APPROPRIATE BATTERY EXCHANGE
First Claim
1. A battery exchange system comprises:
- a user device belonging to a user, said user device being supplied with power from a battery having a characteristic serial number;
a charging device for charging said battery; and
a control device for managing the state of said battery charge;
wherein;
said user device has characteristic identification information, reads said serial number from said battery when said battery is installed, and places said identification information and said serial number in correspondence with each other and transmits as correspondence information to said control device;
said charging device reads said serial number from said battery when charging of said battery has been completed and transmits this serial number to said control device; and
said control device receives and stores correspondence information that has been transmitted from said user device, receives a serial number that has been transmitted from said charging device, calculates a scheduled charging time that is next scheduled for the battery having said serial number based on the time of reception of correspondence information that has been transmitted from said user device places in correspondence with each other the serial number that has been transmitted from said charging device and said scheduled charging time and stores this as charging information, and, before the scheduled charging time that has been stored, displays said identification information that is stored in correspondence with the serial number of that battery to carry out notification prompting battery exchange.
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Abstract
In a battery exchange system for facilitating exchange at appropriate intervals of a chargeable battery with another fully charged chargeable battery for charging, a user device having characteristic identification information reads a serial number from a battery when the battery is installed and transmits to a control device correspondence information in which the identification information and the serial number have been placed in correspondence with each other. A charging device reads the serial number from a battery when charging of the battery has been completed and transmits the serial number to the control device. The control device calculates a scheduled charging time of the battery having the serial number that has been transmitted from the charging device based on the time of reception of the correspondence information that was transmitted from user device and, before the calculated scheduled charging time, carries out notification prompting battery exchange.
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Citations
36 Claims
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1. A battery exchange system comprises:
- a user device belonging to a user, said user device being supplied with power from a battery having a characteristic serial number;
a charging device for charging said battery; and
a control device for managing the state of said battery charge;
wherein;said user device has characteristic identification information, reads said serial number from said battery when said battery is installed, and places said identification information and said serial number in correspondence with each other and transmits as correspondence information to said control device; said charging device reads said serial number from said battery when charging of said battery has been completed and transmits this serial number to said control device; and said control device receives and stores correspondence information that has been transmitted from said user device, receives a serial number that has been transmitted from said charging device, calculates a scheduled charging time that is next scheduled for the battery having said serial number based on the time of reception of correspondence information that has been transmitted from said user device places in correspondence with each other the serial number that has been transmitted from said charging device and said scheduled charging time and stores this as charging information, and, before the scheduled charging time that has been stored, displays said identification information that is stored in correspondence with the serial number of that battery to carry out notification prompting battery exchange. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
- a user device belonging to a user, said user device being supplied with power from a battery having a characteristic serial number;
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10. A user device that has characteristic identification information;
- that, upon installation of a battery having a characteristic serial number, reads said serial number from said battery; and
that places said identification information and said serial number in correspondence with each other and transmits this as correspondence information to a control device that manages the state of said battery charge.
- that, upon installation of a battery having a characteristic serial number, reads said serial number from said battery; and
- 11. A charging device that carries out charging of a battery having a characteristic serial number that is installed in a user device that belongs to a user, that reads said serial number from said battery when charging of said battery has been completed, and that transmits the serial number to a control device that manages the state of said battery charge.
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13. A control device that:
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receives and stores correspondence information in which a serial number and identification information have been placed in correspondence with each other and transmitted from a user device, said serial number being a characteristic serial number belonging to a battery that supplies power to said user device and said identification information being information characteristic of said user device; receives said serial number that has been transmitted from a charging device that carries out charging of said battery; calculates a scheduled charging time that is next scheduled for the battery having said serial number based on the time of reception of correspondence information that has been transmitted from said user device; places in correspondence with each other the serial number that has been transmitted from said charging device and said scheduled charging time and stores this as charging information; and before the scheduled charging time that has been stored, displaying said identification information that is stored in correspondence with the serial number of the battery to carry out notification prompting battery exchange. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method in a battery exchange system that is made up from a user device that belongs to a user and that is supplied with power from a battery having a characteristic serial number, a charging device for carrying out charging of said battery, and a control device for managing the state of said battery charge;
- said method comprising steps wherein;
said charging device reads said serial number from said battery when charging of said battery has been completed; said charging device transmits said serial number to said control device; said user device reads said serial number from said battery when said battery is installed; said user device places characteristic identification information that belongs to said user device and said serial number in correspondence with each other and transmits this as correspondence information to said control device; said control device calculates a scheduled charging time that is next scheduled for the battery having the serial number that was transmitted from said charging device based on the time of reception at which correspondence information transmitted from said user device is received; said control device places the serial number transmitted from said charging device and said scheduled charging time in correspondence with each other and stores this as charging information; and said control device, before said scheduled charging time, displays said identification information that has been placed in correspondence with the serial number of the battery to carry out notification prompting battery exchange. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
- said method comprising steps wherein;
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27. A recording medium for recording a program for causing a user device, which is supplied with power from a battery having a characteristic serial number, and which is manufactured to allow connection to a control device for managing the state of said battery charge, and which has characteristic identification information, to execute processes of:
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reading said serial number from said battery when said battery is installed; placing said identification information and said serial number in correspondence with each other; and transmitting information in which said identification information and said serial number have been placed in correspondence with each other as correspondence information to said control device.
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28. A recording medium for recording a program for causing a charging device which is manufactured to allow connection with a control device for managing the state of battery charge having a characteristic serial number and which is installed in a user device that belongs to a user and which carries out charging of said battery, to execute processes of:
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reading said serial number from said battery when charging of said battery is completed; and transmitting said serial number to said control device. - View Dependent Claims (29)
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30. A recording medium for recording a program for causing a control device, which is manufactured to allow connection to a user device that is supplied with power from a battery having a characteristic serial number and connection to a charging device that carries out charging of said battery and which manages the state of said battery charge, to execute processes of:
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receiving and storing correspondence information that has been transmitted from said user device; receiving said serial number that has been transmitted from said charging device; calculating a scheduled charging time that is next scheduled for the battery having said serial number based on the time of reception of correspondence information that has been transmitted from said user device; placing a serial number that has been transmitted from said charging device and said scheduled charging time in correspondence with each other and storing this as charging information; and before said stored scheduled charging time, displaying said identification information that has been stored in correspondence with the serial number of the battery to carry out notification prompting battery exchange. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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Specification