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

• US 20120203449A1
• Filed: 06/25/2010
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Sengoku, Koji, Nogawa, Tadafumi, Ishido, Yuichiro
• Application Number:
  US13/500,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20120203449A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/123
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• 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 a vehicle or a third party is informed of not only a fuel efficiency of the same vehicle or a vehicle driven by the same driver but also a temporal variation of an eco-index, through a system of eco-information. The eco-index is a conversion result of a travel state factor serving as a variation factor of the fuel efficiency at the time when the fuel efficiency is achieved.

Claims

1. A fuel efficiency information management server comprising:

a first support calculation processing element configured to recognize an eco-index denoting the goodness of fit of a travel state from the viewpoint of a fuel efficiency and improving the fuel efficiency in each of different periods for an identical vehicle or a vehicle driven by an identical driver; and

a second support calculation processing element configured to transmit an eco-information containing a temporal variation of the fuel efficiency and a temporal variation of the eco-index of the vehicle 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 either one or both of the fuel efficiency and the eco-index 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 either one or both of the fuel efficiency and the eco-index 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 either one or both of the fuel efficiency and the eco-index, 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 an eco-index denoting the goodness of fit of a travel state from the viewpoint of a fuel efficiency and improving the fuel efficiency in each of different periods for an identical vehicle or a vehicle driven by an identical driver;

and

a second support calculation processing element configured to transmit an eco-information containing a temporal variation of the fuel efficiency and a temporal variation of the eco-index of the vehicle recognized by the first support calculation processing element to a predefined terminal device,

the fuel efficiency information management device is configured to measure a fuel efficiency and a travel state factor serving as a variation factor of the fuel efficiency of the vehicle in each of the different periods, convert the travel state factor of the vehicle to the eco-index denoting the goodness of fit of the travel state from the viewpoint of improving the fuel efficiency, and transmit a travel information containing the measurement result of the fuel efficiency, the conversion result about the eco-index, and a vehicular identifier for identifying the vehicle or a personal identifier for identifying the driver to the fuel efficiency information management server, and

the first support calculation processing element of the fuel efficiency information management server is configured to recognize the fuel efficiency and the eco-index for the identical vehicle or a vehicle driven by the identical driver in each of the different periods on the basis of the vehicular identifier or the personal identifier.

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

the first support calculation processing element is configured to calculate either one or both of the fuel efficiency and the eco-index 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 either one or both of the fuel efficiency and the eco-index 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 either one or both of the fuel efficiency and the eco-index, 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 of a vehicle in each of different periods,

converting the travel state factor of the vehicle in each of the different periods to an eco-index denoting the goodness of fit of a travel state from the viewpoint of improving the fuel efficiency, and

displaying an eco-information containing a temporal variation of the fuel efficiency and a temporal variation of the eco-index of an identical vehicle or a vehicle driven by an identical driver via a predefined terminal device.