VEHICLE CONDITION INFORMING SYSTEM

• US 20140067191A1
• Filed: 08/28/2013
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
• Original Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
• Inventors: HAMAI, Atsushi
• Application Number:
  US14/011,949
• Publication Number:
  US 20140067191A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/29.4
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00428 electric
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 1/08 Methods and devices for control or regulation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/34 Cabin temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/80 Time limits
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/12 by confirmation, e.g. of the input
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/14 by input of vehicle departure time
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/16 by display
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/14 Conductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/20 having different nominal voltages
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/007 Wheeled or endless-tracked vehicles G01M17/08 takes precedence
• 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 10/88 Optimized components or subsystems, e.g. lighting, actively controlled glasses
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

A vehicle system 1 includes an input interface set 52 for reservation of a charge service for a batter set 15 and reservation of an air-conditioning service, an indicator set 51 disposed inside or outside a vehicle, and a controller 54 for controlling the indicator set 51 to put in a first lighting state representing combination of a condition involving a start time set up for the charge or air-conditioning service and a condition of an external power supply 200 ready to supply electric power to the battery set 15, and a second lighting state representing the charge or air-conditioning service being executed.

Claims

1. A vehicle condition informing system adapted to inform a vehicle condition set of a vehicle including

a battery set mounted on the vehicle and adapted to charge from an external power supply, and

an air conditioner operable for air conditioning services to be rendered when the external power supply is put in a state affording to supply electric power to the battery set,

the vehicle condition informing system comprising:

a charge service reservation setter configured for a setup to be made of a reservation for execution of a charge service to the battery set;

an air-conditioning service reservation setter configured for a setup to be made of a reservation for execution of an air-conditioning service;

a charge service executer configured to start charging the battery set at a charge service starting clock time set up by the charge service reservation setter;

an air-conditioning service executer configured to execute the air-conditioning service at an air-conditioning service starting clock time set up by the air-conditioning service reservation setter;

a lighting element set comprising a first lighting element subset thereof disposed at an interior of or at an outside of the vehicle; and

a controller configured to control an action set of the lighting element set, the controller being adapted to put the lighting element set

in a first lighting state representing a first subset of the vehicle condition set including a combination of a condition of the charge service reservation setter having set the charge service starting clock time or a condition of the air-conditioning service reservation setter having set the air-conditioning service starting clock time, and a condition of the external power supply put in the state affording to supply electric power to the battery set, and

in a second lighting state representing a second subset of the vehicle condition set including the charge service to the battery set or the air-conditioning service being executed, the second lighting state being different from the first lighting state.

2. The vehicle condition informing system according to claim 1, wherein the lighting element set has the first lighting element subset disposed at one of a first location at a dashboard at the interior of the vehicle and a second location at a plug receptacle provided at the outside of the vehicle for a plug to be applied to supply electric power from the external power supply.

3. The vehicle condition informing system according to claim 2, wherein the lighting element set comprises a second lighting element subset thereof disposed at the other of the first location and the second location.

4. The vehicle condition informing system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to have the lighting element set blinking in a preset period for the first lighting state, and have the lighting element set continuously lighting for the second lighting state.

5. The vehicle condition informing system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured for operations to have the lighting element set blinking in a preset period for the first lighting state, and for a combination of operations in execution of the air-conditioning service to have the lighting element set continuously lighting and operations in execution of the charge service for the battery set to have the lighting element set blinking in a shorter period, as the battery set has a shorter remaining time left for the charge service, for the second lighting state.

6. The vehicle condition informing system according to claim 1, wherein the lighting element set comprises a charge informing lighting element subset controllable to the first lighting state or the second lighting state with respect to the charge service for the battery set, and an air-conditioning informing lighting element subset controllable to the first lighting state or the second lighting state with respect to the air-conditioning service.

7. The vehicle condition informing system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to have the lighting element set put in a third lighting state different from the first lighting state and the second lighting state, under a combination of the condition of the charge service reservation setter having set the charge service starting clock time or the condition of the air-conditioning service reservation setter having set the air-conditioning service starting clock time, and a condition immature for the external power supply to supply the battery set with electric power.