Patents by Inventor Kenji Sumida

Kenji Sumida 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).

  • Publication number: 20240088688
    Abstract: A storage battery management device according to one embodiment includes a hardware processor that causes a display device to display first remaining life information and second remaining life information. The first remaining life information indicates current remaining life of a storage battery system. The first remaining life information is calculated on the basis of a state of health (SOH) of each of multiple storage battery modules constituting the storage battery system. The second remaining life information indicates remaining life of the storage battery system and corresponds to a case where one or more of the multiple storage battery modules are replaced with one or more other storage battery modules. The second remaining life information is calculated on the basis of an SOH of each storage battery module not being replaced and an SOH of each of the one or more other storage battery modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto IDE, Mami MIZUTANI, Yukitaka MONDEN, Masako KIUCHI, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Takahiro KASE, Kenji MITSUMOTO, Yoshihisa SUMIDA
  • Publication number: 20240069106
    Abstract: A storage battery management device includes an acquisition unit, a selection unit, an estimation unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires a battery characteristic and an operation condition of a storage battery device. The selection unit selects data values from a data value group of a data item in which variation in data value is caused out of data items included in the battery characteristic and the acquired operation condition. The estimation unit estimates, for each of the selected data values, a battery characteristic after operation corresponding to a case where the storage battery device is operated under the operation condition. The battery characteristic is estimated on the basis of the battery characteristic and the operation condition acquired by the acquisition unit. The display control unit displays the battery characteristic estimated by the estimation unit in a comparable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukitaka MONDEN, Makoto IDE, Masako KIUCHI, Mami MIZUTANI, Kenji MITSUMOTO, Takahiro KASE, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Yoshihisa SUMIDA
  • Publication number: 20240072558
    Abstract: A storage battery management device according to one embodiment includes a hardware processor functioning as an acquisition unit, a calculation unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires, as current operation state data of a storage battery system including a plurality of storage batteries, charge/discharge power, a cell voltage, a charge/discharge current, and a temperature of a battery board of the storage battery system. The calculation unit calculates, by using a digital model for simulating operation of the storage battery system, a chargeable/dischargeable capacity, a State of Charge (SOC) level change amount, and an SOC maintainable charge/discharge amount being a charge/discharge amount maintaining an SOC level within a predetermined range. The display control unit causes a display unit to display the chargeable/dischargeable capacity, the SOC level change amount, and the SOC maintainable charge/discharge amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SASAKI, Takahiro KASE, Takenori KOBAYASHI, Kenji MITSUMOTO, Yoshihisa SUMIDA, Koji TOBA
  • Publication number: 20230375235
    Abstract: A process for producing spherical activated carbon is complex; therefore, an adsorbent that has an effective adsorption amount larger than or equal to that of spherical activated carbon and that is easily produced is desired. An adsorption heat pump uses, as refrigerant, carbon dioxide and uses, as an adsorbent, a metal-organic framework including a metal ion and an organic ligand. The metal-organic framework is, for example, MOF-200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicants: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Atomis Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro FURUSHO, Akinari SUGIYAMA, Michiru KAGAWA, Daisuke ASARI, Dai KATAOKA, Kenji SUMIDA
  • Patent number: 7702573
    Abstract: In a method which is performed using a communication network and uses a derivative to reduce a money debt such as a housing loan debt, a loan debt, a nation/public/corporate bond debt, a lease debt, or a payment obligation including insurance benefits, a derivative corresponding to a period of the debt and a condition is set up by a bond, a stock, a currency, an exchange, an interest rate, a spot such as a commodity and/or an index, and a price singly or by combining them, and in case of necessity, the derivative is divided into small lots to conform to an amount of the debt and the condition, this is purchased by a debtor of the debt at a relatively small premium, and when the derivative produces a profit, this is sold to realize the profit, alternately, reference is made to a present value of the debt and when a profit is produced in the money debt, a swap is made to realize the profit, and the debt is reduced by the profit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Washi Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Ono, Fumihiko Matsuda, Kenji Sumida
  • Publication number: 20060229955
    Abstract: In a method which is performed using a communication network and uses a derivative to reduce a money debt such as a housing loan debt, a loan debt, a nation/public/corporate bond debt, a lease debt, or a payment obligation including insurance benefits, a derivative corresponding to a period of the debt and a condition is set up by a bond, a stock, a currency, an exchange, an interest rate, a spot such as a commodity and/or an index, and a price singly or by combining them, and in case of necessity, the derivative is divided into small lots to conform to an amount of the debt and the condition, this is purchased by a debtor of the debt at a relatively small premium, and when the derivative produces a profit, this is sold to realize the profit, alternately, reference is made to a present value of the debt and when a profit is produced in the money debt, a swap is made to realize the profit, and the debt is reduced by the profit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Applicant: Washi Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Ono, Fumihiko Matsuda, Kenji Sumida
  • Patent number: 6707253
    Abstract: The present invention provides a matching circuit which has a wide range in which matching can be achieved and the matched state of which is stabilized with respect to a change in the load state. To an input terminal (31) of a matching circuit (30), one terminal of a first variable reactance element (32) is connected. The other terminal of the first variable reactance element (32) is connected to a point between a first fixed reactance element (33a) and a second fixed reactance element (33b), which are connected in series. The first fixed reactance element (33a) is grounded, and the second fixed reactance element (33b) is connected to one terminal of a second variable reactance element (36) and connected to one terminal of a stripline (37). The other terminal of the second variable reactance element (36) is grounded, and the other terminal of the stripline (37) is connected to an output terminal (38).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Sumida, Tomohiro Okumura, Yukihiro Maegawa, Ichiro Nakayama, Kibatsu Shinohara, Minoru Kanda, Shiniti Matamura
  • Publication number: 20030136519
    Abstract: The present invention provides a matching circuit which has a wide range in which matching can be achieved and the matched state of which is stabilized with respect to a change in the load state. To an input terminal 31 of a matching circuit 30O, one terminal of a first variable reactance element 32 is connected. The other terminal of the first variable reactance element 32 is connected to a point between a first fixed reactance element 33a and a second fixed reactance element 33b, which are connected in series. The first fixed reactance element 33a is grounded, and the second fixed reactance element 33b is connected to one terminal of a second variable reactance element 36 and connected to one terminal of a stripline 37. The other terminal of the second variable reactance element 36 is grounded, and the other terminal of the stripline 37 is connected to an output terminal 38.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: Kenji Sumida, Tomohiro Okumura, Yukihiro Maegawa, Ichiro Nakayama, Kibatsu Shinohara, Minoru Kanda, Shiniti Matamura
  • Publication number: 20010001246
    Abstract: Lenses are provided in an assortment of frequently used prescriptions and are preground to a desired final contour. The lenses are optionally provided with a lug, temple and modern and with a split bridge member attached thereto to provided a half eyeglass assembly. Alternately, the parts may be provided unassembled. Proper lenses are selected on the basis of a prescription by a consumer and are assembled by the consumer to form a completed pair of eyeglasses. A bridge assembled from the split bridge members is adjustable to set a desired interpupillary distance. The positions of holes for attaching the bridge and lug to the lenses are line-symmetrical with respect to a vertical axis of each lens so as to allow the lens to be used as either a right or left lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: May 17, 2001
    Applicant: Washi Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Ono, Kazunori Kagei, Kenji Sumida
  • Patent number: 6183081
    Abstract: Lenses are provided in an assortment of frequently used prescriptions and are preground to a desired final contour. The lenses are optionally provided with a lug, temple and modern and with a split bridge member attached thereto to provided a half eyeglass assembly. Alternately, the parts may be provided unassembled. Proper lenses are selected on the basis of a prescription by a consumer and are assembled by the consumer to form a completed pair of eyeglasses. A bridge assembled from the split bridge members is adjustable to set a desired interpupillary distance. The positions of holes for attaching the bridge and lug to the lenses are line-symmetrical with respect to a vertical axis of each lens so as to allow the lens to be used as either a right or left lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Washi Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Ono, Kazunori Kagei, Kenji Sumida
  • Patent number: 6075652
    Abstract: The surface and/or interface of a lens or the like is formed with a convex-microgranular surface. For this purpose, a stamper 108 having a concave-micro-granular transfer-molding surface transfer-molded from a convex-microgranular surface comprised of SiO.sub.2 or the like and varying continuously in the index of refraction is used to reproduce the convex-microgranular surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Washi Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Ono, Kenji Sumida
  • Patent number: 5709922
    Abstract: A transparent article made of a resin and having on its surface the fine unevenness formed by direct transfer of ultrafine particles. An unevenness transfer substrate having the ultrafine particles deposited thereon as a monolayer by using a binder, with a water/oil repellent film formed on the ultrafine particle layer, is placed in a mold, then a sufficiently deaerated fluid plastic resin is cast into the mold and heated to cause curing, then the mold is removed, and the unevenness transfer substrate and the cured resin are separated from each other. Consequently, the fine unevenness formed by the ultrafine particles is transferred to the resin surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Washi Kosan Company,Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Ono, Yoshishige Endo, Kazunori Kagei, Kenji Sumida
  • Patent number: 5675993
    Abstract: A patterning method and device has yarn guides for guiding pattern yarns in a warp knitting machine and divisional fall plates for knitting pattern yarns in a fall plate structure individually drive-controlled through drive devices. The device comprises any number of moveable bodies having yarn guides, the bodies being installed for movement along a row of knitting needles by the drive devices. For patterning, the moveable bodies are moved through a desired distance along the row of knitting needles so as to be positioned for patterning, thereby providing a patterning zone for pattern yarns corresponding to the number of yarn guides. Thus, it is possible to effect a free varigated patterning which is comparable with the patterning effect provided by the Jacquard control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Mayer Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Ono, Yoshinori Otobe, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Shigeo Yamagata, Norimasa Nosaka, Kenji Sumida
  • Patent number: 4978101
    Abstract: The valve unit of a solenoid controlled valve is disposed at the tip end of a tubular member which at a location remote from the tip end is connected to the plunger of the electromagnetic drive unit of the solenoid. A linear member inserted in and passing through the tubular member connects the plunger to the valve body of the valve unit. A liquid is conducted into the tubular member from a source. The solenoid controlled valve controls the flow of the liquid through the tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Washi Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshitaka Nakaya, Kenji Sumida