US 11,836,660 B2
Charge management device, charge management method, and mobile body
Takumi Shibano, Nagoya (JP); and Kazutaka Kimura, Mishima (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-Ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/478,959.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-177590 (JP), filed on Oct. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0129815 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G06Q 10/109 (2023.01); G06Q 50/06 (2012.01); B60L 53/66 (2019.01); B60L 53/62 (2019.01); G06F 40/40 (2020.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 10/06315 (2013.01) [B60L 53/62 (2019.02); B60L 53/66 (2019.02); G05B 19/042 (2013.01); G06F 40/40 (2020.01); G06Q 10/06312 (2013.01); G06Q 10/109 (2013.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); H02J 7/0071 (2020.01); G05B 2219/2639 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A charge management device, comprising:
an interface configured to acquire information related to a schedule of a user; and
a control unit configured to manage a charge schedule of a battery of a mobile body used by the user based on the information related to the schedule of the user, wherein:
the interface is configured to
output a question about the schedule of the user, and
acquires an answer to the question from the user, the answer being input by voice and including a scheduled departure time of the user,
the control unit is configured to, in response to the answer acquired by the interface,
update the schedule of the user based on the answer from the user, and
generate the charge schedule of the battery of the mobile body based on the answer from the user,
the interface is configured to acquire information related to a power distribution network that supplies electric power to charge the battery of the mobile body, and
the control unit is configured to manage the charge schedule of the battery of the mobile body used by the user further based on the information related to the power distribution network.