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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2013
Applicants:

Hitachi, Ltd., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yasutaka Kimura, Tokyo, JP;

Mitsuo Tsurugai, Tokyo, JP;

Toshiyuki Fujikawa, Tokyo, JP;

Hyogo Takami, Tokyo, JP;

Tomoyuki Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;

Taichi Isogai, Tokyo, JP;

Assignees:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 3/32 (2006.01); H02J 4/00 (2006.01); H02J 3/38 (2006.01); H02J 3/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 4/00 (2013.01); H02J 3/32 (2013.01); H02J 3/381 (2013.01); H02J 2003/146 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and device for operating a power system, and a rechargeable-battery management device that extracts maximum performance from rechargeable batteries and uses the batteries evenly while taking into consideration cost and the operation of the batteries are provided. According to the method for operating a power system provided with a plurality of rechargeable-battery devices and a plurality of electric generators, the amount of power that a rechargeable battery available during a scheduled time period on a scheduled date will be able to supply is determined, an economic-dispatch calculation including the determined amount of power that the aforementioned rechargeable battery will be able to supply is performed for the power system, and the rechargeable battery is used to supply power during the scheduled time period on the scheduled date.


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