Patents by Inventor Motonao Niizuma

Motonao Niizuma 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: 20190305602
    Abstract: A platform performs wireless power supply to an underwater mobile object having a relatively movable relationship using coil pairs disposed to be opposable. The platform includes: a recessed section configured to accommodate at least a part of the underwater mobile object with a gap; a coil configured to constitute the first opposable coil pair (5A) on a first wall portion of the recessed section facing each other; and a coil configured to constitute the second opposable coil pair on a second wall portion of the recessed section facing each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao NIIZUMA
  • Publication number: 20190273402
    Abstract: A foreign object detection device for a wireless power transfer system includes a storage unit that stores first coil device information including a shape and a size of a first coil facing surface, a height position from the reference surface, and a height position of a first device facing surface; an information acquiring unit that acquires second coil device information including a shape, a size, and a height position of a second coil facing surface, and a height position of a second device facing surface; a region identifying unit that identifies a magnetic field generation region generated between the first device facing surface and the second device facing surface during power feeding, based on the first coil device information and the second coil device information; and a foreign object detection unit that detects the presence or absence of a foreign object within the identified magnetic field generation region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Motonao NIIZUMA
  • Patent number: 10377254
    Abstract: A wireless power transmission device includes a power-supplying coil configured to wirelessly transmit power to an electric vehicle (EV) serving as a vehicle, be installed in a slanted state or perpendicularly to a horizontal plane, and form an electromagnetic coupling circuit along with a power-receiving coil provided in the EV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 10367378
    Abstract: A platform performs wireless power supply to an underwater mobile object having a relatively movable relationship using coil pairs disposed to be opposable. The platform includes: a recessed section configured to accommodate at least a part of the underwater mobile object with a gap; a coil configured to constitute the first opposable coil pair (5A) on a first wall portion of the recessed section facing each other; and a coil configured to constitute the second opposable coil pair on a second wall portion of the recessed section facing each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Publication number: 20190225105
    Abstract: A ground-side power feeding device includes a ground-side power feeding coil that wirelessly transmits or receives power to or from a vehicle-side power feeding coil mounted in the vehicle via a magnetic field having a first frequency, a light emitting unit that is disposed at any position at least around the ground-side power feeding coil and in an upper portion of the ground-side power feeding coil when the ground-side power feeding coil is seen from above, and a light emitting power transmitting coil that wirelessly transmits power to the light emitting unit. The light emitting unit has a light emitting power receiving coil which wirelessly receives power from the light emitting power transmitting coil via a magnetic field having a second frequency different from the first frequency, and a light emitting body which emits light with power received by the light emitting power receiving coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Motonao NIIZUMA
  • Patent number: 10315529
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a cooling unit configured to cool at least one of a power reception unit configured to wirelessly receive power from a power transmission unit and a power storage unit configured to store the power received by the power reception unit; and a controller configured to control the cooling unit. The cooling unit is operated by the power received by the power reception unit, and the controller controls the cooling unit on the basis of a necessary amount of charge of the power storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Araki, Motonao Niizuma, Susumu Tokura, Eiichi Urushibata, Hideo Naganuma
  • Patent number: 10263478
    Abstract: A wireless power supply system includes a power supply coil installed on the ground, an inner balloon in which a power supply coil is mounted and configured to expand and contract to adjust a vertical position of the power supply coil, and an outer balloon provided to cover both the power supply coil and the inner balloon and configured to expand to occupy a space between the power supply coil and a power receiving coil, and wirelessly supplies power from the power supply coil to the power receiving coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Maekawa, Motonao Niizuma
  • Publication number: 20190068007
    Abstract: A wireless power supply system includes: a primary power-supplying coil which is a power-supplying coil capable of wirelessly supplying electric power to another power-supplying coil; a first machine that supports the primary power-supplying coil; a secondary power-supplying coil which is a power-supplying coil wirelessly supplied with electric power from another power-supplying coil; and a second machine that can move while supporting the secondary power-supplying coil. The relative positional relationship or the relative attitudinal relationship between the first machine and the second machine can be adjusted corresponding to the movement or change in attitude of the second machine so that a state in which electric power is wirelessly supplied from the primary power-supplying coil to the secondary power-supplying coil is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji TAKATSU, Akio UEDA, Motonao NIIZUMA, Kei AKUNE, Tooru HAYASHI, Akihiko TSUCHIYAMA, Kazushi SEDOKUBO, Masaki KAWAKITA, Mai KANDA, Gongwei LI, Ryota KOKUBU
  • Publication number: 20180316198
    Abstract: A charging control device includes a switching unit configured to be capable of switching a connection state of a battery unit including a plurality of battery modules whose number is N×M; and a controller configured to control the switching unit, wherein the controller causes the switching unit to switch the connection state from a first state in which all the battery modules are connected in series to a second state in which N groups each including M battery modules connected in series are connected in parallel when a power storage amount of the battery unit becomes equal to or larger than a first connection switching value in a first charging method in which a current supplied to each of the plurality of battery modules decreases as the power storage amount increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Motonao NIIZUMA
  • Patent number: 10076058
    Abstract: A cooling device of the present disclosure is attached to a park station where wireless power supply is performed to a vehicle using a coil and cools a coil provided on the vehicle by spraying a coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motonao Niizuma, Akio Ueda
  • Publication number: 20180254136
    Abstract: A coil device according to an aspect of this disclosure includes a coil portion including a conductive wire and a holding member that holds the conductive wire, and a cooling flow path through which a cooling fluid flows is provided in the holding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio UEDA, Susumu TOKURA, Kenji NISHIMURA, Motonao NIIZUMA, Jun ARAKI
  • Patent number: 10059214
    Abstract: A wireless power supply device that is installed in a parking space in which a vehicle can stop and that has a power-supplying coil which wirelessly supplies electric power to a power-receiving coil of the vehicle is provided. The wireless power supply device includes a vehicle wheel detecting unit that is installed in the parking space in which the vehicle can stop and that detects vehicle wheels of the vehicle and traveling assistance means that assists with traveling of the vehicle such that the power-receiving coil and the power-supplying coil have a power-suppliable positional relationship depending on a detection result of the vehicle wheel detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Publication number: 20180241259
    Abstract: A wireless power supply system includes a power supply coil installed on the ground, an inner balloon in which a power supply coil is mounted and configured to expand and contract to adjust a vertical position of the power supply coil, and an outer balloon provided to cover both the power supply coil and the inner balloon and configured to expand to occupy a space between the power supply coil and a power receiving coil, and wirelessly supplies power from the power supply coil to the power receiving coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji MAEKAWA, Motonao NIIZUMA
  • Patent number: 10018516
    Abstract: A foreign matter detection device of the present invention is provided with a temperature detection means that detects a temperature distribution in a magnetic field that is formed by a power-supplying device that transmits power wirelessly to a power-receiving device; and a signal processor that, based on a detection result from the temperature detection means, detects a conductive foreign matter in the magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Publication number: 20180166210
    Abstract: A first coil device includes a first coil portion that faces a second coil portion of a second coil device in a first direction and includes a conductive wire, and at least one nonmagnetic member that includes a protrusion protruding to an outside of the first coil portion in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The nonmagnetic member includes an eddy current interrupter that interrupts a part of an eddy current generated in the nonmagnetic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun ARAKI, Motonao NIIZUMA, Susumu TOKURA, Kentarou FURIYA, Toshio NAKAMURA, Kenji NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 9997964
    Abstract: A wireless power supply system includes a power supply coil installed on the ground, an inner balloon in which a power supply coil is mounted and configured to expand and contract to adjust a vertical position of the power supply coil, and an outer balloon provided to cover both the power supply coil and the inner balloon and configured to expand to occupy a space between the power supply coil and a power receiving coil, and wirelessly supplies power from the power supply coil to the power receiving coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Maekawa, Motonao Niizuma
  • Publication number: 20180072182
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a cooling unit configured to cool at least one of a power reception unit configured to wirelessly receive power from a power transmission unit and a power storage unit configured to store the power received by the power reception unit; and a controller configured to control the cooling unit. The cooling unit is operated by the power received by the power reception unit, and the controller controls the cooling unit on the basis of a necessary amount of charge of the power storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun ARAKI, Motonao NIIZUMA, Susumu TOKURA, Eiichi URUSHIBATA, Hideo NAGANUMA
  • Patent number: 9917620
    Abstract: A vehicle power-supplying device includes: a power-supplying primary coil provided in a parking space where a vehicle is parked, and configured to supply electric power wirelessly to a power-supplying secondary coil provided in the vehicle and configured to wirelessly receive the electric power from the power-supplying primary coil; and a vehicle stopping member configured to stop the vehicle at a desired position of the parking space at which wireless power supply efficiency from the power-supplying primary coil to the power-supplying secondary coil is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Takatsu, Motonao Niizuma, Akio Ueda, Kei Akune, Tooru Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9912169
    Abstract: A wireless power supply device, which supplies electric power to a movable body by causing an end surface of a power supply coil that is provided in an electric power supply space to face a power receiving coil that is provided in the movable body, and by electromagnetically coupling the power supply coil with the power receiving coil, includes a position setting member configured to set the end surface of the power supply coil in a vertical position in a state of not detecting entry of the movable body into the electric power supply space, and to cause a position of the end surface of the power supply coil to change from the vertical position to a horizontal position upon detecting entry of the movable body into the electric power supply space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9902279
    Abstract: A foreign-matter-removing device for a coil device includes a liquid-jetting unit that washes away a foreign matter, which is present in an area through which a magnetic field generated in wireless supply of power using magnetic coupling of a receiving-side pad and a transmitting-side pad passes, by a jet of liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Araki, Motonao Niizuma, Susumu Tokura