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).
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Patent number: 9866032Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9866059Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9866071Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Publication number: 20170373544Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Motonao NIIZUMA, Susumu TOKURA, Eiichi URUSHIBATA, Hideo NAGANUMA, Jun ARAKI
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Patent number: 9854709Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: IHI CorporationInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9849797Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: IHI CorporationInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9800092Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 13, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9780574Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9752340Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9748037Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 11, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9742202Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9735587Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 12, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9676276Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9669844Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 18, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9662993Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Patent number: 9634524Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: IHI CorporationInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Publication number: 20170077759Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao NIIZUMA
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Patent number: 9592740Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Motonao Niizuma
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Publication number: 20170043672Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Jun ARAKI, Motonao NIIZUMA, Susumu TOKURA
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Patent number: 9564759Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: IHI CorporationInventor: Motonao Niizuma