Patents by Inventor Hisato Sakuma

Hisato Sakuma 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: 9849803
    Abstract: An energy system includes an electric device that consumes electric power, a plurality of storage batteries that supplies stored electric power to the electric device, each of the storage batteries being chargeable and dischargeable under the control of an external device, and an information processor that divides the plurality of storage batteries into families which includes the storage batteries having similar charging and discharging characteristics, and that controls the timings to charge and discharge the storage batteries in the family.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiko Morioka, Hisato Sakuma, Koji Kudo
  • Patent number: 9843203
    Abstract: A battery control system, which controls operation of a plurality of batteries connected to an electric power system, the battery control system comprises: detecting means that detects a delay period of each battery of said plurality of batteries which represents a period that has elapsed after the battery control system supplies said each battery with an execution command for charging or discharging said each battery until said each battery operates according to the execution command; measuring means that measures a frequency rate-of-change of electric power of the electric power system; selecting means that selects adjustment batteries for adjusting the electric power of the electric power system from said plurality of batteries based on the frequency rate-of-change and the delay period of said each battery of said plurality of batteries; and command means for supplying the execution command to the adjustment batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kudo, Hisato Sakuma, Hitoshi Yano
  • Publication number: 20170338679
    Abstract: A supply-and-demand adjustment system, that utilizes characteristics of supply-and-demand adjustment apparatuses and precisely matches a total supply-and-demand adjustment amount with a required adjustment amount when performing a supply-and-demand adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hisato SAKUMA, Koji KUDO, Hitoshi YANO, Kazuhiko AOKI, Yoshiho YANAGITA, Yuma IWASAKI, Ryo HASHIMOTO, Eisuke SANEYOSHI, Takahiro TOIZUMI
  • Patent number: 9812871
    Abstract: A regulating-device-control system for controlling the operation of regulating devices for regulating the balance between electric power supply and demand includes: memory means storing, for each regulating device, correlation information expressing correlation of a state of the regulating device, an amount of power allotted to the regulating device, and an amount of variability in performance of the regulating device; determination means receiving state information that expresses the state of each regulating device and electric power information that expresses an amount of regulated power required for regulating the balance between electric power supply and demand, and, based on the correlation information, the state information, and the electric power information, determining the amount of electric power to be allotted to each regulating device such that the total value of the amount of variability in performance of each of the regulating devices is minimized under conditions in which the state of each regu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hisato Sakuma, Koji Kudo, Hitoshi Yano, Yuma Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20170264135
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to set a demand schedule for performing highly efficient demand-supply adjustment of electric power, to deal with electric power demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo HASHIMOTO, Hitoshi YANO, Hisato SAKUMA, Koji KUDO, Alexander VIEHWEIDER
  • Publication number: 20170227978
    Abstract: The present invention allows the realization of sufficient control precision and control reliability when using a power supply/demand adjustment device group. A control device (A) that controls power supply/demand adjustment devices includes a communication unit (A1) that receives operation control information of the power supply/demand adjustment devices and a control unit (A2) that executes operation control of the power supply/demand adjustment devices on the basis of the operation control information received by the communication unit. There is a difference, in at least one of the intervals from among the interval for receiving the operation control information and the interval for executing the operation control, between the control device that controls power supply/demand adjustment devices and other control devices that are in different states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Koji KUDO, Hisato SAKUMA, Hitoshi YANO
  • Publication number: 20170220013
    Abstract: When executing adjustment processing in the power supply/demand adjustment processing of a DR (demand response) system, the present invention can prevents the selection, as a power supply/demand adjustment device to be used (device to be used), of a power supply/demand adjustment device that does not satisfy the characteristics of the adjustment processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Koji KUDO, Hisato SAKUMA, Hitoshi YANO
  • Publication number: 20170221161
    Abstract: In power supply/demand adjustment processing for a DR (Demand Response) system, requests for the power supply/demand adjustment processing can be submitted to customers who maintain power supply/demand adjustment devices that can accommodate the power supply/demand adjustment processing. The control device (A) of the present invention is provided with: an acquisition unit (A1) that acquires processing information indicating power supply/demand adjustment processing that can be accommodated by an adjustment unit that manages, for each customer, adjustment amounts for one or more power supply/demand adjustment devices used in power adjustment of power supply/demand adjustment processing; and a reporting unit (A2) that, on the basis of information indicating characteristics relating to the power supply/demand adjustment processing and processing information, reports the actuation of power supply/demand adjustment processing to customers that are the object of the power supply/demand adjustment processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Koji KUDO, Hisato SAKUMA, Hitoshi YANO
  • Publication number: 20170141587
    Abstract: A battery control system that communicates by way of a communication network with a plurality of batteries that are connected to an electric power system includes a communication characteristics detection unit that, for each of the plurality of batteries, detects characteristics of communication paths between the batteries and the battery control system within the communication network. The battery control system includes a selection unit which selects, from among the plurality of batteries, each battery that has characteristics of communication paths within a predetermined communication characteristics range, as a regulating battery that is to be used for regulating electric power of the electric power system. The battery control system includes a control unit that supplies operation instructions that instructs the regulating batteries that were selected in the selection unit to perform a charging or discharging operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji KUDO, Hitoshi YANO, Hisato SAKUMA, Takayuki SHIZUNO, Toshiya OKABE
  • Patent number: 9612584
    Abstract: An electric power grid control system is provided with: distributed generators connected to an electric power grid; and voltage measurement units that measure voltage at connection points of the distributed generators to the electric power grid. When voltage at a connection point to the electric power grid deviates from a predetermined acceptable range, a centralized control device equally allocates a voltage adjustment amount for returning the voltage to the acceptable range to all distributed generators belonging to a predetermined group that was set in advance. Distribution processing devices cause the distributed generators to adjust voltage at the connection points in accordance with the voltage adjustment amount allocated from the centralized control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato Sakuma, Koji Kudo, Hitoshi Yano
  • Patent number: 9595844
    Abstract: A battery control system that communicates by way of a communication network with a plurality of batteries that are connected to an electric power system includes: communication characteristics detection means that detects characteristics of communication paths between the batteries and the battery control system for each of the plurality of batteries; selection means that, based on the detection results of the communication characteristics detection means, selects from among the plurality of batteries each battery that uses a communication path having characteristics within a predetermined range of communication characteristics as a candidate of a regulating battery that is to be used for regulating the electric power of the electric power system, and that selects regulating batteries from among candidates of regulating batteries based on predetermined conditions; and control means that supplies operation instructions that instruct the regulating batteries to charge or discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kudo, Hitoshi Yano, Hisato Sakuma, Takayuki Shizuno, Toshiya Okabe
  • Publication number: 20170045903
    Abstract: Lower-level information processing device (20-1 to 20-n) obtain parameters used for estimating power consumption in accordance with the statuses of electric devices (30-1 to 30-n), estimate the power consumption of the electric devices (30-1 to 30-n) on the basis of the parameters, and transmits the estimated value of the estimated power consumption to an upper-level information processing device (10). The upper-level information processing device (10) determines an assignment of distribution of supply and demand on the basis of the power supply-demand capacity in a predetermined power network and the estimated value of the power consumption and transmits the determined assignments to the lower-level information processing devices (20-1 to 20-n). The lower-level information processing devices (20-1 to 20-n) controls the operations of the electric device (30-1 to 0-n) on the basis of the assignment of distribution of supply and demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Hashimoto, Hitoshi Yano, Koji Kudo, Hisato Sakuma
  • Patent number: 9513141
    Abstract: An electric device has an electric power measurement unit with an electric power detection element measuring consumed electric power and an information communication element transmitting the measured power. An electric power meter has an information communication element measuring and transmitting total electric power consumed indoors. An information processing unit stores the measured values in every predetermined sampling period. If a difference ? of two measurement values of the electric power detection element is a finite value, the information processing unit calculates and stores both a difference ? of two measurement values of the electric power meter corresponding to the two measurement values and ?/?, and calibrates the amount of electric power consumed by the electric device and that is measured by the electric power detection element using a median of values of ?/? obtained in a predetermined measurement period or a median of a predetermined number of values of ?/?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kudo, Yukiko Morioka, Hiroo Hongo, Hisato Sakuma
  • Publication number: 20160329717
    Abstract: The HEMS of each consumer transmits the amount of surplus electricity that is expected by to be generated by a PV system, and/or the amount of electric power that is needed by a controllable load, in a predetermined time slot on a predetermined date, to a server apparatus. The server apparatus, based on the notified amount of surplus electricity and the amount of electric power that is needed by the controllable load, combines a first consumer and a second consumer so that the amount of electric power needed by the controllable load will be equal to or greater than the amount of surplus electricity. Then, under the control the HEMS of the second consumer, the surplus electricity that is generated by the first consumer is consumed by each controllable load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji KUDO, Hisato SAKUMA, Hitoshi YANO
  • Publication number: 20160291557
    Abstract: A time range setting unit (110) sets an operation startable time point at which an operation can be started and a target operation end time point which is the latest time point among time points at which the operation is to be ended, with respect to each of plural power demanding objects (20). A necessary operation time setting unit (120) sets a necessary operation time with respect to each of the plural power demanding objects (20). A shape information acquisition unit (130) acquires shape information from a schedule management device (40). The shape information indicates an assumed shape of a transition line that represents transition in the amount of supplied power in a target period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo HASHIMOTO, Hitoshi YANO, Hisato SAKUMA, Koji KUDO, Eisuke SANEYOSHI, Takahiro TOIZUMI, Kosuke HOMMA, Yuma IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160294215
    Abstract: A power control system includes an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating the amount of power demand that is used by a consumer according to predetermined information that prompts adjustment of the power demand, and a control unit that controls a predetermined apparatus in accordance with a target demand amount and the information indicating the power demand amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Koji KUDO, Hitoshi YANO, Ryo HASHIMOTO, Hisato SAKUMA
  • Publication number: 20160285286
    Abstract: A battery control system, which controls operation of a plurality of batteries connected to an electric power system, comprises: detecting means that detects a delay period of each of the batteries which represents a period that has elapsed after the battery control system supplies the battery with an execution command for charging or discharging the battery until the battery operates according to the execution command; measuring means that measures a frequency rate-of-change of electric power of the electric power system; selecting means that selects adjustment batteries for adjusting the electric power of the electric power system from the batteries based on the frequency rate-of-change and the delay period of each of the batteries; and command means for supplying the execution command to the adjustment batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji KUDO, Hisato SAKUMA, Hitoshi YANO
  • Publication number: 20160276859
    Abstract: A battery control device controlling an operation of a battery connected to a power system includes detection means that detects battery-related information showing a state of the battery, or a state of an interconnection point of the power system and the battery, first communication means that transmits a detection result of the detection means to an external device, and executes reception processing to receive operation control information to control the operation of the battery from the external device at a predetermined time interval, and control means that executes battery operation control processing to control the operation of the battery based on a state of the power system and based on the operation control information received by the first communication means, at a time interval shorter than the predetermined time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Koji KUDO, Hisato SAKUMA
  • Publication number: 20160274607
    Abstract: A battery control device controlling an operation of a battery connected to a power system includes detection means that detects battery-related information that shows a state of the battery, or a voltage of an interconnection point of the power system and the battery, first communication means that transmits a detection result of the detection means to an external device, and receives operation control information to control the operation of the battery from the external device, and control means that controls the operation of the battery, based on a state of the power system and the operation control information received by the first communication means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji KUDO, Hisato SAKUMA, Hitoshi YANO, Kazuhiko AOKI, Yoshiho YANAGITA, Yuma IWASAKI, Ryo HASHIMOTO, Eisuke SANEYOSHI, Takahiro TOIZUMI
  • Patent number: 9423849
    Abstract: The HEMS of each consumer transmits the amount of surplus electricity that is expected by to be generated by a PV system, and/or the amount of electric power that is needed by a controllable load, in a predetermined time slot on a predetermined date, to a server apparatus. The server apparatus, based on the notified amount of surplus electricity and the amount of electric power that is needed by the controllable load, combines a first consumer and a second consumer so that the amount of electric power needed by the controllable load will be equal to or greater than the amount of surplus electricity. Then, under the control the HEMS of the second consumer, the surplus electricity that is generated by the first consumer is consumed by each controllable load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kudo, Hisato Sakuma, Hitoshi Yano