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).

  • Publication number: 20120158202
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an executive monitoring and control system for monitoring and controlling a power generation output of each dispersed power source and a load of each demand facility in a smart grid or a micro grid. An abnormal-time interchange procedure formation unit forms, when a fault occurs in a system, an interchange procedure of matching the total power generation output amount of dispersed power sources with the total loading of demand facilities, by using at least the information acquired by the measurement value monitoring unit and the information managed by the customer information management unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Ryo Yano, Yoshihiro Ogita, Akinori Nishi, Takenori Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120139499
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the economical load dispatcher calculates a discharging threshold value and a charging threshold value based on a discharging unit price of and a charging and discharging efficiency of the secondary battery and further calculates output allocations of the generators and secondary battery such that the secondary battery is discharged when incremental fuel costs of the generators are higher than the discharging threshold value, whereas the secondary battery is charged when incremental fuel costs of the generators are lower than the charging threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Mari Tanaka, Takenori Kobayashi, Koji Toba, Yoshihiro Ogita, Ryoichi Ichikawa, Akinori Nishi
  • Publication number: 20120109393
    Abstract: An electric power planning apparatus is provided. The apparatus has an initial plan creating section, a generation amount probability density distribution creating section, an economic load dispatch calculating section, and a display section. The initial plan creating section creates an initial plan based on a demand predicted value, a predicted value of a natural energy electric power source power generation output amount, and electric power source equipment data. The generation amount probability density distribution creating section creates a probability density distribution using fluctuation bands of the demand and of the natural energy electric power source power generation output amount. The economic load dispatch calculating section calculates an output allocation based on the initial plan and the probability density distribution to create a prediction distribution of a power generation output of the controllable electric power source. The display section displays the prediction distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Yoko Kosaka, Takenori Kobayashi, Yoshiki Murakami, Hideo Kusano
  • Publication number: 20120095608
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a demand prediction apparatus includes an input device configured to input data for prediction of a demand at a demand prediction target time and a prediction result of a demand at a predetermined time before the demand prediction target time as a portion of input data for prediction of the demand at the demand prediction target time when demands at a plurality of times in a day are predicted in prediction of time-series data of a demand in a future and a demand prediction operation processing unit configured to calculate a prediction value of the demand at the demand prediction target time using an input result given with the input device are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshiki MURAKAMI, Takenori Kobayashi, Katsutoshi Hiromasa, Yuji Fujimoto, Shinichi Aoki, Hiroaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20110137482
    Abstract: A power supply and demand control apparatus includes a power generation planning unit that calculates one day's power outputs of multiple distributed power sources and a power flow target of a linking point to another power system, a long-cycle control unit having a long-cycle supply-demand balancing control unit that performs control every few minutes so as to ensure the supply-demand balancing of electric energy in a given amount of time at the linking point in order to perform control for making deviations between total power output calculated by the power generation planning unit and load power in the power system constant, and a short-cycle control unit having a short-cycle supply-demand balancing control unit that performs similar control every few seconds. In the power supply and demand control apparatus, the long-cycle control unit and short-cycle control unit perform the supply-demand balancing control in a hierarchical fashion to determine output assignments of the distributed power sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Toba, Takenori Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Ogita, Akinori Nishi
  • Publication number: 20100187907
    Abstract: To provide a secondary battery controlling apparatus and a controlling method that can keep a storage amount of a secondary battery used for supply and demand control of a power system not close to 100% or 0%. The present invention is a power supply and demand controlling apparatus of a small-scaled power system 1 including distributed power supplies 31, 32, . . .
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Koji Toba, Mari Tanaka, Takenori Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Ogita, Akinori Nishi, Ryoichi Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20040044613
    Abstract: For a comprehensive risk evaluation of the electricity price fluctuations, respective relationships between power supplies or power demands and electricity prices are derived from data of historical power supply or power demand and data of historical electricity price for respective power exchanges, respective probability distributions of electricity price fluctuations relating to uncertain fluctuations of the power supply or the power demand are computed by using the respective relationships in a given period for evaluation of a market risk, the market risk of electricity price is measured by using the respective probability distributions of electricity price fluctuations, a probability distribution for randomly fluctuating components is derived by Monte Carlo simulation, and a market risk to the electricity price fluctuations is evaluated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yoshiki Murakami, Nobuhisa Takezawa, Yuji Uenohara, Masatoshi Kawashima, Takenori Kobayashi, Yuichi Kano, Takahiro Tatsumi, Yasuo Hirai