US 12,248,959 B2
Battery replacement control device and battery replacement control system
Jun Kobayashi, Obu (JP); Takahiro Okano, Chiryu (JP); Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Miyoshi (JP); and Nobuhiro Nakano, Nagakute (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/378,682.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-173408 (JP), filed on Oct. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0144310 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); B60L 53/62 (2019.01); B60L 53/80 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0208 (2023.01); G06Q 50/06 (2012.01); B60S 5/06 (2019.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0208 (2013.01) [B60L 53/62 (2019.02); B60L 53/80 (2019.02); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); B60S 5/06 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery replacement control system comprising:
an electric vehicle; and
a battery replacement control device that manages at least one battery replacement apparatus including at least one battery interchangeable with a battery mounted on the electric vehicle, the battery mounted on the electric vehicle being a first battery and the at least one battery being a second battery, the battery replacement control device comprising:
a communication unit that acquires situation information about a situation in the battery replacement apparatus; and
a processor that adjusts, based on the situation information, an incentive given to a user of the battery replacement apparatus, wherein:
the electric vehicle is configured to acquire information including an SOC of the electric vehicle, and transmit the information about the SOC of the electric vehicle to the processor,
the situation information includes information that the battery replacement apparatus is required to charge the second battery using power from a power system, and information about an SOC of the second battery,
the processor determines a number of the second batteries having a full SOC is larger than or equal to a predetermined first threshold value,
the processor makes, in response to determining the number of the second batteries having a full SOC is larger than or equal to a predetermined first threshold value, the incentive when the SOC of the electric vehicle is smaller than or equal to a predetermined second threshold value larger than the incentive when the SOC of the electric vehicle is larger than the predetermined second threshold value, and
the processor gradually adjusts the incentive in a stepwise manner as the SOC of the electric vehicle decreases.