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US 12,728,767 B2Granted
Vehicle power supply system
AssigneeIHI Corporation
InventorMotonao Niizuma
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Abstract
A vehicle power supply system for supplying power to a vehicle includes a power supply unit, and a heat supply unit configured to recover heat and supply the recovered heat to an object to be supplied with heat. The power supply unit includes a storage part configured to store the vehicle, and a power supply part configured to supply power to the vehicle stored in the storage part. The heat supply unit includes a heat recovery part configured to recover heat inside the storage part, and a heat release part configured to release the recovered heat to the object to be supplied with heat.
Claims9
A vehicle power supply apparatus for supplying power to a vehicle, comprising:
- a storage structure configured to store the vehicle inside thereof;
- a power supply configured to supply power to the vehicle stored inside the storage structure;
- and
- a heat processing apparatus configured to:
- recover heat inside the storage structure;
- and
- exhaust the heat recovered to outside of the storage structure;
- the storage structure including one or more doorways through which the vehicle enters and/or exits, and a door for opening and closing each respective doorway;
- and
- a controller configured to control the power supply and the heat processing apparatus;
- wherein:
- the controller controls the heat processing apparatus to recover heat inside the storage structure and exhaust the heat recovered to outside of the storage structure when all of the one or more doorways are closed and the controller is controlling the power supply to supply power to the vehicle stored inside the storage structure;
- the heat processing apparatus includes a heat exhaust coupled to an object outside of the storage structure to be heated such that the heat recovered from supplying power to the vehicle is supplied to the object;
- the heat processing apparatus is a heat pump configured to perform a heat cycle including an evaporation step, a compression step, and a condensation step of a heat transfer medium to transfer heat to the object to be supplied with heat,
- the heat pump includes an evaporator configured to perform the evaporation step of recovering the heat inside the storage structure and evaporating the heat transfer medium,
- the heat pump includes a pipe configured to transfer the heat transfer medium, and a compressor configured to perform the compression step of compressing the heat transfer medium evaporated by the evaporator and raising a temperature of the heat transfer medium, and
- the heat pump includes a condenser configured to perform the condensation step of releasing heat from the heat transfer medium of which the temperature has been raised by the compressor to the object to be supplied with heat and condensing the heat transfer medium.
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A vehicle power supply apparatus for supplying power to a vehicle, comprising:
- a storage structure configured to store the vehicle inside thereof;
- a power supply configured to supply power to the vehicle stored inside the storage structure;
- a heat processing apparatus configured to:
- recover heat inside the storage structure;
- and
- exhaust the heat recovered to outside of the storage structure;
- wherein the storage structure includes at least one doorway through which the vehicle enters and/or exits, and a door for opening and closing the doorway;
- a processor configured to acquire battery state information including a state of an onboard battery from the vehicle inside the storage structure;
- and
- a controller configured to control the power supply, the heating apparatus and opening and closing operations of the door,
- wherein the controller is configured to control the door to be open when the state of the onboard battery indicated by the battery state information acquired by the processor is a predetermined abnormal state.
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A vehicle power supply apparatus for supplying power to a vehicle, comprising:
- a storage structure configured to store the vehicle inside thereof;
- a power supply configured to supply power to the vehicle stored inside the storage structure;
- a heat processing apparatus configured to:
- recover heat inside the storage structure from supplying power to the vehicle;
- and
- exhaust the heat recovered to outside of the storage structure;
- the heat processing apparatus includes a heat exhaust coupled to an object outside of the storage structure to be heated such that the heat recovered from supplying power to the vehicle is supplied to the object;
- a processor configured to generate, when the power supply is to supply power to a plurality of the vehicles in succession, a waiting list of the vehicles waiting to be supplied with power;
- and
- a heat processing apparatus control configured to control the heat exhausted by the heat processing apparatus to maintain a supplying state of the exhausted heat to the object to be supplied with heat from the heat processing apparatus when there is a vehicle waiting to be supplied with power in the waiting list.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.