INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE

• US 20150177009A1
• Filed: 12/25/2012
• Published: 06/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Saito, Daisuke, Ueda, Tetsurou
• Granted Patent: US 9,958,279 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/622 by satellite navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/00 Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes; Monitoring operating variables, e.g. speed, deceleration or energy consumption methods or circuit arrangements for monitoring or controlling batteries or fuel cells B60L58/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/60 Monitoring or controlling charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3469 Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3476 using point of interest [POI] information, e.g. a route passing visible POIs
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0129 for creating historical data or processing based on historical data
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0141 for traffic information dissemination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096827 where the route is computed onboard
• 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 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• 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

Abstract

An information provision device has a history information storage part configured to sequentially acquire at least one of traveling location information, power consumption information and charging location information from an in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle including an electric motor as a driving source for storing as traveling history information, a planned route acquisition part configured to acquire a planned route from a starting position to a destination, a provided route determination part configured to refer to the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part and determine a provided route that is as same as or similar to the planned route acquired by the planned route acquisition part from traveling routes along which the vehicle travelled, and a provided information determination part.

Claims

1. An information provision device, comprising:

a history information storage part configured to sequentially acquire at least one of traveling location information, power consumption information and charging location information from an in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle including an electric motor as a driving source for storing as traveling history information;

a planned route acquisition part configured to acquire a planned route from a starting position to a destination;

a provided route determination part configured to refer to the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part and determine a provided route that is as same as or similar to the planned route acquired by the planned route acquisition part from traveling routes along which the vehicle travelled;

a provided information determination part configured to extract, from the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part a charging location along route that the vehicle passes by, during traveling along the provided route determined by the provided route determination part; and

a provided information provision part configured to provide information on a result of the determination by the provided route determination part and on a result of the determination by the provided information determination part.

8. The information provision device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a map information storage part that stores map information containing a location of a charging facility,

wherein, when the provided route determination part fails to extract the provided route, the provided information determination part refers to the map information stored in the map information storage part and extracts a location of a charging facility in a vicinity of the planned route acquired by the planned route acquisition part as a charging location along route.

9. The information provision device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a remaining power determination part configured to determine whether a remaining power of a battery for travelling that supplies electricity to the electric motor is larger or not than power consumed during traveling along the provided route determined by the provided route determination part,

wherein, when the remaining power determination part determines that a remaining power of the battery for travelling is equal to or less than the power consumed and when the provided information determination part extracts a charging location along route, the information provision part provides information on the extracted charging location along route as information on a result of the determination by the provided information determination part.

12. The information provision device according to claim 1,

wherein the provided information determination part refers to the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part to determine power consumed during traveling along the provided route determined by the provided route determination part for each driver, and

wherein the provided information provision part provides information on maximum power consumption, minimum power consumption and average power consumption among the power consumption values for the drivers determined by the provided information determination part.

13. The information provision device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a driver information acquisition part configured to acquire information identifying a driver;

a power consumption for correction calculation part configured to refer to traveling history information of a driver that is identified with the information acquired by the driver information acquisition part out of the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part to calculate power consumption consumed during traveling along the provided route; and

a power consumption correction part configured to correct the power consumption determined by the provided information determination part on a basis of the power consumption calculated by the power consumption for correction calculation part,

wherein the provided information provision part provides information on the power consumption corrected by the power consumption correction part.

14. The information provision device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a searching condition acquisition part configured to acquire at least one of presence or not of a traffic jam, traveling speed, traveling height, season, air-temperature, weather, traveling time zone, traveling power consumption and power consumption of an air-conditioner as a searching condition,

wherein the traveling history information contains at least one of presence or not of a traffic jam, traveling speed, traveling height, season, air-temperature, weather, traveling time zone, traveling power consumption and power consumption of an air-conditioner,

wherein the provided information determination part refers to traveling history information matching with the searching condition acquired by the searching condition acquisition part out of the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part and determine at least one of power consumption during traveling along the provided route determined by the provided route determination part and a charging location along route that the vehicle passes by during traveling along the provided route determined by the provided route determination part, and

wherein the provided information provision part provides information on the searching condition acquired by the searching condition acquisition part as well as information on a result of the determination by the provided route determination part and on a result of the determination by the provided information determination part.

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10. An information provision device, comprising:

a history information storage part configured to sequentially acquire at least one of traveling location information, power consumption information and charging location information from an in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle including an electric motor as a driving source for storing as traveling history information;

a planned route acquisition part configured to acquire a planned route from a starting position to a destination;

a provided route determination part configured to refer to the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part and determine a provided route that is a same as or similar to the planned route acquired by the planned route acquisition part;

a provided information determination part configured to refer to the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part and determine at least one of power consumed during traveling along the provided route determined by the provided route determination part and a charging location along route that the vehicle passes by during traveling along the provided route determined by the provided route determination part; and

a provided information provision part configured to provide information on a result of the determination by the provided route determination part and on a result of the determination by the provided information determination part,

wherein the provided route determination part refers to the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part to synthesize a plurality of traveling routes along which a same vehicle travelled and form a synthesized route as the provided route, and

wherein the provided information determination part extracts, from the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part, at least one of power consumed during traveling along each traveling route making up the synthesized route and a charging location along route that the vehicle passes by during traveling along each traveling route making up the synthesized route.

11. An information provision device, comprising:

a history information storage part configured to sequentially acquire at least one of traveling location information, power consumption information and charging location information from an in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle including an electric motor as a driving source for storing as traveling history information;

a planned route acquisition part configured to acquire a planned route from a starting position to a destination;

a provided route determination part configured to refer to the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part and determine a provided route that is a same as or similar to the planned route acquired by the planned route acquisition part;

a provided information determination part configured to refer to the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part and determine at least one of power consumed during traveling along the provided route determined by the provided route determination part and a charging location along route that the vehicle passes by during traveling along the provided route determined by the provided route determination part; and

a provided information provision part configured to provide information on a result of the determination by the provided route determination part and on a result of the determination by the provided information determination part, wherein

the provided route determination part refers to the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part to synthesize a plurality of traveling routes along which a plurality of vehicles travelled and form a synthesized route as the provided route, and

the provided information determination part extracts, from the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part, at least one of power consumed during traveling along each traveling route making up the synthesized route and a charging location along route that the vehicles pass by during traveling along each traveling route making up the synthesized route.