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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2005
Kazuhisa Sato, Saitama, JP;
Hiroyuki Abe, Saitama, JP;
Junichi Kobayashi, Saitama, JP;
Toshiaki Takeshita, Saitama, JP;
Hisashi Nagaoka, Saitama, JP;
Masanori Hayashi, Saitama, JP;
Kazuhisa Sato, Saitama, JP;
Hiroyuki Abe, Saitama, JP;
Junichi Kobayashi, Saitama, JP;
Toshiaki Takeshita, Saitama, JP;
Hisashi Nagaoka, Saitama, JP;
Masanori Hayashi, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system for allocating fuel stations to movable bodies includes an onboard unit, a station unit and a server. The onboard unit stores and updates information about a movable body. The station unit disposed at a fuel station which supplies fuel to the movable body stores and updates information about the fuel station. The server, which is connected to the onboard unit and the station unit through networks, allocates certain fuel stations to the movable body which requires fueling, based on the information about the movable body and the fuel station. When a difference of distance resulting from a subtraction, a movable distance minus a station distance, is smaller than a certain threshold, the server determines a necessity of supplying fuel to the movable body, allocating a fuel station which keeps an amount of stored fuel necessary for fuelling the movable body.