Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Tsujimura

Keisei Yamamuro

Taketo Yoshii

Takuya Sekiguchi

Kazunori Kurimoto

Naofumi Nakatani

Yasuo Yoshimura

Tetsuya Kouda

Toshihisa Ikeda

Masami Funakura

Hiroyoshi Nomura

Hiroyuki Fujii

Hidetaka Yabuuchi

Wei Zhang

Hiromi Toyota

Takahiro Sugimoto

Tatsuya Mizobata

Kenji Terai

Kiyoshi Sarada

Masahiro Muikaichi

Kenji Izumi

A power control system, a power control method, a power control device and a power control program supplies power to an electric device and charge an electric vehicle. A control device and method includes a receiver that receives charge information pertaining to the charging of the rechargeable battery prior to an arrival of the electric vehicle at a location where power is supplied to the electric vehicle, and a control determination unit that determines an operation start time of starting the operation of the electric device on the basis of the charge information received by the receiver. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores a control program that controls the charging of a rechargeable battery of an electric vehicle and controls operation of the electric device.

Power control system, power control method, power control device and power control program

A power supply and demand control method for a power storage system includes predicting a consumption power of a customer for each of time slots divided by a specific time interval, assigning one of a frequency control or a peak shaving control to each of the time slots based on the predicted consumption power, controlling the storage battery based on the assigned frequency control or the assigned peak shaving control in each of the time slots, wherein the peak shaving control is assigned to each of the time slots in which the predicted consumption power is higher than a contract power, and the frequency control is assigned to each of the times slot in which the predicted consumption power is equal to or lower than the contract power.

Power supply and demand control method, power supply and demand control device

A mobile device is provided with a communication unit which performs communication via wireless communication, a display unit, and a display control unit which controls the display unit to display a setting input screen for allowing the user to input setting of a household electrical device. The communication unit transmits a request signal for checking whether there is a person in the vicinity of the household electrical device before the setting input screen is displayed by the display control unit. The display control unit controls the display unit to display a setting input disable screen indicating that setting of the household electrical device is not received without causing the display unit to display the setting input screen when there is a person in the vicinity of the household electrical device.

Remote controlling method, communication device, and computer-readable storage medium recorded with computer program for performing remote control

An electric device includes operation unit, working unit, and a number-of-times detecting unit that counts the number of times of instructions being against energy savings. In addition, the device includes time measuring unit that measures time from when the number-of-times detecting unit starts the counting, and a controller that generates a signal to induce a modification of a first energy-saving pattern. When the time is within a first predetermined period, the controller generates a signal that requires the modification of the first energy-saving pattern into a more lenient second energy-saving pattern, with the time being from when time measuring unit starts the measurement to when the number of the times counted by the number-of-times detecting unit reaches a predetermined value.

Electric device and electric device control method

A washer-dryer is provided with a time shift function for performing timer presetting processing on the basis of a time shift computation result which indicates an operation start time suitable for operation. The washer-dryer includes: an input operation unit for allowing a user to perform operations for operating the washer-dryer; a display unit for displaying information relating to the operation of the washer-dryer; and an operation control unit for controlling the operation of the washer-dryer on the basis of the time shift computation result. When a start button on the input operation unit is operated by the user, the operation control unit automatically performs the timer presetting processing on the basis of the time shift computation result and also displays a timer preset time at the display unit.

Household electrical appliance and method for controlling household electrical appliance

A cooking device includes: first and second heating cooking units; a mode setting unit configured to set heating modes of the first and second heating cooking units; a receiving unit; a priority managing unit configured to store priorities which are given to the first heating cooking unit and the second heating cooking unit, respectively; and a power adjusting unit configured to adjust using power of a heating cooking unit to which a lower one of the priorities of the first heating cooking unit and the second heating cooking unit stored in the priority managing unit is given when the receiving unit receives a power adjustment request signal transmitted from a power controlling device. The priorities are different values for each heating mode.

Cooking device having priority managing unit for first and second heating units

An equipment control device has: a reception unit for receiving desired time information indicating a desired operation start time or a desired operation termination time, operation period information and electrical power information; a time-shift period setting unit for setting a time-shift period indicating a period which has a time range including the desired time information and during which the operation start time or the operation termination time of a household appliance is shiftable; an electrical power charge information acquisition unit for acquiring electrical power charge information; an operation time computing unit for computing the operation start time or the operation termination time, on the basis of which the electricity charge that is billed when the household appliance is operated within the time-shift period falls to or below a predetermined charge; and a transmission unit for transmitting the operation start time or the operation termination time to the household appliance.

Electrical equipment control device, electrical equipment control method and electrical equipment

A power control device includes a priority setting section capable of setting a use priority of a home appliance connected wirelessly or via cable or an adapter connected to the home appliance. The home appliance or the adaptor connected to the home appliance operates within the usable power of a result of the inquiry to the power control device. When there is no excess in usable power over the required power in the inquiry, the power control device reduces the power of a device having a lower priority than the device which has transmitted the inquiry in order to use the device with the higher priority.

Power control system and method and program for controlling power control system

Herein disclosed is a household electrical appliance easily to know whether electricity rates are high or low when using the household electrical appliance, even in the variable rate system. The household electrical appliance includes, a receiving unit that receives information of electricity rates which are changed based on power generation capacity and power consumption amount and charged for power consumption as instantaneous electricity rate information; an electricity rate information accumulating unit that accumulates the received instantaneous electricity rate information; a determination unit that outputs a result obtained by statistically calculating a plurality of the accumulated instantaneous electricity rate information items as reference electricity rate information, and compares the latest received instantaneous electricity rate information with the output reference electricity rate information; and a numerical value display unit that notifies whether the latest instantaneous electricity rate information is higher than the reference electricity rate information.

Household electrical appliance

To provide a device capable of determining a delivery destination of an event automatically without requiring choosing operation of an operator. An event entered through an event input meansis given to a delivery destination determining meanswhich in turn determines to which of applications AP, AP, . . . , APn the given event is to be delivered according to the contents of the event and according to delivery destination determining information stored in a delivery destination determining information storing section, and delivers accordingly. Therefore, the event is delivered to an appropriate application even if the operator does not choose an addressed application.

Event control device and digital broadcasting system

To provide a device capable of determining a delivery destination of an event automatically without requiring choosing operation of an operator. An event entered through an event input meansis given to a delivery destination determining meanswhich in turn determines to which of applications APAP. . . , APn the given event is to be delivered according to the contents of the event and according to delivery destination determining information stored in a delivery destination determining information storing section, and delivers accordingly. Therefore, the event is delivered to an appropriate application even if the operator does not choose an addressed application.

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Satoshi Tsujimura