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).
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Patent number: 10600134Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori Miyamoto, Toshiya Okabe, Kiyohisa Ichino
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Patent number: 10581244Abstract: [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: GrantFiled: July 17, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Kiyohisa Ichino
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Patent number: 10193339Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Kiyohisa Ichino
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Publication number: 20180005325Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori MIYAMOTO, Toshiya OKABE, Kiyohisa ICHINO
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Patent number: 9837819Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Kiyohisa Ichino, Noriaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20170331291Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Kiyohisa ICHINO
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Patent number: 9785181Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 28, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Kiyohisa Ichino
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Publication number: 20170207627Abstract: [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: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: July 20, 2017Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Kiyohisa ICHINO
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Patent number: 9379853Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Kiyohisa Ichino
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Publication number: 20150355666Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2013Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventor: Kiyohisa ICHINO
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Publication number: 20150349524Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyohisa ICHINO, Noriaki KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 9203742Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Noriaki Kobayashi, Kiyohisa Ichino, Satoshi Kamiya
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Patent number: 9178813Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 5, 2011Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Kamiya, Kiyohisa Ichino, Noriaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20150294813Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2013Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Rikiya Abe, Kiyohisa Ichino
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Patent number: 9130877Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Noriaki Kobayashi, Kiyohisa Ichino
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Publication number: 20150214737Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventor: Kiyohisa Ichino
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Patent number: 8938537Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Inoue, Masaharu Morimoto, Kiyohisa Ichino
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Patent number: 8838782Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Masato Yasuda, Kiyohisa Ichino
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Publication number: 20140241367Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Kiyohisa Ichino
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Patent number: 8681618Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Norio Yamagaki, Kiyohisa Ichino, Masato Yasuda