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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2014
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yasuhide Kurimoto, Kasugai, JP;
Kazuo Tojima, Toyota, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
An assembled battery reusing system for reusing an assembled battery including a plurality of single cells is provided. The rebuild candidate determining unit () determines based on the information about the assembled battery whether a retrieved assembled battery is a rebuild candidate, and the information is acquired by the assembled battery information acquisition unit (i.e. communication unit) (). The single cell amount determining unit () determines an amount of rebuilding-usable single cells included in the rebuild-candidate assembled battery determined by the rebuild candidate determining unit (). The assembled battery demand information acquisition unit () acquires an amount of rebuilding-required single cells required to rebuild a required new assembled battery. The determination unit () determines based on the determined amount of rebuilding-usable single cells and the acquired amount of rebuilding-required single cells whether to send the rebuild-candidate assembled battery to a rebuilding process.