Patents by Inventor Yutaka Iino
Yutaka Iino 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: 11757325Abstract: A motor device includes a motor case, an inverter case, a motor, an inverter, and a terminal block. The inverter case is attached to the motor case. The motor is disposed in the motor case. The inverter is disposed in the inverter case. The terminal block is disposed in the inverter case and has a terminal block channel. The terminal block is coupled to an energizing member that extends from the motor. The terminal block channel is configured to guide a coolant.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Morika, Yutaka Iino, Yasufumi Tanaka, Hayata Mimatsu
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Publication number: 20210066991Abstract: A motor device includes a motor case, an inverter case, a motor, an inverter, and a terminal block. The inverter case is attached to the motor case. The motor is disposed in the motor case. The inverter is disposed in the inverter case. The terminal block is disposed in the inverter case and has a terminal block channel. The terminal block is coupled to an energizing member that extends from the motor. The terminal block channel is configured to guide a coolant.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki MORIKA, Yutaka IINO, Yasufumi TANAKA, Hayata MIMATSU
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Patent number: 10643163Abstract: A schedule determination device includes an acquisitor, a setter, and a determiner. The acquisitor acquires indexes of an operation schedule of a device and constraint conditions of the indexes. The setter sets a second range, which is narrower than a first range set in the operation schedule before a change, as a range for values of variables that establish constraint conditions of indexes of a new operation schedule. The determiner determines the operation schedule of the device, using the variable values within the second range.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masaaki Saito, Dai Murayama, Yutaka Iino, Nagako Hisada
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Patent number: 10437273Abstract: A device operation setting apparatus includes a calculator and a determiner. The calculator calculates, based at least in part on a relationship between a setting value regarding operation control of a device and a consumed power of a device, a target value of the consumed power of the device. The determiner determines the setting value to cause that a difference between an actually measured consumed power of the device and the target value of the consumed power of the device calculated by the calculator is within a prescribed range.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Dai Murayama, Masaaki Saito, Nagako Hisada, Yutaka Iino
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Patent number: 10345766Abstract: According to an embodiment, server includes estimator, condition setter, calculator, receiver, and controller. Estimator estimates an energy demand in building where electrical apparatuses are equipped based on apparatus data. Condition setter sets energy consumption suppression conditions. Calculator calculates operation schedule of apparatuses which can optimize an energy balance in building based on the demand and condition. Receiver receives DR signal including energy consumption suppression condition. Controller controls the apparatuses based on operation schedule calculated based on the condition corresponding to that included in the DR signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Dai Murayama, Masaaki Saito, Masahiko Murai, Yutaka Iino
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Patent number: 10054971Abstract: A received electric power reduction information calculation apparatus (corresponding to an example of a received energy reduction information calculation apparatus) has an energy predictor and a reduction information calculator. The energy predictor predicts a prediction amount of at least one of energy supply and energy consumption in a future prescribed time period with respect to at least one of an energy-supplying equipment and an energy-consuming equipment, based on a request for reduction of the received energy. The reduction information calculator calculates the reduction amount of the received energy associated with the prediction amount, based on an energy fee reflected from an expected fee of incentive with respect to the reduction request of the received energy.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masaaki Saito, Dai Murayama, Yutaka Iino, Nagako Hisada
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Electric/thermal energy storage schedule optimizing device, optimizing method and optimizing program
Patent number: 10042332Abstract: An electric/thermal energy storage schedule optimizing device is provided. The electric/thermal energy storage schedule optimizing device includes a predicting unit setting predicted values of a consumed energy or a supplying energy of a plurality of control-target devices. The electric/thermal energy storage schedule optimizing device also includes a start-stop optimizing unit creating start-stop schedules of the plurality of control-target devices based on the predicted values set by the predicting unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masaaki Saito, Dai Murayama, Kenji Mitsumoto, Yasuo Takagi, Yutaka Iino -
Patent number: 9946242Abstract: An optimized operation schedule of a control-target apparatus is ensured while maximally reducing a burden share to a facility operator. An energy predictor sets, for a control-target apparatus, a predicted value of energy consumption or energy supply within a predetermined future time period based on process data. A schedule optimizer optimizes an operation schedule of the control-target apparatus within the predetermined time period with a predetermined evaluation barometer based on the predicted value, the characteristic of the control-target apparatus, and the process data. An approval request determiner determines a necessity of an approval for a latest operation schedule based on a preset determining condition. A determination result transmitter transmits a determination result by the approval request determiner.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masaaki Saito, Dai Murayama, Yutaka Iino, Nagako Hisada
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Patent number: 9916630Abstract: An optimized operating schedule is obtained while avoiding a complexity of formulation and optimization in response to an incentive type demand response. A device includes an energy predictor setting a predicted value of energy of a control-target device within a predetermined future period, a schedule optimizer optimizing the operating schedule of the control-target device within the predetermined period in accordance with a predetermined evaluation barometer, an incentive acceptance determiner determining a time with a possibility that an incentive is receivable, an electricity suppressing schedule optimizer optimizing, for a time with a possibility that the incentive is receivable, the operating schedule of the control-target device based on a unit price of electricity fee having a unit price for calculating the incentive taken into consideration, and an adopted schedule selector selecting either one of the operating schedules.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masaaki Saito, Dai Murayama, Yutaka Iino, Masahiko Murai, Nagako Hisada
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Publication number: 20170278039Abstract: A device operation setting value determination apparatus of an embodiment has a forecaster, a margin determining unit, and a schedule determining unit. The forecaster forecasts an energy amount consumed by or supplied to a device. The margin determining unit determines a margin of the forecast value of energy amount as a margin for bidding a negawatt amount. The margin determining unit appends the determined margin to the forecast value of the energy amount. The schedule determining unit determines a setting value that establishes operation of the device, based on the forecast value of the energy amount to which the margin has been appended, device energy characteristics, and an incentive unit amount in a demand response.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masaaki SAITO, Yutaka IINO, Dai MURAYAMA
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Patent number: 9559549Abstract: According to an embodiment, management server includes estimator, scheduler, acquisition unit, monitoring unit, receiver and setting unit. Estimator calculates estimated value of energy demand in building with electric appliance. Scheduler creates schedule of appliance based on estimated value. Acquisition unit acquires actual value of energy demand. Monitoring unit monitors error between estimated value and actual value. Receiver receives DR signal containing information which prompts suppression of energy consumption in a designated period. Setting unit sets threshold. Estimator recalculates estimated value if error is equal or more than threshold. Scheduler reforms schedule based on the recalculated estimated value.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Dai Murayama, Masaaki Saito, Nagako Hisada, Yutaka Iino
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Patent number: 9543775Abstract: A battery controller has a holder, a calculator, an acquirer, a calculator, and a controller. The holder holds, at a predetermined time, a value of a received power supplied from an electrical power receiving system to equipment supplied with power from a rechargeable battery. A calculator calculates a difference between a present value of the received power and a last-held value of the received power last-held by the holder at the predetermined time. An acquirer acquires a command value of the received power for each predetermined time period defined by a predetermined time interval. A calculator calculates a limit value of the received power for each time that is shorter than the predetermined time, based on the command value of the received power for each predetermined time period. A controller controls charge and discharge in the rechargeable battery, based on the calculated difference and on the limit value.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Dai Murayama, Masaaki Saito, Nagako Hisada, Yutaka Iino
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Patent number: 9464412Abstract: According to one embodiment, a water demand optimization system includes a management terminal, a measuring apparatus, a demand information generating unit and a water-supply control apparatus. The management terminal drives customer equipment, which performs an operation using water, in a time zone in which a power unit rate is low. The measuring apparatus measures an amount of water used in a dwelling unit. The demand information generating unit generates water demand based on the amount of water. The water-supply control apparatus controls a pump in a manner to meet water demand and to minimize a treatment cost in a water purification plant and a cost for conveyance of clear water with reference to a variation in the power unit rate.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2012Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hisashi Kobayashi, Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Koichi Hirooka, Yutaka Iino, Masato Shibuya
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Patent number: 9257849Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrical quantity adjusting apparatus connected to an electrical facility includes a memory unit that stores a target level which is a target electrical quantity, a presenting level deciding unit that decides a presenting level to an exterior, the presenting level being an electrical quantity relating to the electrical facility and corresponding to at least a part at the target level, a presenting level output unit that outputs the presenting level decided by the presenting level deciding unit to the exterior via a communication network, a presenting level receiving unit that receives a presenting level from the exterior via the communication network, and an adjusting unit that adjusts the electrical quantity relating to the electrical facility based on the target level, the presenting level decided by the presenting level deciding unit, and the presenting level received by the presenting level receiving unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yutaka Iino, Kyosuke Katayama, Yoshiaki Hasegawa
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Patent number: 9243811Abstract: According to one embodiment, a PMV estimating device calculates a PMV value from an average room radiation temperature, room temperature, room humidity, room air velocity, an amount of cloth worn by a person in the room, and an amount of activity of the person in the room. The PMV estimating device includes: indoor solar radiation calculator; solar radiated article temperature estimator; and average radiation temperature estimator. The indoor solar radiation calculator calculates an amount of solar radiation entered into the room. The solar radiated article temperature estimator estimates a temperature of a solar radiated article receiving the solar radiation entered into the room, by using the amount of solar radiation entered into the room calculated by the indoor solar radiation calculator. The average radiation temperature estimator estimates the average room radiation temperature by using the temperature of the solar radiated article estimated by the solar radiated article temperature estimator.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masaaki Saito, Yasuo Takagi, Koichi Ikeda, Yukio Hiraoka, Kenji Mitsumoto, Dai Murayama, Nobutaka Nishimura, Yoshikazu Ooba, Yutaka Iino
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Publication number: 20150323921Abstract: An optimized operation schedule of a control-target apparatus is ensured while maximally reducing a burden share to a facility operator. An energy predictor sets, for a control-target apparatus, a predicted value of energy consumption or energy supply within a predetermined future time period based on process data. A schedule optimizer optimizes an operation schedule of the control-target apparatus within the predetermined time period with a predetermined evaluation barometer based on the predicted value, the characteristic of the control-target apparatus, and the process data. An approval request determiner determines a necessity of an approval for a latest operation schedule based on a preset determining condition. A determination result transmitter transmits a determination result by the approval request determiner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2014Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masaaki Saito, Dai Murayama, Yutaka Iino, Nagako Hisada
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Publication number: 20150295423Abstract: A battery controller has a holder, a calculator, an acquirer, a calculator, and a controller. The holder holds, at a predetermined time, a value of a received power supplied from an electrical power receiving system to equipment supplied with power from a rechargeable battery. A calculator calculates a difference between a present value of the received power and a last-held value of the received power last-held by the holder at the predetermined time. An acquirer acquires a command value of the received power for each predetermined time period defined by a predetermined time interval. A calculator calculates a limit value of the received power for each time that is shorter than the predetermined time, based on the command value of the received power for each predetermined time period. A controller controls charge and discharge in the rechargeable battery, based on the calculated difference and on the limit value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2014Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Dai Murayama, Masaaki Saito, Nagako Hisada, Yutaka Iino
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Patent number: 9136706Abstract: A power management system includes: customer terminals; and a power management apparatus connected to the customer terminals, wherein each of the customer terminals includes a weather forecast acquisition unit that acquires a local weather forecast for a corresponding customer terminal, and a power prediction unit that predicts a power consumption and an amount of power that can be reduced for a predetermined period based on the weather forecast, and the power management apparatus includes an integration processing unit that integrates the power consumptions and the amounts of power that can be reduced that are predicted for the respective customer terminals to calculate a total power consumption and a total amount of power that can be reduced for all of the customer terminals.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kenji Mitsumoto, Dai Murayama, Masaaki Saito, Yoshikazu Ooba, Shingo Tamaru, Yasuo Takagi, Nobutaka Nishimura, Yutaka Iino, Shuichi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20150253795Abstract: A received electric power reduction information calculation apparatus (corresponding to an example of a received energy reduction information calculation apparatus) has an energy predictor and a reduction information calculator. The energy predictor predicts a prediction amount of at least one of energy supply and energy consumption in a future prescribed time period with respect to at least one of an energy-supplying equipment and an energy-consuming equipment, based on a request for reduction of the received energy. The reduction information calculator calculates the reduction amount of the received energy associated with the prediction amount, based on an energy fee reflected from an expected fee of incentive with respect to the reduction request of the received energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2014Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masaaki Saito, Dai Murayama, Yutaka Iino, Nagako Hisada
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Patent number: 8989911Abstract: A power consumption management system includes power consumption managers and a power supply manager. Each of the power consumption managers creates changeable power amount information with respect to a planned value of power consumption for each predetermined time range in a preset predetermined period in future, the planned value being related to a load of each piece of equipment in a building as a monitoring target. The power supply manager is connected to each of the power consumption managers through a network, decides a power change request amount for each building based on the created changeable power amount information, and transmits the decided power change request amount to each of the power consumption managers for the purpose of notification.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masahiko Murai, Yasuo Takagi, Nobutaka Nishimura, Yutaka Iino, Kenji Mitsumoto, Dai Murayama, Kazunori Iwabuchi, Yoshikazu Ooba