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).

  • Patent number: 9866032
    Abstract: A power supply system for a house is constructed such that electrical power that will need to be supplied from an electric vehicle to a house in a delay time taking a power transmission delay into account is predicted, a prediction data of the predicted electrical power is communicated to a power supply control device via a house communication device and a vehicle communication device, and electrical power that corresponds to the prediction data is supplied to a power-supplying coil by the power supply control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9866059
    Abstract: The wireless power transmission device is a wireless power transmission device which wirelessly transmits electric power between a power-transmitting coil and a power-receiving coil, and which includes: a metal member; a power supply unit which supplies the electric power to the power-transmitting coil; a measurement unit which measures a relative position of the power-receiving coil with respect to the power-transmitting coil; and a control unit which controls the power supply unit. The control unit adjusts the electric power based on the relative position measured by the measurement unit, so that an amount of induced current flowing through the metal member is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9866071
    Abstract: A wireless power transmission device includes an inner retainer fixed to an inner surface of a wall and supporting a power-receiving coil in proximity to a power transmission wall, and an outer retainer fixed to an outer surface of the wall and supporting a power-supplying coil in proximity to the power transmission wall, wherein the electric power is wirelessly transmitted between the power-supplying coil and the power-receiving coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Publication number: 20170373544
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a management system manages a power transmitter capable of wirelessly transmitting power to a power receiver of a movable object. The management system includes a detection unit configured to detect a state of the power transmitter, a storage unit configured to store a relationship between the state of the power transmitter and a power transmission level indicating possibility of power transmission of the power transmitter, an identification unit configured to identify the power transmission level corresponding to the state detected by the detection unit, and an output unit configured to output the identified power transmission level before the power transmitter starts transmitting power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motonao NIIZUMA, Susumu TOKURA, Eiichi URUSHIBATA, Hideo NAGANUMA, Jun ARAKI
  • Patent number: 9854709
    Abstract: A wireless power-supply system (1) performing a wireless power supply between a vehicle (10) and a stop station (20), wherein the wireless power-supply system includes a heat-transfer device (30). The heat-transfer device (30) transfers heat generated due to the wireless power supply to the stop station (20) having high heat capacity from the vehicle (10) having low heat capacity. The heat-transfer device (30) includes a flexible heat-transfer member (32), in which the flexible heat-transfer member has tiltability in a moving direction of the vehicle (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9849797
    Abstract: A wireless power-transmitting device includes a power-transmitting coil installed in a predefined parking area, a receiving device configured to receive a signal for a power supply instruction transmitted through a windshield or through a rear window of a vehicle, and a control device configured to control supply of electric power from the power-transmitting coil to a power-receiving coil of the vehicle based on the signal received by the receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9800092
    Abstract: A wireless power-supplying system of the present invention includes a ground-based power-supplying device having a power-supplying coil and a vehicle having a power-receiving coil, and performs power supply from the power-supplying coil to the power-receiving coil in a wireless power supply manner. Further, this wireless power-supplying system includes a foreign matter intrusion prevention unit formed of a flexible material transparent to a magnetic field and having flexibility, and provided on the power-supplying coil to fill a space between the power-supplying coil and the power-receiving coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9780574
    Abstract: A wireless power supplying apparatus includes: a power-transmitting coil that wirelessly supplies electric power to a power-receiving coil provided in a vehicle; a tire detection unit that detects tires of the vehicle; a moving mechanism that moves the position of the power-transmitting coil; and a control device that controls the moving mechanism on the basis of the detection result of the tire detection unit such that the power-receiving coil and the power-transmitting coil face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9752340
    Abstract: An automated parking facility conveying a vehicle to a storage space and storing it therein, includes: a power-transmitting coil provided in the storage space to perform wireless power transmission to a power-receiving coil of the vehicle; a vehicle support portion allowing the vehicle to be mounted thereon; a movable portion configured to move together with the vehicle support portion to a position facing the power-transmitting coil; an adjustment device configured to adjust the position of the vehicle support portion in the horizontal direction with respect to the movable portion; and a controller configured to control the adjustment device, and perform support portion positional adjustment in which the position of the vehicle support portion is adjusted with respect to the movable portion so that the power-receiving coil and the power-transmitting coil have a positional relationship suitable for the wireless power transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9748037
    Abstract: The power supply system includes: movable power-receiving units, each power-receiving unit including at least one power-receiving device used to receive electric power from outside of the power-receiving unit and at least one power-supplying device used to supply, to the outside of the power-receiving unit, at least part of electric power received by the power-receiving device; and a power-supplying unit used to supply electric power to the power-receiving device of one power-receiving unit of the power-receiving units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9742202
    Abstract: A power-receiving structure is provided in a ship and includes a power-receiving coil capable of wirelessly receiving electric power from a power-supplying coil on a land-side and an outer wall surface-forming section forming an outer surface of side of the ship, and the power-receiving coil is provided on an inside of the ship from the outer wall surface-forming section, and an electromagnetic field-transmissive section formed of a material through which an electromagnetic field propagates is provided in an opposing portion to the power-receiving coil in the outer wall surface-forming section. According to the present invention, the power-receiving coil is not protruded from the outer surface of side of the ship and can wirelessly receive electric power from the power-supplying coil on the land-side through the electromagnetic field-transmissive section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9735587
    Abstract: A wireless power supply system includes a power-supplying device having a power-supplying coil and a power-receiving device having a power-receiving coil and wirelessly supplies electric power from the power-supplying coil to the power-receiving coil, and the power-supplying device and the power-receiving device communicate with each other using an acoustic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9676276
    Abstract: An electric vehicle that is serving as a mobile power supply device is provided with: a power-supplying coil that is covered by a weatherproof cover and that, together with an external power-receiving coil, forms an electromagnetic coupling circuit; and a power supplying circuit that supplies power stored in a storage cell wirelessly to the outside via the electromagnetic coupling circuit that is formed by the power-supplying coil and the external power-receiving coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9669844
    Abstract: A transfer device transfers an electric vehicle, that has been loaded onto a pallet, in a left-right direction or in an up-down direction relative to the direction of forward travel of the electric vehicle. The pallet is provided with: a power-receiving coil that, together with a power-supplying coil of the electric vehicle, forms an electromagnetic coupling circuit; a power-receiving circuit that receives power that is supplied wirelessly from the outside via the electromagnetic coupling circuit; and an electric motor that is driven by power received by the power-receiving circuit, and that causes the pallet to move in the left-right direction or in the up-down direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9662993
    Abstract: A parking facility horizontally moving a pallet on which a vehicle is mounted, to store the vehicle in a storage space, includes: the pallet having magnetic field transmissibility in a portion corresponding with a power-receiving coil provided on a bottom surface of the vehicle; a power-supplying coil that is provided in the storage space so as to be opposed to the portion and that supplies power wirelessly to the power-receiving coil; and a foreign matter removal section that is provided on a lower surface of the pallet and that, with a movement of the pallet, engages, by contacting an upper surface of the power-supplying coil or by being spaced a given distance from the upper surface of the power-supplying coil, foreign matter, to remove the foreign matter present on the upper surface of the power-supplying coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Patent number: 9634524
    Abstract: A wireless power supply system includes a power-supplying device mounted on one of a mobile object and a structure different from the mobile object and a power-receiving device mounted on the other of the mobile object and the structure and supplies electric power from the power-supplying device to the power-receiving device disposed to face the power-supplying device under water or on surface of water. The wireless power supply system includes a contact portion that is disposed in the mobile object and that comes in contact with the structure and a thruster that presses the contact portion against the structure during the transmission of electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Publication number: 20170077759
    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: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao NIIZUMA
  • Patent number: 9592740
    Abstract: The parking facility to store a vehicle (M) in a storage space (S) in a state where the vehicle (M) is mounted on a pallet (2) includes: the pallet (2) in which a portion thereof corresponding to a power-receiving coil (m1) of the vehicle (M) has magnetic field transmissibility; a power-transmitting coil (3) disposed so as to face the portion having the magnetic field transmissibility; and a facility control drive device (4, 5, 6) to supply electric power to the power-transmitting coil (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma
  • Publication number: 20170043672
    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: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun ARAKI, Motonao NIIZUMA, Susumu TOKURA
  • Patent number: 9564759
    Abstract: A wireless power supply system includes a first underwater vehicle that has a power-receiving coil for wirelessly receiving electric power and a second underwater vehicle that has a power-supplying coil for wirelessly supplying electric power and transmits electric power between the power-receiving coil and the power-supplying coil while moving in parallel to the first underwater vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Motonao Niizuma