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Patent No.:

US 11333513 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2019

Route searching apparatus and battery information managing apparatus

Applicant:

Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Masato Mukai, Wako, JP;

Masahiro Kuroki, Wako, JP;

Akihisa Otsuka, Wako, JP;

Assignee:

HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Thomas | Horstemeyer, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Hunter B Lonsberry

Assistant Examiner:

Elizabeth Yang

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); B60S 5/06 (2019.01); B60L 58/12 (2019.01); B60L 53/80 (2019.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3469 (2013.01); B60L 53/80 (2019.02); B60L 58/12 (2019.02); B60S 5/06 (2013.01); G01C 21/34 (2013.01); G01C 21/3476 (2013.01); G01C 21/3676 (2013.01); G01C 21/3679 (2013.01); B60K 1/04 (2013.01); Y02T 10/70 (2013.01); Y02T 10/72 (2013.01); Y02T 90/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A route searching apparatus for searching for a route through which a moving body which moves by electric energy from a changeable battery reaches a destination has a position obtaining unit configured to obtain a current position of the moving body; a predicting unit configured to predict a time of arrival at a battery changing station based on a position of the battery changing station; a stock information obtaining unit configured to obtain stock information of a changeable battery in the battery changing station at the time of arrival; an estimating unit configured to estimate a movable range based on a residual amount of a changeable battery mounted in the moving body; and a searching unit configured to search for a route through which the moving body reaches the destination via the battery changing station, based on the stock information and the movable range.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Mukai, Masato. (2022). Route searching apparatus and battery information managing apparatus (U.S. Patent No. 11333513). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11333513

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