Patents by Inventor Yasuyuki Nishibayashi

Yasuyuki Nishibayashi 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).

  • Patent number: 10484947
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a determiner, and an executor. The determiner is configured to determine whether the wireless communication device can continue operation by a stored electric power in which remaining capacity changes according to operation of the wireless communication device for a predetermined period, based on information including an operation timing associated with a cycle in which a management server. The executor is configured to execute an operation in which the data is transmitted and received between the other wireless communication device and the management server via the wireless communication device when the wireless communication device is able to continue the operation, and otherwise, cause the wireless communication device to move into intermittent operation and causes the other communication device to transmit the data to the management server not via the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Yusuke Doi, Takafumi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10175660
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control device in a power electronics device includes a controller, a configuration determiner and a manager. The controller performs control associated with power conversion, in accordance with a first logical configuration of control between the power electronics device and other power electronics device. The configuration determiner performs determination processing of a second logical configuration when a change condition of the first logical configuration is satisfied. The manager instructs the controller to perform the control in accordance with the second logical configuration, the manager performing management such that the controller performs the control in accordance with previously given control information for a period after the change condition of the first logical configuration is satisfied and until the manager instructs the controller to perform the control associated with the power conversion in accordance with the second logical configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Fumiaki Kanayama, Yusuke Doi, Yasuyuki Nishibayashi
  • Patent number: 10154436
    Abstract: A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiro Takagi, Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Yoriko Utsunomiya
  • Patent number: 9946237
    Abstract: An energy management device includes a measurement manager and a communicator. The measurement manager manages energy information based on a physical quantity measured from at least one measurement object belonging to each of a plurality of energy types in a customer. The communicator communicates the energy information of each of the energy types to another device over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Masahiro Yamazaki, Yoichi Morishima, Ikuya Aoyama, Yusuke Doi, Fumiaki Kanayama, Noritaka Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20180041919
    Abstract: A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiro Takagi, Yasuyuki NISHIBAYASHI, Yoriko UTSUNOMIYA
  • Patent number: 9872203
    Abstract: A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiro Takagi, Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Yoriko Utsunomiya
  • Patent number: 9859712
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a power electronics device including: a connector connected to a power line; a power controller; a connection detection processor; and a collision monitor. The power controller performs at least one of generating an electric signal to the power line and detecting an electric signal on the power line via the connector. The connection detection processor performs a connection detection process with use of the power controller to detect another power electronics device connected to the power line. The collision monitor monitors whether or not collision of electric signals occurs on the power line during the connection detection process and controls the connection detection processor according to a monitoring result of whether or not the collision of electric signals occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Kotaro Ise, Fumiaki Kanayama, Yuki Yonezawa, Ikuya Aoyama, Akihito Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9768832
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a power electronics device in which a selects a first power electronics device and a second power electronics device from power electronics devices, based on power attribute information and communication attribute information of each power electronics device, and the first power electronics device is a master of power allocation control of electric energy that the power electronics devices connected to one power line of power lines perform input and output on the one power line, and the second power electronics device is a master of output power phase synchronization control of power which the power electronics devices connected to the one power line outputs to the one power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Kotaro Ise, Takafumi Sakamoto, Yuji Tohzaka, Ikuya Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20170127317
    Abstract: A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Yasuyuki NISHIBAYASHI, Yoriko UTSUNOMIYA
  • Patent number: 9585172
    Abstract: A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiro Takagi, Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Yoriko Utsunomiya
  • Publication number: 20160353483
    Abstract: A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro TAKAGI, Yasuyuki NISHIBAYASHI, Yoriko UTSUNOMIYA
  • Patent number: 9465378
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, there is provided a power electronics device including: a controlling unit, a determining unit, a confirming unit and a determining unit. The controlling unit performs surveillance/control concerning an input/output of power to a power line with other power electronics devices connected via the power line. The determining unit determines a master device which is a subject of the surveillance/control and a slave device which is controlled by the master device, based on power characteristic information of the other power electronics devices from among the other power electronics devices and the power electronics device. The confirming unit confirms whether the master device and the slave device determined by the determining unit are matched with the master device and the slave device determined by the other power electronics devices. The determining unit permits a start of the surveillance/control when matching is determined by the confirming unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Keiichi Teramoto, Kotaro Ise, Yasuro Shobatake, Ikuya Aoyama, Yuki Yonezawa, Fumiaki Kanayama, Yusuke Doi, Shinya Murai
  • Publication number: 20160278010
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a determiner, and an executor. The determiner is configured to determine whether the wireless communication device can continue operation by a stored electric power in which remaining capacity changes according to operation of the wireless communication device for a predetermined period, based on information including an operation timing associated with a cycle in which a management server. The executor is configured to execute an operation in which the data is transmitted and received between the other wireless communication device and the management server via the wireless communication device when the wireless communication device is able to continue the operation, and otherwise, cause the wireless communication device to move into intermittent operation and causes the other communication device to transmit the data to the management server not via the wireless communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuyuki NISHIBAYASHI, Yusuke DOI, Takafumi SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9414264
    Abstract: A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiro Takagi, Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Yoriko Utsunomiya
  • Patent number: 9385528
    Abstract: There is provided a power electronics device including: a first connection unit, a second connection unit, a power conversion unit and a control unit. The first connection unit and the second connection unit are connected to a first power line and a second power line of plural power lines. The power conversion unit converts power from one of the first and second connection units outputs converted power from the other of the first and second connection units. The control unit selects a master device from power electronics devices connected to a third power line that is one of the power lines including the first power line and the second power line, based on power conversion characteristic information of the power electronics devices. The master device controls other power electronics devices except the master device out of the power electronics devices, regarding output of power to the third power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Kotaro Ise, Keiichi Teramoto
  • Patent number: 9368970
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a charge/discharge instruction apparatus, including: a charge/discharge instruction unit which instructs a charge/discharge determination apparatus to perform a charge/discharge control of a battery; a charge/discharge information storage unit which stores charge/discharge information for charging/discharging the battery; a control unit which controls an access request to the battery based on the stored charge/discharge information and contents of the charge/discharge control; a generating unit which generates a communication message concerned with the access request controlled by the control unit; and a communication unit which transmits the communication message concerned with the access request to the charge/discharge determination apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Keiichi Teramoto, Kotaro Ise
  • Publication number: 20160124400
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control device in a power electronics device includes a controller, a configuration determiner and a manager. The controller performs control associated with power conversion, in accordance with a first logical configuration of control between the power electronics device and other power electronics device. The configuration determiner performs determination processing of a second logical configuration when a change condition of the first logical configuration is satisfied. The manager instructs the controller to perform the control in accordance with the second logical configuration, the manager performing management such that the controller performs the control in accordance with previously given control information for a period after the change condition of the first logical configuration is satisfied and until the manager instructs the controller to perform the control associated with the power conversion in accordance with the second logical configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Fumiaki KANAYAMA, Yusuke DOI, Yasuyuki NISHIBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9331502
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a charge/discharge instruction apparatus including: a communicating unit, a communication frequency deciding unit, an information collecting unit and a charge/discharge managing unit. The communicating unit communicates with a battery storage system. The communication frequency deciding unit decides a collection frequency of Information related to the battery storage system according to a state of the battery storage system. The information collecting unit collects the information from the battery storage system at the collection frequency decided in the communication frequency deciding unit. The charge/discharge managing unit controls at least one of charge and discharge of the battery storage system based on the information collected in the information collecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yuki Yonezawa, Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Keiichi Teramoto, Kotaro Ise
  • Patent number: 9300156
    Abstract: In one embodiment, there is provided a charge-discharge instructing apparatus. The apparatus includes: an acquiring module configured to acquire specific information and location information for each of a plurality of battery energy storage systems, wherein the specific information represents an electrical characteristic of a battery of each of the battery energy storage systems, and the location information represents an installation position of each of the battery energy storage systems; a group determining module configured to select some of the battery energy storage systems from among the plurality of battery energy storage systems to make a group composed of the selected battery energy storage systems, based on the specific information and the location information; and a managing module configured to send a charge-discharge control instruction to the battery energy storage systems belonging to the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Nishibayashi, Keiichi Teramoto, Kotaro Ise
  • Publication number: 20160077142
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power electronics device has an output connected to an output of a different power electronics device by a power line. The power electronics device includes a detector to detect, from the power line or a space around the power electronics device, an electric power that the different power electronics device superimposes onto an output power, or at least one of an electric power, a sound, and an electromagnetic wave, each having a frequency of a carrier wave that the different power electronics device uses for power conversion. The power electronics device includes a determiner to determine a state of the different power electronics device based on a detection signal obtained through detection performed by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Fumiaki KANAYAMA, Yuusuke KOUNO, Yasuyuki NISHIBAYASHI