Patents Assigned to Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
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Patent number: 11913126Abstract: A hydrogen-system control device according to the present embodiment is a control system for a hydrogen system that produces hydrogen: a first setter; a second setter configured to set an actual power consumption amount obtained by reducing a reduced power amount from the first power consumption amount in advance, when the demand response for reducing the first power consumption amount in the request period is requested the device comprising: and a controller configured to control a power amount of the second power in the request period based on the actual power consumption amount. The second setter is configured to set the actual power consumption amount in a range in which the hydrogen system is able to achieve a target amount of hydrogen to be produced in a first period that includes the request period and is longer than the request period.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Takashi Akiba, Shingo Tamaru, Shin Kato, Fumiyuki Yamane
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Patent number: 11908970Abstract: A process for manufacturing a multilayered thin film, includes: forming a photovoltaic conversion layer, comprising Cu2O as a main component, on a first transparent electrode; and placing, under a first atmosphere at an oxygen level of from 5.0×10?8 [g/L] to 5.0×10?5 [g/L] for 1 h to 1600 h, a member having the photovoltaic conversion layer formed on the first transparent electrode.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya Honishi, Soichiro Shibasaki, Naoyuki Nakagawa, Mutsuki Yamazaki, Yoshiko Hiraoka, Kazushige Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11909212Abstract: A hydrogen-system control device according to the present embodiment is a hydrogen-system control device that controls a hydrogen system. The hydrogen-system control device includes an acquirer configured to acquire a predicted value of the first power for a time period for which an amount of the second power to be received has been set, and a controller configured to cause the hydrogen system to additionally produce hydrogen in an amount corresponding to a usage ratio of surplus power by which a supplied value of the first power exceeds the predicted value of the first power, wherein the controller sets the usage ratio for a first time period within a predetermined time period to a value larger than the usage ratio for a second time period that is after the first time period and within the predetermined time period.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Shingo Tamaru, Takashi Akiba, Fumiyuki Yamane, Shin Kato
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Patent number: 11906164Abstract: A combustor of an embodiment includes: a combustor casing; a combustor liner which is provided in the combustor casing and combusts a fuel and an oxidant to produce a combustion gas; a pipe-shaped member provided to penetrate the combustor casing and the combustor liner; a heat-resistant glass which is provided on the combustor casing side in the pipe-shaped member and closes the pipe-shaped member; a laser light supply mechanism which irradiates an interior of the combustor liner through the heat-resistant glass and an interior of the pipe-shaped member with a laser light; and a contact prevention mechanism which prevents a combustion gas in the combustor liner from coming into contact with the heat-resistant glass.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori Iwai, Masao Itoh, Yuichi Morisawa, Yoshihisa Kobayashi, Shinju Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240052756Abstract: A hydraulic drive valve monitoring device includes a determination part and an alarm part. The determination part is configured to determine whether there is a sign of failure in the hydraulic drive valve device based on a result of comparison between a transition of a working fluid pressure measurement value obtained by measuring a pressure of the working fluid flowing into the valve body part and a transition of a working fluid pressure reference value set for the pressure of the working fluid flowing into the valve body part, when the opening degree of the valve body part is changed. The alarm part is configured to output an alarm when the determination part determines that there is a sign of failure in the hydraulic drive valve device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke AWANO, Koichi NAGAISHI, Issei TSUTSUI
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Publication number: 20240055882Abstract: A storage battery control device includes a hardware processor functioning as an acquisition unit, a first calculation unit, and a control part. The acquisition unit acquires operation conditions of a storage battery system including a storage battery being chargeable and dischargeable. The first calculation unit calculates, as a first predicted value, a battery capacity of the storage battery in a predetermined period on the basis of the operation conditions acquired by the acquisition unit. The battery capacity corresponds to a case where the storage battery is operated under the operation conditions. The control part controls a charging voltage when the storage battery system charges the storage battery. The charging voltage is controlled on the basis of the first predicted value calculated by the first calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masako KIUCHI, Mami MIZUTANI, Takahiro KASE, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Makoto IDE, Yukitaka MONDEN, Kenji MITSUMOTO, Yoshihisa SUMIDA
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Patent number: 11901774Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor includes a coil slot, a sub-slot, and coil airflow paths arranged in the rotor axial direction. At least one coil airflow path among the coil airflow paths includes a first wall surface disposed on a core central portion side of a cooling gas inlet portion of the coil airflow path, a second wall surface disposed on the core central portion side of an inside of the coil airflow path, and located more on the rotor radially outward side and more on a core end portion side than the first wall surface, and a third wall surface configured to connect the first wall surface and the second wall surface, the third wall surface including a surface perpendicular to a rotor radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Takashi Harakawa, Shinji Kubo, Yasuo Kabata, Yoshihiro Taniyama, Ryo Fuchimoto, Koji Ando
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Patent number: 11901474Abstract: A solar cell of an embodiment includes a p-electrode, an n-electrode, a p-type light-absorbing layer located between the p-electrode and the n-electrode and mainly containing a cuprous oxide, and a first n-type layer which is located between the p-type light-absorbing layer and the n-electrode, which mainly contains a compound represented by Gax1M1x2M2x3M3x4M4x5Ox6, the M1 being Hf and/or Zr, the M2 being one or more selected from the group consisting of In, Ti, and Zn, the M3 being Al and/or B, the M4 is one or more selected from the group consisting of Sn, Si, and Ge, the x1, the x2, and the x6 being more than 0, the x3, the x4, and the x5 being 0 or more, and the x6 when a sum of the x1, the x2, the x3, the x4, and the x5 is 2 being 3.0 or more and 3.8 or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: KABUSAIRES KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Soichiro Shibasaki, Yuya Honishi, Naoyuki Nakagawa, Mutsuki Yamazaki, Yukitami Mizuno, Yasutaka Nishida, Kazushige Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11892169Abstract: A combustor structure of an embodiment is disposed to penetrate, from a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of a turbine rotor in a supercritical CO2 gas turbine which uses supercritical CO2 for a working fluid, a casing of the supercritical CO2 gas turbine. The combustor structure includes a plurality of combustors. Each of the combustors includes: a combustor liner in a cylindrical shape, which combusts fuel and an oxidant; a fuel supply part which is provided at an upstream end of the combustor liner and supplies the fuel into the combustor liner; and an oxidant supply part which is provided at the upstream end of the combustor liner and supplies the oxidant into the combustor liner.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masao Itoh, Yasunori Iwai, Takashi Sasaki, Yuichi Morisawa, Hiroki Kasuya
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Patent number: 11888076Abstract: A solar cell of an embodiment includes: a transparent substrate; a p-electrode on the substrate, the p-electrode including a first p-electrode containing an Sn-based metal oxide, a second p-electrode having an opening and consisting of a wiring containing a metal or graphene, and a third p-electrode containing an In-based metal oxide; a p-type light absorbing layer in direct contact with a surface of the first p-electrode on a side opposite to the second p-electrode side; an n-type layer provided on the p-type light absorbing layer; and an n-electrode provided on the n-type layer. The third p-electrode is provided to be present between the first p-electrode and the second p-electrode and to be in direct contact with an upper surface of the second p-electrode. An entire side surface of the second p-electrode is in direct contact with the first p-electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushige Yamamoto, Soichiro Shibasaki, Yuya Honishi, Naoyuki Nakagawa, Mutsuki Yamazaki, Yoshiko Hiraoka
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Publication number: 20240028992Abstract: A planning device includes: a specifying unit that specifies a demand type categorizing a hydrogen demand and an intended use of the hydrogen demand; an importance degree setting unit that sets an importance degree table configured to link importance degrees of the demand type and the intended use with results of the specification; an importance degree determining unit that determines the importance degree of the demand type and the importance degree of the intended use based on the hydrogen demand information, the results of the specification, and the importance degree table; a demand predicting unit that predicts the hydrogen demand based on the hydrogen demand information and the results of the specification; and a supply plan creating unit that creates a hydrogen supply plan based on the state information, the hydrogen demand information, a result of the prediction, the importance degrees, and an electric power information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Keita NAKAJIMA, Takashi AKIBA, Fumiyuki YAMANE
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Patent number: 11879178Abstract: An electrochemical device of an embodiment includes: an electrochemical cell including a first electrode having a first flow path, a second electrode having a second flow path, and a separating membrane sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode; a gas-liquid separation tank which is connected to the first flow path of the first electrode and to which a product produced at the first electrode and water permeating from the second electrode to the first electrode are sent at an operation time; and a water sealing pipe which is connected to a liquid portion of the gas-liquid separation tank, and to send water in the gas-liquid separation tank to the first flow path of the first electrode at a stop time.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Norihiro Yoshinaga, Ryota Kitagawa, Shinichi Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20240019860Abstract: According to one embodiment, an abnormality cause diagnosis device performs first determination processing of determining whether the operation data satisfies a predetermined condition, when the cause of the abnormality can be specified, displays information representing the cause of the abnormality and the measure associated with the cause, when the cause of the abnormality cannot be specified, displays the question to the user and performs second determination processing of determining whether the non-operation data input to the question via the second input device satisfies a predetermined condition, when the cause of the abnormality can be specified, displays information representing the cause of the abnormality and the measure associated with the cause.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Kazuki Kobayashi, Reza Akhyar Ramadhan, Tsukasa Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20240014656Abstract: According to an embodiment, an operation plan planning device connected to an electric power system and plans an operation plan for responding to a request for a balancing power from the electric power system in a hydrogen production plant that includes a renewable energy generator, a water electrolysis device, and a hydrogen storage facility, the device comprises: an input part; a storage; a calculator including: a balancing power scenario creating unit to create a time series of a balancing power price and a time series of a balancing power ratio, and to create a balancing power scenario by synthesizing them; a mathematical optimization calculator; and a calculation condition setting unit; and an output part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuto KUBOTA, Shingo TAMARU, Takashi AKIBA, Fumiyuki YAMANE
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Acid gas removal control apparatus, acid gas removal control method, and acid gas removing apparatus
Patent number: 11865492Abstract: In one embodiment, an acid gas removing apparatus includes an absorber configured to bring a first gas including an acid gas and a lean solution into contact to discharge a rich solution that is the lean solution having absorbed the acid gas, a regenerator configured to separate the acid gas from the rich solution discharged by the absorber to discharge the lean solution that is the rich solution separated from the acid gas, and a measuring instrument configured to measure a temperature of the rich or lean solution in the regenerator. Furthermore, an acid gas removal control apparatus that controls the acid gas removing apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive the measured temperature, and a controller configured to control resupply of a resupplied solution to the rich or lean solution or removal of an acid component from the rich or lean solution, based on the received temperature.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Kato, Mitsuru Udatsu, Daigo Muraoka, Hayato Morigaki, Shinji Murai, Koshito Fujita -
Patent number: 11867071Abstract: In one embodiment, a turbine monitoring system includes a temperature measurer configured to sense a temperature of steam to be introduced to a steam turbine, and output a sensing result of the temperature. The system further includes an electrical output measurer configured to sense an electrical output of a generator driven by the steam turbine, and output a sensing result of the electrical output. The system further includes a computing module configured to compute an erosion quantity of a moving vane of the steam turbine with water drops, based on the sensing result of the temperature that is output from the temperature measurer and the sensing result of the electrical output that is output from the electrical output measurer. The system further includes an outputting module configured to output information that is based on the erosion quantity computed by the computing module.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Tomohiko Tsukuda, Yasuteru Kawai, Yukio Kanehira, Tsuguhisa Tashima
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Publication number: 20240008165Abstract: To enable avoiding interference between a path of a separated charged particle beam and an electromagnet as well as providing a sufficient separation distance between: a path of a separated charged particle beam; and a path of a charged particle beam traveling in a main region. A quadrupole electromagnet includes: an iron core provided with a beam passing gap for travel of an output beam that is a separated charged particle beam, in addition to a main region for travel of a circulating beam that is a charged particle beam; excitation coils, and each wound around the iron core; a main vacuum duct, provided in a main region of the iron core, inside which the circulating beam travels; and a sub-vacuum duct, provided in the beam passing gap of the iron core, inside which the output beam travels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryuki YOKOTA, Yujiro TAJIMA
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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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Patent number: 11862352Abstract: A channel box has a hollow elongated portion and accommodates a plurality of nuclear reactor fuel rods inside the hollow elongated portion, wherein the hollow elongated portion is constituted by a plurality types of silicon carbide composite materials. The channel box has a shape that can be achieved by applying the silicon carbide composite material and can increase earthquake resistance and improve functions and performance as a fuel assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiki Nishimura, Satoko Tajima, Megumi Akimoto, Shoko Suyama, Masaru Ukai
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Patent number: 11861893Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reading support system includes a processing device. The processing device includes an extractor and a type determiner. The extractor extracts a plurality of regions from a candidate region. The candidate region is a candidate of a region in which a meter is imaged. The regions respectively include a plurality of characters of the meter. The type determiner determines a type of the meter based on positions of the regions.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Chiayu Lin