Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc.

Mitsubishi Industries, Ltd.

Takehiko Nishida

Kazuyuki Adachi

Tetsuro Shigemizu

Katsuo Hashizaki

Shinji Murakami

Kouji Kurayama

Shinichi Isobe

Wataru Yamada

Hiroki Takeda

Shigeki Senoo

Yoshitomo Noda

Yuichi Sekine

Hidehiko Tajima

Yoshihiro Wada

Katsuaki Kobayashi

Kazuki Hosono

Takuyoshi Yamada

Hirofumi Fujita

Hiroyuki Shibata

Takuzo Shigihara

Masami Iida

Tomoh Akiyama

Masazumi Ohishi

Masaaki Minami

Keiichiro Tanaka

A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion and having a diameter decreasing from an upstream side on one side in the axis direction toward a downstream side on another side in the axis direction, a flow path being formed between the shroud and the shaft portion and having a flow path cross-sectional area decreasing toward the downstream side; a propeller rotatably provided about an axis between the shaft portion and the shroud and configured to pump a fluid from the upstream side toward the downstream side; and a motor provided to correspond to the propeller, the motor including a rotor having a ring-like shape and being fixed to an outer circumference portion of the propeller and accommodated in the shroud and a stator having a ring-like shape surrounding the rotor and being fixed in the shroud, in which the motor is a conical motor in which diameters of the rotor and the stator decrease from the upstream side toward the downstream side.

Fluid machine and underwater vehicle

A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion; a shroud having an inside surface with a diameter decreasing from an upstream side toward a downstream side, a flow path being formed between the shroud and the shaft portion and having a flow path cross-sectional area decreasing toward the downstream side; a propeller rotatably provided about an axis between the shaft portion and the shroud and configured to pump a fluid from the upstream side toward the downstream side; and a motor provided to correspond to the propeller and including a rotor having a ring-like shape fixed to an outer circumference portion of the propeller and accommodated in the shroud and a stator having a ring-like shape surrounding the rotor and fixed in the shroud, in which a plurality of the propellers are provided to be spaced apart in the axis direction, the motors are provided in an identical number to the propellers to correspond to each of the propellers, and of a plurality of motors, the rotor of the motor positioned more on the downstream side has a smaller average outside diameter.

Fluid machine for underwater vehicle and underwater vehicle

A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion, and forming a flow path between the shroud and the shaft portion, the flow path having one side in the axis direction serving as an upstream side and another side in the axis direction serving as a downstream side; a first propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud; a second propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud on the downstream side of the first propeller; an outer periphery driving motor provided in the shroud and configured to rotationally drive the first propeller; and an inner periphery driving motor provided in the shaft portion and configured to rotationally drive the second propeller in a direction opposite to the rotational direction of the first propeller.

A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion, and forming a flow path between the shroud and the shaft portion, the flow path having one side in the axis direction serving as an upstream side and another side in the axis direction serving as a downstream side; a propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud; a motor provided in the shroud and configured to rotationally drive the propeller; and a bearing apparatus provided only to the shaft portion, out of the shroud and the shaft portion, and rotationally supporting the propeller.

A power management system includes: a first power source that includes a first storage cell; a second power source that includes a second storage cell; a power load that is driven with first power output by the first power source and second power output by the second power source; and an integrated control device that controls the first power and the second power such that a first cell temperature of the first storage cell is substantially the same as a second cell temperature of the second storage cell.

Power management system

The battery state-of-charge calculation device () is provided with a SOCV calculation unit () which outputs a first state of charge calculated based on voltage data, a SOCI calculation unit () which outputs a second state of charge calculated based on current data, an estimated impedance voltage calculation unit () which calculates an impedance voltage value based on an effective state of charge and the current data, a static determination unit () which determines that the impedance voltage value remains static for a predetermined time or longer in a range identified by a predetermined threshold value and outputs the determination result; and a SOC decision unit () which, based on the determination result, outputs the first state of charge as the effective state of charge where the impedance voltage value is static and outputs the second state of charge as the effective state of charge where the impedance voltage value is not static.

Battery state-of-charge calculation device

A voltage equalization device of a power storage device provided with battery packs in which a plurality of secondary cells are connected, power converters provided in association with the battery packs, and controllers that control the power converters, and in which the battery packs are connected in parallel via the individual power converters includes a decision portion and a voltage-adjusting portion. The decision portion obtains battery-pack information regarding the states of charge/discharge of the individual battery packs and decides, for each battery pack, whether or not to perform voltage adjustment on the basis of the battery-pack information. When the decision portion decides that the voltage adjustment is to be performed, the voltage-adjusting portion generates offset instructions for adjusting the states of charge/discharge and outputs the offset instructions to the controllers of the power converters associated with the battery packs.

Voltage equalization device, method, program, and power storage system

A battery pack includes: a battery unit in which a plurality of battery modules with a plurality of secondary batteries connected in series to each other is connected in parallel to each other so that output current; and a battery management unit. The battery management unit calculates a first allowable current value of each of the plurality of battery modules and calculates second allowable current values of the other battery modules based on the first allowable current value of one battery module from the plurality of battery modules. The battery management unit calculates a value corresponding to the sum of the first allowable current value used as the reference and the respective second current values as an allowable current value when each of the second allowable current values is equal to or smaller than the first allowable current value of the corresponding battery module.

Battery pack and battery control system

A secondary cell control system includes a plurality of cells; a charging circuit section and a discharging circuit section. The charging circuit section charges cells selected from among said plurality of cells, and the discharging circuit section discharges cells selected from among said plurality of cells.

Secondary cell control system

It is an object to effectively output electrical energy of a storage battery to an electrical power system serving as a whole distributed power supply system by effectively utilizing the electrical energy within a charging ratio range that does not cause overcharging or overdischarging of the storage battery. In a hybrid distributed power supply system, the target supply electrical power is set based on the electrical power generation output of the electrical power generator and the charging state of the storage battery, and the target supply electrical power is restricted within a predetermined permissible supply electrical power range when the target supply electrical power deviates from the predetermined permissible supply electrical power range.

Electricity storage device and hybrid distributed power supply system

A battery apparatus includes a row battery group including a plurality of series-connected row batteries including one or more battery cells; a plurality of battery management sections, corresponding to the individual row batteries, for managing the battery statuses of the corresponding row batteries; a central management section for granting unique identification information to the individual battery management sections and acquiring information about the battery statuses of the row batteries from the respective battery management sections for management; second communication lines with which the plurality of battery management sections are daisy-chained; a first communication line with which, of the plurality of battery management sections, the battery management section located at one end is connected to the central management section; and a plurality of connection switching sections, provided in the individual second communication lines between the battery management sections, for switching the connection and disconnection between the battery management sections.

Battery apparatus

It is an object to provide a battery system whose life can be extended. A cell pack having at least one lithium secondary battery that uses a manganese-based cathode material and a control unit that controls charging and discharging of the cell pack are provided, and the control unit controls charging and discharging within a low-degradation voltage range that is set on the basis of a target cell degradation rate.

Power storage system

An object is to reliably conduct cell balancing operation while suppressing deterioration of batteries and maintaining operating efficiency. When the cell balance control by the cell balancing circuitis started, the system control devicesets an on/off device corresponding to the arm where the cell balance control is conducted to the open state; and when the cell balance control is completed, and the difference between the terminal voltage of a battery pack of the arm where the cell balance control has been conducted and the terminal voltages of the battery packs of the other arms falls within a preset allowable range, sets the on/off device, which has been in the open state, to the closed state.

Power storage system including a plurality of battery modules and on/off devices or voltage converters

An object is to improve safety. Provided is a power storage system including a battery apparatus; a power converterprovided between the battery apparatusand a loadand that can control power supplied from the battery apparatusto the load; and a battery monitoring circuitthat detects an abnormality in the battery apparatus. When an abnormality in the battery apparatusis detected by the battery monitoring circuit, the power convertersupplies power stored in the battery apparatusto the loador to an internally provided internal load at or below a current value or power value that is set in advance, or alternatively, at a current value or power value that the loaddemands, within a range that does not exceed an upper limit that is set in advance.

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Nagasaki, Japan

Takehiko Nishida