System for providing information on power consumption amount of electric vehicle

• US 8,700,244 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2012
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Fukuda, Yuzuru, Hasunuma, Masaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): PAIGE, TYLER D
• Application Number:
  US13/588,472
• Publication Number:
  US 20130218366A1
• Time in Patent Office: 606 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701/22, 180/65.1
• US Class Current: 701/22
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/34 Cabin temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/545 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/622 by satellite navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/662 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/70 Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/54 Energy consumption estimation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3469 Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3697 Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level G01C21/3679 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• 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
• 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

System for providing information on power consumption amount of electric vehicle includes receiving means for receiving departure point of the electric vehicle and destination of the electric vehicle from a terminal device; a database which stores a plurality of power consumption amounts required to move between respective two sections, corresponding to combinations of two sections, the combinations including a combination of a first section in a predetermined area including the departure point and the destination, and a second section including a second point in the predetermined area; extracting means which retrieves the database to thereby extract a power consumption amount required to travel from the departure point to the destination; and transmitting means for transmitting information on the power consumption amount extracted by the extracting means to the terminal device.

Claims

1. A system for providing information on power consumption amount of an electric vehicle, comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive a departure point of the electric vehicle and a destination of the electric vehicle from a terminal device;

a database which stores a plurality of power consumption amounts required to move between sections which divide a predetermined area into meshes, wherein each power consumption amount corresponds to a different departure point-destination point combination within the predetermined area;

an extracting unit configured in a computer, the extracting unit configured to retrieve from the database, one of the power consumption amounts based on the departure point and the destination point for the electric vehicle, as the power consumption amount required for the electric vehicle to travel from the departure point to the destination point within the predetermined area; and

a transmitting unit configured to transmit information on the power consumption amount extracted by the extracting means to the terminal device.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of power consumption amounts are stored in the database in advance based on results of travelling between two sections by a plurality of respective electric vehicles.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the extracting unit is configured to extract, as the power consumption amount required to travel from the departure point to the destination, a power consumption amount required to travel from the first section to the second section from among the plural power consumption amounts.

4. The system according to claim 1,

wherein the plurality of combinations of two sections include a combination of a second section including the second point and a third section including a third point in the predetermined area, and

wherein the extracting unit is configured to extract a first power consumption amount required to travel from the first section to the second section and a second power consumption amount required to travel from the second section to the third section from among the plural power consumption amounts, and to extract a sum of the first power consumption amount and the second power consumption amount as the power consumption amount required to travel from the departure point to the destination.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the plural power consumption amounts are categorized into a plurality of temporal sections affected by the temperature of a battery of the electric vehicle or the temperature in the electric vehicle and stored in the database, and

wherein the extracting unit is configured to retrieve from the database, based on the temporary section including times at which the departure point and the destination are received by the receiving means, of the plural temporary sections, thereby extracting the power consumption amount required to travel from the departure point to the destination.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device is configured to display on the screen, information as to whether the electric vehicle is able to reach the destination without charging in the course of its travelling, based on information on the power consumption amount transmitted by the transmitting means.

7. The system according to claim 1,

wherein the extracting unit is configured to:

calculate a sum of plural of the power consumption amounts corresponding to a combination of two adjacent sections; and

extract the sum as the power consumption amount required for the electric vehicle to travel from the departure point to the destination.