Information provision device

• US 9,958,279 B2
• Filed: 12/25/2012
• Issued: 05/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Saito, Daisuke, Ueda, Tetsurou
• Primary Examiner(s): Edwards, Jerrah
• Application Number:
  US14/412,017
• Publication Number:
  US 20150177009A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,953 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/622 by satellite navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/00 Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes; Monitoring operating variables, e.g. speed, deceleration or energy consumption methods or circuit arrangements for monitoring or controlling batteries or fuel cells B60L58/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/60 Monitoring or controlling charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3469 Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3476 using point of interest [POI] information, e.g. a route passing visible POIs
• 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: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0129 for creating historical data or processing based on historical data
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0141 for traffic information dissemination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096827 where the route is computed onboard
• 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

An information provision device has a history information storage part configured to sequentially acquire at least one of traveling location information, power consumption information and charging location information from an in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle including an electric motor as a driving source for storing as traveling history information, a planned route acquisition part configured to acquire a planned route from a starting position to a destination, a provided route determination part configured to refer to the traveling history information stored in the history information storage part and determine a provided route that is as same as or similar to the planned route acquired by the planned route acquisition part from traveling routes along which the vehicle traveled, and a provided information determination part.

Claims

1. An information provision method, comprising:

sequentially acquiring traveling location information, power consumption information and charging location information, storing as traveling history information, and transmitting the traveling history information to an information provision device by an in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle including an electric motor;

receiving the traveling history information transmitted by the in-vehicle device and storing by the information provision device;

acquiring a planned route from a starting position to a destination by the information provision device by a request of a terminal device;

comparing the traveling history information stored on the information provision device with the planned route and selecting a route that is as same as the planned route or a route having a difference from the planned route within a set distance, from traveling routes along which the vehicle traveled to be decided as a provision route by the information provision device;

extracting, from the stored traveling history information, a charging location along route that the vehicle passes by during traveling along the determined provided route by the information provision device;

transmitting the decided provision route and the charging location along route to the terminal device by the information provision device;

receiving the decided provision route and the charging location along route transmitted by the information provision device, displaying and providing information on a result of the determination to a driver of the vehicle by the terminal device so that the driver confirms the provision route and the charging location when driving the vehicle to a destination beforehand;

determining power consumed during traveling along the provided route for each driver based on the stored traveling history information by the information provision device;

transmitting information on maximum power consumption and minimum power consumption among the determined power consumption values for the drivers to the terminal device by the information provision device; and

displaying the maximum power consumption and the minimum power consumption based on the information transmitted by the information provision device by the terminal device so that a user understands variation of the power consumption among the drivers.

2. The information provision method according to claim 1, further comprising:

storing map information containing a location of a charging facility on the information provision device,

wherein, when extracting the provided route fails, the stored map information is referred, and a location of a charging facility in a vicinity of the acquired planned is extracted as a charging location along route, by the information provision device.

3. The information provision method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether a remaining power of a battery for travelling that supplies electricity to the electric motor is larger or not than power consumed during traveling along the determined provided route by the information provision device,

wherein, when a remaining power of the battery for travelling is equal to or less than the power consumed is determined, and when a charging location along route is extracted, information on the extracted charging location along route is provided as information on a result of the determination by the information provision device.

4. The information provision method according to claim 1, further comprising:

acquiring information identifying a driver by the information provision device;

referring to traveling history information of a driver that is identified with the acquired information out of the stored traveling history information stored on the information provision device to calculate power consumption consumed during traveling along the provided route by the information provision device; and

correcting the determined power consumption on a basis of the calculated power consumption by the information provision device,

wherein information on the corrected power consumption is provided by the information provision device.

5. The information provision method according to claim 1, further comprising:

acquiring at least one of presence or not of a traffic jam, traveling speed, traveling height, season, air-temperature, weather, traveling time zone, traveling power consumption and power consumption of an air-conditioner as a searching condition by the information provision device,

wherein the traveling history information contains at least one of presence or not of a traffic jam, traveling speed, traveling height, season, air-temperature, weather, traveling time zone, traveling power consumption and power consumption of an air-conditioner,

wherein referring to traveling history information matching with the acquired searching condition out of the stored traveling history information and determining at least one of power consumption during traveling along the determined provided route and a charging location along route that the vehicle passes by during traveling along the determined provided route is determined by the information provision device, and

wherein providing information on the acquired searching condition as well as information on a result of the determination by the information provision device.

6. An information provision method, comprising:

sequentially acquiring traveling location information, power consumption information and charging location information, storing as travel history information, and transmitting the traveling history information to an information provision device by an in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle including an electric motor;

receiving the traveling history information transmitted by the in-vehicle device and storing by the information provision device;

acquiring a planned route from a starting position to a destination by the information provision device by a request of a terminal device;

comparing the traveling history information stored on the information provision device with the planned route and selecting a route is a same as or similar to the acquired planned route, or a route having a difference from the acquired planned route within a set distance, from traveling routes along which the vehicle traveled to be decided as a provision route by the information provision device;

transmitting the decided provision route to the terminal device by the information provision device;

receiving the decided provision route transmitted by the information provision device, displaying and providing information on a result of the determination to a driver of the vehicle by the terminal device so that the driver confirms the provision route when driving the vehicle to a destination beforehand;

determining power consumed during traveling along the provided route for each driver based on the stored traveling history information by the information provision device;

transmitting information on maximum power consumption and minimum power consumption among the determined power consumption values for the drivers to the terminal device by the information provision device; and

displaying the maximum power consumption and the minimum power consumption based on the information transmitted by the information provision device by the terminal device so that a user understands variation of the power consumption among the drivers;

wherein the stored traveling history information stored on the information provision device is referred to synthesize a plurality of traveling routes along which a same vehicle traveled and a synthesized route is formed as the provided route by the information provision device, and

wherein, from the stored traveling history information stored on the information provision device, at least one of power consumed during traveling along each traveling route making up the synthesized route and a charging location along route that the vehicle passes by during traveling along each traveling route making up the synthesized route is extracted by the information provision device.

7. An information provision method, comprising:

sequentially acquiring traveling location information, power consumption information and charging location information, storing as traveling history information, and transmitting the traveling history information to an information provision device by an in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle including an electric motor;

receiving the traveling history information transmitted by the in-vehicle device and storing by the information provision device;

acquiring a planned route from a starting position to a destination by the information provision device by a request of a terminal device;

comparing the stored traveling history information stored on the information provision device with the planned route and selecting a route that is a same as the acquired planned route, or a route having a difference from the acquired planned route within a set distance, from traveling routes along which the vehicle traveled to be decided as the provision route, by the information provision device;

referring to the stored traveling history information and determining at least one of power consumed during traveling along the determined provided route and a charging location along route that the vehicle passes by during traveling along the determined provided route by the information provision device;

transmitting the decided provision route and the charging location along route to the terminal device by the information provision device;

receiving the decided provision route and the charging location along route transmitted by the information provision device, displaying and providing information on a result of the determination to a driver of the vehicle by the terminal device so that the driver confirms the provision route and the charging location when driving the vehicle to a destination beforehand;

determining power consumed during traveling along the provided route for each driver based on the stored traveling history information by the information provision device;

transmitting information on maximum power consumption and minimum power consumption among the determined power consumption values for the drivers to the terminal device by the information provision device; and

displaying the maximum power consumption and the minimum power consumption based on the information transmitted by the information provision device by the terminal device so that a user understands variation of the power consumption among the drivers

wherein the stored traveling history information stored on by the information provision device to synthesize a plurality of traveling routes along which a plurality of vehicles traveled is referred and a synthesized route is formed as the provided route by the information provision device, and

extracting, from the stored traveling history information stored on the information provision device, at least one of power consumed during traveling along each traveling route making up the synthesized route and a charging location along route that the vehicles pass by during traveling along each traveling route making up the synthesized route by the information provision device.