Patents by Inventor Kiyohisa Ichino

Kiyohisa Ichino 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: 10600134
    Abstract: A power identification device at least includes a measurement information acquisition unit for acquiring the amount of power generation by a power producer and the amount of power consumption by a consumer respectively as measurement information, a rule management unit for managing a generation rule for generating attribute information, a distribution rule and a loss rule for distributing the attribute information to the consumer, the attribute information containing a primary attribute related to each of the amount of power generation and the amount of power consumption and an additive attribute related to the amount of power generation, an attribute computation unit for generating the attribute information from the measurement information based on the generation rule and distributing the attribute information from the power producer to the consumer based on the distribution rule and the loss rule, and an attribute output (visualization) unit for outputting the attribute information to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Miyamoto, Toshiya Okabe, Kiyohisa Ichino
  • Patent number: 10581244
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a power router, a power transmitting and receiving system, a power transmitting and receiving method, and a storage medium storing a power transmitting and receiving program capable of automatically selecting a power supply destination in accordance with a power supply amount. [Solution] Based on power consumption information indicating the power consumed by loads and priority information indicating the priority of the loads, a power supply destination selection means (61) selects, from among the loads, a supply destination of the power supplied from a power supply source, said power consumption information and said priority information being stored in an information storage means (70). A power transmitting and receiving means (62) supplies the power received from the power supply source to a load selected by the power supply destination selection means (61).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyohisa Ichino
  • Patent number: 10193339
    Abstract: At least one grid (3000) distributes power to a consumer (7000). The grid (3000) transmits power to the other grid (3000). A grid integrated control apparatus (2000) includes a supply and demand energy information receiver unit (2030) that receives supply and demand energy information indicating a difference between energy supplied to the other grid (3000) and energy supplied from the other grid (3000) with respect to each grid (3000), a cost information receiver unit (2050) that receives cost information indicating a power transmission cost between the grids (3000), and a grid control unit (2020) that determines a transmitted energy between each grid (3000) so as to reduce the total of power transmission costs while satisfying power demand of each grid (3000), on the basis of the supply and demand energy information and the cost information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyohisa Ichino
  • Publication number: 20180005325
    Abstract: A power identification device at least includes a measurement information acquisition unit for acquiring the amount of power generation by a power producer and the amount of power consumption by a consumer respectively as measurement information, a rule management unit for managing a generation rule for generating attribute information, a distribution rule and a loss rule for distributing the attribute information to the consumer, the attribute information containing a primary attribute related to each of the amount of power generation and the amount of power consumption and an additive attribute related to the amount of power generation, an attribute computation unit for generating the attribute information from the measurement information based on the generation rule and distributing the attribute information from the power producer to the consumer based on the distribution rule and the loss rule, and an attribute output (visualization) unit for outputting the attribute information to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori MIYAMOTO, Toshiya OKABE, Kiyohisa ICHINO
  • Patent number: 9837819
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power network system etc. which can safely detach a power router whose communication with a control apparatus becomes interrupted, from other power routers and power cells, the power network system including a second control apparatus controlling one of or plural of the power cells, when the second control apparatus detects abnormality in communication between the apparatus itself and the power router, the second control apparatus performs control so as to stop transmission/reception between the power router in which the abnormality is detected and another power router which is connected to the power router, and when the first control apparatus included in the power router detects abnormality in communication between the power router and the second control apparatus, the first control apparatus performs control so as to stop transmission/reception of the power conversion leg connected to the another power router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyohisa Ichino, Noriaki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20170331291
    Abstract: Provided is a power adjustment device capable of adjusting the supply and demand of electric power with appropriate timing using a power storage device. The power adjustment device (10) has a difference estimation unit (12), a charging/discharging power amount calculation unit (14), and an instruction unit (16). The difference estimation unit (12) estimates a first difference between a power generation amount and a power consumption amount during a predetermined first period in intervals of time shorter than the first period. The charging/discharging power amount calculation unit (14) calculates a charging/discharging power amount, which is an amount of electric power to be charged to or discharged from a power storage device (20), on the basis of the estimated first difference and the remaining time to the end of the first period. The instruction unit (16) instructs the power storage device (20) to charge or discharge a power amount that corresponds to the calculated charging/discharging power amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyohisa ICHINO
  • Patent number: 9785181
    Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to provide a guideline for, when adding a new power cell to a power network, solving the problem of how to set an operation mode of a power conversion leg. Assuming that a power conversion leg (JRL) of the power router (JR) of a power cell (J) and a power conversion leg (KRL) of the power router (KR) of a power cell (K) are connected to each other and power is transferred from the power cell (J) to the power cell (K) when the utility grid breaks down, the leg operation modes of the leg (JRL) of the power router (JR) and leg (KRL) of the power router (KR) are set as follows: the power conversion leg (JRL) of the power router (JR) is set to a stand-alone mode; and the power conversion leg (KRL) of the power router (KR) is set to a designate power transmission/reception mode when the utility grid does not break down and to a master mode from the designate power transmission/reception mode when the utility grid breaks down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyohisa Ichino
  • Publication number: 20170207627
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a power router, a power transmitting and receiving system, a power transmitting and receiving method, and a storage medium storing a power transmitting and receiving program capable of automatically selecting a power supply destination in accordance with a power supply amount. [Solution] Based on power consumption information indicating the power consumed by loads and priority information indicating the priority of the loads, a power supply destination selection means (61) selects, from among the loads, a supply destination of the power supplied from a power supply source, said power consumption information and said priority information being stored in an information storage means (70). A power transmitting and receiving means (62) supplies the power received from the power supply source to a load selected by the power supply destination selection means (61).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyohisa ICHINO
  • Patent number: 9379853
    Abstract: A packet retransmission control device has a flow table and a processing determination unit. The flow table indicates, with respect to each of flows to which packets belong, retransmission management information for managing retransmission control. The retransmission management information includes, as a retransmission management parameter, at least one of a packet retransmission count and a delay excess count. The processing determination unit refers to the flow table to determine whether or not to apply the retransmission control to packets. Specifically, when receiving a packet from the upper layer, the processing determination unit refers to the flow table to obtain the retransmission management parameter associated with a flow to which the received packet belongs. If the retransmission management parameter is not more than a threshold value, the processing determination unit determines to apply the retransmission control to the received packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyohisa Ichino
  • Publication number: 20150355666
    Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to provide a guideline for, when adding a new power cell to a power network, solving the problem of how to set an operation mode of a power conversion leg. Assuming that a power conversion leg (JRL) of the power router (JR) of a power cell (J) and a power conversion leg (KRL) of the power router (KR) of a power cell (K) are connected to each other and power is transferred from the power cell (J) to the power cell (K) when the utility grid breaks down, the leg operation modes of the leg (JRL) of the power router (JR) and leg (KRL) of the power router (KR) are set as follows: the power conversion leg (JRL) of the power router (JR) is set to a stand-alone mode; and the power conversion leg (KRL) of the power router (KR) is set to a designate power transmission/reception mode when the utility grid does not break down and to a master mode from the designate power transmission/reception mode when the utility grid breaks down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventor: Kiyohisa ICHINO
  • Publication number: 20150349524
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power network system etc. which can safely detach a power router whose communication with a control apparatus becomes interrupted, from other power routers and power cells, the power network system including a second control apparatus controlling one of or plural of the power cells, when the second control apparatus detects abnormality in communication between the apparatus itself and the power router, the second control apparatus performs control so as to stop transmission/reception between the power router in which the abnormality is detected and another power router which is connected to the power router, and when the first control apparatus included in the power router detects abnormality in communication between the power router and the second control apparatus, the first control apparatus performs control so as to stop transmission/reception of the power conversion leg connected to the another power router.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohisa ICHINO, Noriaki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9203742
    Abstract: A network system has: a communication device configured to perform frame transmission and reception; a network configured to transfer the frame; a gateway connected between the communication device and the network; and a controller configured to perform management of the communication device and the network. The frame is classified into a control frame for communicating control information necessary for communication and a data frame for communicating data between communication devices. The gateway determines whether a frame received from a source communication device is the control frame or the data frame, forwards the control frame to the controller, and forwards the data frame to the network. The controller performs the management based on the control frame received from the gateway. The network transfers the data frame received from the gateway to a destination communication device without through the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Kobayashi, Kiyohisa Ichino, Satoshi Kamiya
  • Patent number: 9178813
    Abstract: A network system has: a node performing transmission/reception of a frame based on FCoE; a network; a controller performing management of the node and the network; and a gateway provided with respect to the node. The frame is classified into a control frame and a data frame. The gateway determines whether a frame received from the node is the control frame or the data frame, forwards the control frame to the controller, and forwards the data frame to the network. The controller performs the management based on the control frame received from the gateway. The network transfers the data frame received from the gateway to a destination node without through the controller. The node has a retransmission control and reordering unit configured to perform retransmission control and reordering processing with respect to the data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kamiya, Kiyohisa Ichino, Noriaki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20150294813
    Abstract: Provided is a power router to construct a power network system in which power cells are asynchronously interconnected. The power router includes a DC bus, a power conversion leg having a function of bidirectionally converting power, and a controller that controls an operation of the power conversion leg. The power conversion leg operated in a master mode supplements (or sends) an insufficient (or excessive) power from (or to) a connection partner, when a voltage of the DC bus decreases (or increases) from a rated voltage. The power conversion leg operated in a designated power transmission/reception mode sends a designated power to the connection partner or receives the designated power from the connection partner according to a designation from a management server. The controller sets the mode of at least one of the power conversion legs to the master mode during the operation of the power router.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Rikiya Abe, Kiyohisa Ichino
  • Patent number: 9130877
    Abstract: The present invention provides a packet retransmission control technique in which the communication performance can be improved in a state that the load of a network is high. The packet retransmission control apparatus includes a priority determining section configured to set a packet kind to each of transmission packets to indicate a kind of the transmission packet, and determine a priority level based on the packet kind to indicate an transmission order of the transmission packets; a packet buffer comprising a plurality of queues respectively assigned with priority levels, and configure to store the transmission packet in one of the plurality of queues which is determined based on the priority level of the transmission packet; and an arbitrating section configured to output the transmission packets from one assigned with the highest priority level of the plurality of queues to a lower layer in order of higher priority level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki Kobayashi, Kiyohisa Ichino
  • Publication number: 20150214737
    Abstract: At least one grid (3000) distributes power to a consumer (7000). The grid (3000) transmits power to the other grid (3000). A grid integrated control apparatus (2000) includes a supply and demand energy information receiver unit (2030) that receives supply and demand energy information indicating a difference between energy supplied to the other grid (3000) and energy supplied from the other grid (3000) with respect to each grid (3000), a cost information receiver unit (2050) that receives cost information indicating a power transmission cost between the grids (3000), and a grid control unit (2020) that determines a transmitted energy between each grid (3000) so as to reduce the total of power transmission costs while satisfying power demand of each grid (3000), on the basis of the supply and demand energy information and the cost information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventor: Kiyohisa Ichino
  • Patent number: 8938537
    Abstract: A central control verifying apparatus includes a plurality of quasi switches respectively corresponding to a plurality of switches in a network; a connection data managing section which manages connection data between the plurality of switches; and a verifying section. Each of the plurality of quasi switches is communicably connected with the network central control section through a control link. A requesting quasi switch of the plurality of quasi switch transmits a route setting request to the network central control section. A target quasi switch of the plurality of quasi switches receives the route indication data generated in response to the route setting request from the network central control section. The verifying section refers to the connection data and the route indication data received by the target quasi switch to verify whether or not a desired route setting is performed according to the route setting request by the network central control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Inoue, Masaharu Morimoto, Kiyohisa Ichino
  • Patent number: 8838782
    Abstract: In a network protocol processing system in which variables of each of TCP transmission processing and TCP reception processing depend on each other, asynchronous parallel processing is realized between a transmission processing block and a reception processing block for updated protocol processing. Specifically, the system includes a high priority queue for transferring control data to be processed with high priority, a low priority queue for control data other than the above control data, and priority control means for distributing the control data to two kinds of queues. When a request for session establishment and the session disconnection of a new TCP session is issued from an application during transmission of TCP data, data related with the session establishment and the session disconnection is notified preferentially through the high priority queue, and other control data is transferred through the low priority queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Yasuda, Kiyohisa Ichino
  • Publication number: 20140241367
    Abstract: In a centrally controlled communication system where a packet loss may occur in a switch on a forwarding path, transmission of a packet of a high-priority protocol is enabled. The communication system includes a group of switches which process a received packet(s) by referring to a flow entry that defines processing content to be applied to the packet(s) and a controller that controls the group of switches. The controller comprises a topology detection unit that detects a network topology composed of a link(s) satisfying predetermined transmission quality from among links connecting respective ones of the switches, based on information obtained from the group of switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyohisa Ichino
  • Patent number: 8681618
    Abstract: A packet retransmission control system has: a network control block configured to perform packet retransmission control in an upper layer; and a packet retransmission control block configured to perform packet retransmission control with a shorter retransmission timeout than the upper layer in a lower layer that is lower than the upper layer. If the network control block receives a duplicate acknowledge packet being an acknowledge packet notifying a same sequence number for a predetermined number of times, the network control block performs packet retransmission. The packet retransmission control block determines whether or not retransmission of a same packet is performed earlier in the upper layer than in the lower layer. If retransmission of the same packet is performed earlier in the upper layer than in the lower layer, the packet retransmission control block prohibits retransmission of the same packet in the lower layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Yamagaki, Kiyohisa Ichino, Masato Yasuda