Patents by Inventor Kinnosuke Itabashi

Kinnosuke Itabashi 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: 20180292462
    Abstract: A state of charge calculation apparatus and storage battery system improve the estimation accuracy of the state of charge of a secondary battery. A state of charge calculation apparatus (15) for a secondary battery (14) includes a charging/discharging current detector (22) that detects a charging/discharging current of the secondary battery (14), a terminal voltage detector (23) that detects a terminal voltage of the secondary battery (14), a first estimator (24) that integrates the charging/discharging current and estimates a first state of charge, a second estimator (25) that estimates a second state of charge on the basis of the relationship between open circuit voltage and state of charge of the secondary battery (14), and a state of charge calculator (26) that calculates a third state of charge on the basis of the first state of charge and second state of charge respectively weighted by the charging/discharging current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kinnosuke ITABASHI
  • Patent number: 9784794
    Abstract: A parameter estimation device using a filter includes a preprocessing computing circuit, a state estimating circuit and a state-of-charge estimating circuit. A low-pass filter of the preprocessing computing circuit transfers the voltage preprocessing value and the current preprocessing value from inputted discharge-and-charge current value and terminal voltage value, respectively. The state estimating circuit estimates parameters of a state equation of a battery equivalent model based on the battery equivalent model containing a resistance and a capacitor from the voltage preprocessing value and the current preprocessing value inputted. The state-of-charge estimating circuit estimates the state of charge from state quantity obtained. The time constant varies in such a way that the higher the temperature and the state of charge becomes the smaller the time constant becomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kinnosuke Itabashi, Nozomu Teranishi
  • Publication number: 20140340045
    Abstract: An apparatus for battery state estimation can accurately estimate the internal state of a battery by taking into consideration the slow response portion of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicants: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION, KEIO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kinnosuke Itabashi, Shuichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 8655612
    Abstract: In a battery model identification method of the present invention, an M-sequence input electric current production part inputs M-sequence signals with different frequency components as an electric current input into the battery. In this occasion, terminal voltage of the battery is measured by a voltage sensor, and a parameter estimation part executes system identification based on the measured result to calculate frequency characteristics of the battery. Resistance components and capacitance components as parameters of a battery model are identified based on the calculated frequency characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventor: Kinnosuke Itabashi
  • Publication number: 20130185008
    Abstract: A parameter estimation device using a filter has a preprocessing computing means 6, a state estimating means 7 and a state-of-charge estimating means 9. A low-pass filter 61 of the preprocessing computing means 6 transfers voltage preprocessing value Vp and current preprocessing value Ip from inputted discharge-and-charge current value I and terminal voltage value V, respectively. The state estimating means 7 estimates parameters of a state equation of a battery equivalent model 7A based on the battery equivalent model 7A containing a resistance and a capacitor from the voltage preprocessing value and the current preprocessing value inputted from the means 6. The state-of-charge estimating means 9 estimates the state of charge from state quantity obtained by the means 7. The time constant varies in such a way that the higher the temperature and the state of charge SoC becomes the smaller the time constant becomes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventors: Kinnosuke Itabashi, Nozomu Teranishi
  • Publication number: 20110231124
    Abstract: In a battery model identification method of the present invention, an M-sequence input electric current production part 2 inputs M-sequence signals with different frequency components as an electric current input into the battery 4. In this occasion, terminal voltage of the battery is measured by a voltage sensor 5, and a parameter estimation part 3 executes system identification based on the measured result to calculate frequency characteristics of the battery. Resistance components Rb, R1-R3 and capacitance components C1-C3 as parameters of a battery model 7 are identified based on the calculated frequency characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Inventor: Kinnosuke Itabashi