COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, RELAYING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20130215982A1
• Filed: 02/20/2013
• Published: 08/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Electric Networks, Inc. (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Electric Networks, Inc. (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: SHIRASU, Junichi, YANO, Takashi, HATANAKA, Kenichi
• Application Number:
  US13/772,134
• Publication Number:
  US 20130215982A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/257
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/54 Systems for transmission via power distribution lines
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/548 the power on the line being DC arrangements for feeding power H04L12/10; extracting feeding power from signals H04L25/02

Abstract

A communication system between a vehicle and a communication device is disclosed. The vehicle transmits electricity supply information in an A-method to a relaying device like an electricity supply device through an electricity supply line. The electricity supply device receives the electricity supply information in the A-method, then, based on the electricity supply information in the A-method, generates electricity supply information in a B-method, and transmits to the communication device the electricity supply information obtained by conversion into the B-method. The communication device transmits electricity supply information in the B-method to the electricity supply device. The electricity supply device receives the electricity supply information in the B-method, then, based on the received electricity supply information in the B-method, generates electricity supply information in the A-method, and transmits the electricity supply information obtained by conversion into the A-method, to the vehicle through the electricity supply line.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising

a relaying device relaying communication between a vehicle, the vehicle including an electricity storage part and with a communication part, and a communication device performing communication of electricity supply information concerning electricity supply to the electricity storage part,

the relaying device including:

a first communication part performing communication of electricity supply information to and from the vehicle by a first method;

a second communication part performing communication of electricity supply information to and from the communication device by a second method different from the first method; and

a generating part, on the basis of the electricity supply information received by any one of the first method and the second method, generating electricity supply information to be transmitted by the other method.

2. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the vehicle and the relaying device are allowed to be connected through an electricity supply line used for electricity supply, and

wherein the communication of electricity supply information by the first method is communication through the electricity supply line.

3. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the communication device includes:

an authentication part performing authentication of the relaying device; and

a first transmitting part transmitting condition information that indicates a plurality of conditions concerning electricity supply, to the relaying device whose authentication has been succeeded, and

wherein the relaying device further includes

a second transmitting part transmitting, to the communication device, selection information that indicates one condition selected from the plurality of conditions indicated in the received condition information.

4. A communication method employing a relaying device relaying communication between a vehicle provided with an electricity storage part and with a communication part and a communication device performing communication of electricity supply information concerning electricity supply to the electricity storage part,

wherein the relaying device performs steps of:

receiving electricity supply information transmitted from any one of the vehicle and the communication device by a first method;

on the basis of the received electricity supply information, generating electricity supply information to be transmitted by a second method different from the first method; and

transmitting the electricity supply information to the other one of the vehicle and the communication device by the second method.

5. A relaying device relaying communication between a vehicle provided with an electricity storage part and with a communication part and a communication device performing communication of electricity supply information concerning electricity supply to the electricity storage part, comprising:

a first communication part performing communication of electricity supply information to and from the vehicle by a first method;

a second communication part performing communication of electricity supply information to and from the communication device by a second method different from the first method; and

a generating part, on the basis of the electricity supply information received by any one of the first method and the second method, generating electricity supply information to be transmitted by the other method.

6. The relaying device according to claim 5, further comprising

a supply part supplying electricity through an electricity supply line connectable to the vehicle,

wherein the first communication part performs communication of electricity supply information through the electricity supply line by the first method.

7. The relaying device according to claim 5,

wherein connection to an electricity supply device is achievable, the electricity supply device being connectable to the vehicle through an electricity supply line used for electricity supply and performing communication of electricity supply information to and from the vehicle through the electricity supply line, and

wherein the first communication part performs communication with the vehicle through the electricity supply device.

8. The relaying device according to claim 5, further comprising:

a measuring part measuring the amount of electricity concerning electricity supply; and

an electricity amount transmitting part transmitting to the communication device the measured amount of electricity.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which a computer program for causing a computer to execute a procedure concerning relaying is recorded, wherein the computer relays communication between a vehicle provided with an electricity storage part and a communication device performing communication of electricity supply information concerning electricity supply to the electricity storage part, the procedure comprising steps of:

generating, in response to electricity supply information transmitted from any one of the vehicle and the communication device by a first method, on the basis of the electricity supply information, electricity supply information to be transmitted by a second method different from the first method; and

transmitting the generated electricity supply information to the other one of the vehicle and the communication device by the second method.