Patents by Inventor Takahiro SYOUDA
Takahiro SYOUDA 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: 20220294235Abstract: A storage battery control device is configured to control a storage battery system including storage batteries connected in series and a bypass circuit configured to selectively bypass each of the storage batteries. The storage battery control device includes: a processor; and a memory having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the storage battery control device to perform operations including: performing a first process of causing the bypass circuit to preferentially bypass, among the storage batteries, a storage battery having a smaller remaining charge amount until completion of charging than those of the other storage batteries, and charging at least one of the storage batteries such that a difference in remaining charge amounts of the storage batteries until completion of charging is reduced; and performing, after the first process, a second process of charging the storage batteries until the charging is completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Takahiro Syouda, Chihiro Ono
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Patent number: 11277012Abstract: A plurality of switching units is provided for each of a plurality of batteries. The switching units switch between a connected state where the corresponding battery is connected in series with another battery and a non-connected state where series connection between the corresponding battery and the other battery is disconnected. A control unit controls the switching unit corresponding to the battery to switch to the non-connected state when it is determined that the corresponding battery reaches a charge end voltage during charging or a discharge end voltage during discharging. The control unit changes the charge end voltage such that the charge end voltage of the battery deteriorated is lower than the charge end voltage of the battery not deteriorated, or changes the discharge end voltage such that the discharge end voltage of the battery deteriorated is higher than the discharge end voltage of the battery not deteriorated.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Chihiro Ono, Takahiro Syouda
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Publication number: 20220077694Abstract: A charging control device is to charge a battery device including a battery group including storage battery systems, in which batteries are connected in series, connected in parallel, system switches and bypass switches. The charging control device includes a control device to control the system switches and the bypass switches to control charging of the battery device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Chihiro Ono, Takahiro Syouda
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Publication number: 20220060029Abstract: A battery control device controls a battery system including a plurality of battery cells connected in series and a bypass circuit that bypasses each of the battery cells. Discharge is performed from each of the battery cells until remaining quantity of the battery cell deceases to a predetermined value. When the remaining quantity of the battery cell is decreased to the predetermined value, each of the battery cells is bypassed by the bypass circuit. When the remaining quantity of all of the plurality of battery cells is decreased to the predetermined value, discharge is performed from all of the plurality of battery cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Takahiro Syouda, Chihiro Ono
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Publication number: 20220060030Abstract: A power feeding control device controls a power feeding system including a plurality of battery cells feeding power to a load, a bypass lines which connects or disconnects each of the battery cells and the load, an external power feeding unit which is connected in parallel with the load and feeds power to the load. Before the bypass line starts switching of a connection state between each of the battery cells and the load, supply voltage from the external power feeding unit to the load is increased. Further, after the bypass line switches the connection state between each of the battery cells and the load, the supply voltage from the external power feeding unit to the load is decreased.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Chihiro Ono, Takahiro Syouda
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Publication number: 20220045524Abstract: A charging control device charges a battery device, and a control unit that is configured to control a switch and to control charging of the battery device. The control unit estimates a total voltage when each battery is not bypassed in each of the plurality of storage battery systems, selects the storage battery system having a low voltage among the estimated total voltages, and then repeatedly executes selective charging of charging the selected storage battery system so that an estimated total voltage difference between the storage battery system having the low voltage in the estimated. total voltage and the storage battery system having a. high voltage in the estimated total voltage is less than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Takahiro Syouda, Chihiro Ono
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Publication number: 20210399558Abstract: A battery control unit includes a switching unit and a control unit. The switching unit is provided for each of a plurality of batteries connected to in series to each other, and switches a connection state in which the corresponding battery is discharged and a non-connection state in which the corresponding battery is not discharged. The control unit switches the battery to the non-connection state in order from the battery whose remaining dischargeable capacity reaches a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Chihiro ONO, Takahiro SYOUDA
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Publication number: 20210399557Abstract: A battery control unit includes a switching unit, a system controller, and a control unit. The switching unit switches between a connection state in which the corresponding battery is discharged and a non-connection state in which the corresponding battery is not discharged. The system controller limits a discharge current flowing through the battery in the connection state so as not to exceed a minimum discharge current limitation value that is smallest among discharge current limitation values. The control unit switches to the non-connection state in order from the battery having the minimum discharge current limitation value before the discharge current limitation unit limits the discharge current. Further, the control unit switches all the batteries to the connection state after the batteries in the connection state becomes one, and then switch the battery to the non-connection state in order from the battery determined to reach a discharge termination state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Chihiro Ono, Takahiro Syouda
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Patent number: 11081899Abstract: A battery system includes a battery circuit group in which a plurality of battery circuits, each including a plurality of battery units including a battery and a switching unit connected in series, are connected in parallel, and a control unit that controls the switching unit. The switching unit switches a state of the battery unit between a first state, in which the battery is connected between a positive electrode end and a negative electrode end of the battery unit, and a second state, in which the positive electrode end and the negative electrode end are connected without the battery. When discharging, the control unit controls the switching unit such that the state of the battery unit including the battery determined to be not fully discharged becomes the first state, and the state of the battery unit including the battery determined to be fully discharged becomes the second state.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Chihiro Ono, Takahiro Syouda
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Publication number: 20210234380Abstract: A battery control unit includes a plurality of switching units, a first controller, and a plurality of bidirectional voltage converters including a ground terminal, a first, and a second input-output terminal. Each of a plurality of battery packs connected in parallel to each other includes a plurality of batteries connected in series with each other. The plurality of switching units are disposed corresponding to the plurality of batteries respectively, and are configured to switch between a connected state where a corresponding battery among the plurality of batteries is connected in series with non-corresponding battery among the plurality of batteries and a non-connected state where the corresponding battery is disconnected from series connection with the non-corresponding battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Chihiro Ono, Takahiro Syouda
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Publication number: 20210098996Abstract: A battery control unit includes a plurality of battery units, a charger configured to charge a battery, a controller, and a charging controller. Each of the plurality of battery units includes a switching unit. The switching unit is configured to switch between a connected state where the battery configured to be located in the same battery unit as that of the switching unit is connected in series with the battery configured to be located in an adjacent battery unit, and a non-connected state where the battery in the same battery unit as that of the switching unit is disconnected from the series connection with the battery in the adjacent battery unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Chihiro Ono, Takahiro Syouda
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Patent number: 10950841Abstract: Provided is a battery pack in which a bus bar for modules is provided on one side of a plurality of battery modules in a height direction, and connects the battery modules that are adjacent to each other among the plurality of battery modules, in series. In addition, the bus bar for modules includes a first bus bar piece that is provided in a battery module on one side between the battery modules that are adjacent to each other, and a second bus bar piece that is provided in a battery module on the other side and is different from the first bus bar piece, and a connection portion that connects the first bus bar piece and the second bus bar piece.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Kato, Takahiro Syouda
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Publication number: 20210075230Abstract: A battery control unit includes a plurality of switching units, a control unit, a charger configured to charge batteries, and a charging control unit. The plurality of switching units is respectively provided for a plurality of batteries connected in series, and are configured to switch between a connected state and a non-connected state. The connected state is a state that a corresponding battery is connected in series with other batteries and the non-connected state is a state that the corresponding battery is disconnected from a series connection with the other batteries. The control unit is configured to determine whether each voltage of the plurality of batteries reaches a charge end voltage during charging, and to control the switching unit corresponding to the battery which is determined to reach the charge end voltage to switch to the non-connected state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Chihiro ONO, Takahiro SYOUDA
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Publication number: 20200321788Abstract: A plurality of switching units is provided for each of a plurality of batteries. The switching units switch between a connected state where the corresponding battery is connected in series with another battery and a non-connected state where series connection between the corresponding battery and the other battery is disconnected. A control unit controls the switching unit corresponding to the battery to switch to the non-connected state when it is determined that the corresponding battery reaches a charge end voltage during charging or a discharge end voltage during discharging. The control unit changes the charge end voltage such that the charge end voltage of the battery deteriorated is lower than the charge end voltage of the battery not deteriorated, or changes the discharge end voltage such that the discharge end voltage of the battery deteriorated is higher than the discharge end voltage of the battery not deteriorated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Chihiro Ono, Takahiro Syouda
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Publication number: 20200321789Abstract: A switching unit is provided for each of a plurality of batteries arranged in series, and switches between a connected state where the corresponding battery is connected in series with another battery and a non-connected state where series connection between the corresponding battery and the other battery is disconnected. A control unit controls the switching unit corresponding to the battery to switch to the non-connected state when it is determined that the corresponding battery reaches a charge end voltage during charging or a discharge end voltage during discharging, and determinates deterioration of the batteries. Further, the control unit changes the charge end voltage or the discharge end voltage for each of the plurality of batteries in accordance with a deterioration state of the plurality of batteries.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Chihiro Ono, Takahiro Syouda
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Patent number: 10756548Abstract: A quick charging device connects, in a charging operation, a plurality of battery modules in series, and connects the battery modules that are connected in series to a charger, and selects, in a discharging operation, one of the battery modules, and connects the selected battery module to a load unit. When the amount of charge in the battery module connected to the load unit drops by a predetermined amount during the discharging operation, the quick charging device connects another battery module having the largest amount of charge to the load unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Syouda
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Patent number: 10658849Abstract: Provided are a charging rate leveling device and a power supply system including the charging rate leveling device capable of leveling more quickly a charging rate of a plurality of battery cells a battery pack includes. In the power supply system a controlling device includes a two-way DC/DC convertor connected to an auxiliary battery separated from the battery pack, a switch array capable of selectively connecting each of the plurality of auxiliary battery cells the battery pack includes to the two-way DC/DC convertor, so as to charge the battery cell with electric power of the auxiliary battery, and a controller controlling the switch array to connect the lowest voltage battery cell selected among the plurality of battery cells, so as to reduce a difference between charging rates SOC of each of the plurality of battery cells.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Takahiro Syouda
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Patent number: 10637267Abstract: A battery state detection device capable of suppressing falling in detection precision of a battery state is provided. A battery state detection device retains a voltage between electrodes of a secondary battery in a first capacitor under charging conducted by a charging unit. When the voltage between the electrodes of the secondary battery has become a predetermined state detection voltage, the battery state detection device stops charging of the secondary battery, and connects a second capacitor between the electrodes of the secondary electrode. When a charge flows into the second capacitor and the voltage of the second capacitor has become stable, the battery state detection device detects internal resistance of the secondary battery based on a charging current and an amplified voltage output from an amplifier configured to amplify a difference value between the voltage retained in the first capacitor and the voltage retained in the second capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Syouda
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Patent number: 10569656Abstract: A regenerative control device is provided with a host ECU configured to set a required amount of wheel regeneration that is an amount of wheel regeneration required for each wheel of a vehicle based on the required regeneration amount that is an amount of regeneration required in regenerative control that converts kinetic energy into electric energy depending on traveling conditions of a vehicle, and a regeneration controller configured to switch a wheel to be regenerative-controlled in a regeneration performance period shorter than a predicted vehicle behavior-appearance period from the start of regeneration in each wheel of the vehicle to the appearance of the behavior of the vehicle, that is, a period predicted based on the required amount of wheel regeneration and a vehicle speed, and control an actual amount of wheel regeneration for each wheel to the required amount of wheel regeneration.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Chihiro Ono, Takahiro Syouda
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Publication number: 20200041581Abstract: A current sensor which can cancel an effect of a varying external magnetic field at a low cost is provided. A current sensor includes a magnetic field detecting element configured to detect a magnetic field generated due to a current flowing through a bus bar. An induced current is generated in a first coil due to an external magnetic field generated around the magnetic field detecting element. A second coil is connected to the first coil and configured to generate, upon flow of the induced current, a magnetic field that cancels the external magnetic field generated around the magnetic field detecting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Chihiro Ono, Takahiro Syouda