Mobile Object Managing Device and Method

• US 20090050630A1
• Filed: 04/04/2006
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Iida, Yasuyuki, Kobayashi, Nobuo
• Application Number:
  US11/887,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20090050630A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 220/562
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 1/00 Pressure vessels, e.g. gas cylinder, gas tank, replaceable cartridge pressurised apparatus for purposes other than storage, see the relevant subclasses such as A62C, B05B; associated with vehicles, see the appropriate subclass of classes B60 - B64; pressure vessels in general F16J12/00 ; autoclaves B01J3/04; tank vehicles B60P3/22; railway tank wagons for carrying fluent materials B61D5/00; accumulators for supplying fluid under pressure F15B1/04; liquefied gas stoves F24C3/00
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2201/056 Small (<1 m3)
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2205/0157 for transport
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2205/054 by bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2205/055 by magnetic means
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2205/057 by chips
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2205/058 by Radio Frequency Identification
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2209/228 by screws, bolts or rivets
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2221/012 Hydrogen
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2223/0123 gaseous, e.g. CNG, GNC
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2223/036 Very high pressure (>80 bar)
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2250/032 using computers
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2250/034 using wireless transmissions
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2250/04 Indicating or measuring of parameters as input values
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2250/0408 Level of content in the vessel
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2250/043 Pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2250/0439 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2250/0443 Flow or movement of content
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2250/0473 Time or time periods
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2250/0482 Acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2250/0495 : the indicated parameter is a converted measured parameter
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2270/0105 : Ships
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2270/0168 : by vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2270/0173 : Railways
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2270/0178 : Cars
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2270/0184 : Fuel cells
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2270/0189 : Planes
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 5/06 : for filling with compressed gases
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/32 : Hydrogen storage

Abstract

To improve the management quality of a fuel tank by managing a set of relevant information on the fuel tank and relevant information on a mobile object associated with each other and allowing a history of use of the fuel tank to be trackable, a mobile object with a fuel tank, has control means for storing the fuel tank relevant information stored in first storage means provided at the fuel tank, and the mobile object relevant information stored in second storage means provided at the mobile object in the first storage means and/or the second storage means in association with each other. The fuel tank relevant information includes at least one of information on the owner of the fuel tank, information on production of the fuel tank, information on an attribute of fuel to be filled, and information on the filling work, and the mobile object relevant information includes at least one of information on the owner of the mobile object, the serial number of the mobile object, and the registration number of the mobile object.

Claims

1. A mobile object with a fuel tank, comprising:

storage means for storing fuel tank relevant information on the fuel tank and mobile object relevant information on the mobile object in association with each other.

8. The mobile object according to claim 1, wherein the fuel tank relevant information includes at least one of information on an owner of the fuel tank, information on production of the fuel tank, information on an attribute of fuel to be filled, and information on the filling work, and the mobile object relevant information includes at least one of information on an owner of the mobile object, a serial number of the mobile object, and a registration number of the mobile object.

9. The mobile object according to claim 1, wherein the fuel tank is at least one of a fuel gas tank, a compressed-gas tank, and a hydrogen tank.

11. The mobile object according to claim 1, wherein the mobile object is a fuel cell vehicle.

2. A mobile object with a fuel tank, comprising:

control means for storing, in first storage means provided at the fuel tank and/or second storage means provided at the mobile object, fuel tank relevant information stored in first storage means, and mobile object relevant information stored in second storage means, in association with each other.

3. The mobile object according to claim 2, wherein the control means acquires the fuel tank relevant information referring to the first storage means, and stores the fuel tank relevant information in association with the mobile object relevant information in the second storage means.

4. The mobile object according to claim 2, wherein the control means acquires the mobile object relevant information referring to the second storage means, and stores the mobile object relevant information in association with the fuel tank relevant information in the first storage means.

5. The mobile object according to claim 2, wherein the control means executes a process of acquiring the fuel tank relevant information at a timing at which the fuel tank is mounted in the mobile object and storing the fuel tank relevant information and the mobile object relevant information in association with each other.

6. The mobile object according to claim 2, wherein the control means executes a process of storing the fuel tank relevant information and the mobile object relevant information in association with each other based on a timing at which a fuel filling work on the fuel tank is executed.

7. The mobile object according to claim 2, wherein further, the control means controls communication means to transmit a set of the fuel tank relevant information and the mobile object relevant information corresponding thereto, stored in the first storage means or the second storage means, to a managing device located outside the mobile object.

10. The mobile object according to claim 2, wherein the first storage means of the fuel tank is an electronic tag and the control means accesses the electronic tag via an RFID reader provided at the mobile object.

14. The mobile object according to claim 2, wherein the fuel tank relevant information includes at least one of information on an owner of the fuel tank, information on production of the fuel tank, information on an attribute of fuel to be filled, and information on the filling work, and the mobile object relevant information includes at least one of information on an owner of the mobile object, a serial number of the mobile object, and a registration number of the mobile object.

15. The mobile object according to claim 2, wherein the fuel tank is at least one of a fuel gas tank, a compressed-gas tank, and a hydrogen tank.

12. A managing device for a fuel tank mounted in a mobile object, comprising:

means for receiving a set of relevant information on the fuel tank mounted in the mobile object and mobile object relevant information on the mobile object, transmitted from the mobile object; and

means for registering the fuel tank relevant information and the mobile object relevant information included in the received set in a database in association with each other.

13. A managing method for a fuel tank mounted in a mobile object, comprising:

a step of storing, in first storage means provided at the fuel tank and/or second storage means provided at the mobile object, fuel tank relevant information stored in the first storage means provided at the fuel, and mobile object relevant information stored in the second storage means, in association with each other; and

a step of transmitting a set of the fuel tank relevant information and the mobile object relevant information corresponding thereto to a managing device located outside the mobile object.