Charging system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11279251-B2
Application number	US-201916713274-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2019
Priority date	Dec 21, 2018
Publication date	Mar 22, 2022
Grant date	Mar 22, 2022

Abstract

A charging system includes a vehicle, a power supply facility, a mobile terminal, and a server. The power supply facility performs external charging by supplying power to the vehicle. The mobile terminal receives a user input from a user of the vehicle and provides a notification to the user. The server communicates with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal sets a first notification condition in the server in response to the user input. A second notification condition is set in the server in advance. The server determines whether or not each of the first notification condition and the second notification condition is satisfied during the external charging. When the first notification condition is satisfied, the server provides a first notification to the user through the mobile terminal. When the second notification condition is satisfied, the server provides a second notification to the user through the mobile terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A charging system comprising:
a vehicle including a power storage device chargeable through external charging using power supplied from outside of the vehicle;
a power supply facility that performs the external charging by supplying the power to the vehicle;
a mobile terminal that receives a user input from a user of the vehicle and that provides a notification to the user; and
a server that communicates with the mobile terminal, wherein
the mobile terminal sets a first notification condition in the server in response to the user input,
a second notification condition is set in the server,
the server determines whether or not each of the first notification condition and the second notification condition is satisfied during the external charging,
when the first notification condition is satisfied, the server provides a first notification to the user through the mobile terminal, and
when the second notification condition is satisfied, the server provides a second notification to the user through the mobile terminal;
wherein the power supply facility stops the external charging in response to a predetermined user operation, and
when the second notification condition is satisfied during the external charging, the power supply facility stops the external charging while the power storage device is not fully charged without the user operation.

2. The charging system according to claim 1 , wherein
the first notification condition is set using a plurality of types of parameters about the external charging,
the mobile terminal sets, in the server, a priority of each of the plurality of types of parameters in response to the user input, and
the server determines a content to be notified by the first notification, using a value and the priority of each of the plurality of types of parameters.

3. The charging system according to claim 2 , wherein the plurality of types of parameters include two or more types of parameters selected from a group consisting of (i) an SOC of the power storage device during the external charging, (ii) a time having passed since start of the external charging, (iii) an amount of integrated power supplied to the power storage device through the external charging since the start of the external charging, and (iv) a charging fee billed for the external charging.

4. The charging system according to claim 1 , wherein
the first notification condition is set using at least one of (i) an SOC of the power storage device during the external charging, (ii) a time having passed since start of the external charging, (iii) an amount of integrated power supplied to the power storage device through the external charging since the start of the external charging, and (iv) a charging fee billed for the external charging, and
the second notification condition is set using at least one of (i) the SOC of the power storage device during the external charging, and (ii) the time having passed since the start of the external charging.

5. The charging system according to claim 1 , wherein
after providing the first notification, the server determines whether or not the user is present within a first range around the vehicle, and
when it is determined that the user is present within the first range during a first period until passage of a predetermined time from the first notification, the server issues a first coupon to the user through the mobile terminal, the first coupon being usable at a shop located around the power supply facility.

6. The charging system according to claim 5 , wherein
a plurality of the power supply facilities are installed in a predetermined region around the shop, and
the server determines a usage value of the first coupon, using at least one of (i) a number of available power supply facilities in a vacant state among the power supply facilities in the predetermined region and (ii) a number of vehicles waiting for the power supply facilities in the predetermined region to be brought into the vacant state.

7. The charging system according to claim 5 , wherein
after providing the second notification, the server determines whether or not the user is present within a second range around the vehicle,
when it is determined that the user is present within the second range during a second period until passage of a predetermined time from the second notification, the server issues a second coupon to the user through the mobile terminal, the second coupon being usable at the shop, and
a usage value of the first coupon is higher than a usage value of the second coupon.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd
• Chubu Electric Power

Inventors

• Muramatsu Makito
• Shibano Takumi
• Tanaka Masashi
• Ochiai Takashi
• Fukui takeharu
• Takamura Yoshihiro
• Yokogawa Takahiro
• Ohgashira Masashi

Classifications

• H02J7/82

  Control of state of charge [SOC] · CPC title

• Y02T90/14

  Plug-in electric vehicles · CPC title

• B60L2250/16

  by display · CPC title

• B60L53/68

  Off-site monitoring or control, e.g. remote control · CPC title

• G06Q50/10

  Services · CPC title