INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM

• US 20170217319A1
• Filed: 04/13/2017
• Published: 08/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IHI Corporation
• Original Assignee: IHI Corporation
• Inventors: ARAKI, Jun
• Granted Patent: US 10,239,414 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/62 Vehicle position
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/122 Circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, e.g. supplying electric power to the coil
• 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: G01B 21/16 for measuring distance of clearance between spaced objects
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/40 The network being an on-board power network, i.e. within a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/322 the battery being on-board an electric or hybrid vehicle, e.g. vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G], power aggregation, use of the battery for network load balancing, coordinated or cooperative battery charging
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• 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: Y04S 10/50 : Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications

Abstract

According to an embodiment, an information providing system for providing information about a wireless power transfer system including a power receiver mounted on a moving object and one or more power transmitters installed in one or more charging stations includes a search unit configured to extract location information of a charging station in which a power transmitter capable of feeding power to the power receiver is installed, by referring to a station storage unit that stores station information indicating correspondence between the location information of the charging station and the power transmitter of the charging station and to a history storage unit that stores a usage history indicating one or more power transmitters previously used by the power receiver, and an output unit configured to output the location information of the charging station extracted by the search unit.

Claims

1. An information providing system for providing information about a wireless power transfer system including a power receiver mounted on a moving object and one or more power transmitters installed in one or more charging stations, the information providing system comprising:

a search unit configured to extract location information of a charging station in which a power transmitter capable of feeding power to the power receiver is installed, by referring to a station storage unit that stores station information indicating correspondence between the location information of the charging station and the power transmitter of the charging station and to a history storage unit that stores a usage history indicating one or more power transmitters previously used by the power receiver; and

an output unit configured to output the location information of the charging station extracted by the search unit.

2. The information providing system according to claim 1,

wherein the station information further indicates a price or a service related to power feeding of each of the charging stations, and

wherein the search unit extracts location information of a charging station in which a power transmitter capable of feeding power to the power receiver is installed and at least one of the price and the service of which satisfies a reference value.

3. The information providing system according to claim 1,

wherein the usage history further indicates an actual value of power feeding performance of each of the power transmitters, and

wherein the search unit extracts location information of a charging station having a power transmitter in which the actual value of the power feeding performance satisfies a reference value.

4. The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the output unit displays the extracted location information of the charging station on a map.

5. The information providing system according to claim 4, wherein the output unit displays only location information of a charging station that the moving object is able to reach among the extracted location information of the charging stations.

6. The information providing system according to claim 5, wherein, when the number of charging stations that the moving object is able to reach is less than or equal to a threshold value, the output unit displays a route to a nearest charging station from a current position of the moving object.

7. A power receiver which is mounted on a moving object and is able to receive power fed from a power transmitter in a wireless power transfer system including one or more power transmitters installed in one or more charging stations, the power receiver comprising:

an ID storage unit configured to store a power receiver ID for identifying the power receiver; and

an ID providing unit configured to output the power receiver ID to an information providing system that provides information about the wireless power transfer system,

wherein the information providing system extracts location information of a charging station in which a power transmitter capable of feeding power to the power receiver is installed, by referring to a station storage unit that stores station information indicating correspondence between the location information of the charging station and the power transmitter of the charging station and to a history storage unit that stores a usage history indicating one or more power transmitters previously used by the power receiver, by using the power receiver ID output from the ID providing unit, and

wherein the information providing system outputs the extracted location information of the charging station.

8. An information providing method to be executed by a computer system for providing information about a wireless power transfer system including a power receiver mounted on a moving object and one or more power transmitters installed in one or more charging stations, the information providing method comprising:

a search step of extracting location information of a charging station in which a power transmitter capable of feeding power to the power receiver is installed, by referring to a station storage unit that stores station information indicating correspondence between the location information of the charging station and the power transmitter of the charging station and to a history storage unit that stores a usage history indicating one or more power transmitters previously used by the power receiver; and

an output step of outputting the location information of the charging station extracted in the search step.

9. An information providing program for causing a computer to function as an information providing system for providing information about a wireless power transfer system including a power receiver mounted on a moving object and one or more power transmitters installed in one or more charging stations, the computer functioning as:

a search unit configured to extract location information of a charging station in which a power transmitter capable of feeding power to the power receiver is installed, by referring to a station storage unit that stores station information indicating correspondence between the location information of the charging station and the power transmitter of the charging station and to a history storage unit that stores a usage history indicating one or more power transmitters previously used by the power receiver; and

an output unit configured to output the location information of the charging station extracted by the search unit.