Charging system for minimizing system energy

• US 9,233,616 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2013
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Tomoaki, Kato, Takayuki, Noguchi, Junya, Takuno, Shinji, Amari, Yusaku, Hirosawa, Atsushi, Abe, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Nha
• Application Number:
  US13/962,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20140049217A1
• Time in Patent Office: 887 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/51 Photovoltaic means
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/52 Wind-driven generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/60 Monitoring or controlling charging stations
• 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: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• 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 90/14 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

A vehicle-mounted electric storage device of an electrically driven vehicle is charged with a necessary amount of energy, which corresponds to an amount of energy consumption in a next-time running of the electrically driven vehicle, such that a shortage of renewable energy at a charging site is compensated for by charging the electrically driven vehicle with system energy.

Claims

1. A charging system for minimizing system energy comprising:

an electrically driven vehicle including a vehicle-mounted electric storage device, which is charged with and retains renewable energy and system energy, and a vehicle-mounted charging controller for controlling charging of the vehicle-mounted electric storage device; and

a charging site including a generating device for generating the renewable energy, a charging site electric storage device for storing the renewable energy and the system energy, and a charging-site charging controller for controlling storage of energy in the charging site electric storage device, and also controlling a type of energy used for charging the vehicle-mounted electric storage device of the electrically driven vehicle from the charging site,

wherein the charging-site charging controller maintains information on a remaining amount of the renewable energy and a remaining amount of the system energy in the charging site electric storage device after the renewable energy and the system energy were previously stored in the charging site electric storage device,

wherein the vehicle-mounted charging controller and the charging-site charging controller cooperate to charge the vehicle-mounted electric storage device of the electrically driven vehicle with a necessary amount of energy, such that a shortage of the renewable energy is compensated for by charging with the system energy, and

wherein the vehicle-mounted charging controller and the charging-site charging controller memorize an electricity rate of the system energy in respective time zones, and charge the vehicle-mounted electric storage device in a priority order of;

i) with the renewable energy in real time ii) with one of the renewable energy stored in the charging site electric storage device and the system energy in real time during a low-rate time zone in which an electricity rate of system energy is lower than a threshold;

iii) with the other of the stored renewable energy and the real-time system energy during the low-rate time zone;

iv) with the system energy stored in the charging site electric storage device; and

v) with the system energy in real time during a high-rate time zone in which an electricity rate of system energy is higher than the threshold.

2. The charging system for minimizing system energy according to claim 1, wherein when the vehicle-mounted charging controller and the charging-site charging controller charge the vehicle-mounted electric storage device only during the low-rate time zone, the vehicle-mounted electric storage device is charged in a priority order of:

with the real-time system energy during the low-rate time zone; and

with the stored renewable energy.

3. The charging system for minimizing system energy according to claim 1, wherein when the vehicle-mounted charging controller and the charging-site charging controller charge the vehicle-mounted electric storage device from the low-rate time zone to the high-rate time zone, the vehicle-mounted electric storage device is charged in a priority order of:

with the stored renewable energy during the low-rate time zone;

with the real-time system energy during the low-rate time zone; and

with the real-time renewable energy during the high-rate time zone.

4. The charging system for minimizing system energy according to claim 1, wherein when the vehicle-mounted charging controller and the charging-site charging controller charge the vehicle-mounted electric storage device from the high-rate time zone to the low-rate time zone, the vehicle-mounted electric storage device is charged in a priority order of:

with the real-time renewable energy during the high-rate time zone;

with the stored system energy during the high-rate time zone; and

with the real-time system energy during the low-rate time zone.