# US 12,118,277 B2 · Assistance device and design assistance program > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,118,277 B2 - Document ID: US12118277B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/297,849 - Filed: 2019-12-10 - Published: 2022-01-20 - Granted: 2024-10-15 - Earliest claimed: 2018-12-14 - Assignees: OMRON Corporation - Applicants: OMRON Corporation - Inventors: Takeshi Kiribuchi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12118277B2 ## CPC - G06F 30/20: Design optimisation, verification or simulation (optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30) - G06F 30/36: Circuit design at the analogue level - G06F 30/18: Network design, e.g. design based on topological or interconnect aspects of utility systems, piping, heating ventilation air conditioning [HVAC] or cabling (circuit design at the physical level G06F30/39; network planning tools for wireless communication networks H04W16/18) - G06F 2113/16: Cables, cable trees or wire harnesses - G06F 2119/06: Power analysis or power optimisation - H02P 5/74: controlling two or more AC dynamo-electric motors (H02P5/46, H02P5/60 take precedence) - H02P 27/06: using DC to AC converters or inverters (H02P27/05 takes precedence) - Y02E 40/70: Smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the energy generation sector - Y02E 60/00: Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation - Y04S 10/50: Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications - Y04S 40/20: Information technology specific aspects, e.g. CAD, simulation, modelling, system security - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H02P: CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS - Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION - Y04S: SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS ## Abstract A design support device including: a unit configured to acquire configuration information indicating a configuration of the power distribution supply path; a unit configured to acquire, for each of the plurality of load devices, operation pattern information representing an operation pattern of the load device; a unit configured to calculate, for each power cable, a maximum current value, which is a maximum value of a current flowing through the power cable, based on the configuration information and the operation pattern information of each load device; and a unit configured to output, for each power cable, at least one of the maximum current value for the power cable and recommended cable information representing a cable recommended for use as the power cable based on the calculated maximum current value for each power cable. With this configuration, the design of the power supply system is supported. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A design support device configured to support design of a power supply system in which power from a power supply is distributed and supplied to a plurality of load devices by a power distribution supply path in which a plurality of power cables are combined, the design support device comprising: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire configuration information indicating a configuration of the power distribution supply path; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire, for each of the plurality of load devices, operation pattern information representing an operation pattern of the load device; a calculation unit configured to calculate, for each power cable of the plurality of power cables in the power supply system, a maximum current value, which is a maximum value of a current flowing through the power cable, based on the configuration information acquired by the first acquisition unit and the operation pattern information for the plurality of load devices acquired by the second acquisition unit; and an output unit configured to output, for each power cable of the plurality of power cables in the power supply system, at least one of the maximum current value for the power cable and recommended cable information representing a cable recommended for use as the power cable based on the maximum current value for each power cable calculated by the calculation unit, wherein the calculation unit is configured to: generate first time series current data of a current flowing into each load device of the plurality of load devices based on the operation pattern information for each load device, calculate, for each power cable of the plurality of power cables in the power feeding system, a second time series current data of the current flowing through the power cable by adding values of currents in the first time series current data for each load device connected to the power cable, and determine a maximum value of the current in the second time series current data as the maximum current value for the power cable. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The design support device according to claim 1, wherein the power supply system is a system which includes a DC power supply as the power supply, and includes a load machine, an electric motor configured to drive the load machine, and an inverter configured to control the electric motor as the plurality of load devices, wherein the second acquisition unit is configured to acquire a command value group input in time series to the inverter of each load device as the operation pattern information for each load device during an actual operation of each load device. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The design support device according to claim 2, wherein the calculation unit is further configured to calculate a maximum value of a regenerative current flowing through the power cable directly connected to the power supply in a direction of the power supply based on the time series data for each load device, and wherein the output unit is configured to output also the maximum value of the regenerative current calculated by the calculation unit. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The design support device according to claim 1, wherein the first acquisition unit is configured to be able to acquire a plurality of pieces of the configuration information, and wherein, when the plurality of pieces of the configuration information are acquired by the first acquisition unit, the calculation unit is configured to calculate the maximum current value for each power cable of the plurality of power cables in the power supply system having a configuration defined by the configuration information for each acquired configuration information. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The design support device according to claim 1, wherein the power distribution supply path includes one or a plurality of cable connection connectors configured to connect at least three power cables in the plurality of power cables, and wherein the design support device further includes a second output unit configured to output connector designation information for designating a connector recommended for use as each cable connection connector based on the maximum current value for each power cable calculated by the calculation unit. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a design support program configured to operate a computer as the design support device according to claim 1.