Device for calculating power consumption of vehicle, information providing device, and information providing method
First Claim
1. An information providing device for a vehicle, which provides information about a power consumption amount of the vehicle to a user on the basis of a total power consumption amount, the information providing device comprising:
- a travelling route searching section that searches for a travelling route leading to a destination by referring to map information on the basis of a present vehicle position obtained and the destination obtained; and
a power consumption amount calculating section that calculates the total power consumption amount consumed when travelling on the searched travelling route, and has;
a first calculating section that refers to travel information correlated with a first unit area that belongs to the searched travelling route and calculates each first power consumption amount consumed to travel in the first unit area;
a second calculating section that refers to weather information forecasted for each second unit area that belongs to the searched travelling route, predicts a setting temperature that is inputted into an air conditioner when travelling in the second unit area and calculates each second power consumption amount consumed in a case where the air conditioner into which the predicted setting temperature is inputted is operated during the travel in the second unit area; and
a totalizing section that calculates the total power consumption amount on the basis of the first power consumption amount and the second power consumption amount.
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Abstract
Information providing device has: travelling route searching section searching for a travelling route; and power consumption amount calculating section calculating a total power consumption amount. The power consumption amount calculating section has: first calculating section that refers to travel information correlated with a first unit area that belongs to the searched travelling route and calculates each first power consumption amount consumed to travel in the first unit area; second calculating section that refers to weather information forecasted for each second unit area that belongs to the searched travelling route, predicts setting temperature of an air conditioner and calculates each second power consumption amount consumed when the air conditioner into which the predicted setting temperature is inputted is operated during the travel in the second unit area; and totalizing section that calculates the total power consumption amount on the basis of the first and second power consumption amounts.
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1. An information providing device for a vehicle, which provides information about a power consumption amount of the vehicle to a user on the basis of a total power consumption amount, the information providing device comprising:
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a travelling route searching section that searches for a travelling route leading to a destination by referring to map information on the basis of a present vehicle position obtained and the destination obtained; and a power consumption amount calculating section that calculates the total power consumption amount consumed when travelling on the searched travelling route, and has; a first calculating section that refers to travel information correlated with a first unit area that belongs to the searched travelling route and calculates each first power consumption amount consumed to travel in the first unit area; a second calculating section that refers to weather information forecasted for each second unit area that belongs to the searched travelling route, predicts a setting temperature that is inputted into an air conditioner when travelling in the second unit area and calculates each second power consumption amount consumed in a case where the air conditioner into which the predicted setting temperature is inputted is operated during the travel in the second unit area; and a totalizing section that calculates the total power consumption amount on the basis of the first power consumption amount and the second power consumption amount. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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