Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Maitani

Hiroshi Maitani 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).

  • Publication number: 20230246444
    Abstract: It is intended to reduce errors related to an energy supply plan to be formulated. An energy supply plan formulation device includes an acquisition unit for acquiring a change of a base load of energy equipment, a determination unit for determining whether to need correction of at least one of an equipment model and a load model on the basis of the change of the base load, a correction unit for correcting at least one of the equipment model and the load model on the basis of a determination result, a demand forecasting unit for forecasting the amount of energy demand, and a supply plan formulation unit for formulating an energy supply plan on the basis of the equipment model and the amount of energy demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MORI, Hiroshi MAITANI, Yoshito NISHITA
  • Patent number: 10175709
    Abstract: A consumer electric power control system includes a consumer data storage unit, a consumer daily data creation unit, an electric power instruction value acquisition unit, an electric power reduction scenario creation unit, a consumer data prediction unit, a condition change indicator calculation unit configured to calculate a plurality of condition change indicators for a plurality of electric power reduction scenarios, each of the plurality of condition change indicators representing a degree of difference in tendency between consumer prediction data and consumer daily data, an equipment operation determination unit configured to determine one of the plurality of electric power reduction scenarios based on the plurality of condition change indicators and determine an equipment operation pattern based on the determined one electric power reduction scenario; and an equipment operation control unit configured to control various types of equipment based on the determined equipment operation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Maitani, Takaya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9784464
    Abstract: A heat load predictor predicts a change over time of a heat amount to be processed by air-conditioning equipment, an operation plan creator previously creates an operation plan of the air-conditioning equipment to reduce an evaluation index under a first restrictive condition that a total process heat load be maintained at a same level or within a range of a predetermined amount of difference and a room temperature be maintained within a predetermined comfortable temperature range, and an operation plan corrector corrects the operation plan during controlling the air-conditioning equipment based on the operation plan. If an actually measured temperature differs from a predicted temperature predicted by the operation plan creator at the time of creating the operation plan, the operation plan creator predicts a change over time of the temperature in the room, and corrects the operation plan to minimize the evaluation index under the first restrictive condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Uno, Mio Motodani, Hiroshi Maitani, Osamu Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9562696
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a heat pump hot water supply system of the indirect heating method is provided such that a change in heat transfer efficiency of a second heat exchanger is estimated by using either or both of a tank water temperature and a temperature of a second refrigerant flowing through a water circuit. When the heat transfer efficiency is determined to be high, an operation switching unit raises an output of a heat source device. When the heat transfer efficiency is determined to be low, the operation switching unit lowers the output of the heat source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Maitani, Masashi Fujitsuka, Motohiko Kawagishi, Yoshihiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20160041574
    Abstract: A consumer electric power control system includes a consumer data storage unit, a consumer daily data creation unit, an electric power instruction value acquisition unit, an electric power reduction scenario creation unit, a consumer data prediction unit, a condition change indicator calculation unit configured to calculate a plurality of condition change indicators for a plurality of electric power reduction scenarios, each of the plurality of condition change indicators representing a degree of difference in tendency between consumer prediction data and consumer daily data, an equipment operation determination unit configured to determine one of the plurality of electric power reduction scenarios based on the plurality of condition change indicators and determine an equipment operation pattern based on the determined one electric power reduction scenario; and an equipment operation control unit configured to control various types of equipment based on the determined equipment operation pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi MAITANI, Takaya YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160018124
    Abstract: A heat load predictor predicts a change over time of a heat amount to be processed by air-conditioning equipment, an operation plan creator previously creates an operation plan of the air-conditioning equipment to reduce an evaluation index under a first restrictive condition that a total process heat load be maintained at a same level or within a range of a predetermined amount of difference and a room temperature be maintained within a predetermined comfortable temperature range, and an operation plan corrector corrects the operation plan during controlling the air-conditioning equipment based on the operation plan. If an actually measured temperature differs from a predicted temperature predicted by the operation plan creator at the time of creating the operation plan, the operation plan creator predicts a change over time of the temperature in the room, and corrects the operation plan to minimize the evaluation index under the first restrictive condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya YAMAMOTO, Yoshitaka UNO, Mio MOTODANI, Hiroshi MAITANI, Osamu NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20130025301
    Abstract: An operating method in a heat pump hot water supply system of an indirect heating method by which an average COP during a water heating period can be improved and a risk of running out of hot water can be prevented from increasing. For a heat pump hot water supply system of the indirect heating method, a change in heat transfer efficiency of a second heat exchanger is estimated by using either or both of a tank water temperature and a temperature of a second refrigerant flowing through a water circuit. When the heat transfer efficiency is determined to be high, an operation switching unit raises an output of a heat source device. When the heat transfer efficiency is determined to be low, the operation switching unit lowers the output of the heat source device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Maitani, Masashi Fujitsuka, Motohiko Kawagishi, Yoshihiro Takahashi