Patents by Inventor Shinichiro Kosugi
Shinichiro Kosugi 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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Publication number: 20190341783Abstract: The present invention provides a determination apparatus (10) including a regular information obtaining unit (11) (information obtaining unit) that obtains first information indicating plural components, included in an energy storage system, associated with each energy storage system, an object information obtaining unit (12) that obtains object information indicating the plural components included in the energy storage system to be verified; and a determination unit (13) that determines whether or not a configuration of the energy storage system to be verified is regular on the basis of the first information and the object information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2017Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shinichiro KOSUGI, Hiroshi HANAFUSA, Hideki TANABE, Yusuke MORI
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Publication number: 20190324094Abstract: This invention provides a monitoring system (10) including a detection unit (11) that detects that a detection value relating to a power storage system satisfies a condition; an identification unit (12) that identifies a type of fault occurring in the power storage system in accordance with the detection of the detection unit (11); and a decision unit (13) that decides an operation continuable time of the power storage system after the type of fault is identified, on the basis of the type of fault.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2017Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shinichiro KOSUGI, Hiroshi HANAFUSA, Hideki TANABE, Yusuke MORI
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Patent number: 10442374Abstract: According to one embodiment, a vehicle-use storage battery system includes a storage battery, a main circuit, a circuit breaker, a storage battery management unit, a first determiner, and a second determiner. The main circuit is electrically connected to the storage battery. The circuit breaker is disposed between the storage battery and the main circuit to make or break the electrical connection therebetween. The storage battery management unit manages an operating state of the storage battery. The first determiner determines whether to break the electrical connection between the storage battery and the main circuit by means of the circuit breaker. The second determiner determines, on the basis of at least one of operating states of the storage battery management unit, the first determiner, and the circuit breaker, whether to break the electrical connection between the storage battery and the main circuit by means of the circuit breaker.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Atsumi Kondo, Kazuto Kuroda, Tatsuya Arai, Masaki Sato, Akinobu Nishikawa, Shinichiro Kosugi, Masahiro Sekino, Hideaki Yasui, Mai Honda, Masahiro Kurosu, Kotaro Ogawa, Tomonao Takamatsu, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Takafumi Nakahama, Akihiko Ujiie
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Publication number: 20190280496Abstract: This invention provides a technique for suppressing deterioration in the value of a power storage system. This invention provides a monitoring system comprising: a detection unit that detects that a detection value related to a power storage system satisfies a condition; a specifying unit that specifies the type of prohibited action executed in the power storage system that satisfies the condition; and a determination unit that, on the basis of the specified type of prohibited action, calculates the life of the power storage system and/or determines the time over which the power storage system can keep operating after the specification.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2017Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shinichiro KOSUGI, Hiroshi HANAFUSA, Hideki TANABE, Yusuke MORI
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Patent number: 10372183Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage-battery evaluation device includes: a data generator and a deterioration evaluator. The data generator generates a plurality of data items including charge amounts and voltage values of an energy storage device based on current values and the voltage values measured from the energy storage device, the energy storage device being subjected to charge/discharge control in accordance with charge/discharge command values. The deterioration evaluator evaluates a deterioration state of the energy storage device based on a distribution of the voltage values included in the data items the charge amounts of which belong to a first charge-amount range when it is detected that a distribution of first charge/discharge command values satisfies a predetermined condition, the first charge/discharge command values being the charge/discharge command values at which the data items the charge amounts of which belong to the first charge-amount range is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takahiro Yamamoto, Shinichiro Kosugi, Ryosuke Takeuchi, Masatake Sakuma, Takahisa Wada, Toru Ezawa, Takenori Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10367359Abstract: A power control apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires information relating to a voltage and an electric current of a chargeable/dischargeable secondary battery during charging/discharging. The determination unit determines a maximum current of the secondary battery during charging on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit so that the voltage of the secondary battery does not exceed a predetermined voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Sonoka Ikeda, Shinichiro Kosugi, Masahiro Sekino, Osamu Yamazaki, Kazuto Kuroda
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Patent number: 10340564Abstract: According to one embodiment, a vehicular storage battery device includes a housing, battery boxes, and a common cooling passage. The battery boxes are disposed in the housing. Each of the battery boxes houses an electric cell as a vehicle power source and includes a heat transporting part transporting heat generated in the battery box to outside of the battery box. The common cooling passage is disposed in the housing. The common cooling passage is provided with an inlet for taking in a fluid and an outlet for discharging the fluid having passed through the passage. The inlet and the outlet are open in a direction different from a traveling direction of the vehicle. The heat transporting part of each of the battery boxes is exposed to inside of the passage.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Akinobu Nishikawa, Shigeki Kono, Masaki Sato, Tatsuya Arai, Kotaro Ogawa, Shinichiro Kosugi, Masahiro Sekino, Kazuto Kuroda, Hideaki Yasui, Mai Honda, Tomonao Takamatsu, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Takafumi Nakahama, Akihiko Ujiie, Atsumi Kondo, Masahiro Kurosu
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Publication number: 20190157893Abstract: The present invention provides a determination apparatus (10) including: a target information obtaining unit (12) that obtains current position information of an energy storage system; a regular information obtaining unit (11) (position information obtaining unit) that obtains installation position associated with each energy storage system; and a determination unit (13) that determines whether or not the energy storage system is installed at the installation position on the basis of the current position information of the energy storage system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shinichiro KOSUGI, Hiroshi HANAFUSA, Hideki TANABE, Yusuke MORI
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Publication number: 20190044198Abstract: A battery module includes: a battery cell unit including a plurality of battery cells connected together in series or series-parallel; a cell monitoring unit configured to monitor temperatures and voltages of the battery cells; and a plurality of overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units of n systems (n: an integer greater than or equal to 2). The overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units of the n systems are configured to independently detect an overtemperature or an overvoltage of the battery cells as an abnormal state, and to mutually notify one another of results of the detection. Each of the overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units is configured to, upon being notified that the abnormal state is detected from another overtemperature/overvoltage detecting unit of another system in the battery module, operate on the assumption that the overtemperature/overvoltage detecting unit detects the abnormal state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2016Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Kazuto KURODA, Shinichiro KOSUGI, Masahiro SEKINO, Norihiro KANEKO, Ryo OKABE, Yusuke KIKUCHI, Yosuke SAEKI, Makoto NOGUCHI
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Patent number: 10177577Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage battery device includes a battery group, a charge-and-discharge control FET unit, and a drive controller. The battery group includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series. The charge-and-discharge control FET unit is connected to a low potential side of the battery group and includes at least a pair of N-channel MOSFETs source terminals of which are back-to-back connected. The drive controller outputs a drive control signal to a gate terminal of the respective N-channel MOSFETs included in the charge-and-discharge control FET unit. The drive control signal is generated based on a potential level of the source terminals.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Fuyuki Kanbe, Kazuto Kuroda, Shinichiro Kosugi, Masahiro Sekino, Minoru Gyoda, Yosuke Saeki
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Publication number: 20180278064Abstract: A storage battery management device manages storage battery systems in a power system, each storage battery systems having a storage battery device. The management device includes a SOC estimation table in which a relationship between an open circuit voltage of the storage battery device and the SOC is stored in advance; a measurement control unit that sets a predetermined SOC area where the open circuit voltage and the SOC can be considered as a monotonic function by discharging or charging a storage battery device of SOC measurement target between storage battery systems, and measures the open circuit voltage of the storage battery device of SOC measurement target by electrically disconnecting the storage battery device from a power supply/demand channel; and an estimation unit that estimates the SOC of the storage battery device by referring to the SOC estimation table based on the open circuit voltage measured in the SOC area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2015Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Yusuke KIKUCHI, Shinichiro KOSUGI, Masahiro SEKINO, Kazuto KURODA, Ryo OKABE
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Publication number: 20180248230Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery control apparatus according to an embodiment includes a counter, a serial information setter, and an information transmitter. The counter counts, for communication lines to which a plurality of battery modules are connected to form communication channels, the number of battery modules connected to each of the communication lines. The serial information setter sets a series of pieces of information about the battery modules connected to the plurality of communication lines as information for identifying the battery modules on the basis of the number of battery modules counted by the counter. The information transmitter transmits, to an external apparatus, management information in which status information of each of the battery modules is associated with each piece of the series of pieces of information set by the serial information setter.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Makoto NOGUCHI, Ryo OKABE, Shinichiro KOSUGI, Masahiro SEKINO, Kazuto KURODA, Norihiro KANEKO, Yosuke SAEKI, Yusuke KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20180248234Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wiring diagnostic apparatus of embodiments includes a counter, an acquirer, and an abnormality determiner. The counter counts the number of battery modules connected to a plurality of first communication lines to which a plurality of battery modules are connected to form a communication channel for each of the first communication lines. The acquirer acquires identification information for identifying a battery module connected to a corresponding second communication line among battery modules connected to a plurality of second communication lines each forming a communication channel with a first communication line via the second communication line. The abnormality determiner determines an abnormality in a wiring relationship of the first communication line or the second communication line on the basis of the number of battery modules counted by the counter and identification information acquired by the acquirer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Ryo Okabe, Shinichiro Kosugi, Masahiro Sekino, Norihiro Kaneko, Yusuke Kikuchi, Kazuto Kuroda, Makoto Noguchi
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Publication number: 20180069270Abstract: A storage battery management device is configured to manage storage battery systems each including a plurality of battery boards and a power adjustment devices corresponding to the battery boards. The storage battery management device is configured to compensate charging power and discharging power of a battery board used in a diagnosis for the battery board, inside the storage battery systems by transmitting and receiving the charging power or the discharging power between power adjustment devices of the storage battery systems, when performing the diagnosis while causing the storage battery systems to remain operated. Therefore, it is possible to diagnose a control device of a battery board without affecting an electric grid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2015Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Ryo OKABE, Shinichiro KOSUGI, Masahiro SEKINO, Kazuto KURODA, Yusuke KIKUCHI
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Patent number: 9885760Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a battery apparatus including a battery management device configured to receive voltages and temperatures of cells, and detection data of a current sensor, and a measuring computer configured to calculate a characteristic value of each cell or cell module, based on the detection data acquired from the battery management device at first time intervals, and to send, the acquired detection data or the calculated characteristic value to a control device at second time intervals which are longer than the first time intervals.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shinichiro Kosugi, Masahiro Sekino, Masayuki Hoshino, Hiroaki Sakurai, Tomokazu Morita, Takenori Kobayashi, Tomohiro Toyosaki, Masatake Sakuma, Takahiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9859721Abstract: A storage battery management device manages a plurality of battery units in a storage battery system including the battery units having a plurality of battery cells and a power adjustment device connected to the battery units via respective contactors and connected to a main circuit. The storage battery management device includes a minimum value determination unit and a controller. The minimum value determination unit, from the battery units in which a difference between a maximum cell voltage and a minimum cell voltage of the battery cells forming each of the battery units is equal to or less than a certain value, determines a minimum value of the minimum cell voltage. The controller controls a cell balance process of the battery unit managed by itself, by using the minimum value of the minimum cell voltage determined by the minimum value determination unit as a cell balance target voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazuto Kuroda, Shinichiro Kosugi, Masahiro Sekino, Jun Takahashi, Ryo Okabe, Yusuke Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20170282820Abstract: According to one embodiment, a vehicle-use storage battery system includes a storage battery, a main circuit, a circuit breaker, a storage battery management unit, a first determiner, and a second determiner. The main circuit is electrically connected to the storage battery. The circuit breaker is disposed between the storage battery and the main circuit to make or break the electrical connection therebetween. The storage battery management unit manages an operating state of the storage battery. The first determiner determines whether to break the electrical connection between the storage battery and the main circuit by means of the circuit breaker. The second determiner determines, on the basis of at least one of operating states of the storage battery management unit, the first determiner, and the circuit breaker, whether to break the electrical connection between the storage battery and the main circuit by means of the circuit breaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2014Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Atsumi KONDO, Kazuto KURODA, Tatsuya ARAI, Masaki SATO, Akinobu NISHIKAWA, Shinichiro KOSUGI, Masahiro SEKINO, Hideaki YASUI, Mai HONDA, Masahiro KUROSU, Kotaro OGAWA, Tomonao TAKAMATSU, Mitsunobu YOSHIDA, Takafumi NAKAHAMA, Akihiko UJIIE
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Publication number: 20170263985Abstract: According to one embodiment, a vehicular storage battery device includes a housing, battery boxes, and a common cooling passage. The battery boxes are disposed in the housing. Each of the battery boxes houses an electric cell as a vehicle power source and includes a heat transporting part transporting heat generated in the battery box to outside of the battery box. The common cooling passage is disposed in the housing. The common cooling passage is provided with an inlet for taking in a fluid and an outlet for discharging the fluid having passed through the passage. The inlet and the outlet are open in a direction different from a traveling direction of the vehicle. The heat transporting part of each of the battery boxes is exposed to inside of the passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2015Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Akinobu NISHIKAWA, Shigeki KONO, Masaki SATO, Tatsuya ARAI, Kotaro OGAWA, Shinichiro KOSUGI, Masahiro SEKINO, Kazuto KURODA, Hideaki YASUI, Mai HONDA, Tomonao TAKAMATSU, Mitsunobu YOSHIDA, Takafumi NAKAHAMA, Akihiko UJIIE, Atsumi KONDO, Masahiro KUROSU
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Publication number: 20170200987Abstract: A battery assembly system includes: a battery assembly; a temperature measuring part; and a monitoring device. The battery assembly includes a plurality of batteries connected in series. The temperature measuring part measures temperatures of connection parts used to connect electrodes of batteries included in the battery assembly. The monitoring device derives temperatures of the batteries on the basis of the temperatures measured by the temperature measuring part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2015Publication date: July 13, 2017Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Makoto MATSUOKA, Shinichiro KOSUGI, Katsuya UCHIDA, Kazuto KURODA, Massahiro SEKINO, Norihiro KANEKO
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Publication number: 20170187203Abstract: A power control apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires information relating to a voltage and an electric current of a chargeable/dischargeable secondary battery during charging/discharging. The determination unit determines a maximum current of the secondary battery during charging on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit so that the voltage of the secondary battery does not exceed a predetermined voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2017Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Sonoka IKEDA, Shinichiro KOSUGI, Masahiro SEKINO, Osamu YAMAZAKI, Kazuto KURODA