Vehicle, power supplying method, and communication device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRyosuke Ikemura, Shogo Tsuge, Toshiya Hashimoto
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Abstract
The vehicle includes a first communication device for directly or indirectly communicating with the ground power supplying apparatus by wide area wireless communication with a communication distance of greater than or equal to 10 meters, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to request the ground power supplying apparatus cancel supply of power to the vehicle by the wide area wireless communication when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
Claims5
A vehicle receiving power from a ground power supplying apparatus by noncontact, comprises:
- a first communication device for directly or indirectly communicating with the ground power supplying apparatus by wide area wireless communication with a communication distance of greater than or equal to 10 meters;
- a second communication device for directly communicating with the ground power supplying apparatus by short range wireless communication with a communication distance of less than 10 meters;
- and
- an electronic control unit, wherein
- the electronic control unit is configured to:
- request the ground power supplying apparatus cancel supply of power to the vehicle by the wide area wireless communication when a predetermined condition is satisfied, the predetermined condition relating to whether a situation arises where the supply of power is to be cancelled from a vehicle side;
- and
- request the ground power supplying apparatus supply power to the vehicle by transmitting vehicle identification information of the vehicle by the short range wireless communication, and stop the supply of power from the ground power supplying apparatus to the vehicle by stopping transmission of the vehicle identification information when the predetermined condition is satisfied.
A power supplying method using a ground power supplying apparatus to supply power to a vehicle by noncontact, including:
- having the vehicle request the ground power supplying apparatus cancel supply of power to the vehicle through wide area wireless communication with a communication distance of greater than or equal to 10 meters when a predetermined condition is satisfied, the predetermined condition relating to whether a situation arises where the supply of power is to be cancelled from a vehicle side;
- requesting the ground power supplying apparatus supply power to the vehicle by having the vehicle transmit vehicle identification information of the vehicle by short range wireless communication with a communication distance of less than 10 meters;
- and
- stopping the supply of power from the ground power supplying apparatus to the vehicle by having the vehicle stop transmission of the vehicle identification information when the predetermined condition is satisfied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.