Patent ID: 9083205
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: B60L,H01M,H02J,Y02E,Y02T,Y04S

Abstract:
1. A vehicle charging apparatus that communicates with a communication apparatus and charges a vehicle, the communication apparatus performing power line communication via a power line that includes at least three conducting wires, the at least three conducting wires including a plurality of pairs of conducting wires, the vehicle charging apparatus comprising: a communicator that receives a signal transmitted from the communication apparatus via a pair of conducting wires within the power line; a switch that selects the pair of conducting wires among the plurality of pairs of conducting wires based on the signal received by the communicator; and a storage that stores correspondence between the pair of conducting wires and address information corresponding to the communication apparatus, wherein: the communicator reads the address information of the signal from the communication apparatus; and the switch selects the pair of conducting wires among the plurality of pairs based on the address information read by the communicator.