Patents by Inventor Hiroko Kobori

Hiroko Kobori 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: 10054328
    Abstract: A control device controls a plurality of equipment items for conditioning the environment in a room. The control device comprises an installation information memory and a space information memory configured to store information regarding the space the environment in which can be conditioned by each of the plurality of equipment items; a target setter configured to set a target location in the room and a target environment at the target location; a unit identifier configured to identify the equipment item that can condition the environment at the target location; and a controller configured to select one control pattern based on the power consumption when the control according to each control pattern is executed from among a plurality of control patterns for controlling the equipment item so as to condition the environment at the target location to the target environment and control the equipment item with the selected control pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko Kobori, Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata
  • Patent number: 9816718
    Abstract: A device control determiner outputs a control information request containing a condition of facility devices in a data possessing device group possessing control information, and a kind of the control information. A connection relationship manager manages information regarding a connection relationship among each of the plurality of facility devices. A connection route database stores information regarding a connection route from a reference device that is a reference among the plurality of facility devices to another facility device. The device grouper creates a data possessing device group based on the control information request, the connection route database and information managed by the connection relationship manager. An information collective obtainer obtains control information from the facility device in the data possessing device group through a communicator, and creates a data array of the obtained control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko Kobori, Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata
  • Publication number: 20160033154
    Abstract: A communication relay device comprises a processor, a reception unit, and a transmission unit. The communication relay device is connected to air conditioning units via a network. The air conditioning units comprise sensors and send unit signals containing output values of the sensors to a control device controlling the air conditioning units via the communication relay device. The reception unit receives the unit signals. The processor converts the unit signals received by the reception unit to unit signals containing values used for testing the operation of the control device and different from the output values of the sensors. Then, the transmission unit sends the unit signals converted by the processor to the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Tomoaki GYOTA, Masanori NAKATA, Hiroko KOBORI
  • Publication number: 20150345817
    Abstract: A control device controls a plurality of equipment items for conditioning the environment in a room. The control device comprises an installation information memory and a space information memory configured to store information regarding the space the environment in which can be conditioned by each of the plurality of equipment items; a target setter configured to set a target location in the room and a target environment at the target location; a unit identifier configured to identify the equipment item that can condition the environment at the target location; and a controller configured to select one control pattern based on the power consumption when the control according to each control pattern is executed from among a plurality of control patterns for controlling the equipment item so as to condition the environment at the target location to the target environment and control the equipment item with the selected control pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko KOBORI, Tomoaki GYOTA, Masanori NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20150120003
    Abstract: A device control determiner outputs a control information request containing a condition of facility devices in a data possessing device group possessing control information, and a kind of the control information. A connection relationship manager manages information regarding a connection relationship among each of the plurality of facility devices. A connection route database stores information regarding a connection route from a reference device that is a reference among the plurality of facility devices to another facility device. The device grouper creates a data possessing device group based on the control information request, the connection route database and information managed by the connection relationship manager. An information collective obtainer obtains control information from the facility device in the data possessing device group through a communicator, and creates a data array of the obtained control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko Kobori, Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata