Patent ID: 8483901

Claim:
A power charging station administration device comprising: vehicle position information acquisition means for acquiring vehicle position information representing the position of a vehicle; administration means for administrating registration information including installation site information representing the installation site of an in-vehicle battery charger which is able to charge an in-vehicle battery of the vehicle and information relating to whether or not a vehicle other than a vehicle registered in the in-vehicle battery charger is permitted to use the in-vehicle battery charger; and information publication means for, when there is a request for publication of the registration information from the vehicle, on the basis of the vehicle position information acquired by the vehicle position information acquisition means and the registration information administrated by the administration means, publishing the registration information in the in-vehicle battery charger which is within a predetermine range from the vehicle which requests for the registration information and is permitted for a vehicle other than the vehicle which is registered in the in-vehicle battery charger to use, to the vehicle which requests for the registration information, wherein the registration information further includes available time slot information representing time slots at which the in-vehicle battery charger is available, the vehicle position information acquisition means acquires the vehicle position information representing the position of the vehicle which is registered in the in-vehicle battery charger, and the information publication means changes the available time slots of the in-vehicle battery charger in the available time slot information on the basis of the position of the vehicle registered in the in-vehicle battery charger acquired by the vehicle position information acquisition means and the installation site of the in-vehicle battery charger, and publishes the changed available time slot information and installation site information to the vehicle which requests for the registration information.