Charging system of electric powered vehicle

• US 20090144150A1
• Filed: 11/19/2008
• Published: 06/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Yutaka, Yamada, Hiroyuki, Mori, Kenji, Ishikawa, Tetsuhiro, Okamura, Yukio, Kido, Akihiko, Iwasaki, Kiichi, Shibata, Chitose, Sakakibara, Katsumi, Asakura, Yoshitaka
• Granted Patent: US 8,249,933 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.620
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/61 by batteries charged by engine-driven generators, e.g. series hybrid electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/30 Constructional details of charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/305 Communication interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/64 Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0265 Vehicular advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/167 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

An electric storage device of an electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by a charging facility. At the time of external charge by the charging facility, a management server selects advertising information based on information stored inside the electric powered vehicle to be charged and/or information of the charging facility performing the external charge to the electric powered vehicle including a mechanism capable of reproducing the advertising information from an advertising provider, and transmits the selected advertising information. The management server performs billing so that in exchange for the transmission of the advertising information, at least part of a charging power fee is caused to be borne by the advertising provider side to thereby discount an amount borne by an electric powered vehicle user.

Claims

1. A charging system of an electric powered vehicle configured to be chargeable by a charging facility outside the vehicle, comprising:

a storage unit storing a plurality of advertising information and a correspondence relation between each of said advertising information and a provider of the relevant advertising information in advance;

a first information output unit outputting information indicating whether or not the relevant electric powered vehicle has a predetermined reproduction mechanism capable of reproducing each of said plurality of advertising information at the time of external charge in which said electric powered vehicle is charged by said charging facility;

a second information output unit outputting at least one of charged vehicle information stored inside of the relevant electric powered vehicle and facility information of the relevant charging facility at the time of said external charge;

a determination unit determining whether or not it is external charge to the electric powered vehicle having said reproduction mechanism based on the information outputted from said first information output unit;

a selection unit selecting at least one of said plurality of advertising information based on the information outputted from said second information output unit when it is the external charge to the electric powered vehicle having said reproduction mechanism;

an advertising output unit reading the advertising information selected by said selection unit from said storage unit to output to said electric powered vehicle during said external charge; and

a billing unit performing billing to said provider and said electric powered vehicle so that at least part of an electric power fee in accordance with said external charge is borne by said provider corresponding to the advertising information selected by said selection unit.

2. The charging system of the electric powered vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said electric powered vehicle includes a mechanism for displaying said advertising information from said advertising output unit on a display screen of a navigation system, as said reproduction mechanism.

3. The charging system of the electric powered vehicle according to claim 2, wherein said advertising information includes position information, and is displayed in a position corresponding to the relevant position information on said display screen.

4. The charging system of the electric powered vehicle according to claim 2, wherein said charged vehicle information includes at least one of past traveling route information and destination information in said navigation system.

5. The charging system of the electric powered vehicle according to claim 2, wherein said navigation system has a search function of displaying a search result list in which according to an inputted search condition, a facility matching the relevant search condition is shown, and

said advertising information includes information for boosting up a display order of the corresponding facility in said search result list.

6. The charging system of the electric powered vehicle according to claim 2, wherein said facility information includes at least one of an installation place, an installation personnel and an owner of said charging facility, and an owner of said installation place.

7. The charging system of the electric powered vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said reproduction mechanism reproduces said advertising information outputted to said electric powered vehicle by said advertising output unit during a period when said electric powered vehicle is traveling using electric power.

8. The charging system of the electric powered vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said billing unit billing an advertising fee to said provider corresponding to said selected advertising information, and when said advertising fee is lower than said electric power fee, an amount obtained by subtracting said advertising fee from said electric power fee is billed to said electric powered vehicle.

9. The charging system of the electric powered vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said electric powered vehicle further comprises a storage portion that storing information of a frequency with which said advertising information is received from said advertising output unit, and

based on the information stored in said storage portion, said billing unit relatively increases an amount of electric power to be charged in accordance with the electric power fee billed to said provider, with respect to the electric powered vehicle that receives said advertising information with a relatively high frequency.