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Title:
POWER CONTROL UNIT, POWER CONTROL SYSTEM, AND POWER CONTROL METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2015112014
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power control unit and a power control method for a consumer having a storage battery, capable of enhancing usefulness of the storage battery by properly controlling the battery during a long absence of a user.SOLUTION: A power control unit is provided to a consumer, who has a distributed power supply capable of supplying power, a storage battery for storing power supplied from an electric power system or power supplied from the distributed power supply, and a load apparatus, to control power in a home of the consumer. The power control unit comprises: a detection part for detecting a long absence of a user in the home of the consumer; a mode control part for setting a storage battery operation mode from a presence-mode to an absence-mode when the long absence of the user is detected; a power storage amount setting part which changes a target power storage amount, when the absence-mode is set, from a first target power storage amount that is the amount to be stored in the storage battery during the user is at home to a second target power storage amount that is the amount to be stored in the storage battery during the long absence; and a storage battery control part for controlling the power storage amount of the storage battery on the basis of the second target power storage amount.

Inventors:
OKINO KENTA
Application Number:
JP2015032566A
Publication Date:
June 18, 2015
Filing Date:
February 23, 2015
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
KYOCERA CORP
International Classes:
H02J3/32; G06Q10/00; H02J3/38; H02J13/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP2002190309A2002-07-05
JP2011083083A2011-04-21
JP2005086953A2005-03-31
JP2007330083A2007-12-20
JP2010233362A2010-10-14
Foreign References:
WO2006006224A12006-01-19