DETERMINATION DEVICE, DETERMINING METHOD AND DETERMINATION PROGRAM

• US 20130009607A1
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Published: 01/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: NISHIBAYASHI, Yasuyuki, WADA, Takahisa, TERAMOTO, Keiichi, ISE, Kotaro, DOI, Yusuke, TERASHIMA, Yoshiki
• Application Number:
  US13/611,315
• Publication Number:
  US 20130009607A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/162
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/63 in response to network capacity
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/58 The condition being electrical
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/14 by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• 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: Y04S 10/126 the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving

Abstract

A determination determines permission/forbiddance to charge an accumulator that obtains electrical power from a power grid network. The determination device comprises a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first information about a requested power amount requested to charge the accumulator, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire second information about an available power amount that can be provided from the power grid network, and a determination unit configured to determine permission or forbiddance with respect to the accumulator based on the first information and the second information.

Claims

1. A determination device of determining permission/forbiddance to charging an accumulator that obtains electrical power from a power grid network comprising:

a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first information about a requested power amount requested to charge the accumulator;

a second acquisition unit configured to acquire second information about an available power amount that can be provided from the power grid network; and

a determination unit configured to determine permission or forbiddance with respect to the accumulator based on the first information and the second information.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first acquisition unit obtains the first information by multiplying a maximum charging current amount and a rated voltage amount by a remaining charging time that is defined by a remaining battery level of the device.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the second acquisition unit obtains the second information by subtracting an actual amount of a power consumption consumed at a premise of a consumer located at the same site the device is installed and a planed amount of a possible power consumption estimated at the consumer, from the electrical power amount from the power grid network.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the second acquisition unit obtains the second information by subtracting an actual amount of a power consumption consumed at a premise of a consumer located at the same site the device is installed and a planed amount of a possible power consumption estimated as consumed at the consumer, from a contracted power amount from the power grid network.

5. The device according to claim 2, wherein the determination unit manages the first information and the second information while associating with time, respectively, and when there exists a time period of which time length is equal to or longer than a duration required by the first information and in which the first information becomes equal to or less than the second information, permits the charging.

6. The device according to claim 2, wherein the determination unit manages the first information and the second information while associating with time, respectively, and when there exists no time period of which time length is equal to or longer than a duration required by the first information or in which the first information becomes equal to or less than the second information, forbids the charging.

7. The device according to claim 2, wherein the determination unit permits the charging when a value of frequency or voltage of electrical power provided by the power grid network exceeds a predetermined threshold.

8. The determination device according to claim 2, wherein the determination unit forbids the charging when a value of frequency or voltage of electrical power provided by the power grid network does not exceed a predetermined threshold.

9. The device according to claim 5, wherein the determination unit forbids the charging when the value of frequency or voltage of the electrical power provided by the power grid network becomes under the predetermined threshold after permitting charging the accumulator.

10. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a manager configured to decide a priority of each accumulator based on a maximum charging current amount per unit time, wherein

when the priority decided by the manager to a first accumulator for which charging is forbidden is higher than a priority decided by the manager to a second accumulator for which charging is permitted, the determination unit forbids charging the second accumulator and permits charging the first accumulator.

11. A determining method of determining permission/forbiddance to charge an accumulator that obtains electrical power from a power grid network including:

acquiring first information about a requested power amount requested to charge the accumulator;

acquiring second information about an available power amount that can be provided from the power grid network; and

determining permission or forbiddance with respect to the accumulator based on the first information and the second information.

12. A computer-readable storage medium that stores therein a determination program for operating a computer to determine permission/forbiddance to charge an accumulator that obtains electrical power from a power grid network including the instructions of:

acquiring first information about a requested power amount requested to charge the accumulator;

acquiring second information about an available power amount that can be provided from the power grid network; and

determining permission or forbiddance with respect to the accumulator based on the first information and the second information.