Patents by Inventor Junta Izumi
Junta Izumi 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).
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Patent number: 11967840Abstract: A power supply system comprises an alternating-current sweep unit that outputs alternating-current power from a U-phase battery string, a V-phase battery string, and a W-phase battery string that are Y-connected, a first power supply circuit that converts output of a direct-current sweep unit to alternating-current power using an inverter and outputs the alternating-current power, the direct-current sweep unit including a first battery string; and a control device. An energy density of a battery included in the U-phase battery string, the V-phase battery string, and the W-phase battery string is higher than an energy density of a battery included in the first battery string.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta Izumi, Kenji Kimura
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Patent number: 11945332Abstract: A vehicle includes: an instrument panel; and an ECU that controls the instrument panel so that the instrument panel displays an icon representing a status of a battery. The icon represents one of a first indication and a second indication by an increase or decrease of a scale in a display region of the icon, and the other one of the first indication and the second indication by an amount indicated by a size of a display area of the icon, the first indication representing SOC of the battery, the second indication representing a full charge capacity of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiki Sugino, Yoshihiro Uchida, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Junta Izumi, Kazuki Kubo
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Patent number: 11949261Abstract: A power supply system includes an alternating current sweep unit and a first power supply circuit, and each of a U-phase battery string, a V-phase battery string, a W-phase battery string, and a first battery string includes a plurality of battery circuit modules connected in series, and each of the battery circuit modules includes a battery, output terminals, a first switch, and a second switch.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta Izumi, Kenji Kimura
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Patent number: 11936227Abstract: In a power supply system, a control device is configured to select one or more target batteries that are to perform requested energy management from a plurality of batteries included in an alternating-current battery string and a direct-current battery string, and perform the requested energy management using the one or more target batteries with the batteries other than the one or more target batteries being disconnected from a circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta Izumi, Kenji Kimura
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Publication number: 20240061046Abstract: A battery management system includes a control device and a storage. The storage stores at least one trained neural network. The trained neural network includes an input layer that accepts input data that represents a numeric value for each pixel in an image where a prescribed CCV waveform (a CCV charging waveform or a CCV discharging waveform) of a secondary battery is drawn in a region constituted of a predetermined number of pixels, and when input data is input to the input layer, the trained neural network outputs a full charge capacity of the secondary battery. The control device estimates the full charge capacity of a target battery by inputting input data obtained for the target battery into the input layer of the trained neural network.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta IZUMI, Akihiro WATANABE, Toshiki HORI, Misato BABA
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Patent number: 11841400Abstract: A battery management system includes a control device and a storage. The storage stores at least one trained neural network. The trained neural network includes an input layer that accepts input data that represents a numeric value for each pixel in an image where a prescribed CCV waveform (a CCV charging waveform or a CCV discharging waveform) of a secondary battery is drawn in a region constituted of a predetermined number of pixels, and when input data is input to the input layer, the trained neural network outputs a full charge capacity of the secondary battery. The control device estimates the full charge capacity of a target battery by inputting input data obtained for the target battery into the input layer of the trained neural network.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta Izumi, Akihiro Watanabe, Toshiki Hori, Misato Baba
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Patent number: 11791638Abstract: In a power supply system, a control device is configured to adjust a state of charge of each of an alternating-current battery string and a direct-current battery string by power transfer between the alternating-current battery string and the direct-current battery string before performing requested energy management.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta Izumi, Kenji Kimura
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Patent number: 11791747Abstract: An electric power supply system includes an alternating current electric power supply circuit that converts direct current electric power of a first direct current sweep unit including a battery string into alternating current electric power using a first inverter and outputs it, and an alternating current sweep unit that includes a U-phase battery string, a V-phase battery string, and a W-phase battery string that are Y-connected. Output densities of batteries of the battery string are higher than output densities of batteries of the alternating current sweep unit. Alternating current electric power is output from the alternating current sweep unit and the alternating current electric power supply circuit, and after a predetermined period elapses, the output of the alternating current electric power from the alternating current electric power supply circuit is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta Izumi, Kenji Kimura
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Patent number: 11784492Abstract: A power supply system that outputs AC power to an object to which power is to be supplied includes: a first power supply circuit including a DC battery string and an inverter and configured to output first AC power; a second power supply circuit including an AC battery string and configured to output second AC power; and a control device. In the first mode, power is transferred between the object and the second power supply circuit. In the second mode, power is transferred between the object and each of the first and second power supply circuits. The control device starts supplying the second AC power to the object in the first mode, and when a power supply current becomes larger than a first threshold, supply the first and second AC power to the object in the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta Izumi, Kenji Kimura
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Publication number: 20230294550Abstract: A vehicle includes: an instrument panel; and an ECU that controls the instrument panel so that the instrument panel displays an icon representing a status of a battery. The icon represents one of a first indication and a second indication by an increase or decrease of a scale in a display region of the icon, and the other one of the first indication and the second indication by an amount indicated by a size of a display area of the icon, the first indication representing SOC of the battery, the second indication representing a full charge capacity of the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Yoshiki SUGINO, Yoshihiro UCHIDA, Nobuyuki TANAKA, Junta IZUMI, Kazuki KUBO
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Publication number: 20230291212Abstract: A power supply system includes a forcible disconnecting unit configured to forcibly disconnect a battery in a battery module from series regardless of a gate drive signal. The power supply system obtains the number of batteries included in the battery modules which can be forcibly disconnected from the series according to the maximum voltage of the batteries that can be connected in the series and a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be output, and forcibly disconnects the obtained number of the batteries from the series by the forcible disconnecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya MIZUNO, Shuji TOMURA, Naoki YANAGIZAWA, Kazuo OOTSUKA, Hiroshi TSUKADA, Junta IZUMI, Masakazu HABU, Kenji KIMURA, Hironori MIKI, Yasuhiro ENDO, Takayuki BAN
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Patent number: 11757291Abstract: A power supply device includes a plurality of battery modules, the battery modules are connected to one another in series according to a gate driving signal from a controller, the power supply device delays the gate driving signal in a gate driving signal processing circuit included in each of the battery modules, and thereafter, transmits the gate driving signal from an upstream to a downstream of the series connection, and the power supply device controls the battery modules by superimposing a control signal for the battery module on the gate driving signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuji Tomura, Naoki Yanagizawa, Kazuo Ootsuka, Kyosuke Tanemura, Shigeaki Goto, Junta Izumi, Kenji Kimura
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Publication number: 20230271501Abstract: In representation processing, when a capacity retention is higher than a threshold value while a warranty condition is satisfied, an ECU has the capacity retention shown in a first manner. When the capacity retention is equal to or lower than the threshold value while the warranty condition is satisfied, the ECU has the capacity retention shown in a second manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiro Uchida, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuki Kubo, Junta Izumi
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Patent number: 11679676Abstract: In representation processing, when a capacity retention is higher than a threshold value while a warranty condition is satisfied, an ECU has the capacity retention shown in a first manner. When the capacity retention is equal to or lower than the threshold value while the warranty condition is satisfied, the ECU has the capacity retention shown in a second manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiro Uchida, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuki Kubo, Junta Izumi
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Patent number: 11646578Abstract: A control device of a power supply system includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit. The first processing unit is a processing unit configured to perform a first process of determining certain strings out of a plurality of strings connected in parallel to a power distribution device. The second processing unit is a processing unit configured to perform a second process of performing inputting of electric power to the plurality of strings connected in parallel to the power distribution device or outputting of electric power from the plurality of strings to the power distribution device using at least the certain strings determined by the first processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Juni Yasoshima, Junta Izumi, Kenji Kimura, Toshihiro Katsuda, Kohei Matsuura, Junichi Matsumoto, Shuji Tomura, Shigeaki Goto, Naoki Yanagizawa, Kyosuke Tanemura, Kazuo Ootsuka, Takayuki Ban, Hironobu Nishi
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Patent number: 11635469Abstract: Provided is a power supply device which includes a plurality of battery modules each having a secondary battery and in which the battery modules are connected in series with one another according to a gate driving signal from a controller. An SOC control target value that is a target value for states-of-charge of the battery modules is changed according to the number of the battery modules that are available to be connected in series.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuo Ootsuka, Shuji Tomura, Naoki Yanagizawa, Kyosuke Tanemura, Shigeaki Goto, Junta Izumi, Kenji Kimura
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Publication number: 20230062197Abstract: A power supply system includes an alternating current sweep unit and a first power supply circuit, and each of a U-phase battery string, a V-phase battery string, a W-phase battery string, and a first battery string includes a plurality of battery circuit modules connected in series, and each of the battery circuit modules includes a battery, output terminals, a first switch, and a second switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta IZUMI, Kenji KIMURA
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Publication number: 20230060273Abstract: In a power supply system, a control device is configured to select one or more target batteries that are to perform requested energy management from a plurality of batteries included in an alternating-current battery string and a direct-current battery string, and perform the requested energy management using the one or more target batteries with the batteries other than the one or more target batteries being disconnected from a circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta IZUMI, Kenji KIMURA
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Publication number: 20230069509Abstract: A power supply system that outputs AC power to an object to which power is to be supplied includes: a first power supply circuit including a DC battery string and an inverter and configured to output first AC power; a second power supply circuit including an AC battery string and configured to output second AC power; and a control device. In the first mode, power is transferred between the object and the second power supply circuit. In the second mode, power is transferred between the object and each of the first and second power supply circuits. The control device starts supplying the second AC power to the object in the first mode, and when a power supply current becomes larger than a first threshold, supply the first and second AC power to the object in the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta IZUMI, Kenji KIMURA
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Publication number: 20230069512Abstract: In a power supply system, a control device is configured to adjust a state of charge of each of an alternating-current battery string and a direct-current battery string by power transfer between the alternating-current battery string and the direct-current battery string before performing requested energy management.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta IZUMI, Kenji KIMURA