# US 2021/0241626 A1 · Vehicle dispatch device, vehicle dispatch method, computer program, and computer-readable recording medium

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- Number: US 2021/0241626 A1
- Document ID: US20210241626A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 17/049,591
- Filed: 2018-12-21
- Published: 2021-08-05
- Earliest claimed: 2018-05-23
- Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Inventors: Shigeki NISHIMURA; Shoichi TANADA
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210241626A1

## CPC

- G08G 1/202: {Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching}
- B60L 58/13: Maintaining the SoC within a determined range
- G01C 21/3469: {Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects}
- G06Q 10/02: Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
- G06Q 50/40: Business processes related to the transportation industry (shipping G06Q10/083)
- B60L 2240/62: Vehicle position
- G01C 21/343: {Calculating itineraries (travelling salesman problem G06Q10/04; optimisation of routes G06Q10/047)}
- Y02T 10/72: Electric energy management in electromobility
- 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]
- G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93})
- 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)
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

## Abstract

A program according to an aspect of the present invention is a computer program for causing a computer to function as a device for dispatching a vehicle to a user, the computer program causing the computer to function as: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a vehicle dispatch request; and an information processing unit configured to select candidate vehicles that are candidates to be dispatched to the user, in accordance with the acquired vehicle dispatch request, wherein, when the selected candidate vehicles include an electric vehicle, the information processing unit determines the electric vehicle to be dispatched, on the basis of a charging priority of an area including a riding position of the user or a current position of the electric vehicle, a charging priority of an area including a destination of the user, and a remaining battery charge of the electric vehicle.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a computer program for causing a computer to function as a device for dispatching a vehicle to a user, the computer program causing the computer to function as:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire a vehicle dispatch request; and
an information processing unit configured to select candidate vehicles that are candidates to be dispatched to the user, in accordance with the acquired vehicle dispatch request, wherein
when the selected candidate vehicles include an electric vehicle, the information processing unit determines the electric vehicle to be dispatched, on the basis of a charging priority of an area including a riding position of the user or a current position of the electric vehicle, a charging priority of an area including a destination of the user, and a remaining battery charge of the electric vehicle.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The storage medium according to claim 1, wherein, when the charging priority of the area including the riding position of the user or the current position of the electric vehicle is low and the charging priority of the area including the destination of the user is high, the information processing unit prioritizes dispatching the electric vehicle having a remaining battery charge that is equal to or larger than an amount of power required for travelling to the destination and is as small as possible.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The storage medium according to claim 1, wherein, when the charging priority of the area including the destination of the user is low, the information processing unit prioritizes dispatching the electric vehicle having a remaining battery charge that is equal to or larger than an amount of power required for travelling to the destination and is as large as possible.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the information processing unit determines the charging priority of each of the areas on the basis of a power supply and demand situation of the area.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the information processing unit determines the charging priority of each of the areas on the basis of a charging station installation density of the area.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the information processing unit determines the charging priority of each of the areas on the basis of a renewable energy utilization rate of the area.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The storage medium according to claim 1, wherein, when the vehicle dispatch request includes the riding position and the destination of the user, the acquisition unit acquires the vehicle dispatch request including the riding position and the destination of the user.

### Claim 8

A method for dispatching a vehicle to a user, the method comprising:
a first step of acquiring a vehicle dispatch request; and
a second step of selecting candidate vehicles that are candidates to be dispatched to the user, in accordance with the acquired vehicle dispatch request, wherein
the second step includes a step of, when the selected candidate vehicles include an electric vehicle, determining the electric vehicle to be dispatched, on the basis of a charging priority of an area including a riding position of the user or a current position of the electric vehicle, a charging priority of an area including a destination of the user, and a remaining battery charge of the electric vehicle.

### Claim 9

A device for dispatching a vehicle to a user, the device comprising:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire a vehicle dispatch request; and
an information processing unit configured to select candidate vehicles that are candidates to be dispatched to the user, in accordance with the acquired vehicle dispatch request, wherein
when the selected candidate vehicles include an electric vehicle, the information processing unit determines the electric vehicle to be dispatched, on the basis of a charging priority of an area including a riding position of the user or a current position of the electric vehicle, a charging priority of an area including a destination of the user, and a remaining battery charge of the electric vehicle.

### Claim 10

(canceled)