JP6663574B2 - Cart fuel pipe filling system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a cart fuel pipe filling system, and more particularly to a system for managing fuel in a riding cart used in a golf course.

  In golf courses, golf carts are often used to move luggage such as golf bags and people. In recent years, due to increasing interest in environmental issues and energy issues, the present applicant has proposed in Japanese Patent Application No. 2017-240249 a passenger cart that runs on a fuel cell unit composed of a hydrogen tank and a fuel cell. are doing.

  However, if the hydrogen in the hydrogen tank runs out, the golf cart cannot run, and the play is interrupted, causing great trouble for the players behind. Here, when the hydrogen tank is fixed to the cart, it is necessary to provide a hydrogen filling device at the golf course, which increases capital investment. In addition, since the filling nozzle for filling hydrogen is heavier than the gasoline refueling nozzle, there is also a problem that self filling is difficult.

  On the other hand, when the hydrogen tank is detachable, hydrogen can be replenished by ordering a hydrogen tank from a fuel supplier without providing a hydrogen filling device at the golf course. Further, even if the hydrogen tank runs out of hydrogen during the play, the vehicle can be run in a short time by replacing the hydrogen tank with a fully filled hydrogen tank. However, even if it is a short time to change the hydrogen tank, if the play is interrupted, it will cause trouble for the players behind.

  In view of the above, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and provides a cart fuel filling system that prevents running out of fuel in a cart during golf play and enables smooth play to be continued. With the goal.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a cart fuel management system that manages the fuel of a travelable golf cart by receiving power supply from a fuel cell that uses hydrogen in a detachable hydrogen tank as a fuel, A hydrogen tank management room having a measuring means for managing the remaining amount of the hydrogen tank, a number of players and a number of rounds managed by a front desk for centrally managing the reservation and use of golf courses, and hydrogen managed by the hydrogen tank management room. And a dispatch room for distributing the golf cart by comparing the remaining amount of the tank .

According to the present invention, running out of fuel in the cart during golf play can be prevented by managing the remaining amount of the hydrogen tank and the like, so that smooth play can be continued. In addition, smooth and efficient vehicle allocation can be realized.

  In the cart fuel management system, the dispatch room can perform dispatch and calculate a remaining amount of the hydrogen tank after a round. Thereby, it is possible to quickly respond to the next dispatch.

  Further, in the cart fuel management system, when the remaining amount of the hydrogen tank after the round becomes equal to or less than a predetermined amount, the dispatch room can order a hydrogen tank from a fuel supplier. As a result, it is possible to streamline inventory management.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to prevent the cart from running out of fuel during golf play and to continue playing smoothly.

1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a first embodiment of a cart fuel management system according to the present invention. 3 is a flowchart for explaining a vehicle allocation operation of the cart fuel management system shown in FIG. 1. 3 is a flowchart for explaining a fuel ordering operation of the cart fuel management system shown in FIG. 1. It is a schematic diagram showing a second embodiment of a cart fuel management system according to the present invention. It is a schematic diagram showing a third embodiment of a cart fuel management system according to the present invention.

  Next, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of a cart fuel management system according to the present invention. This cart fuel management system 1 includes a front 2, a hydrogen tank management room 3, a cart storage room 6, a dispatch room 7, , A fuel supplier 8, a maintenance company 9, a cloud 10, and a network 20 connecting these components. The front 2, hydrogen tank management room 3, cart storage room 6, and dispatch room 7 A manages.

  The cart 17 is used for moving luggage such as a golf bag or the like and a person, and can travel by receiving power supply from a fuel cell using hydrogen in a detachable hydrogen tank as a fuel. Other configurations of the cart 17 are the same as those of a general riding cart.

  The front 2 includes, for example, a terminal installed at a reception counter of a golf course, transfers and manages the input information on the reservation and use of the golf course A to the cloud 10 and manages the information, and outputs data according to a request. Is provided.

  The hydrogen tank management room 3 is provided with a plurality of hydrogen tanks 4 and a measuring means 5 for measuring the amount of hydrogen inside the hydrogen tank 4. Provided to output data accordingly.

  The cart storage room 6 is provided not only for storing the cart 17 but also for transferring and managing information about the cart 17 to the cloud 10 and outputting data as required.

  The dispatch room 7 extracts an appropriate combination of the cart 17 and the hydrogen tank 4 based on various data requested for the front 2, the hydrogen tank management room 3, and the cart storage room 6. The extracted hydrogen tank 4 remains after the round. It is provided to calculate the amount and transfer and manage such information to the cloud 10. In addition, when the vehicle allocation room 7 extracts the hydrogen tank 4 whose remaining amount after the round becomes equal to or less than the predetermined amount, the vehicle allocation room 7 performs an ordering operation with respect to the fuel supplier 8.

  The fuel supplier 8 supplies the hydrogen tank 4 to each golf course including the golf course A in response to a request from the dispatch room 7. In addition, the maintenance company 9 performs maintenance of the cart 17 by acquiring information on the cart 17 by itself, and performs a periodic inspection of the cart 17 for each period contracted with the golf course A in advance.

  The cloud 10 includes a cart DB (database) 11, a reservation DB 12, a stock DB 13, a fuel supplier DB 14, a dispatch DB 15, and a maintenance DB 16. When various data is input via the network 20, It is provided for updating the stored data to new input data and outputting the stored various data as required.

  The cart DB 11 is provided for storing information on the cart 17 transferred from the cart storage room 6. As shown in Table 1, the information on the cart 17 is a user code, a golf course name, a cart No, a traveling start date, a maintenance date, and maintenance contents.

  The reservation DB 12 is provided for accumulating information on reservation and use of the golf course A transferred from the front 2. As shown in Table 2, the information on the reservation and use of the golf course A is a user code, a golf course name, a member name, the number of people, a play date, a start time, a number of rounds, and a course.

  The stock DB 13 is provided for storing information on the hydrogen tank 4 transferred from the hydrogen tank management room 3. The information on the hydrogen tank 4 is, as shown in Table 3, a user code, a golf course name, a hydrogen tank No, and a remaining amount. Here, the remaining amount is represented by the number of playable rounds. If the remaining amount is 1, it means that there is hydrogen remaining in the hydrogen tank 4 such that the fuel of the cart does not run out even if one round is played. is there.

  The fuel supplier DB 14 is provided to accumulate fuel supply information to each of the golf courses A and B transferred from the fuel supplier 8. As shown in Table 4, the fuel supply information includes a user code, a golf course name, a hydrogen tank number, a remaining amount, a fuel, and a scheduled supply date.

  The vehicle allocation DB 15 is provided for storing information on vehicle allocation of the cart 17 transferred from the vehicle allocation room 7. As shown in Table 5, the information on the dispatch of the cart 17 is a user code, a golf course name, a member name, a cart No, a hydrogen tank No, a remaining amount, the number of rounds, and a remaining amount after the round. Here, the remaining amount and the number of rounds are obtained from the stock DB 13 and the reservation DB 12, respectively.

  The maintenance DB 16 is provided to acquire information on the cart 17 from the cart DBs 11 of the golf courses A and B (the cart DB of the golf course B is omitted) and accumulate the information as information on maintenance of the cart 17. As shown in Table 6, the information on the maintenance of the cart 17 is the same as the information on the cart 17 shown in Table 1.

  Next, the operation of the cart fuel management system 1 having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS.

  First, the dispatch setting of the cart 17 will be described with reference to FIGS. In the description of the vehicle allocation setting, the data output of the front 2, the hydrogen tank management room 3, and the cart storage room 6 does not actually output the data from the front 2, etc. Requesting data output, and outputting data stored in various DBs.

  As shown in FIG. 2, when the dispatch setting is started in the dispatch room 7 (step S1; Yes), a data request is output to the front 2, the hydrogen tank management room 3, and the cart storage room 6 (step S2).

  When the data request is input (step S11; Yes), the front 2 outputs the information on the requested reservation and use of the golf course A to the dispatch room 7 (step S12).

  When a data request is input (Step S21; Yes), the hydrogen tank management room 3 outputs information on the requested hydrogen tank 4 to the vehicle allocation room 7 (Step S22).

  When the data request is input (Step S31; Yes), the cart storage room 6 outputs information on the requested cart 17 to the dispatch room 7 (Step S32).

  When the requested data is input (step S3; Yes), the dispatch room 7 determines in step S4 that the hydrogen tank 4 has an amount of hydrogen that can go around the round and is not used for another reservation. A cart 17 whose use date and time does not overlap with other reservations is extracted from the input data (step S4), and the dispatch setting is terminated based on these data. The remaining number after the round is calculated by subtracting the number of rounds, and the information on the allocation of the cart 17 in the allocation database 15 is updated (step S5).

  Next, a fuel ordering operation will be described with reference to FIGS. When the dispatch room 7 extracts the hydrogen tank 4 whose remaining amount becomes 1 or less after the round from the information on dispatch of the cart 17 shown in Table 5 (step S41; Yes), data such as the scheduled fuel supply date and the billing amount are obtained. Is output to the fuel supplier 8 together with the number of the hydrogen tank 4 whose remaining amount after the round becomes 1 or less and the remaining amount (step S42).

  When a data request or various data is input (step S51; Yes), the fuel supplier 8 inputs fuel supply information to the fuel supplier DB 14 based on these (step S52). Then, after actually supplying fuel to each golf course based on the input fuel supply information, bill information is calculated by calculating the amount charged to each golf course A and B (step S53). Each of the golf courses A and B can acquire the fuel supply information and the bill information by referring to the fuel supplier DB 14 by itself.

  As shown in Table 7, the bill information can be composed of a user code, a golf course name, the number of (hydrogen tanks), a full tank, a remaining amount, and a billing amount. Is for three rounds, and a charge can be charged as a supply amount by subtracting the remaining amount (total) from the full tank amount, which is the total of the capacities.

  According to the present embodiment, the allocation setting is performed based on the information on the reservation and use of the golf course A, such as the play date and the number of rounds, and the remaining amount of the hydrogen tank 4. Cuts can be prevented, and smooth play can be continued. In addition, since it is possible to efficiently order fuel, it is possible to streamline inventory management.

  Next, a second embodiment of the cart fuel management system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

  The cart fuel management system 21 uses the hydrogen tank management room 3, the fuel supplier 8 and the maintenance company 9 shown in FIG. 1 as a hydrogen tank management business unit 22, a fuel supply business unit 23, and a maintenance business unit 24 as one company. C.

  According to the present embodiment, the burden on the golf course A is reduced by the amount that the hydrogen tank management room 3 is eliminated, and fuel management and maintenance can be covered by one company, so that the cart fuel management system can be more smoothly performed. Can be implemented.

  Next, a third embodiment of the cart fuel management system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

  The cart fuel management system 31 uses the cart storage room 6 managed by the golf course A of the system 21 shown in FIG. 4 as the cart management business unit 32 and the hydrogen tank management business unit 22, the fuel supply business unit 23, and the This is integrated into one company D together with the maintenance business unit 24.

  According to the present embodiment, the burden on the golf course A can be further reduced by eliminating the need to manage the cart 17. On the other hand, the burden on the company D increases, but the business can be put together in one company, so that the cart fuel management system can be more smoothly implemented. The cart 17 can be provided via a leasing company.

1 Cart fuel management system 2 Front 3 Hydrogen tank management room 4 Hydrogen tank 5 Metering means 6 Cart storage room 7 Dispatch room 8 Fuel supplier 9 Maintenance company 10 Cloud 11 Cart DB
12 Reservation DB
13 Stock DB
14 Fuel supplier DB
15 Vehicle dispatch DB
16 Maintenance DB
17 Cart 20 Network 21 Cart fuel management system 22 Hydrogen tank management division 23 Fuel supply division 24 Maintenance division 31 Cart fuel management system 32 Cart management division A Golf courses C and D companies

Claims (3)

A cart fuel management system that manages fuel of a movable golf cart by receiving power supply from a fuel cell that uses hydrogen in a detachable hydrogen tank as a fuel,
A hydrogen tank management room having measuring means for managing the remaining amount of the hydrogen tank,
A dispatch room for dispatching the golf cart by comparing the number of players and the number of rounds to be played managed by the front desk that centrally manages reservation and use of the golf course with the remaining amount of the hydrogen tank managed by the hydrogen tank management room. A cart fuel management system comprising: 2. The cart fuel management system according to claim 1 , wherein the dispatch room performs dispatch and calculates a remaining amount of the hydrogen tank after a round. 3. 3. The cart fuel management system according to claim 2 , wherein the dispatch room orders a hydrogen tank from a fuel supplier when the remaining amount of the hydrogen tank after the round becomes equal to or less than a predetermined amount.

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