Patent ID: 9507368
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: B60W,G05F,H02J

Claim Text:
1. A power control apparatus comprising: a power supply device for supplying an electric power, the power supply device including a plurality of power supply elements; a power consumption device for consuming the electric power; a battery independently arranged from the power supply device and the power consumption device; a supply and consumption balance adjustment device for controlling the power supply device and the battery to supply the electric power to the power consumption device; a prediction device for predicting at least one of electric power supply from at least a part of the plurality of power supply elements and electric power consumption of the power consumption device; a guard value setting device for setting a guard value of a charging and discharging operation of the battery according to a prediction result of the prediction device; and an output device for outputting the guard value to the supply and consumption balance adjustment device, wherein the guard value setting device includes an optimum value search device for determining an optimum value of the charging and discharging operation of the battery according to the prediction result of the prediction device; the guard value includes a charging guard value and a discharging guard value; and the guard value setting device sets the charging guard value when the optimum value determined by the optimum value search device relates to a charging operation of the battery, and the guard value setting device sets the discharging guard value when the optimum value determined by the optimum value search device relates to a discharging operation of the battery.