Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation

J-Oil Mills, Inc.

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation

Ryo Okabe

Kazuto Kuroda

Masahiro Sekino

Norihiro Kaneko

Shinichiro Kosugi

Yusuke Kikuchi

Jun Takahashi

Mitsuo Shimotani

Shinya Sato

Yosuke Saeki

Makoto Noguchi

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Yuji Sasaki

Takashi Sano

Akira Hirata

Nobuyasu Negishi

Hiroki Konaka

Michinori Yoshida

Junya Ujiie

Shinichi Ochiai

Hirofumi Yamamoto

Yoshihiro Tomaru

Nobuhito Miyauchi

Tomohiko Higashiyama

Minoru Gyoda

Manabu Murakami

Kota Asami

Tatsumi Matsuo

Takehiro Usumori

Koichi Yoshino

Masayoshi Sakaino

Atsushi Inamura

Motohiro Itou

Takayuki Onoda

Yasuyuki Noda

Jun Yabuki

Yoshiharu Asaga

Keita Nakata

Minoru Oota

Masahito Morone

Ryuji Hori

Hisashi Arai

Naruto Makita

An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a positive and a negative electrode terminals; modules each including an assembled battery and a CMU, the assembled battery including cells, the CMU to detect a voltage and a temperature of the assembled battery; a main circuit for electrical connection between terminals of the modules and the positive and negative electrode terminals; a BMU to receive information about the voltage and the temperature from the respective CMU; a supply circuit to convert DC power from the main circuit and supply the converted power to the BMU; a breaker for interrupting the main circuit; and a circuit to block a current flowing through the main circuit in a direction of charging the modules, in response to a stop of a control signal from the BMU.

Storage battery apparatus with current cutoff control

A battery module including a plurality of battery cells, a first chassis, and a connection member. The battery cells are aligned in a first direction. The first chassis includes a plurality of first compartments in which the battery cells are housed one by one, and at least one second compartment that is partitioned in the first direction. The connection member includes a body that is housed in the second compartment, a pair of connection terminals that is mounted on a first face of the body and is electrically connectable to the electrodes of the battery cells via a conductive member. The first face faces in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and a conductor that extends across the pair of connection terminals.

Battery module and connection member

A battery module includes: a battery cell unit including a plurality of battery cells connected together in series or series-parallel; a cell monitoring unit configured to monitor temperatures and voltages of the battery cells; and a plurality of overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units of n systems (n: an integer greater than or equal to 2). The overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units of the n systems are configured to independently detect an overtemperature or an overvoltage of the battery cells as an abnormal state, and to mutually notify one another of results of the detection. Each of the overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units is configured to, upon being notified that the abnormal state is detected from another overtemperature/overvoltage detecting unit of another system in the battery module, operate on the assumption that the overtemperature/overvoltage detecting unit detects the abnormal state.

Battery module and storage battery system

An interrupt handler unit () generates a timer interrupt at an interrupt time, and executes an interrupt preparation process. A wait time period measurement unit () a measures a time period from completion of the interrupt preparation process to generation of a start request () as a wait time period. A time calculation unit () calculates a subtraction time period based on the wait time period measured by the wait time period measurement unit (), and calculates a preparation time period that is the sum of a time period obtained by subtracting the subtraction time period from the wait time period and a processing time period of the interrupt preparation process. The time calculation unit () stores a time obtained by shifting back the preparation time period from the time of a next start request (), as a next interrupt time, in a time storage unit ().

Interrupt control apparatus, interrupt control method, and computer readable medium

[Problem] To provide: a method for suppressing the coloration of oils and fats during frying; and a coloring inhibitor. [Solution] A method for suppressing the coloration of an oil/fat composition for frying, the method comprising a step for adding a prepared oil to an edible oil or fat, wherein the prepared oil is obtained through (1) a degumming step, (2) a neutralization step which may or may not be performed, (3) a bleaching step which may or may not be performed, and (4) a deodorizing step, in this order, in the process of refining a crude oil obtained from an oil feedstock, and the absorbance difference determined by subtracting the absorbance at a wavelength of 750 nm from the absorbance at a wavelength of 660 nm of the prepared oil obtained from step (3) is at least 0.030 when isooctane is used as the control. A coloring inhibitor characterized by containing said prepared oil.

Method for suppressing coloration of frying fats and oils composition

A moving object controlling device () determines, when malfunction of an instrument such as a processor () mounted in a moving object () is specified, control contents with respect to the moving object () according to malfunction contents such as a level of the specified malfunction and a peripheral situation of the moving object () such as a movement place of the moving object () and a movement environment that influences movement of the moving object (). Then, the moving object controlling device () controls the moving object () according to the determined control contents.

Moving object controlling device, moving object controlling method, and computer readable medium

According to one embodiment, a wiring diagnostic apparatus of embodiments includes a counter, an acquirer, and an abnormality determiner. The counter counts the number of battery modules connected to a plurality of first communication lines to which a plurality of battery modules are connected to form a communication channel for each of the first communication lines. The acquirer acquires identification information for identifying a battery module connected to a corresponding second communication line among battery modules connected to a plurality of second communication lines each forming a communication channel with a first communication line via the second communication line. The abnormality determiner determines an abnormality in a wiring relationship of the first communication line or the second communication line on the basis of the number of battery modules counted by the counter and identification information acquired by the acquirer.

Wiring diagnostic apparatus, battery system, and power system

A storage battery device includes a battery unit, a first circuit breaker, a second circuit breaker, and a control unit. The first circuit breaker switches between connecting and disconnecting a first-electrode side of the battery unit and an external device. The second circuit breaker switches between connecting and disconnecting a second-electrode side of the battery unit and the external device. The control unit supplies power to the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker in sequence with the power supplied to the second circuit breaker offset relative to the power supplied to the first circuit breaker by a time period equal to or longer than a time difference required for a sum of currents flowing through the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker to reach an upper bound current that is set as an upper bound of a current.

Storage battery device, storage battery device control method, and computer program product

A travel planning device includes: a subject vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires subject vehicle information including a scheduled travel route and a scheduled departure time of a subject vehicle; an other vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires other vehicle information including information by which it is possible to predict scheduled travel routes of a plurality of other vehicles and a scheduled passage time through each point on the scheduled travel routes; and a travel plan calculator that calculates a travel plan of the subject vehicle based on the subject vehicle information and the other vehicle information. The travel plan calculator divides the scheduled travel route of the subject vehicle into manual driving sections and following travel sections, and selects the leading vehicle of each following travel section from among the plurality of other vehicles for each following travel section.

Travel planning device and travel planning method

This disclosure relates to a traffic information estimation device and a traffic information estimation method for estimating a time period of switching of a traffic signal display. The traffic information estimation device includes: an acquisition unit () acquiring arrangement information indicating an arrangement of vehicles in accordance with a time passage on a road on which a traffic signal is installed; a determination unit () determining changes in density of the vehicles by using the arrangement information; and a calculation unit () calculating a display change cycle indicating a time period of switching of a display of the traffic signal based on a time interval between the changes in density of the vehicles. According to such a configuration, it is possible to simplify processing to estimate of a change cycle of the traffic signal.

Traffic information estimation device and traffic information estimation method

According to one embodiment, a cell monitoring device that performs monitoring of a cell module under control of a battery management device (BMD), includes a communication controller and a control device. The communication controller is capable of being connected to BMD through a communication line. The control device performs an activation processing of the communication controller at a time of initialization, and controls the cell monitoring device. The control device performs a reboot processing of the communication controller in a period shorter than a period of detecting an error condition of the communication controller by BMD when a second voltage drops to be below an operation allowable voltage of the communication controller in a state in which a first voltage is above a certain operation allowable voltage. The first voltage represents a power supply voltage of the control device. The second voltage represents a power supply voltage of the communication controller.

Cell monitoring device, method, and computer program product

A storage battery management device manages a plurality of battery units in a storage battery system including the battery units having a plurality of battery cells and a power adjustment device connected to the battery units via respective contactors and connected to a main circuit. The storage battery management device includes a minimum value determination unit and a controller. The minimum value determination unit, from the battery units in which a difference between a maximum cell voltage and a minimum cell voltage of the battery cells forming each of the battery units is equal to or less than a certain value, determines a minimum value of the minimum cell voltage. The controller controls a cell balance process of the battery unit managed by itself, by using the minimum value of the minimum cell voltage determined by the minimum value determination unit as a cell balance target voltage.

Storage battery management device, method, and computer program product

When an access occurs to an I/O device from an OS, an I/O allocation unit refers to an I/O allocation table, and determines whether the I/O device is allocated to other OS. When the I/O device is allocated to another OS, a control unit notifies the OSof an error. When the I/O device is not allocated to either of the OSs-, the I/O allocation unit updates the I/O allocation table in order to allocate the I/O device to the OS, and an I/O emulation unit emulates the access to the I/O device.

Computing machine, access management method, and access management program

According to one embodiment, a storage battery device includes a battery unit, a charging unit, a terminal, and a first circuit breaking unit. The battery unit includes a lithium ion battery and is connectable in parallel to other storage battery device that charges an external lithium ion battery. The charging unit is supplied with electric power from an external electric power source and charges the battery unit. The terminal is connectable to a wire connecting the other storage battery device with the battery unit. The first circuit breaking unit is connected between the battery unit and the terminal, and blocks an electric current flowing from the terminal to the battery unit.

Storage battery device and storage battery system

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Hino, Japan

Ryo Okabe