US 12,391,139 B2
Fuel management device, fuel management system, fuel management method, and storage medium
Naoki Yamano, Wako (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/105,895.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-045437 (JP), filed on Mar. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0302939 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. B60L 53/00 (2019.01); B60L 53/62 (2019.01); B60L 53/65 (2019.01); B60L 53/66 (2019.01); B60L 53/67 (2019.01); B60L 53/68 (2019.01); B60L 58/30 (2019.01)
CPC B60L 53/62 (2019.02) [B60L 53/65 (2019.02); B60L 53/66 (2019.02); B60L 53/67 (2019.02); B60L 53/68 (2019.02); B60L 58/30 (2019.02)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fuel management device comprising:
a residual amount information acquisition part configured to acquire residual amount information indicating a residual amount of hydrogen fuel of each of a plurality of vehicles that are previously registered;
a vehicle identification part configured to identify a refueling target vehicle in which a residual amount of hydrogen fuel is a first threshold or less on the basis of the residual amount information of each vehicle;
an estimation part configured to estimate a supply amount of hydrogen fuel in a supply facility of hydrogen fuel on the basis of a refueling amount of hydrogen fuel to be refueled to each of the refueling target vehicles;
an output controller configured to output information based on the estimation result of the estimation part to an output part,
wherein the vehicle identification part identifies a vehicle, to which a refueling of the hydrogen fuel with respect to the vehicle has been performed when the residual amount of the hydrogen fuel is greater than the first threshold, on the basis of a history of the residual amount when the refueling vehicle for each of the vehicles among the plurality of vehicles, changes the first threshold of the vehicle identified by the vehicle identification part to a second threshold which is a value greater than the first threshold, and identifies the refueling target vehicle by using the second threshold, and
wherein the estimation part estimates a supply amount of the hydrogen fuel on the basis of refueling amounts of the hydrogen fuel to be refueled to each of the refueling target vehicles in which the residual amount of the hydrogen fuel is the first threshold or less and each of the refueling target vehicles in which the residual amount of the hydrogen fuel is the second threshold or less; and
controlling the refueling target vehicle, via transmitted notification data, to travel to the supply facility identified by the fuel management device.