VEHICLE INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE

• US 20150345977A1
• Filed: 05/31/2013
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: SAITO, Daisuke, INOUE, Hirofumi, MURAMATSU, Toshiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,459,114 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/62 Vehicle position
• 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 53/00 Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3461 Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types, segments such as motorways, toll roads, ferries
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3469 Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3605 Destination input or retrieval
• 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 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles

Abstract

A vehicle information providing device provides route information to vehicles. The vehicle information providing device has a history information accumulation unit that sequentially acquires at least one of driving location information, power consumption information and charging location information from vehicle-mounted devices of a plurality of vehicle, and accumulates this as driving history information. A presentation route determination unit extracts driving location information from the history information accumulation unit, searches for a route that has been traveled from a departure point range to a destination point range from among the traveled routes, and determines the searched route as a presentation route. A presentation information determination unit extracts driving history information from the history information accumulation unit and determines one of power consumed while traveling and charging hubs passed when driving along the presentation route. A presentation information provision unit provides information regarding determination results.

Claims

1. A vehicle information providing device comprising:

a history information accumulation unit that sequentially acquires at least one of driving location information, power consumption information and charging location information from vehicle-mounted devices installed on a plurality of vehicles that each have an electric motor as a drive source and accumulates this as driving history information;

an input unit for inputting a departure point to a destination point for searching for a route;

a range setting unit that sets a predetermined range, including the departure point that is input by the input unit, as a departure point range and sets a predetermined range, including the destination point that is input by the input unit, as a destination point range;

a presentation route determination unit that extracts from the driving history information that is accumulated by the history information accumulation unit, searches for a route that was driven from the departure point range to the destination point range, from among the routes that the vehicle has driven on driven by the plurality of vehicles, and determines the searched route as a presentation route;

a presentation information determination unit that determines at least either the power that was consumed when actually driving the presentation route or the charging hubs that were traversed when actually driving the presentation route by referencing the driving history information that is accumulated in the history information accumulation unit; and

a presentation information provision unit that provides information regarding a presentation route that is determined the presentation route determination unit, as well as information regarding the power consumption and information regarding the charging hubs that are determined by the presentation information determination unit.

2. The vehicle information providing device as recited in claim 1, wherein

the range setting unit sets at least one of the departure point range and the destination point range as a circular range having a predetermined radius around the departure point or the destination point.

3. The vehicle information providing device as recited in claim 1, wherein

the setting unit sets at least one of the departure point range and the destination point range as a range in which a path on a road that starts at the departure point or the destination point will be a predetermined equal distance.

4. The vehicle information providing device as recited in claim 1, wherein

the range setting unit sets at least one of the departure point range and the destination point range that is within a predetermined distance range from the departure point or the destination point and that is within a predetermined altitude range in relation to the altitude of the departure point or the destination point.

5. The vehicle information providing device as recited in claim 1, wherein

when one of the departure point and the destination point input by the input unit is a specific facility, the range setting unit sets at least one of the departure point range and the destination point range as a range of the facility.

6. The vehicle information providing device as recited in claim 1, wherein

the range setting unit

sets a range excluding ranges besides toll roads and facilities attached to toll roads as one of the departure point range and the destination point range when one of the departure point and the destination point input by the input unit corresponds to a toll road or a facility attached to a toll road, and

sets a range excluding the ranges of toll roads and facilities attached to toll roads as one of the departure point range and the destination point range when one of the departure point and the destination point input by the input unit does not correspond to a toll road or a facility attached to a toll road.

7. The vehicle information providing device as recited in claim 1, wherein

the range setting unit

extracts information regarding a travel start point and a travel end point included in the driving history information by referencing the driving history information that is accumulated in the history information accumulation unit, and

determines an extent of the departure point range and the destination point range according a number of the travel start points and the travel end points, which are located in a vicinity of the departure point or the destination point input by the input unit.

8. The vehicle information providing device for a vehicle as recited in claim 1, wherein

the range setting unit determines the extent of the departure point range and the destination point range according to the distance between the departure point and the destination point input by the input unit.

9. The vehicle information providing device as recited in claim 1, wherein

the range setting unit determines the extent of the departure point range and the destination point range according to the time required to reach the destination point from the departure point input by the input unit.