Server, vehicle communicating with the server, and control method of the server

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10504303-B2
Application number	US-201815946164-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 5, 2018
Priority date	Nov 6, 2017
Publication date	Dec 10, 2019
Grant date	Dec 10, 2019

Abstract

A vehicle includes a communication device communicating with a server. A battery supplies power to an electronic device. A battery manager monitors a state of charge (SoC) of the battery and generates a trigger signal based on the SoC of the battery. A controller is configured to control the communication device to send information about battery discharge to the server upon reception of the trigger signal, and to control the information about battery discharge to be sent again if it is determined that sending of the information about battery discharge is unavailable.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle comprising:
a communication device configured to communicate with a server;
a battery configured to supply power to an electronic device;
a battery manager configured to monitor a state of charge (SoC) of the battery and to generate a trigger signal based on the SoC of the battery, wherein the battery manager comprises a current detector configured to detect a current of the battery and a monitoring device configured to obtain a charge level corresponding to the detected current and to generate the trigger signal when the obtained charge level is a reference level; and
a controller configured to control the communication device to send information about battery discharge to the server upon reception of the trigger signal, to determine whether or not the information about battery discharge is sent in response to determining whether a response signal indicating reception of the information about battery discharge is received from the server, and to control the information about battery discharge to be sent again if it is determined that the information about battery discharge is not sent;
wherein the controller is configured to receive, from the server, an instruction to change a stored reference level to an obtained reference level and to change the stored reference level to the obtained reference level; and
wherein the monitoring device is configured to generate the trigger signal based on the changed reference level.

2. The vehicle of claim 1 , further comprising a starter configured to receive a command to turn on an ignition, wherein the monitoring device is configured to generate the trigger signal based on the stored reference level until the command to turn on the ignition is received and to generate the trigger signal based on the obtained reference level upon reception of the command to turn on the ignition.

3. The vehicle of claim 1 , further comprising a starter configured to receive a command to turn on an ignition and a command to turn off the ignition, wherein the controller is configured to, upon reception of the command to turn off the ignition after receiving the command to turn on the ignition, control the communication device to send SoC information of the battery to the server.

4. The vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to send the information about battery discharge as many times as a predetermined number of times when communication with the communication device is unavailable.

5. The vehicle of claim 4 , wherein the controller is configured to be woken up upon reception of the trigger signal, and to enter a sleep state after sending the information about battery discharge as many times as the predetermined number of times.

6. A vehicle comprising:
a communication device configured to communicate with a server;
a battery configured to supply power to an electronic device;
a battery manager configured to monitor a state of charge (SoC) of the battery and to generate a trigger signal based on the SoC of the battery; and
a controller configured to control the communication device to send information about battery discharge to the server upon reception of the trigger signal, to determine whether or not the information about battery discharge is sent in response to determining whether a response signal indicating reception of the information about battery discharge is received from the server, and to control the information about battery discharge to be sent again if it is determined that the information about battery discharge is not sent,
wherein the battery manager comprises:
a current detector configured to detect a current of the battery; and
a monitoring device configured to obtain a charge level corresponding to the detected current, to generate a first trigger signal when the obtained charge level is equal to a first reference level, and to generate a second trigger signal when the obtained charge level is equal to a second reference level, wherein the second reference level is lower than the first reference level.

7. The vehicle of claim 6 , wherein the controller is configured to be woken up upon reception of the first trigger signal, to control the communication device to send information about caution of battery discharge as many times as a predetermined number of times, to be woken up upon reception of the second trigger signal, to control the communication device to send information about danger of battery discharge as many times as a predetermined number of times, and to enter to a sleep state after sending at least one of the information about caution of battery discharge and the information about danger of battery discharge as many times as a predetermined number of times.

8. A server comprising:
a storage medium;
a communication device configured to communicate with a vehicle and a terminal; and
a controller configured, upon reception of information about battery discharge from the vehicle, to:
control the storage medium to store the received information about battery discharge;
control the communication device to send notification information about battery discharge to the terminal;

wherein the controller is configured to check whether the information about battery discharge is stored in the storage medium upon reception of an ignition-off signal and information about a state of charge (SoC) of the battery from the vehicle, and to control the communication device to send notification information about battery discharge to the terminal if the information about battery discharge is not stored in the storage medium; and
wherein the storage medium is configured to store the information about battery discharge as a battery discharge history corresponding to a control command of the controller.

9. The server of claim 8 , wherein the controller is configured to, upon reception of an ignition-on signal and SoC information of the battery from the vehicle, determine a charge amount of the battery corresponding to the received SoC information, and control the communication device to send the determined charge amount of the battery to the terminal.

10. The server of claim 8 , wherein the controller is configured to determine a charge level corresponding to the SoC information of the battery, and control the communication device to send notification information about battery discharge when the determined charge level is equal to or less than a reference level and the information about battery discharge is not stored in the storage medium.

11. The server of claim 10 , wherein the controller is configured to control sending of the notification information about battery discharge to be blocked when the determined charge level is equal to or less than the reference level and the information about battery discharge is stored in the storage medium.

12. The server of claim 8 , wherein the controller is configured to check whether the information about battery discharge is stored in the storage medium before an ignition-on signal is received from the vehicle.

13. The server of claim 8 , wherein the controller is configured to receive surrounding information of the vehicle, determine a reference level corresponding to the received surrounding information, change a stored reference level to the determined reference level when the determined reference level is different from the stored reference level, and control the communication device to send the determined reference level and a command to change reference level to the vehicle.

14. The server of claim 13 , wherein the controller is configured to determine whether an ignition-off signal and SoC information o

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Park Jongpil
• Park Yunjoong

Classifications

• H02J2105/33

  exchanging power with road vehicles · CPC title

• H02J7/84

  Control of state of health [SOH] · CPC title

• H02J7/82

  Control of state of charge [SOC] · CPC title

• H04L67/125 Primary

  involving control of end-device applications over a network · CPC title

• H04L67/025

  for remote control or remote monitoring of applications · CPC title