Patents by Inventor Naoyuki Sugeno

Naoyuki Sugeno 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: 11594903
    Abstract: A power storage system of the present technology includes a battery board configured to accommodate a secondary battery, a branch board, a first frame on which the battery board is placed, a second frame on which the branch board is placed, and a plurality of connection wirings that are disposed in the first frame and the second frame and connects the battery board and the branch board. The plurality of connection wirings are aggregated in the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Koji Umetsu
  • Patent number: 11183727
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a container including a first conductive material, a plurality of battery racks including a second conductive material, a plurality of electricity storage modules mounted on the battery racks and having grounded portions connected to the battery racks, and a grounding means configured to connect the battery racks to a ground outside the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Kazumi Sato, Masami Okada, Yasuhiro Watanabe, Ryo Tanabe
  • Patent number: 11050259
    Abstract: A power supply device includes a photovoltaic power generator, a secondary battery unit, a charger configured to supply power from the photovoltaic power generator to the secondary battery unit, a DC-AC power conversion circuit configured to convert a discharge output of the secondary battery unit into AC power, and a control device configured to control charging of the secondary battery unit based on a load power prediction obtained by a moving average of used power and an amount of power generated by the photovoltaic power generator and perform control to switch output of the amount of power generated by the photovoltaic power generator between the secondary battery unit and a commercial system power based on a value of state of charge (SOC) of the secondary battery unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Hiroaki Yoshida, Atsushi Chinen, Masami Okada, Mohan Amit Saklani
  • Patent number: 10951038
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a control unit, and a power path that is connected to a primary external power system. If a connection state between the primary external power system and the power path is in a disconnected state, the control unit is configured to control power output of at least one power conditioner of at least one corresponding secondary external power generation unit, based on (a) an amount of power consumption of a specific load connected to the power supply control device through the power path, and (b) a power generation output of the secondary external power generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Shun Nagashima, Shunichi Nihei, Atsushi Chinen, Masami Okada, Atsushi Minami, Kazumi Sato, Hiroaki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10916948
    Abstract: A power control apparatus has a switch configured to interrupt power supply from a system power when the switch has detected a drop of voltage from the system power below a threshold, a first power controller configured to receive a voltage drop signal supplied from the switch unit, a first power storage unit connected to the first power controller, a second power controller configured to receive a discharge start signal supplied from the first power controller, a second power storage unit connected to the second power controller, and a rotary machine generator that receives an operation control signal supplied from the second power controller or the second power storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Koji Umetsu
  • Publication number: 20200195027
    Abstract: A power storage system of the present technology includes a battery board configured to accommodate a secondary battery, a branch board, a first frame on which the battery board is placed, a second frame on which the branch board is placed, and a plurality of connection wirings that are disposed in the first frame and the second frame and connects the battery board and the branch board. The plurality of connection wirings are aggregated in the second frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Naoyuki SUGENO, Koji UMETSU
  • Patent number: 10587127
    Abstract: There is provided a charging device including a charging voltage providing unit configured to provide a maximum charging voltage for an electricity storage unit, wherein the electricity storage unit includes a plurality of battery cells, and wherein the maximum charging voltage satisfies an equation (1) below: Maximum Charging Voltage=Total Battery Voltage+(Fully Charged Voltage?Maximum Cell Voltage)*n (1) wherein n represents a total number of the battery cells connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Hisato Asai, Eiji Kumagai, Noritoshi Imamura, Koji Umetsu
  • Publication number: 20200076231
    Abstract: A power control apparatus has a switch configured to interrupt power supply from a system power when the switch has detected a drop of voltage from the system power below a threshold, a first power controller configured to receive a voltage drop signal supplied from the switch unit, a first power storage unit connected to the first power controller, a second power controller configured to receive a discharge start signal supplied from the first power controller, a second power storage unit connected to the second power controller, and a rotary machine generator that receives an operation control signal supplied from the second power controller or the second power storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Naoyuki SUGENO, Koji UMETSU
  • Patent number: 10523027
    Abstract: Provided is a power supply apparatus including a power storage module, a DC-AC inverter, a bypass circuit, and a controller. The DC-AC inverter converts output of the power storage module into AC power. The bypass circuit directly transmits the AC power. The controller switches between a discharge mode for supplying output of the DC-AC inverter to a load, and a bypass mode for supplying output of the bypass circuit to the load. A threshold for switching between the discharge mode and the bypass mode is set to a range that enables the power storage module to provide output in an overload state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Hiroaki Yoshida, Kazumi Sato, Koji Umetsu
  • Patent number: 10505376
    Abstract: Provided is a power storage apparatus, including: series circuits, the series circuits being formed of first coils and first switching elements, the first coils and the first switching elements being connected to a plurality of battery units in parallel; second coils electromagnetically coupled to the first coils; second switching elements connected to the second coils in series; a capacitor inserted between two common power source lines for commonly supplying voltage to both ends of the series circuits of the second coils and the second switching element related to the plurality of battery units; and a control unit that supplies a control pulse signal to the first switching element and the second switching element for equalizing voltage of each of the plurality of battery units, in which an amount of charge obtained by dividing an amount of transferred charge necessary for eliminating a voltage difference between the first battery unit and the second battery unit into 10 or more is transferred by switching o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Kohki Watanabe, Noritoshi Imamura, Yusuke Suzuki, Takuma Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10483515
    Abstract: There is provided a power storage system comprising a plurality of battery lines and a connection terminal unit. Each battery line comprises a plurality of battery cells arranged in a first direction. The connection terminal unit is electrically connected to terminal faces of each battery cell of a group of the battery cells, and the group of the battery cells is disposed in a second direction. At least one cut out is formed in the connection terminal unit. There are also provided a power storage system for a house, a power storage system for a vehicle, an electronic device and an electric vehicle including the power storage device. There is also provided a connection terminal unit for electrically connecting a plurality of battery cells, in which at least one cut out is formed in the connection terminal unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naotake Yoshida, Hiroaki Ono, Tsutomu Aoyama, Tatsuya Adachi, Naoyuki Sugeno, Munenori Inden
  • Patent number: 10389142
    Abstract: Provided is an electric storage system including: a plurality of electric storage devices including a plurality of modules, a battery management unit, and a line concentrator connected with the battery management unit; wherein the plurality of modules include a battery unit, a voltage measurement unit, a temperature measurement unit and a current measurement unit, and wherein the battery management unit is configured to control at least one of the plurality of electric storage devices based on an instruction transmitted from the line concentrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Kohki Watanabe, Kazuharu Yanagihara, Noritoshi Imamura, Yusuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10361575
    Abstract: A power storage apparatus includes a plurality of power storage modules connected in series and a control apparatus that controls each power storage module. The power storage module includes a battery section, a controller, a communication unit, a first insulator that insulates the controller from the communication unit, and a second insulator having a withstand voltage higher than a withstand voltage of the first insulator. The second insulator is provided between the communication unit of each power storage module and the control apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Koji Umetsu, Noritoshi Imamura, Hiroaki Ono, Kazumi Sato, Atsushi Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20190181406
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a container including a first conductive material, a plurality of battery racks including a second conductive material, a plurality of electricity storage modules mounted on the battery racks and having grounded portions connected to the battery racks, and a grounding means configured to connect the battery racks to a ground outside the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Naoyuki SUGENO, Kazumi SATO, Masami OKADA, Yasuhiro WATANABE, Ryo TANABE
  • Patent number: 10283820
    Abstract: Provided is an electrical storage system including an electrical storage unit that includes one or two or more storage batteries, a storage unit that stores historical information of the electrical storage unit, and a control unit. The control unit acquires the historical information from the storage unit, and performs a control of changing a charging setting voltage value of the electrical storage unit to a low-charging voltage value lower than a typical-charging voltage value in a case where the charging setting voltage value of the electrical storage unit is set to the typical-charging voltage value and in a case where the historical information satisfies a voltage changing condition, and of returning the charging setting voltage value of the electrical storage unit to the typical-charging voltage value after the electrical storage unit performs charging and discharging with the low-charging voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Yukio Miyaki, Kohki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10180670
    Abstract: To reliably detect a communication error status and to resolve the communication error status when reliably recovered from the error status. A count value is changed into one of up and down directions when a communication error is detected by a communication error determination unit, the count value is changed into the other direction of the up and down directions when communication being normal is detected by the communication error determination unit, a communication error status is output when the count value becomes a first threshold value, and the communication error status is resolved when the count value becomes a second threshold value different from the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Kohki Watanabe, Shuichi Takizawa
  • Patent number: 10164298
    Abstract: A storage device includes a storage unit, and an evaluation value acquisition unit wherein the evaluation value acquisition unit is configured to acquire an evaluation value including at least a first evaluation value corresponding to the storage unit in a low-temperature region and a second evaluation value corresponding to the storage unit in a high-temperature region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Yoshihiro Odashima, Kazumi Sato, Masumi Terauchi, Naruhiko Endo, Toshio Tajima, Koji Umetsu
  • Patent number: 10147922
    Abstract: A power storage device includes an outer casing and two battery units housed in the outer casing. Each battery unit includes a battery casing formed with a top casing and a bottom casing. The battery casing houses a battery block group in which battery lines are arranged in parallel in a direction substantially perpendicular to the battery line extending direction, and are arranged in a stacked straw bag arrangement, wherein the two or more battery units are vertically housed in the outer casing and are stacked in two or more stages in a horizontal direction, the bottom surface portions facing in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Tsutomu Aoyama, Tatsuya Adachi
  • Publication number: 20180316055
    Abstract: A nonaqueous secondary battery is provided. The nonaqueous secondary battery includes a positive electrode member including a positive electrode active material having a NaXFeY(SO4)Z compound (wherein 0<X?3, 1?Y?3, and 2?Z?4), a first conductive material, and a second binder; a negative electrode member including a negative electrode active material capable of inserting and desorbing sodium ions, and a second binder; a separator, and a hydrogen group-containing carbonaceous layer. The hydrogen group-containing carbonaceous layer is provided on a surface of the positive electrode active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventor: Naoyuki SUGENO
  • Publication number: 20180269685
    Abstract: A power supply device includes a photovoltaic power generator, a secondary battery unit, a charger configured to supply power from the photovoltaic power generator to the secondary battery unit, a DC-AC power conversion circuit configured to convert a discharge output of the secondary battery unit into AC power, and a control device configured to control charging of the secondary battery unit based on a load power prediction obtained by a moving average of used power and an amount of power generated by the photovoltaic power generator and perform control to switch output of the amount of power generated by the photovoltaic power generator between the secondary battery unit and a commercial system power based on a value of state of charge (SOC) of the secondary battery unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Naoyuki SUGENO, Hiroaki YOSHIDA, Atsushi CHINEN, Masami OKADA, Mohan Amit SAKLANI