Vehicle management system to control supply of power or charging between onboard power unit and exterior

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11208001-B2
Application number	US-202016904933-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 18, 2020
Priority date	Dec 28, 2017
Publication date	Dec 28, 2021
Grant date	Dec 28, 2021

Abstract

A vehicle management system is provided. The system carries out at least one of controlling a supply of power from an onboard power unit in a parked vehicle to the exterior and controlling charging of the onboard power unit from the exterior. The system comprises a control unit for controlling the supply of power or charging between the onboard power unit and the exterior; a transaction managing unit for managing the supply of power or charging between the onboard power unit and the exterior; and a payment point setting unit for setting a payment point for a user associated with the parked vehicle, wherein the payment point setting unit sets the payment point on the basis of transaction information recorded by the transaction managing unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle management system that carries out at least one of controlling a supply of power from an onboard power unit in a parked vehicle to the exterior and controlling charging of the onboard power unit from the exterior, the system comprising:
a control unit configured to control the supply of power or charging between the onboard power unit and the exterior;
a transaction managing unit configured to manage the supply of power or charging between the onboard power unit and the exterior;
a payment point setting unit configured to set a payment point for a user associated with the parked vehicle;
a parking schedule managing unit configured to receive and storing an input of a parking schedule of a vehicle; and
a sharing managing unit configured to manage the parked vehicle as a sharing vehicle in accordance with the parking schedule,
wherein the payment point setting unit sets the payment point on the basis of transaction information recorded by the transaction managing unit,
wherein the control unit controls the supply of power from the onboard power unit to the power grid or the charging of the onboard power unit in accordance with the parking schedule,
wherein the payment point setting unit further sets a second payment point for a user who has parked the parked vehicle in accordance with the parking schedule, and
wherein the sharing management unit determines a user to whom the second payment points exceeding a threshold have been given to be a reliable user and manages as the sharing vehicle a vehicle of the reliable user including a vehicle to be parked.

2. The vehicle management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the exterior is a power grid; and
the control unit controls at least one of the supply of power from the onboard power unit and the charging of the onboard power unit in accordance with price information indicating a price of power supplied from the power grid and a price of power supplied to the power grid.

3. The vehicle management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the payment point setting unit sets the payment point in accordance with at least one of a time at which the parking schedule managing unit has accepted the parking schedule, or a length of a parking time in the parking schedule.

4. The vehicle management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the payment point setting unit further sets the payment point for a user who provides the parked vehicle on the basis of a usage performance in the sharing.

5. The vehicle management system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a managing unit configured to manage the payment point set for a user of the parked vehicle,
wherein the managing unit returns the payment point to the user as a parking fee use bonus.

6. The vehicle management system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a managing unit configured to manage the payment point set for a user of the parked vehicle,
wherein the managing unit returns the payment point to the user as a charging equipment use bonus.

7. The vehicle management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the onboard power unit is one of a battery, a fuel cell, an internal combustion power generator, and a gas generator.

8. The vehicle management system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an intent confirming unit configured to confirm intent of a user of the parked vehicle to license control of the supply of power or charging.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yokoyama Shinichi
• Haraguchi Tomohide
• Sone Takashi

Classifications

• H02J2105/55

  according to an economic condition, e.g. tariff-based load management · CPC title

• H02J2101/30

  Fuel cells · CPC title

• H02J7/50

  acting upon multiple batteries simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• Y04S50/10

  Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid · CPC title

• H02J3/322

  the battery being on-board an electric or hybrid vehicle, e.g. vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G], power aggregation, use of the battery for network load balancing, coordinated or cooperative battery charging · CPC title