POWER RECEIVING DEVICE AND PROGRAM

• US 20150022185A1
• Filed: 12/11/2012
• Published: 01/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sako, Yoichiro, Washiro, Takanori, Takemura, Kazuyoshi, Hayashi, Kuniya, Soma, Isao, Tanaka, Kayoko, Higano, Satoshi, Serita, Kazutoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,804,208 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 324/133
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/18 Cables specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• 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 53/665 Methods related to measuring, billing or payment
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 21/00 Arrangements for measuring electric power or power factor G01R7/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 21/1333 adapted for special tariff measuring
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00014 carrying signals having the network frequency or DC signals
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00045 Authentication, i.e. circuits for checking compatibility between one component, e.g. a battery or a battery charger, and another component, e.g. a power source
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/54 Systems for transmission via power distribution lines
• 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 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 30/12 Remote or cooperative charging
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

There is provided a power receiving device including a connecting unit that is connected to a power line through which power is transmitted, a determining unit that determines whether transmitted power is chargeable, based on power identification information indicating whether the transmitted power is chargeable power, and a notification control unit that performs notification based on a determination result.

Claims

1. A power receiving device comprising:

a connecting unit that is connected to a power line through which power is transmitted;

a determining unit that determines whether transmitted power is chargeable, based on power identification information indicating whether the transmitted power is chargeable power; and

a notification control unit that performs notification based on a determination result.

2. The power receiving device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication unit that performs communication with an external connection device that is connected by wire with a power line via the connecting unit,

wherein the determining unit performs determination based on the power identification information that is transmitted from the external connection device.

3. The power receiving device according to claim 2,

wherein the communication unit performs communication with the external connection device by performing a load modulation based on a signal that is transmitted from the external connection device.

4. The power receiving device according to claim 3,

wherein the communication unit comprises:

a power line communication unit that performs communication with the external connection device through the power line by performing a load modulation; and

a communication filter that is connected between the power line communication unit and the power line, blocks at least a signal of a frequency of the power, and does not block a high-frequency signal that has a frequency higher than the frequency of the power and is used for communication.

5. The power receiving device according to claim 3,

wherein the communication unit comprises:

a communication antenna that receives a carrier wave according to a high-frequency signal that is transmitted from the external connection device and has a frequency higher than a frequency of the power; and

a wireless communication unit that performs communication with the external connection device through the communication antenna by performing a load modulation.

6. The power receiving device according to claim 1,

wherein the determining unit performs determination based on the power identification information included in the transmitted power.

7. The power receiving device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a notifying unit that performs notification based on the determination result,

wherein the notification control unit causes the notifying unit to perform notification based on the determination result.

8. The power receiving device according to claim 1,

wherein the power receiving device is an electrical-power-driven vehicle.

9. A program for causing a computer to execute:

a step of determining whether power transmitted through a power line is chargeable, based on power identification information indicating whether the transmitted power is chargeable power; and

a step of performing notification based on a determination result.