Patents by Inventor Nobukatsu Sugiyama

Nobukatsu Sugiyama 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: 11901521
    Abstract: A secondary battery system includes a secondary battery and a controller. The secondary battery has a charging state including at least first to third sections. The controller controls a current flowing through the secondary battery so as to be smaller than a predetermined current in the first and third sections, and controls the current flowing through the secondary battery so as to be larger than the predetermined current in the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Ena Ishii, Tomokazu Morita, Yumi Fujita
  • Patent number: 11892515
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a determination device relating to a plurality of batteries connected in series is provided. The determination device includes a processor. The processor determines a deterioration variance among the batteries, based on first voltage data indicative of a maximum voltage which is greatest among voltages of the batteries in each of measurements in a plurality of periods in charge or discharge of the batteries, and second voltage data indicative of a minimum voltage which is least among the voltages of the batteries in each of the measurements in the periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yumi Fujita, Tomokazu Morita, Nobukatsu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11799309
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a secondary battery system includes a secondary battery, a calculator, and a controller. The secondary battery includes a first electrode including a first and second active materials, and a second electrode including a third active material. The calculator calculates a current ratio of currents passing through the first and second active materials for each of different values of a charge amount of the first electrode, based on capacities and capacity-versus-potential properties of the first and second active materials. The controller, based on the capacities of the first and second active materials and the current ratio when the charge amount of the first electrode takes a first value, controls the current passing through the secondary battery when the charge amount indicates the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Yumi Fujita, Tomokazu Morita
  • Patent number: 11762032
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a diagnosis method of a battery is provided. In the diagnosis method, a similarity to a measurement result of a voltage of the battery is calculated in regard to each of a plurality of voltage arithmetic data calculated by setting an internal state in mutually different states in a voltage model of the battery. In the diagnosis method, a deterioration state of the battery is determined based on the similarity calculated in regard to each of the voltage arithmetic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Yumi Fujita, Tomokazu Morita
  • Publication number: 20230275450
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a management method of a secondary battery is provided. In the management method, temperature control of the secondary battery is executed in a second period after a first period in which the secondary battery is diagnosed, when the secondary battery is charged under a charge condition under which precipitation of lithium metal in the secondary battery is predicted based on a diagnosis result in the first period. In the temperature control of the secondary battery, a temperature of the secondary battery after a time point of an end of charge under the charge condition in the second period is kept in a predetermined temperature range of a lower-limit temperature to an upper-limit temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yumi FUJITA, Tomokazu MORITA, Nobukatsu SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11735781
    Abstract: A charge and discharge control device that controls charging and discharging of a battery module in which a plurality of cell blocks, each including one or more unit cells, are connected in parallel to one another. A controller of the charge and discharge control device controls a current flowing through each of the cell blocks based on at least one of a current load of each of the cell blocks or a parameter relating to the current load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Yumi Fujita, Tomokazu Morita, Ena Ishii
  • Patent number: 11680989
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a diagnosis method of a battery is provided. In the diagnosis method, based on an internal state of the battery at a plurality of mutually different times, a time when the internal state of the battery becomes a predetermined state after the plurality of mutually different times is estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Yumi Fujita, Tomokazu Morita
  • Publication number: 20230071341
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a processing device relating to an inspection of an inspection object by a photography unit is provided. A processor of the processing device calculates a plurality of photography points as positions photographing the inspection object based on shape data in which a shape of a surface of the inspection object is indicated by a point group, and information relating to a position and a normal vector on the surface of the inspection object is defined by the point group. The processor executes analysis regarding a path that passes through all of the calculated photography points and minimizes a sum of a movement cost from each of the photography points to a photography point of a next movement destination, and calculates a path corresponding to an analysis result as a path for moving the photography unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Junichiro Ooga, Yoshiyuki Ishihara, Junji Oaki, Hiroshi Ohno, Hideaki Okano, Hiroya Kano, Takahiro Kamikawa
  • Publication number: 20230015417
    Abstract: In a management method of a secondary battery of one embodiment, a charge pattern in charge planned to be executed is set based on estimation data including an estimation result of an internal state of the secondary battery based on a measurement result of an electric current and a voltage of the secondary battery, target data including a target time for charging the secondary battery in the charge planned to be executed, and relation data indicative a relation of each of the internal state of the secondary battery and a charge condition of the secondary battery to a deterioration rate of the secondary battery. The charge pattern is set to be a charge pattern in which the deterioration rate does not exceed a threshold and the secondary battery is charged during the target time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yumi FUJITA, Tomokazu MORITA, Nobukatsu SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11488087
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a remanufacturing support server includes processor. The processor is configured to: acquire specification data representing required performance of a battery product; set an allowable range of a degradation state of a secondary battery to be used in the battery product; acquire diagnostic data indicating a diagnostic result of a degradation state of a secondary battery mounted on a vehicle, the diagnostic result of the degradation state of the secondary battery falling within the allowable range as the battery product; and provide an outside with a remanufacturing plan relating to the battery product based on the diagnostic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomokazu Morita, Yumi Fujita, Nobukatsu Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20220329095
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a secondary battery system includes a secondary battery, a calculator, and a controller. The secondary battery includes a first electrode including a first and second active materials, and a second electrode including a third active material. The calculator calculates a current ratio of currents passing through the first and second active materials for each of different values of a charge amount of the first electrode, based on capacities and capacity-versus-potential properties of the first and second active materials. The controller, based on the capacities of the first and second active materials and the current ratio when the charge amount of the first electrode takes a first value, controls the current passing through the secondary battery when the charge amount indicates the first value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Nobukatsu SUGIYAMA, Yumi FUJITA, Tomokazu MORITA
  • Patent number: 11462780
    Abstract: A charge/discharge control apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention is an apparatus that controls charge or discharge of a secondary battery to be charged or discharged on the basis of at least one condition of use calculated from a deterioration model or a deterioration map of a secondary battery and at least one inner state parameter of the secondary battery to be charged or discharged. The charge/discharge control apparatus updates the condition of use on the basis of change of the inner state parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yumi Fujita, Tomokazu Morita, Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Ena Ishii, Wataru Aratani
  • Publication number: 20220299574
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a diagnosis method of a battery is provided. In the diagnosis method, based on an internal state of the battery at a plurality of mutually different times, a time when the internal state of the battery becomes a predetermined state after the plurality of mutually different times is estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Yumi Fujita, Tomokazu Morita
  • Publication number: 20220292441
    Abstract: [PROBLEM] To provide a data distribution platform for data about storage batteries. [SOLVING MEANS] An information system for storage batteries according to an embodiment accepts registration of information about a manufactured storage battery from a first terminal and registration of a use history of a storage battery from a second terminal, the use history including battery state information acquired at each of points in time during a period of use of the storage battery, and accumulates the information about the storage battery and the use history. The information system uses the registered information about the storage battery and/or the registered use history to create an internal state estimation result with a predetermined evaluation technique, and accumulates the internal state estimation result as platform-based evaluation information in association with the registered information and/or the registered use history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu MORITA, Yumi FUJITA, Nobukatsu SUGIYAMA, Masahiro SHOJI, Mari TAKEDA, Tamotsu MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20220260645
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a diagnosis method of a battery is provided. In the diagnosis method, a similarity to a measurement result of a voltage of the battery is calculated in regard to each of a plurality of voltage arithmetic data calculated by setting an internal state in mutually different states in a voltage model of the battery. In the diagnosis method, a deterioration state of the battery is determined based on the similarity calculated in regard to each of the voltage arithmetic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Nobukatsu SUGIYAMA, Yumi FUJITA, Tomokazu MORITA
  • Patent number: 11413476
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a particle beam treatment system includes a storage, an estimator, a target value generator, and a particle beam treatment device. The storage stores therein a respiratory movement model obtained by synchronizing amount of displacement of an affected area of a subject with a signal related to respiration of the subject and performing modeling. The estimator estimates, based on the measured signal related to respiration and the respiratory movement model, amount of displacement of the affected area corresponding to the measured signal. The target value generator generates a target value, which is used for performing movement control on a platform on which the subject is lying down, corresponding to the estimated amount of displacement of the affected area. The particle beam treatment device irradiates, with particle beams, the affected area of the subject on the platform subjected to movement control according to the target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Junichiro Ooga, Hideki Ito, Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Atsuro Oonishi
  • Patent number: 11396101
    Abstract: An operating system according to an embodiment includes a target surface detection unit, a position calculation unit, a direction calculation unit, and a movement control unit. The target surface detection unit detects a target surface of a target object from a depth image obtained by a depth sensor. The position calculation unit calculates a first position for the detected target surface. The direction calculation unit calculates a first direction for the detected target surface. The movement control unit controls an actuator so as to reduce a positional deviation between a second position fixed with respect to the movable member and the first position and to reduce a directional deviation between a second direction fixed with respect to the movable member and the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Yoshiyuki Ishihara, Junji Oaki, Ping Jiang, Seiji Tokura, Akihito Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11394222
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a secondary battery system includes a secondary battery, a calculator, and a controller. The secondary battery includes a first electrode including a first and second active materials, and a second electrode including a third active material. The calculator calculates a current ratio of currents passing through the first and second active materials for each of different values of a charge amount of the first electrode, based on capacities and capacity-versus-potential properties of the first and second active materials. The controller, based on the capacities of the first and second active materials and the current ratio when the charge amount of the first electrode takes a first value, controls the current passing through the secondary battery when the charge amount indicates the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Yumi Fujita, Tomokazu Morita
  • Patent number: 11385293
    Abstract: A battery state estimating apparatus as an embodiment of the present invention includes a state estimator, a power estimator, and a determiner. The state estimator estimates a state of a battery. The power estimator estimates first power amount charged/discharged by the battery within a charging/discharging period, based on the state. The determiner compares the first power amount with second power amount inputted/outputted to/from the battery within the charging/discharging period and thereby determines validity of the state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yumi Fujita, Tomokazu Morita, Nobukatsu Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20220137151
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a determination device relating to a plurality of batteries connected in series is provided. The determination device includes a processor. The processor determines a deterioration variance among the batteries, based on first voltage data indicative of a maximum voltage which is greatest among voltages of the batteries in each of measurements in a plurality of periods in charge or discharge of the batteries, and second voltage data indicative of a minimum voltage which is least among the voltages of the batteries in each of the measurements in the periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yumi Fujita, Tomokazu Morita, Nobukatsu Sugiyama