Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Kawamura

Hideyuki Kawamura 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: 10049373
    Abstract: Energy demand in an entire community including multiple demanders is properly predicted and energy consumption thereof is properly controlled. Every day, some demanders are selected from the community and a request to adjust energy consumption for the following day is sent to the selected demanders. To decide a content of the request, energy demand for the following day is predicted. In this case, demanders which did not receive a request on past days are specified, and demand in the community for the following day is predicted based on the actual energy consumption by those demanders on the past days.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Takahashi, Yasushi Tomita, Hideyuki Kawamura, Jumpei Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20130311236
    Abstract: Energy demand in an entire community including multiple demanders is properly predicted and energy consumption thereof is properly controlled. Every day, some demanders are selected from the community and a request to adjust energy consumption for the following day is sent to the selected demanders. To decide a content of the request, energy demand for the following day is predicted. In this case, demanders which did not receive a request on past days are specified, and demand in the community for the following day is predicted based on the actual energy consumption by those demanders on the past days.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Takahashi, Yasushi Tomita, Hideyuki Kawamura, Jumpei Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20130289785
    Abstract: A power demand regulating apparatus is provided which can efficiently achieve the purpose of peak shift in a power system and which can reduce the total incentive which an operator of a demand regulation server distributes to consumers having cooperated with a request for regulating an amount of energy to be used. A demand regulation server (0101) is provided with a cooperation level determining function (0111) of calculating a cooperation level which is obtained by quantifying the height of a cooperation sense of a consumer with a request for regulating an amount of energy to be used. The operator of the demand regulation server observes consumers or consumer appliances responding to the request for regulating an amount of energy to be used on the basis of the magnitude of the cooperation level and transmits the request to only the consumers or the consumer appliances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Takahashi, Yasushi Tomita, Hideyuki Kawamura, Jumpei Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8560135
    Abstract: An energy management system includes an equipment data management unit which manages charging/discharging loss of a battery and heat radiation loss of an electric water heater, and causes a control unit to perform control to give priority based on the comparison to the energy storage facility more reducing loss and store energy. The energy management system includes a system operation calculation unit which predicts voltage distribution of the next day of a distribution system or demand-and-supply balance amount of the entire system by state monitoring data of a power system, calculates a demand amount increasing target value necessary for avoiding a photovoltaic power generation amount suppression on a consumer end by the voltage distribution of the next day of the distribution system or the demand-and-supply balance amount, and controls the energy storage facilities so as to satisfy the demand amount increasing target value on the consumer end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tomita, Masahiro Watanabe, Takafumi Ebara, Yuichi Otake, Akira Kobayashi, Hideyuki Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20110238232
    Abstract: An energy management system includes an equipment data management unit which manages charging/discharging loss of a battery and heat radiation loss of an electric water heater, and causes a control unit to perform control to give priority based on the comparison to the energy storage facility more reducing loss and store energy. The energy management system includes a system operation calculation unit which predicts voltage distribution of the next day of a distribution system or demand-and-supply balance amount of the entire system by state monitoring data of a power system, calculates a demand amount increasing target value necessary for avoiding a photovoltaic power generation amount suppression on a consumer end by the voltage distribution of the next day of the distribution system or the demand-and-supply balance amount, and controls the energy storage facilities so as to satisfy the demand amount increasing target value on the consumer end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Yasushi TOMITA, Masahiro Watanabe, Takafumi Ebara, Yuichi Otake, Akira Kobayashi, Hideyuki Kawamura
  • Patent number: 6230479
    Abstract: The invention suppresses the production of thermal stress in power generating equipment and the unstable behavior of the power generating equipment due to the variation of system frequency and stabilizes the system frequency. A power plant load control system controls the operation of a power plant equipped with a gas turbine comprising a combustor (1) and a turbine (3), and a power generator (5) disposed coaxially with the turbine. The power plant load control system comprises a governor load control unit (100) for determining a governor instruction (103d) on the basis of the deviation of generated power (102d) from a power generation instruction (101d) given thereto by a central load dispatching station according to the variation of system frequency, and for determining a fuel supply rate instruction (107d) corresponding to a speed droop ratio (R) according to the deviation of shaft speed (104d) from a governor instruction (103d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kawamura, Toshihiko Harashima, Shoei Takahashi, Takeshi Ishida