Power management apparatus and power management method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11858371-B2
Application number	US-202117169733-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 8, 2021
Priority date	Mar 16, 2020
Publication date	Jan 2, 2024
Grant date	Jan 2, 2024

Abstract

A power management apparatus includes a selector that selects a target number of electrically powered vehicles from a vehicle group including a plurality of electrically powered vehicles and a request processor that can issue to each electrically powered vehicle selected by the selector, a request for at least one of charging of a power storage with electric power from a power grid and power feed to the power grid. The selector obtains a temperature and an SOC of the power storage of each electrically powered vehicle included in the vehicle group and makes selection in accordance with a priority predetermined based on the temperature of the power storage and the SOC of the power storage.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A power management apparatus that regulates supply and demand of a power grid by issuing to an electrically powered vehicle including a power storage, a request for charging of the power storage with electric power of the power grid or power feed to the power grid, the power management apparatus comprising:
a selector that selects a target number of electrically powered vehicles from a vehicle group including a plurality of electrically powered vehicles;
a request processor that issues the request to each electrically powered vehicle selected by the selector, wherein
the selector obtains a temperature and an SOC of the power storage of each electrically powered vehicle included in the vehicle group and makes selection in accordance with a priority predetermined based on the temperature of the power storage and the SOC of the power storage; and
a first storage that stores first priority information that defines a priority in selecting an electrically powered vehicle to which the request for the charging is to be issued from the request processor,
wherein
the first priority information defines a priority for each of a plurality of categories set based on the temperature of the power storage and the SOC of the power storage such that a category lower in SOC of the power storage is higher in priority and a category lower in temperature of the power storage is higher in priority, and
in selecting the electrically powered vehicle to which the request for the charging is to be issued from the request processor, the selector selects the electrically powered vehicle in a descending order of priority from the vehicle group in accordance with the priority for each category defined in the first priority information;
each of the plurality of electrically powered vehicles included in the vehicle group includes a cooling apparatus that cools the power storage,
the request processor issues to each electrically powered vehicle selected by the selector, a further request to lower the temperature of the power storage to a prescribed temperature or lower with the cooling apparatus, and
the first priority information defines the priority of a first category, a second category, a third category, and a fourth category in the order of the first category, the second category, the third category, and the fourth category,
in the first category, the SOC of the power storage is lower than a first threshold value and the temperature of the power storage is lower than a second threshold value,
in the second category, the SOC of the power storage is lower than the first threshold value and the temperature of the power storage is higher than the second threshold value,
in the third category, the SOC of the power storage is higher than the first threshold value and the temperature of the power storage is lower than the second threshold value, and
in the fourth category, the SOC of the power storage is higher than the first threshold value and the temperature of the power storage is higher than the second threshold value.

2. The power management apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a second storage that stores second priority information that defines a priority in selecting an electrically powered vehicle to which the request for the power feed is to be issued from the request processor, wherein
the second priority information defines a priority for each of a plurality of categories set based on the temperature of the power storage and the SOC of the power storage such that a category higher in SOC of the power storage is higher in priority and a category higher in temperature of the power storage is higher in priority, and
in selecting the electrically powered vehicle to which the request for the power feed is to be issued from the request processor, the selector selects the electrically powered vehicle in a descending order of priority from the vehicle group in accordance with the priority for each category defined in the second priority information.

3. The power management apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising an exclusion processor that excludes an electrically powered vehicle that satisfies a prescribed exclusion requirement from the vehicle group.

4. The power management apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
when a period during which the charging requested by the request processor is to be carried out includes at least a part of a prescribed time period, the exclusion processor excludes an electrically powered vehicle in which the SOC of the power storage is higher than a fourth threshold value from the vehicle group prior to selection of an electrically powered vehicle to which the request for the charging is to be issued from the request processor.

5. The power management apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
each of the plurality of electrically powered vehicles included in the vehicle group includes a cooling apparatus that cools the power storage with electric power of the power storage,
the request processor further requests each electrically powered vehicle selected by the selector to start, when the temperature of the power storage exceeds a prescribed temperature, cooling of the power storage by the cooling apparatus prior to start of charging in accordance with the request, and
the exclusion processor excludes an electrically powered vehicle in which the SOC of the power storage is lower than a fifth threshold value and a temperature of the power storage is higher than the prescribed temperature from the vehicle group.

6. The power management apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
when the request processor issues a request for immediate execution of charging of the power storage or power feed to the power grid, the exclusion processor excludes an electrically powered vehicle not connected to the power grid from the vehicle group prior to the selection by the selector.

7. The power management apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
when an outdoor temperature is equal to or higher than a prescribed value, the exclusion processor excludes an electrically powered vehicle in which the SOC of the power storage is higher than a third threshold value from the vehicle group prior to selection of an electrically powered vehicle to which the request for the charging is to be issued from the request processor.

8. A power management method of regulating supply and demand of a power grid by issuing to an electrically powered vehicle including a power storage, a request for charging of the power storage with electric power of the power grid or power feed to the power grid, the power management method comprising:
obtaining a temperature and an SOC of the power storage of each electrically powered vehicle included in a vehicle group;
selecting a target number of electrically powered vehicles from the vehicle group in accordance with a priority predetermined based on the temperature of the power storage and the SOC of the power storage;
issuing the request to each selected electrically powered vehicle;
storing first priority information that defines a priority in selecting an electrically powered vehicle to which the request for the charging is to be issued from the request processor,
wherein
the first priority information defines a priority for each of a plurality of categories set based on the temperature of the power storage and the SOC of the power storage such that a category lower in SOC of the power storage is higher in priority and a category lower in temperature of the power storage is higher in priority, and
in selecting the electrically powered vehicle to which the request for the charging is to be issued from the request processor, selecting the electrically powered vehicle in a descending o

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ando Toru
• Kinomura Shigeki

Classifications

• B60L53/63 Primary

  in response to network capacity · CPC title

• B60L53/68

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

• B60L58/12 Primary

  responding to state of charge [SoC] · CPC title

• B60L58/26

  by cooling · CPC title

• H04W4/44

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