Patents by Inventor Fumikazu Iwahana

Fumikazu Iwahana 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: 8129996
    Abstract: A method for detecting SOC and SOH of a storage battery includes: calculating an SOC value of the storage battery with use of an SOC calculation unit based on a measured voltage value or a measured current value of the storage battery and calculating an SOH value of the storage battery with use of an SOH calculation unit based on the SOC value; further calculating a new SOC value with use of the SOC calculation unit based on the SOH value and calculating a new SOH value with use of the SOH calculation unit based on the new SOC value, these further calculations of SOC value and SOH value being repeated a prescribed n times of at least one so as to obtain an nth calculated SOC value and an nth calculated SOH value; outputting the nth calculated SOH value as an SOH output value and outputting the nth calculated SOH value as an SOC output value; and storing the SOH output value into a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Yuichi Watanabe, Fumikazu Iwahana, Atsushi Kimura, Toshiyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 8078416
    Abstract: A method for estimating a remaining electrical charge or a remaining capacity of a battery that supplies power to a load, the method including: using, at a controller of a battery system, an approximate exponential decay function including a plurality of exponential function terms of time and a plurality of coefficients; stopping, at the battery system, a charge or discharge operation of the battery for a predetermined time; measuring, at a sensor of the battery system, a voltage of the battery at a plurality of instances during the predetermined time; obtaining, at the controller of the battery system, a relationship between the voltage of the battery and time; determining, at the controller of the battery system, the coefficients based on the obtained relationship between the voltage of the battery and the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Yuichi Watanabe, Toshiyuki Sato, Atsushi Kimura, Fumikazu Iwahana
  • Patent number: 7788052
    Abstract: A method and the device are provided for determining state of health of the battery, in addition to the power supply system using the device, to reduce operational and processing load by expanding the data sampled at the time when the battery is caused to discharge square wave pulses into the square wave is provided. The method includes determining state of health of a battery by causing the battery to discharge square wave pulses with a prescribed cycle at a prescribed current value. Response voltages are sampled at a time of a pulse-discharge. The sampled response voltages are sampled into orthogonal square wave components. An amplitude of the square wave component is divided by the current value of the pulse-discharge to obtain a pseudo-impedance. A state of health of the battery based on the pseudo-impedance is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Fumikazu Iwahana, Atsushi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20100045298
    Abstract: A method for detecting SOC and SOH of a storage battery includes: calculating an SOC value of the storage battery with use of an SOC calculation unit based on a measured voltage value or a measured current value of the storage battery and calculating an SOH value of the storage battery with use of an SOH calculation unit based on the SOC value; further calculating a new SOC value with use of the SOC calculation unit based on the SOH value and calculating a new SOH value with use of the SOH calculation unit based on the new SOC value, these further calculations of SOC value and SOH value being repeated a prescribed n times of at least one so as to obtain an nth calculated SOC value and an nth calculated SOH value; outputting the nth calculated SOH value as an SOH output value and outputting the nth calculated SOH value as an SOC output value; and storing the SOH output value into a memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: THE FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Atsushi Kimura, Yuichi Watanabe, Toshiyuki Sato, Fumikazu Iwahana
  • Patent number: 7626394
    Abstract: A method for detecting SOC and SOH of a storage battery includes: calculating an SOC value of the storage battery with use of an SOC calculation unit based on a measured voltage value or a measured current value of the storage battery and calculating an SOH value of the storage battery with use of an SOH calculation unit based on the SOC value; further calculating a new SOC value with use of the SOC calculation unit based on the SOH value and calculating a new SOH value with use of the SOH calculation unit based on the new SOC value, these further calculations of SOC value and SOH value being repeated a prescribed n times of at least one so as to obtain an nth calculated SOC value and an nth calculated SOH value; outputting the nth calculated SOH value as an SOH output value and outputting the nth calculated SOH value as an SOC output value; and storing the SOH output value into a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kimura, Yuichi Watanabe, Toshiyuki Sato, Fumikazu Iwahana, Takashi Iljima
  • Patent number: 7616003
    Abstract: A method for determining the deterioration of an accumulator battery, hooked up with loads in a system, based on the result of measuring internal resistances of an accumulator battery, the method including predetermining a temperature at which the deterioration of the accumulator battery is determined, calculating temperature correction coefficients, predetermining resistance-voltage conversion factors, measuring the internal resistances and temperature of the accumulator battery, converting the measured internal resistance values into the internal resistance values, converting the internal resistance values at the specified temperature into the terminal discharge voltage values and determining whether the accumulator battery is deteriorated or not by means of comparison of the terminal discharge voltage values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Satoh, Atsushi Kimura, Fumikazu Iwahana, Tetsuya Kanou, Katsumi Inaniwa
  • Publication number: 20090140744
    Abstract: A method and the device are provided for determining state of health of the battery, in addition to the power supply system using the device, to reduce operational and processing load by expanding the data sampled at the time when the battery is caused to discharge square wave pulses into the square wave is provided. The method includes determining state of health of a battery by causing the battery to discharge square wave pulses with a prescribed cycle at a prescribed current value. Response voltages are sampled at a time of a pulse-discharge. The sampled response voltages are sampled into orthogonal square wave components. An amplitude of the square wave component is divided by the current value of the pulse-discharge to obtain a pseudo-impedance. A state of health of the battery based on the pseudo-impedance is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: THE FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyasu IWANE, Fumikazu IWAHANA, Atsushi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 7525284
    Abstract: The method for calculating charged rate of a secondary battery is intended to calculate charged rate of a secondary battery which supplies electric power to loads, and comprises the step to measure voltage of the secondary battery more than once in a predetermined period of time after termination of charge or discharge, the step to determine the coefficients of a quadric or more exponential damping function which approximates the time characteristic of the open circuit voltage of the secondary battery by recursive calculation with the plural measured voltage values, and the step to calculate a convergent value of the open circuit voltage of the secondary battery from at least the exponential damping function with the coefficients determined above. Therefore, precise charged rate of the secondary battery can be calculated from the precise convergent value of the open circuit voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Yuichi Watanabe, Takezo Sugimura, Toshiyuki Satoh, Atsushi Kimura, Fumikazu Iwahana, Katsumi Inaniwa, Tetsuya Kanou
  • Publication number: 20090030626
    Abstract: The present invention provides a battery remaining electrical charge/remaining capacity estimating method which makes it possible to obtain a convergence value of a battery open circuit voltage with high accuracy and in a short time. The method includes a voltage estimating step of obtaining a stable open circuit voltage estimated value after a lapse of desired time, the step including: a step of using an approximate function including a plurality of exponential function terms of time and a plurality of coefficients, stopping charge or discharge operation for a predetermined time, measuring a battery voltage over time during the time and using an obtained relation between the battery voltage and the time as a basis to determine the coefficients; and a step of determining at least one power coefficient of inferior logarithm of the exponential function terms based on temperature by expressing the coefficient as a previously obtained function of temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: The Furukawa Electric Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Yuichi Watanabe, Toshiyuki Sato, Atsushi Kimura, Fumikazu Iwahana
  • Publication number: 20080204031
    Abstract: A method for detecting SOC and SOH of a storage battery includes: calculating an SOC value of the storage battery with use of an SOC calculation unit based on a measured voltage value or a measured current value of the storage battery and calculating an SOH value of the storage battery with use of an SOH calculation unit based on the SOC value; further calculating a new SOC value with use of the SOC calculation unit based on the SOH value and calculating a new SOH value with use of the SOH calculation unit based on the new SOC value, these further calculations of SOC value and SOH value being repeated a prescribed n times of at least one so as to obtain an nth calculated SOC value and an nth calculated SOH value; outputting the nth calculated SOH value as an SOH output value and outputting the nth calculated SOH value as an SOC output value; and storing the SOH output value into a memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyasu IWANE, Atsushi KIMURA, Koji FUJIMURA, Yuichi Watanabe, Toshiyuki SATO, Fumikazu IWAHANA, Takashi IlJIMA
  • Publication number: 20080136378
    Abstract: A method for detecting the charged state of a battery based on the measurements of open circuit voltage in which the charged state of a battery can be detected precisely regardless of the degradation state of the battery. Internal impedance of a battery is measured, voltage of the battery is measured under stable state, measurement of the battery voltage under stable state is subjected to raising correction depending on the measurement of internal impedance, and then charged state of the battery is determined based on the corrected value of battery voltage under stable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumikazu Iwahana, Toshiyuki Sato, Atsushi Kimura, Takashi Iijima, Yuichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7362074
    Abstract: A method for determining deterioration of accumulator battery hooked up with loads in a system based on results of measuring internal resistances of an accumulator battery, the method comprising the steps of; predetermining as a specified temperature a temperature at which the deterioration of the accumulator battery is determined; calculating in advance temperature correction coefficients of the internal resistances from changes of the internal resistances depending on temperatures; predetermining resistance-voltage conversion factors to convert between the internal resistances at the specified temperature and terminal discharge voltages of the accumulator battery which are obtained at the specified temperature under a condition of flowing predetermined discharge currents from the accumulator battery; measuring the internal resistances of the accumulator battery and temperature of the accumulator battery at an internal resistance measurement; converting the measured internal resistance values into the int
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Yuichi Watanabe, Takezo Sugimura, Toshiyuki Satoh, Atsushi Kimura, Fumikazu Iwahana, Katsumi Inaniwa, Tetsuya Kanou
  • Publication number: 20070252601
    Abstract: A method for determining the deterioration of an accumulator battery, hooked up with loads in a system, based on the result of measuring internal resistances of an accumulator battery, the method including predetermining a temperature at which the deterioration of the accumulator battery is determined, calculating temperature correction coefficients, predetermining resistance-voltage conversion factors, measuring the internal resistances and temperature of the accumulator battery, converting the measured internal resistance values into the internal resistance values, converting the internal resistance values at the specified temperature into the terminal discharge voltage values and determining whether the accumulator battery is deteriorated or not by means of comparison of the terminal discharge voltage values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: THE FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki SATOH, Atsushi KIMURA, Fumikazu IWAHANA, Tetsuya KANOU, Katsumi INANIWA
  • Publication number: 20060208704
    Abstract: The method for calculating charged rate of a secondary battery is intended to calculate charged rate of a secondary battery which supplies electric power to loads, and comprises the step to measure voltage of the secondary battery more than once in a predetermined period of time after termination of charge or discharge, the step to determine the coefficients of a quadric or more exponential damping function which approximates the time characteristic of the open circuit voltage of the secondary battery by recursive calculation with the plural measured voltage values, and the step to calculate a convergent value of the open circuit voltage of the secondary battery from at least the exponential damping function with the coefficients determined above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Yuichi Watanabe, Takezo Sugimura, Toshiyuki Satoh, Atsushi Kimura, Fumikazu Iwahana, Katsumi Inaniwa, Tetsuya Kanou
  • Publication number: 20060186890
    Abstract: A method for determining deterioration of accumulator battery hooked up with loads in a system based on results of measuring internal resistances of an accumulator battery, the method comprising the steps of; predetermining as a specified temperature a temperature at which the deterioration of the accumulator battery is determined; calculating in advance temperature correction coefficients of the internal resistances from changes of the internal resistances depending on temperatures; predetermining resistance-voltage conversion factors to convert between the internal resistances at the specified temperature and terminal discharge voltages of the accumulator battery which are obtained at the specified temperature under a condition of flowing predetermined discharge currents from the accumulator battery; measuring the internal resistances of the accumulator battery and temperature of the accumulator battery at an internal resistance measurement; converting the measured internal resistance values into the intern
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: The Furukawa Electric Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Yuichi Watanabe, Takezo Sugimura, Toshiyuki Satoh, Atsushi Kimura, Fumikazu Iwahana, Katsumi Inaniwa, Tetsuya Kanou