Electric power supply system program, electric power supply device, parking device program, and parking device for supplying electric power using pairing information

• US 10,232,725 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2016
• Issued: 03/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IHI Corporation
• Original Assignee: IHI Corporation
• Inventors: Takatsu, Yuji, Hashizume, Sho, Tokura, Susumu, Ueda, Akio, Akune, Kei, Hayashi, Tooru
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso, Edward
• Application Number:
  US15/263,563
• Publication Number:
  US 20160375784A1
• Time in Patent Office: 917 Days
• Field of Search: 320104, 320109, 320116, 414277, 414228, 414232, 414268, 414270, 414281, 701 296
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2270/32 of electricity
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/126 Methods for pairing a vehicle and a charging station, e.g. establishing a one-to-one relation between a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 6/14 with endless conveyor chains having load-carrying parts moving vertically, e.g. paternoster lifts also similar transport in which cells are continuously mechanically linked together
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 6/245 without transverse movement of the wheeled parking platform after leaving the transfer means
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/40 using two or more transmitting or receiving devices H02J50/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• 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

Abstract

An electric power supply system program causes a control apparatus capable of controlling an electric power supply system to realize: a pairing information generating function to generate, when receiving an electric power supply request, specific pairing information that is pairing information; a pairing information transmitting function to transmit the specific pairing information to an object that has output the electric power supply request; a pairing information receiving function to receive the pairing information from the object by communication with the object located in the electric power supply space; and an electric power supply function to supply electric power to the object located in the electric power supply space when the received pairing information coincides with the specific pairing information.

Claims

1. An electric power supply device that supplies electric power to at least one of a plurality of objects capable of receiving electric power supply, the electric power supply device comprising:

a plurality of electric power supply spaces, each electric power supply space being a space in which an object is located at the time of electric power supply; and

an electric power supply apparatus configured to supply electric power to the object located in the electric power supply space, wherein

the electric power supply device is configured to;

select, when receiving an electric power supply request from one of the plurality of objects, an electric power supply space from the plurality of electric power supply spaces;

generate pairing information associated with the selected electric power supply space;

transmit the pairing information to the one object that has output the electric power supply request;

receive the pairing information from the one object by communicating with the object located in the selected electric power supply space; and

supply, from the electric power supply apparatus, electric power to the one object located in the selected electric power supply space when the received pairing information coincides with the generated pairing information associated with the selected electric power supply space.

2. An electric power supply device that supplies electric power to at least one of a plurality of objects configured to receive electric power supply, the electric power supply device comprising:

a plurality of electric power supply spaces, each electric power supply space being a space in which an object is located at the time of electric power supply; and

an electric power supply apparatus provided in at least one electric power supply space of the plurality of electric power supply spaces, the electric power supply apparatus configured to supply electric power to the object located in the electric power supply space, wherein

the electric power supply device is configured to;

select, upon receiving an electric power supply request from one of the plurality of objects, an electric power supply space from the plurality of electric power supply spaces;

generate pairing information associated with the specific electric power supply space;

transmit the pairing information to each of the electric power supply apparatus provided in the specific electric power supply space and an object that has output the electric power supply request;

record, by the electric power supply apparatus provided in the specific electric power supply space, transmitted specific pairing information;

communicate, by the electric power supply apparatus provided in the specific electric power supply space, with the object located in the specific electric power supply space to receive, by the electric power supply apparatus provided in the specific electric power supply space, the pairing information from the object; and

supply, from the electric power supply apparatus provided in the specific electric power supply space, electric power to the object located in the specific electric power supply space when the received pairing information coincides with the specific pairing information recorded in the electric power supply apparatus provided in the specific electric power supply space.

3. A parking device that allows at least one vehicle configured to receiving electric power supply to be parked, the parking device comprising:

a plurality of parking spaces each being a space in which one of a plurality of vehicles is parked; and

an electric power supply apparatus configured to supply electric power to the vehicle located in the parking space, wherein

the parking device is configured to;

select, when receiving a parking request from one of the vehicles, a parking space from the plurality of parking spaces;

generate, when receiving an electric power supply request, pairing information associated with the selected parking space;

transmit the pairing information to a vehicle that has output the electric power supply request;

receive the pairing information from the one vehicle parked in the parking space and communicates with the parking device; and

supply, from the electric power supply apparatus, electric power to the one vehicle parked in the parking space when the received pairing information coincides with the generated pairing information associated with the specific parking space.