Patents by Inventor Toshimitsu Kumazawa
Toshimitsu Kumazawa 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: 20240005239Abstract: According to one embodiment an information processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires operation data of an energy system which includes a power generation device configured to generate power based on an environmental condition, a manufacturing device configured to be able to manufacture a demanded amount using power generated by the power generation device, a storage device configured to be able to store the demanded amount manufactured by the manufacturing device and a supply device configured to be able to supply the demanded amount in the storage device to a demand device. The processing circuitry creates an operation plan of the energy system based on the operation data and at least one of data related to the environmental condition or first demand data related to the demanded amount necessary for the demand device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro ITAKURA, Toshimitsu KUMAZAWA
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Publication number: 20220302708Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: receiving circuitry and the controlling circuitry. The receiving circuitry receives operation data of an energy system being capable of inputting and outputting power to and from a power line to which a power system and a load are connected, and the energy system including a hydrogen production apparatus producing hydrogen, a first hydrogen accumulation apparatus accumulating the hydrogen, a first power generation apparatus generating power using the hydrogen accumulated in the first hydrogen accumulation apparatus, and a storage battery capable of charging and discharging.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2021Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Toshimitsu KUMAZAWA, Akihiro ITAKURA, Toru YANO, Takahiko ABE
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Publication number: 20220083042Abstract: An information processing device includes a sufficiency determiner, a diagnostic unit, a request data generator, and a deliverer. The sufficiency determiner determines, concerning each diagnostic item in a target, whether plural pieces of inspection result data indicating inspection result by users, differing from a professional include sufficient pieces of effective inspection result data for diagnosing. The diagnostic unit diagnoses, concerning the diagnostic item, the condition of the target based on the plural inspection result data pieces when the plural inspection result data include sufficient pieces of inspection result data for diagnosing. The request data generator generates, concerning the diagnostic item, request data for requesting the users to conduct an inspection when the plural inspection result data pieces do not include sufficient pieces of inspection result data for diagnosing. The deliverer deliver the request data to user terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Myungsook KO, Toshimitsu KUMAZAWA, Toru YANO
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Patent number: 10467505Abstract: A spatial information delivery system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a partial spatial information generation device, and a plurality of partial spatial information transmission devices existing within a facility. The partial spatial information generation device generates partial spatial information which is part of spatial information relating to the facility and which is specific to each of the partial spatial information transmission devices, for each of the partial spatial information transmission devices based on locations of the partial spatial information transmission devices. Each of the partial spatial information transmission devices transmits the partial spatial information corresponding to the own partial spatial information transmission device.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Gaku Ishii, Mikito Iwamasa, Hisashi Hayashi, Toshimitsu Kumazawa
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Publication number: 20180082155Abstract: A spatial information delivery system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a partial spatial information generation device, and a plurality of partial spatial information transmission devices existing within a facility. The partial spatial information generation device generates partial spatial information which is part of spatial information relating to the facility and which is specific to each of the partial spatial information transmission devices, for each of the partial spatial information transmission devices based on locations of the partial spatial information transmission devices. Each of the partial spatial information transmission devices transmits the partial spatial information corresponding to the own partial spatial information transmission device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Gaku ISHII, Mikito Iwamasa, Hisashi Hayashi, Toshimitsu Kumazawa
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Equipment evaluation device, equipment evaluation method and non-transitory computer readable medium
Patent number: 9740545Abstract: According to one embodiment, an equipment evaluation system includes: an estimator, an acquirer, a hardware storage and an evaluator. The estimator is implemented by the computer, to estimate a probability density distribution of a parameter representing performance of subject equipment based on measurement data of the subject equipment, the measurement data resulting from a measurement performed at each of a plurality of times. The acquirer acquires a use pattern of the subject equipment. The hardware storage stores the use pattern in association with the probability density distribution for the subject equipment. The evaluator identifies a use pattern of the subject equipment, the use pattern being similar to a use pattern of a first equipment that is different from the subject equipment, and evaluates future performance degradation of the first equipment using probability density distributions corresponding to the identified use pattern.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hideyuki Aisu, Toshimitsu Kumazawa, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Mikito Iwamasa -
EQUIPMENT EVALUATION DEVICE, EQUIPMENT EVALUATION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
Publication number: 20160274963Abstract: According to one embodiment, an equipment evaluation system includes: an estimator, an acquirer, a hardware storage and an evaluator. The estimator is implemented by the computer, to estimate a probability density distribution of a parameter representing performance of subject equipment based on measurement data of the subject equipment, the measurement data resulting from a measurement performed at each of a plurality of times. The acquirer acquires a use pattern of the subject equipment. The hardware storage stores the use pattern in association with the probability density distribution for the subject equipment. The evaluator identifies a use pattern of the subject equipment, the use pattern being similar to a use pattern of a first equipment that is different from the subject equipment, and evaluates future performance degradation of the first equipment using probability density distributions corresponding to the identified use pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Hideyuki AISU, Toshimitsu KUMAZAWA, Mitsunobu YOSHIDA, Mikito IWAMASA -
Patent number: 9445164Abstract: According to one embodiment, an existent person count estimation apparatus includes motion sensors and following units. The collection unit generates human sensing information. The instance prediction unit predicts second instances from the first instances by using the transition matrix. The likelihood calculation unit calculates likelihoods of the second instances using the time information items. The instance selection unit selects one or more third instances having likelihoods higher than a threshold. The output unit generates output information including estimate values of existent person counts for the first areas included in the third instances.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shuichiro Imahara, Kazuto Kubota, Toshimitsu Kumazawa, Yoshiyuki Hondo
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Publication number: 20150120077Abstract: An energy management system of an embodiment includes first and second registration processors, first and second receivers, an aggregation processor, first and second transmitters, and a proration processor. The first registration processor registers a first energy management system as a host system. The second registration processor registers a second energy management system as a slave system. The first receiver receives an amount of an energy supply and demand and an adjustable amount of an energy supply and demand. The aggregation processor aggregates the received amount of an energy supply and demand and the received adjustable amount of an energy supply and demand. The first transmitter transmits aggregated results. The second receiver receives an adjustment amount of an energy supply and demand. The proration processor prorates the received adjustment amount of an energy supply and demand. The second transmitter transmits individual adjustment amounts of a power supply and demand.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Toshimitsu KUMAZAWA, Koji TOBA, Genki KIYA, Yasuyuki MIYAZAKI, Misao KIMURA, Yoko KOSAKA, Yoshihito KINOSHITA, Yasuhiro TAGUCHI
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Patent number: 8744640Abstract: A green power demand management device includes: a power meter which receives power from a power distribution system with a plurality of power generating units, and supplies a received power to a first appliance; a receiver which receives energy mixture information showing a power generation proportion among each power generating unit, a measuring unit which measures electric energy consumed by the first appliance, a setting unit which sets a first threshold, and an operating state control manager which uses an intensity conversion table including emission intensities each representing an amount of an environmental load material emitted by each power generating unit, obtains a second threshold by dividing the first threshold by sum total of the emission intensity of each power generating unit weighted by the proportion, and controls the first appliance so that electric energy consumption of the first appliance is equal to or smaller than the second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Minoru Yonezawa, Yoshiyuki Hondo, Toshimitsu Kumazawa
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Patent number: 8612362Abstract: An appliance cooperation operation device in which a facility database stores an introduction cost of a power storage shared among a plurality of customers, and a rated life of the power storage; a facility deteriorating influence calculator calculates deteriorating influence on the power storage by using at least one parameter selected from a discharge rate of the power storage in a first period, depth of discharge at the end of the first period, and environmental temperature in the first period; a customer electric energy collector collects, from each of the customers, data of electric energy consumption in the first period; and a customer's burden cost calculator calculates a burden cost of each customer in the first period by multiplying: a ratio of energy consumption of each customer to total customer energy consumption; the introduction cost; a ratio of the first period to the rated life; and the deteriorating influence.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toshimitsu Kumazawa, Kazuto Kubota, Yuzo Tamada
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Publication number: 20130162039Abstract: A system for controlling an electric device operation includes a plurality of electric devices managed by a consumer associated with a power system and a plurality of control devices for controlling an operation of the electric devices. The system includes an operation time calculation unit configured to calculate a start time of an operation of increasing or decreasing power received from the plurality of electric devices based on a control command for requesting an increase or decrease of power received from the power system such that the start time is different for each of the electric devices. Each of the control devices executes an operation of increasing or decreasing reception power at an operation start time different for each of the electric devices as a result of calculation of the calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Inventors: Shinya Naoi, Yasuhiro Noro, Toshimitsu Kumazawa
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Publication number: 20120239217Abstract: An energy reducing apparatus includes: an input module through which to input a target energy consumption value; an acquiring module configured to acquire energy consumptions of plural apparatus every measurement period; a totaling module configured to calculate sums of energy consumptions of each of the apparatus in a prescribed period based on energy consumptions measured every measurement period; a calculating module configured to calculate a first index indicating a deviation between an average value of past energy consumptions and a current energy consumption based on energy consumptions measured every measurement period and the sums for each of the apparatus; and an allocating module configured to allocate an energy consumption to each of the apparatus so that the energy consumption value is satisfied by preferentially reducing the energy consumption of an apparatus whose first index is small.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Toshimitsu Kumazawa, Kazuto Kubota, Shuichiro Imahara, Yoshinori Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20120205457Abstract: According to one embodiment, a hot water supply apparatus calculates a value representing an ordinary index for the hot water usage of each hot water destination, determines hot water supply whose value is less than a threshold as hot water supply of low ordinary, and determines hot water supply whose value is not less than the threshold as hot water supply of high ordinary. The apparatus also calculates a first boiling-up amount for the hot water supply determined as the hot water supply of low ordinary, and calculates a second boiling-up amount for the hot water supply determined as the hot water supply of high ordinary.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Inventors: Kazuto Kubota, Shuichiro Imahara, Toshimitsu Kumazawa
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Publication number: 20120209567Abstract: According to one embodiment, an existent person count estimation apparatus includes motion sensors and following units. The collection unit generates human sensing information. The instance prediction unit predicts second instances from the first instances by using the transition matrix. The likelihood calculation unit calculates likelihoods of the second instances using the time information items. The instance selection unit selects one or more third instances having likelihoods higher than a threshold. The output unit generates output information including estimate values of existent person counts for the first areas included in the third instances.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Inventors: Shuichiro IMAHARA, Kazuto KUBOTA, Toshimitsu KUMAZAWA, Yoshiyuki HONDO
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Publication number: 20120078818Abstract: An appliance cooperation operation device in which a facility database stores an introduction cost of a power storage shared among a plurality of customers, and a rated life of the power storage; a facility deteriorating influence calculator calculates deteriorating influence on the power storage by using at least one parameter selected from a discharge rate of the power storage in a first period, depth of discharge at the end of the first period, and environmental temperature in the first period; a customer electric energy collector collects, from each of the customers, data of electric energy consumption in the first period; and a customer's burden cost calculator calculates a burden cost of each customer in the first period by multiplying: a ratio of energy consumption of each customer to total customer energy consumption; the introduction cost; a ratio of the first period to the rated life; and the deteriorating influence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Toshimitsu Kumazawa, Kazuto Kubota, Yuzo Tamada
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Publication number: 20120074789Abstract: A green power demand management device includes: a power meter which receives power from a power distribution system with a plurality of power generating units, and supplies a received power to a first appliance; a receiver which receives energy mixture information showing a power generation proportion among each power generating unit, a measuring unit which measures electric energy consumed by the first appliance, a setting unit which sets a first threshold, and an operating state control manager which uses an intensity conversion table including emission intensities each representing an amount of an environmental load material emitted by each power generating unit, obtains a second threshold by dividing the first threshold by sum total of the emission intensity of each power generating unit weighted by the proportion, and controls the first appliance so that electric energy consumption of the first appliance is equal to or smaller than the second threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Minoru YONEZAWA, Yoshiyuki Hondo, Toshimitsu Kumazawa
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Patent number: 8078318Abstract: An appliance control apparatus acquires, at intervals of predetermined time, a state data including values of operation states of respective appliances, stores the state data as one record in a memory, to store time-series records, classifies the records in the memory into a plurality of living situation groups by clustering the records, and calculates, for each living situation group, a barycenter of each operation state, determines, for a target state data, one of the living situation groups to which the target state data belongs, determines one of the operation states whose value in the target state data is larger than corresponding barycenter in the one of the living situation groups, and determines the barycenter as a recommended value, and controls the one of operation state to the recommended value when obtaining an acceptance instruction for the recommended value.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toshimitsu Kumazawa, Koji Kimura
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Patent number: 7877157Abstract: A design support apparatus includes an evaluation unit that evaluates a recyclability of the product, using evaluation condition and parts/material data, an analysis unit that analyzes a factor obstructing the recyclability based on an evaluation result of the evaluating unit, and a display unit that displays a remedy against an obstruction factor provided as an analysis result of the analysis unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Naohiko Oyasato, Toshimitsu Kumazawa
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Publication number: 20100161502Abstract: An appliance measurement interface inputs an appliance measured value from each appliance. The appliance measured value includes an electric energy consumption, a usage intensity and a usage frequency of the appliance. An appliance information count unit calculates an average of the appliance measured value in an evaluation span, and outputs an appliance information as the average of the appliance measured value. An evaluation unit acquires a first appliance information in a first evaluation span as an evaluation object period and a second appliance information in a second evaluation span as a comparison object period from the appliance information, and calculates an evaluation value by applying the first appliance information and the second appliance information to an evaluation function. A display unit displays an evaluation result of an energy saving behavior based on the evaluation value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Toshimitsu KUMAZAWA, Koji KIMURA