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Charging system and charging start control method

AssigneeNichicon Corporation

InventorsYuki Katayama, Ryosuke Koguchi, Hiroyuki Sumimura, Masaya Nishi

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Abstract

A charging system 1 including a charging apparatus 10 and a data base 20, the charging apparatus 10 including a power supply unit 11, a control unit 12, and a plurality of charging connectors 13-1 to 13-3 compliant with different charging standards. When authentication of identification information succeeds, the control unit 12 determines a charging standard on the basis of vehicle information of the data base 20 and when the authentication of the identification information fails, determines a charging standard on the basis of vehicle information input by a user. Further, the control unit 12 unlocks a charging connector compliant with the determined charging standard and notifies of unlocking.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A charging system comprising a charging apparatus which charges a plurality of electric vehicles compliant with different charging standards, and a data base in which identification information for identifying a user of said charging apparatus and vehicle information related to an electric vehicle of the user are stored so as to be associated with each other, wherein

said charging apparatus comprises:
a charging apparatus main body including a power supply unit and a control unit, said power supply unit conducting a charging operation under the control of said control unit for charging an electric vehicle of the plurality of vehicles compliant with different charging standards;
and
a plurality of charging connectors compliant with different charging standards which are switched between a state of being locked in said charging apparatus main body at a time of not conducting the charging operation and an unlocked state under the control of said control unit to permit conducting the charging operation,
said control unit executing:
reception processing of receiving an input of said identification information from a user;
authentication processing of communicating with said data base to conduct authentication of said identification information input in said reception processing;
first determination processing of determining a charging standard on the basis of said vehicle information associated with said identification information when said authentication succeeds;
and
unlocking/notification processing of unlocking a charging connector compliant with a charging standard determined by said first determination processing among said plurality of charging connectors and notifying of unlocking so as to allow the user to identify the unlocked charging connector to indicate that the unlocked charging connector is compliant with a charging standard that enables the charging operation to be performed with the electric vehicle of the user.

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A charging start control method of a charging system including a charging apparatus having a plurality of charging connectors compliant with different charging standards to charge a plurality of electric vehicles compliant with different charging standards, and a data base in which identification information for identifying a user of said charging apparatus and vehicle information related to an electric vehicle of the user are stored so as to be associated with each other, the method comprising steps, which are conducted by said charging apparatus, of:

a reception step of receiving an input of said identification information from a user;
an authentication step of communicating with said data base to conduct authentication of said identification information input in said reception step;
a first determination step of determining a charging standard on the basis of said vehicle information associated with said identification information when said authentication succeeds;
and
an unlocking/notification step of switching a charging connector compliant with a charging standard determined by said first determination step among said plurality of charging connectors from a locked state to an unlocked state and notifying of unlocking so as to allow the user to identify the unlocked charging connector.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/327,392Filed 21 Jun 2016
Priority: JP 2015-12786525 Jun 2015
Published: US 2017/0182902 A129 Jun 2017
Granted: 28 May 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

B60L 53/14
Characterised by the energy transfer between the charging station and the vehicle: conductive energy transfer
B60L 53/31
Constructional details of charging stations: charging columns specially adapted for electric vehicles
B60L 53/65
Monitoring or controlling charging stations: involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
G05B 15/02
Systems controlled by a computer: electric