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Title:
METHOD FOR MANAGING CHARGING OF SECONDARY BATTERY OF WORK VEHICLE, AND CHARGING SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2011142704
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a method for managing charging of a secondary battery of a work vehicle and a charging system, to achieve highly efficiently operation of the secondary battery by improving the efficiency of a rotation schedule such as use, exchange, and charging of the secondary battery to be attached to the electric work vehicle.

The management method includes the steps of: capturing the residual capacity of lithium ion batteries A-E for supplying power to a plurality of forklift trucks (work vehicles) 1-4; computing estimated power consumption of the work vehicles 1-4 to be consumed between the current time and a predetermine time; computing an index value for deciding priority order of exchanging the batteries of the work vehicles 1-4 on the basis of the difference between the residual capacity of each of the lithium ion batteries A-E and the estimated power consumption; and outputting a return command to a corresponding work vehicle among the vehicles 1-4 on the basis of the index value and a chargeable power of the lithium ion batteries A-E.


Inventors:
AKAHA FUMIHIRO
TSUMAKI TOSHIMICHI
Application Number:
JP2010000423A
Publication Date:
July 21, 2011
Filing Date:
January 05, 2010
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
MITSUBISHI HEAVY IND LTD
International Classes:
H02J7/00; B60L11/18; H01M10/42; H01M10/44; H01M10/46; H02J7/02
Domestic Patent References:
JP2003070104A2003-03-07
JP2009116634A2009-05-28
JPH027804A1990-01-11
JP2009177932A2009-08-06
JPH08182209A1996-07-12
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Ryuichiro Mori
Masatake Shiga
Tadashi Takahashi
Tetsuo Yamazaki