US 12,424,644 B2
Service providing mobile unit
Masashi Nakamura, Toyota (JP); Zixun Mei, Tokyo-to (JP); and Nobuyuki Tomatsu, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/961,209.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-166326 (JP), filed on Oct. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0110725 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. H01M 8/04746 (2016.01); B60P 3/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/0645 (2023.01); H01M 8/04082 (2016.01); H01M 8/04089 (2016.01); H01M 8/0444 (2016.01)
CPC H01M 8/04753 (2013.01) [B60P 3/00 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0645 (2013.01); H01M 8/04089 (2013.01); H01M 8/04201 (2013.01); H01M 8/0444 (2013.01); H01M 2250/20 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A service providing mobile unit comprising:
a frame,
movement-use wheels provided at a bottom part of the frame,
a plurality of hydrogen storage tank insert parts formed at the frame, and
a fuel cell arranged in the frame, wherein
said service providing mobile unit is able to provide a service for supplying hydrogen to the fuel cell from a hydrogen storage tank inserted in the hydrogen storage tank insert part, a service for lending out the hydrogen storage tank inserted in the hydrogen storage tank insert part, a service for returning a used hydrogen storage tank to the hydrogen storage tank insert part, and a service for storing the hydrogen storage tank inserted into the hydrogen storage tank insert part, and
wherein remaining amounts of hydrogen inside the hydrogen storage tanks inserted in the hydrogen storage tank insert parts are detected, and the service for lending out the hydrogen storage tank is performed based on the detected remaining amounts of hydrogen inside the hydrogen storage tanks.