Apparatus, method and article for providing vehicle event data

• US 9,390,566 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2014
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gogoro Inc.
• Original Assignee: Gogoro Inc.
• Inventors: Taylor, Matthew Whiting, Luke, Hok-Sum Horace
• Primary Examiner(s): Edwards, Jerrah
• Assistant Examiner(s): BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M
• Application Number:
  US14/536,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20150134142A1
• Time in Patent Office: 613 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/20 Optical features of instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 37/00 Dashboards as road-vehicle superstructure sub-units B62D25/14
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/12 Bikes
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/70 Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/10 by alarm
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/16 by display
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0007 Measures or means for preventing or attenuating collisions
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0046 relating to electric energy storage systems, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/12 Recording operating variables ; Monitoring of operating variables
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/30 Constructional details of charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/00 Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0858 wherein the data carrier is removable
• 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

Detected events such as impacts, accidents, breakdowns, and types of driving behaviors based on feedback from tilt, gravity, accelerometers and/or shock sensors within a portable electrical power storage device such as a battery and/or within a vehicle (e.g., an electric scooter) are communicated to the user'"'"'s mobile device, dashboard display and/or backend systems over wired and/or wireless communication channels. The communication of the events and types of events are logged and automatically aggregated from multiple vehicles for further analysis to determine various potential system-wide safety issues and to track event history on an individual per-user or individual per-scooter basis or individual per-battery basis. Such event data may also be transferred accordingly via the battery exchange process at the online exchange machine through a memory device attached to the battery that stores the event data.

Claims

1. A method in a vehicle event data processing system comprising, the method comprising:

electronically receiving, by a processor of vehicle event data system, vehicle event data over a period of time longer than a day regarding one or more vehicles;

electronically identifying, by a processor of the vehicle event data system, a specific vehicle, a specific user and a specific portable electrical energy storage device associated with respective events of a plurality of events indicated by the received event data;

electronically receiving a request for information regarding a requested one of the specific vehicle, the specific user and the specific portable electrical energy storage device; and

in response to the request, electronically displaying on a display device, by a processor of vehicle event data system, the respective events of the plurality of events indicated by the received event data associated with the requested one of the specific vehicle, the specific user and the specific portable electrical energy storage device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

electronically detecting, by a processor of the vehicle event data system, a pattern of safety problems regarding one or more of;

a specific vehicle, a specific user and a specific portable electrical energy storage device associated with the respective events of the plurality of events based on the identification of the specific vehicle, the specific user and the specific portable electrical energy storage device associated with the respective events of the plurality of events indicated by the received event data.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

electronically communicating, by a processor of the vehicle event data system, information regarding the detected pattern of safety problems regarding the one or more of the specific vehicle, the specific user and the specific portable electrical energy storage device associated with the respective events of the plurality of events to a remote device.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the detected pattern of safety problems is regarding the specific portable electrical energy storage device and wherein the method further comprises electronically determining, by a processor of the vehicle event data system, a change to make regarding distribution of the specific portable electrical energy storage device to collection, charging and distribution machines based on the detected pattern of safety problems regarding the portable electrical energy storage device.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a request for collection of a certain type of data by the vehicle with selectable parameters to aid in in-field diagnostics of the vehicle; and

in response to the request, providing the certain type of data according to the selectable parameters.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the remote device is a mobile device of the specific user.

7. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer executable instructions thereon that, when executed, cause a processor of a vehicle event data system to:

receive event data from a sensor indicative of an impact to a portable electrical energy storage device in an electric vehicle;

store at least some of the event data in one or more of a memory device of the portable electrical energy storage device and a memory device of the vehicle;

communicate at least some of the event data for display on a device

electronically receive vehicle event data over a period of time longer than a day regarding the electric vehicle;

electronically identify a specific user and a specific portable electrical energy storage device associated with respective events of a plurality of events indicated by the vehicle event data regarding the electric vehicle received over the period of time; and

display on a display device information regarding the identification of the specific user and the specific portable electrical energy storage device associated with the respective events of the plurality of events to a remote device.