Patents by Inventor Osamu Tomobe

Osamu Tomobe 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: 20220320869
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to diagnose an abnormality in the amount of electricity generated by a distributed power source while restricting an increase in the number of sensors. A packet generating unit 200 generates electricity generation amount packet data D2a from electricity generation amount data D1 and identification data D6; an electricity generation feature quantity calculating unit 201 calculates electricity generation feature quantity data D3a, D3b indicating a feature quantity of the amount of electricity generated by each distributed power source, from each item of and a result output unit 203 consolidates abnormalities in the amounts of electricity generated by the distributed power sources, indicated by the determination result data D5, as abnormality diagnosis result data D7, and outputs the same to a display unit 206.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Masanori ABE, Osamu TOMOBE, Masatoshi KUMAGAI
  • Publication number: 20210390226
    Abstract: To improve coordination of processing that uses power demand data. A detail level determination unit 102 calculates, based on detail level format data D2, a detail level dataset D3 from a power demand dataset D1 generated by a power demand simulator 106. A data detail level conversion unit 103 calculates a converted power demand dataset D4 so that a detail level of the power demand dataset D1 matches a detail level required for a simulation in a power system simulator 105. A notification unit 104 displays a detail level conversion result indicated by the converted power demand dataset D4 and notifies the power system simulator 105 of the converted power demand dataset D4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Masanori ABE, Osamu TOMOBE
  • Patent number: 10673235
    Abstract: In a power system voltage reactive power monitoring control device, a balance between the power system voltage and the reactive power can be maintained even when, for example, the output of renewable energy varies over time due to the weather, or the power supply configuration or system configuration changes, and the economic efficiency can be improved. In the power system voltage reactive power monitoring control device, which supplies transmission data to individual devices capable of adjusting the voltage and the reactive power of a power system, indices indicating the stability of the power system are used to determine one or more target value restrictions, information about the target value is obtained from the target value restrictions, transmission data containing information about the target value is supplied to the individual devices, and the voltage and reactive power at the relevant installation site are adjusted by the individual devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eisuke Kuroda, Daichi Kato, Osamu Tomobe, Haruki Miyoshi, Shintaro Ueno
  • Patent number: 10628896
    Abstract: A system stability monitoring device monitors the stability of a power system and is equipped with: a storage unit for storing spot information indicating the positional relationship between a plurality of measurement spots in the power system; a receiving unit for receiving time-series measurement information measured by a measuring device provided at each of the measurement spots; and a calculation unit for detecting the frequency components of the power fluctuation from the measurement information, selecting, based on the frequency components, measurement spot group candidates that are measurement spots among the plurality of measurement spots, obtaining the electrical distances between the measurement spot group candidates on the basis of the spot information, and categorizing the measurement spot group candidates into at least one measurement spot group on the basis of the electrical distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Yamazaki, Masahiro Yatsu, Sumito Tobe, Yasuo Sato, Osamu Tomobe, Eisuke Kuroda
  • Patent number: 10473700
    Abstract: A voltage stability monitoring device, which monitors voltage stability of a power system, produces a plurality of assumed change scenarios indicating a scenario of a change that is assumed based on at least one of a system configuration of the power system and a change of a tide state, calculates the voltage stability using the assumed change scenario, calculates a voltage stability margin indicating margin degree of the voltage stability, based on the voltage stability selects an assumed change scenario with high severity of the voltage stability for each assumed change scenario, based on the voltage stability margin calculates which buses in the power system are vulnerable buses that decrease voltage stability, based on the assumed change scenario which is selected, and changes a monitoring target of the voltage stability, based on information of the vulnerable bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eisuke Kuroda, Yasuo Sato, Osamu Tomobe, Jun Yamazaki, Masahiro Yatsu, Kouichi Hara, Haruki Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 10461538
    Abstract: A system stabilization control device controls a control instrument within a power system on the basis of measurement information from a plurality of measurement points within the power system. The system stabilization control device includes an equipment information database storing information of system equipment interconnected with the power system; a control priority determining unit determining the control priority of the control instrument on the basis of the information of the system equipment; a control target determining unit determining a control target on the basis of the measurement information from the plurality of measurement points and the control priority; a destabilization time calculating unit calculating destabilization time of the power system from the measurement information from the plurality of measurement points; and a control time determining unit determining control time of the control instrument on the basis of the destabilization time and the information of the system equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Yamazaki, Osamu Tomobe, Eisuke Kuroda, Akira Tsubota, Sumito Tobe, Masahiro Yatsu
  • Patent number: 10389133
    Abstract: In order to maintain a system frequency within a permissible range under limitations of the output of a power source to be controlled, a calculation device pertaining to a load-frequency-controlling device of the present invention: predicts time-series data indicating the status of individual power sources in a future control period, the prediction being carried out on the basis of system model data, system data, and renewable energy data; calculates, on the basis of power source data, and for each of the power sources, at least any one of a deviation state indicating the degree to which the time-series data deviates from the limitations and/or a surplus state indicating the degree to which the time-series data shows a surplus with respect to the limitations; resolves the deviation state; and calculates the amount of adjustment in the output of each of the power sources, on the basis of the deviation state and the surplus state, under the condition that the total output of the power sources is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Eisuke Kuroda, Osamu Tomobe, Masahiro Yatsu
  • Patent number: 10371592
    Abstract: When vibration information calculated using measurement information is classified using a distance between measurement points which is calculated using the point information, even in a case in which a plurality of vibration modes with close vibration frequencies are present at the same time, stability determination at a high speed and a high accuracy is realized. A system stability monitoring apparatus which monitors system stability of a power system includes a measurement information collecting unit that collects measurement information of a plurality of points in the power system, a vibration analyzing unit that calculates vibration information indicating vibration of a system state in the plurality of points using the measurement information, an information storage unit that stores point information including position information of the plurality of points, and a vibration classifying unit that classifies the vibration information based on the point information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Yamazaki, Masahiro Yatsu, Sumito Tobe, Yasuo Sato, Osamu Tomobe, Eisuke Kuroda
  • Patent number: 10222196
    Abstract: The present invention monitors an electric power system using a time-series measurement value including abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Yamazaki, Masahiro Yatsu, Sumito Tobe, Osamu Tomobe, Tatsuki Inuduka
  • Patent number: 10193385
    Abstract: In administration based on the existing (N?1) reliability criteria, an appropriate administration plan may be not drafted in a power system in which renewable energy increases. Accordingly, according to the invention, a power system monitoring apparatus that monitors a power system includes: an input unit that inputs assumable system breakdown data including an occurrence frequency of each assumable breakdown of the power system and assumable output change data including an occurrence frequency of each assumable output change of each generator connected to the power system; and an output unit that generates conditions by which events of the assumable breakdowns and the assumable output changes are combined based on the occurrence frequencies of the assumable breakdown and the assumable output change and outputs a control plan for each of the conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Sato, Masahiro Yatsu, Kouichi Hara, Eisuke Kuroda, Osamu Tomobe, Jun Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20180262010
    Abstract: In order to maintain a system frequency within a permissible range under limitations of the output of a power source to be controlled, a calculation device pertaining to a load-frequency-controlling device of the present invention: predicts time-series data indicating the status of individual power sources in a future control period, the prediction being carried out on the basis of system model data, system data, and renewable energy data; calculates, on the basis of power source data, and for each of the power sources, at least any one of a deviation state indicating the degree to which the time-series data deviates from the limitations and/or a surplus state indicating the degree to which the time-series data shows a surplus with respect to the limitations; resolves the deviation state; and calculates the amount of adjustment in the output of each of the power sources, on the basis of the deviation state and the surplus state, under the condition that the total output of the power sources is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Daichi KATO, Eisuke KURODA, Osamu TOMOBE, Masahiro YATSU
  • Publication number: 20180152020
    Abstract: The objective is to provide a power system voltage reactive power monitoring control device with which a balance between the power system voltage and the reactive power can be maintained even when, for example, the output of renewable energy varies over time due to the weather, or the power supply configuration or system configuration changes, and a power system voltage reactive power monitoring control device with which the economic efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Eisuke KURODA, Daichi KATO, Osamu TOMOBE, Haruki MIYOSHI, Shintaro UENO
  • Publication number: 20180054059
    Abstract: A system stabilization control device controls a control instrument within a power system on the basis of measurement information from a plurality of measurement points within the power system. The system stabilization control device includes an equipment information database storing information of system equipment interconnected with the power system; a control priority determining unit determining the control priority of the control instrument on the basis of the information of the system equipment; a control target determining unit determining a control target on the basis of the measurement information from the plurality of measurement points and the control priority; a destabilization time calculating unit calculating destabilization time of the power system from the measurement information from the plurality of measurement points; and a control time determining unit determining control time of the control instrument on the basis of the destabilization time and the information of the system equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun YAMAZAKI, Osamu TOMOBE, Eisuke KURODA, Akira TSUBOTA, Sumito TOBE, Masahiro YATSU
  • Publication number: 20170292824
    Abstract: The present invention monitors an electric power system using a time-series measurement value including abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Jun YAMAZAKI, Masahiro YATSU, Sumito TOBE, Osamu TOMOBE, Tatsuki INUDUKA
  • Publication number: 20170278200
    Abstract: A system stability monitoring device monitors the stability of a power system and is equipped with: a storage unit for storing spot information indicating the positional relationship between a plurality of measurement spots in the power system; a receiving unit for receiving time-series measurement information measured by a measuring device provided at each of the measurement spots; and a calculation unit for detecting the frequency components of the power fluctuation from the measurement information, selecting, based on the frequency components, measurement spot group candidates that are measurement spots among the plurality of measurement spots, obtaining the electrical distances between the measurement spot group candidates on the basis of the spot information, and categorizing the measurement spot group candidates into at least one measurement spot group on the basis of the electrical distances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun YAMAZAKI, Masahiro YATSU, Sumito TOBE, Yasuo SATO, Osamu TOMOBE, Eisuke KURODA
  • Publication number: 20170146574
    Abstract: A voltage stability monitoring device for monitoring the voltage stability of a system, the device including: an assumed change scenario calculation unit for predicting the output variation of a renewable energy connected to said system and calculating an assumed change time-series power flow state on the basis of said output variation; a time-series voltage stability calculation unit for calculating a node voltage change with respect to demand at each node of said system on the basis of said power flow state calculated by said assumed change scenario calculation unit and calculating a voltage stability indicating the relationship curve between said node voltage and reactive power; and a voltage stability improvement countermeasure search unit for determining a controlled device on which an assumed control is to be performed, according to said voltage stability calculated by said time-series voltage stability calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Eisuke KURODA, Yasuo SATO, Osamu TOMOBE, Jun YAMAZAKI, Masahiro YATSU, Haruki MIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20170097271
    Abstract: When vibration information calculated using measurement information is classified using a distance between measurement points which is calculated using the point information, even in a case in which a plurality of vibration modes with close vibration frequencies are present at the same time, stability determination at a high speed and a high accuracy is realized. A system stability monitoring apparatus which monitors system stability of a power system includes a measurement information collecting unit that collects measurement information of a plurality of points in the power system, a vibration analyzing unit that calculates vibration information indicating vibration of a system state in the plurality of points using the measurement information, an information storage unit that stores point information including position information of the plurality of points, and a vibration classifying unit that classifies the vibration information based on the point information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Jun YAMAZAKI, Masahiro YATSU, Sumito TOBE, Yasuo SATO, Osamu TOMOBE, Eisuke KURODA
  • Publication number: 20170045558
    Abstract: An object is to accurately monitor deterioration of current or future voltage stability, by dynamically changing a bus in which current or future voltage stability deteriorates, in stability monitoring calculation of a power system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Eisuke KURODA, Yasuo SATO, Osamu TOMOBE, Jun YAMAZAKI, Masahiro YATSU, Kouichi HARA, Haruki MIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20160359363
    Abstract: In administration based on the existing (N?1) reliability criteria, an appropriate administration plan may be not drafted in a power system in which renewable energy increases. Accordingly, according to the invention, a power system monitoring apparatus that monitors a power system includes: an input unit that inputs assumable system breakdown data including an occurrence frequency of each assumable breakdown of the power system and assumable output change data including an occurrence frequency of each assumable output change of each generator connected to the power system; and an output unit that generates conditions by which events of the assumable breakdowns and the assumable output changes are combined based on the occurrence frequencies of the assumable breakdown and the assumable output change and outputs a control plan for each of the conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo SATO, Masahiro YATSU, Kouichi HARA, Eisuke KURODA, Osamu TOMOBE, Jun YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9344020
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes arms in each of which one or more unit converters each including a capacitor and capable of outputting an arbitrary voltage are connected in series, and a point P as a first node to which one end of the respective arms are Y-connected, and a point N as a second node to which a neutral terminal of the rotary electric machine is connected. The other end of the respective arms are connected to one ends of respective phase windings of a rotary electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenori Inoue, Shuji Katoh, Hironari Kawazoe, Osamu Tomobe, Toru Yoshihara, Kenta Watanabe