RENT FEE SETTING DEVICE AND RENT FEE SETTING METHOD

• Main Authors: KISHI YASUHISA, MURAMATSU TOSHIRO, HAMAGUCHI HIROSUKE, SAITO DAISUKE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 09.05.2013
• 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; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform rent fee setting considering deterioration of a battery during a rental period.SOLUTION: At the end of rental, a rent fee setting device obtains vehicle use history data collected from a rental vehicle, and stores the data in association with a user ID as vehicle use information. At the time of contract making, on the basis of the vehicle use information corresponding to the user ID, the rent fee setting device detects a predicted total number of charging operations during a rental period as a level of battery deterioration at the end of rental (steps S6 and S8). When the predicted total number of charging operations exceeds a threshold value of the predicted total number of charging operations, and it is predicted that the vehicle would be heavily used by the user and the battery would deteriorate more than usual, the rent fee setting device sets an additional fee according to the predicted total number of charging operations (step S10). Then, the rent fee setting device calculates a total rent fee for the rental of this time on the basis of a basic rent fee according to a contract plan, the additional fee corresponding to the level of battery deterioration accompanying the rental, and an incentive at the rental of previous time (step S17).