# US 10,483,770 B2 · Vehicle charging station having degraded energy storage units and methods thereof > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,483,770 B2 - Document ID: US10483770B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/609,385 - Filed: 2017-05-31 - Published: 2018-12-06 - Granted: 2019-11-19 - Earliest claimed: 2017-05-31 - Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - Inventors: David Wong Cun - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10483770B2 ## CPC - B60L 53/63: in response to network capacity - B60L 53/11: {DC charging controlled by the charging station, e.g. mode 4} - B60L 53/14: Conductive energy transfer - B60L 53/305: {Communication interfaces} - B60L 53/53: Batteries - B60L 53/62: in response to charging parameters, e.g. current, voltage or electrical charge - B60L 58/12: responding to state of charge [SoC] - H02J 3/322: {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} - H02J 7/342: {The other DC source being a battery actively interacting with the first one, i.e. battery to battery charging (with circuits for polarity protection H02J7/68)} - H02J 7/52: for charge balancing, e.g. equalisation of charge between batteries - H02J 7/825: {Detection of fully charged condition} - H02J 7/84: Control of state of health [SOH] - H02J 7/855: {with circuits adapted for supplying loads from the battery} - H02J 7/96: in response to battery voltage - B60L 2240/62: Vehicle position - B60L 2240/80: Time limits - B60L 2260/54: Energy consumption estimation - H01M 10/4257: {Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries} - H02J 7/42: with electronic devices having internal batteries, e.g. mobile phones - H02J 2105/37: exchanging power with electric vehicles [EV] or with hybrid electric vehicles [HEV] - Y02E 60/00: Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation - Y02E 60/10: Energy storage using batteries - Y02T 10/70: Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries - Y02T 10/7072: Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors - Y02T 10/72: Electric energy management in electromobility - Y02T 90/12: Electric charging stations - Y02T 90/14: Plug-in electric vehicles - Y02T 90/16: Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles - Y02T 90/167: Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV] - Y04S 10/126: the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G] - Y04S 30/12: Remote or cooperative charging - B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES - H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY - H01M: PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY - Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION - Y04S: SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS ## Abstract The systems and methods disclosed herein are directed to a vehicle charging station having at least one energy storage unit in a degraded state. The station may provide power using the energy storage unit to an electric or hybrid vehicle. In an illustrative embodiment, power from the station is provided to the vehicle from the energy storage unit, power grid or a combination thereof. Logic or processes for providing power to the energy storage unit for the charging station may depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, capacity of the energy storage units, number of units, information about an incoming vehicle to charge, etc. After charging, the energy storage unit in its degraded state may be used for fast charging the vehicle. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A computer-implemented method for a charging station to provide power to a vehicle energy storage unit on an incoming vehicle, the method comprising: predicting power of the vehicle energy storage unit when the incoming vehicle arrives at the charging station; determining power to be supplied by at least one energy storage unit on the charging station having a degraded state and power to be supplied by a power grid connected to the charging station based on the predicted power of the vehicle energy storage unit of the incoming vehicle; based on the power to be supplied by the at least one energy storage unit having the degraded state, pre-filling the at least one energy unit before the vehicle arrives at the charging station based on a predetermined table, wherein the predetermined table comprises information about the at least one energy storage unit and corresponding fill time; and providing the power to the vehicle energy storage unit from the at least one energy storage unit on the charging station, the power grid and a combination thereof. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the power to be supplied by the at least one energy storage unit on the charging station having the degraded state comprises detecting a maximum capacity of the at least one energy storage unit. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein detecting the maximum capacity of the at least one energy storage unit comprises fully powering the at least one energy storage unit and detecting an amount of time for the power of the at least one energy storage unit to reach zero. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein providing the power to the vehicle energy storage unit from the at least one energy storage unit, power grid and combination thereof comprises providing the power from the at least one energy storage unit first. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein providing the power to the vehicle energy storage unit from the at least one energy storage unit, power grid and combination thereof comprises providing the power simultaneously from the at least one energy storage unit and the power grid. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the power to be supplied by the at least one energy storage unit on the charging station comprises detecting two or more energy storage units. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The computer-implemented method of claim 6, comprising providing power to the two or more energy storage units based on a station operator preference. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The computer-implemented method of claim 6, comprising providing power to the two or more energy storage units based on whether the two or more units have been charged and discharged lately. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) The computer-implemented method of claim 6, comprising providing power to the two or more energy storage units based on whether the two or more energy units satisfy a total power request. ### Claim 10 (depends on 6) The computer-implemented method of claim 6, comprising providing power to the two or more energy storage units based on an oldest manufacturing date of the two or more energy storage units. ### Claim 11 A charging station comprising: at least one energy storage unit having a degraded maximum capacity; and a controller predicting power of a vehicle energy storage unit on an incoming vehicle, determining power to be supplied by the at least one energy storage unit having the degraded capacity and power to be supplied by a power grid based on the predicted power of the vehicle storage unit of the incoming vehicle, and based on the based on the power to be supplied by the at least one energy storage unit having the degraded state, pre-filling the at least one energy unit before the vehicle arrives at the charging station based on a predetermined table, wherein the predetermined table comprises information about the at least one energy storage unit and corresponding fill time. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The charging station of claim 11, wherein the predetermined table is developed through a capacity of the at least one energy storage unit. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The charging station of claim 11, wherein the power to be supplied by the at least one energy storage unit having the degraded capacity comprises completely prefilling the at least one energy storage unit and determining the power to be supplied by the power grid. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The charging station of claim 13, wherein the power to be supplied by the power grid is communicated with a power utility to forecast demand. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The charging station of claim 11, wherein the at least one energy storage unit is a depleted second use battery from an electric or hybrid vehicle. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The charging station of claim 15, wherein the second use battery has a capacity below 75%. ### Claim 17 A charging station computing system comprising: at least one processor; and a memory operatively coupled to the processor, the memory storing program instructions that when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: predict power of a vehicle energy storage unit of an incoming vehicle; pre-fill power to at least one energy storage unit having a degraded state based on a predetermined table using the predicted power of the vehicle energy storage unit of the incoming vehicle wherein the predetermined table comprises information about the at least one energy storage unit and corresponding fill time; provide power to the incoming vehicle when connected to the charging station with the at least one energy storage unit and supplemented by a power grid. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The charging station computing system of claim 17, wherein pre-filling the power to the at least one energy storage unit comprises providing power uniformly to multiple energy storage units having a degraded state.