Server and information system matching a power-supplying vehicle and a power-receiving vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10984611-B2
Application number	US-201816174684-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2018
Priority date	Nov 1, 2017
Publication date	Apr 20, 2021
Grant date	Apr 20, 2021

Abstract

An information providing system includes: a plurality of vehicles; and a server configured to communicate with the plurality of vehicles. Each of the plurality of vehicles is configured to supply power to and receive power from another vehicle. The server performs a matching process for setting a power-supplying vehicle and a power-receiving vehicle from the plurality of vehicles and for matching the power-supplying vehicle and the power-receiving vehicle. The server prohibits setting, as the power-supplying vehicle in the matching process, a vehicle included in the plurality of vehicles and having a history that power has been received from another vehicle.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A server comprising:
a communication device configured to communicate with a plurality of vehicles, each of the plurality of vehicles being able to supply power to and receive power from another vehicle; and
a controller configured to perform a matching process for setting a power-supplying vehicle and a power-receiving vehicle from the plurality of vehicles and for matching the power-supplying vehicle and the power-receiving vehicle,
wherein the controller matches the power-supplying vehicle and the power-receiving vehicle based on:
a distance between the power-supplying vehicle and the power-receiving vehicle being less than a threshold value; and
a charge supply for the power-supplying vehicle being higher than a requested amount of charge for the power-receiving vehicle; and

in the matching process, the controller being configured to prohibit setting, as the power-supplying vehicle, a vehicle included in the plurality of vehicles and having a power-receiving history that power has been received from the another vehicle,
the server further comprising a storage unit configured to store information regarding the power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle for each of the plurality of vehicles, and
wherein the controller is configured to use the information regarding the power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle, so as to determine whether or not each vehicle is the vehicle having the power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle,
wherein the controller is configured to provide, to each of the plurality of vehicles, a corresponding matching history flag indicating presence or absence of a history that a vehicle having a power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle through the matching process,
wherein the information regarding the power-receiving history includes information of the matching history flag,
wherein each of the plurality of vehicles is configured to transmit, to the server, a power-receiving history flag indicating presence or absence of a history that a vehicle having the power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle, and
wherein the information regarding the power-receiving history includes the power-receiving history flag.

2. An information providing system comprising:
a plurality of vehicles each configured to supply power to and receive power from another vehicle; and
a server configured to communicate with the plurality of vehicles and configured to perform a matching process for setting a power-supplying vehicle and a power-receiving vehicle from the plurality of vehicles and for matching the power-supplying vehicle and the power-receiving vehicle,
wherein the server matches the power-supplying vehicle and the power-receiving vehicle based on:
a distance between the power-supplying vehicle and the power-receiving vehicle being less than a threshold value; and
a charge supply for the power-supplying vehicle being higher than a requested amount of charge for the power-receiving vehicle; and

in the matching process, the information providing system being configured to prohibit setting, as the power-supplying vehicle, a vehicle included in the plurality of vehicles and having a power-receiving history that power has been received from the another vehicle,
the server further comprising a storage unit configured to store information regarding the power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle for each of the plurality of vehicles, and
wherein the server is configured to use the information regarding the power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle, so as to determine whether or not each vehicle is the vehicle having the power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle,
wherein the server is configured to provide, to each of the plurality of vehicles, a corresponding matching history flag indicating presence or absence of a history that a vehicle having a power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle through the matching process,
wherein the information regarding the power-receiving history includes information of the matching history flag,
wherein each of the plurality of vehicles is configured to transmit, to the server, a power-receiving history flag indicating presence or absence of a history that a vehicle having the power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle, and
wherein the information regarding the power-receiving history includes the power-receiving history flag.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Mizutani Atsushi
• Kaneichi Daiki
• Karube Hirotaka
• Kondo Jun
• Komuro Kenichi

Classifications

• Y02T90/14

  Plug-in electric vehicles · CPC title

• H04W4/44

  for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H] · CPC title

• G07C5/008 Primary

  communicating information to a remotely located station (transmission systems for measured values G08C) · CPC title

• B60L53/60

  Monitoring or controlling charging stations · CPC title