Patent ID: 11893517
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 7:
8. An information processing method, comprising:
arrangement information acquiring of acquiring arrangement information indicating a position where a charging device for charging one or more storage batteries is arranged;
user request acquiring of acquiring a reservation request regarding reservation of a storage battery from a user;
user position acquiring of acquiring user position information indicating a position of the user at reservation time when the reservation request is received;
charge state acquiring of acquiring information indicating a charge state of at least one of the one or more storage batteries at specific time;
state information generating of generating information in which (i) a charge state at the specific time and (ii) a charge state at an estimated time of arrival of the user at the charging device are associated for at least one of the one or more storage batteries, in accordance with (i) the arrangement information acquired in the arrangement information acquiring and (ii) the user position information acquired in the user position acquiring; and
charge managing of manage charging of the one or more storage batteries, wherein
the specific time is the reservation time,
the charge managing includes
utilization rate information acquiring of acquiring information indicating a target condition of a utilization rate of a charging device,
schedule determining of determining a charge schedule in accordance with the target condition of the utilization rate, and
the schedule determining includes determining, when the storage battery designated by the reservation request becomes a new target to be charged and the target condition of the utilization rate is not satisfied, interruption or stop of a charging operation of at least one of the one or more storage batteries which are currently charged;

wherein the utilization rate of the charging device is a relationship between a number of storage batteries available in the charging device and a maximum number of the storage batteries that can be stored in the charging device.