Patents by Inventor Ryo Kanada

Ryo Kanada 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: 20200185789
    Abstract: A controller of a deterioration estimation device for a secondary battery is configured to acquire a first open circuit voltage when a temperature of the secondary battery is a first temperature and a second open circuit voltage when the temperature of the secondary battery is a second temperature changed from the first temperature, and estimate a degree of deterioration of the secondary battery by using a difference between first and second slopes. The first slope is a ratio of a voltage change obtained by subtracting the first open circuit voltage from the second open circuit voltage to a temperature change obtained by subtracting the first temperature from the second temperature. The second slope is a ratio of the voltage change to the temperature change when the temperature of the new secondary battery has changed from the first temperature to the second temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo KANADA, Hiroki NAGAI
  • Patent number: 10663526
    Abstract: A battery management terminal is for a secondary battery mounted on a device. The battery management terminal includes a second electronic control unit and an inform unit. The second electronic control unit is configured to, at the time when the secondary battery is replaced, acquire a historical information of an evaluation value of the secondary battery before replacement from the first electronic control unit. The second electronic control unit is configured to determine required characteristics required of a replacement secondary battery on the basis of the historical information of the evaluation value. The inform unit is configured to inform the required characteristics determined by the second electronic control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Kanada
  • Publication number: 20200112047
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a power storage cell and a pressing member. The power storage cell includes an overlapping portion in which a separator, a positive electrode composite layer, and a negative electrode composite layer overlap with one another. The pressing member includes: a first pressing portion configured to press a portion that is included in an outer circumferential edge portion of the overlapping portion and that is adjacent to a first winding end face; and a second pressing portion configured to press a connection portion between a first flat portion and a first curved portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo KANADA
  • Patent number: 10493849
    Abstract: A battery system is configured to be mounted on a vehicle. The battery system includes a secondary battery, a detection device, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to perform communication with an external device that accumulates temperature history data of other vehicle, and is configured to acquire, when the battery temperature of the temperature history data of the vehicle contains an abnormal value, the temperature history data of the other vehicle within a period in which the battery temperature of the temperature history data of the vehicle contains the abnormal value, from the external device, and execute correction of the abnormal value of the battery temperature based on the temperature history data acquired from the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo Kanada, Takanori Soejima
  • Patent number: 10381855
    Abstract: A secondary battery system includes a battery having an electrode body impregnated with an electrolyte containing lithium ions; and an ECU configured to permit charge and discharge of the battery when battery temperature is equal to or more than a threshold temperature and to restrict the charge and discharge of the battery when the battery temperature is less than the threshold temperature. The ECU is configured to obtain a value related to minimum concentration of the lithium ions (minimum salt concentration) caused by a deviation of concentration distribution of the lithium ions in the electrode body, and to set the threshold temperature to be higher as the related value representing the minimum salt concentration becomes lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo Kanada, Shohei Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20190162796
    Abstract: The first step includes performing FFT for a voltage and a current of a battery a plurality of times to thereby calculate the voltage and the current for each frequency. The second step includes determining whether or not the first condition and the second condition are satisfied for the current of the battery that is calculated for each frequency. The third step includes calculating an impedance component of the battery for each frequency range when at least one of the first condition and the second condition is not satisfied, and not calculating the impedance component of the battery for each frequency range when each of the first condition and the second condition is satisfied. The first condition shows that the current in a low frequency range is greater than a reference value. The second condition shows that the current in a frequency range is less than a reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takanori Soejima, Hiroshi Hamaguchi, Ryo Kanada, Nobuyasu Haga
  • Publication number: 20190121661
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a control device including a first processing section, a second processing section, and a third processing section. The first processing section is programmed to acquire an excessive processing power of a general purpose computing device. The second processing section is programmed to cause the general purpose computing device to process a computing task stored in a first memory storage section and allow the processing result to be stored in a second memory storage section if the excessive processing power acquired by the first processing section is greater than a predetermined processing power. The third processing section is programmed to send the processing result stored in the second memory storage section to an external server by use of a communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventor: Ryo Kanada
  • Publication number: 20190064282
    Abstract: A method of estimating a deteriorated state of a battery includes steps S102 to S110. S102 is a step of obtaining a voltage and a current of the battery a plurality of times for a data acquisition period. S104 is a step of calculating an amount of change in current, an amount of change in temperature, and an amount of change in SOC during the data acquisition period. S106 is a step of obtaining an allowable amount of change in current, an allowable amount of change in temperature, and an allowable amount of change in SOC based on an average temperature. S110 is a step of calculating an impedance component for each frequency bandwidth based on the voltage and the current by subjecting the voltage and the current to Fourier transform when all amounts of change are smaller than the allowable amounts of change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyasu HAGA, Hiroshi HAMAGUCHI, Ryo KANADA, Takanori SOEJIMA
  • Patent number: 10170803
    Abstract: A controller for a lithium ion secondary battery, includes an electronic control unit configured to: detect an SOC of a lithium ion secondary battery that is a controlled object; set an upper limit SOC and lower limit SOC of a range of use of the lithium ion secondary battery on the basis of the SOC of the lithium ion secondary battery; record a charge history and discharge history of the lithium ion secondary battery; determine whether the lithium ion secondary battery is in an excessive charging state or an excessive discharging state on the basis of the charge history and the discharge history; and raise the lower limit SOC when the lithium ion secondary battery is in the excessive charging state or lower the upper limit SOC when the lithium ion secondary battery is in the excessive discharging state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Kanada
  • Publication number: 20180340984
    Abstract: A control device calculates an amount of increase ?Am in freezing temperature measurement value Am from an initial freezing temperature ?0 and calculates an amount of lowering in capacity corresponding to the amount of increase ?Am in freezing temperature as an amount of lowering in capacity ?Bx due to deterioration of a material. The control device calculates an amount of lowering in capacity measurement value Bm from an initial capacity B0 as a whole amount of lowering in capacity ?Bm and calculates a material deterioration ratio X by using ?Bx and ?Bm. The control device calculates a value resulting from subtraction of ?Bx from ?Bm as an amount of lowering in capacity ?By due to precipitation of Li and calculates an Li precipitation deterioration ratio Y by using ?By and ?Bm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo KANADA, Koji UMEMURA, Akemi NAKATAKE
  • Publication number: 20180309103
    Abstract: The present invention provides a battery pack in which a plurality of unit cells and one or a plurality of spacers are alternately arranged in a predetermined arrangement direction and a load is applied in the arrangement direction. The unit cell includes an electrode body having a reaction section, and a battery case having long side surfaces. The spacer includes, on a surface facing the unit cell, a first pressing portion that presses a part of the reaction section. The first pressing portion is configured to press each of the center portion and a pair of end portions of the reaction section in a width direction over the entire length in a vertical direction, and not to press a lower region, which is 1/3 of the reaction section from the lower end in the vertical direction, over a length of 1/2 or more in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiichiro KOBAYASHI, Ryo KANADA, Masahiko USHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20180264969
    Abstract: A battery control device includes a positional information acquiring unit, a deposition-risk-geographic-point storing unit, a determination unit, and a deposition-deterring-mode executing unit. The positional information acquiring unit is a processing unit that acquires positional information of a vehicle. The deposition-risk-geographic-point storing unit stores deposition risk geographic points. The determination unit determines whether or not the vehicle passes at least one of the deposition risk geographic points stored in the deposition-risk-geographic-point storing unit based on the positional information of the vehicle that is acquired by the positional information acquiring unit. The deposition-deterring-mode executing unit controls a battery based on a predetermined deposition-deterring mode, if the determination unit determines that the vehicle passes the at least one of the deposition risk geographic points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo KANADA
  • Publication number: 20180208062
    Abstract: A battery system is configured to be mounted on a vehicle. The battery system includes a secondary battery, a detection device, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to perform communication with an external device that accumulates temperature history data of other vehicle, and is configured to acquire, when the battery temperature of the temperature history data of the vehicle contains an abnormal value, the temperature history data of the other vehicle within a period in which the battery temperature of the temperature history data of the vehicle contains the abnormal value, from the external device, and execute correction of the abnormal value of the battery temperature based on the temperature history data acquired from the external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo Kanada, Takanori Soejima
  • Publication number: 20170250543
    Abstract: A secondary battery system includes a battery having an electrode body impregnated with an electrolyte containing lithium ions; and an ECU configured to permit charge and discharge of the battery when battery temperature is equal to or more than a threshold temperature and to restrict the charge and discharge of the battery when the battery temperature is less than the threshold temperature. The ECU is configured to obtain a value related to minimum concentration of the lithium ions (minimum salt concentration) caused by a deviation of concentration distribution of the lithium ions in the electrode body, and to set the threshold temperature to be higher as the related value representing the minimum salt concentration becomes lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo KANADA, Shohei MATSUOKA
  • Patent number: 9529056
    Abstract: A battery system includes a secondary battery and a controller. A battery voltage of the secondary battery is more susceptible to a positive electrode potential than to a negative electrode potential. The controller acquires a relationship between a resistance change rate and a current value in the secondary battery in a less charged state and determines the deterioration state of the secondary battery based on the acquired relationship. The controller determines the deterioration state of the secondary battery by using a first correlation and a second correlation. In the first correlation, the resistance change rate is reduced as the current value is increased when only deterioration due to wear of the secondary battery (wear deterioration) occurs. In the second correlation, the resistance change rate is increased as the current value is increased when only deterioration due to a salt concentration distribution within the secondary battery (high rate deterioration) occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryo Kanada
  • Publication number: 20160372800
    Abstract: A controller for a lithium ion secondary battery, includes an electronic control unit configured to: detect an SOC of a lithium ion secondary battery that is a controlled object; set an upper limit SOC and lower limit SOC of a range of use of the lithium ion secondary battery on the basis of the SOC of the lithium ion secondary battery; record a charge history and discharge history of the lithium ion secondary battery; determine whether the lithium ion secondary battery is in an excessive charging state or an excessive discharging state on the basis of the charge history and the discharge history; and raise the lower limit SOC when the lithium ion secondary battery is in the excessive charging state or lower the upper limit SOC when the lithium ion secondary battery is in the excessive discharging state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo KANADA
  • Publication number: 20150369867
    Abstract: A battery management terminal is for a secondary battery mounted on a device. The battery management terminal includes a second electronic control unit and an inform unit. The second electronic control unit is configured to, at the time when the secondary battery is replaced, acquire a historical information of an evaluation value of the secondary battery before replacement from the first electronic control unit. The second electronic control unit is configured to determine required characteristics required of a replacement secondary battery on the basis of the historical information of the evaluation value. The inform unit is configured to inform the required characteristics determined by the second electronic control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo KANADA
  • Publication number: 20150153424
    Abstract: A battery system includes a secondary battery and a controller. A battery voltage of the secondary battery is more susceptible to a positive electrode potential than to a negative electrode potential. The controller acquires a relationship between a resistance change rate and a current value in the secondary battery in a less charged state and determines the deterioration state of the secondary battery based on the acquired relationship. The controller determines the deterioration state of the secondary battery by using a first correlation and a second correlation. In the first correlation, the resistance change rate is reduced as the current value is increased when only deterioration due to wear of the secondary battery (wear deterioration) occurs. In the second correlation, the resistance change rate is increased as the current value is increased when only deterioration due to a salt concentration distribution within the secondary battery (high rate deterioration) occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryo Kanada