Performing actions associated with a connected vehicle

• US 10,137,795 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2015
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Recargo, Inc. (E.ON SE)
• Original Assignee: Recargo, Inc. (E.ON SE)
• Inventors: Petrosian, Armen, Manfield, Lucas, North, Forrest, Wild, Nick
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheung, Calvin
• Application Number:
  US14/622,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20150224891A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,383 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/34 Cabin temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/36 Temperature of vehicle components or parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/662 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/10 by alarm
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/50 by future state prediction
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0023 Detecting, eliminating, remedying or compensating for drive train abnormalities, e.g. failures within the drive train
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/30 Constructional details of charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/305 Communication interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/665 Methods related to measuring, billing or payment
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/10 for monitoring or controlling batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/12 responding to state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/16 responding to battery ageing, e.g. to the number of charging cycles or the state of health [SoH]
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/26 for electrical energy, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/244 Charge state
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/45 External transmission of data to or from the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/0205 Diagnosing or detecting failures; Failure detection models
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/40 Bus networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/40215 Controller Area Network CAN
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/40273 : the transportation system being a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 : Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 : Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 : Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 : Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 : Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 : Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/167 : Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 : Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

Systems and methods for collecting data from electric vehicles, and performing various different actions based on the collected data, are described. In some embodiments, a device, such as a remote device that communicates with a server, connects with a controller area network (CAN) of an electric vehicle, and collects data from the CAN and/or other types of data associated with the electric vehicle (e.g., geographical information that identifies a location of an electric vehicle, movement information that identifies whether the electric vehicle is in motion or not, and so on). The systems and methods may perform various actions using some or all of the collected data.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving data collected by an on-board diagnostic system of a controller area network of an electric vehicle;

comparing the collected data to data previously collected from controller area networks of a group of electric vehicles having a same make and model as a make and model of the electric vehicle;

identifying a potential failure event for a battery pack of the electric vehicle when data collected from the electric vehicle matches one or more data patterns associated with known failure events at battery packs for the group of electric vehicles; and

performing an action in response to the identified potential failure event,

wherein the performed action includes generating and transmitting an alert message that identifies the potential failure event for the battery of the electric vehicle.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein comparing the collected data to data collected from other electric vehicles includes determining the data collected by the on-board diagnostic system of the controller area network of the electric vehicle indicates a failure event associated with the battery of the electric vehicle.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein comparing the collected data to data collected from other electric vehicles includes determining the data collected by the on-board diagnostic system of the controller area network of the electric vehicle indicates a potential failure event associated with the battery pack of the electric vehicle.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein comparing the collected data to data collected from a group of electric vehicles that includes the electric vehicle includes comparing the collected data to data collected from electric vehicles having a similar battery pack as a battery pack of the electric vehicle.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein comparing the collected data to data collected from a group of electric vehicles that includes the electric vehicle includes comparing the collected data to data collected from electric vehicles associated with a charging network that includes the electric vehicle as a member.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein collecting data from a controller area network of an electric vehicle includes collecting data that identifies a charge mode of the electric vehicle.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein collecting data from a controller area network of an electric vehicle includes collecting data that identifies a power level of a battery of the electric vehicle.

8. An electric vehicle, comprising:

an electric engine;

a battery pack;

one or more sensors;

a controller area network having an on-board diagnostics system that detects information from the electric engine of the electric vehicle, the battery pack of the electric vehicle, and the one or more sensors of the electric vehicle; and

a connected vehicle system, including;

an event module that;

receives data from the on-board diagnostic system of the electric vehicle;

compares the collected data to data collected from a group of electric vehicles having a same make and model as a make and model of the electric vehicle;

identifies a potential failure event at a component of the electric vehicle when data collected from the electric vehicle matches one or more data patterns associated with known failure events at components of the group of electric vehicles; and

an action module that performs an action in response to the identified potential failure event that includes generating and transmitting an alert message that identifies the potential failure event at the component of the electric vehicle.

9. The electric vehicle of claim 8, wherein the event module determines the data collected by the on-board diagnostic system of the electric vehicle Indicates a failure event associated with a component of the electric vehicle.

10. The electric vehicle of claim 8, wherein the event module determines the data collected by the on-board diagnostic system of the electric vehicle indicates a potential failure event associated with a component of the electric vehicle.

11. The electric vehicle of claim 8, wherein the event module compares the collected data to data collected from electric vehicles having a similar battery pack as a battery pack of the electric vehicle.

12. The electric vehicle of claim 8, wherein the event module compares the collected data to data collected from electric vehicles associated with a charging network that includes the electric vehicle as a member.

13. The electric vehicle of claim 8, wherein collecting data from a controller area network of an electric vehicle Includes collecting data that identifies a charge mode of the electric vehicle.

14. The electric vehicle of claim 8, wherein the on-board diagnostics system collects data that identifies a power level of a battery of the electric vehicle.

15. An electric vehicle, comprising:

an electric engine;

a battery pack;

one or more sensors;

a controller area network having an on-board diagnostics system that detects information from the electric engine of the electric vehicle, the battery pack of the electric vehicle, and the one or more sensors of the electric vehicle; and

a connected vehicle system, including;

an event module that;

compares the detected information to data previously collected from controller area networks of a group of electric vehicles having a same make and model as a make and model of the electric vehicle; and

identifies a potential failure event at a component of the electric vehicle when data collected from the electric vehicle matches one or more data patterns associated with known failure events at components of the group of electric vehicles; and

an action module that generates and transmits an alert message that identifies the potential failure event at the component of the electric vehicle.