Charge status display apparatus and electric power supply control apparatus

• US 20110057613A1
• Filed: 09/07/2010
• Published: 03/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Kanamori, Takashi, Taguchi, Shinya, Asada, Hiroshige
• Granted Patent: US 8,400,107 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/109
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/70 Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/12 by confirmation, e.g. of the input
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/14 Conductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/305 Communication interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/12 responding to state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/371 with remote indication, e.g. on external chargers
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/44 Methods for charging or discharging circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/30 using a wired architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/43 using wireless personal area networks [WPAN], e.g. 802.15, 802.15.1, 802.15.4, Bluetooth or ZigBee
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• 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 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• 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

When a user performs a short-press manipulation to A button or B button, a vehicle ID associated with either A button or B button having received the short-press manipulation is specified based on a button-vehicle correspondence table. Charge status information of a battery of a vehicle corresponding to the above associated vehicle ID is acquired from the vehicle. Thereby, the display device displays the acquired charge status information or the electric power supply is started to the battery of the vehicle corresponding to the vehicle ID.

Claims

1. A charge status display apparatus for displaying a charge status of a battery of a vehicle, which is connected with one of a plurality of charge terminals, at a position distant from the charge terminals,

each charge terminal with which only one vehicle is allowed to be connected at one time,

the each charge terminal supplying an electric power to the connected only one vehicle,

the charge status display apparatus comprising:

a plurality of manipulation sections configured to receive a manipulation by a user;

a read-out section configured to read a correspondence table, which associates one of the manipulation sections with a vehicle ID, from a storage medium;

a vehicle specification section configured to specify a vehicle ID associated with a first manipulation section out of the manipulation sections in the correspondence table, in a condition that the first manipulation section receives a first manipulation;

an acquisition section configured to acquire charge status information on a charge status of a battery from a vehicle corresponding to the vehicle ID specified by the vehicle specification section out of vehicles, each of which connected with one of the charge terminals; and

a display control section configured to cause a display section to display the charge status information acquired by the acquisition section.

2. The charge status display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an ID acquisition section configured to acquire a vehicle ID from a vehicle, which is connected with one of the charge terminals in a condition that the first manipulation section out of the manipulation sections receives a second manipulation, which is different from the first manipulation; and

an association section configured to store the vehicle ID acquired by the ID acquisition section in the correspondence table in association with the first manipulation section.

8. The charge status display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

the first manipulation is a short-press manipulation which continues pressing for a duration less than a first reference period; and

the second manipulation is a long-press manipulation which continues pressing for a duration greater than a second reference period, which is not shorter than the first reference period.

3. An electric power supply control apparatus for controlling an electric power supply to a battery of a vehicle, which is connected with one of a plurality of charge terminals, at a position distant from the charge terminals,

each charge terminal with which only one vehicle is allowed to be connected at one time,

the each charge terminal supplying an electric power to the connected only one vehicle,

the electric power supply control apparatus comprising:

a plurality of manipulation sections configured to receive a manipulation by a user;

a read-out section configured to read a correspondence table, which associates one of the manipulation sections with a vehicle ID, from a storage medium;

a vehicle specification section configured to specify a vehicle ID associated with a first manipulation section out of the manipulation sections in the correspondence table, in a condition that the first manipulation section receives a first manipulation;

a terminal specification section configured to specify, out of the charge terminals, a charge terminal which the vehicle specified by the vehicle specification section is connected with; and

an electric power supply start section configured to control such that an electric power supply is started in the charge terminal specified by the terminal specification section.

4. The electric power supply control apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein

in case that the first manipulation section receives the first manipulation,

when a vehicle corresponding to the vehicle ID, which is associated with the first manipulation section in the correspondence table, is connected to neither of the charge terminals,

an electric power is not supplied to a battery of a vehicle connected to any of the charge terminals.

5. The electric power supply control apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein

in case that the first manipulation section receives the first manipulation,

when a vehicle corresponding to the vehicle ID, which is associated with the first manipulation section in the correspondence table, is connected to neither of the charge terminals,

a vehicle ID of a vehicle connected with one of the charge terminals is stored temporarily in the correspondence table in association with the first manipulation section based on a permission manipulation by the user.

6. The electric power supply control apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

an ID acquisition section configured to acquire a vehicle ID from a vehicle connected with one of the charge terminals in a condition that the first manipulation section out of the manipulation sections receives a second manipulation which is different from the first manipulation; and

an association section configured to store the vehicle ID acquired by the ID acquisition section in the correspondence table in association with the first manipulation section.

7. The electric power supply control apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a section configured to

specify a charge period from a start time to a stop time with respect to an electric power charge to a target vehicle connected to one of the charge terminals,

calculate a supplied electric power amount and an electricity use fee according to the specified charge period, and

store, in charge historical data, the calculated supplied electric power amount and the calculated electricity use fee along with a date of a day when the electric power charge is executed to the target vehicle; and

a section configured to cause the display section to display a total of the electricity use fee in the charge historical data for a predetermined period in a condition that, out of the manipulation sections, a manipulation section with which a vehicle ID of the target vehicle is associated in the correspondence table is manipulated.

9. The electric power supply control apparatus according to 6, wherein:

the first manipulation is a short-press manipulation which continues pressing for a duration less than a first reference period; and

the second manipulation is a long-press manipulation which continues pressing for a duration greater than a second reference period, which is not shorter than the first reference period.