# US 12,179,623 B2 · Method for coordinating charging and/or filling of an energy storage device of a motor vehicle, storage medium, mobile terminal, server device, navigation device, and motor vehicle

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- Number: US 12,179,623 B2
- Document ID: US12179623B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/153,005
- Filed: 2021-01-20
- Published: 2021-08-12
- Granted: 2024-12-31
- Earliest claimed: 2020-02-06
- Assignees: Audi AG
- Applicants: Audi AG
- Inventors: Hannes Moegele
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12179623B2

## CPC

- B60L 53/63: in response to network capacity
- B60L 53/60: Monitoring or controlling charging stations
- B60L 53/64: Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates
- B60L 53/66: Data transfer between charging stations and vehicles
- B60L 53/68: Off-site monitoring or control, e.g. remote control
- G01C 21/3415: {Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents}
- G01C 21/3469: {Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects}
- B60L 2240/70: Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres
- B60L 2260/52: drive range estimation, e.g. of estimation of available travel distance
- B60L 2260/54: Energy consumption estimation
- B60L 2260/58: Departure time prediction
- Y02E 60/00: Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
- Y02T 10/70: Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
- Y02T 10/7072: Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
- Y02T 10/72: Electric energy management in electromobility
- Y02T 90/12: Electric charging stations
- Y02T 90/16: Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
- Y02T 90/167: Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
- Y04S 10/126: the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]
- Y04S 30/12: Remote or cooperative charging
- B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
- G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S)
- Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
- Y04S: SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS

## Abstract

A method for coordinating charging and/or filling of an energy storage device of a motor vehicle. A navigation device determines user-specific appointment data having location coordinates, a departure location of the motor vehicle, and energy storage data for a state of charge and/or a fill level, and environmental data for a specified time range. The navigation device provides a digital agenda model, which describes the determined data, as well as map data for the respective locations and for at least one energy delivery device, and uses the agenda model to determine at least one travel plan for keeping the at least one appointment. As a function of the determined energy storage data, the respective travel route takes into consideration at least one location of an energy delivery device as an intermediate destination having a charging and/or filling time.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for coordinating charging and/or filling of an energy storage device of a motor vehicle, wherein a navigation device for a specified time range:
determines user-specific appointment data with location coordinates associated with at least one appointment,
determines a departure location of the motor vehicle at a beginning of the specified time range and energy storage data, wherein the energy storage data describe a state of charge and/or a fill level of the energy storage device at the beginning of the specified time range,
determines environmental data which describe at least one journey-relevant, motor vehicle-external environmental parameter,
provides a digital agenda model which describes the determined appointment data, map data of a geographic area that comprises the location coordinates associated with at least one appointment, the departure location of the motor vehicle, and at least one location of an energy delivery device, and describes the determined environmental data,
on the basis of the provided agenda model, determines at least one travel plan having a travel route for keeping the at least one appointment, wherein as a function of the determined energy storage data, the respective travel route takes into consideration the at least one location of the energy delivery device as an intermediate destination having a charging and/or filling time, so that the intermediate destination fulfills a specified expediency criterion, and
transmits the at least one determined travel plan to an output device and/or to a driver assistance system of the motor vehicle,
wherein the motor vehicle has self-driving capabilities and, after a user disembarks from the motor vehicle at one of the respective locations, the motor vehicle pilots itself to the intermediate destination for charging and then returns to pick up the user,
wherein the navigation device further determines user-specific data which comprises a driving style of the user for consideration in the provided agenda model,
wherein the respective travel route further takes into consideration the driving style of the user and prefers roads which are suited to the driving style of the user, and
wherein, during travel along the travel plan, the navigation device is configured to receive information pertaining to a defective energy source and correspondingly adjust the travel plan to avoid the defective energy source, and
wherein the motor vehicle is a hybrid motor vehicle and the navigation device determines historical motor vehicle data relating to a ratio of electricity and gasoline consumption of the hybrid motor vehicle for consideration in the provided agenda model on the basis of which the at least one travel plan is determined.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, wherein the specified expediency criterion prescribes a least possible delay in travel time.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, wherein the navigation device determines further energy storage data comprising a battery status and/or a current or predicted range for consideration in the provided agenda model.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, wherein the navigation device determines a current or predicted availability and/or a reservability of an energy delivery device for consideration in the provided agenda model.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, wherein the environmental data comprises data on a traffic situation in the geographic area and/or weather data.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is carried out in response to a speech input of the user.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, wherein the navigation device determines journey data comprising a predicted, journey-specific energy consumption for consideration in the provided agenda model.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program code which is designed to carry out the method according to claim 1 when executed by a processor device of a mobile terminal.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

A mobile, portable terminal comprising the storage medium according to claim 8.

### Claim 10 (depends on 8)

A server device for operation on the Internet, comprising the storage medium according to claim 8.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, wherein the specified expediency criterion prescribes a lowest possible cost of the charging and/or filling process.

### Claim 12 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, wherein the specified expediency criterion prescribes an energy carrier which provides charge and/or fuel from a renewable energy source.

### Claim 13 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, wherein the navigation device determines further energy storage data comprising a predicted range taking into consideration the driving style of the user.