System for guiding economic driving, vehicle applied to the same, and method thereof

• US 9,770,985 B2
• Filed: 04/22/2015
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Seo, Yoo-Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Kiswanto, Nicholas
• Assistant Examiner(s): TAVERAS, KENNY ABEL
• Application Number:
  US14/693,844
• Publication Number:
  US 20160121894A1
• Time in Patent Office: 888 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/10 Accelerator pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/12 Brake pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/16 Ratio selector position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/45 External transmission of data to or from the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/55 using telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/063 using wireless information transmission between the vehicle and a fixed station identification of vehicles G08G
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C

Abstract

A system for guiding economic driving may include a vehicle generating driving information in accordance with driving. A vehicle management server is configured to receive and store vehicle information and driver information of the vehicle from the vehicle. A vehicle terminal configured to store the vehicle information and transmit the driving information. A business management server is configured to generate economic driving evaluation information according to a preset economic driving algorithm using the driving information.

Claims

1. A system for guiding economic driving, comprising:

a vehicle controller configured to generate driving information from a vehicle in accordance with driving;

a vehicle management server configured to receive and store vehicle information and driver information of the vehicle;

a vehicle terminal configured to store the vehicle information and transmit the driving information; and

a business management server configured to generate economic driving evaluation information according to a preset economic driving algorithm using the driving information,

wherein the vehicle controller and the vehicle terminal primarily confirm matchability of the vehicle information,

wherein the vehicle management server and the business management server secondarily confirm the matchability of the vehicle information,

wherein the vehicle information is generated by using combination of a vehicle identification number, a vehicle controller data number, and vehicle terminal information, and

wherein the vehicle controller compares a change trend of the driving information with a preset driving condition to determine matchability of the driving information and resets the driving information upon a result of said comparison.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle includes:

a driving manipulator configured to manipulate driving; and

a telematics unit (TMU) configured to transmit the vehicle information and the driver information to the business management server,

wherein the vehicle controller is further configured to drive the vehicle depending on the driving manipulation and generate the driving information depending on the driving.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the vehicle further comprising:

a cluster configured to display economic driving evaluation infoiiiiation or the driving information.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein whenever the vehicle starts, the vehicle controller and the vehicle terminal primarily confirm the matchability of the vehicle information.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the driving information includes fuel efficiency information, a driving distance, accelerator pedal and brake pedal manipulation information, a gear manipulation level, an idling time accumulation value, and a vehicle mileage, and fuel efficiency is at least one of instant fuel efficiency and fuel efficiency variation for each driving distance.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the driving information further includes software change information and/or data change information of the vehicle controller to prevent the fuel efficiency information from being changed due to a modification of the vehicle controller.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the preset driving condition is any one of highest fuel efficiency of the vehicle, fuel efficiency per distance, and variations for each distance.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle terminal is a high pass terminal.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the economic driving evaluation information includes a grade and a discount rate.

10. A vehicle for guiding economic driving, comprising:

a driving manipulator configured to manipulate driving;

a vehicle controller configured to drive the vehicle depending on the driving manipulation and generate driving information in accordance with driving;

a TMU configured to transmit vehicle information and driver information to a vehicle management server; and

a vehicle terminal configured to store the vehicle information and transmit the driving information to a business management server,

wherein the vehicle controller and the vehicle terminal primarily confirm first matchability of the vehicle information,

wherein the vehicle management server and the business management server secondarily confirm the matchability of the vehicle information,

wherein the vehicle information is generated by using combination of a vehicle identification number, a vehicle controller data number, and vehicle terminal information, and

wherein the vehicle controller compares a change trend of the driving information with a preset driving condition to determine matchability of the driving information and resets the driving information upon a result of said comparison.

11. The vehicle of claim 10, further comprising:

a cluster displaying economic driving evaluation information or the driving information.

12. A method for guiding economic driving, comprising steps of:

generating and storing, by a vehicle controller, vehicle information and driver information;

receiving and storing, by a vehicle management server, the vehicle information and the driver information from a vehicle;

generating driving information in accordance with driving;

storing, by a vehicle terminal, the vehicle information and transmitting the driving information; and

generating, by a business management server, economic driving evaluation information according to a preset economic driving algorithm using the driving information,

wherein the vehicle controller and the vehicle terminal primarily confirm first matchability of the vehicle information,

wherein the vehicle management server and the business management server secondarily confirm the matchability of the vehicle information,

wherein the vehicle information is generated by using combination of a vehicle identification number, a vehicle controller data number, and vehicle terminal information, and

wherein the step of generating the driving information includes comparing a change trend of the driving information with a preset driving condition to determine matchability of the driving information and resetting the driving information upon a result of said comparison.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

displaying the economic driving evaluation information or the driving information on a cluster of the vehicle.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of storing the information of the vehicle includes primarily confirming the matchability of the vehicle information whenever the vehicle starts.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the driving information includes fuel efficiency information, a driving distance, accelerator pedal and brake pedal manipulation information, a gear manipulation level, an idling time accumulation value, and a vehicle mileage, and the fuel efficiency is at least one of instant fuel efficiency and fuel efficiency variation for each driving distance.