Patents by Inventor Akinobu INAMURA

Akinobu INAMURA 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: 20240113520
    Abstract: An energy consumption prediction device includes: a storage unit configured to store past energy consumption result data of a target facility in correlation with information for identifying a date and time at which the data has been acquired and incidental information which is information related to an operation situation of the target facility when the data has been acquired; an extraction unit configured to extract data in which the incidental information matches an extraction condition designated by a user from the energy consumption result data stored in the storage unit and to generate prediction data which is used to predict an amount of consumed energy; and a prediction data generating unit configured to generate energy consumption prediction data in accordance with an instruction from the user based on the prediction data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji KOGUMA, Kenichi HAMAGUCHI, Akinobu INAMURA, Sho KAZIKURA
  • Publication number: 20240097485
    Abstract: Economic efficiency in power control including transmission and reception of electric power to and from an external power market is improved. An EMS serving as a power control device that is able to transmit and receive electric power to and from a power market and controls operations of one or more power instruments includes: a host control unit serving as a transmitted/received electric power determining unit configured to determine an amount of transmitted/received electric power which is an amount of electric power transmitted to and received from the power market based on a power-market unit price in the power market and information related to an operating situation of the one or more power instruments; and an intra-grid control unit serving as an operation instruction determining unit configured to determine an operation instruction for the one or more power instruments based on the determined amount of transmitted/received electric power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinobu ARIMURA, Akinobu INAMURA, Misako KONISHI, Kenichi HAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230369889
    Abstract: Provided is a technique that stably adjusts energy exchange with an outside and quickly returns received power in a case in which a deviation between a target value and an actual value increases. A power control device controls an operation of a power adjustment device in a microgrid that is capable of exchanging energy with an outside and includes the power adjustment device adjusting an internal power usage. The power control device includes a control unit that controls the power adjustment device such that an actual value of the energy exchange with the outside is close to a target value and, in a case in which a state of the energy exchange changes such that a deviation between the target value and the actual value becomes larger, performs change control to change a content of control such that an amount of change in the deviation increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi HAMAGUCHI, Akinobu INAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230352937
    Abstract: There is provided a power adjustment method in a microgrid connected to an external power supply system and having a power storage unit capable of adjusting an amount of stored power by charging and discharging and a power consumption unit capable of adjusting power consumption of the power. The power adjustment method includes adjusting transmission and reception of the power by simultaneously controlling the power consumption in the power consumption unit and charge/discharge power in the power storage unit in order to transmit and receive power based on a planned value determined for each planned section to and from the external power supply system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi HAMAGUCHI, Akinobu INAMURA, Yuji KOGUMA
  • Publication number: 20230283078
    Abstract: A power adjustment method includes a step of calculating an integration error which is an error between a control target value of an integrated amount of grid power transmitted and received between an electric power system and a microgrid and an actual value of the integrated amount of the grid power, a step of generating a first command value for causing a power consuming device to consume power consumption on the basis of a low-frequency component of the integration error, a step of generating a second command value for causing a power storage device to charge and discharge charging/discharging power on the basis of a high-frequency component of the integration error, and a step of outputting the first command value to the power consuming device and outputting the second command value to the power storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi HAMAGUCHI, Akinobu INAMURA, Yuji KOGUMA
  • Publication number: 20230185258
    Abstract: Provided is an operation plan creation device that creates an operation plan for a load device in a microgrid including a renewable energy generation device and the load device. The operation plan includes a plan for performing a start operation or a stop operation of the load device. The operation plan creation device includes a creation unit that creates the operation plan on the basis of information related to a prediction value of power generated in the renewable energy generation device for an entire creation period of the operation plan, information related to power consumption characteristics of the load device, and information related to temporary power consumption necessary for the start operation or the stop operation of the load device included in the operation plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi HAMAGUCHI, Akinobu INAMURA, Yuji KOGUMA
  • Publication number: 20230170700
    Abstract: A demand and supply planning method generates a supply-demand plan including information that specifies operation of an energy generation unit for each unit time in a microgrid having energy generation units being connected to an external energy supply system and generating energy while consuming fuel, an energy storage unit, and a load unit; by calculating an optimization problem related to an objective function including terms related to energy transfer from the external energy supply system in the microgrid and terms related to fuel consumption in the microgrid by using a constraint condition related to a relationship between information related to an operating duration time in each of the one or more energy generation units at a start time for generating the supply-demand plan and a minimum operation time constraint of the energy generation unit; and outputting the supply-demand plan based on a calculation result of the optimization problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi HAMAGUCHI, Akinobu INAMURA, Yuji KOGUMA, Sho KAZIKURA, Daiki KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20210216932
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores an energy system optimization program causing a computer to execute processes of predetermined steps, the steps including an input step of designating a plurality of types of energy facilities configuring an energy system, a calculation step of acquiring at least one of an optimal system configuration and an optimal operation pattern for which a predetermined index is minimal among at least one of system configurations and operation patterns of the energy system satisfying a predetermined demand, and an output step of outputting the at least one of the optimal system configuration and the optimal operation pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji KOGUMA, Akinobu INAMURA, Masakazu FUJII