Patents by Inventor Koji Kudo

Koji Kudo 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: 20240131851
    Abstract: A print material storage container has: a substrate on which an electric circuit having terminals is provided; a fixing portion on which the substrate can be mounted by re-fixing; and a fixing member that fixes the fixing portion and a non-terminal portion, which is formed by excluding the terminals from the substrate, to each other. The non-terminal portion includes a re-fixed portion, which can be re-fixed to the fixing portion by the fixing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kudo, Noriyuki Fukasawa, Hiroyuki Kawate
  • Publication number: 20240128754
    Abstract: A startup method and startup program for microgrid that enable to stably start up the microgrid without producing frequency fluctuation is provided. An embodiment of the present disclosure is a startup method for microgrid configured by a plurality of inverter power supplies independently sharing a load and divided into a master that starts up first and a slave that starts up secondly and later, the startup method comprising: a master initial startup step of initially starting up the master in a CVCF mode; a slave initial startup step of initially starting up the slave in a grid interconnection mode; and a control mode changing step of the master and the slave changing control modes thereof when output fluctuation of the master and the slave becomes a predetermined threshold or less or when the master and the slave or other inverter power supplies become a predetermined operation state while output voltage of said master and said slave becomes a predetermined threshold or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko SAKAUCHI, Yukina AKIYAMA, Yuki KUDO, Shunsuke KAWACHI, Koji TOBA
  • Patent number: 11957143
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a crystal of rebaudioside D that exhibits high solubility in water. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a rebaudioside D crystal having a crystalline form ? that shows peaks in X-ray diffraction (CuK?: ?=1.5405 ?) at two or more positions selected from the group consisting of 2?=6.7±0.2 deg, 10.8±0.2 deg, 12.9±0.15 deg, and 22.2±0.2 deg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Soichiro Urai, Yoshiaki Yokoo, Koji Nagao, Hiroshi Takiyama, Shoji Kudo
  • Patent number: 11897269
    Abstract: A print material storage container has: a substrate on which an electric circuit having terminals is provided; a fixing portion on which the substrate can be mounted by re-fixing; and a fixing member that fixes the fixing portion and a non-terminal portion, which is formed by excluding the terminals from the substrate, to each other. The non-terminal portion includes a re-fixed portion, which can be re-fixed to the fixing portion by the fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kudo, Noriyuki Fukasawa, Hiroyuki Kawate
  • Publication number: 20230319175
    Abstract: An in-vehicle hands-free device includes a memory, and a hardware processor coupled to the memory. The hardware processor is configured to: connect to a mobile phone; acquire incoming call history data of the mobile phone connected by the hardware processor; detect a traveling state of a vehicle on which the in-vehicle hands-free device is mounted; and when accepting a request to output the incoming call history data, output the incoming call history data by voice when detecting that the vehicle is traveling, and output the incoming call history data by display when detecting that the vehicle is not traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuto KODANI, Koji KUDO, Keiji MIURA, Takanori MATSUMOTO, Mikako YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11607888
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an attachment section to which a liquid storage container having a storage chamber storing a liquid and a communication path communicating with the storage chamber is attached, and a liquid ejecting head configured to eject the liquid from nozzles. The attachment section includes an inlet through which the liquid from the attached liquid storage container flows, a protrusion having a connection port, a seal provided around the protrusion, and an air communication path communicating with the connection port and an air communication port that communicates with the air. The connection port enters the communication path of the attached liquid storage container, and the seal comes into contact with the liquid storage container attached to the attachment section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Kudo
  • Publication number: 20230028547
    Abstract: A liquid container refillable with liquid to be supplied to a printer includes a bag; a liquid supplying port member having a liquid supplying port; a liquid supply flow passage provided inside the liquid supplying port member; a liquid filling flow passage branching off from the liquid supply flow passage; and a communication port provided inside the liquid supplying port member and being in communication with the liquid filling flow passage and facing an internal surface of the bag. The bag is fixed to the liquid supplying port member such that a gap is formed between the bag and the peripheral portion of the communication port due to a flow of the liquid from the liquid supply flow passage to the liquid filling flow passage, the gap being in communication with the liquid containing portion through the communication port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji KUDO, Noriyuki FUKASAWA, Hiroyuki KAWATE
  • Publication number: 20230006442
    Abstract: A control device is provided with: a power transfer control means that controls power transfer to and from a DC distribution network; and an exchange means that exchanges, with respect to transfer power to and from the DC distribution network, information indicating an attribute based on a power generation scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Kudo
  • Publication number: 20220416547
    Abstract: A service management device is provided with a classification processing means that classifies and calculates, for each of a plurality of power supply apparatuses, details of input/output power in a service carried out using at least one of the power supply apparatuses; and a service recording means that records, for each classification performed by the classification processing means, details of an amount of power input/output as a result of execution of the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Koji KUDO
  • Publication number: 20220281226
    Abstract: A print material storage container has: a substrate on which an electric circuit having terminals is provided; a fixing portion on which the substrate can be mounted by re-fixing; and a fixing member that fixes the fixing portion and a non-terminal portion, which is formed by excluding the terminals from the substrate, to each other. The non-terminal portion includes a re-fixed portion, which can be re-fixed to the fixing portion by the fixing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji KUDO, Noriyuki FUKASAWA, Hiroyuki KAWATE
  • Publication number: 20220097396
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an attachment section to which a liquid storage container having a storage chamber storing a liquid and a communication path communicating with the storage chamber is attached, and a liquid ejecting head configured to eject the liquid from nozzles. The attachment section includes an inlet through which the liquid from the attached liquid storage container flows, a protrusion having a connection port, a seal provided around the protrusion, and an air communication path communicating with the connection port and an air communication port that communicates with the air. The connection port enters the communication path of the attached liquid storage container, and the seal comes into contact with the liquid storage container attached to the attachment section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji KUDO
  • Publication number: 20220025530
    Abstract: A laminate containing: an electrode for electrolysis; and a membrane, wherein the electrode for electrolysis has one or a plurality of protrusions on a surface opposed to the membrane, and the protrusion(s) satisfies/satisfy the following conditions (i) to (iii): 0.04?Sa/Sall?0.55??(i) 0.010 mm2?Save?10.0 mm2??(ii) 1<(h+t)/t?10??(iii) wherein, in the (i), Sa represents the total area of the protrusion(s) in an observed image obtained by observing the opposed surface under an optical microscope, Sall represents the area of the opposed surface in the observed image, in the (ii), Save represents the average area of the protrusion(s) in the observed image, and in the (iii), h represents the height of the protrusion(s), and t represents the thickness of the electrode for electrolysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akiyasu FUNAKAWA, Koji KUDO, Yoshifumi KADO
  • Patent number: 11002773
    Abstract: Provided is a monitoring apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires first time-series data which is time-series data of a measured value and/or a feature amount regarding an electrical device group, and a registration and updating unit that, when a difference in values between a pre-state-change data value which is any one of a data value at a first point in time in the first time-series data and a statistic of a plurality of data values from a point in time earlier than the first point in time by a predetermined period of time to the first point in time and a post-state-change data value which is any one of a data value at a second point in time later than the first point in time and a statistic of a plurality of data values from the second point in time to a point in time later than the second point in time by a predetermined period of time satisfies a predetermined condition, stores a feature amount extracted from any waveform data of a total current consumption, a total power consumption, and a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Toizumi, Eisuke Saneyoshi, Koji Kudo, Hitoshi Yano, Ryo Hashimoto, Yuma Iwasaki, Hisato Sakuma
  • Patent number: 10916945
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes an optimization processing unit which individually calculates a sharing ratio of each of a plurality of energy storage apparatuses to adjusted total power of which demand and supply is adjusted by the energy storage apparatuses on the basis of state information of the corresponding energy storage apparatus, a calculation unit which calculates shared power in at least one energy storage apparatus using demand and supply adjustment information relating to the adjusted total power in the plurality of energy storage apparatuses and the sharing ratio of the at least one energy storage apparatus, and a communication unit which transmits the shared power to the corresponding energy storage apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Kudo
  • Patent number: 10855080
    Abstract: To efficiently utilize power generated by a renewable energy power source performing output suppression, Provided is a control device (10) including: a first calculation unit (181) that calculates a total excess output in a plurality of power generation devices based on power generation relevant information and an upper limit power generation output in each of the plurality of power generation devices; a second calculation unit (182) that calculates residual excess power information based on the total excess output and storage relevant information in a plurality of energy storage devices absorbing the total excess output; and a transmission unit (191) that transmits power generation suppression control information to each of the plurality of power generation devices based on the residual excess power information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Kudo
  • Patent number: 10784702
    Abstract: A battery control device controlling an operation of a battery connected to a power system includes detection means that detects battery-related information showing a state of the battery, or a state of an interconnection point of the power system and the battery, first communication means that transmits a detection result of the detection means to an external device, and executes reception processing to receive operation control information to control the operation of the battery from the external device at a predetermined time interval, and control means that executes battery operation control processing to control the operation of the battery based on a state of the power system and based on the operation control information received by the first communication means, at a time interval shorter than the predetermined time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kudo, Hisato Sakuma
  • Publication number: 20200274363
    Abstract: A power storage system is configured to carry out a plurality of services having different responses in a concurrent-multiuse manner with a storage battery under control of a control device. The control device is configured to calculate a value of charge/discharge power for each service and to thereby produce a summation of charge/discharge power for the plurality of services according to an upper-limit value of charge/discharge power for each service which is set by a host device. The control device is further configured to control the storage battery to charge or discharge power according to the summation of charge/discharge power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji KUDO
  • Patent number: 10734812
    Abstract: A renewable power system according to the exemplary embodiment includes a renewable power plant (121), a controllable plant (123) and an energy management system (128) which keeps an energy schedule within a certain tolerance in the next k (an integer greater than or equal to 1) steps by using a method that includes an optimization algorithm for a total power output shape within a step, and schedule changing algorithm for changing the energy schedule after the next k steps to keep a needed capacity of the plant regarding power and energy small. By keeping the energy schedule within a certain range for a renewable power plant combined with controllable plant, it is possible to keep the needed power and energy capacity of controllable plant small and to guarantee favorable total power output shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Viehweider, Koji Kudo
  • Patent number: 10714968
    Abstract: A problem to be solved is to optimize a storage schedule in which changes in power (W) stored in an energy storage apparatus with time are determined, and an output upper limit (W) of a renewable energy power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke Homma, Koji Kudo, Ryo Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10680445
    Abstract: A power generation control device is provided with: a communication unit that receives output control information determined on the basis of a first index that relates to the output state at a power generation device group and a second index that relates to the output state at a predetermined power generation device; and a control unit that controls the output of the predetermined power generation device on the basis of the output control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kudo, Noriaki Kobayashi, Kosuke Homma, Katsuya Suzuki