Patents by Inventor Tomomi Katou

Tomomi Katou 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).

  • Power control apparatus, method, program, and integrated circuit, and storage battery unit
    Patent number: 9496725
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a target value obtaining unit obtaining a total target value of power to be discharged from storage batteries; an SOH obtaining unit obtain information on a state of health for each of the storage batteries; a charge control unit determining how the power of the total target value is divided among and discharged from each of the storage battery. The charge control unit (i) compares the state of health of a first storage battery and the state of health of a second storage battery, and, in the case where the state of health of the second storage battery is higher than the state of health of the first storage battery, (ii) discharges from the second storage battery second power lower than first power which is discharged from the first storage battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomomi Katou, Minoru Takazawa, Takahiro Kudoh, Kei Murayama
  • POWER CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND STORAGE BATTERY UNIT
    Publication number: 20130285610
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a target value obtaining unit obtaining a total target value of power to be discharged from storage batteries; an SOH obtaining unit obtain information on a state of health for each of the storage batteries; a charge control unit determining how the power of the total target value is divided among and discharged from each of the storage battery. The charge control unit (i) compares the state of health of a first storage battery and the state of health of a second storage battery, and, in the case where the state of health of the second storage battery is higher than the state of health of the first storage battery, (ii) discharges from the second storage battery second power lower than first power which is discharged from the first storage battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Tomomi Katou, Minoru Takazawa, Takahiro Kudoh, Kei Murayama