Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130140893 | POWER DEMAND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND POWER DEMAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A power demand management apparatus comprising a power demand acquiring section acquiring a predicted power demand; a consumer house information holding section that, for each of a plurality of request methods or request conditions, and for each of a plurality of consumer houses, holds a sensitivity indicating a probability that the consumer house will comply with a request; a consumer house selecting section that, when the predicted power demand exceeds a target value, selects a first consumer house whose sensitivity for a first request method or request condition is no less than a first reference value and selects a second consumer house whose sensitivity for a second request method or request condition is no less than a second reference value; and a restriction requesting section that issues requests for power demand restriction to the first and second consumer houses respectively using the first and second request methods or request conditions. | 06-06-2013 |
20130166069 | ROBOT AND POWER CONSUMPTION ESTIMATING SYSTEM - Provided is a robot comprising a device manipulating section that turns ON and OFF a plurality of devices that operate by receiving power from a power supply; a power value acquiring section that acquires a first total power value that is a power value before one of the devices is turned ON or OFF by the device manipulating section and a second total power value that is a power value after the device is turned ON or OFF, via a power sensor that measures a total power value supplied to the plurality of devices from the power supply; and a power consumption estimating section that estimates power consumption of the device based on the first total power value and the second total power value. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166133 | POWER DEMAND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND POWER DEMAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A power demand management apparatus comprises a schedule holding section that holds a power restriction schedule indicating a device on which a mobile robot is to perform power restriction, in association with a power restriction execution time; a movement instructing section that transmits movement instructions to the robot such that, prior to the power restriction execution time indicated in the power restriction schedule, the robot moves to an area in which is arranged the device on which the power restriction is to be performed at the execution time; and a restriction instructing section that transmits power restriction instructions to the robot, thereby causing the robot to perform the power restriction on the device at the execution time. | 06-27-2013 |
20140032786 | BRIDGE CIRCUIT - A bridge circuit of an embodiment includes: a command transfer portion which is configured by wired logic into which a host controller capable of sending a command that corresponds to each of a plurality of devices inputs the command, and which is configured to transfer the inputted command to the plurality of devices; a command analysis portion which is configured by wired logic, and which is configured to analyze the command from the host controller; and a response reply portion which is configured by wired logic, and which is capable of reading out a response based on an analysis result of the command analysis portion from a register that holds a response corresponding to the command and sending the response to the host controller. | 01-30-2014 |