# US 10,870,366 B2 · System and computer readable storage medium for a battery exchanger > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,870,366 B2 - Document ID: US10870366B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/558,147 - Filed: 2019-09-01 - Published: 2019-12-19 - Granted: 2020-12-22 - Earliest claimed: 2017-03-24 - Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Takumi Shiiyama; Ryo Oshima; Ryuichi Kimata - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10870366B2 ## CPC - B60L 53/80: Exchanging energy storage elements, e.g. removable batteries - B60L 53/65: involving identification of vehicles or their battery types - B60L 53/66: Data transfer between charging stations and vehicles - B60L 53/665: {Methods related to measuring, billing or payment} - B60L 58/16: responding to battery ageing, e.g. to the number of charging cycles or the state of health [SoH] - G06Q 30/04: Billing or invoicing - B60L 2240/622: by satellite navigation - 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 90/16: 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 30/14: Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing - 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 - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - 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 system is a system for a battery exchanger that accepts a used first battery and provides a charged second battery. The above system includes a support target information receiving unit that receives, from a supporter that supports operation of a battery exchanger, an instruction for selecting the battery exchanger for which the supporter supports operation from among multiple battery exchangers. The above system includes a user information providing unit that provides the supporter with information on the user of the battery exchanger selected by the supporter, according to support value information indicating the value of the support for the operation of the battery exchanger by the supporter. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system for one or more battery exchangers that each accept a used first battery and identification information of a user of a battery exchanger, provide a charged second battery to the user, and generate a portion of usage history information associating the identification information of the user with at least one of identification information of the battery exchanger, identification information of the used first battery, and identification information of the charged second battery, the system comprising: a history receiving unit that receives, from each of the one or more battery exchangers, the usage history information; a support target information receiving unit that receives, from a device of a supporter, an instruction for selecting the battery exchanger for which a support fund supports operation from among the one or more battery exchangers and support value information indicating a value of the support fund for the operation of the battery exchanger; and a user information providing unit that provides the device of the supporter with information on the user of the battery exchanger selected by the supporter, according to the value of the support fund, the information based on the usage history information. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the user information providing unit provides the supporter with more detailed information on the user of the battery exchanger selected by the supporter for a higher value indicated by the support value information. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the information on the user includes information indicating at least one of an age and a gender of the user of the battery exchanger selected by the supporter. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the information on the user includes information indicating a time slot in which the battery exchanger selected by the supporter is used. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the information on the user includes travel information of a movable body of the user mounted with the first battery accepted from the user by the battery exchanger selected by the supporter. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the information on the user includes travel information on a movable body of the user mounted with the second battery provided to the user by the battery exchanger selected by the supporter. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The system according to claim 5, wherein the history receiving unit receives, as part of the usage history information from each of the one or more battery exchangers, a history of position information of a battery accepted by each battery exchanger, the history stored in a storage device in the battery, and the user information providing unit provides the supporter with information based on the history of position information as the travel information. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The system according to claim 7, further comprising a history storage unit that stores, in association with one another, identification information of a user of a battery exchanger, identification information of the battery exchanger, identification information of the first battery accepted by the battery exchanger, identification information of the second battery provided by the battery exchanger, a time when the battery exchanger is used, and a history of position information of the first battery stored in the storage device in the first battery, wherein the user information providing unit provides the supporter with information based on the history of position information stored in the history storage unit as the travel information. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the value is based on an amount of the support fund paid by the supporter to support operation of the battery exchanger, and the user information providing unit provides the supporter with first information on a user of a battery exchanger selected by the supporter when the supporter determines the battery exchanger to be supported by the supporter, and provides the supporter with second information according to the amount of the support fund actually paid by the supporter after the supporter determines the battery exchanger to be supported by the supporter, the second information being more detailed information, than the first information, on the user of the battery exchanger selected by the supporter. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, further comprising the one or more battery exchangers. ### Claim 11 A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for controlling a system for one or more battery exchangers that each accept a used first battery and identification information of a user of a battery exchanger, provide a charged second battery to the user, and generate a portion of usage history information associating the identification information of the user with at least one of identification information of the battery exchanger, identification information of the used first battery, and identification information of the charged second battery, the program causing a computer to execute: receiving, from each of the one or more battery exchangers, the usage history information; receiving, from a device of a supporter, an instruction for selecting the battery exchanger for which a support fund supports operation from among the one or more battery exchangers and support value information indicating a value of the support fund for the operation of the battery exchanger; and providing the device of the supporter with information on the user of the battery exchanger selected by the supporter, according to the value of the support fund, the information based on the usage history information.