Charging amount calculation apparatus and charging system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsDaiki Yokoyama, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Midori Sugiyama, Tomohiro Kaneko, Hirotaka Saito
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Abstract
A charging amount calculation apparatus calculates an amount of power consumption by a battery for running along a running route and a during-running charging amount received by a power reception apparatus from at least one second power feeding facility. The charging amount calculation apparatus calculates a pre-running charging amount based on the amount of power consumption and the during-running charging amount.
Claims6
A charging amount calculation apparatus that calculates a pre-running charging amount for charging of a vehicle before traveling along a running route, the charging amount calculation apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory in which a program executable by the processor is stored, wherein
- the vehicle includes
- a power reception apparatus configured to receive electric power from a power feeding facility, and
- a battery for traveling in which electric power received by the power reception apparatus is stored,
- the power feeding facility includes
- a first power feeding facility that charges the vehicle before traveling along the running route, and
- at least one second power feeding facility that charges the vehicle as the vehicle travels along the running route,
- each of the first power feeding facility and the at least one second power feeding facility is configured to transmit electric power by one of first power transmission in which electric power is transmitted through a charging cable and second power transmission in which electric power is wirelessly transmitted,
- the power reception apparatus is configured to receive electric power through at least one of the first power transmission and the second power transmission, and
- the processor
- calculates an amount of power consumption by the battery for traveling along the running route and a during-running charging amount received by the power reception apparatus from the at least one second power feeding facility, and
- calculates the pre-running charging amount based on the amount of power consumption and the during-running charging amount.
A charging system comprising:
- a charging amount calculation apparatus that calculates a pre-running charging amount for charging of a vehicle before running along a running route;
- a first power feeding facility that charges the vehicle before running along the running route;
- and
- at least one second power feeding facility for charging the vehicle as the vehicle travels along the running route, wherein
- the vehicle includes
- a power reception apparatus configured to receive electric power from the first power feeding facility or the at least one second power feeding facility, and
- a battery for traveling in which electric power received by the power reception apparatus is stored,
- each of the first power feeding facility and the at least one second power feeding facility is configured to transmit electric power through one of first power transmission in which electric power is transmitted through a charging cable and second power transmission in which electric power is wirelessly transmitted,
- the power reception apparatus is configured to receive electric power through at least one of the first power transmission and the second power transmission,
- the charging amount calculation apparatus
- calculates an amount of power consumption by the battery for traveling along the running route and a during-running charging amount received by the power reception apparatus from the at least one second power feeding facility, and
- calculates the pre-running charging amount based on the amount of power consumption and the during-running charging amount, and
- the first power feeding facility charges the vehicle with electric power by the pre-running charging amount calculated by the charging amount calculation apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.