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Granted Patent B2
US 11,136,008 · App. 16/236,205 · Granted Oct 5, 2021

Systems and methods for managing exchangeable energy storage device stations

Inventors: Yun-Chun Lai (Hsinchu, TW); Sheng-Chin Chuang (New Taipei, TW); I-Fen Shih (New Taipei, TW); Chien-Chung Chen (Taoyuan, TW)
Assignee: Gogoro Inc.
B60S5/06B60L53/305B60L53/68B60L53/80G01R31/382G06Q10/06315G06Q30/0202G06Q50/00
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Patent No.
US 11,136,008
App. No.
16/236,205
Granted
Oct 5, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods and associated systems for managing a battery-exchange station are provided. The method includes (1) receiving, from a server, demand information for the battery-exchange station corresponding to a first time period; and (2) forming a charging plan for a plurality of batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station corresponding to the first time period based on a first instruction set stored in the battery-exchange station and the demand information corresponding to the first time period. The first instruction set includes one or more charging rules and information indicative of assigning the one or more charging rules to each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station. The charging plan comprises one or more assigned charging rules for each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station.

Claims (56)

1. A method for managing a battery-exchange station,

the method comprising:

receiving, from a server, demand information for the battery-exchange station corresponding to a first time period; and

forming a charging plan for a plurality of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station corresponding to the first time period based on a first instruction set stored in the battery-exchange station and the demand information corresponding to the first time period;

wherein the first instruction set comprises one or more charging rules and information indicative of assigning the one or more charging rules to each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station based on a manufacturing batch of each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station; and

wherein the charging plan comprises one or more assigned charging rules for each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, from the server, demand information for the battery-exchange station corresponding to a second time period later than the first time period; and

updating the charging plan for the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station corresponding to the second time period based on the first instruction set stored in the battery-exchange station and the demand information corresponding to the second time period.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

periodically updating the charging plan for the battery-exchange station.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

generating charging commands for each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station based on the one or more assigned charging rules for each of the batteries and a status of each of the batteries during the first time period, the first time period comprising one or more time intervals.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

receiving a second instruction set from the server, the second instruction set comprising one or more updated charging rules;

updating the one or more assigned charging rules based on the one or more updated charging rules;

updating the charging commands for each of the batteries based on the updated one or more assigned charging rules and the status of each of the batteries.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the status of each of the batteries comprises at least one of a temperature and an SoC.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising simulating the first instruction set to generate a simulation result.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising determining whether to update the first instruction set based on the simulation result.

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising simulating a charging process for at least one of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

assigning the one or more charging rules to each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station respectively based on battery usage information of each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the battery usage information includes an actual battery charging temperature.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the battery usage information includes an actual battery charging time.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

updating the charging plan in response to a triggering event.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the triggering event comprises a disconnection between the server and the battery-exchange station.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:

in response to the triggering event, considering the demand information for the battery-exchange station corresponding to the first time period as demand information for the battery-exchange station corresponding to a second time period later than the first time period; and

generating the charging plan for the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station corresponding to the second time period based on the first instruction set stored in the battery-exchange station and the demand information for the battery-exchange station corresponding to the first time period.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first time period comprises a first time interval and a second time interval following the first time interval, and wherein the demand information for the battery-exchange station corresponding to the first time period comprises a first demand prediction for the first time interval and a second demand prediction for the second time interval, and wherein the method further comprises:

assigning a priority value to each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station based on a status of each of the batteries.

17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

forming the charging plan by:

assigning a first set of batteries of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station to meet the first demand prediction based on the priority value of each of the batteries; and

assigning a second set of batteries of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station to meet the second demand based on the priority value of each of the batteries.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:

forming the charging plan by:

assigning at least one charging rule from the one or more charging rules to each of the first set of batteries based on the first demand prediction; and

assigning at least one charging rule from the one or more charging rules to each of the second set of batteries based on the second demand prediction.

19. The method of claim 1 , further comprising managing the first instruction set based on an aging policy.

20. The method of claim 19 , further comprising verifying whether the first instruction set is expired based on the aging policy.

21. The method of claim 20 , further comprising replacing the first instruction set with a set of default rules when the first instruction set is expired.

22. A battery-exchange station, comprising:

a processor;

a battery management component coupled to the processor and configured to—

receive, from a server, demand information for the battery-exchange station corresponding to a first time period; and

form a charging plan for the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station corresponding to the first time period based on a first instruction set stored in the battery-exchange station and the demand information corresponding to the first time period;

wherein the first instruction set comprises one or more charging rules and information indicative of assigning the one or more charging rules to each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station based on a manufacturing batch of each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station; and

wherein the charging plan comprises one or more assigned charging rules for each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station.

23. The battery-exchange station of claim 22 , further comprising:

an instruction management component coupled to the processor and configured to manage the first instruction set based on based on an aging policy.

24. The battery-exchange station of claim 22 , wherein the one or more charging rules are assigned based on battery usage information of each of the batteries positioned in the battery-exchange station.

25. The battery-exchange station of claim 24 , wherein the battery usage information includes an actual battery charging temperature.

26. The battery-exchange station of claim 24 , wherein the battery usage information includes an actual battery charging time.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 5, 2019
From: LAI, YUN-CHUN; CHUANG, SHENG-CHIN; SHIH, I-FEN; CHEN, CHIEN-CHUNG
To: GOGORO INC.
Reel/Frame 049086/0311 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62612249 · Dec 29, 2017
Related Publication 20190202416A1 · Jul 4, 2019
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