# US 11,999,253 B2 · Vehicle information management device and charging control method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,999,253 B2 - Document ID: US11999253B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/283,601 - Filed: 2018-10-15 - Published: 2021-12-09 - Granted: 2024-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2018-10-15 - Assignees: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation - Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation - Inventors: Eisho Ando - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11999253B2 ## CPC - B60L 53/62: in response to charging parameters, e.g. current, voltage or electrical charge - B60L 1/003: {to auxiliary motors, e.g. for pumps, compressors} - B60L 1/02: to electric heating circuits - B60L 7/10: Dynamic electric regenerative braking (B60L7/22 takes precedence) - B60L 50/61: by batteries charged by engine-driven generators, e.g. series hybrid electric vehicles - B60L 58/13: Maintaining the SoC within a determined range - B61C 17/06: Power storing devices - B61L 15/0072: {On-board train data handling} - B61L 25/025: {Absolute localisation, e.g. providing geodetic coordinates} - B60L 2200/26: Rail vehicles - B60L 2240/26: Vehicle weight - B60L 2240/34: Cabin temperature - B60L 2240/62: Vehicle position - B60L 2240/642: Slope of road - B60L 2260/54: Energy consumption estimation - Y02T 10/62: Hybrid vehicles - 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 30/00: Transportation of goods or passengers via railways, e.g. energy recovery or reducing air resistance - Y02T 90/12: Electric charging stations - 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 - B61C: LOCOMOTIVES; MOTOR RAILCARS (vehicles in general B60; frames or bogies B61F; special railroad equipment for locomotives B61J, B61K) - B61L: GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC (brakes or auxiliary equipment B61H, B61K; point or crossing construction E01B) - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION ## Abstract A vehicle information management device that executes control of charging a storage battery with power generated in a train, the vehicle information management device includes an information obtainer to obtain information on a current operational state of the train, a storage to store charging control information therein, where in the charging control information, control contents of charging the storage battery with power generated by using an engine to be installed in the train are set correspondingly to an operational state of the train, and a controller to obtain charging control information that matches the current operational state of the train from the storage, and to control charging of the storage battery on the basis of the charging control information obtained. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A vehicle information management device that executes control of charging a storage battery with power generated in a train, the vehicle information management device comprising: an information obtainer to obtain information on a current operational state of the train; a storage to store charging control information therein, where in the charging control information, control contents of charging the storage battery with power generated by an engine installed in the train are set correspondingly to an operational state of the train; and a controller to obtain charging control information that matches the current operational state of the train from the storage, and to control charging of the storage battery on a basis of the charging control information obtained, wherein the information obtainer obtains, as information on the current operational state of the train, a current charging rate of the storage battery, a current train location of the train, and a current passenger load factor of the train; and the controller obtains charging control information that matches the current passenger load factor of the train and the current train location of the train from the storage, and controls charging of the storage battery by using the charging control information obtained and the current charging rate of the storage battery. ### Claim 2 A charging control method for a vehicle information management device that executes control of charging a storage battery with power generated in a train, the charging control method comprising: a first step of obtaining information on a current operational state of the train by an information obtainer; a second step of obtaining charging control information that matches the current operational state of the train by a controller from a storage to store charging control information therein, where in the charging control information, control contents of charging the storage battery with power generated by an engine installed in the train are set correspondingly to an operational state of the train; and a third step of controlling charging of the storage battery by the controller on a basis of the charging control information obtained, wherein at the first step, the information obtainer obtains, as information on the current operational state of the train, a current charging rate of the storage battery, a current train location of the train, and a current passenger load factor of the train; at the second step, the controller obtains charging control information that matches the current train location of the train and the current passenger load factor of the train from the storage; and at the third step, the controller controls charging of the storage battery by using the charging control information obtained and the current charging rate of the storage battery.