Patents by Inventor Akinori Nishi

Akinori Nishi 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: 8774979
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an executive monitoring and control system for monitoring and controlling a power generation output of each dispersed power source and a load of each demand facility in a smart grid or a micro grid. An abnormal-time interchange procedure formation unit forms, when a fault occurs in a system, an interchange procedure of matching the total power generation output amount of dispersed power sources with the total loading of demand facilities, by using at least the information acquired by the measurement value monitoring unit and the information managed by the customer information management unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ryo Yano, Yoshihiro Ogita, Akinori Nishi, Takenori Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140107104
    Abstract: The present invention provides a combination medicine for treatment of depression, comprising a combination of (A1) an antidepressant and either (B1) a dopamine D1 receptor agonist or (C1) a dopamine D1 receptor antagonist; and a method for screening for an antidepressant that in combination with a dopamine D1 receptor agonist provides an improvement in treatment of depression, the method comprising the steps of: administering, to a mammal, (A2) a compound having an antidepressant action and (B1) a dopamine D1 receptor agonist, and detecting a greater increase in depression-related gene expression, dopamine D1 receptor expression and/or dopamine D1 receptor signaling in comparison with the case where (A2) the compound having an antidepressant action or (B1) the dopamine D1 receptor agonist is administered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventors: Akinori Nishi, Katsunori Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, Paul Greengard
  • Patent number: 8554383
    Abstract: A power supply and demand control apparatus includes a power generation planning unit that calculates one day's power outputs of multiple distributed power sources and a power flow target of a linking point to another power system, a long-cycle control unit having a long-cycle supply-demand balancing control unit that performs control every few minutes so as to ensure the supply-demand balancing of electric energy in a given amount of time at the linking point in order to perform control for making deviations between total power output calculated by the power generation planning unit and load power in the power system constant, and a short-cycle control unit having a short-cycle supply-demand balancing control unit that performs similar control every few seconds. In the power supply and demand control apparatus, the long-cycle control unit and short-cycle control unit perform the supply-demand balancing control in a hierarchical fashion to determine output assignments of the distributed power sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Toba, Takenori Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Ogita, Akinori Nishi
  • Patent number: 8536835
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the economical load dispatcher calculates a discharging threshold value and a charging threshold value based on a discharging unit price of and a charging and discharging efficiency of the secondary battery and further calculates output allocations of the generators and secondary battery such that the secondary battery is discharged when incremental fuel costs of the generators are higher than the discharging threshold value, whereas the secondary battery is charged when incremental fuel costs of the generators are lower than the charging threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mari Tanaka, Takenori Kobayashi, Koji Toba, Yoshihiro Ogita, Ryoichi Ichikawa, Akinori Nishi
  • Patent number: 8471528
    Abstract: To provide a secondary battery controlling apparatus and a controlling method that can keep a storage amount of a secondary battery used for supply and demand control of a power system not close to 100% or 0%. The present invention is a power supply and demand controlling apparatus of a small-scaled power system 1 including distributed power supplies 31, 32, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Toba, Mari Tanaka, Takenori Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Ogita, Akinori Nishi, Ryoichi Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20120158202
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an executive monitoring and control system for monitoring and controlling a power generation output of each dispersed power source and a load of each demand facility in a smart grid or a micro grid. An abnormal-time interchange procedure formation unit forms, when a fault occurs in a system, an interchange procedure of matching the total power generation output amount of dispersed power sources with the total loading of demand facilities, by using at least the information acquired by the measurement value monitoring unit and the information managed by the customer information management unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Ryo Yano, Yoshihiro Ogita, Akinori Nishi, Takenori Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120139499
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the economical load dispatcher calculates a discharging threshold value and a charging threshold value based on a discharging unit price of and a charging and discharging efficiency of the secondary battery and further calculates output allocations of the generators and secondary battery such that the secondary battery is discharged when incremental fuel costs of the generators are higher than the discharging threshold value, whereas the secondary battery is charged when incremental fuel costs of the generators are lower than the charging threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Mari Tanaka, Takenori Kobayashi, Koji Toba, Yoshihiro Ogita, Ryoichi Ichikawa, Akinori Nishi
  • Publication number: 20110137482
    Abstract: A power supply and demand control apparatus includes a power generation planning unit that calculates one day's power outputs of multiple distributed power sources and a power flow target of a linking point to another power system, a long-cycle control unit having a long-cycle supply-demand balancing control unit that performs control every few minutes so as to ensure the supply-demand balancing of electric energy in a given amount of time at the linking point in order to perform control for making deviations between total power output calculated by the power generation planning unit and load power in the power system constant, and a short-cycle control unit having a short-cycle supply-demand balancing control unit that performs similar control every few seconds. In the power supply and demand control apparatus, the long-cycle control unit and short-cycle control unit perform the supply-demand balancing control in a hierarchical fashion to determine output assignments of the distributed power sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Toba, Takenori Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Ogita, Akinori Nishi
  • Publication number: 20100187907
    Abstract: To provide a secondary battery controlling apparatus and a controlling method that can keep a storage amount of a secondary battery used for supply and demand control of a power system not close to 100% or 0%. The present invention is a power supply and demand controlling apparatus of a small-scaled power system 1 including distributed power supplies 31, 32, . . .
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Koji Toba, Mari Tanaka, Takenori Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Ogita, Akinori Nishi, Ryoichi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 6013621
    Abstract: The present invention discloses the bidirectional regulation of DARPP-32 phosphorylation by dopamine and dopamine D1 and D2 receptors. This disclosure leads to new methodology in the treatment of schizophrenia and related disorders. In addition, the present invention provides methods for identifying agents that can be used in such treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: The Rockfeller University
    Inventors: Akinori Nishi, Gretchen L. Snyder, Allen A. Fienberg, Paul Greengard