Patent ID: 11899484
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  B  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A supply-demand control device that is mounted on an industrial product and that controls supply and demand of power or energy in the industrial product, the supply-demand control device comprising a controller, the controller being configured to:
set, for each of a plurality of priority ranks defined in advance to classify various possible demands from the industrial product for the power or the energy, an allowable limit within a range of a value set for a higher priority rank than the each of the priority ranks, the allowable limit indicating an upper limit of the power or the energy that is allowed to be supplied in response to a demand of the each of the priority ranks while the power or the energy that is supplied in response to a demand of the higher priority rank is secured;
detect the demand for the power or the energy, which occurs in the industrial product; and
allocate, in order of the priority rank, the power or the energy that is supplied from a predetermined supply source in response to the detected demand for the power or the energy, such that the supplied power or the supplied energy is equal to or lower than the upper limit indicated by the allowable limit set for the each of the priority ranks,
wherein the controller further defines a plurality of occurrence frequency ranks each indicating a frequency of occurrence of the demand for the power or the energy, and the controller is configured to change the allowable limit for the each of the priority ranks in accordance with the occurrence frequency ranks.