DISPLAYING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE

• US 20140188367A1
• Filed: 09/04/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Recargo, Inc. (E.ON SE)
• Original Assignee: Recargo, Inc. (E.ON SE)
• Inventors: North, Forrest, Petrosian, Armen, Mansfield, Lucas
• Application Number:
  US14/018,035
• Publication Number:
  US 20140188367A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/101
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/36 Temperature of vehicle components or parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/425 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/445 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/525 Temperature of converter or components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/545 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/10 by alarm
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/305 Communication interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/12 responding to state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/20 having different nominal voltages
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/21 having the same nominal voltage
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• 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 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/167 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

A system and method for displaying information associated with an electric vehicle via an application located remotely from the electric vehicle is described. In some examples, the system transmit a request to a computing device of an electric vehicle, receives status information about one or more components of the electric vehicle, and presents an indication of a status for the one or more components of the electric vehicle based on the received status information.

Claims

1. A system provided by a mobile device for providing information associated with an electric vehicle located remotely from the mobile device, the system comprising:

a request component that is configured to submit a request to a computing device associated with an electric vehicle for information associated with a status of a component within the electric vehicle;

a reception component that is configured to receive, at the mobile device, the requested information from the computing device associated with the electric vehicle; and

a display component that is configured to display an indicator representative of the received information associated with the status of the component within the electric vehicle.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the component within the electric vehicle is a battery pack of the electric vehicle, and wherein the display component is configured to display an indicator representative of an amount of charge within the battery pack.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the display component is configured to update a displayed indicator in response to the received information associated with the status of the component within the electric vehicle.

4. A method for informing a user of a vehicle about an occurrence of an event at the vehicle, the method comprising:

identifying an occurrence of an event at the vehicle; and

in response to the event, automatically transmitting information associated with the occurrence of the event to a mobile device located remotely from the electric vehicle.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

at the mobile device;

receiving by an application running on the mobile device the information associated with the occurrence of the event; and

displaying an indicator along with an icon of the application running on the mobile device that represents the occurrence of the event.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein identifying an occurrence of an event within the electric vehicle includes identifying a charging of a battery pack associated with the electric vehicle has reached a predetermined threshold amount.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein identifying an occurrence of an event within the electric vehicle includes identifying a charging of a battery pack associated with the electric vehicle has completed.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein identifying an occurrence of an event within the electric vehicle includes identifying a charging of a battery pack associated with the electric vehicle has started or identifying a charging of a battery pack has stopped.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein identifying an occurrence of an event within the electric vehicle includes identifying that the electric vehicle is in use.

10. A computer-readable medium whose contents, when executed by a mobile device, cause the mobile device to perform operations, comprising:

submitting a request to a computing device associated with an electric vehicle for information associated with a status of a component within the electric vehicle;

receiving, at the mobile device, the requested information from the computing device associated with the electric vehicle; and

causing a display of an indicator representative of the received information associated with the status of the component within the electric vehicle.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the component within the electric vehicle is a battery pack of the electric vehicle, and wherein causing a display of an indicator representative of the received information includes displaying an indicator representative of an amount of charge within the battery pack.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein causing a display of an indicator representative of the received information includes updating a displayed indicator in response to the received information associated with the status of the component within the electric vehicle.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, further comprising:

identifying an occurrence of an event within the electric vehicle;

an

submitting the request to the computing device associated with the electric vehicle for information associated with a status of a component within the electric vehicle that is associated with the event.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the component within the electric vehicle is a battery pack of the electric vehicle, and wherein causing a display of an indicator representative of the received information includes displaying an indicator representative of an amount of charging time remaining before the battery pack is full.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the component within the electric vehicle is a battery pack of the electric vehicle, and wherein causing a display of an indicator representative of the received information includes displaying an indicator representative of a current state of the battery pack.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the component within the electric vehicle is a location sensor of the electric vehicle, and wherein causing a display of an indicator representative of the received information includes displaying an indicator representative of a current location of the electric vehicle.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the component within the electric vehicle is a engine component of the electric vehicle, and wherein causing a display of an indicator representative of the received information includes displaying an indicator representative of a current state of the engine component.