BATTERY RESERVATION DEVICE

• US 20180260887A1
• Filed: 11/02/2016
• Published: 09/13/2018
• 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 10,643,272 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/12 Bikes
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/60 using power supplied by batteries in combination with fuel cells B60L50/75
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/31 Charging columns specially adapted for electric vehicles
• 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: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• 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: H01M 10/425 Structural combination with electronic components, e.g. electronic circuits integrated to the outside of the casing printed circuits H05K1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/441 for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2010/4271 Battery management systems including electronic circuits, e.g. control of current or voltage to keep battery in healthy state, cell balancing
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/20 Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/04 Regulation of charging current or voltage
• 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) comprises a required charge amount acquisition component (11), a remaining battery charge acquisition component (12), a charging speed acquisition component (14), and an exchange completion time calculator (16). The required charge amount acquisition component (11) inputs the amount of battery charging needed by the user. The remaining battery charge acquisition component (12) acquires the remaining battery charge at the present time for each of the battery packs (1) at a plurality of battery stations (30). The charging speed acquisition component (14) acquires the charging speeds at the plurality of battery stations (30). The exchange completion time calculator (16) calculates the exchange completion time for the battery packs (1) at the plurality of battery stations (30) on the basis of the acquired required charge amount, the remaining battery charge at the present time, and the battery charging speed.

Claims

1. A battery reservation device that accepts reservations for batteries that supply power to a specific power consumption element and that is exchangeable at a specific battery station, the device comprising:

a required charge amount acquisition component configured to acquire a required amount of battery the user needs;

a remaining battery charge acquisition component configured to acquire a remaining battery charge at the present time for each battery in a plurality of the battery stations;

a charging speed acquisition component configured to acquire a charging speed at each of the plurality of battery stations; and

an exchange completion time calculator configured to calculate an exchange completion time for the batteries in each of the plurality of battery stations on the basis of the required charge amount acquired by the required charge amount acquisition component, the remaining battery charge at the present time acquired by the remaining battery charge acquisition component, and the charging speed of the batteries acquired by the charging speed acquisition component.

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

a travel time calculator configured to calculate a travel time to a battery station on the basis of the distance from the current position of the power consumption element to the battery station,

wherein the exchange completion time calculator calculates the exchange completion time on the basis of the travel time, the required charge amount, the remaining battery charge, and the charging speed.

3. The battery reservation device according to claim 2,

wherein the exchange completion time calculator calculates the exchange completion time at a battery station on the basis of the required charge amount, the remaining battery charge, and the charging speed, and

if the charging completion time exceeds the travel time, a difference between the travel time and the charging completion time is calculated as the exchange completion time, and if the charging completion time is equal to or less than the travel time, the exchange completion time is calculated as 0.

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

a waiting time acquisition component configured to acquire a waiting time from a clock time at which the power consumption element is considered to have arrived at the battery station until battery exchange is begun at the battery station,

wherein the exchange completion time calculator calculates the exchange completion time on the basis of the waiting time, the required charge amount, the remaining battery charge, and the charging speed.

5. The battery reservation device according to claim 4,

wherein the exchange completion time calculator calculates the charging completion time at a battery station on the basis of the required charge amount, the remaining battery charge, and the charging speed, and

if the charging completion time exceeds the waiting time, the charging completion time is calculated as the exchange completion time, and if the charging completion time is equal to or less than the waiting time, the waiting time is calculated as the exchange completion time.

6. The battery reservation device according to claim 2, further comprising

a waiting time acquisition component configured to acquire a waiting time from a clock time at which the power consumption element is considered to have arrived at the battery station until battery exchange is begun at the battery station,

wherein the exchange completion time calculator calculates the exchange completion time on the basis of the travel time, the waiting time, the required charge amount, the remaining battery charge, and the charging speed.

7. The battery reservation device according to claim 6,

wherein the exchange completion time calculator calculates the charging completion time at a battery station on the basis of the required charge amount, the remaining battery charge, and the charging speed, and

if the charging completion time exceeds a sum of the travel time and the waiting time, the exchange completion time calculator calculates a difference between the travel time and the charging completion time as the exchange completion time, and if the charging completion time is equal to or less than the sum of the travel time and the waiting time, the waiting time is calculated as the exchange completion time.

8. The battery reservation device according to claim 4,

wherein the waiting time acquisition component calculates the waiting time on the basis of the current situation of crowding at the battery station and/or statistical data indicating the extent of crowding in the past.

9. The remaining battery charge according to claim 1, further comprising

a display controller configured to control a display component so as to display the battery exchange completion time calculated by the exchange completion time calculator.

10. The battery reservation device according to claim 9,

wherein the display controller causes the display component to display the plurality of battery stations as reservation destination candidates from the one with the shortest battery exchange completion time.

11. The battery reservation device according to claim 1,

wherein the power consumption element is a vehicle.