# US 11,299,060 B2 · Display device for charging system and display method for charging system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,299,060 B2 - Document ID: US11299060B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/800,426 - Filed: 2020-02-25 - Published: 2020-09-10 - Granted: 2022-04-12 - Earliest claimed: 2019-03-04 - Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Shigeki Kinomura - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11299060B2 ## CPC - B60L 53/66: Data transfer between charging stations and vehicles - B60L 53/305: {Communication interfaces} - G06F 3/0482: Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus - H02J 7/42: with electronic devices having internal batteries, e.g. mobile phones - H02J 7/50: acting upon multiple batteries simultaneously or sequentially - H02J 7/80: including monitoring or indicating arrangements - H02J 7/92: with prioritisation of loads or sources - B60L 2250/16: by display - H02J 2105/37: exchanging power with electric vehicles [EV] or with hybrid electric vehicles [HEV] - 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 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 - 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 - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION ## Abstract A first controller performs a process including: specifying a selection candidate for a charging stand when one of cables is connected to a vehicle; controlling a display unit to present a selection screen; specifying a selected number when a selection manipulation is performed; and outputting a charging control execution command to a charging stand corresponding to the selected number. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A display device for a charging system, the charging system including a plurality of power transfer units electrically connectable to a plurality of vehicles including power storage devices, and a charging device that supplies charging power to a power storage device of a vehicle via a power transfer unit connected to the vehicle among the plurality of power transfer units, the display device comprising: a display unit that presents an image on a selection screen, the image indicating one of the plurality of power transfer units as a selection candidate for a power transfer unit via which supply of the charging power is to be started; and a controller that controls the display unit to present the selection screen when one of the plurality of power transfer units is connected to a vehicle, wherein the controller controls the display unit to provide, on the selection screen, a manner of presentation in which among the plurality of power transfer units, a selection candidate for which the supply of the charging power is more likely to be started than other selection candidates is more emphasized visually than the other selection candidates. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The display device for the charging system according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display unit to provide, on the selection screen, a manner of presentation in which among the plurality of power transfer units, a selection candidate for which power has become transferable between a vehicle and a corresponding power transfer unit at a most recent point of time is more emphasized visually than the other selection candidates. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The display device for the charging system according to claim 1, wherein as the selection candidates, the controller does not present a power transfer unit that is supplying the charging power and a power transfer unit that has completed charging a connected power storage device among the plurality of power transfer units. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The display device for the charging system according to claim 1, wherein the charging device includes a first charging stand connected to a first power transfer unit of the plurality of power transfer units, and a second charging stand connected to a second power transfer unit of the plurality of power transfer units, the display device is provided in the first charging stand, and the first charging stand and the second charging stand are installed in respective parking spaces for the vehicles. ### Claim 5 A display method for a charging system, the charging system including a plurality of power transfer units electrically connectable to a plurality of vehicles including power storage devices, and a charging device that supplies charging power to a power storage device of a vehicle via a power transfer unit connected to the vehicle among the plurality of power transfer units, the display method comprising: presenting an image on a selection screen, the image indicating one of the plurality of power transfer units as a selection candidate for a power transfer unit via which supply of the charging power is to be started; presenting the selection screen when one of the plurality of power transfer units is connected to a vehicle; and providing, on the selection screen, a manner of presentation in which among the plurality of power transfer units, a selection candidate for which the supply of the charging power is more likely to be started than other selection candidates is more emphasized visually than the other selection candidates.