Facility information presentation device and facility information presentation method

• US 9,511,678 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2011
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Tateno, Minoru, Nagafuji, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Garbowski, Leigh
• Application Number:
  US14/365,110
• Publication Number:
  US 20140340048A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,817 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/62 Vehicle position
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/622 by satellite navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/72 Charging station selection relying on external data
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/80 Time limits
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/16 by display
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/52 drive range estimation, e.g. of estimation of available travel distance
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/54 Energy consumption estimation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/58 Departure time prediction
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/665 Methods related to measuring, billing or payment
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/68 Off-site monitoring or control, e.g. remote control
• 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: 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 30/12 Remote or cooperative charging

Abstract

A calculating part acquires a current position from an acquiring part. The calculating part searches for the position of a charging facility in charging facility information within a retaining part on the basis of the acquired current position, and specifies the charging facility for a next charging. The calculating part calculates a charging time based on a charged amount and a charging capacity of the specified charging facility. A selecting part selects peripheral facilities presented to a user based on calculated charging time and a standard time indicating an average time spent on using each peripheral facility registered in association with the specified charging facility retained in the retaining part, and displays the information regarding the selected peripheral facilities on the display part. Thus, assistance can be provided for the effective use of the time needed to charge a storage cell onboard a moving body at a charging facility.

Claims

1. A facility information presentation device comprising:

an acquiring unit that acquires current position information indicating a current position of a vehicle; and

a selecting part configured to select one or more peripheral facilities to be presented from among peripheral facilities of a charging facility for the vehicle on the basis of the current position information, an average time spent using each of the peripheral facilities of the charging facility, a charging time that is an expected time for charging a storage cell of the vehicle at the charging facility for charging energy for driving the vehicle, and availability for the vehicle to occupy the charging facility after charging.

2. The facility information presentation device according to claim 1, wherein the one or more peripheral facilities are presented in order of closeness of the respective average time to the charging time.

3. The facility information presentation device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an output part configured to output a path for a user of the vehicle from the charging facility to a peripheral facility specified by the user from among the selected peripheral facilities.

4. The facility information presentation device according to claim 3, wherein the selecting part is further configured to consider, when selecting the one or more peripheral facilities, a user'"'"'s preferences.

5. The facility information presentation device according to claim 1, wherein the selecting part is configured to select the peripheral facilities whose average time is not less than the charging time.

6. The facility information presentation device according to claim 1, wherein the selecting part is configured to select the peripheral facilities whose average time is not more than the charging time.

7. A facility information presentation method for a facility information presentation device of a vehicle, the facility information presentation device retaining an average time to be spent utilizing respective peripheral facilities around a charging facility for the vehicle, the method comprising the steps of:

acquiring current position information indicating a current position of the vehicle; and

selecting one or more of the peripheral facilities to be presented from among the peripheral facilities of the charging facility on the basis of the current position information, average time to be spent utilizing the respective peripheral facilities around the charging facility, a charging time that is an expected time to be spent charging a storage cell of the vehicle at the charging facility for charging energy for driving the vehicle, and availability for the vehicle to occupy the charging facility after charging.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having recorded therein a facility information presentation program that, when executed, causes the facility information presentation device to execute the facility information presentation method according to claim 7.

9. A facility information presentation device for a vehicle, comprising:

a selecting part configured to select one or more peripheral facilities from among peripheral facilities of a charging facility for the vehicle, based on an average time spent using each of the peripheral facilities of the charging facility, and a charging time that is a time for charging a storage cell of the vehicle at the charging facility,

wherein the selecting part selects the one or more peripheral facilities from among the peripheral facilities for which the average time is not less than the charging time.

10. The facility information presentation device according to claim 9, wherein the selecting part selects one of the peripheral facilities for which the average time is closest to the charging time and not less than the charging time.

11. The facility information presentation device according to claim 9, wherein the one or more peripheral facilities are presented in order of closeness of the respective average time to the charging time.