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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:
Sep. 13, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2015
Applicant:

Volkswagen Ag, Wolfsburg, DE;

Inventors:

Mathias Kuhn, Berlin, DE;

Tobias Budzynski, Berlin, DE;

Jian Lou, Berlin, DE;

Sönke Petersen, Berlin, DE;

Gustav Hofmann, Braunschweig, DE;

Assignee:

Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 10/30 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2012.01); B60W 40/00 (2006.01); B60L 11/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 11/1862 (2013.01); B60W 10/30 (2013.01); B60W 40/00 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60L 2250/16 (2013.01); B60L 2260/52 (2013.01); B60W 2540/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

An energy management method for a vehicle having an energy store and consumers, in which the energy reserve in the energy store is detected and a predicted actual range of the vehicle is calculated, a graphic object which visualizes the predicted actual range is generated and displayed, a user input is detected with which a setpoint range is set in that the graphic object is changed by an input device, after the setting of the setpoint range, on the basis of the difference between the setpoint range and the predicted actual range it is calculated by which changes in state of at least one subset of the consumers the setpoint range can be achieved, and the calculated changes in state are output as a proposal. Also disclosed is an energy management device for carrying out this energy management method.


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