ELECTRIC-POWER GENERATION SYSTEM

• US 20130270900A1
• Filed: 04/10/2013
• Published: 10/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Kai, Takeshi
• Application Number:
  US13/860,083
• Publication Number:
  US 20130270900A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/9.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/20 by driver identification
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/36 by positioning the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/38 specially adapted for charging by inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/51 Photovoltaic means
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/64 Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 55/00 Arrangements for supplying energy stored within a vehicle to a power network, i.e. vehicle-to-grid [V2G] arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 8/003 Converting light into electric energy, e.g. by using photo-voltaic systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/02 electric constitutive elements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 15/008 Rewarding for providing delivery of electricity to the network
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/52 PV systems with concentrators
• 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: 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 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 30/14 Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

In an electric-power generation system: an electric-power generation device is mounted on a vehicle and generates electric power by use of energy existing outside the vehicle; an electric-power receiving device is arranged in a parking space and receives the electric power generated by the electric-power generation device; and an incentive providing device transmits information on an incentive in order to provide the incentive to the user of the vehicle when the electric-power receiving device receives the electric power.

Claims

1. An electric-power generation system comprising:

an electric-power generation device which is mounted on a vehicle and generates electric power by use of energy existing outside the vehicle;

an electric-power receiving device which is arranged in a parking space and receives the electric power generated by the electric-power generation device; and

an incentive providing device which transmits information on an incentive when the electric-power receiving device receives the electric power.

2. The electric-power generation system according to claim 1, wherein the incentive providing device changes an amount of the incentive on the basis of an amount of the electric power received by the electric-power receiving device.

3. The electric-power generation system according to claim 1, wherein the incentive is money or a number indicating points which can be converted into an amount of money.

4. The electric-power generation system according to claim 1, wherein the incentive providing device includes a vehicle identification unit, which acquires identification information identifying the vehicle, and determines an incentive recording unit in a name of a user of the vehicle on the basis of the acquired identification information.