US 12,179,624 B2Granted

Systems and methods for guiding vehicles to charging points

AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.

InventorsPrem Kumar T, Kalaiarasu Velappan, Janakiram Thiyagarajan, Gireesh Kumar R N

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Abstract

Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for determining guidance information for a vehicle. For instance, the method may include: determining whether the vehicle requires a charging event at least based on a state of charge of a battery system of the vehicle; determining a charging location of a charging station from a plurality of charging stations based on data associated with the vehicle and/or data associated with each of the plurality of charging stations; determining a current location of the vehicle; determining information to guide the vehicle from the current location to the determined charging location and align a charging interface of the vehicle to a charging interface of the charging location; and causing display of the determined information.

Claims26

Dependent claims

A method of determining guidance information for a vehicle, the method comprising:

determining, by one or more processors, whether the vehicle requires a charging event at least based on a state of charge of a battery system of the vehicle;
as a result of determining that the vehicle requires the charging event, determining, by the one or more processors, a charging location of a charging station from a plurality of charging stations based on data associated with the vehicle and/or data associated with each of the plurality of charging stations;
determining, by the one or more processors, a current location of the vehicle;
determining, by the one or more processors, a location of a vehicle charging interface on the vehicle;
receiving from a database, by the one or more processors, a location of a charging interface on a charging location;
determining, by the one or more processors, information to guide the vehicle from the current location to the determined charging location and align and connect the vehicle charging interface of the vehicle to the charging interface of the charging location to allow conductive transfer of electric current from the charging interface of the charging location to the vehicle charging interface of the vehicle, wherein the information to align the vehicle charging interface of the vehicle to the charging interface of the charging location is determined based at least in part on:
(i.) a comparison of at least a portion of the data associated with the vehicle to at least a portion of the data associated with the determined charging station of the plurality of charging station,
(ii.) the location of the vehicle charging interface on the vehicle, and
(iii.) the location of the charging interface on the charging location;
generating, via the one or more processors, one or more vehicle guidance instructions based at least in part on the information determined by the one or more processors based on the comparison of the at least a portion of the data associated with the vehicle to the at least a portion of the data associated with the determined charging station;
and
causing, by the one or more processors, display of the determined information.

9 more elements

A system for determining guidance information for a vehicle, the system comprising:

a memory storing instructions;
and
one or more processors executing the instructions to perform a process including:
determining whether the vehicle requires a charging event at least based on a state of charge of a battery system of the vehicle;
as a result of determining that the vehicle requires the charging event, determining a charging location of a charging station from a plurality of charging stations based on data associated with the vehicle and/or data associated with each of the plurality of charging stations;
determining a current location of the vehicle;
receiving from a database a location of a vehicle charging interface on the vehicle;
receiving from a database a location of a charging interface on a charging location:
determining information to guide the vehicle from the current location to the determined charging location and align and connect the vehicle charging interface of the vehicle to the charging interface of the charging location to allow conductive transfer of electric current from the charging interface of the charging location to the vehicle charging interface of the vehicle, wherein the information to align the vehicle charging interface of the vehicle to the charging interface of the charging location is determined based at least in part on:
(i.) a comparison of at least a portion of the data associated with the vehicle to at least a portion of the data associated with the determined charging station of the plurality of charging station,
(ii.) the location of the vehicle charging interface on the vehicle, and
(iii.) the location of the charging interface on the charging location;
generating, via the one or more processors, one or more vehicle guidance instructions based at least in part on the information determined by the one or more processors based on the comparison of the at least a portion of the data associated with the vehicle to the at least a portion of the data associated with the determined charging station;
and
causing display of the determined information.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method for determining guidance information for a vehicle, the method comprising:

determining whether the vehicle requires a charging event at least based on a state of charge of a battery system of the vehicle;
as a result of determining that the vehicle requires the charging event, determining a charging location of a charging station from a plurality of charging stations based on data associated with the vehicle and/or data associated with each of the plurality of charging stations;
determining a current location of the vehicle;
receiving from a database a location of a vehicle charging interface on the vehicle;
receiving from a database a location of a charging interface on a charging location;
determining information to guide the vehicle from the current location to the determined charging location and align and connect the vehicle charging interface of the vehicle to the charging interface of the charging location to allow conductive transfer of electric current from the charging interface of the charging location to the vehicle charging interface of the vehicle, wherein the information to align the vehicle charging interface of the vehicle to the charging interface of the charging location is determined based at least in part on:
(i.) a comparison of at least a portion of the data associated with the vehicle to at least a portion of the data associated with the determined charging station of the plurality of charging station,
(ii.) the location of the vehicle charging interface on the vehicle, and
(iii.) the location of the charging interface on the charging location;
generating, via the one or more processors, one or more vehicle guidance instructions based at least in part on the information determined by the one or more processors based on the comparison of the at least a portion of the data associated with the vehicle to the at least a portion of the data associated with the determined charging station;
and
causing display of the determined information.

9 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/336,473Filed 2 Jun 2021
Priority: IN 20211101246723 Mar 2021
Published: US 2022/0309931 A129 Sep 2022
Granted: 31 Dec 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification21 codes

B60L 53/65
Monitoring or controlling charging stations: involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
B60L 53/36
Means for automatic or assisted adjustment of the relative position of charging devices and vehicles: by positioning the vehicle
B60L 53/63
Monitoring or controlling charging stations: in response to network capacity
B60L 53/66
Monitoring or controlling charging stations: data transfer between charging stations and vehicles

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US 2022/0309931 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Sep 2022
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