Patents by Inventor Atsushi Honzawa

Atsushi Honzawa 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: 9671807
    Abstract: Plural power storage systems 10 are provided in a power system. The power storage systems 10 are connected to a management system 60 via a communication network CN1. The power storage systems each include a power storage device 11, 12, and a control device 100 for controlling the power storage device. The control device stores performance information about the power storage system including the control device, location information indicating a location in the power system of the power storage system including the control device, and order information indicating an order of operation allocated to the power storage system including the control device. When a disturbance occurs in the power system, the control device performs a predetermined compensation operation based on the location information and the order information, and then returns to a preset stand-by state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeaki Namba, Atsushi Honzawa, Hiroto Takeuchi, Kazuyuki Tsunoda, Mika Imai
  • Patent number: 9618953
    Abstract: A system stabilization system for suppressing a power fluctuation in a power system, the system stabilization system including: a power storage apparatus configured to suppressing a power fluctuation in the power system by either charging or discharging in response to a control; a capacitor apparatus configured to suppress a power fluctuation in the power system by making the charge/discharge response to control faster than the power storage apparatus and charging or discharging in response to the control; and a control apparatus configured to control the power storage apparatus and the capacitor apparatus so as to reduce occurrences of charging or discharging in the power storage apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Tsunoda, Atsushi Honzawa, Shigeaki Nanba, Hiroto Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20140365027
    Abstract: Plural distributed power storage systems are used to stabilize a power system. Plural power storage systems 10 are provided in a power system. The power storage systems 10 are connected to a management system 60 via a communication network CN1. The power storage systems each include a power storage device 11, 12, and a control device 100 for controlling the power storage device. The control device stores performance information about the power storage system including the control device, location information indicating a location in the power system of the power storage system including the control device, and order information indicating an order of operation allocated to the power storage system including the control device. When a disturbance occurs in the power system, the control device performs a predetermined compensation operation based on the location information and the order information, and then returns to a preset stand-by state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeaki Namba, Atsushi Honzawa, Hiroto Takeuchi, Kazuyuki Tsunoda, Mika Imai
  • Publication number: 20140214223
    Abstract: A system stabilization system for suppressing a power fluctuation in a power system, the system stabilization system including: a power storage apparatus configured to suppressing a power fluctuation in the power system by either charging or discharging in response to a control; a capacitor apparatus configured to suppress a power fluctuation in the power system by making the charge/discharge response to control faster than the power storage apparatus and charging or discharging in response to the control; and a control apparatus configured to control the power storage apparatus and the capacitor apparatus so as to reduce occurrences of charging or discharging in the power storage apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Tsunoda, Atsushi Honzawa, Shigeaki Nanba, Hiroto Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8489352
    Abstract: Apparatuses and method capable of reliably tracking processes through which products have passed without calling for expensive setup are necessary in production and distribution processes of the products. A process management apparatus including a data transmission/reception unit to and from an RFID tag of an information recording medium and a data generation unit comprises a process data generation unit for representing a process, a process pass certificate data generation unit for generating process data pass certificate data and a transmission/reception unit for the process data with the information recording medium and the process pass certificate data can track the processes through which the object products have passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Higaki, Shinichirou Fukushima, Makoto Aikawa, Atsushi Honzawa, Yuuichi Kobayashi, Akira Kishida
  • Publication number: 20110246506
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to manage various containment relationships such as packing relationships and loading relationships of an article, to efficiently search for sensor information measured by a sensor associated with the article, and thereby to provide the sensor information to the user. A system 100 includes a relationship information registration part 1001 and a sensor information searching part 1002.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Michiki NAKANO, Daisuke KOMAKI, Atsushi HONZAWA
  • Patent number: 7873767
    Abstract: A wireless IC memory, for improving the security thereof, for achieving protection of business information and privacy, comprises an RFID tag 100, wherein it is possible to setup “readout disenabling (ReadLock)” condition to the UII code bank for storing ID data of the RFID tag 100, with a predetermined protocol from an external communication apparatus, within the RFID tag 100. Setup of “readout disenabling (ReadLock)” condition is stored on a readout enabling/disenabling condition memory portion 105 within the RFID tag 100. In case where the “readout disenabling (ReadLock)” condition is set up in the UII code bank, a protocol process controller portion 103 of the RFID tag 100, not responding the UII code, normally, but answers a fake UII code or an error code, or gives no answer, to a request or command of readout of the UII data from the external communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masumi Moritani, Shinichiro Fukushima, Hiroyuki Higaki, Yuichi Kobayashi, Atsushi Honzawa
  • Publication number: 20100042845
    Abstract: An IC tag system is provided which can perform transfer of a method of accessing an IC tag and assure data validity of the IC tag only between authorized users. The IC tag system comprises a data write-in device including a password encryption unit (130), a signature generation unit (140) and a data write-in unit (150) operative to communicate with the IC tag (30) to write in data and an encrypted password in the IC tag (30) and set the limitation on access to the data written in the IC tag (30) by the aid of the password, and a data read-in device including a password decryption unit (230), a signature authentication unit (240) and a data read-in unit (250) operative to communicate with the IC tag (30) to read in the data and the encrypted password from the IC tag (30) and release the limitation on access to the data by the aid of the decrypted password.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kobayashi, Atsushi Honzawa, Toshiyuki Kuwana, Shinichirou Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20080262770
    Abstract: Apparatuses and method capable of reliably tracking processes through which products have passed without calling for expensive setup are necessary in production and distribution processes of the products. A process management apparatus including a data transmission/reception unit to and from an RFID tag of an information recording medium and a data generation unit comprises a process data generation unit for representing a process, a process pass certificate data generation unit for generating process data pass certificate data and a transmission/reception unit for the process data with the information recording medium and the process pass certificate data can track the processes through which the object products have passed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HIGAKI, Shinichirou Fukushima, Makoto Aikawa, Atsushi Honzawa, Yuuichi Kobayashi, Akira Kishida
  • Publication number: 20080224833
    Abstract: An information management system comprises information processing unit 51 which reads out self ID number data and reference ID number data from each RFID tag, and additionally writes all the self ID number data and reference ID number data into an ID table. The data in each row of the ID table is the self ID number data and reference ID number data that are stored in each RFID tag. “0” is set to all rows of a link flag setting region, and it is checked whether a value in the M-th row of the reference ID number data is equal to a value in the N-th row of the self ID number data. If both are equal, then “1” is set to the N-th row in the link flag setting region. These processing operations are repeated for all rows of the ID table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Makoto Aikawa, Shinichiro Fukushima, Masumi Moritani, Hiroyuki Higaki, Yuichi Kobayashi, Atsushi Honzawa, Akira Kishida
  • Publication number: 20080224832
    Abstract: In an electronic tag data read/write apparatus, an electronic tag receives a response request from a reader/writer, generates a random number in a random number generator, stores the random number in a memory, and transmits the generated random number to the reader/writer. The reader/writer conducts masking processing on write data on the basis of the random number every size of the received random number, repeats the masking processing until all of the write data are subjected to masking processing, and then transmits the masked write data to the electronic tag collectively. The electronic tag conducts deciphering processing on the received masked write data every size of the random number stored in the memory, repeats the deciphering processing until all of the masked write data are deciphered, and writes the write data into the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tamukai, Shinichiro Fukushima, Yuichi Kobayashi, Atsushi Honzawa
  • Publication number: 20080094183
    Abstract: For making difficult to copy data of a RFID tag, while enabling to detect it when copying the data, easily, but without exerting ill influences upon the existing specification thereof, within the RFID tag 100 is provided a readout exclusive bank, other than banks provided in accordance with the existing specification. RFID identification information is stored into the readout exclusive bank of the RFID tag 100, when the RFID tag 100 is shipped out of a maker. A user who wishes to guarantee properness of UII data produces cryptograph calculation result data through encrypting the RFID identification information and the UII data, when writing the UII data into the RFID tag 100, and stores the cryptograph calculation result data into a USER bank within the RFID tag 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Shinichiro Fukushima, Masumi Moritani, Hiroyuki Higaki, Yuichi Kobayashi, Atsushi Honzawa
  • Publication number: 20080059659
    Abstract: A wireless IC memory, for improving the security thereof, for achieving protection of business information and privacy, comprises an RFID tag 100, wherein it is possible to setup “readout disenabling (ReadLock)” condition to the UII code bank for storing ID data of the RFID tag 100, with a predetermined protocol from an external communication apparatus, within the RFID tag 100. Setup of “readout disenabling (ReadLock)” condition is stored on a readout enabling/disenabling condition memory portion 105 within the RFID tag 100. In case where the “readout disenabling (ReadLock)” condition is set up in the UII code bank, a protocol process controller portion 103 of the RFID tag 100, not responding the UII code, normally, but answers a fake UII code or an error code, or gives no answer, to a request or command of readout of the UII data from the external communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Masumi Moritani, Shinichiro Fukushima, Hiroyuki Higaki, Yuichi Kobayashi, Atsushi Honzawa
  • Publication number: 20070120651
    Abstract: In order to provide a highly secure system at a low cost without providing a complicated logic circuit for an RFID tag, in a system including an RFID tag (10) and a interrogator (20), the interrogator (10) is provided with a password creating unit (1100) which computes an electronic key (131) and a keyword unique to the RFID tag with a predetermined irreversible function to create a password. By using the password as a key, item information of an item attached with the RFID tag (20) is encrypted with a predetermined encryption function. The encrypted item information and the keyword are written to the RFID tag (20). The interrogator (10) reads the encrypted item information and the keyword from the RFID tag (20), causes the password creating unit (1100) to compute the password by using the keyword, and uses the password as a key to decrypt the read encrypted item information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Yuichi Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Kuwana, Atsushi Honzawa, Shinichiro Fukushima