VEHICLE EXCHANGE GUIDE DEVICE AND VEHICLE EXCHANGE GUIDE METHOD

• Main Authors: KISHI YASUHISA, MURAMATSU TOSHIRO, HAMAGUCHI HIROSUKE, SAITO DAISUKE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 25.04.2013
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT OR PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLEDVEHICLES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES, IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSIONOF CHEMICAL INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY; SIGNALLING; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To guide vehicle exchange of battery for prolonging life of the battery when a plurality of vehicles having electric motors driven by the battery as driving sources are operated.SOLUTION: Vehicle use history data of respective vehicles Cr for business use are collected to detect predicted life of the battery (step S12), and a vehicle whose predicted life of the battery is shorter than a target life is an exchange vehicle Cc which needs life prolongation, and a vehicle whose predicted life of the battery is longer is a vehicle Cn which does not need life prolongation. For each of the exchange vehicle Cc which needs life prolongation, the vehicle Cn which does not need life prolongation whose predicted life at the time of exchange after the battery is exchanged is longer than the target life is identified as an exchangeable vehicle (steps S20 to S32). With respect to combinations of the exchange vehicle Cc which needs life prolongation and the exchangeable vehicle, a combination in which average value of predicted life of all the vehicles Cr for business use after exchange becomes the longest when the respective combinations are adopted is identified, and this is presented as a vehicle exchange pattern (steps S40, S42).