US 11,667,211 B2
Cable, power transfer managing system, managing apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium
Hakaru Sadano, Saitama (JP); Motoki Hishida, Saitama (JP); and Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO.,LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 26, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/726,952.
Claims priority of application No. JP2019-005700 (JP), filed on Jan. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0231063 A1, Jul. 23, 2020
Int. Cl. B60L 53/67 (2019.01); B60L 53/18 (2019.01); B60L 53/65 (2019.01); H02J 13/00 (2006.01); B60L 53/66 (2019.01); B60L 55/00 (2019.01); H02J 3/14 (2006.01); G01R 22/00 (2006.01); G01R 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 53/67 (2019.02) [B60L 53/18 (2019.02); B60L 53/65 (2019.02); B60L 53/665 (2019.02); B60L 55/00 (2019.02); H02J 3/144 (2020.01); H02J 13/00002 (2020.01); H02J 13/00006 (2020.01); G01R 21/00 (2013.01); G01R 22/00 (2013.01); Y02B 70/3225 (2013.01); Y02T 90/167 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cable that can be used for bidirectional power transmission between a vehicle provided with a driving power source and a power consumer, the cable comprising:
a control apparatus which comprises:
at least one first processor;
a receiving unit that communicates with a power-amount acquiring device that is installed at the power consumer, and acquires an amount of power transferred between the power consumer and a power network; and receives, from the power-amount acquiring device,
(i) identification information of the power consumer and
(ii) at least one of
(a) information indicating an amount of power consumption at the power consumer,
(b) information indicating an amount of power that the power consumer has received from the power network, and
(c) information indicating an amount of power supplied from the power consumer to the power network;
a measuring unit that measures the transmission power amount of power transmitted between the vehicle and the power consumer through the cable;
a positional information acquiring unit that acquires positional information indicating a position of the cable;
a transmission information sending unit that sends to an external managing apparatus that manages an amount of power transmission between the vehicle and the power consumer, the identification information of the power consumer, and information indicating the transmission power amount measured by the measuring unit; and
a judging unit that judges consistency between the transmission power amount measured by the measuring unit and the information that the receiving unit has received from the power-amount acquiring device, wherein
the transmission information sending unit further sends the positional information acquired by the positional information acquiring unit to the external managing apparatus.