Patents by Inventor Masahiro KAZUMI

Masahiro KAZUMI 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: 11843095
    Abstract: A secondary battery management device is communicably connected to a secondary battery unit including a secondary battery, and manages the secondary battery unit. The secondary battery management device is configured to: request the secondary battery unit to transmit a voltage and a state value of the secondary battery; receive the voltage and the state value of the secondary battery transmitted from the secondary battery unit; calculate a value of correction of the state value on the basis of the voltage and the state value which have been received; and transmit the calculated value of correction to the secondary battery unit in order to apply the calculated value of correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kazumi, Takeshi Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20230184836
    Abstract: Provided is an analysis device including: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire, via a network, analysis data including measurement data obtained by measuring characteristics related to charging and discharging of one or more battery cells included in one or more battery modules and identification data for identifying at least one of the battery modules or the battery cells; a data analysis unit configured to analyze characteristics related to a charging capacity of at least one of the battery cells, based on the analysis data acquired by the data acquisition unit; and a data transmission unit configured to transmit transmission data corresponding to an analysis result obtained by the data analysis unit via the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro KAZUMI, Takeshi MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230168309
    Abstract: An estimation method includes: performing, for each different degree of degradation, regression analysis between a first value and a second value, wherein the first value is related to one or more reference feature points on a differential curve of a charging-discharging curve indicating a voltage value with respect to integrated current amount of a reference storage battery, and the second value is at least one of a capacity value of the reference storage battery and an internal resistance value of the reference storage battery; and estimating at least one of a capacity value of a target storage battery and an internal resistance value of the target storage battery, based on a result of the regression analysis and a third value related to one or more target feature points on a differential curve of a charging-discharging curve of the target storage battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Nakagomi, Satoshi Yoshitake, Masahiro Kazumi
  • Publication number: 20230098799
    Abstract: A diagnostic device includes: a receiver that receives data of only some of battery cells constituting a storage battery system; and a controller that diagnoses the storage battery system based on the received data. The data has a voltage value and an integrated current amount value. The some of the battery cells include: a low-state MIN battery cell; a low-state MAX battery cell; a high-state MIN battery cell; and a high-state MAX battery cell. The controller executes at least one of: determining whether the battery cells are in a balanced state or an imbalance state; calculating an imbalance amount between capacities of the battery cells; or calculating a value related to a capacity of a battery cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshitake, Masahiro Kazumi, Hiroshi Akahori
  • Publication number: 20230093809
    Abstract: A diagnostic device includes: a calculator that calculates a value related to a capacity of a battery cell based on a result of comparison between a measurement Q-V curve and a reference Q-V curve, the measurement Q-V curve indicating a relation between a voltage and an integrated current amount that are obtained from measurement data of the battery cell. The calculator further calculates at least one of: an amount of capacity deterioration caused by a voltage difference between the measurement Q-V curve and the reference Q-V curve by multiplying an inclination of the measurement Q-V curve by the voltage difference, and a temporary maximum capacity after capacity deterioration caused by a change in the inclination of the measurement Q-V curve to an inclination of the reference Q-V curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshitake, Hiroshi Akahori, Masahiro Kazumi
  • Publication number: 20210194071
    Abstract: A secondary battery management device is communicably connected to a secondary battery unit including a secondary battery, and manages the secondary battery unit. The secondary battery management device is configured to: request the secondary battery unit to transmit a voltage and a state value of the secondary battery; receive the voltage and the state value of the secondary battery transmitted from the secondary battery unit; calculate a value of correction of the state value on the basis of the voltage and the state value which have been received; and transmit the calculated value of correction to the secondary battery unit in order to apply the calculated value of correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Kazumi, Takeshi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 10353009
    Abstract: A secondary battery capacity measuring system that estimates maximum capacities of other cells using characteristics of a deteriorated cell even when a charging process in the deteriorated cell having a smaller maximum capacity than the other cells in cells constituting a battery module ends and data for measuring the maximum capacities of the other cells cannot be acquired is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Soichiro Torai, Satoshi Yoshitake, Masahiro Kazumi, Masaru Nakagomi
  • Publication number: 20170212170
    Abstract: A secondary battery capacity measuring system that estimates maximum capacities of other cells using characteristics of a deteriorated cell even when a charging process in the deteriorated cell having a smaller maximum capacity than the other cells in cells constituting a battery module ends and data for measuring the maximum capacities of the other cells cannot be acquired is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soichiro TORAI, Satoshi YOSHITAKE, Masahiro KAZUMI, Masaru NAKAGOMI
  • Publication number: 20110173585
    Abstract: There is provided a battery characteristic evaluator configured to identify a circuit constant of an equivalent circuit model based on a current-voltage characteristic of a battery. The battery characteristic evaluator includes: a current waveform divider configured to divide a certain current waveform into a plurality of step functions with a plurality of infinitesimal time intervals and output the step functions; and a circuit constant optimizing unit configured to calculate the optimized circuit constant of the equivalent circuit model, based on the step functions, a measured voltage value, and equivalent circuit model data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi HAMANO, Masaru NAKAGOMI, Masahiro KAZUMI, Satoshi YOSHITAKE