FUEL EFFICIENCY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVER, FUEL EFFICIENCY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND FUEL EFFICIENCY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD

• US 20120197517A1
• Filed: 06/25/2010
• Published: 08/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Sengoku, Koji, Ishido, Yuichiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,831,865 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/123
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/09 Driving style or behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C

Abstract

Provided are a server, a system and a method by which a utility value of information relating to fuel efficiency of a vehicle can be improved. A fuel efficiency information management server (100) functions so that a driver of each vehicle or a third party is informed of a ranking corresponding to the fuel efficiency level of each vehicle, together with a travel state factor of each vehicle when the fuel efficiency is achieved, through a system of eco-information.

Claims

1. A fuel efficiency information management server comprising:

a first support calculation processing element configured to recognize a fuel efficiency and a travel state factor serving as a variation factor of the fuel efficiency in a predefined period for each of a plurality of vehicles; and

a second support calculation processing element configured to transmit an eco-information of each vehicle containing a ranking corresponding to the level of the fuel efficiency and the travel state factor recognized by the first support calculation processing element to a predefined terminal device.

2. The fuel efficiency information management server according to claim 1, wherein

the first support calculation processing element is configured to calculate the fuel efficiency on assumption that a specified travel state factor in the actual travel state factors of the vehicle is altered to a different one, and

the second support calculation processing element is configured to transmit the eco-information containing a new ranking corresponding to the level of the fuel efficiency calculated by the first support calculation processing element on the assumption and the specified travel state factor to the predefined terminal device.

3. The fuel efficiency information management server according to claim 2, wherein

the first support calculation processing element is configured to calculate the fuel efficiency, on the assumption that the vehicular model specified as the specified travel state factor is altered to a different one, of another vehicle having a different vehicular model.

4. A fuel efficiency information management system comprising a fuel efficiency information management device mounted in a vehicle and a fuel efficiency information management server,

wherein

the fuel efficiency information management server is provided with

a first support calculation processing element configured to recognize a fuel efficiency and a travel state factor serving as a variation factor of the fuel efficiency in a predefined period for each of a plurality of vehicles;

and

a second support calculation processing element configured to transmit an eco-information of each vehicle containing a ranking corresponding to the level of the fuel efficiency and the travel state factor recognized by the first support calculation processing element to a predefined terminal device,

the fuel efficiency information management device is configured to measure the fuel efficiency and the travel state factor serving as the variation factor of the fuel efficiency for the vehicle in the predefined period and transmit the measurement result to the fuel efficiency information management server.

5. The fuel efficiency information management system according to claim 4, wherein

the first support calculation processing element is configured to calculate the fuel efficiency on assumption that a specified travel state factor in the actual travel state factors of the vehicle is altered to a different one, and

the second support calculation processing element is configured to transmit the eco-information containing a new ranking corresponding to the level of the fuel efficiency calculated by the first support calculation processing element on the assumption and the specified travel state factor to the predefined terminal device.

6. The fuel efficiency information management system according to claim 5, wherein

the first support calculation processing element is configured to calculate the fuel efficiency, on the assumption that the vehicular model specified as the specified travel state factor is altered to a different one, of another vehicle having a different vehicular model.

7. A fuel efficiency information management method comprising steps of:

recognizing a fuel efficiency and a travel state factor serving as a variation factor of the fuel efficiency in a predefined period for each of a plurality of vehicles; and

displaying an eco-information of each vehicle containing a ranking corresponding to the level of the fuel efficiency and the travel state factor via a predefined terminal device.