Patents by Inventor Naoyuki Igarashi

Naoyuki Igarashi 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: 10209317
    Abstract: A battery monitoring device includes: a current detection unit that detects an electric current flowing through a battery; a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage between both ends of the battery; a temperature detection unit that detects the temperature of the battery; an internal resistance increase rate calculation unit that calculates the internal resistance increase rate of the battery based on the detected electric current, voltage between the both ends, and temperature; and a calculation invalid time setting unit that sets a predetermined calculation invalid time according to the characteristics of the internal resistance increase rate. The calculation results of the internal resistance increase rate is invalidated for an invalid period from the start of charging or discharging of the battery to the lapse of the calculation invalid time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Ohkawa, Naoyuki Igarashi
  • Patent number: 9952288
    Abstract: Provided is a battery control device which can verify a probability of a state of charge or a state of health of a battery. A battery controller according to the invention calculates a measurement parameter of the battery using the state of charge or the state of health of the battery, and the probability of the state of charge or the state of health is diagnosed by comparing the measurement results (see FIGS. 9(a) and 9(b)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohei Nakao, Yohei Kawahara, Akihiko Kudou, Keiichiro Ookawa, Naoyuki Igarashi
  • Patent number: 9689926
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a battery control device that can appropriately verify the results of the estimation of the state of charge of a battery. This battery control device is provided with a charged state calculation unit that calculates the state of charge of the battery and a charged state verification unit that verifies the results of the calculation. The charged state verification unit calculates the charged state using a calculation procedure that is not being used by the charged state calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Ohkawa, Ryohei Nakao, Youhei Kawahara, Naoyuki Igarashi, Yoshinori Aoshima
  • Patent number: 9685807
    Abstract: Provided is a battery control device that can accurately detect a state of charge even if characteristics relating to the state of charge change as a result of battery degradation. This battery control device is provided with map data describing the correspondence relationship between an open-circuit voltage and a state of charge of the battery and outputs different state-of-charge values for the same open-circuit voltage according to the amount of elapsed time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryouhei Nakao, Shinji Imai, Keiichiro Ohkawa, Naoyuki Igarashi, Takahiro Soma
  • Patent number: 9537325
    Abstract: A battery state estimation system estimates a state of charge of a chargeable battery. A SOCv computing unit calculates a state of charge of the battery using a voltage applied across the battery. A SOCi computing unit integrates a current flowing through the battery to calculate a state of charge of the battery. A SOCw computing unit which performs weighted addition to the state of charge of the battery calculated by the SOCv computing unit and the state of charge of the battery calculated by the SOCi computing unit, wherein when the temperature of the battery is a threshold value or less and the current flowing through the battery is a threshold value or less, the SOCw computing unit sets the specific gravity at the state of charge of the battery calculated by the SOCi computing unit larger than that in other cases upon the weighted addition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Igarashi, Keiichiro Ohkawa
  • Publication number: 20160097819
    Abstract: A battery monitoring device includes: a current detection unit that detects an electric current flowing through a battery; a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage between both ends of the battery; a temperature detection unit that detects the temperature of the battery; an internal resistance increase rate calculation unit that calculates the internal resistance increase rate of the battery based on the detected electric current, voltage between the both ends, and temperature; and a calculation invalid time setting unit that sets a predetermined calculation invalid time according to the characteristics of the internal resistance increase rate. The calculation results of the internal resistance increase rate is invalidated for an invalid period from the start of charging or discharging of the battery to the lapse of the calculation invalid time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Keiichiro OHKAWA, Naoyuki IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20150369873
    Abstract: Provided is a battery control device which can verify a probability of a state of charge or a state of health of a battery. A battery controller according to the invention calculates a measurement parameter of the battery using the state of charge or the state of health of the battery, and the probability of the state of charge or the state of health is diagnosed by comparing the measurement results (see FIGS. 9(a) and 9(b)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei NAKAO, Yohei KAWAHARA, Akihiko KUDOU, Keiichiro OOKAWA, Naoyuki IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20150357852
    Abstract: Provided is a battery control device that can accurately detect a state of charge even if characteristics relating to the state of charge change as a result of battery degradation. This battery control device is provided with map data describing the correspondence relationship between an open-circuit voltage and a state of charge of the battery and outputs different state-of-charge values for the same open-circuit voltage according to the amount of elapsed time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryouhei NAKAO, Shinji IMAI, Keiichiro OHKAWA, Naoyuki IGARASHI, Takahiro SOMA
  • Publication number: 20150346285
    Abstract: A device for assessing an extent of degradation of a secondary battery, includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not a value of current flowing in the secondary battery is less than a predetermined value; a first voltage measurement unit that takes a time point at which it is determined by the determination unit that the value of the current is less than the predetermined value as being a start time point of a specific interval, and that measures a first battery voltage of the secondary battery at the start time point; a first charge amount calculation unit that obtains a first charge amount corresponding to the secondary battery based upon the measured first battery voltage; a second voltage measurement unit that, after the first battery voltage has been measured by the first voltage measurement unit, takes a time point at which it is determined by the determination unit that the value of the current is less than the predetermined value as being an end time point of the specific interval, an
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Naoyuki IGARASHI, Keiichiro OHKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150301115
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a battery control device that can appropriately verify the results of the estimation of the state of charge of a battery. This battery control device is provided with a charged state calculation unit that calculates the state of charge of the battery and a charged state verification unit that verifies the results of the calculation. The charged state verification unit calculates the charged state using a calculation procedure that is not being used by the charged state calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichiro OHKAWA, Ryohei NAKAO, Youhei KAWAHARA, Naoyuki IGARASHI, Yoshinori AOSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20140239914
    Abstract: A battery controller for charge and discharge control of an assembly battery so that a state of charge of each battery cell forming a battery does not deviate from a predetermined usage range. The battery controller controls an assembly battery comprising a plurality of battery cells. The battery controller calculates an actual average charge state CAVE, an average charge state upper limit value CAVEH, an average charge state lower limit value CAVEL, an average charge state ratio S indicating a position of the actual average charge state CAVE between the average charge state upper limit value CAVEH and the average charge state lower limit value CAVEL, and an assembly battery charge state CPACK based on the actual average charge state CAVE, the average charge state upper limit value CAVEH, the average charge state lower limit value CAVEL, and the average charge state ratio S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI VEHICLE ENERGY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Igarashi, Keiichiro Ohkawa, Youhei Kawahara
  • Publication number: 20140055100
    Abstract: A battery state estimation system estimates a state of charge of a chargeable battery. A SOCv computing unit calculates a state of charge of the battery using a voltage applied across the battery. A SOCi computing unit integrates a current flowing through the battery to calculate a state of charge of the battery. A SOCw computing unit which performs weighted addition to the state of charge of the battery calculated by the SOCv computing unit and the state of charge of the battery calculated by the SOCi computing unit, wherein when the temperature of the battery is a threshold value or less and the current flowing through the battery is a threshold value or less, the SOCw computing unit sets the specific gravity at the state of charge of the battery calculated by the SOCi computing unit larger than that in other cases upon the weighted addition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki IGARASHI, Keiichiro OHKAWA
  • Publication number: 20080089586
    Abstract: In a data processing system, a terminal includes an area definition storage unit to store position information of a specific area on a paper and processing type information indicating a processing type of data written in the specific area in association with each other, a first data processing unit to generate handwritten information by analyzing address data captured by the digital pen and extract handwritten information in a specific area based on position information of the specific area stored in the area definition storage unit, and a second data processing unit to execute data processing on the extracted handwritten information based on processing type information associated with the position information of the specific area in the area definition storage unit and store processed data into a database accessible by a user application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Naoyuki Igarashi, Hidefumi Goto, Ayako Kinoshita