STORAGE BATTERY MANAGING SYSTEM, AND RECYCLE EQUIPMENT AND MANAGEMENT SERVER TO BE APPLIED THEREIN

• US 20120191578A1
• Filed: 12/14/2011
• Published: 07/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: KATAGISHI, Makoto, Kosaka, Tadayoshi
• Application Number:
  US13/325,933
• Publication Number:
  US 20120191578A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• 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: H01M 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/441 for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/46 Accumulators structurally combined with charging apparatus circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00036 Charger exchanging data with battery
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00047 with provisions for charging different types of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

In a system including a storage battery, primary use side equipment for using the battery, a management server for managing and/or reserving condition of use and histories, etc., in primary use of the storage battery, and re-use side equipment for re-using the storage battery, a condition of use when the storage battery is primarily used, and/or history thereof, etc., are recorded in the management server, and the re-use side equipment obtains the use condition and/or the histories, etc., from the management server when re-using, to notify it to a user, and thereby enabling to confirm fluctuations of performances or capacities of the storage battery, which is generated depending on the use condition when it is used primarily, when re-using the storage battery.

Claims

1. A storage battery managing system, comprising:

recycle equipment, which re-uses a storage battery primarily used; and

a management server, which is connected with said equipment through a network, wherein

said management server has a storage battery information database, which is configured to manage storage battery information in relation to a condition of using the storage battery used primarily for each of plural numbers of storage batteries with using an ID thereof, a re-use condition information produce portion, which is configured to produce re-use condition information of the storage battery from said storage battery information, to be managed in said storage battery information database, a communication portion, which is configured to communicate with said recycle equipment, and a control portion, which is configured to control those,

said recycle equipment has a storage battery to be re-used, a communication portion, which is configured to communicate with said management server, and a storage battery management portion, which is configured to manage use of said storage battery, wherein

the storage battery management portion of said recycle equipment inquires of the ID of the storage battery to be re-used to the management server, through the communication portion,

the control portion of the management server extracts storage battery information including the re-use condition information, which is managed by the ID of the storage battery, from the storage battery information database, and transmits it to the recycle equipment through the communication portion, and

the storage battery management portion of the recycle equipment manages the storage battery to be used upon basis of said storage battery information, when receiving the storage battery information including the re-use condition information from the management server, through the communication portion.

2. The storage battery managing system, as described in the claim 1, wherein

in case where said recycle equipment re-uses plural numbers of storage batteries,

the storage battery management portion of said recycle equipment inquires of plural number of IDs of the storage batteries to be re-used to the management server, through the communication portion,

the re-use condition information produce portion of the management server re-produces the re-use condition information for re-using the plural numbers of storage batteries, from said storage battery information, which is managed with using the plural numbers of IDs of the storage batteries, to be managed within the storage battery information database,

the control portion of the management server extracts the storage battery information including the re-use condition information for use of re-using the plural number of storage batteries, for each plural numbers of IDs of the storage batteries, and transmits it to the recycle equipment through the communication portion, and

the storage battery management portion of the recycle equipment manages the storage batteries to be used upon basis of said storage battery information, when receiving the storage battery information including the re-use condition information for use of re-using the plural numbers of storage batteries, for each plural numbers of IDs of the storage batteries, from the management server, through the communication portion.

3. The storage battery managing system, as described in the claim 1, wherein

the control portion of the management server transmits that there is no storage battery information to the recycle equipment from the communication portion, when there is no storage battery information, which is managed by the ID of the storage battery to be re-used, and

the storage battery management portion of said recycle equipment manage the storage battery not to be re-used, when receiving a notice that there is no storage battery information, from the management server, through the communication server.

4. A management server for a storage battery managing system, having recycle equipment, which re-uses a storage battery primarily used, and a management server, which is connected with said equipment through a network, comprising:

a storage battery information database, which is configured to manage storage battery information in relation to a condition of using the storage battery used primarily for each of plural numbers of storage batteries with using an ID thereof;

a re-use condition information produce portion, which is configured to produce re-use condition information of the storage battery from said storage battery information, to be managed in said storage battery information database;

a communication portion, which is configured to communicate with said recycle equipment; and

a control portion, which is configured to control those, wherein

said control portion extracts storage battery information including the re-use condition information, which is managed by the ID of the storage battery, from the storage battery information database, and transmits it to the recycle equipment by means of the communication portion, when the inquiry of the ID of the storage battery to be re-used from said recycle equipment.

5. The management server, as described in the claim 4, wherein in case where said recycle equipment re-uses plural numbers of storage batteries,

said re-use condition information produce portion re-produces the re-use condition information for use of re-using the plural numbers of storage batteries from said storage battery information, which is managed by plural numbers of IDs of batteries, to be managed in the storage battery information database, when there is an inquiry in relation to the plural numbers of IDs of the storage batteries to be re-used from said recycle equipment, and said control portion extracts the storage battery information including the re-use condition information for re-using the plural numbers of storage batteries, for each ID of the plural numbers of storage batteries, and transmit it to the recycle equipment by means of the communication portion.

6. The management server, as described in the claim 4, wherein

said control portion transmits that there is no storage battery information to the recycle equipment from the communication portion, when there is no storage battery information, which is managed by the ID of the storage battery to be re-used.

7. Recycle equipment for a storage battery managing system, having recycle equipment, which re-uses a storage battery primarily used, and a management server, which is connected with said equipment through a network, comprising:

a storage battery to be re-used;

a communication portion, which is configured to communicate with said management server; and

a storage battery management portion, which is configured to manage use of said storage battery, wherein

said storage battery management portion inquires of an ID of the storage battery to be re-used to the management server, through the communication portion, and manages the storage battery to be used upon basis of storage battery information, when receiving said storage battery information including re-use condition information, which is managed by an ID of the storage battery, from the management server.

8. The recycle equipment, described in the claim 7, wherein

in case when re-using plural numbers of said storage batteries,

said storage battery management portion manages the storage batteries to be used upon basis of storage battery information, when receiving said storage battery information including re-use condition information for re-using the plural numbers of storage batteries, for each ID of plural numbers of storage batteries, from the management server, through the communication portion.

9. The recycle equipment, described in the claim 7, wherein said storage battery management portion manages the storage battery not to be re-used, when receiving a notice that there is no storage battery information, which is managed by the ID of the storage battery to be re-used, from the management server, through the communication portion.