BATTERY RESERVATION DEVICE AND BATTERY RESERVATION METHOD

• US 20180253789A1
• Filed: 11/02/2016
• Published: 09/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: TAKATSUKA, Hiromasa, WADA, Junichi, KASAI, Kazuki
• Granted Patent: US 11,010,824 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/60 using power supplied by batteries in combination with fuel cells B60L50/75
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/665 Methods related to measuring, billing or payment
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/80 Exchanging energy storage elements, e.g. removable batteries
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32328 Dynamic scheduling, resource allocation, multi agent negotiation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0645 Rental transactions; Leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/42 Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance of secondary cells or secondary half-cells H01M10/60 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00 Circuit arrangements for providing remote indication of network conditions, e.g. an instantaneous record of the open or closed condition of each circuitbreaker in the network; Circuit arrangements for providing remote control of switching means in a power distribution network, e.g. switching in and out of current consumers by using a pulse code signal carried by the network
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• 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 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles

Abstract

A battery reservation device (10) includes an input acceptance component (11), a battery number acquisition component (12), and a rental number and capacity calculator (15). The input acceptance component (11) inputs from the user information related to the total power amount of the battery packs (1) that is desired to be rented. The battery number acquisition component (12) acquires information related to the number of battery packs (1) that are installed in a vehicle (20). The rental number and capacity calculator (15) calculates the number and capacity of the battery packs (1) that are rentable at each battery station (30) on the basis of information related to the number of battery packs (1) acquired by the battery number acquisition component (12) and the total power amount of the battery packs (1) inputted to the input acceptance component (11).

Claims

1. A battery reservation device that makes reservations at battery stations for the rental of a plurality of battery packs installed in a power consumption element, the device comprising:

an input acceptance component to which information related to total amount of power desired to be rented is inputted from a user of the power consumption element;

a battery number acquisition component configured to acquire information related to a number of battery packs that are installed in the power consumption element; and

a rental number and capacity calculator configured to calculate the number and capacity of the battery packs that are rentable at each battery station on the basis of information related to the number of battery packs acquired by the battery number acquisition component and the total power amount desired to be rented as inputted to the input acceptance component.

2. The battery reservation device according to claim 1,

wherein the information related to the total power amount inputted to the input acceptance component includes one of the following:

a rental duration, a payment amount, a scheduled travel distance, an amount of power desired to be rented, and an amount of power scheduled to be consumed.

3. The battery reservation device according to claim 2,

wherein the input acceptance component accepts input information selected by the user from among a plurality of options set in stages.

4. The battery reservation device according to claim 1,

wherein information related to the desired pickup time of the battery packs at the battery station is further inputted to the input acceptance component.

5. The battery reservation device according to claim 1, further comprising

a battery station selector configured to present the battery stations that are rent out battery packs, on the basis of the number and capacity of the rentable battery packs calculated by the rental number and capacity calculator.

6. The battery reservation device according to claim 5,

wherein, in presenting a plurality of options, the battery station selector sets a priority order for the battery stations that are reservation candidates, on the basis of at least one of the following:

a distance from a current location to the battery station, a number of rentals, a rental fee, and a waiting time at the battery station.

7. The battery reservation device according to claim 1, further comprising

a charge and discharge plan production component configured to produce a charge and discharge plan for the battery packs on the basis of the number and capacity of the rentable battery packs calculated by the rental number and capacity calculator.

8. The battery reservation device according to claim 1,

wherein the power consumption element is a vehicle, including an electric motorcycle, an electric bicycle, an electrically assisted bicycle, an electric automobile, or a PHV (plug-in hybrid vehicle).

9. A battery reservation method for reserving rentals at battery stations for a plurality of battery packs installed in a power consumption element, the method comprising:

a battery number acquisition step of acquiring information related to a number of battery packs that are installed in the power consumption element;

an input acceptance step of inputting information related to a total amount of power desired to be rented, from the user of the power consumption element; and

a rental number and capacity calculation step of calculating the number and capacity of the battery packs that are rentable at each battery station on the basis of information related to the number of battery packs acquired in the battery number acquisition step and the total power amount desired to be rented as inputted in the input acceptance step.