, and a vibration classifying unit that classifies the vibration information based on the point information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Yamazaki, Masahiro Yatsu, Sumito Tobe, Yasuo Sato, Osamu Tomobe, Eisuke Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20190148977
    Abstract: The voltage and reactive power monitoring/control method includes: measurement data for the power system and data for the system equipment of the power system are used to calculate the system status for the power system at the time of measurement; data for a status estimation calculation result and predicted data for the power generation and load of the power system are used to predictively calculate a system status at a future time from the time of the power system measurement; a fluctuation component is obtained for the predicted value of the data obtained from the power system; the reactive power required to suppress the fluctuation component is obtained, as a required reactive power amount; a reactive power distribution subject is selected from a plurality of pieces of control subject equipment; an output distribution calculation is performed for the required reactive power amount for the selected control subject equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Eisuke KURODA, Toshiyuki MIYAKE, Nao SAITO, Masahiro YATSU, Taichirou KAWAHARA
  • Patent number: 10193385
    Abstract: In administration based on the existing (N?1) reliability criteria, an appropriate administration plan may be not drafted in a power system in which renewable energy increases. Accordingly, according to the invention, a power system monitoring apparatus that monitors a power system includes: an input unit that inputs assumable system breakdown data including an occurrence frequency of each assumable breakdown of the power system and assumable output change data including an occurrence frequency of each assumable output change of each generator connected to the power system; and an output unit that generates conditions by which events of the assumable breakdowns and the assumable output changes are combined based on the occurrence frequencies of the assumable breakdown and the assumable output change and outputs a control plan for each of the conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Sato, Masahiro Yatsu, Kouichi Hara, Eisuke Kuroda, Osamu Tomobe, Jun Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20180375329
    Abstract: A voltage stability monitoring device and a method capable of obtaining information of voltage stability that can be served to practical use within a range of assumed conditions during a predetermined monitoring period are provided. The present invention provides a voltage stability monitoring device for estimating a voltage stability by using a voltage stability curve representing the voltage stability in an electric power system, including a voltage stability limit prediction unit for predicting a voltage stability limit, a voltage stability calculation condition determination unit for determining voltage stability calculation conditions by using a prediction result of voltage stability limit, a voltage stability curve calculation unit for calculating the voltage stability curve using a result of the voltage stability calculation condition determination, and a voltage stability margin calculation unit for calculating a voltage stability margin using a calculation result of the voltage stability curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eisuke KURODA, Masahiro WATANABE, Masahiro YATSU
  • Publication number: 20180351361
    Abstract: There is provided a voltage/reactive power control device, method, and a voltage/reactive power control system that allow a proper control even with a control delay or in a situation where the system conditions at the time of setting the voltage reference value may not be always reproduced. A voltage/reactive power control system is applied to a power system in which a monitoring point is set in a local system divided as appropriate from the power system and the local system includes a voltage/reactive power control device capable of adjusting voltage and reactive power at the monitoring point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Toshiyuki MIYAKE, Eisuke KURODA, Masahiro YATSU