Electric storage apparatus and power control system

• US 9,318,917 B2
• Filed: 03/25/2010
• Issued: 04/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kubota, Eiichiro, Moriai, Shiho
• Primary Examiner(s): HARTMAN JR, RONALD D
• Application Number:
  US12/731,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20100262312A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,217 Days
• Field of Search: 700/286, 700291-296
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• 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: H02J 3/32 using batteries with converting means
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/381 Dispersed generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/34 Parallel operation in networks using both storage and other dc sources, e.g. providing buffering H02J7/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/35 with light sensitive cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 70/30 Systems combining energy storage with energy generation of non-fossil origin

Abstract

An electric power apparatus includes an energy device, a device manager, and a storage system manager.

Claims

1. An electric power apparatus comprising:

an energy device;

a device manager; and

a storage system manager,

wherein the energy device includes at least one of a primary battery, a secondary battery, a capacitor, a solar cell and a fuel cell,

wherein the device manager or the storage system manager has storage information,

wherein the device manager or the storage system manager receives or transmits the storage information from or to a home controller which controls the home electric power, and

wherein the storage system manager and the home controller perform mutual authentication.

2. The electric power apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the energy device has an ID and performs mutual authentication with respect to the storage system manager by using the ID.

3. The electric power apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the storage information includes one or more of:

a using status of the energy device, characteristics of the energy device, a type of the energy device, a temperature of the energy device, a capacity of the energy device, a resistance value of the energy device, an output voltage from the energy device, an output current from the energy device, a remaining capacity of the energy device.

4. The electric power apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the device manager and the storage system manager are configured to receive and transmit the storage information.

5. The electric power apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the device manager receives or transmits the storage information from or to the storage system manager via an information bus.

6. The electric power apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the device manager or the storage system manager receives or transmits the storage information from or to a server on a network.

7. The electric power apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the device manager or the storage system manager receives or transmits the storage information from or to a power regulating apparatus.

8. The electric power apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the storage system manager receives or transmits the storage information from or to the device manager.

9. The electric power apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the device manager, the storage system manager, or a home controller acquires storage control information from a server on a network.

10. The electric power apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the storage control information includes one or more of:

information on a product, information on maintenance, information on trouble, information on climate, charging control information, discharging control information.

11. The electric power apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the device manager, the storage system manager, or the home controller controls the energy device according to the storage control information.

12. The electric power apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the home controller supplies the storage information to a server on a network.

13. A power control system comprising:

an electric power apparatus having an energy device, a device manager, and a storage system manager;

a home controller;

a power regulating apparatus,

wherein the energy device includes at least one of a primary battery, a secondary battery, a capacitor, a solar cell and a fuel cell,

wherein the device manager or the storage system manager has storage information,

wherein the device manager or the storage system manager receives or transmits the storage information from or to a home controller which controls the home electric power, and

wherein the storage system manager and the home controller perform mutual authentication.