Power Storage Apparatus Wireless Status Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing power storage apparatuses for electrical equipment lack the capability to effectively check the normalcy of power supply operations from storage batteries to electrical equipment, such as guide lights and street lights, which can lead to undetected abnormalities and failures.
Innovation Solution
A power storage apparatus equipped with a storage battery, a power supply circuit, a first communicator for short-range wireless communication, and control circuitry that transmits response information regarding the normalcy of power supply operations to external communication equipment, allowing for the relay of this information to other power storage apparatuses and display on an information terminal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If power storage apparatuses are used to supply power to electrical equipment without monitoring capability, then power supply operation is simple and reliable, but the ability to detect power supply abnormalities is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the power storage apparatus periodically reports its operational status (charging, discharging, idle states) to an external information terminal via wireless communication. This feedback loop enables real-time monitoring of power supply operations, allowing users to detect abnormalities such as failed power supply or unexpected state changes, thereby resolving the contradiction between simple operation and detectability.
2Ease of operation
If no status monitoring system is implemented, then the device complexity is low and operation is simple, but the ability to notify users of power supply state is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an information terminal as an intermediary device that receives status information from the power storage apparatus via wireless communication and presents it to the user in a comprehensible format. This intermediary layer preserves the simplicity of the power storage apparatus itself while effectively transmitting power supply state information to users, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and information availability.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables the reliable checking and notification of power supply normalcy from power storage apparatuses to electrical equipment, facilitating timely maintenance and ensuring continuous operation of power-dependent systems like guide lights and street lights.
Implementation Method 1
a first communicator that communicates with external communication equipment through a short-range wireless communication
Data Source
AI summary
A power apparatus includes: a storage battery; a first communicator that communicates with external communication equipment through a short-range wireless communication; a power supply circuit that supply power of the storage battery to the electrical equipment; and a control circuitry that causes, when the first communicator receives a request signal for requesting at least one of first information regarding whether or not a power supply operation to supply the power of the storage battery to the electrical equipment through the power supply circuit is normal and second information regarding whether or not an operation of the electrical equipment using power supplied from the storage battery is normal from the external communication equipment, the first communicator to transmit response information including at least one of the first information and the second information to a transmission source of the request signal and to transmit the request signal to another power storage apparatus.