STORAGE BATTERY PACK, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE BATTERY PACK, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION TERMINAL

• US 20160299547A1
• Filed: 03/18/2016
• Published: 10/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: KURODA, GO, TOYA, SHOICHI
• Granted Patent: US 10,027,132 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• 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 7/00036 Charger exchanging data with battery
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00047 with provisions for charging different types of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/342 The other DC source being a battery actively interacting with the first one, i.e. battery to battery charging with circuits for polarity protection H02J7/0034
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A storage battery pack includes: a secondary battery; a connector that is detachably connected to electrical devices that operate with power of the secondary battery; a storage that stores different profile information for each of the electrical devices, the profile information including device identification information identifying the electrical devices and item of state information indicating state of the electrical device; a first communicator that receives, from an electrical device connected to the connector, the device identification information and value of the item of state information of the electrical device; a specifier that specifies the profile information corresponding to the electrical device connected to the connection device by using the device identification information of the electrical device connected to the connector; and a second communicator that transmits, to an external information device, the profile information specified by the specifying device and the value of the item of state information of the electrical device connected to the connector.

Claims

1. A storage battery pack comprising:

a secondary battery;

a connector that is detachably connected to a plurality of electrical devices that operate with power of the secondary battery;

a storage that stores, for each of the plurality of electrical devices, profile information that is different for each of the plurality of the electrical devices, the profile information including device identification information that identifies the electrical device and an item of state information that indicates a state of the electrical device;

a first communicator that receives, from the electrical device connected to the connector, the device identification information and a value of the item of state information of the electrical device;

a specifier that specifies the profile information corresponding to the electrical device connected to the connector from among a plurality of items of profile information stored in the storage by using the device identification information of the electrical device connected to the connector; and

a second communicator that transmits, to an external information device, the profile information specified by the specifier and the value of the item of state information of the electrical device connected to the connector.

2. The storage battery pack according to claim 1,

wherein the external information device is an information terminal, and

the second communicator transmits the profile information specified by the specifier to the information terminal.

3. The storage battery pack according to claim 2,

wherein the second communicator receives, from the information terminal, instruction information that instructs operation of the electrical device, the instruction information causing the value of the item of state information corresponding to the item of state information included in the profile information to change, and

the first communicator transmits the instruction information received by the second communicator to the electrical device.

4. The storage battery pack according to claim 1,

wherein the first communicator communicates with the electrical device via the connector in a wired manner.

5. The storage battery pack according to claim 1,

wherein the storage stores the profile information, in which each of the plurality of electrical devices and the item of state information are associated, in a table format,

the first communicator receives the device identification information from the electrical device, and

the specifier refers to the profile information and uses the device identification information received by the first communicator to specify the profile information corresponding to the electrical device connected to the connector.

6. The storage battery pack according to claim 2,

wherein the second communicator receives, from the information terminal, newly defined profile information that corresponds to an electrical device and is not stored in the storage, and adds the received profile information to the storage.

7. The storage battery pack according to claim 2, further comprising:

a third communicator that communicates with the external information device via an external network,

the third communicator receiving, from the external information device, newly defined profile information that corresponds to an electrical device and is not stored in the storage, and adding the received profile information to the storage.

8. The storage battery pack according to claim 6, further comprising:

a comparator that compares the item of state information included in the received profile information with the item of state information included in the profile information that corresponds to the same electrical device as the received profile information and is stored in the storage, and, in a case where it is determined that an item of state information included in the received profile information is not present in the profile information stored in the storage, adds the item of state information included in the received profile information to the profile information stored in the storage.

9. The storage battery pack according to claim 2,

wherein the second communicator does not transmit, to the information terminal, profile information other than the profile information specified by the specifier from among the plurality of items of profile information stored in the storage.

10. A method comprising:

storing, in a storage provided in a storage battery pack, profile information that is different for each of a plurality of electrical devices, the profile information including device identification information that identifies the electrical device and an item of state information that indicates a state of the electrical devices;

receiving the device identification information and a value of the item of state information of the electrical device connected to the storage battery pack via a connector provided in the storage battery pack, from the electrical device via a first communicator provided in the storage battery pack;

specifying the profile information corresponding to the electrical device connected to the connection device from among the plurality of items of profile information stored in the storage by using the device identification information of the electrical device connected to the connector; and

transmitting, to an external information device, the specified profile information and the value of the item of state information.

11. A method comprising:

receiving profile information of an electrical device connected to a storage battery pack by an information terminal, the profile information including device identification information of the electrical device and an item of state information that indicates a state of the electrical device, from the storage battery pack by the information terminal;

receiving a value of the item of state information of the electrical device connected to the storage battery pack, from the storage battery pack by the information terminal; and

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when a first instruction that causes the item of state information that indicates the state of the electrical device connected to the storage battery pack and the value of the item of state information to be displayed on a display is received, displaying, on the display of the information terminal, a first display screen that depicts the item of state information that indicates the state of the electrical device and the values of the items of state information by using the profile information and the values of the items of state information received.

12. The method according to claim 11,

wherein, when a second instruction that causes a second display screen depicting information that indicates the storage battery pack to be displayed on the display of the information terminal is received, the information that indicates the storage battery pack is displayed on the display of the information terminal.

13. The method according to claim 12,

wherein the information that indicates the storage battery pack and information that indicates the electrical device to which the storage battery pack is connected are associated and displayed on the second display screen.

14. The method according to claim 13,

wherein information that indicates a storage battery pack that is not connected to an electrical device is displayed on the second display screen.

15. The method according to claim 13,

wherein, on the second display screen, information indicating a storage battery pack that is not registered as a user in the information terminal is displayed, and information indicating an electrical device that is connected to the unregistered storage battery pack is not displayed.

16. The method according to claim 13,

wherein the first instruction is received as a result of the information that indicates the electrical device displayed on the second display screen being selected.

17. The method according to claim 11,

wherein a selection of the electrical device to be operated is received, and,

when a third instruction that instructs operation of the electrical device, which causes the value of the item of state information of the selected electrical device to change, is received, the third instruction is transmitted to the storage battery pack to which the electrical device is connected.