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US 12,019,415 B2Granted
Grouping electric transports for an electric grid
AssigneeToyota Motor North America, Inc.
InventorsNorman Lu, Maximilian Parness
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Abstract
An example operation includes one or more of determining groups of electric transports in an area that will have an available stored charge at a future time; verifying that one or more of the groups of electric transports are connected to an energy receiving module in the area immediately prior to the future time; and initiating a transfer of the available stored charge at the future time, wherein the future time is related to an energy demand of an electric grid being greater than a threshold.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- identifying, in an area, a group of electric transports that will have an available stored charge at a future time, where the future time is based on a time when an energy demand on an electric grid will be greater than a threshold amount and where the available stored charge is sufficient to reduce the energy demand on the electric grid below the threshold amount;
- performing a verification that each electric transport, of the group of electric transports, is connected to a corresponding energy receiving module in the area prior to the future time;
- replacing an electric transport, in the group of electric transports, with a new electric transport;
- in response to the performing a verification, identifying that the electric transport cannot provide an electric change to the corresponding energy receiving module before the future time;
- and
- causing the group of electric transports to transfer the available stored charge to the electric grid via the energy receiving modules at the future time;
- wherein a number of electric transports required to provide the available stored charge are identified;
- wherein a notification is sent to be in the group of electric transports to a number of electric transports that is greater than the number of electric transports required to provide the available stored charge.
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A system, comprising:
- a memory to store a set of instructions;
- and
- a processor that when executing the set of instructions is configured to:
- identify, in an area, a group of electric transports that will have an available stored charge at a future time, where the future time is based on a time when an energy demand on an electric grid will be greater than a threshold amount and where the available stored charge is sufficient to reduce the energy demand on the electric grid below the threshold amount,
- perform a verification that each electric transport, of the group of electric transports, is connected to a corresponding energy receiving module in the area prior to the future time,
- replace an electric transport, in the group of electric transports, with a new electric transport;
- in response to the performing a verification, identifying that the electric transport cannot provide an electric change to the corresponding energy receiving module before the future time, and
- cause the group of electric transports to transfer the available stored charge to the electric grid via the energy receiving modules at the future time;
- wherein a number of electric transports required to provide the available stored charge are identified;
- and
- wherein a notification is sent to be in the group of electric transports to a number of electric transports that is greater than the number of electric transports required to provide the available stored charge.
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A nontransitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform:
- identifying, in an area, a group of electric transports that will have an available stored charge at a future time, where the future time is based on a time when an energy demand on an electric grid will be greater than a threshold amount and where the available stored charge is sufficient to reduce the energy demand on the electric grid below the threshold amount;
- performing a verification that each electric transport, of the group of electric transports, is connected to a corresponding energy receiving module in the area prior to the future time;
- replacing an electric transport, in the group of electric transports, with a new electric transport;
- in response to the performing a verification, identifying that the electric transport cannot provide an electric change to the corresponding energy receiving module before the future time;
- and
- causing the group of electric transports to transfer the available stored charge to the electric grid via the energy receiving modules at the future time;
- wherein a number of electric transports required to provide the available stored charge are identified;
- wherein a notification is sent to be in the group of electric transports to a number of electric transports that is greater than the number of electric transports required to provide the available stored charge.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.