Moving body energy management apparatus and moving body energy management method

• US 20060142915A1
• Filed: 06/23/2004
• Published: 06/29/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Kodaira, Takahiro, Seto, Keisuke, Takakuwa, Kei, Isono, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US10/545,782
• Publication Number:
  US 20060142915A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/46 Series type
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/62 Vehicle position
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/622 by satellite navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/72 Charging station selection relying on external data
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/54 Energy consumption estimation
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/06 including control of combustion engines
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/08 including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/26 for electrical energy, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/00 Control systems specially adapted for hybrid vehicles hybrid vehicle design, B60K6/00; electric vehicles B60L
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/12 using control strategies taking into account route information estimation or calculation of non-directly measurable driving parameters B60W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/244 Charge state
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3469 Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096811 where the route is computed offboard
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096838 where the user preferences are taken into account or the user selects one route out of a plurality
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• 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

Abstract

A moving body energy management apparatus is installed in a moving body having a supply part that supplies energy and a consumption part that consumes the energy supplied from the supply part. The consumption part includes a first part that consumes the energy for moving the moving body, which is a first function, and a second part that consumes the energy for performing a function other than moving of the moving body, which is a second function relating to the moving body. The moving body energy management apparatus includes an obtaining part obtaining environmental information relating to an environment in which the moving body is placed. A control part controls at least one of the consumption part and the supply part based on the environmental information obtained by the obtaining part such that the first function and the second function are both performed.

Claims

1. A moving body energy management apparatus installed in a moving body having a supply part that supplies energy and a consumption part that consumes the energy supplied from the supply part, the consumption part having a first part that consumes the energy for moving the moving body, which is a first function, and a second part that consumes the energy for performing a function other than moving of the moving body, which is a second function relating to the moving body,

said moving body energy management apparatus comprising:

an obtaining part obtaining environmental information relating to an environment in which the moving body is placed; and

a control part controlling at least one of the consumption part and the supply part based on the environmental information obtained by the obtaining part such that the first function and the second function are both performed.

2. The moving body energy management apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the moving body comprises:

a sensor detecting at least one of a running state quantity of the moving body and the environment in which the moving body is placed;

a navigation system for detecting a current position of the moving body; and

a communication apparatus for communicating with an information transmission apparatus that is located outside the moving body and transmits information, and

wherein the obtaining part comprises an information obtaining part that obtains the environmental information by using one of the sensor, the navigation system, and the communication apparatus.

3. The moving body energy management apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the control part comprises an estimation-type control part that estimates a state of the moving body, which state includes a future position of the moving body, based on the environmental information obtained by the obtaining part, and controls the at least one of the consumption part and the supply part based on the estimated state of the moving body.

4. The moving body energy management apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the control part comprises a supply part control part that estimates the state of the moving body, which state includes the future position of the moving body, based on the environmental information obtained by the obtaining part, and controls the supply part with respect to energy supply between the supply part and an external energy related apparatus located outside the moving body.

5. The moving body energy management apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the control part comprises a supply part control part that estimates a state of the moving body, which state includes the future position of the moving body, based on the environmental information obtained by the obtaining part, and controls the supply part with respect to energy supply between the supply part and an external energy related apparatus located outside the moving body based on the estimated state of the moving body.

6. The moving body energy management apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control part comprises an estimation-type control part that estimates a state of the moving body, which state includes a future position of the moving body, based on the environmental information obtained by the obtaining part, and controls the at least one of the consumption part and the supply part based on the estimated state of the moving body.

7. The moving body energy management apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the control part comprises a supply part control part that estimates the state of the moving body, which state includes the future position of the moving body, based on the environmental information obtained by the obtaining part, and controls the supply part with respect to energy supply between the supply part and an external energy related apparatus located outside the moving body based on the estimated state of the moving body.

8. The moving body energy management apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control part comprises a supply part control part that estimates the state of the moving body, which state includes the future position of the moving body, based on the environmental information obtained by the obtaining part, and controls the supply part with respect to energy supply between the supply part and an external energy related apparatus located outside the moving body based on the estimated state of the moving body.

9. A moving body energy management method applied to a moving body having a supply part that supplies energy and a consumption part that consumes the energy supplied from the supply part, the consumption part having a first part that consumes the energy for moving the moving body, which is a first function, and a second part that consumes the energy for performing a function other than moving of the moving body, which is a second function relating to the moving body,

said method comprising the steps of:

obtaining environmental information relating to an environment in which the moving body is placed; and

controlling at least one of the consumption part and the supply part based on the environmental information obtained in the step of obtaining environmental information such that the first function and the second function are both performed.