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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 28, 2011
Applicants:

Yasunori Hoshihara, Tokyo, JP;

Kazuyuki Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yasunori Hoshihara, Tokyo, JP;

Kazuyuki Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 11/18 (2006.01); G01C 21/26 (2006.01); B60L 3/12 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 11/1861 (2013.01); B60L 11/1838 (2013.01); B60L 3/12 (2013.01); G01C 21/3469 (2013.01); G01C 21/3484 (2013.01); G01C 21/26 (2013.01); B60L 2240/72 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7005 (2013.01); Y02T 90/128 (2013.01); Y02T 90/14 (2013.01); Y02T 90/163 (2013.01); B60L 2260/46 (2013.01); B60L 2260/50 (2013.01); B60L 2250/00 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7088 (2013.01); Y02T 90/161 (2013.01);
Abstract

A charge guidance apparatus includes a history creation retaining unitfor creating history information about a charging spot, charge start time and charging duration of a batteryof a vehicle; a learning processing unitfor learning a usual charging spot and charging period of time of the vehiclefrom the charging spot, charge start time and charging duration of the batteryof the vehiclewith the frequency of charges executed being not less than a prescribed number of times, which are extracted from the history information; a decision processing unitfor deciding whether to give charge guidance or not based on whether the vehicleis in the usual charging spot and charging period of time; and a charge guidance processing unitfor giving charge guidance in accordance with a decision result of the decision processing unit


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