JP2020114117A - Parking lot charge system using free space - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a parking lot charge system with a device integrating a parking meter with a charger of an electric vehicle.SOLUTION: A parking lot charge system has a parking meter and a charger of an electric vehicle by using free space of roadside of ordinary roads such as federal roads, prefectural roads, and city roads, and available places such as air-ground facing the roads and fallow fields. By performing processing of charging the electric vehicle during parking, and processing of collecting parking fee from customers having parked more than a fixed time by the parking meter, an establishment of charging facility of electric vehicles by using the free space is promoted, and long time parking is prevented.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention installs a parking meter and a charging device using an empty space beside an ordinary road such as a national road, a prefectural road, or a city road, or an available space such as an open space facing these roads or a fallow land. Car parking charging system.

Today, so-called hybrid cars and electric vehicles, which emit a small amount of CO2, are drawing attention. In particular, electric vehicles emit zero CO2 and are the most environmentally friendly vehicles. Patent Document 1 is an invention of a parking lot facility provided with a plurality of storage spaces, and discloses a system provided with a facility capable of charging an electric vehicle.

On the other hand, convenience stores, drug stores, home appliances, and other mass retailers usually face large streets, and many of the customers who use such stores come by car, and most stores There is a parking lot. However, in recent years, an increasing number of customers have illegally parked in such a parking lot for a long time.

In addition, in the case of a charging device for an electric vehicle provided in a service area or a parking area of a highway, it takes time to charge, so the time is lost due to the purchase of meals, souvenirs, etc., and the parking time becomes longer. In this case, the charging time of the electric vehicle, which is originally necessary, is exceeded, and the parking time is often long. Moreover, on Sundays and public holidays, the parking area is often long and there is a long waiting line in front of the entrance to the service area.

JP, 2011-182588, A

In the case of an electric vehicle, a charging device is required, but in Japan today, it is sufficient to install it at several places in large parking lots such as convenience stores, mass retailers, and service areas on expressways. The charging device is not installed. This is also a factor that prevents the spread of electric vehicles. Further, although the parking lot is provided with the charging facility as described above, no method for effectively preventing the customer from parking for a long time has been proposed.

Therefore, the present invention is not limited to a convenience store, a mass retailer, a large parking lot such as a service area of a highway, and an empty space beside a road of a general road such as a national road, a prefectural road, and a city road, and a surface of these roads. A charging device is installed in an available place such as a vacant land or a fallow land to enhance convenience when driving an electric vehicle, and a parking meter equipped with a parking meter to prevent unauthorized long-term parking. It provides a parking lot charging system.

According to the present invention, according to the present invention, an empty space beside an ordinary road such as a national road, a prefectural road, and a city road, an open space facing these roads, and a parking meter using an available place such as a fallow land. A parking lot charging system in which a charging device for an electric vehicle is installed, the processing for charging the electric vehicle during parking and the processing for collecting a parking fee for a customer who has parked for a certain period of time by a parking meter. The present invention is intended to prevent the harmful effects such as traffic congestion due to long-term parking while promoting the spread of electric vehicles.

In addition, the above-mentioned fixed time is a time required to charge an electric vehicle using a charging device installed in, for example, a parking area of a highway, and when parking is continued beyond this time, Start charging by parking meter.

ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the charging device of an electric vehicle is used using the empty space beside the road of the general roads, such as a national road, a prefectural road, and a city road, the open space which faces these roads, and fallow land etc. By installing it, it is possible to promote the spread of electric vehicles, and by installing a parking meter, it is possible to solve illegal long-term parking and to solve traffic congestion due to long-time parking in a service area or a parking area.

It is a figure explaining the parking lot charging system which faces the national road provided with the parking meter of this embodiment, and the integrated device which has a charging function. It is a figure explaining the parking lot charging system near a bus stop provided with the parking meter of this embodiment, and the integrated device which has a charging function. It is an example of an integrated device, and in particular, is a diagram showing a portion in which a display unit and a charging device are housed. (A) is a figure which shows the state which opened the cover of a charging device, (b) is a figure which shows the state which connected the charging cable to the outlet of the charging device. It is a flow chart explaining processing operation of this embodiment. It is a figure explaining the example which a customer inserts a card in a card insertion part. It is a figure which shows the charge state of an electric vehicle. It is a figure explaining the parking lot charging system of a service area and a parking area.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a parking lot charging system of the present embodiment, and is a diagram illustrating a parking lot charging system including a parking meter and charging equipment. In particular, the example in the figure is a parking lot charging system in which a parking meter and an electric vehicle charging device are installed using an open space facing a national highway, and an integrated device 2 having a parking meter and electric vehicle charging function is installed. Has been done.

In the figure, three parking spaces 1-1 to 1-3 are provided in the parking lot 2 installed in the open space facing the national road 22, and the parking spaces 1-1 to 1-3 are respectively provided. Is provided with integrated devices 2-1 to 2-3 each having a parking meter and a charging function for an electric vehicle. In addition, road signs 23a and 23b are installed beside the road of the national road 22, and in particular, the use of the parking lot 2 can be promoted by installing the road sign 23a prohibiting parking and parking near the parking lot 2 of this example. it can.

On the other hand, FIG. 2 shows another example in which the parking lot charging device of this example is installed, for example, an example in which a parking lot charging device using an empty space beside a bus stop installed at a predetermined interval is used. is there. Also in this case, similarly to the above example, the equipment is provided with a parking meter and a charging function for an electric vehicle, three parking spaces 1-4 to 1-6 are provided, and each parking space 1-4 to 1-6. There are installed integrated devices 2-4 to 2-6 each having a parking meter and a charging function for an electric vehicle. In the figure, the bus stop 24 shows a state in which the bus 25 is stopped.

FIG. 3 is an example of the integrated devices 2-1 to 2-6, and particularly shows a portion in which a display unit and charging equipment are housed. Since all the integrated devices 2-1 to 2-6 of this example have the same structure, the integrated device 2 will be described below. The integrated device 2 includes a timekeeping display unit 3, a card processing unit 4, an undelivered light 5, a coin insertion unit 6, a receipt issuing button 7, a receipt extracting port 8, a return port 9, and a charging instruction button 10. Is an explanation part of how to use the integrated device 2.

Also, 17 is a settlement button, which is operated when the customer pays the parking fee. Reference numeral 18 denotes a sensor that detects that a vehicle is parked in the parking spaces 1-1 to 1-n. Further, a charging device 12 is arranged below the integrated device 2.

The timekeeping display unit 4 measures the elapsed time from the start of parking. The card processing unit 4 is used when paying a parking fee or a charging fee for an electric vehicle using a card, and includes a card insertion unit 4a and an operation unit 4b. The card insertion portion 4a is not limited to the card that can be used at the gas station of the present example, and various cards such as a card at another gas station and a bank card or a credit card can be used.

The operation unit 4b is composed of a numeric keypad or the like, and inputs money amount information when paying a parking fee or a charging fee using a card. The non-payment lamp 5 is turned on when the vehicle is parked without paying the parking fee, and the coin insertion portion 7 is an insertion portion for a predetermined parking fee. Besides paying the parking fee and the charging fee with a card, the parking fee and the charging fee can be paid with coins, and in this case, the coin insertion unit 6 is used.

The receipt issuance button 8 is a button operated by a customer who needs a receipt, and when the button 8 is pressed, the receipt is output to the receipt outlet 9. The return port 9 is, for example, a return port for fishing when coins are inserted into the coin insertion portion 6.

Further, the charging instruction button 10 is a button that is pressed by a customer (driver) when the vehicle is desired to be charged. After pressing the charging instruction button 10, the card is inserted into the card insertion portion 4a described above, The operating unit 4b is operated to pay the charging charge. Further, by charging coins from the coin charging unit 6, the charged amount of coins can be charged. The charging device 13 can be charged by the power supply circuit described later for the amount of money specified by the customer.

FIG. 4A is a diagram showing a configuration of the charging device 12, and is a diagram showing a state in which the lid 13 of the charging device 12 is opened. An outlet 14 is provided in front of the charging device 12 of this example, and the outlet 14 is connected to a power supply circuit described later. Further, the outlet 14 is provided with a switch 14a. In addition, FIG. 2B is a diagram showing a state in which the charging cable 16 is connected to the outlet 14 of the charging device 12.

In the parking lot charging system having the above configuration, the process of this example will be described below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.
During operation of the electric vehicle, the control system inside the vehicle constantly measures the amount of charge of the battery (step (hereinafter, S) 1 is NO, S1), and when the amount of charge of the battery is low (YES in S1), The driver recognizes the decrease in the amount of charge through the display or the like, and heads to the installation location of the charging device (S2).

As described above, the charging device for an electric vehicle has conventionally been installed only in a place such as a convenience store or a parking lot of a large store such as a mass retailer. However, according to this example, for example, as shown in FIG. 1 described above. It is installed beside a national or prefectural road, and is installed near a bus stop as shown in FIG. 2, so that the driver can easily go to the installation location of the charging device.

Then, for example, when a vehicle (for example, an electric vehicle) is parked in any one of the parking spaces 1-1 to 1-3 (1-4 to 1-6) in which the above-described parking meter and charging facility are installed, it corresponds. The sensor 18 of the integrated device 2 arranged in the parking space detects the vehicle (S3) and causes the timekeeping display unit 3 to display the elapsed time (S4).

After that, it is determined whether or not the vehicle is to be charged. For example, when the customer presses the charge instruction button 10 and there is a charge instruction (YES in S5), the charge amount is calculated according to the charge fee (S6). For example, as shown in FIG. 6, when the customer 20 inserts the card 19 into the card insertion portion 4a and is instructed from the operation portion 4b to enter the deposit amount, the charge amount is calculated according to this amount. Further, when the charging fee is input from the coin insertion portion 6, the amount of charge to the vehicle is calculated according to the input amount. Then, charging of the car is started (S7).

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing this state. When the lid 13 of the charging device 12 is opened and the charging cable 16 is connected to the outlet 14 of the charging device 12, an electric vehicle from the power supply unit (not shown) via the charging cable 16 will be described. The battery is charged. Although the charging cable 16 is attached to the vehicle, it may be provided on the integrated device 2 side. When the vehicle is not charged, only the parking time is measured without performing the charging operation (NO in S5).

After that, the customer finishes the business and returns to the parking lot, and pays the parking fee using the parking meter. In this case, the customer first presses the settlement button (YES in S8). In this case, first, the parking time when the clearing button is pressed is calculated (S9). Then, when the preset parking time is not exceeded (NO in S10), it is possible to leave the vehicle without charging the parking fee (S11). On the other hand, when the preset parking time is exceeded (YES in S10), the calculated parking fee is billed (S12).

The parking time that determines whether or not the parking fee is charged is the time required to charge the electric vehicle, and it is usually set in advance to the required time.If this time is exceeded, the parking fee will be collected. is there. Therefore, a parking fee can be charged to a customer who parks for a long time, and long-time parking can be prevented.

For example, FIG. 8 shows an example of a charging device for an electric vehicle installed in a service area 24 of an expressway, and a plurality of integrated devices of this example are installed.
When using the service area 24 of the normal expressway, it is normal to use the store 25 or the toilet in the service area 24 and return in a few minutes or a dozen minutes. However, it takes about 30 to 40 minutes to charge an electric vehicle, and therefore, time is consumed by purchasing meals and souvenirs, and parking time becomes long. In this case, the charging time often exceeds the originally required charging time, and the parking time often becomes long.

However, on Sundays and holidays, there are many cases in which cars waiting for parking are in a long queue in front of the entrance to the service area without entering the parking area. Therefore, by installing the charging device of this example, it is possible to help alleviate this state. That is, since the integrated device of this example is also provided with a parking meter, if the vehicle is parked for a certain period of time as described above, the charging starts and the parking fee is generated. After returning to the car, you will immediately return to the car and leave the parking lot.

In the above description of the present embodiment, an example of using an integrated device having a charging function for a parking meter and an electric vehicle has been described, but the integrated device does not necessarily have to be an integrated device. The device may be separate. Therefore, for example, the charging device for the electric vehicle may be installed at the place where the existing parking meter is installed, or the parking meter may be installed later at the place where the charging device for the electric vehicle is installed.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Parking lot 1-1 to 1-n... Parking space 2-1 to 2-n... Integrated device 3... Time display part 4... Card processing part 4a... Card insertion part 4b ..Operating unit 5...Unpaid light 6...Coin insertion unit 7...Receipt issuance button 8...Receipt takeout port 9...Return port 10...Charge instruction button 11...Integrated How to use the device 12... Charging device 13 Lid 14 Outlet 14a Switch 15 Power supply circuit 16 Charging cable 17 Clearing button 18 Sensor 19 Card 20 Customers 22 · National highways 23a, 23b · Road signs 24 · Bus stop facilities 25 · Buses 26 · Expressway service areas 27 · Stores

Claims (4)

A parking lot equipped with a parking meter and a charging device for an electric vehicle is used by using an empty space beside a road for general roads such as national roads, prefectural roads, and city roads, as well as open spaces facing these roads and fallow land. A parking lot charging system,
The process of charging the electric vehicle while parking,
A process of collecting a parking fee for a customer who has parked for a certain time or more by the parking meter,
A parking lot charging system that prevents long-term parking. A parking lot equipped with a parking meter and a charging device for an electric vehicle is used by using an empty space beside a road for general roads such as national roads, prefectural roads, and city roads, as well as open spaces facing these roads and fallow land. A parking lot charging system,
Means to charge the electric vehicle while parked,
Means for collecting a parking fee for a customer who has parked for a certain period of time or more by the parking meter,
Parking lot charging system that prevents long-term parking. A parking lot charging system equipped with a parking meter and a charging device for an electric vehicle using an available space such as an empty space near a bus stop, an open space, and a fallow land,
The process of charging the electric vehicle while parking,
A process of collecting a parking fee for a customer who has parked for a certain time or more by the parking meter,
A parking lot charging system that prevents long-term parking. The said fixed time is a time required to charge an electric vehicle, and when it exceeds the fixed time, a parking fee is collected to prevent long-term parking. Parking lot charging system.

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