Patents by Inventor Taiji Mitsuyama
Taiji Mitsuyama 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: 11163010Abstract: A secondary battery deterioration estimation device includes a memory; and a processor which executes the following processes based on executable programs stored in the memory, generating history information showing history of a use state of the secondary battery with reference to a signal output from a current sensor detecting a current flowing through the secondary battery; calculating values of elements forming an equivalent circuit of the secondary battery; calculating a state of health (SOH) of the secondary battery based on the values of the elements forming the equivalent circuit; correcting the values of the elements before the SOH is calculated or the value of the SOH obtained by the calculation based on the history information; and outputting data representing the SOH of the secondary battery.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Taiji Mitsuyama
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Patent number: 11143710Abstract: A secondary battery deterioration estimation device includes receiving a first signal representing a discharging voltage; receiving a second signal representing a discharging current from a current sensor; calculating values of elements forming an equivalent circuit of the secondary battery based on the first and second signals; calculating a state of health (SOH) of the secondary battery based on the values of the elements forming the equivalent circuit; generating history information showing history of a use state of the secondary battery; calculating the SOH of the secondary battery based on the history information; determining a deterioration state of the secondary battery with reference to at least one of the SOH calculated by the values of the elements or the SOH calculated by the history information by the processor in accordance with a state of the secondary battery; and outputting data representing the deterioration state of the secondary battery.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Taiji Mitsuyama, Etsuzo Sato, Noriyasu Iwane, Naotaka Uchino, Hirokazu Narui, Akira Oono, Takayuki Morikawa
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Patent number: 10466302Abstract: [Object] To detect states of a plurality of secondary batteries whose kinds are different with high accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Koichi Yokoyama, Naoya Takashima, Taiji Mitsuyama, Antal Kovats, Tamas Mihalffy, Lorand Romvari
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Patent number: 10436847Abstract: Described herein are techniques to accurately detect that a secondary battery has been replaced. A secondary battery state detecting device detects a state of a secondary battery installed in a vehicle. The device includes a control unit that learns element values of an equivalent circuit of the secondary battery on the basis of a voltage and a current of the secondary battery. The control unit also compares the element values obtained through learning at different timings and, when at least one of the element values has changed more than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, determines that the secondary battery has been replaced.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Naoya Takashima, Taiji Mitsuyama
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Patent number: 10393820Abstract: To provide a secondary battery state detecting device that decreases the deterioration in capacity of the secondary battery and is low in arithmetic cost. A secondary battery state detecting device that detects a state of a secondary battery includes discharge means (discharge circuit (15)) for subjecting the secondary battery (14) to a pulse discharge, acquiring means (controller (10)) for controlling the discharge means to subject the secondary battery to at least one pulse discharge, and acquiring a time variation of a voltage value at that time, calculating means (controller (10)) for calculating a parameter of a predetermined function having time as a variable by fitting the variation of the voltage value acquired by the acquiring means using the predetermined function, and detecting means (controller (10)) for detecting the state of the secondary battery on the basis of the parameter of the predetermined function calculated by the calculating means.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Taiji Mitsuyama, Noriyasu Iwane, Koichi Yokoyama, Naoya Takashima, Antal Kovats, Tamas Mihalffy, Lorand Romvari
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Patent number: 10396407Abstract: A secondary battery internal temperature estimation device that estimates a secondary battery's internal temperature regardless of the secondary battery's type or state of degradation, the device including: a control unit that estimates the secondary battery's internal temperature on the basis of a relational equation showing a relationship between an external temperature and the secondary battery's internal temperature. A control unit calculates element values of an equivalent circuit of the secondary battery, determines a coefficient of the relational equation on the basis of the element values of the equivalent circuit calculated by the control unit, and applies the coefficient obtained by the control unit to the relational equation. The control unit estimates the secondary battery's internal temperature on the basis of the relational equation to which the coefficient has been applied by the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Taiji Mitsuyama, Noriyasu Iwane, Naoya Takashima
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Publication number: 20190033392Abstract: A secondary battery deterioration estimation device estimating deterioration of the secondary battery, includes a memory; and a processor which executes the following processes based on executable programs stored in the memory, receiving a first signal representing a discharging voltage from a voltage sensor; receiving a second signal representing a discharging current from a current sensor; calculating values of elements forming an equivalent circuit of the secondary battery based on the first and second signals; calculating a state of health (SOH) of the secondary battery based on the values of the elements forming the equivalent circuit; generating history information showing history of a use state of the secondary battery; calculating the SOH of the secondary battery based on the history information; determining a deterioration state of the secondary battery with reference to at least one of the SOH calculated by the values of the elements or the SOH calculated by the history information by the processorType: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Taiji MITSUYAMA, Etsuzo SATO, Noriyasu IWANE, Naotaka UCHINO, Hirokazu NARUI, Akira OONO, Takayuki MORIKAWA
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Publication number: 20190033391Abstract: A secondary battery deterioration estimation device includes a memory; and a processor which executes the following processes based on executable programs stored in the memory, generating history information showing history of a use state of the secondary battery with reference to a signal output from a current sensor detecting a current flowing through the secondary battery; calculating values of elements forming an equivalent circuit of the secondary battery; calculating a state of health (SOH) of the secondary battery based on the values of the elements forming the equivalent circuit; correcting the values of the elements before the SOH is calculated or the value of the SOH obtained by the calculation based on the history information; and outputting data representing the SOH of the secondary battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Noriyasu IWANE, Taiji MITSUYAMA
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Patent number: 9678164Abstract: To learn a parameter of a simulation model of a battery efficiently. A battery internal state estimating apparatus, estimating an internal state of a battery based on a simulation model of the battery, includes a storing section (RAM10c) that stores a plurality of parameters of the simulation model, a detecting section (I/F10d) that detects a discharge current flowing from the battery to a load, a selecting section (CPU 10a) that selects a parameter to be subjected to adaptive learning based on a value of the discharge current detected by the detecting section, and an adaptive learning section (CPU 10a) that performs adapting learning on a parameter selected by the selecting section.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.Inventors: Taiji Mitsuyama, Takezo Sugimura, Etsuzo Sato, Antal Kovats
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Publication number: 20170016962Abstract: A secondary battery state detecting device (1) that detects a state of a secondary battery (14) installed in a vehicle, the device including: a learning means (control unit (10)) that learns element values of an equivalent circuit of the secondary battery (14) on the basis of a voltage and a current of the secondary battery (14); and a determination means (control unit (10)) that compares the element values obtained through learning at different timings by the learning means and, when at least one of the element values has changed more than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, determines that the secondary battery (14) has been replaced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Noriyasu IWANE, Naoya TAKASHIMA, Taiji MITSUYAMA
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Publication number: 20170012327Abstract: Problem To estimate an accurate internal temperature of a secondary battery, regardless of the type and state of degradation of the secondary battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Taiji MITSUYAMA, Noriyasu IWANE, Naoya TAKASHIMA
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Publication number: 20160003912Abstract: [Object] To detect states of a plurality of secondary batteries whose kinds are different with high accuracy.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Noriyasu IWANE, Koichi YOKOYAMA, Naoya TAKASHIMA, Taiji MITSUYAMA, Antal KOVATS, Tamas MIHALFFY, Lorand ROMVARI
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Publication number: 20150377978Abstract: To provide a secondary battery state detecting device that decreases the deterioration in capacity of the secondary battery and is low in arithmetic cost. A secondary battery state detecting device that detects a state of a secondary battery includes discharge means (discharge circuit (15)) for subjecting the secondary battery (14) to a pulse discharge, acquiring means (controller (10)) for controlling the discharge means to subject the secondary battery to at least one pulse discharge, and acquiring a time variation of a voltage value at that time, calculating means (controller (10)) for calculating a parameter of a predetermined function having time as a variable by fitting the variation of the voltage value acquired by the acquiring means using the predetermined function, and detecting means (controller (10)) for detecting the state of the secondary battery on the basis of the parameter of the predetermined function calculated by the calculating means.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Taiji MITSUYAMA, Noriyasu IWANE, Koichi YOKOYAMA, Naoya TAKASHIMA, Antal KOVATS, Tamas MIHALFFY, Lorand ROMVARI
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Patent number: 9153988Abstract: A full charge sensing apparatus for sensing a fully charged state of a secondary battery based on an equivalent circuit model of the secondary battery includes a measuring unit that measures a voltage and a current during charging of the secondary battery, a learning unit that performs a learning process on a plurality of parameters in the equivalent circuit model using a result of measurement of the measuring unit, and a determining unit that determines that the secondary battery is in a fully charged state in a case where, among the parameters on which the learning process has been performed by the learning unit, a parameter corresponding to a reaction resistance of the secondary battery is greater than a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Noriyasu Iwane, Taiji Mitsuyama, Shinichi Nomoto, Mamichi Tsuyuki, Etsuzo Sato, Tamas Mihalffy, Antal Kovats
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Patent number: 8949007Abstract: A start-up possibility determining apparatus that determines an engine-start-up possibility by driving a starter motor by power accumulated in a secondary battery includes a dynamic internal resistance measuring unit that measures an internal resistance of the secondary battery while the engine is being started up by the starter motor, a static internal resistance measuring unit that measures an internal resistance of the secondary battery when the engine is stopped, and a determining unit that determines an engine start-up possibility by the secondary battery, based on a value obtained by a product of a ratio between a first static internal resistance before or after the past engine start-up and a second static internal resistance within a predetermined time since a current time point and the dynamic internal resistance measured by the dynamic internal resistance measuring unit at the time of the engine start-up in the past.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2013Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.Inventors: Taiji Mitsuyama, Etsuzo Sato
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Publication number: 20130317729Abstract: A start-up possibility determining apparatus that determines an engine-start-up possibility by driving a starter motor by power accumulated in a secondary battery includes a dynamic internal resistance measuring unit that measures an internal resistance of the secondary battery while the engine is being started up by the starter motor, a static internal resistance measuring unit that measures an internal resistance of the secondary battery when the engine is stopped, and a determining unit that determines an engine start-up possibility by the secondary battery, based on a value obtained by a product of a ratio between a first static internal resistance before or after the past engine start-up and a second static internal resistance within a predetermined time since a current time point and the dynamic internal resistance measured by the dynamic internal resistance measuring unit at the time of the engine start-up in the past.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: Taiji MITSUYAMA, Etsuzo SATO
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Publication number: 20130110429Abstract: To learn a parameter of a simulation model of a battery efficiently. A battery internal state estimating apparatus, estimating an internal state of a battery based on a simulation model of the battery, includes a storing section (RAM10c) that stores a plurality of parameters of the simulation model, a detecting section (I/F10d) that detects a discharge current flowing from the battery to a load, a selecting section (CPU 10a) that selects a parameter to be subjected to adaptive learning based on a value of the discharge current detected by the detecting section, and an adaptive learning section (CPU 10a) that performs adapting learning on a parameter selected by the selecting section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2010Publication date: May 2, 2013Inventors: Taiji Mitsuyama, Takezo Sugimura, Etsuzo Sato, Antal Kovats