Patents by Inventor Mitsuyoshi KANOH

Mitsuyoshi KANOH 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: 9459323
    Abstract: A battery-state monitoring system capable of efficiently estimating the state and service life of each storage battery at high precision by automatically measuring or acquiring various parameters of a plurality of storage batteries constantly connected to an equipment is provided. The system monitors a state of each of a plurality of batteries connected in series and constituting an assembled battery incorporated in an equipment includes a power supply control device that detects a current flowing through each battery; and an end device that measures a temperature, a voltage, and internal resistance of each battery, the internal resistance being measured by using at least two or more kinds of frequencies, and degradation of each battery is estimated based on one or more temperature, voltage, and internal resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Mukaitani, Takashi Kofuse, Mitsuyoshi Kanoh, Shinya Mizusugi, Yasuhiro Shibata
  • Patent number: 9453885
    Abstract: A battery-state monitoring system capable of precisely and efficiently estimating the state and service life of a plurality of storage batteries charged with power generated by utilizing natural energy and constantly connected to an equipment is provided. The system includes a power supply control device that detects a current in each battery, an end device that measures temperature, voltage, and internal resistance of each battery, the internal resistance being measured by using two or more kinds of frequencies, and a prime monitoring device that acquires measurement data from the end device corresponding to each battery and issues an instruction related to an operation to the power supply control device and the end device. The prime monitoring device estimates degradation of each battery based on at least one of temperature, voltage, and internal resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Mukaitani, Takashi Kofuse, Mitsuyoshi Kanoh, Shinya Mizusugi, Yasuhiro Shibata
  • Publication number: 20160233560
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technology with which the time of stopping operations of storage battery groups in performing preventive maintenance and maintenance works of storage batteries in a power storage system can be reduced. In the power storage system of the present invention, a storage battery panel 3 transmits a first signal (F1) based on monitoring of states of storage battery packs 4 to a superordinate relay panel 2, and the relay panel 2 transmits a second signal (F2) based on the first signal to a superordinate power control device 1. A maintenance device 5 transmits, based on an operation of designating a storage battery panel 3 to be maintained by a maintenance person, a third signal (M) to the superordinate relay panel 2 of the storage battery panel 3 to be maintained, and the relay panel 2 masks and invalidates the first signal from the storage battery panel 3 to be maintained or the second signal based on the first signal in accordance with the third signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi KANOH, Takashi HARA, Shoichi HIROTA, Akihiko EMORI
  • Patent number: 9297859
    Abstract: A battery-state monitoring system for precisely and efficiently estimating the state and service life of each of a plurality of storage batteries while suppressing variations in voltage between the batteries in a large-scale power-supply system that is provided with the storage batteries charged with power generated by utilizing natural energy is provided. The system includes a power supply control device that detects a current in each storage battery, an end device that measures temperature, voltage, and internal resistance of each battery, the internal resistance being measured by using at least two or more kinds of frequencies, and a prime monitoring device that acquires measurement data from the end device corresponding to each battery and issues an instruction related to an operation to the power supply control device and the end device. The prime monitoring device estimates degradation of each battery based on one or more of temperature, voltage, internal resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Mukaitani, Takashi Kofuse, Mitsuyoshi Kanoh, Shinya Mizusugi, Yasuhiro Shibata
  • Publication number: 20140312915
    Abstract: A battery-state monitoring system capable of efficiently estimating the state and service life of each storage battery at high precision by automatically measuring or acquiring various parameters of a plurality of storage batteries constantly connected to an equipment is provided. The system monitors a state of each of a plurality of batteries connected in series and constituting an assembled battery incorporated in an equipment includes a power supply control device that detects a current flowing through each battery; and an end device that measures a temperature, a voltage, and internal resistance of each battery, the internal resistance being measured by using at least two or more kinds of frequencies, and degradation of each battery is estimated based on one or more temperature, voltage, and internal resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Mukaitani, Takashi Kofuse, Mitsuyoshi Kanoh, Shinya Mizusugi, Yasuhiro Shibata
  • Publication number: 20140306667
    Abstract: A battery-state monitoring system capable of precisely and efficiently estimating the state and service life of a plurality of storage batteries charged with power generated by utilizing natural energy and constantly connected to an equipment is provided. The system includes a power supply control device that detects a current in each battery, an end device that measures temperature, voltage, and internal resistance of each battery, the internal resistance being measured by using two or more kinds of frequencies, and a prime monitoring device that acquires measurement data from the end device corresponding to each battery and issues an instruction related to an operation to the power supply control device and the end device. The prime monitoring device estimates degradation of each battery based on at least one of temperature, voltage, and internal resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Mukaitani, Takashi Kofuse, Mitsuyoshi Kanoh, Shinya Mizusugi, Yasuhiro Shibata
  • Publication number: 20140285156
    Abstract: A battery-state monitoring system for precisely and efficiently estimating the state and service life of each of a plurality of storage batteries while suppressing variations in voltage between the batteries in a large-scale power-supply system that is provided with the storage batteries charged with power generated by utilizing natural energy is provided. The system includes a power supply control device that detects a current in each storage battery, an end device that measures temperature, voltage, and internal resistance of each battery, the internal resistance being measured by using at least two or more kinds of frequencies, and a prime monitoring device that acquires measurement data from the end device corresponding to each battery and issues an instruction related to an operation to the power supply control device and the end device. The prime monitoring device estimates degradation of each battery based on one or more of temperature, voltage, internal resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Mukaitani, Takashi Kofuse, Mitsuyoshi Kanoh, Shinya Mizusugi, Yasuhiro Shibata
  • Patent number: 8581557
    Abstract: A direct-current power source apparatus in which a lithium-ion capacitor unit is used as an electric storage system and which can fully utilize the lithium-ion capacitor unit and maintain the supply of electricity to a load is provided. An electric storage system includes a lithium-ion capacitor unit and a lead-acid battery connected in parallel with a load, and a voltage detecting section that detects the voltage of the lithium-ion capacitor unit. When the voltage detecting section detects that the voltage of the lithium-ion capacitor unit has reached a unit lower-limit voltage, a control circuit outputs a conduction signal for causing a switching circuit to get into a conductive state. When the switching circuit gets into a conductive state, the secondary battery supplies an electric power to a motor. At this time, the secondary battery charges the lithium-ion capacitor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Kanoh, Masahiko Amano, Yukio Iida, Yoshiki Hama, Keizo Yamada
  • Publication number: 20110227540
    Abstract: A direct-current power source apparatus in which a lithium-ion capacitor unit is used as an electric storage system and which can fully utilize the lithium-ion capacitor unit and maintain the supply of electricity to a load is provided. An electric storage system includes a lithium-ion capacitor unit and a lead-acid battery connected in parallel with a load, and a voltage detecting section that detects the voltage of the lithium-ion capacitor unit. When the voltage detecting section detects that the voltage of the lithium-ion capacitor unit has reached a unit lower-limit voltage, a control circuit outputs a conduction signal for causing a switching circuit to get into a conductive state. When the switching circuit gets into a conductive state, the secondary battery supplies an electric power to a motor. At this time, the secondary battery charges the lithium-ion capacitor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi KANOH, Masahiko Amano, Yukio Iida, Yoshiki Hama, Keizo Yamada