Patents by Inventor Tatsuro KIYOHARA

Tatsuro KIYOHARA 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: 20230055841
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor that calculates a total charge demand based on SOC information and a charge request signal of each of a plurality of electrified vehicles and performs an operation for creating, based on the calculated total charge demand, an electric power supply and demand operation plan that manages electric power for charging the electrified vehicles by a charging facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Junichi MORI, Kentaro BAN, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Yuta MANIWA, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230037010
    Abstract: A control device according to the present disclosure includes a processor configured to output, when disaster prediction information predicting a disaster is acquired, a control signal for raising at least one of a lower limit value and an upper limit value of stored energy in a supply and demand operation plan of energy before the disaster prediction information is acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Junichi MORI, Kentaro BAN, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Yuta MANIWA, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230019846
    Abstract: An electric power management system includes a plurality of the vehicles, each including a battery, and a server that manages an exchange of electric power between the battery and an electric power system of an electric power company. The server detects a predetermined operation of a user that correlates with termination of the exchange of the electric power between the battery and the electric power system. When the predetermined operation is detected, the server calculates an estimated time when the exchange of the electric power between the battery and the electric power system is terminated, and executes a process of distributing the electric power to be exchanged by the vehicle in which the exchange of the electric power with the electric power system is estimated to be terminated at the calculated estimated time to another vehicle that performs the exchange of the electric power with the electric power system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20230014362
    Abstract: An electric power management system is a system that performs an exchange of electric power with an electric power system of an electric power company that is a counterparty of the exchange of the electric power, and includes a plurality of the vehicles, each including a battery, and a server that manages an exchange of the electric power between the battery of each of the vehicles and the electric power system. The server limits the exchange of the electric power between the electric power system and the battery by an upper limit value or a lower limit value of a state of charge of the battery, and changes the upper limit value or the lower limit value in accordance with a degree of charge-discharge of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20230019914
    Abstract: A control system includes a computer that controls each of multiple power balancing resources. The computer selects one or more control targets to be used for power balancing of an external electric power source from the power balancing resources, and controls each of the one or more control targets so as to cause the power storage device to charge or discharge for the power balancing. The computer preferentially selects the power balancing resource provided with a small-capacity power storage device as the control target for the power balancing of which duration is shorter than a predetermined time, and preferentially selects the power balancing resource provided with a large-capacity power storage device as the control target for the power balancing of which the duration is longer than the predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20230013438
    Abstract: An electric power management system is a system that performs an exchange of electric power with an electric power system of an electric power company that is a counterparty of the exchange of the electric power, and includes a plurality of the vehicles, each including a battery, and a server that manages an exchange of the electric power between the battery of each of the vehicles and the electric power system. The server limits the exchange of the electric power between the electric power system and the battery by an upper limit value or a lower limit value of a state of charge of the battery, and decreases the upper limit value or increases the lower limit value when a period during which the vehicle is continuously parked in a place where the vehicle can exchange the electric power is equal to or longer than a predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20230001820
    Abstract: An electric power management system is a system that performs an exchange of electric power with an electric power system of an electric power company that is a counterparty of the exchange of the electric power, and includes a plurality of the vehicles, each including a battery, and a server that manages an exchange of the electric power between the battery of each of the vehicles and the electric power system. The server manages the exchange of the electric power for each vehicle group in which the vehicles are bundled, and configures the vehicle group in advance by bundling the vehicles having the same or similar electric power supply and demand characteristics of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20230004132
    Abstract: An electric power management system is a system that performs an exchange of electric power with an electric power system of an electric power company that is a counterparty of the exchange of the electric power, and includes a plurality of the vehicles, each including a battery, and a server that manages an exchange of the electric power between the battery of each of the vehicles and the electric power system. The server manages the exchange of the electric power for each vehicle group in which the vehicles are bundled, and configures the vehicle groups in advance such that distributions of the electric power supply and demand characteristics of the batteries of the vehicles included in the vehicle groups are the same or similar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20220396173
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor configured to output, in a case where communication between a server instructing a power feeding vehicle to proceed for power feeding to a feeding target facility and the power feeding vehicle is interrupted, a control signal for causing the power feeding vehicle to move to an installation site of the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Mori, Kentaro Ban, Tatsuro Kiyohara, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20220394482
    Abstract: A control system includes a computer configured to remotely control at least one of charging and discharging of a power storage device mounted on a control target. The computer is configured to transmit a first command indicating charging power or discharging power of the power storage device to the control target via each of a first communication path and a second communication path. The control system further includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not any one of the first communication path and the second communication path is under a cyberattack by using a second command received by the control target via the first communication path when the computer transmits the first command, and a third command received by the control target via the second communication path when the computer transmits the first command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI