Patents by Inventor Shingo Tamaru
Shingo Tamaru 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).
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Patent number: 11913126Abstract: A hydrogen-system control device according to the present embodiment is a control system for a hydrogen system that produces hydrogen: a first setter; a second setter configured to set an actual power consumption amount obtained by reducing a reduced power amount from the first power consumption amount in advance, when the demand response for reducing the first power consumption amount in the request period is requested the device comprising: and a controller configured to control a power amount of the second power in the request period based on the actual power consumption amount. The second setter is configured to set the actual power consumption amount in a range in which the hydrogen system is able to achieve a target amount of hydrogen to be produced in a first period that includes the request period and is longer than the request period.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Takashi Akiba, Shingo Tamaru, Shin Kato, Fumiyuki Yamane
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Patent number: 11909212Abstract: A hydrogen-system control device according to the present embodiment is a hydrogen-system control device that controls a hydrogen system. The hydrogen-system control device includes an acquirer configured to acquire a predicted value of the first power for a time period for which an amount of the second power to be received has been set, and a controller configured to cause the hydrogen system to additionally produce hydrogen in an amount corresponding to a usage ratio of surplus power by which a supplied value of the first power exceeds the predicted value of the first power, wherein the controller sets the usage ratio for a first time period within a predetermined time period to a value larger than the usage ratio for a second time period that is after the first time period and within the predetermined time period.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Shingo Tamaru, Takashi Akiba, Fumiyuki Yamane, Shin Kato
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Publication number: 20240014656Abstract: According to an embodiment, an operation plan planning device connected to an electric power system and plans an operation plan for responding to a request for a balancing power from the electric power system in a hydrogen production plant that includes a renewable energy generator, a water electrolysis device, and a hydrogen storage facility, the device comprises: an input part; a storage; a calculator including: a balancing power scenario creating unit to create a time series of a balancing power price and a time series of a balancing power ratio, and to create a balancing power scenario by synthesizing them; a mathematical optimization calculator; and a calculation condition setting unit; and an output part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuto KUBOTA, Shingo TAMARU, Takashi AKIBA, Fumiyuki YAMANE
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Publication number: 20230409067Abstract: According to an embodiment, a reverse flow power control device includes: an input unit that accepts actual values of output power of the power conditioner, load power with respect to the load device, and reception power, and a minimum reception power value; a storage unit; and a calculator having an output controller that calculates an output command calculation value, a load controller that calculates a load command calculation value, and a command value re-calculator that calculates, by using the respective actual values, the output command calculation value, the load command calculation value, and the minimum reception power value, an output command value with respect to the power conditioner, in order to prevent a reception power value from the power system from becoming less than the minimum reception power value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo TAMARU, Kazuto KUBOTA, Takashi AKIBA, Fumiyuki YAMANE
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Patent number: 11782106Abstract: In the present disclosure, there is provided a permeability measurement jig including a first waveguide, wherein a signal line of the first waveguide comprises an excited magnetic part at one end side, and a magnetic field is generated at the excited magnetic part by an excitation signal, and a second waveguide, wherein a signal line of the second waveguide comprises a detection part at one end side, a detection signal is induced at the detection part due to an action of the magnetic field generated at the excited magnetic part to a measurement sample, and the detection part is placed on the excited magnetic part to face the excited magnetic part at a predetermined distance. A permeability measurement device having the permeability measurement jig and a permeability measurement method are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventor: Shingo Tamaru
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Publication number: 20230238556Abstract: To provide a hydrogen system operation planning device capable of accurately preparing an operation plan that achieves efficient operation in a hydrogen system. In the hydrogen system operation planning device of the embodiment, a classification unit receives input of DR commands regarding demand for electric power in the hydrogen system and classifies the input DR commands into a first DR group and a second DR group with a lower priority than the first DR group. A first planning unit prepares a first operation plan to reflect the DR command classified into the first DR group. A second planning unit prepares a second operation plan by reflecting contents of the DR command classified into the second DR group on the first operation plan so that contents of the DR command classified into the first DR group have priority over the contents of the DR command classified into the second DR group.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi AKIBA, Shingo TAMARU, Fumiyuki YAMANE, Junsuke BABA
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Patent number: 11710839Abstract: A controller according to an embodiment controls a hydrogen system including at least a hydrogen production system in which received power is planned in advance and a hydrogen production amount changes in accordance with the received power. The controller includes: a processor that calculates, in a preparation time period before a demand adjustment time period in which a target value of the received power is set in advance, a control command value such that input power to be inputted as the received power to the hydrogen production system matches the target value at a start of the demand adjustment time period; and a command controller that outputs the control command value calculated by the processor to the hydrogen production system.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Masahiko Murai, Shingo Tamaru, Takashi Akiba, Fumiyuki Yamane, Shin Kato, Hirofumi Morita, Tetsuharu Tanoue
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Publication number: 20220224120Abstract: A power control device for a hydrogen system according to the present embodiment is a power control device configured to control a supply of generated power generated by a renewable energy generation device, and includes an acquirer and a controller. The acquirer acquires information related to an amount of power sale in a predetermined period. The controller controls the power supplier of the renewable energy generation device to sell power from the generated power, such that the integrated value of the power sale in time series in a predetermined period becomes the power sale amount. The controller makes an average value of the power sale in a first period within the predetermined period larger than the average value of a second period within the predetermined period after the first period.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo TAMARU, Takashi AKIBA, Fumiyuki YAMANE, Hirofumi KURITA
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Publication number: 20220222564Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a quantum bit cell and a quantum bit integrated circuit having an easy-to-integrate structure. The quantum bit cell of the present invention including a spin torque oscillator capable of emitting a microwave with a propagation distance of 1 ?m or less and having a maximum diameter of 1 ?m or less, and a solid-state element quantum bit arranged near the spin torque oscillator at an interval of the propagation distance or less, where a quantum two-level system is controlled by the microwave.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Hitoshi Kubota, Shingo Tamaru, Akio Fukushima, Takahiro Mori, Takashi Matsukawa
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Publication number: 20220179382Abstract: A power prediction device according to the present embodiments includes an evaluation-value generator and a prediction circuit. The evaluation-value generator is configured to generate a time-series evaluation value based on a time-series error of weather-related forecast data. The prediction circuit is configured to, as for a time and an amount of power of demand response that changes a pattern of power consumption or power production, predict at least the time in accordance with the time-series evaluation value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi AKIBA, Shingo TAMARU, Fumiyuki YAMANE, Hirofumi KURITA
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Publication number: 20220171002Abstract: In the present disclosure, there is provided a permeability measurement jig including a first waveguide, wherein a signal line of the first waveguide comprises an excited magnetic part at one end side, and a magnetic field is generated at the excited magnetic part by an excitation signal, and a second waveguide, wherein a signal line of the second waveguide comprises a detection part at one end side, a detection signal is induced at the detection part due to an action of the magnetic field generated at the excited magnetic part to a measurement sample, and the detection part is placed on the excited magnetic part to face the excited magnetic part at a predetermined distance. A permeability measurement device having the permeability measurement jig and a permeability measurement method are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2019Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventor: Shingo TAMARU
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Publication number: 20210381120Abstract: A hydrogen-system control device according to the present embodiment is a control system for a hydrogen system that produces hydrogen: a first setter; a second setter configured to set an actual power consumption amount obtained by reducing a reduced power amount from the first power consumption amount in advance, when the demand response for reducing the first power consumption amount in the request period is requested the device comprising: and a controller configured to control a power amount of the second power in the request period based on the actual power consumption amount. The second setter is configured to set the actual power consumption amount in a range in which the hydrogen system is able to achieve a target amount of hydrogen to be produced in a first period that includes the request period and is longer than the request period.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi AKIBA, Shingo TAMARU, Shin KATO, Fumiyuki YAMANE
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Publication number: 20210359519Abstract: A hydrogen-system control device according to the present embodiment is a hydrogen-system control device that controls a hydrogen system. The hydrogen-system control device includes an acquirer configured to acquire a predicted value of the first power for a time period for which an amount of the second power to be received has been set, and a controller configured to cause the hydrogen system to additionally produce hydrogen in an amount corresponding to a usage ratio of surplus power by which a supplied value of the first power exceeds the predicted value of the first power, wherein the controller sets the usage ratio for a first time period within a predetermined time period to a value larger than the usage ratio for a second time period that is after the first time period and within the predetermined time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo TAMARU, Takashi AKIBA, Fumiyuki YAMANE, Shin KATO
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Publication number: 20210305606Abstract: A controller according to an embodiment controls a hydrogen system including at least a hydrogen production system in which received power is planned in advance and a hydrogen production amount changes in accordance with the received power. The controller includes: a processor that calculates, in a preparation time period before a demand adjustment time period in which a target value of the received power is set in advance, a control command value such that input power to be inputted as the received power to the hydrogen production system matches the target value at a start of the demand adjustment time period; and a command controller that outputs the control command value calculated by the processor to the hydrogen production system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiko MURAI, Shingo TAMARU, Takashi AKIBA, Fumiyuki YAMANE, Shin KATO, Hirofumi MORITA, Tetsuharu TANOUE
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Patent number: 10432144Abstract: A high-frequency phase-locked oscillation circuit having an extremely narrow peak width and a stable frequency so that a high-frequency wave that is oscillated by the MR element solves a problem of a large peak width of oscillation spectrum. The high-frequency phase-locked oscillation circuit includes a magnetoresistive element that oscillates a high-frequency wave with an oscillating frequency; a reference signal source that outputs a reference signal with a reference frequency; a phase-locked loop circuit having a phase comparator, a loop filter, and a frequency divider; an adder that adds a phase error signal output from the loop filter and a bias voltage for oscillating the high-frequency wave from the magnetoresistive element, and that inputs an added bias voltage to the magnetoresistive element; and a filter provided between the frequency divider and the magnetoresistive element.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Shingo Tamaru, Hitoshi Kubota, Akio Fukushima, Shinji Yuasa
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Patent number: 10393396Abstract: According to an embodiment, a thermal load estimating device receives actual power consumption of various types of devices installed in a room, a thermal load pattern of a time-series maximum thermal load of the room, and power consumption of the various types of devices in the room; estimates a thermal load of the room at appropriate time based on the actual power consumption, the thermal load pattern, and the power consumption; and outputs an estimated thermal-load value as a result of estimation.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shingo Tamaru, Yuuichi Hanada, Dai Murayama, Koji Kimura, Masahiko Murai
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Patent number: 10378375Abstract: In one embodiment, a power generation planning support apparatus includes an acquiring module configured to acquire a physical quantity that represents a startup condition of a turbine. The apparatus further includes a first storage module configured to store first information that represents a relationship between a startup schedule of the turbine and the physical quantity. The apparatus further includes a predicting module configured to predict the startup schedule of the turbine, based on the physical quantity acquired by the acquiring module and the first information stored in the first storage module. The apparatus further includes an outputting module configured to output the startup schedule predicted by the predicting module.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tsukasa Takeuchi, Makoto Takahashi, Yoji Kubo, Masaki Katsumata, Toyohiro Akebi, Masaru Dejima, Keiko Shimizu, Dai Murayama, Shingo Tamaru
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Publication number: 20180302035Abstract: The present invention provides a high-frequency phase-locked oscillation circuit having an extremely narrow peak width and a stable frequency so that a high-frequency wave that is oscillated by the MR element solves a problem of a large peak width of oscillation spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Shingo Tamaru, Hitoshi Kubota, Akio Fukushima, Shinji Yuasa
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Publication number: 20160348932Abstract: According to an embodiment, a thermal load estimating device receives actual power consumption of various types of devices installed in a room, a thermal load pattern of a time-series maximum thermal load of the room, and power consumption of the various types of devices in the room; estimates a thermal load of the room at appropriate time based on the actual power consumption, the thermal load pattern, and the power consumption; and outputs an estimated thermal-load value as a result of estimation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2014Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shingo TAMARU, Yuuichi HANADA, Dai MURAYAMA, Masahiko MURAI, Koji KIMURA
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Publication number: 20160290667Abstract: An air-conditioning control device controls air conditioning in an air-conditioning zone by using a plurality of types of air conditioners each having a different air supply system. The air-conditioning control device includes a setting unit and an output unit. The setting unit sets air-conditioning load distribution of the air conditioners based on optimal load distribution functions generated based on models of the air conditioners so that total energy consumption of the air conditioners is reduced within a range of comfort of the air-conditioning zone set by a user. The output unit outputs, based on the air-conditioning load distribution set by the setting unit, control values for controlling the air conditioners to controlling devices of the air conditioners.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2013Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shingo TAMARU, Dai MURAYAMA, Masahiko MURAI, Yuuichi HANADA, Koji KIMURA, Yasuo TAKAGI