Ecological-point management system

• US 8,346,603 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2008
• Issued: 01/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Sakakibara, Katsumi, Okamura, Yukio, Mori, Kenji, Matsumoto, Yutaka, Shibata, Chitose, Asakura, Yoshitaka, Kido, Akihiko, Ishikawa, Tetsuhiro, Yamada, Hiroyuki, Iwasaki, Kiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA
• Application Number:
  US12/292,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20090144149A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,511 Days
• Field of Search: 702/182, 701/22
• US Class Current: 705/14.27
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/2045 for optimising the use of energy
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/10 DC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/30 AC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/40 DC to AC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/14 Synchronous machines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/72 Charging station selection relying on external data
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/80 Time limits
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/16 by display
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/52 drive range estimation, e.g. of estimation of available travel distance
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/54 Energy consumption estimation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/40 using propulsion power supplied by capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/61 by batteries charged by engine-driven generators, e.g. series hybrid electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/14 Conductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/63 in response to network capacity
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/64 Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/06 Private payment circuits, e.g. involving electronic currency used among participants of a common payment scheme
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/127 Shopping or accessing services according to a time-limitation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0265 : Vehicular advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 15/003 : for electricity
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0014 : for vending, access and use of specific services not covered anywhere else in G07F17/00 meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity G07F15/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 : Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 : Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 : Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• 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 10/126 : the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 : Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

An ecological-point management system includes an electric powered vehicle, a charging facility, a communication network, a management server, point recipients each having a device capable of accessing the communication network. The electric storage device of the electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by the charging facility. In the ecological-point management system, an ecological point in accordance with an amount of greenhouse gas emission that can be reduced by traveling using electric power by the electric powered vehicle is given to the point recipients. The point recipients can include an owner or a driver of the electric powered vehicle, and a manufacture, an installation personnel, an owner of the charging facility, and an owner of an installation place, and further a provider of the charging power.

Claims

1. An ecological-point management system for operating a point given in accordance with an amount of greenhouse gas emission that can be reduced by traveling using electric power by an electric powered vehicle configured to be chargeable by a charging facility outside said electric powered vehicle, comprising:

a transmission unit for transmitting calculation information including at least one of information of traveling using electric power from an electric storage device mounted on said electric powered vehicle, and information of charge of said electric storage device by said charging facility together with identification information of said electric powered vehicle and said charging facility that charges said electric storage device;

a point calculation unit calculating an ecological point to be given, based on said calculation information transmitted from said transmission unit;

a management unit giving said ecological point calculated by said point calculation unit to a point destination associated with said electric powered vehicle and a point destination associated with said charging facility, based on said identification information transmitted from said transmission unit;

storage units provided on said point destinations and storing said ecological point given by said management unit; and

at least one processor programmed to implement at least one of the transmission unit, the point calculation unit, the management unit and the storage units.

2. The ecological-point management system according to claim 1, wherein said point destination is associated with an owner of said electric powered vehicle.

3. The ecological-point management system according to claim 1, wherein said point destination is associated with an electric power supplier to said charging facility.

4. The ecological-point management system according to claim 1, wherein said point destination is associated with at least one of a manufacturer, an installation personnel, and an owner of said charging facility.

5. The ecological-point management system according to claim 1, wherein said point destination is associated with an owner of an installation place of said charging facility.

6. The ecological-point management system according to claim 1, further comprising a request unit generating a calculation request of said ecological point,

wherein said transmission unit transmits said calculation information and said identification information to said point calculation unit in response to said calculation request.

7. The ecological-point management system according to claim 6, wherein said request unit automatically generates said calculation request when driving of said electric powered vehicle ends.

8. The ecological-point management system according to claim 6, wherein said request unit automatically generates said calculation request in response to a lapse of a predetermined time.

9. The ecological-point management system according to claim 6, further comprising an input unit receiving said calculation request operated manually,

wherein said request unit generates said calculation request in response to operation of said input unit.

10. The ecological-point management system according to claim 6, wherein said request unit automatically generates said calculation request at the time of charge of said electric storage device by said charging facility.

11. The ecological-point management system according to claim 1, wherein said point calculation unit calculates said ecological point with reflecting an amount of charging power at the time of charge of said electric storage device by said charging facility.

12. The ecological-point management system according to claim 1, wherein said point calculation unit calculates said ecological point with reflecting information of charging power of said electric storage device by said charging facility.

13. The ecological-point management system according to claim 1, wherein said point destination is associated with both an owner of said electric powered vehicle and a person involved in said charging facility.

14. The ecological-point management system according to claim 13, wherein said point destination is associated with an electric power supplier to said charging facility.

15. The ecological-point management system according to claim 13, wherein said point destination is associated with at least one of a manufacturer, an installation personnel, and an owner of said charging facility.

16. The ecological-point management system according to claim 13, wherein said point destination is associated with an owner of an installation place of said charging facility.