Electrical vehicle energy supply system, electrical vehicle battery, electrical vehicle battery charging apparatus, battery supply apparatus, and electrical vehicle battery management system
First Claim
1. An electrical vehicle energy supply system comprising:
- an electrical vehicle running on drive from an electric motor driven by a battery;
a cassette-type battery removably installed in said electrical vehicle; and
a battery storage location for said cassette-type battery provided in proximity to a path of travel of said electrical vehicle, wherein when it is necessary to replace a cassette-type battery installed in said electrical vehicle, an owner or user thereof returns said battery to any one of said battery storage locations, obtains a replacement charged cassette-type battery in exchange of said returned battery, and installs said replacement battery into said electrical vehicle.
0 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
An electrical vehicle energy supply system has an electrical vehicle which carries in a prescribed location a freely removable cassette-type battery and an energy supply station which has at all times a plurality of the cassette-type batteries and which performs charging processing of units of these batteries which include the number of batteries required by one such electrical vehicle, and performs the function of storing said batteries in a fully charged condition. In this system, when an electrical vehicle enters the energy supply station, all of the batteries are removed therefrom, these being replaced by an equal number of fully charged batteries that had been stored at the energy supply station, the single or multiple batteries that had been removed from the electrical vehicle being charged, the electrical vehicle heading toward a next energy supply station and the energy supply station awaiting the arrival of a next electrical vehicle.
281 Citations
83 Claims
-
1. An electrical vehicle energy supply system comprising:
-
an electrical vehicle running on drive from an electric motor driven by a battery;
a cassette-type battery removably installed in said electrical vehicle; and
a battery storage location for said cassette-type battery provided in proximity to a path of travel of said electrical vehicle, wherein when it is necessary to replace a cassette-type battery installed in said electrical vehicle, an owner or user thereof returns said battery to any one of said battery storage locations, obtains a replacement charged cassette-type battery in exchange of said returned battery, and installs said replacement battery into said electrical vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 73, 74)
-
-
15. An electrical vehicle energy supply system comprising:
-
an electrical vehicle having installed at a prescribed location therein a cassette-type battery of a prescribed shape; and
a cassette-type battery sales station that stores at all times a plurality of fully charged unused cassette-type batteries, or fully recharged used cassette-type batteries, wherein if necessary an owner or user of said electrical vehicle replaces a cassette-type battery installed in the electrical vehicle of the owner or user with a cassette-type battery stored at said cassette-type battery sales station.
-
-
17. An energy supply system for an electric vehicle, comprising:
-
an electrical vehicle which carries in a prescribed location a freely removable cassette-type battery of a prescribed shape; and
an energy supply station which has at all times a plurality of said cassette-type batteries of a prescribed shape and which performs charging processing individually with respect to groups of said batteries and serves the function of storing said batteries in a fully charged condition, wherein when said electrical vehicle enters said energy supply station, part or all of a group of prescribed number of said batteries are removed therefrom, these being replaced by battery groups of an equal number of fully charged batteries that had been stored at said energy supply station, the single or multiple batteries that had been removed from said electrical vehicle being charged, the electrical vehicle heading toward a next energy supply station and said energy supply station awaiting the arrival of a next electrical vehicle.
-
-
18. An energy supply system for an electric vehicle, comprising:
-
an electrical vehicle which carries in a prescribed location a freely removable cassette-type battery of a prescribed shape; and
an energy supply station which has at all times a plurality of said cassette-type batteries of a prescribed shape, and which performs charging processing of units of said batteries which include the number of batteries required by one said electrical vehicle, and serves the function of storing said batteries in a fully charged condition, wherein when said electrical vehicle enters said energy supply station, all of said batteries are removed therefrom, these being replaced by an equal number of fully charged batteries that had been stored at said energy supply station, the single or multiple batteries that had been removed from said electrical vehicle being charged, the electrical vehicle heading toward a next energy supply station and said energy supply station awaiting the arrival of a next electrical vehicle.
-
- 49. An electrical vehicle cassette-type battery comprising an outer housing with a flat configuration and at least one cell housed within said outer housing, installable in a prescribed position of an arbitrary electrical vehicle, which, by insertion into said prescribed position achieves a prescribed electrical connection with an electrical system of said electrical vehicle.
- 57. An electrical vehicle battery storage and charging apparatus comprising a storage space for housing at least part of the cassette-type batteries required by one said electrical vehicle or all such batteries as a unit, wherein within said storage space is provided a function of either simultaneously charging the group of batteries stored in said storage space or of performing processing that maintains the charged condition of said group of batteries for which charging has been completed.
-
71. An electrical vehicle battery management system in which each flat cassette-type battery configured to enable it to be freely installed into and removed from an electrical vehicle comprises means for storing information with regard to the charging condition, number of charges, remaining capacity, and internal resistance of the cell contained therein, and information such as information with regard to the life, of said cell and the owner or user thereof, and means for selectively displaying information that is stored in said storage means, and wherein the history and characteristics of said batteries are monitored from various information stored in said storage means, a judgment being made at all times as to the usability of said battery.
- 72. A battery management system configured so that each time charging individual batteries to be charged is performed, charging information is stored and a prescribed characteristic of battery cell of said battery is monitored before and after charging and, if a judgment is made that said characteristic is outside a prescribed range, alarm information indicating disposal of said battery is caused to be displayed on a display means of provided in said battery.
-
77. A method for supplying energy to an electrical vehicle, comprising:
-
priorly storing a standardized cassette-type battery in a plurality of prescribed battery storage areas in a station;
visiting said station by a electrical vehicle into which is installed at least one said cassette-type battery and verifying an owner or user of said electrical vehicle;
replacing, after verification of said owner or user, part or all of said cassette-type batteries installed in said electrical vehicle with one or a plurality of said fully charged cassette-type batteries stored in said station, and then execution a payment transaction;
moving said electrical vehicle away from said station after said payment is completed;
detecting of a charging condition of each battery newly stored in said battery storage when batteries left at said station and stored therein and performing a high-speed charging of a battery that indicates a charge level below a prescribed charge level;
supplementally charging all batteries having reached a prescribed charge condition in said battery storage area; and
recording of control information with regard to an owner or user of said vehicle, usage of each of said cassette-type batteries, recording of a number of charges, a current location, and whether or not a disposal criterion has been satisfied, wherein said steps are executed by means of computer processing. - View Dependent Claims (78, 79)
-
-
80. An energy supplying system to an electrical vehicle, comprising:
-
a plurality of standardized cassette-type batteries;
a plurality of electrical vehicles each removably installing at least one of said standardized cassette-type batteries therein and running with electric energy provided from said standardized cassette-type battery as a driving source;
a plurality of battery supplying stations each of which being individually located with far distance from each other and each storing a plurality of said standardized cassette-type batteries all time therein and each further comprising a battery supplying means for supplying a certain number of said standardized cassette-type batteries which said user of said electrical vehicle had designated, to a predetermined battery supplying section, if when a predetermined executing operation had been carried out, a battery receiving means for receiving a certain number of said standardized cassette-type batteries which said user of said electrical vehicle wishes to exchange therein, a charging means for charging said standardized cassette-type battery thus received and charged voltage value of which being reduced below a predetermined level and a housing means for keeping unused fully charged standardized cassette-type batteries or said fully charged and used standardized cassette-type batteries therein with performing auxiliary charging to each of said standardized cassette-type batteries thus kept therein, wherein in said system, each one of said standardized cassette-type batteries is freely transferred among said plurality of stations and said plurality of said electrical vehicles. - View Dependent Claims (81, 82, 83)
-
Specification