Patents by Inventor Hideki Sakata

Hideki Sakata 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: 11823222
    Abstract: A power supply/demand management device includes: a battery health acquisition controller configured or programmed to acquire a battery health X of the storage battery; a power selling amount management controller configured or programmed to acquire a desired power selling amount and correct desired power selling amount based on the battery health X acquired by the battery health acquisition controller; a power transmission/reception management controller configured or programmed to manage an amount of received/transmitted power between the storage battery and the power transmission/distribution system, based on the corrected power selling amount; and an incentive management controller configured or programmed to calculate an incentive to be provided to the user of the storage battery based on the corrected power selling amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yutaka Yamauchi, Jun Asakura, Hideki Sakata, Hideyuki Nagai, Masanori Iechika, Yasuhiko Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20230116812
    Abstract: A power supply/demand management device includes: a battery health acquisition controller configured or programmed to acquire a battery health X of the storage battery; a power selling amount management controller configured or programmed to acquire a desired power selling amount and correct desired power selling amount based on the battery health X acquired by the battery health acquisition controller; a power transmission/reception management controller configured or programmed to manage an amount of received/transmitted power between the storage battery and the power transmission/distribution system, based on the corrected power selling amount; and an incentive management controller configured or programmed to calculate an incentive to be provided to the user of the storage battery based on the corrected power selling amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka YAMAUCHI, Jun ASAKURA, Hideki SAKATA, Hideyuki NAGAI, Masanori IECHIKA, Yasuhiko IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230095670
    Abstract: The herein disclosed electrical grid system includes: a first obtaining controller that obtains the electric power demand or supply request information from the electric power transmission and distribution facility; a second obtaining controller that obtains an electric storage state information; a third obtaining controller that obtains a vehicle information of an electric vehicle; a supply and demand satisfaction level calculation controller that calculates a supply and demand satisfaction level based on the electric power demand or supply request information; a selection controller that selects an electric vehicle to be guided to the charge or discharge spot based on the vehicle information obtained by the third obtaining controller and the supply and demand satisfaction level calculated by the supply and demand satisfaction level calculation controller; and a communication controller that sends a guide information to the selected electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Jun ASAKURA, Hideki SAKATA, Yutaka YAMAUCHI, Hideyuki NAGAI, Yasuhiko IKEDA, Masanori IECHIKA
  • Publication number: 20230094931
    Abstract: A power system apparatus that suitably secures users of electric vehicles performing charge/discharge at the timing when power supply/demand adjustment is needed is provided. The power system apparatus disclosed herein includes: a power supply/demand information acquisition unit; a first calculator configured to calculate an urgency degree or a redundancy degree and a first rank point; a communication unit; a charge/discharge management unit; a second calculator configured to acquire a charge/discharge amount and calculate a second rank point; a rank setting unit configured to set a rank based on the first rank point calculated by the first calculator and the second rank point calculated by the second calculator; and an incentive management unit configured to calculate an incentive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Jun ASAKURA, Hideki SAKATA, Yutaka YAMAUCHI, Yasuhiko IKEDA, Hideyuki NAGAI, Masanori IECHIKA
  • Publication number: 20230070376
    Abstract: A new system is provided that enables a resource aggregator to smoothly use on-board batteries of electric vehicles as an energy resource. A user is allowed to select whether or not to permit interchange of electric power between a charging and discharging facility and an electric vehicle through the resource aggregator when the electric vehicle is connected to the charging and discharging facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Hideki SAKATA, Jun ASAKURA, Yutaka YAMAUCHI, Hideyuki NAGAI, Masanori IECHIKA, Yasuhiko IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230013447
    Abstract: A power supply/demand adjusting method disclosed here is a method for adjusting power supply and demand between a power transmission/distribution system and a storage battery mounted on an electric vehicle. The method includes the steps of: acquiring power selling approval of a storage battery; acquiring battery information of a storage battery for which the power selling approval is acquired based on the acquired power selling approval and power demand information from the power transmission/distribution system; calculating a power selling amount to be transmitted from the storage battery to the power transmission/distribution system, based on the acquired battery information of the storage battery and the acquired power demand information; supplying electric vehicle based on the power selling amount from the storage battery to the power transmission/distribution system; and calculating an incentive to be provided to a user of the electric vehicle based on the power selling amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka YAMAUCHI, Jun ASAKURA, Hideki SAKATA, Hideyuki NAGAI, Masanori IECHIKA, Yasuhiko IKEDA
  • Patent number: 10775870
    Abstract: A processing device includes multiple processing units and multiple memory devices respectively assigned to the multiple processing units. Each of the multiple processing units includes a cache memory configured to retain data stored in the memory device assigned to itself, and fetched data taken out from the memory device of the processing unit other than itself. When an access request for the fetched data is received from a source processing unit from which the fetched data has been taken out, the cache memory determines occurrence of a crossing in which the access request is received after the cache memory issues write back information instructing to write back the fetched data to the memory device assigned to the source processing unit. If the crossing has occurred, crossing information indicating that the crossing has occurred is output as a response to the access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeshi Mishina, Hideki Sakata
  • Patent number: 10521346
    Abstract: An arithmetic processing apparatus includes, a plurality of core memory groups, each of core memory groups including a plurality of arithmetic processing circuits, cache memory circuitry, shared by the plurality of arithmetic processing circuits, including a cache memory, a cache tag that stores a state of the cache memory, a tag directory that stores data possession information by a cache memory in another core memory group, and a memory access control circuit that receives a first memory access request from the cache memory circuitry and controls access to a memory other than a cache memory included in the cache memory circuitry, and a cache memory control circuit that receives a second memory access request from the arithmetic processing circuits and a third memory access request from the another core memory group and controls access to the cache memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Junlu Chen, Hideki Sakata
  • Publication number: 20190079863
    Abstract: An arithmetic processing apparatus includes, a plurality of core memory groups, each of core memory groups including a plurality of arithmetic processing circuits, cache memory circuitry, shared by the plurality of arithmetic processing circuits, including a cache memory, a cache tag that stores a state of the cache memory, a tag directory that stores data possession information by a cache memory in another core memory group, and a memory access control circuit that receives a first memory access request from the cache memory circuitry and controls access to a memory other than a cache memory included in the cache memory circuitry, and a cache memory control circuit that receives a second memory access request from the arithmetic processing circuits and a third memory access request from the another core memory group and controls access to the cache memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Junlu Chen, Hideki SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20180335829
    Abstract: A processing device includes multiple processing units and multiple memory devices respectively assigned to the multiple processing units. Each of the multiple processing units includes a cache memory configured to retain data stored in the memory device assigned to itself, and fetched data taken out from the memory device of the processing unit other than itself. When an access request for the fetched data is received from a source processing unit from which the fetched data has been taken out, the cache memory determines occurrence of a crossing in which the access request is received after the cache memory issues write back information instructing to write back the fetched data to the memory device assigned to the source processing unit. If the crossing has occurred, crossing information indicating that the crossing has occurred is output as a response to the access request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeshi MISHINA, Hideki SAKATA
  • Patent number: 9917336
    Abstract: A battery system comprises an assembled battery in which a plurality of battery cells are connected in series, a temperature sensor for detecting temperature of the battery cells of the assembled battery, and a voltage detecting line connected to a voltage detecting location of the battery cell. Further the battery system fixes the connecting terminal at the voltage detecting location. The connecting terminal fixes the temperature sensor in a thermally coupling state, and electrically connects the voltage detecting line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Nakano, Nobuyuki Ohsumi, Hideki Sakata
  • Patent number: 9855905
    Abstract: A first power storage portion stores power generated by a generator in a vehicle, and supplies power to a motor for starting an engine and an electric device in the vehicle. A second power storage portion is connected to the first power storage portion in parallel, and stores power generated by the generator, and supplies power to the electric device in the vehicle. The first power storage portion and the second power storage portion are connected each other in parallel. A first switch is inserted in a path between the first power storage portion and the second power storage portion. A diode is connected in parallel with the first switch such that a cathode side thereof is connected to the second power storage portion side. A second switch is provided between the path and the second power storage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Nakajima, Akinobu Tsunesada, Hideki Sakata, Nobuyuki Ohsumi
  • Patent number: 9789769
    Abstract: A first power storage portion is configured to store power generated by a generator in a vehicle, and to supply power to a motor for starting an engine and an electric device in the vehicle. A second power storage portion is connected to the first power storage portion in parallel, and configured to store power generated by the generator, and to supply power to the electric device in the vehicle. A first switch is inserted in a path between those portions. A diode is connected in parallel with the first switch such that a cathode side thereof is connected to the second power storage portion side. The controlling portion monitors a voltage of the first power storage portion and a voltage of the second power storage portion, and detects an abnormal state of the switch by comparing a voltage difference therebetween with a forward voltage drop of the diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Sakata, Nobuyuki Ohsumi, Kaoru Nakajima, Akinobu Tsunesada
  • Patent number: 9776517
    Abstract: A power supply device comprises a lead-acid battery disposing a plurality of cells in a battery case of a rectangular parallelepiped shape having a pair of facing walls and a pair of end surface walls at the circumference of a rectangular bottom surface plate, and a power storage device connected in parallel to the lead-acid battery. The power storage device has a larger storage capacity by regenerative braking than that of the lead-acid battery, and the power storage device has an external case having a heat radiation plate disposed in a thermally connected state to the facing wall of the lead-acid battery, and the heat radiation plate is thermally connected to the facing wall of the lead-acid battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Sakata, Nobuyuki Ohsumi, Kaoru Nakajima, Akinobu Tsunesada
  • Patent number: 9682673
    Abstract: A vehicle power supply device comprises a first battery connectable to a starter motor, a vehicle load, and a generator, a second battery different from the first battery in electric characteristics, a connecting switch connected between the first and second batteries, and connecting the first and second batteries in parallel in an ON state of the connecting switch, and a control circuit controlling the connecting switch. In the ON state of the connecting switch, the generator charges the first and second batteries. The control circuit controls to change to the OFF state of the connecting switch in a state of providing electric power to the starter motor, or in a state of detecting an open condition including an abnormal state of the first battery and/or the second battery, and to hold the connecting switch in the ON state in a normal state in which the open condition is not detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideki Sakata
  • Patent number: 9382892
    Abstract: A vehicle comprises an engine, a starter motor, and a starter battery supplying power to the starter motor, further an auxiliary power storage system connected in parallel to the starter battery, an alternator for generating regenerative power and charging the starter battery and the auxiliary power storage system, an engine room for disposing the engine, and a cabin for disposing the auxiliary power storage system. The auxiliary power storage system comprises a power storage portion for electric equipment connected in parallel to the starter battery through a relay, and a relay controlling circuit configured to carry out the ON control of the relay at power generation of the alternator, and the OFF control of the relay at restarting the engine in a state of idling stop, and further the relay is disposed in the engine room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Sakata, Nobuyuki Ohsumi, Kaoru Nakajima, Akinobu Tsunesada
  • Patent number: 9260068
    Abstract: An in-vehicle battery system comprises a first power storage module including a lead-acid battery, and a second power storage module including a power storage portion having a higher energy density than that of the lead-acid battery. The lead-acid battery and the power storage portion are electrically connected in parallel to a power generating portion which converts a regenerative energy to electric power. The first power storage module and the second power storage module are provided in an engine room of a vehicle. The second power storage module is disposed more distantly than the first power storage module from an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Ohsumi, Kaoru Nakajima, Akinobu Tsunesada, Hideki Sakata
  • Publication number: 20150372354
    Abstract: A battery system comprises an assembled battery in which a plurality of battery cells are connected in series, a temperature sensor for detecting temperature of the battery cells of the assembled battery, and a voltage detecting line connected to a voltage detecting location of the battery cell. Further the battery system fixes the connecting terminal at the voltage detecting location. The connecting terminal fixes the temperature sensor in a thermally coupling state, and electrically connects the voltage detecting line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: SHINYA NAKANO, NOBUYUKI OHSUMI, HIDEKI SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20150343919
    Abstract: A power supply device for a vehicle connectable in parallel to a lead-acid battery of 12 V, comprises a battery block including a plurality of secondary batteries capable of charging and discharging, a circuit board having an electric circuit configured to control the charging and discharging of the battery block, and a storage case for storing the battery block and the circuit board. The battery block is configured to connect an N number (N being a natural number) of nickel hydride batteries as the secondary batteries in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: HIDEKI SAKATA, KAORU NAKAJIMA, AKINOBU TSUNESADA
  • Publication number: 20150298557
    Abstract: A power supply device comprises a lead-acid battery disposing a plurality of cells in a battery case of a rectangular parallelepiped shape having a pair of facing walls and a pair of end surface walls at the circumference of a rectangular bottom surface plate, and a power storage device connected in parallel to the lead-acid battery. The power storage device has a larger storage capacity by regenerative braking than that of the lead-acid battery, and the power storage device has an external case having a heat radiation plate disposed in a thermally connected state to the facing wall of the lead-acid battery, and the heat radiation plate is thermally connected to the facing wall of the lead-acid battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HIDEKI SAKATA, NOBUYUKI OHSUMI, KAORU NAKAJIMA, AKINOBU TSUNESADA