Patents by Inventor Takenori Kobayashi
Takenori Kobayashi 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: 11054475Abstract: A battery capacity estimation apparatus includes one or more hardware processors that: calculate a current integrated value by integrating electric currents of a secondary battery system whose capacity is to be estimated; calculate an SOC estimate value in a stabilization state where a change in SOC of a secondary battery per unit time is comparatively small; perform a regression analysis in which the current integrated value is defined as a dependent variable and the SOC estimate value is defined as an independent variable, the regression analysis being performed while correcting the current integrated value based on a value of a coefficient of determination so that a result of the regression analysis has predetermined accuracy; and estimate a capacity of the secondary battery system based on the result of the regression analysis.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Tohara, Masako Kiuchi, Shunsuke Kawachi, Mami Mizutani, Takenori Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11019740Abstract: An electrical connection box mounted on a vehicle and used for connecting a plurality of on-board loads to an on-board power supply, comprising: a box main body that is provided with an opening at a side and that accommodates an electrical component for the connecting; a cover body that covers the opening and that is provided with a protrusion portion protruding outward beyond the opening; an insertion hole that is provided a side wall of the box main body and that allows for insertion of an electric wire to be connected to the electrical component; and an extension portion that extends outward from a portion of the protrusion portion corresponding to the insertion hole and that bends arcuately.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Maiko Oda, Kiyofumi Kawaguchi, Nobutaka Suzuki, Takenori Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20210094488Abstract: A vehicle includes: an electronic device accommodated in an accommodation case of a power storage device; and a signal wiring connected to an electronic device and an in-vehicle device, the signal wiring being a signal wiring in which a signal to be received or transmitted by the electronic device or the in-vehicle device travels. An exhaust pipe is disposed at a position adjacent to a first side surface, and the signal wiring is drawn out from the second side surface to outside of the accommodation case.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takenori KOBAYASHI, Junta KATAYAMA, Toru KAWAMIYA
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Patent number: 10938142Abstract: An electrical connection box comprising a box main body that accommodates an electrical component and a connector for connection with an electrical wire that is provided in a protruding manner on an outer surface of the box main body, the electrical connection box being mounted on a vehicle and used for connection of a plurality of on-board loads to an on-board power supply comprises a protector that is provided in a protruding manner along a protrusion direction of the connector and protects the connector.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Maiko Oda, Kiyofumi Kawaguchi, Tatsuya Fujisaka, Takenori Kobayashi, Junta Katayama
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Patent number: 10845421Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage battery evaluation device includes a charging/discharging controller and a deterioration evaluator. The charging/discharging controller acquires a charging/discharging power command value, performs control to charge and discharge an energy storage device according to the charging/discharging power command value, sets a dead zone in which the charging and discharging is not performed when an absolute value of the charging/discharging power command value is equal to or smaller than a threshold, and performs control to stop the charging and discharging when the charging/discharging command value enters the dead zone. The deterioration evaluator measures a response characteristic of a voltage of the energy storage device at a time when the charging and discharging is stopped from a state in which the energy storage device is charged and discharged and evaluates a deterioration state of the energy storage device on a basis of the response characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takahiro Yamamoto, Takenori Kobayashi, Masatake Sakuma, Ryosuke Takeuchi, Takahisa Wada
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Publication number: 20200292619Abstract: A battery capacity estimation apparatus includes one or more hardware processors that: calculate a current integrated value by integrating electric currents of a secondary battery system whose capacity is to be estimated; calculate an SOC estimate value in a stabilization state where a change in SOC of a secondary battery per unit time is comparatively small; perform a regression analysis in which the current integrated value is defined as a dependent variable and the SOC estimate value is defined as an independent variable, the regression analysis being performed while correcting the current integrated value based on a value of a coefficient of determination so that a result of the regression analysis has predetermined accuracy; and estimate a capacity of the secondary battery system based on the result of the regression analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Masahiro TOHARA, Masalp KIUCHI, Shunsuke KAWACHI, Mami MIZUTANI, Takenori KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20200233037Abstract: According to one embodiment, an evaluation device for an energy storage device includes first processing circuitry and second processing circuitry. The first processing circuitry acquires data items including an amount of charge and a voltage value measured in a measurement period from the energy storage device, the energy storage device being charge-discharge-controlled according to charge-discharge command values. The second processing circuitry generates a representative data item of voltage values for amounts of charge, based on the data items acquired for the measurement period; and evaluates a degradation state of the energy storage device, based on a relative change between a plurality of the representative data items corresponding to a plurality of the measurement periods.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro YAMAMOTO, Hisaaki Tatano, Kenichi Fujiwara, Masatake Sakuma, Kaoru Koiwa, Yasuhiro Ogura, Takenori Kobayashi, Kenji Mitsumoto
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Patent number: 10714937Abstract: A voltage reactive power control device includes a bus voltage fluctuation extracting unit that extracts a bus voltage fluctuation from a voltage of a secondary-side bus, an RE component extracting unit that extracts a fluctuation component due to renewable energy power generation from the bus voltage fluctuation, a creating unit that creates a reactive power command value for suppressing the fluctuation component based on the bus voltage fluctuation component due to the renewable energy power generation extracted by the RE component extracting unit, and a control unit that executes the reactive power control on a battery system based on the reactive power command value. The RE component extracting unit extracts the fluctuation component due to the renewable energy power generation by eliminating the fluctuation components other than the fluctuation component due to the renewable energy power generation from the bus voltage fluctuation.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshio Ebata, Takenori Kobayashi, Yoko Kosaka, Tsutomu Tanno, Mami Mizutani, Masako Kiuchi
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Publication number: 20200217896Abstract: According to one embodiment, a device for evaluating an energy storage device includes first processing circuitry and second processing circuitry. The first processing circuitry detects a plurality of times at which an amount of charge of the energy storage device satisfies a threshold condition, based on measurement data on the energy storage device in operation, selects a plurality of time intervals, calculates a charge-discharge efficiency in each of the time intervals based on charge-discharge command values belonging to the time interval, and divides a set of the charge-discharge efficiencies into a plurality of clusters and generates characteristic information on the clusters based on at least one of the measurement data and the charge-discharge command values. The second processing circuitry generates output data for displaying: transition data indicating transition of the charge-discharge efficiency belonging to the cluster; and characteristic information on the cluster.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Hisaaki Hatano, Takahiro Yamamoto, Kenichi Fujiwara, Masatake Sakuma, Takenori Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Ogura, Kenji Mitsumoto
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Publication number: 20200161799Abstract: An electrical connection box comprising a box main body that accommodates an electrical component and a connector for connection with an electrical wire that is provided in a protruding manner on an outer surface of the box main body, the electrical connection box being mounted on a vehicle and used for connection of a plurality of on-board loads to an on-board power supply comprises a protector that is provided in a protruding manner along a protrusion direction of the connector and protects the connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Maiko ODA, Kiyofumi KAWAGUCHI, Tatsuya FUJISAKA, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Junta KATAYAMA
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Publication number: 20200124676Abstract: A remaining battery energy estimation device according to an embodiment includes a current corrector, an SOC calculator, a voltage estimator, an SOC correction amount determiner, and a current error estimator. The current corrector determines a corrected current value on the basis of a current value and a current correction amount of a storage battery. The SOC calculator calculates an estimated SOC value of the storage battery on the basis of the corrected current value and an SOC correction amount. The voltage estimator determines an estimated voltage value of the storage battery on the basis of a temperature value of the storage battery, the corrected current value, and the estimated SOC value. The SOC correction amount determiner determines the SOC correction amount on the basis of a comparison between a voltage value of the storage battery and the estimated voltage value. The current error estimator determines the current correction amount on the basis of the SOC correction amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Masahiro TOHARA, Masako Kiuchi, Shunsuke Kawachi, Mami Mizutani, Takenori Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20200113072Abstract: An electrical connection box mounted on a vehicle and used for connecting a plurality of on-board loads to an on-board power supply, comprising: a box main body that is provided with an opening at a side and that accommodates an electrical component for the connecting; a cover body that covers the opening and that is provided with a protrusion portion protruding outward beyond the opening; an insertion hole that is provided a side wall of the box main body and that allows for insertion of an electric wire to be connected to the electrical component; and an extension portion that extends outward from a portion of the protrusion portion corresponding to the insertion hole and that bends arcuately.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicants: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Maiko Oda, Kiyofumi Kawaguchi, Nobutaka Suzuki, Takenori Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10573941Abstract: In one embodiment, a temperature management device is provided with a plurality of battery cells, power sensor(s) each of which detects the charge/discharge power of battery cell(s) at a prescribed time interval, a power representative value calculation section which calculates a power representative value of a time lapse data of the charge/discharge power(s) detected by the power sensor, temperature sensor(s) each of which detects the temperature of battery cell(s) at a prescribed time interval, a temperature representative value calculation section which calculates a temperature representative value of a time lapse data of temperature(s) detected by the temperature sensor, a radiation characteristic identification section which identifies a radiation characteristic from the temperature representative value and the power representative value, and an air conditioning setting calculation section which calculates an air conditioning setting for the battery cell(s) corresponding to the power representative valueType: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kenichi Fujiwara, Takahiro Yamamoto, Ryosuke Takeuchi, Masatake Sakuma, Tomohiro Toyosaki, Takenori Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20200044451Abstract: A voltage reactive power control device includes a bus voltage fluctuation extracting unit that extracts a bus voltage fluctuation from a voltage of a secondary-side bus, an RE component extracting unit that extracts a fluctuation component due to renewable energy power generation from the bus voltage fluctuation, a creating unit that creates a reactive power command value for suppressing the fluctuation component based on the bus voltage fluctuation component due to the renewable energy power generation extracted by the RE component extracting unit, and a control unit that executes the reactive power control on a battery system based on the reactive power command value. The RE component extracting unit extracts the fluctuation component due to the renewable energy power generation by eliminating the fluctuation components other than the fluctuation component due to the renewable energy power generation from the bus voltage fluctuation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshio EBATA, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Yoko KOSAKA, Tsutomu TANNO, Mami MIZUTANI, Masako KIUCHI
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Patent number: 10553909Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules that includes a plurality of battery cells, a battery cell holder, a second-electrode assembly including a plurality of second-electrode bus bar plates, a first-electrode assembly, and a cover. The first-electrode assembly includes a plurality of first-electrode bus bar plates, a first-electrode terminal, a second-electrode terminal connected to one of the plurality of second-electrode bus bar plates, and an inter-electrode bus bar connecting the second-electrode bus bar plate and one of the first-electrode bus bar plate and the first-electrode terminal. The first-electrode assembly is in a first pattern or a second pattern. An arrangement of the first-electrode terminal and the second-electrode terminal in the battery module differs according to the pattern of the first-electrode assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takenori Kobayashi, Nobuyoshi Fujiwara, Kiyonari Kojima
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Publication number: 20200003839Abstract: According to one embodiment, an evaluation device includes first processing circuitry and second processing circuitry. The first processing circuitry calculates a feature value of an energy storage device based on voltage values measured from the energy storage device being subjected to charge-discharge-control according to charge-discharge command values. The second processing circuitry derives an evaluation function of a degradation state of the energy storage device according to a difference between a distribution of the charge-discharge command values and a reference distribution. The second processing circuitry evaluates the degradation state of the energy storage device, based on the evaluation function and the calculated feature value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takahiro YAMAMOTO, Hisaaki HATANO, Masatake SAKUMA, Kenichi FUJIWARA, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Tomohiro TOYOSAKI, Yoshiyuki SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 10411315Abstract: A battery pack structure includes a chamber, a cooling duct arranged outside the pack case, and a connector that communicates the chamber and the cooling duct with each other. The connector includes a first opening, which is connected with the chamber in a state of being sealed by a first sealing member, a second opening, which is connected with a cooling duct in a state of being sealed by a second sealing member, a first sealing surface, which is formed in a peripheral part of the first opening and is either a tube-shaped surface or a plane that faces a chamber inlet surface though the first sealing member, and a second sealing surface, which is formed in a peripheral part of the second opening and is a tube-shaped surface or a plane that faces a duct outlet surface through the second sealing member.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiro Kosaki, Kouichi Tanaka, Takenori Kobayashi, Shigeru Fukuda, Toshiaki Naruke, Akira Azumi
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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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Publication number: 20190237825Abstract: Defective assembling of a duct to a battery module is reduced. A distribution duct has a plurality of distribution paths supplying refrigerant to each of a plurality of ventilation paths. A distribution path and a ventilation path are connected by an insertion structure in which the distribution path is inserted into the ventilation path. A distribution path has an open outlet end surrounded by a coupling portion, and is connected to a ventilation path via a planar sealing structure in which a sealing material is held on the coupling portion in a compressed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takenori KOBAYASHI, Ikko IWASE
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Patent number: 10338152Abstract: A method of estimating, as the charging rate of an electricity storage system, the internal condition of the electricity storage system including plural batteries, and an internal condition estimating system utilizing that method are provided. A voltage measuring unit 3 measures voltages of all batteries 1 configuring an electricity storage system block 2. A system cell voltage determining unit 5 determines a system cell voltage that will be a reference for an estimation of the SOC value of the electricity storage system block 2 based on the voltage value of the plural batteries 1 measured by the voltage measuring unit 3. The system cell voltage determining unit 5 obtains the system cell voltage by giving a weighting to the voltage value in accordance with the pre-calculated SOC value of the electricity storage system block 2. The system SOC estimating unit 6 estimates the SOC value of the electricity storage system block 2 based on the current flowing through the battery 1 and the system cell voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Makoto Ide, Masahiro Tohara, Mami Mizutani, Takenori Kobayashi, Tsutomu Tanno