Patents by Inventor Eiichiro FUJIWARA

Eiichiro FUJIWARA 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: 20230071267
    Abstract: Provided is a charging system (1) including: one or a plurality of charging stations (10); and a host unit (16) configured to hold communication to and from the charging stations (10), wherein each of the charging stations (10) includes: a plurality of chargers (30) configured to charge batteries (20) mounted to vehicles (12); and a charging control module (42) configured to control charging by the chargers (30) in accordance with a charging schedule, wherein the host unit (16) includes a schedule management module (70) configured to create the charging schedule, and wherein the schedule management module (70) is configured to create the charging schedule in which at least part of a future electric power charge amount planned to be allocated to some of the vehicles (12) that are presently being charged is cut down to be allocated to charging for one of the vehicles (12) that requests early start of charging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro FUJIWARA, Masao ONO
  • Publication number: 20230073260
    Abstract: Provided is an optimization system (1) including: a plurality of individual systems (20); and a host system (12) configured to communicate to and from the individual systems (20). Each of the individual systems (20) includes: a device (electric device (30)) which is connected to an energy source (electric power system (22)), and is configured to receive energy from the energy source, or transmit energy to the energy source; and an optimization calculation module (50) configured to execute optimization calculation so that an objective function is minimized under a state in which parameters of the energy through the device are set to the objective function and a constraint condition, respectively. The host system (12) includes a host calculation module (70) configured to derive an incentive based on a plurality of optimization calculation results each derived by a corresponding one of the individual systems (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro FUJIWARA, Masao ONO
  • Patent number: 11493352
    Abstract: An information processing system according to one embodiment includes: a provision unit configured to transmit to a user terminal an incentive list indicating one or more incentives provided by one or more facilities; a receiving unit configured to receive from the user terminal an incentive selected from the incentive list by a user of the user terminal; and a request unit configured to transmit a reservation request for reserving a power transmitting device of a corresponding facility which is the facility corresponding to the selected incentive for a vehicle corresponding to the user, to the corresponding facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eiichiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11358488
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires battery information on a battery of each of one or more vehicles; a second acquisition unit that acquires supply source information on a state of a power supply source; a selection unit that selects a vehicle for providing electric power for the power supply source as a power source out of the one or more vehicles, based on the supply source information and the battery information; and a request unit that requests the vehicle selected as the power source to provide the electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro Fujiwara, Kenichi Takahashi, Shinya Kono, Jun Araki
  • Patent number: 11095157
    Abstract: A wireless power-transmitting system which wirelessly transmits electric power by making a power-transmitting coil and a power-receiving coil face each other includes: a cover which is slidable between a closing position at which the cover covers an area above a facing surface of the power-transmitting coil and an open position at which the cover is retracted from the area above the facing surface; and a hook member which makes a foreign object placed on the cover move together with the cover sliding from the closing position to the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro Fujiwara, Susumu Tokura
  • Publication number: 20210053458
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires battery information on a battery of each of one or more vehicles; a second acquisition unit that acquires supply source information on a state of a power supply source; a selection unit that selects a vehicle for providing electric power for the power supply source as a power source out of the one or more vehicles, based on the supply source information and the battery information; and a request unit that requests the vehicle selected as the power source to provide the electric power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichiro FUJIWARA, Kenichi TAKAHASHI, Shinya KONO, Jun ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20200326196
    Abstract: An information processing system according to one embodiment includes: a provision unit configured to transmit to a user terminal an incentive list indicating one or more incentives provided by one or more facilities; a receiving unit configured to receive from the user terminal an incentive selected from the incentive list by a user of the user terminal; and a request unit configured to transmit a reservation request for reserving a power transmitting device of a corresponding facility which is the facility corresponding to the selected incentive for a vehicle corresponding to the user, to the corresponding facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eiichiro FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20200051105
    Abstract: The invention disclosed relates to a reward prediction calculating system, a reward prediction calculating server, a reward prediction calculating computer program product, and a reward prediction calculating method that estimate a reasonable reward to a participant member in a referral sale distribution membership group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: YASUO MAZAKI, SUSUMU URASHIMA, NAOAKI OKUBO, EIICHIRO FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20200014248
    Abstract: A wireless power-transmitting system which wirelessly transmits electric power by making a power-transmitting coil and a power-receiving coil face each other includes: a cover which is slidable between a closing position at which the cover covers an area above a facing surface of the power-transmitting coil and an open position at which the cover is retracted from the area above the facing surface; and a hook member which makes a foreign object placed on the cover move together with the cover sliding from the closing position to the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro FUJIWARA, Susumu TOKURA
  • Patent number: 10454310
    Abstract: A wireless power-transmitting system which wirelessly transmits electric power by making a power-transmitting coil and a power-receiving coil face each other includes: a cover which is slidable between a closing position at which the cover covers an area above a facing surface of the power-transmitting coil and an open position at which the cover is retracted from the area above the facing surface; and a hook member which makes a foreign object placed on the cover move together with the cover sliding from the closing position to the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro Fujiwara, Susumu Tokura
  • Patent number: 10340743
    Abstract: A power transmitter includes a power converter that converts power fed from a power source into first DC power, an inverter circuit that converts the first DC power into first AC power, a power transmission coil that generates a magnetic field based on the first AC power, and is magnetically coupled with a power reception coil included in the power receiver, a sensor that detects a current and a voltage of the first DC power, and a controller that controls the power converter, wherein the controller controls the power converter to raise a voltage of the first DC power up to a first voltage lower than a predetermined power feeding time voltage predetermined, and determines whether power is not allowed to be fed to the power receiver based on the current of the first DC power when the voltage of the first DC power is the first voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Takatsu, Sho Hashizume, Yuji Maekawa, Eiichiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9837857
    Abstract: A rectenna includes an antenna configured to receive a radio wave, a rectifier circuit configured to rectify the radio wave received by the antenna, a transmission line connected to the antenna and the rectifier circuit, and a modulation input circuit including a variable capacitance element. The variable capacitance element is connected at one end to a portion of the transmission line between an antenna connecting portion at which the antenna is connected to the transmission line and a rectifier circuit connecting portion at which the rectifier circuit is connected to the transmission line, and is configured such that the capacitance thereof varies in accordance with the voltage of a modulated signal wave input to the other end of the variable capacitance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Fujiwara, Masaru Aoki
  • Publication number: 20170194817
    Abstract: A power transmitter includes a power converter that converts power fed from a power source into first DC power, an inverter circuit that converts the first DC power into first AC power, a power transmission coil that generates a magnetic field based on the first AC power, and is magnetically coupled with a power reception coil included in the power receiver, a sensor that detects a current and a voltage of the first DC power, and a controller that controls the power converter, wherein the controller controls the power converter to raise a voltage of the first DC power up to a first voltage lower than a predetermined power feeding time voltage predetermined, and determines whether power is not allowed to be fed to the power receiver based on the current of the first DC power when the voltage of the first DC power is the first voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji TAKATSU, Sho HASHIZUME, Yuji MAEKAWA, Eiichiro FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20160254707
    Abstract: A wireless power-transmitting system which wirelessly transmits electric power by making a power-transmitting coil and a power-receiving coil face each other includes: a cover which is slidable between a closing position at which the cover covers an area above a facing surface of the power-transmitting coil and an open position at which the cover is retracted from the area above the facing surface; and a hook member which makes a foreign object placed on the cover move together with the cover sliding from the closing position to the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro FUJIWARA, Susumu TOKURA
  • Publication number: 20140001876
    Abstract: A rectenna includes an antenna configured to receive a radio wave, a rectifier circuit configured to rectify the radio wave received by the antenna, a transmission line connected to the antenna and the rectifier circuit, and a modulation input circuit including a variable capacitance element. The variable capacitance element is connected at one end to a portion of the transmission line between an antenna connecting portion at which the antenna is connected to the transmission line and a rectifier circuit connecting portion at which the rectifier circuit is connected to the transmission line, and is configured such that the capacitance thereof varies in accordance with the voltage of a modulated signal wave input to the other end of the variable capacitance element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Eiichiro Fujiwara Fujiwara, Masaru Aoki