Patents by Inventor Satoshi Minezawa

Satoshi Minezawa 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: 11859833
    Abstract: In a control device, an instruction acquirer acquires an instruction to suppress in a specified period supplying of generated power generated by power generator installed in a power-consuming area to a commercial electrical power system. Upon the instruction acquirer acquiring the instruction, a water heater controller commands a water heater installed in the power-consuming area to perform a water heat-up operation when a predetermined condition is satisfied in the specified period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Ogawa, Masaaki Yabe, Masayuki Komatsu, Satoshi Minezawa, Akihiro Toda, Takashi Arai
  • Patent number: 11852405
    Abstract: A refrigerator system capable of reducing decrease in the accuracy of detecting change in a storage state and reducing a communication load for transmitting images of the inside of a storeroom, which are taken at a plurality of viewpoints to the outside of a refrigerator is provided. To achieve this, the refrigerator system includes: a camera configured to take the images of the inside of the storeroom; a camera moving device configured to move the camera at least in the vertical direction; a communication device configured to transmit the images taken by the camera to the outside of a main body; and a change detecting device configured to detect change in a food-item storage state of each shelf based on the images taken by the camera. The camera takes images of each shelf at a first viewpoint and a second viewpoint. The change detecting device detects change in the food-item storage state of the shelf based on the image taken at the first viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Uchida, Satoshi Minezawa, Eiji Niikura, Yoko Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230258365
    Abstract: An environment control system includes a louver (20a), a motor (21), a temperature sensor (40), a determination unit (53), and a control unit (55). The determination unit (53) determines a position of a person in a particular area on the basis of data of surface temperatures detected by the temperature sensor (40). The control unit (55) controls the motor (21) in such a manner that an angular velocity of the louver (20a) becomes smaller as the position determined by the determination unit (53) is farther from the outlet (18b) when air from an outlet (18b) is blown toward the position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Kohei HISANO, Mari ORITO, Takuya FURUHASHI, Ryo FUSHIE, Satoshi MINEZAWA, Marika HARAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20230151995
    Abstract: An environmental control system includes an air conditioner body (1), a human body detector for detecting a human body, and a system controller for controlling the air conditioner body (1). The system controller executes a first control when a distance from a human body detected by the human body detector to the air conditioner body (1) is a first distance, and executes a second control when a distance from a human body detected by the human body detector to the air conditioner body (1) is a second distance larger than the first distance. The air conditioner body (1) blows air from one of the air outlets 20 toward the human body detected by the human body detector when the first control is executed, and blows air from at least two air outlets (20) toward a human body detected by the human body detector when the second control is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Marika HARAMAKI, Mari ORITO, Ryo FUSHIE, Kohei HISANO, Satoshi MINEZAWA, Takuya FURUHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230038111
    Abstract: In a control device, an instruction acquirer acquires an instruction to suppress in a specified period supplying of generated power generated by power generator installed in a power-consuming area to a commercial electrical power system. Upon the instruction acquirer acquiring the instruction, a water heater controller commands a water heater installed in the power-consuming area to perform a water heat-up operation when a predetermined condition is satisfied in the specified period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki OGAWA, Masaaki YABE, Masayuki KOMATSU, Satoshi MINEZAWA, Akihiro TODA, Takashi ARAI
  • Patent number: 11519612
    Abstract: In a control device, an instruction acquirer acquires an instruction to suppress in a specified period supplying of generated power generated by power generator installed in a power-consuming area to a commercial electrical power system. Upon the instruction acquirer acquiring the instruction, a water heater controller commands a water heater installed in the power-consuming area to perform a water heat-up operation when a predetermined condition is satisfied in the specified period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Ogawa, Masaaki Yabe, Masayuki Komatsu, Satoshi Minezawa, Akihiro Toda, Takashi Arai
  • Patent number: 11506449
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes: a main body having a storeroom for storing a food item; a shelf plate arranged in a storeroom, the shelf plate on which a food item is put; a door that opens and closes a side of the storeroom; a camera arranged on an inner surface of the door, the camera takes an image of an inside of the storeroom; a camera moving device that moves the camera in a vertical direction. The camera moving device stops the camera at one or more points for each of between the shelf plates located adjacent to each other, and between an inner surface of a top edge of the storeroom and the shelf plate located adjacent to the inner surface of the top edge of the storeroom, and the camera takes an image each time when the camera moving device stops moving the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Uchida, Satoshi Minezawa, Eiji Niikura, Yoko Inoue
  • Patent number: 11262720
    Abstract: A data storage of a communication device stores a communication parameter. A communication parameter responder of a controller, upon receipt from a control device, via a communicator, of a communication parameter request-command indicating a communication parameter request, reads and acquires the communication parameter stored in the data storage. The communication parameter responder generates a response command containing the acquired communication parameter and sends the response command to the control device via the communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Hibara, Satoshi Minezawa, Masaaki Yabe
  • Patent number: 10924296
    Abstract: A device information acquirer acquires device information of each electrical device of a plurality of electrical devices from a control apparatus. A device information display associates and displays on a screen an identifier, an expected installation location, and a device state for each electrical device based on the device information of each electrical device acquired by the device information acquirer. The device information acquirer acquires from the control apparatus the device state information of an electrical device of interest newly collected by the control apparatus after the electrical device installed at the expected installation location of the electrical device of interest is operated by the user. The device information display explicitly shows on the screen whether the device state of the electrical device has changed due to the operation by the user based on the device state information of the electrical device of interest acquired by the device information acquirer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Ogawa, Hirotoshi Yano, Masaaki Yabe, Satoshi Minezawa, Ichiro Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20210041159
    Abstract: A refrigerator system capable of reducing decrease in the accuracy of detecting change in a storage state and reducing a communication load for transmitting images of the inside of a storeroom, which are taken at a plurality of viewpoints to the outside of a refrigerator is provided. To achieve this, the refrigerator system includes: a camera configured to take the images of the inside of the storeroom; a camera moving device configured to move the camera at least in the vertical direction; a communication device configured to transmit the images taken by the camera to the outside of a main body; and a change detecting device configured to detect change in a food-item storage state of each shelf based on the images taken by the camera. The camera takes images of each shelf at a first viewpoint and a second viewpoint. The change detecting device detects change in the food-item storage state of the shelf based on the image taken at the first viewpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi UCHIDA, Satoshi MINEZAWA, Eiji NIIKURA, Yoko INOUE
  • Publication number: 20200363125
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes: a main body having a storeroom for storing a food item; a shelf plate arranged in a storeroom, the shelf plate configured to be put a food item on; a door configured to open and close a side of the storeroom; a camera arranged on an inner surface of the door, the camera configured to take an image of an inside of the storeroom; a camera moving device configured to move the camera in a vertical direction. The camera moving device is configured to stop the camera at least one point for each of between the shelf plates lain next to each other, and between an inner surface of a top edge of the storeroom and the shelf plate lain next to the inner surface of the top edge of the storeroom, and the camera is configured to take an image at each time when the camera moving device stops the move of the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi UCHIDA, Satoshi MINEZAWA, Eiji NIIKURA, Yoko INOUE
  • Patent number: 10838379
    Abstract: A controller stores an apparatus-room association table in which an apparatus installed in a home is associated with a room in the home, and stores a room-user association table in which the room in the home is associated with the user. The controller determines whether the user is inside the home, and updates a user status. When the user status changes, the controller determines the apparatus corresponding to the user whose user status has changed, and controls the determined apparatus to execute a predetermined process based on the apparatus-room association table and the room-user association table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Yabe, Ichiro Maruyama, Satoshi Minezawa, Toshiaki Yoshikawa, Hirotoshi Yano, Daisuke Iizawa, Kenichiro Tanaka, Takashi Ogino
  • Patent number: 10778461
    Abstract: In an appliance control system, a receiver receives, from a terminal device used by a first user, an instruction for remotely controlling an appliance installed in a home. A determiner determines whether a second user is present in a location in which an appliance-to-be-instructed is installed. When it is determined that the second user is not present in a location in which the appliance-to-be-instructed is installed, an appliance controller controls the appliance on the basis of the instruction. On the other hand, when it is determined that the second user is present in the location in which the appliance-to-be-instructed is installed, the appliance controller does not control the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Minezawa, Ichiro Maruyama, Masaaki Yabe, Toshiaki Yoshikawa, Hirotoshi Yano, Daisuke Iizawa, Kenichiro Tanaka, Takashi Ogino, Shinji Nakamura, Masayuki Komatsu, Yuki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10775961
    Abstract: An appliance information acquirer (240) acquires appliance information including identification information for an appliance from a home controller. A location setter (241) displays on a display a floor plane that shows an inside of a home and an icon that is associated with the appliance based on the acquired appliance information, and positions the icon on the floor plane in accordance with a user operation. A measurement requestor (242) acquires a radio quality index for the appliance corresponding to the icon positioned on the floor plan from the home controller. A measurement result display (243) changes a display mode of the icon positioned on the floor plan, in accordance with the radio quality index acquired for the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Ogawa, Hirotoshi Yano, Masaaki Yabe, Satoshi Minezawa, Ichiro Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10750549
    Abstract: A controller and a plurality of client apparatuses form a wireless home network. Predetermined setting information necessary for each client apparatus to communicate with the controller is input to each client apparatus, for example, through a path via a remote controller in a manner of communication different from a manner of communication of the wireless home network. Each client apparatus has the input setting information retained in an internal memory to automatically connect to the wireless home network later.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Minezawa
  • Patent number: 10700524
    Abstract: A photovoltaic power conditioning system (PV-PCS) outputs power generated by a photovoltaic panel. An electric vehicle power conditioning system charges an electric vehicle with power supplied from a commercial power system or the power outputted from the PV-PCS. The PV-PCS directly or indirectly receives limitation information from a server. During a limitation period in which the power to be outputted from the PV-PCS is limited, a management device obtains a suppressed power generation amount on the basis of a readily estimated power generation amount of the PV panel, and controls the PV-PCS so that charging power increases by having the suppressed power generation amount as an upper limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Yabe, Yuki Ogawa, Satoshi Minezawa, Takashi Arai, Akira Okumura
  • Patent number: 10699037
    Abstract: A device information acquirer acquires device information collected by a controller. A floor plan editor edits a simplified floor plan of a home by individually adding a configuration of a room where an electric device is installed, in accordance with a user operation. A device icon positioner positions an icon of the electric device in each room in the floor plan edited by the floor plan editor, in accordance with the user operation. A layout generator generates layout information for the electric device in the home, based on the edited floor plan and the positioned icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Yabe, Ichiro Maruyama, Satoshi Minezawa, Toshiaki Yoshikawa, Hirotoshi Yano, Daisuke Iizawa, Kenichiro Tanaka, Takashi Ogino
  • Publication number: 20200169428
    Abstract: A device information acquirer acquires device information of each electrical device of a plurality of electrical devices from a control apparatus. A device information display associates and displays on a screen an identifier, an expected installation location, and a device state for each electrical device based on the device information of each electrical device acquired by the device information acquirer. The device information acquirer acquires from the control apparatus the device state information of an electrical device of interest newly collected by the control apparatus after the electrical device installed at the expected installation location of the electrical device of interest is operated by the user. The device information display explicitly shows on the screen whether the device state of the electrical device has changed due to the operation by the user based on the device state information of the electrical device of interest acquired by the device information acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Yuki OGAWA, Hirotoshi YANO, Masaaki YABE, Satoshi MINEZAWA, Ichiro MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 10594506
    Abstract: A device information acquirer acquires device information of each electrical device of a plurality of electrical devices from a control apparatus. A device information display associates and displays on a screen an identifier, an expected installation location, and a device state for each electrical device based on the device information of each electrical device acquired by the device information acquirer. The device information acquirer acquires from the control apparatus the device state information of an electrical device of interest newly collected by the control apparatus after the electrical device installed at the expected installation location of the electrical device of interest is operated by the user. The device information display explicitly shows on the screen whether the device state of the electrical device has changed due to the operation by the user based on the device state information of the electrical device of interest acquired by the device information acquirer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Ogawa, Hirotoshi Yano, Masaaki Yabe, Satoshi Minezawa, Ichiro Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10528019
    Abstract: Element data included in a management screen for management of a home electric appliance is stored in a server and a home electric appliance. A screen definition data storage stores screen definition data that defines content of the management screen and that includes an update specification that is stipulated for each of the element data to be acquired. A cache data storage stores the element data acquired beforehand from the server and the home electric appliance. The screen generator acquires, on the basis of the update specification included in the screen definition data, each corresponding element data from the cache data storage, or from the server and the home electric appliance, and generates the management screen. The controller transmits the generated management screen to the terminal device and causes display of the management screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Minezawa, Ichiro Maruyama