ELECTRIC STORAGE APPARATUS AND POWER CONTROL SYSTEM

• US 20100262312A1
• Filed: 03/25/2010
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kubota, Eiichiro, Moriai, Shiho
• Granted Patent: US 9,318,917 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/295
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/425 Structural combination with electronic components, e.g. electronic circuits integrated to the outside of the casing printed circuits H05K1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/32 using batteries with converting means
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/381 Dispersed generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/34 Parallel operation in networks using both storage and other dc sources, e.g. providing buffering H02J7/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/35 with light sensitive cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 70/30 Systems combining energy storage with energy generation of non-fossil origin

Abstract

An electric power apparatus includes an energy device, a device manager, and a storage system manager.

Claims

1. An electric power apparatus comprising:

an energy device;

a device manager; and

a storage system manager.

2. The electric power apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the energy device has an ID and performs mutual authentication with respect to the storage system manager by using the ID.

3. The electric power apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the energy device is a primary battery, a secondary battery, a capacitor, a solar cell, a fuel cell, and a combination thereof.

4. The electric power apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the device manager or the storage system manager has storage information.

5. The electric power apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the storage information includes one or more of:

a using status of the energy device, characteristics of the energy device, a type of the energy device, a temperature of the energy device, a capacity of the energy device, a resistance value of the energy device, an output voltage from the energy device, an output current from the energy device, a remaining capacity of the energy device.

6. The electric power apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the device manager and the storage system manager are configured to receive and transmit the storage information.

7. The electric power apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the device manager receives or transmits the storage information from or to the storage system manager via an information bus.

8. The electric power apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the device manager or the storage system manager receives or transmits the storage information from or to a home controller which controls the home electric power.

9. The electric power apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the storage system manager and the home controller perform mutual authentication.

10. The electric power apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the device manager or the storage system manager receives or transmits the storage information from or to a server on a network.

11. The electric power apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the device manager or the storage system manager receives or transmits the storage information from or to a power regulating apparatus.

12. The electric power apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the storage system manager receives or transmits the storage information from or to the device manager.

13. The electric power apparatus according to claim 8 wherein the home controller supplies the storage information to a server on a network.

14. The electric power apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the device manager, the storage system manager, or a home controller acquires storage control information from a server on a network.

15. The electric power apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the storage control information includes one or more of:

information on a product, information on maintenance, information on trouble, information on climate, charging control information, discharging control information.

16. The electric power apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the device manager, the storage system manager, or the home controller controls the energy device according to the storage control information.

17. An electric power apparatus comprising:

a storage system manager;

a first electric power module having a first energy device and a first device manager; and

a second electric power module having a second energy device and a second device manager.

18. The electric power apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the first energy device and the second energy device are different types of energy devices or the same type of energy devices.

19. The electric power apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the first electric power module and the second electric power module have a structure so as to be connectable to one another.

20. The electric power apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the first electric power module or the second electric power module is a portable electric power module.

21. The electric power apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the first electric power module or the second electric power module is an electric power module which is detachably connected to an electric apparatus to supply the electric power to the electric apparatus.

22. The electric power apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the electric apparatus includes one or more of:

an electric vehicle, an electric automatic bicycle, an electric bicycle, a storage battery type consumer electronic apparatus, a storage battery type office apparatus, a storage battery type calculator, a storage battery type portable apparatus, various types of storage battery apparatuses.

23. A power control system comprising:

an electric power apparatus having an energy device, a device manager, and a storage system manager;

a home controller; and

a power regulating apparatus.

24. The power control system according to claim 23, further comprising a network.

25. The power control system according to claim 24, wherein the network includes one or more of:

an electric power company, an energy service provider, a communication service provider, a storage supplier, a portable information terminal, a mobile computer.

26. The power control system according to claim 23, wherein the device manager or the storage system manager receives or transmits the storage information from or to the network, the home controller, or the power regulating apparatus.

27. The power control system according to claim 23, wherein the home controller, the storage system manager, or the device manager controls the power regulating apparatus according to the storage information for controlling electric power supply to the electric power apparatus.

28. The power control system according to claim 23, wherein the home controller, the device manager, or the power regulating apparatus monitors power consumption to acquire information on the power consumption.

29. The power control system according to claim 28, wherein the home controller, the storage system manager, the device manager, or the power regulating apparatus controls the power supply to the electric power apparatus or the power supply to a power storage unit according to the information on the power consumption.

30. The power control system according to claim 29, wherein the home controller, the storage system manager, the device manager, or the power regulating apparatus controls increasing or initiating of the power supply to the electric power apparatus or the power storage unit in the case where the power consumption is small and/or controls increasing or initiating of the power supply from the electric power apparatus or the power storage unit in the case where the power consumption is large.

31. The power control system according to claim 29, wherein the home controller, the storage system manager, the device manager, or the power regulating apparatus controls optimization of the power supply amount from a power supply network according to the power consumption.

32. The power control system according to claim 29, wherein the home controller, the storage system manager, the device manager, or the power regulating apparatus controls decreasing or stopping of the power supply from the power supply network in the case where the power consumption is large and/or controls increasing or initiating the power supply to the power supply network in the case where the power consumption is small.

33. The power control system according to claim 24, wherein the home controller, the storage system manager, the device manager, or the power regulating apparatus acquires information supplied from a server on the network.

34. The power control system according to claim 33, wherein the home controller, the storage system manager, the device manager, and the power regulating apparatus controls the power supply to the electric power apparatus according to the information supplied from the server on the network.

35. The power control system according to claim 33, wherein the information supplied from the server on the network is information on a product, information on maintenance, information on trouble, information on climate, charging control information, discharging control information, and a combination thereof.

36. The power control system according to claim 23 further comprising a sensor.

37. The power control system according to claim 36, wherein the sensor monitors, indoors or outdoors, one or more of:

temperature, humidity, brightness and human behavior.

38. The power control system according to claim 36, wherein the sensor supplies detected information to the home controller, the storage system manager, the device manager, or the power regulating apparatus.

39. The power control system according to claim 38, wherein the home controller, the storage system manager, the device manager, or the power regulating apparatus controls the power supply to the electric power apparatus or the power storage unit and/or the power supply from the electric power apparatus or the power storage unit according to the detected information.

40. The power control system according to claim 38, wherein the home controller, the storage system manager, the device manager, or the power regulating apparatus controls the power supply to a power supply network and/or the power supply from the power supply network according to the detected information.

41. The power control system according to claim 34, wherein the home controller, the storage system manager, the device manager, or the power regulating apparatus predicts the power consumption according the detected information or the supplied information.

42. The power control system according to claim 41, wherein the home controller, the storage system manager, the device manager, or the power regulating apparatus controls the power supply to the electric power apparatus according to the predicted power consumption.

43. The power control system according to claim 41, wherein mutual authentication is performed between at least two of the energy devices, the device manager, the storage system manager, the home controller, the power regulating apparatus, and the network.