Patents by Inventor Yuichiro Fukubayashi

Yuichiro Fukubayashi 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: 20210184479
    Abstract: A vehicle charging system includes a non-contact charging apparatus that performs non-contact charging on a battery in a vehicle by facing a power receiving coil mounted on the vehicle; state-of-charge acquisition part configured to acquire a state-of-charge of batteries in a plurality of vehicles; and a charging control apparatus that selects at least one vehicle from the plurality of vehicles on the basis of the state-of-charge, moves the charging apparatus and/or the vehicle, and controls the charging operation of the charging apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro FUKUBAYASHI, Yasuaki KONDO
  • Publication number: 20190070968
    Abstract: A vehicle charging system comprises: a non-contact type charging apparatus that charges a battery of a vehicle in a non-contact state by facing a power-receiving coil mounted on the vehicle; and a charging controller that sequentially perform charging of vehicles stopping aligned in a first direction by changing relative position between the vehicles and the charging apparatus along the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro FUKUBAYASHI, Yasuaki KONDO
  • Publication number: 20190039462
    Abstract: A vehicle charging system includes: a non-contact charging apparatus that performs non-contact charging on a battery of a vehicle by facing a power receiving coil mounted on the vehicle; an information acquisition part configured to acquire, from the vehicle, information for determining whether to allow charging on the vehicle; and a charging control part configured to control a charging operation of the charging apparatus based on information acquired by the information acquisition part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki KONDO, Yuichiro FUKUBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10157242
    Abstract: A charger arrangement planning supporting apparatus includes a simulation unit configured to simulate, on a virtual road network, movement of a plurality of virtual electric vehicles and consumption of rechargeable batteries and simulate situations of use of the plurality of virtual chargers arranged on the virtual road network and a charger determining unit configured to select which of the virtual chargers is used to charge the virtual electric vehicle when the virtual electric vehicle needs to be charged on the basis of residual charge of the rechargeable battery and a present location of the virtual electric vehicle and a situation of use and a location of each of the chargers,. The simulation unit outputs, after finishing the simulation, a movement history of the virtual electric vehicle and an operation history of the virtual charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichiro Fukubayashi
  • Patent number: 10074987
    Abstract: Provided is a storage battery management device (10) including a price information acquisition unit (11) that acquires power purchasing price information indicating a power purchasing price for each time period of power supplied from an electric power system, a remaining discharge capacity information acquisition unit (12) that acquires remaining discharge capacity information indicating the amount of power that can be discharged to a load from a storage battery, and a discharging schedule generation unit (13) that generates a discharging schedule in which an upper limit of the amount of power discharged from the storage battery is determined for each of a plurality of discharging time periods divided for each unit time, using the power purchasing price information and the remaining discharge capacity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Fukubayashi, Yasuaki Kondo
  • Patent number: 10033215
    Abstract: Provided is a method of updating a control program for controlling a storage battery system, the method capable of suppressing inconveniences that may occur due to the forcible stop of charging or discharging being performed by the storage battery system. In order to solve the problem, there is provided a storage battery system (10) including a storage battery unit (11) that performs power charging and discharging, the storage battery system (10) determining whether the storage battery unit (11) is in a discharging state and determining a timing at which an update program for updating a control program for controlling the storage battery system (10) is executed, on the basis of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yuichiro Fukubayashi
  • Publication number: 20170070089
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a remaining-discharge-capacity information acquiring unit configured to acquire remaining-discharge-capacity information indicating a power amount which is dischargeable by an electricity storage device connected to a plurality of customer facilities; a requested discharge power information acquiring unit configured to requested discharge power information indicating a requested power amount for discharge requested as power supply to each of the plurality of customer facilities from the electricity storage device; and a discharge amount determination unit configured to determine a storage battery discharge amount indicating an amount of power, which is discharged from the electricity storage device, based on the remaining-discharge-capacity information and the requested discharge power information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro FUKUBAYASHI, Yasuaki KONDO
  • Publication number: 20170052274
    Abstract: In order to provide a resident presence-absence state determination device which determines an resident presence-absence state with a high degree of accuracy, a delivery system, a method for determining an resident presence-absence state, a recording medium recording a program for determining an resident presence-absence state, and a terminal for delivery, the present invention provides the resident presence-absence state determination device including charge/discharge information acquisition means for acquiring charge/discharge information indicating a discharging status of an electricity storage device for supplying an electric power to a load placed in a house and resident presence-absence state determination means for determining a resident presence-absence state of the house based on the charge/discharge information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Yuichiro FUKUBAYASHI, Yasuaki KONDO
  • Publication number: 20160226262
    Abstract: Provided is a method of updating a control program for controlling a storage battery system, the method capable of suppressing inconveniences that may occur due to the forcible stop of charging or discharging being performed by the storage battery system. In order to solve the problem, there is provided a storage battery system (10) including a storage battery unit (11) that performs power charging and discharging, the storage battery system (10) determining whether the storage battery unit (11) is in a discharging state and determining a timing at which an update program for updating a control program for controlling the storage battery system (10) is executed, on the basis of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventor: Yuichiro FUKUBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160226250
    Abstract: Provided is a storage battery management device (10) including a price information acquisition unit (11) that acquires power purchasing price information indicating a power purchasing price for each time period of power supplied from an electric power system, a remaining discharge capacity information acquisition unit (12) that acquires remaining discharge capacity information indicating the amount of power that can be discharged to a load from a storage battery, and a discharging schedule generation unit (13) that generates a discharging schedule in which an upper limit of the amount of power discharged from the storage battery is determined for each of a plurality of discharging time periods divided for each unit time, using the power purchasing price information and the remaining discharge capacity information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro FUKUBAYASHI, Yasuaki KONDO
  • Publication number: 20130317790
    Abstract: A charger arrangement planning supporting apparatus includes a simulation unit 103 configured to simulate, on a virtual road network, movement of a plurality of virtual electric vehicles and consumption of rechargeable batteries and simulate situations of use of the plurality of virtual chargers arranged on the virtual road network and a charger determining unit 104 configured to select which of the virtual chargers is used to charge the virtual electric vehicle when the virtual electric vehicle needs to be charged on the basis of residual charge of the rechargeable battery and a present location of the virtual electric vehicle and a situation of use and a location of each of the chargers. The simulation unit 103 outputs, after finishing the simulation, a movement history of the virtual electric vehicle and an operation history of the virtual charger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichiro Fukubayashi
  • Patent number: 8244522
    Abstract: A language understanding device includes: a language understanding model storing unit configured to store word transition data including pre-transition states, input words, predefined outputs corresponding to the input words, word weight information, and post-transition states, and concept weighting data including concepts obtained from language understanding results for at least one word, and concept weight information corresponding to the concepts; a finite state transducer processing unit configured to output understanding result candidates including the predefined outputs, to accumulate word weights so as to obtain a cumulative word weight, and to sequentially perform state transition operations; a concept weighting processing unit configured to accumulate concept weights so as to obtain a cumulative concept weight; and an understanding result determination unit configured to determine an understanding result from the understanding result candidates by referring to the cumulative word weight and the cumul
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Okuno, Kazunori Komatani, Yuichiro Fukubayashi, Kotaro Funakoshi
  • Publication number: 20080294437
    Abstract: A language understanding device includes: a language understanding model storing unit configured to store word transition data including pre-transition states, input words, predefined outputs corresponding to the input words, word weight information, and post-transition states, and concept weighting data including concepts obtained from language understanding results for at least one word, and concept weight information corresponding to the concepts; a finite state transducer processing unit configured to output understanding result candidates including the predefined outputs, to accumulate word weights so as to obtain a cumulative word weight, and to sequentially perform state transition operations; a concept weighting processing unit configured to accumulate concept weights so as to obtain a cumulative concept weight; and an understanding result determination unit configured to determine an understanding result from the understanding result candidates by referring to the cumulative word weight and the cumul
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Okuno, Kazunori Komatani, Yuichiro Fukubayashi, Kotaro Funakoshi