Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Kabushiki Kaisha

Shigeki Kinomura

Shinji Ichikawa

Tomoya Ono

Yusuke Kinoshita

Hiroaki Takeuchi

Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya

Keita Hashimoto

Akio Uotani

Kazuyuki Kagawa

Ryuta Ishida

Hiroaki Arakawa

Tamaki Ozawa

Nobuyuki Orihashi

Chiaki Kanda

Toru Nakamura

Hidetoshi Kusumi

Hironobu Kitaoka

Daisuke Ishii

Tomoyuki Mizuno

Takashi Ogawa

Hiromitsu Fujii

Toru Ando

Hiroki Sawada

Yamato Niwa

Yasuo Suzuki

Hisashi Fujisawa

Atsushi Oki

Michiaki Arasu

Hiroki Takabatake

Tetsuhiro Ishikawa

Noritake Mitsutani

Takaji Umeno

Koji Miwa

Kazuhisa Mogi

Hirofumi Kubota

Takahide Iida

Kensuke Kamichi

Naoto Yumisashi

Makoto Hirai

Yoshiaki Atsumi

Yuya Aoki

Yoshitoshi Watanabe

Osamu Shintani

Atsushi Komada

Kenji Nakao

Yoshiyuki Igarashi

Tatsuki Saito

Masazumi Yoshida

Tatsuwo Hatanaka

Shintaro Kosetsu

Shingo Ueda

Kentaro Munemoto

Takafumi Nishimuta

Taro Furukoshi

A retention amount management system includes a detector that detects an amount of retention and a server that adjusts an amount of production of hydrogen in a production facility such that the amount of retention of hydrogen retained in a retention facility for a predetermined period attains to a target amount of retention. The server sets the target amount of retention such that an amount of hydrogen α corresponding to an amount of surplus electric power during a preparation period during which electric power generated per prescribed period by using renewable energy is higher than a threshold value is larger than an amount of hydrogen β corresponding to the amount of surplus electric power during an ordinary period.

Retention amount management system and retention amount management method

A retention amount management system includes a detector that detects an amount of retention and a server that adjusts an amount of production of hydrogen in a production facility such that the amount of retention of hydrogen retained in the retention facility for a predetermined period attains to a target amount of retention. The server sets the target amount of retention such that a first amount of hydrogen α corresponding to an amount of surplus electric power during a stable period during which electric power generated per prescribed period by using renewable energy is higher than a threshold value is larger than a second amount of hydrogen β corresponding to the amount of surplus electric power during an ordinary period.

Hydrogen retention amount management system and hydrogen retention amount management method for managing hydrogen retention amount in retention facility

A parking lot management method for managing a parking lot includes determining whether a parking space in the parking lot is insufficient. Further, the parking lot management method further includes at least one of executing a process of prompting at least one vehicle parked in the parking lot to exit when it is determined that a parking space in the parking lot is insufficient, and requesting at least one vehicle electrically connected to a power supply facility to execute energy management when it is determined that the parking space in the parking lot is not insufficient and a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Parking lot management method, storage medium, and computer device

A CEMS server obtains meteorological information and hydrogen station information. The CEMS server predicts a power demand of a microgrid after a designated period. When the power demand of the microgrid after the designated period exceeds contract power and when an amount of electric power to be reduced exceeds a prescribed value, the CEMS server generates a hydrogen addition notification and transmits the generated hydrogen addition notification to an FCEV and/or a communication terminal. The amount of electric power to be reduced is a difference between the contract power and the power demand.

Electric power system

A vehicle is configured to enable electric power to be fed from a charging stand to the vehicle and/or fed from the vehicle to the charging stand. The charging stand includes a movable unit and an elevation unit. The movable unit includes a charging connector to be connected to the vehicle. The elevation unit lifts and lowers the movable unit between a stored state in which the movable unit is stored underground and an exposed state in which the movable unit is exposed from ground. The vehicle includes an HMI and an ECU that controls the HMI. When the charging stand is available, the ECU controls the HMI to display that the charging stand is available, in a manner that the position of the charging stand can be identified from the vehicle.

Vehicle, charging system, and method of controlling vehicle

A charging system includes a movable unit, a elevating unit, an interface (key portion), and a controller. The movable unit includes a charging connector connectable to a vehicle. The elevating unit lifts up/down the movable unit between a state in which the movable unit is accommodated under the ground and a state in which the movable unit is exposed on the ground and the charging connector1 and the vehicle are connectable to each other. Via the interface, information is input and output between a user and the charging system. The controller controls the elevating unit to lift up/down the movable unit when a condition for receiving a lifting operation via the interface is satisfied and the lifting operation is received.

Vehicle charging system and method of controlling vehicle charging system

An electronic control unit (ECU) controls a vehicle capable of externally discharging an electric power via a discharge connector. The vehicle includes: an on-board inverter that adjusts the voltage of an alternating current (AC) power; and a vehicle inlet that discharges to the discharge connector the AC power output from the power converter when the discharge connector is connected to the vehicle inlet. The vehicle inlet has a CP terminal through which a control pilot (CPLT) signal is transmitted when the vehicleis charged externally. The ECU includes a processor. The processor determines the voltage of the AC power output from the on-board inverter, based on the voltage of the CP terminal.

Vehicle controller, vehicle, power supply system, discharge connector, and power supply method

A display device is configured to display a screen showing, on the same graph in which an axis indicates time, a predicted transition of a first parameter relating to a remaining charge of a power storage device and a predicted transition of a second parameter relating to an amount of reward for energy management under an assumption that charge and discharge control is executed on the power storage device in response to a request for the energy management.

Control system for showing advantage and disadvantage of energy management request

A vehicle includes an inlet unit to which a charging connector provided in a charging device is connected, a control unit configured to communicate with the charging device, a power accumulation device charged with power delivered through the charging connector, and an input unit to which a user makes an input. The control unit is configured to, upon determining that a charging stop request is input to the input unit during charging, stop the charging.

Vehicle and charging system

A controller executes a process including: a step of acquiring weather information when a first state is attained; and a step of executing lift-up control in the case of precipitation or in the case where precipitation is predicted within a first time; a step of maintaining the second state in the case where the precipitation is ended; and a step of executing lift-down control in the case of passage of a second time.

Charging facility and control method of charging facility

An electrically-powered vehicle supplements energy independently from each of a plurality of supply apparatuses that supply the energy. The electrically-powered vehicle includes a controller. The controller is configured to hold a plurality of pieces of vehicle control software, associated with at least two of pieces of control software of each of the plurality of supply apparatuses, and, when the energy is supplemented from any one supply apparatus of the plurality of supply apparatuses, select vehicle control software associated with control software of the any one supply apparatus from among the plurality of pieces of vehicle control software.

Electrically-powered vehicle, energy supply apparatus, and energy supply system

A store terminal executes a process including a step Sfor determining whether or not to receive the allocation fee and a step Sfor determining whether or not there is a request for termination of use, and further including, when the allocation fee is received (YES in S) and it is determined that there is a request for termination of use (YES in S), a step Sfor acquiring a usage time, a step Sfor setting a discount amount, a step Sfor setting a usage fee, and a step Sfor executing a checkout process.

Power management system

A vehicle includes a battery to which electric power supplied from electric vehicle supply equipment is charged. A green zone exists in which traveling of a vehicle using an amount of electric power that has a greenhouse gas emission intensity greater than a regulatory limit is restricted. A server includes: I/O ports through which the emission intensity of the electric power supplied from the electric vehicle supply equipment is obtained; and a processor that associates the amount of electric power charged from the electric vehicle supply equipment to the battery with the emission intensity obtained through the I/O ports. The processor: permits the vehicle to travel within the green zone using an amount of electric power having an emission intensity less than the regulatory limit within the amount of electric power stored in the battery; and notifies the vehicle of information related to that amount of electric power.

Server, vehicle, and power management method

A controller of an EMS server determines whether it has received a supply and demand request from a power transmission and distribution utility server. When having received the supply and demand request, the controller determines whether the supply and demand request is for requesting an increase in power demand or for requesting an increase in power demand. The controller decomposes the supply and demand request into first to third requests. The controller creates a negawatt DR execution plan or a posiwatt DR execution plan based on a determination result of S. The controller allocates power adjustment resources to the first to third requests in consideration of responsiveness of each of the power adjustment resources. The controller transmits the first to third request signals to target power adjustment resources in accordance with the execution plan.

A power supply system includes a plurality of charging stations accommodatable under a ground surface. The power supply system comprises a determination unit that determines a power supply facility available for supplying power to a target vehicle, and a transmission unit that transmits, to the target vehicle, guidance information for guiding the target vehicle to the determined charging station by automatic driving. The target vehicle is guided to the available charging station by automatic driving. The user can reach the available charging station without searching for it.

Power supply system

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Toyota, Japan

Shigeki Kinomura