Energy display system, display device, and energy display method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10994625-B2
Application number	US-201816607816-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 15, 2018
Priority date	Oct 15, 2018
Publication date	May 4, 2021
Grant date	May 4, 2021

Abstract

An electric vehicle charging and discharging system according to the present invention includes: a charge and discharge unit capable of charging a battery mounted on an electric vehicle and discharging the battery; a first communication unit that acquires a vehicle identification number of the electric vehicle and a dischargeable capacity value indicating a dischargeable amount of power of the battery from the electric vehicle when the electric vehicle is connected with the charge and discharge unit; and a display unit that displays the vehicle identification number and the dischargeable capacity value acquired by the first communication unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An energy display system comprising:
charge and discharge circuitry configured to charge and discharge a battery mounted on one of one or more movable electric vehicles;
acquisition circuitry configured to acquire a vehicle identification number, a dischargeable capacity value, and a maximum capacity value from the electric vehicle when the electric vehicle is connected with the charge and discharge circuitry, the dischargeable capacity value indicating a dischargeable amount of power of the battery and the maximum capacity value indicating a maximum capacity to which the battery can be charged;
a charge and discharge cable connected with the charge and discharge circuitry and capable of being connected with the electric vehicle;
a display device;
storage circuitry; and
control circuitry configured to
manage a vehicle connection state indicating whether or not an electric vehicle is connected with the charge and discharge cable,
acquire, using the acquisition circuitry, a vehicle identification number and a dischargeable capacity value from a connected electrical vehicle,
store the vehicle identification number, the dischargeable capacity value, and a time in which the vehicle identification number and dischargeable capacity value are acquired in the storage circuitry,
calculate, when a vehicle connection state of an electrical vehicle corresponding to the vehicle identification numbers stored in the storage circuitry changes from a non-connected state to a connected state, a first power amount or a second power amount on the basis of a difference between a first dischargeable capacity value and a second dischargeable capacity value, where the first power amount is an amount of power used by traveling of the electric vehicle associated with the vehicle identification number, the second power amount is an amount of power with which the electric vehicle associated with the vehicle identification number is charged by equipment other than the charge and discharge circuitry, the first dischargeable capacity value is a latest dischargeable capacity value stored in the storage circuitry in association with the vehicle identification number, the second dischargeable capacity value being a latest dischargeable capacity value acquired by the acquisition circuitry, and
control the display device to display the acquired vehicle identification number, the acquired dischargeable capacity value, the acquired maximum capacity value, and the first or second calculated power amount, where the acquired dischargeable capacity value is displayed along with and the time acquired for each vehicle identification number stored in the storage circuitry.

2. The energy display system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
energy measurement circuitry configured to determine an amount of power generated by a photovoltaic power generation system, an amount of power consumed by a household load, an amount of power supplied from a grid power supply, and an amount of power caused to flow reversely to the grid power supply, wherein
the control circuitry is further configured to
store the amounts of powers determined by the energy measurement circuitry along with a current time in the storage circuitry, and
control the display device to display at least one of the determined amounts of power stored in the storage circuitry along with the time at which the amounts where determined.

3. The energy display system according to claim 1 , wherein the control circuitry determines the difference to be the first power amount when the first dischargeable capacity value is larger than the second dischargeable capacity value.

4. The energy display system according to claim 1 , wherein the control circuitry determines the difference to be the second power amount when the first dischargeable capacity value is smaller than the second dischargeable capacity value.

5. The energy display system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a receiver to receive an input from a user, wherein
the first power amount and the second power amount are changeable by the input to the receiver.

6. The energy display system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a connector capable of being connected with a wide area network to transmit the vehicle identification number, the time, and the dischargeable capacity value to a server device capable of being connected with a plurality of energy display systems via the wide area network, wherein
the display displays the time and the dischargeable capacity value acquired from the server device via the connection circuitry for each vehicle identification number.

7. The energy display system according to claim 6 , further comprising:
a terminal capable of being connected with a wide area network, wherein
the terminal acquires the vehicle identification number and the dischargeable capacity value from the server device via the wide area network, and displays the vehicle identification number and the dischargeable capacity value.

8. An energy display method for an electric vehicle charging and discharging system including a charge and discharge circuitry capable of charging a battery mounted on one of one or more movable electric vehicles and discharging the battery, the energy display method comprising:
managing a vehicle connection state indicating whether or not an electric vehicle is connected with the charge and discharge cable;
acquiring, by the electric vehicle charging and discharging system, a vehicle identification number of the electric vehicle and a dischargeable capacity value from the electric vehicle when the electric vehicle is connected with the charge and discharge circuitry, the dischargeable capacity value indicating a dischargeable amount of power of the battery;
storing, by the electric vehicle charging and discharging system, a vehicle identification number, the dischargeable capacity value, and a time in which the vehicle identification number and dischargeable capacity value are acquired in a storage circuitry;
calculating, when a vehicle connection state of an electrical vehicle corresponding to the vehicle identification numbers stored in the storage circuitry changes from a non-connected state to a connected state, a first power amount or a second power amount on the basis of a difference between a first dischargeable capacity value and a second dischargeable capacity value, where the first power amount is an amount of power used by traveling of the electric vehicle associated with the vehicle identification number, the second power amount is an amount of power with which the electric vehicle associated with the vehicle identification number is charged by equipment other than the charge and discharge circuitry, the first dischargeable capacity value is a latest dischargeable capacity value stored in the storage circuitry in association with the vehicle identification number, the second dischargeable capacity value being a latest dischargeable capacity value acquired by the acquisition circuitry; and
displaying, by the electric vehicle charging and discharging system, the acquired vehicle identification number, the acquired dischargeable capacity value, and the first or second calculated power amount, where the dischargeable capacity value is displayed along with the time acquired for each vehicle identification number stored in the storing circuitry.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Okumura Akira

Classifications

• H02J2101/24

  Photovoltaics · CPC title

• H02J7/82

  Control of state of charge [SOC] · CPC title

• H02J2105/37

  exchanging power with electric vehicles [EV] or with hybrid electric vehicles [HEV] · CPC title

• H02J7/42

  with electronic devices having internal batteries, e.g. mobile phones · CPC title

• Y04S30/12

  Remote or cooperative charging · CPC title