VEHICLE CHARGING STAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20160264011A1
• Filed: 10/02/2014
• Published: 09/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ayudante, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Ayudante, Inc.
• Inventors: YASUKAWA, Hiroshi, KURIHARA, Kiyoshi, ITO, Daisuke
• Application Number:
  US15/027,404
• Publication Number:
  US 20160264011A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/70 Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/305 Communication interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/31 Charging columns specially adapted for electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/60 Monitoring or controlling charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/62 in response to charging parameters, e.g. current, voltage or electrical charge
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/67 Controlling two or more charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/68 Off-site monitoring or control, e.g. remote control
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0229 Multi-merchant loyalty card systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge
• 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: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/68 Payment of value-added services
• 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

PROBLEM:

In management system of electric vehicle charging stands, to provide added-value services such as addressing emergency charging needs of the drivers, without overly increasing the complexity of the charging controllers.

SOLUTION:

Charging controllers equipped with an identification tag, mobile phones with an identification tag reader, and a management server of the charging controllers are connected via the network as the system to provided various added-value services without overly increasing the complexity of the charging controllers.

Claims

1. An electric vehicle charging system comprising multiple charger controllers, multiple mobile phones, and a management server, wherein:

the charger controllers, the mobile phones and the management server are connected to each other via a network,

the charger controller comprises an identification tag and a status display and are connected to a charger,

the mobile phone comprises an identification tag reader,

the management server sends a reservation command to one of the multiple charger controllers, responding to a reservation request sent by one of the mobile phones,

the charger controller changes the status display to a reserved status and changes a connected charger to a reserved status, responding to the reservation command,

the identification tag reader of the mobile phone reads the identification tag of the charger controller and sends an identifier to the management server, and

the management server sends a command to change the status display to a usable status and change the connected charger to a usable status, responding to the identifier sent by the mobile phone.

2. A mobile phone used in an electric vehicle charging system comprising:

a means for sending a reservation command to a management server,

a means for having the management server send a reservation request to a charger controller specified in the reservation command,

a means for having charger controller to display a reserved status, and stopping a charger connected to the charger controller; and

a means for sending an identifier obtained from the identification tag on the charger controller and having the management server send a reservation command to the charger controller specified in the reservation request,

a means for having the reservation controller which receives the reservation command turn on a status light to show a reserved status and stop a connected charger,

a means for sending an identifier obtained by reading the identification tag on the charger controller to the management server, and

a means for having the management server send a command to the charger controller to turn off the status light and start the connected charger.

3. A computer program used in an electric vehicle charging system comprising:

instructions for sending a reservation command to one of multiple charger controllers, responding to a reservation request from a mobile phone,

instructions for having the charger controller that received the reservation command make a reservation display to reserved status and stop a connected charger,

instructions for sending an identifier of the charger controller obtained by an identification tag reader of the mobile phones,

instructions for sending a command to make the reservation display to an unreserved status and start the connected charger.

4. A method executed by a computer to manage an electric vehicle charging system comprising:

a step of sending a reservation command to one of multiple charging controllers based on a command request sent from a mobile phone,

a step of stopping a charger connected to the charger controller which receives the reservation command and turning on a light on the charger to show a reserved status,

a step of sending an identifier obtained by an identification tag reader of the mobile phone reading an identification tag on the charger controller, and

a step of sending a command to the charger controller to turn off the light and start the charger.

5. An electric vehicle charging system comprising multiple charger controllers, multiple mobile phones, and a management server, wherein:

the multiple charger controllers, the multiple mobile phones, and the management server are connected via a network,

the charger controller comprises an identification tag,

the mobile phone comprises a message sender, a message receiver and an identification tag reader,

the identification tag reader of the first mobile phone sends an identifier obtained from the identification tag of the charging controller to the management server,

the management server associates and stores a message address of a user of the first mobile phone and the identifier of the charger controller,

a identification tag reader of the second mobile phone sends the identifier obtained from the identification tag of the charging controller to the management server and sends a message, and

in response to the said message, the management server forwards the massage to the message address of the user of the first mobile phone.

6. Mobile phone used in an electric vehicle charging system, comprising:

a means for sending an identifier which was obtained by reading identification tag on a charger controller,

a means for having a management server associate and store a message address of a user of a mobile phone and the identifier of the charger controller, and

a means for receiving a message sent to the massage address stored by the management server, as other mobile phones send an identifier obtained by reading the identification tag of the charger controller and a message.

7. A computer program to manage an electric vehicle charging system, comprising:

instructions for an identification tag reader of a first mobile phone reading an identification tag of a charger controller,

instruction for associating and storing a message address of a user of the first mobile phone and the identifier,

instructions for an identification tag reader of a second mobile phone reading the identification tag of the charger controller,

instructions for receiving a message sent from a second mobile phone,

instructions for sending the message to the message address of the user of the first mobile phone.

8. A method executed by a computer to manage and electric vehicle charging system, comprising:

a step of an identification tag reader of a first mobile phone reading an identification tag of a charger controller,

a step of sending an identifier of the charger controller identified by the identification tag,

a step of associating and storing a message address of a user of the first mobile phone and the identifier,

a step of an identification tag reader of a second mobile phone reading an identification tag of the charger controller, and

a step of forwarding a message sent from the second mobile phone to the message address of the user of the first mobile phone.

9. An electric vehicle charging system with more than one charger controllers, more than one mobile phones and a management server are connected via a network, the charger controller having an identification tags,

the mobile phone having an identification tag reader, wherein:

the mobile phone sends a first identifier which it gained by reading an identification tag on the charger controller,

the management server associates and stores the first identifier and a second identifier of a user of the mobile phone,

the identification tag of the mobile phone reads an identification tag in a store and reads a third identifier and sends the third identifier to the management server,

the management server, in response to that, determines if a store identified by the third identifier is one of affiliate stores associated with the charger controller identified by the first identifier, and if the user identified by the second identifier is using the charger connected to the charger controller identified by the second identifier, and stores a benefit-related data associated with the user of the mobile phone, if both conditions are met.

10. A mobile phone used in an electric vehicle charging system comprising:

a means of sending a first identifier identifying a charger to a management server, wherein the first identifier is gained by reading an identification tag on the charger,

a means of letting the management server associate and store the first identifier and a second identifier identifying a user of the mobile phone,

a means of sending a third identifier which was gained by reading an identification tag in the store to the management server, letting the management server determine if the store identified by the third identifier is one of affiliate stores associated with the charger controller identified by the first identifier, and if the user identified by the second identifier is using the charger connected to the charger controller identified by the first identifier, and

a means of associating and storing information about the user of the mobile phone and information about a benefit, if both conditions are met.

11. A computer program to manage an electric vehicle charging system comprising:

instructions of receiving an identifier of a charger which a mobile phone sends, an instructions of associating and storing a first identifier of the charger and a second identifier of a user of the mobile phone,

instructions of receiving a third identifier of identification tag in a store which the mobile phone sends, and

identifier of associating and storing information about the user of the mobile phone and information about a benefit, if both conditions are met.

12. A method executed by a computer to manage an electric vehicle charging system comprising:

a step of receiving an identifier of a charger which a mobile phone sends,

a step of associating and storing a first identifier of the charger and a second identifier of a user of the mobile phone,

a step of receiving a third identifier of identification tag in a store which the mobile phone sends,

a step of determining if the store identified by the third identifier is one of affiliate stores associated with the charger controller identified by the first identifier, and if the user identified by the second identifier is using the charger connected to the charger controller identified by the first identifier, and

a step of associating and storing information about the user of the mobile phone and information about a benefit, if both conditions are met.