Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Uchida
Masatoshi Uchida 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: 10719867Abstract: A battery replacement assisting system includes a server configured to determine, from a plurality of battery packs including a recycled battery pack, a battery pack serving as a replacement candidate for a battery pack mounted on the vehicle. The server is configured to: acquire a state of deterioration of the battery pack; select a battery pack having a life longer than a period until the planned time from the plurality of battery packs by calculating a distance (life) in which the vehicle can travel until a capacity maintenance ratio of the battery pack reaches a threshold value (Qth); and determine the replacement candidate using a result of the selection and the expense information. The battery replacement assisting system further includes a display configured to notify the user of the replacement candidate determined by the server and the expense information of the replacement candidate.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi Uchida
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Patent number: 10491011Abstract: A capacity restoration system restores a capacity of a battery pack including lithium ion secondary batteries and mounted on a vehicle. The capacity restoration system includes a capacity restoration device, a communication device, and a server. The capacity restoration device is configured to perform a restoration process to restore a capacity of the battery pack by maintaining a SOC of the battery pack to be equal to or less than a reference value. The communication device is configured to acquire restoration data. The restoration data includes: the reference value for the SOC, the reference value being used for the restoration process; and a capacity restoration ratio attained by the restoration process. The server is configured to use the restoration data to calculate the reference value used for the restoration process for a target vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi Uchida
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Patent number: 10434890Abstract: A controller performs first control to fourth control whenever the voltage of a cell reaches a specified voltage during discharging. The first control is to stop the discharging. The second control is to close a relay connected, in parallel, to a cell having a voltage having reached the specified voltage. The third control is to measure AC impedance in a state in which relays connected, in parallel, to respective corresponding cells having voltages having reached the specified voltage are all closed. The fourth control is to resume discharging cells having voltages higher than the specified voltage. The controller diagnoses whether the cell having the voltage having reached the specified voltage is abnormal, by comparing (i) AC impedance when the cell having the voltage having reached the specified voltage is included with (ii) AC impedance when the cell having the voltage having reached the specified voltage is excluded.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi Uchida
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Publication number: 20180222343Abstract: A battery replacement assisting system includes a server configured to determine, from a plurality of battery packs including a recycled battery pack, a battery pack serving as a replacement candidate for a battery pack mounted on the vehicle. The server is configured to: acquire a state of deterioration of the battery pack; select a battery pack having a life longer than a period until the planned time from the plurality of battery packs by calculating a distance (life) in which the vehicle can travel until a capacity maintenance ratio of the battery pack reaches a threshold value (Qth); and determine the replacement candidate using a result of the selection and the expense information. The battery replacement assisting system further includes a display configured to notify the user of the replacement candidate determined by the server and the expense information of the replacement candidate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20180109121Abstract: A capacity restoration system restores a capacity of a battery pack including lithium ion secondary batteries and mounted on a vehicle. The capacity restoration system includes a capacity restoration device, a communication device, and a server. The capacity restoration device is configured to perform a restoration process to restore a capacity of the battery pack by maintaining a SOC of the battery pack to be equal to or less than a reference value. The communication device is configured to acquire restoration data. The restoration data includes: the reference value for the SOC, the reference value being used for the restoration process; and a capacity restoration ratio attained by the restoration process. The server is configured to use the restoration data to calculate the reference value used for the restoration process for a target vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20180056809Abstract: A controller performs first control to fourth control whenever the voltage of a cell reaches a specified voltage during discharging. The first control is to stop the discharging. The second control is to close a relay connected, in parallel, to a cell having a voltage having reached the specified voltage. The third control is to measure AC impedance in a state in which relays connected, in parallel, to respective corresponding cells having voltages having reached the specified voltage are all closed. The fourth control is to resume discharging cells having voltages higher than the specified voltage. The controller diagnoses whether the cell having the voltage having reached the specified voltage is abnormal, by comparing (i) AC impedance when the cell having the voltage having reached the specified voltage is included with (ii) AC impedance when the cell having the voltage having reached the specified voltage is excluded.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi UCHIDA
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Patent number: 9347996Abstract: A remaining life determining system for a stationary storage battery has a detecting unit configured to detect an evaluation value indicative of a deterioration level of the stationary storage battery, a first storage unit configured to store a usage history of the stationary storage battery, a second storage unit configured to store remaining life information associated with usage information of the stationary storage battery, a third storage unit configured to store remaining life basic information of the stationary storage battery, and a controller configured to estimate the remaining life of the stationary storage battery, from the usage history, the evaluation value, and the remaining life information.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masatoshi Uchida, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Koichi Ichikawa, Masahiko Mitsui
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Patent number: 9201118Abstract: A control system for a battery assembly that consists of a plurality of batteries determines whether the battery assembly can be reused, by using detected values of the open voltage, internal resistance and full charge capacity of each of the batteries, as evaluation parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masatoshi Uchida, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Koichi Ichikawa, Masahiko Mitsui
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Patent number: 8996241Abstract: A vehicle battery diagnosis system diagnoses the state of degradation of a battery of a vehicle equipped with the battery as a motive power source. The system includes: an information accumulation portion that accumulates degradation information regarding the battery; an information processing portion that reads information from the information accumulation portion, and that creates a plurality of types of screen information that are different from each other in display format, for a plurality of information recipients; a display portion that displays a screen that corresponds to at least one of the types of screen information created by the information processing portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masatoshi Uchida
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Publication number: 20140210483Abstract: A processing device for a battery pack including a plurality of batteries has a voltage detection section configured to detect the voltage of each of the batteries, a first processing section configured to perform first processing for discharging the battery pack, and a second processing section configured to perform second processing for individually charging the batteries. The second processing section is configured to suppress a voltage drop by performing the second processing on the battery of which the voltage value has been reduced to a first predetermined value during the discharging in the first processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi UCHIDA
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Patent number: 8676482Abstract: A hybrid vehicle battery life evaluating apparatus 1 includes an actual traveling measuring section 2 measuring, for each driving pattern, actual gasoline mileage data on a hybrid vehicle equipped with a battery as a power source, a test traveling storage section 3a storing test gasoline mileage data set for each driving pattern on the basis of a traveling test on the vehicle, a battery life evaluating section 5 comparing the measured actual gasoline mileage data with the test gasoline mileage data on the corresponding driving pattern to evaluate a degradation level of the battery on the basis of a value of a decrease in gasoline mileage set for each degradation level of the battery and transmitting information on battery degradation to a battery life display section 6, and the battery life display section 6 displaying the information on battery degradation.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2007Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masatoshi Uchida
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Publication number: 20140021923Abstract: An electrical storage system including electrical storage devices, relays and a controller, and a control method therefor are provided. When the electrical storage devices are discharged, the controller isolates the completely discharged electrical storage element from a current path with a corresponding bypass circuit, and isolates the completely discharged electrical storage device from the current path with the corresponding relay. When the electrical storage devices are charged, the completely charged electrical storage element is isolated from the current path with the corresponding bypass circuit, and the completely charged electrical storage device is isolated from the current path with the corresponding relay. When the electrical storage devices are charged after being discharged, the full charge capacities of each electrical storage element and each electrical storage device are calculated by accumulating a current value until being isolated from the current path.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20140015537Abstract: A control system for a battery assembly that consists of a plurality of batteries determines whether the battery assembly can be reused, by using detected values of the open voltage, internal resistance and full charge capacity of each of the batteries, as evaluation parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Masatoshi UCHIDA, Yasuhiro TAKAHASHI, Koichi ICHIKAWA, Masahiko MITSUI
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Publication number: 20140015532Abstract: A remaining life determining system for a stationary storage battery has a detecting unit configured to detect an evaluation value indicative of a deterioration level of the stationary storage battery, a first storage unit configured to store a usage history of the stationary storage battery, a second storage unit configured to store remaining life information associated with usage information of the stationary storage battery, a third storage unit configured to store remaining life basic information of the stationary storage battery, and a controller configured to estimate the remaining life of the stationary storage battery, from the usage history, the evaluation value, and the remaining life information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masatoshi UCHIDA, Yasuhiro TAKAHASHI, Koichi ICHIKAWA, Masahiko MITSUI
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Patent number: 8594871Abstract: A vehicle battery diagnosis system diagnoses the state of use of a battery of a vehicle, and includes: an information accumulation portion that accumulates diagnostic information that includes a use condition regarding the battery; a control plan presentation portion that presents a plurality of control plans about the vehicle for increasing the service life of the battery on the basis of the diagnostic information; and an information changing portion that changes control information regarding the control of the vehicle which is retained in a vehicle-mounted ECU of the vehicle so that the control information corresponds to a control plan selected from the plurality of control plans.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2009Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masatoshi Uchida
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Patent number: 8423233Abstract: A vehicle identifying unit obtains an identification number of a vehicle from the vehicle. A first evaluation unit evaluates a degradation state of a power storage device based on the use history of the power storage device obtained from the vehicle, using data analyzed beforehand concerning the relation between the use history and the degradation state of the power storage device. A second evaluation unit evaluates a degradation state of the power storage device using data collected when the power storage device of the vehicle is charged from a power station or when power is fed from the vehicle to the power station. A degradation determining unit determines the degradation state of the power storage device based on the degradation states evaluated by the first and second evaluation units.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2009Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masatoshi Uchida
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Patent number: 8232875Abstract: A degradation evaluating unit collects data related to a power storage device from a vehicle through a power cable, and based on the collected data, evaluates the state of degradation of the power storage device. A data processing unit reads data related to the state of degradation of the power storage device evaluated by degradation evaluating unit from a storage unit, and processes the read data related to the state of degradation to a first display item for a user, a second display item for a dealer and a third display item for a manufacturer. A display control unit controls display of the data processed by data processing unit on a display terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2009Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masatoshi Uchida
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Patent number: 8164301Abstract: An energy cost prediction unit predicts an energy cost for the next travel. A lifetime prediction unit uses a charge amount—lifetime map to predict the lifetime of a power storage device according to an amount of charge to the power storage device. A usage cost prediction unit predicts the cost of using the power storage device according to the amount of charge to the power storage device, based on the lifetime of the power storage device predicted by the lifetime prediction unit. The predicted cost associated with the amount of charge to the power storage device is indicated on a display device. In accordance with an instruction from a user, the power storage device is charged from a charging station.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masatoshi Uchida
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Publication number: 20110218703Abstract: A vehicle battery diagnosis system diagnoses the state of degradation of a battery of a vehicle equipped with the battery as a motive power source. The system includes: an information accumulation portion that accumulates degradation information regarding the battery; an information processing portion that reads information from the information accumulation portion, and that creates a plurality of types of screen information that are different from each other in display format, for a plurality of information recipients; a display portion that displays a screen that corresponds to at least one of the types of screen information created by the information processing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2009Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi Uchida
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Publication number: 20110208382Abstract: A vehicle battery diagnosis system diagnoses the state of use of a battery of a vehicle, and includes: an information accumulation portion that accumulates diagnostic information that includes a use condition regarding the battery; a control plan presentation portion that presents a plurality of control plans about the vehicle for increasing the service life of the battery on the basis of the diagnostic information; and an information changing portion that changes control information regarding the control of the vehicle which is retained in a vehicle-mounted ECU of the vehicle so that the control information corresponds to a control plan selected from the plurality of control plans.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatoshi Uchida