Patents by Inventor Katsumi Inaniwa

Katsumi Inaniwa 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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