Method for Calculating Fuel Consumption During Driving and Driving Fuel Consumption Calculation System

• US 20130253813A1
• Filed: 06/08/2012
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Original Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Inventors: Yao, Hsiu-Hsen, Kuo, Yu-Chang, Shang, Tzyh-Jong
• Application Number:
  US13/492,101
• Publication Number:
  US 20130253813A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/123
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3469 Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects

Abstract

A method for calculating fuel consumption during driving includes the steps of collecting a plurality of driving data, identifying the driving data to generate a plurality of driving movements, and obtaining fuel consumption by performing a calculating process based on the driving movements and a plurality of data stored in a driving movement fuel consumption database. Furthermore, a driving fuel consumption calculation system is also disclosed herein.

Claims

1. A method for calculating fuel consumption during driving, comprising:

collecting a plurality of driving data;

identifying the driving data to generate a plurality of driving movements; and

obtaining fuel consumption by performing a calculating process based on the driving movements and a plurality of data stored in a driving movement fuel consumption database.

2. The method for calculating fuel consumption during driving according to claim 1, further comprising:

calculating the fuel consumption of the driving movements; and

is creating the data stored in the driving movement fuel consumption database based on the fuel consumption of the driving movements.

3. The method for calculating fuel consumption during driving according to claim 1, wherein the driving data are selected from the group consisting of a vehicle speed, a vehicle acceleration, and a vehicle angular speed.

4. The method for calculating fuel consumption during driving according to claim 1, wherein the step of collecting the driving data comprises:

collecting the driving data by a on-board diagnostics, a global positioning system, or a driving movement sensing system.

5. The method for calculating fuel consumption during driving according to claim 1, wherein the data stored in the driving movement fuel consumption database are selected from the group consisting of vehicle fuel consumption data, driving movement fuel consumption of a driver, and fuel consumption data of a road driving.

6. A driving fuel consumption calculation system, comprising:

a driving movement data collecting module operable to collect a plurality of driving data;

a driving movement identifying module operable to identify the driving data to generate a plurality of driving movements; and

a driving fuel consumption calculating module operable to obtain fuel consumption by performing a calculating process based on the driving movements and a plurality of data stored in a driving movement fuel consumption database.

7. The driving fuel consumption calculation system according to claim 6, further comprising:

a driving movement fuel consumption calculating module operable to calculate the fuel consumption of the driving movements; and

a driving movement fuel consumption creating module operable to create the data stored in the driving movement fuel consumption database based on the fuel consumption of the driving movements.

8. The driving fuel consumption calculation system according to claim 6, wherein the driving data are selected from the group consisting of a vehicle speed, a vehicle acceleration, and a vehicle angular speed.

9. The driving fuel consumption calculation system according to claim 6, wherein the driving data are collected by the driving movement data collecting module from a on-board diagnostics, a global positioning system, or a driving movement sensing system.

10. The driving fuel consumption calculation system according to claim 6, wherein the data stored in the driving movement fuel consumption database are selected from the group consisting of vehicle fuel consumption data, driving movement fuel consumption of a driver, and fuel consumption data of a road driving.