Method, device and system for automatically fueling vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11505445-B2
Application number	US-201816035669-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 15, 2018
Priority date	Jul 21, 2017
Publication date	Nov 22, 2022
Grant date	Nov 22, 2022

Abstract

The present application provides a method, device and system for automatically fueling a vehicle. The method includes: determining fuel amount to be filled according to the information of vehicle status and the driving route of the vehicle; assigning a fueling device which conforms to a preset position rule to the vehicle according to the current position of the vehicle and the preset position rule; sending a feedback message carrying position information of the fueling device to the vehicle, so that the vehicle drives to the fueling device indicated by a position of the fueling device; and sending information of the fuel amount to be filled and the information of the identifier of the vehicle to the fueling device so that the fueling device offers fuel to the vehicle indicated by the identifier of the vehicle according to the information of the fuel amount to be filled.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of automatically fueling a vehicle, comprising:
receiving, by a fueling management system located on a network-side of a wireless network external to the vehicle, a fueling request from the vehicle, wherein the fueling request comprises information of an identifier of the vehicle and information of vehicle status;
determining, by the fueling management system, a current position of the vehicle;
selecting, by the fueling management system, one of ends of a stored historical route according to driving direction of the vehicle, in response to the stored historical route including the current position of the vehicle;
generating, by the fueling management system, a driving route of the vehicle according to the selected one of the ends of the stored historical route and the current position of the vehicle;
determining, by the fueling management system, fuel amount to be filled before fueling the vehicle according to the information of vehicle status and the driving route of the vehicle, wherein the information of vehicle status at least comprises: information of an average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers, a current weight and a filled fuel amount of the vehicle; and wherein
the determining the fuel amount to be filled comprises:
determining a distance length of the driving route;
determining a required fuel amount according to a function relationship among the average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers of the vehicle, the current weight of the vehicle and the distance length of the driving route; and

determining the fuel amount to be filled according to the determined required fuel amount and the filled fuel amount of the vehicle;
assigning, by the fueling management system, a fueling device which conforms to a preset position rule to the vehicle according to the current position of the vehicle and the preset position rule;
sending, by the fueling management system, a feedback message carrying position information of the fueling device to the vehicle; and
sending, by the fueling management system, information of the fuel amount to be filled and the information of the identifier of the vehicle to the fueling device.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said determining the current position of the vehicle comprises:
determining the current position of the vehicle according to a signal fed back from a global positioning system (GPS) positioning tracker on the vehicle; or
sending a position request message to the vehicle, and receiving information of the current position of the vehicle fed back from the vehicle.

3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising determining current driving time of the vehicle, and wherein
the function relationship is a function relationship among the average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers of the vehicle, the current weight of the vehicle, the distance length of the driving route and the current driving time.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising obtaining information of weather condition, wherein
the function relationship is a function relationship among the average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers of the vehicle, the current weight of the vehicle, the distance length of the driving route and the weather condition.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising obtaining information of a roadway condition of the driving route, which comprises at least one of: roadway speed limit information, roadway traffic control information, roadway closure information, or roadway congestion information, wherein
the function relationship is a function relationship among the average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers of the vehicle, the current weight of the vehicle, the distance length of the driving route and the roadway condition of the driving route.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the information of vehicle status further comprises information of a deadweight of the vehicle, and wherein
the function relationship is a function relationship among the average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers of the vehicle, the current weight of the vehicle, the deadweight of the vehicle and the distance length of the driving route.

7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, by the fueling management system, actual fuel consumption after each fueling in a preset update cycle;
comparing, by the fueling management system, the required fuel amount determined each time with the actual fuel consumption; and
updating, by the fueling management system, the function relationship for determining the required fuel amount according to a comparison result.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said assigning the fueling device which conforms to the preset position rule to the vehicle comprises:
obtaining, by the fueling management system, prestored position of each of at least one fueling device;
and wherein the preset position rule comprises:
a fueling device closest to the current position of the vehicle;
a random fueling device in the at least one fueling device of which a distance from the current position of the vehicle is less than a preset distance; or
a fueling device of a pre-determined operator closest to the current position of the vehicle.

9. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:
obtaining, by the fueling management system, dynamic operation condition information of each of the at least one fueling device, wherein the dynamic operation condition information comprises a fueling queue length of the fueling device; wherein
said assigning the fueling device which conforms to the preset position rule to the vehicle comprises: assigning a fueling device which conforms to the preset position rule and of which the fueling queue length is less than a preset fueling queue length to the vehicle.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the identifier of the vehicle comprises: a vehicle identification code of the vehicle, a vehicle identifier assigned by the fueling management system to the vehicle, or both the vehicle identification code of the vehicle and the vehicle identifier assigned by the fueling management system to the vehicle.

11. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, by the fueling management system, payment information corresponding to the fuel amount to be filled; and
sending, by the fueling management system, a message comprising the payment information to the vehicle.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein said selecting, by the fueling management system, one of ends of a stored historical route according to driving direction of the vehicle, in response to the stored historical route including the current position of the vehicle comprises:
selecting, from a plurality of stored historical routes, one historical route which includes the current position of the vehicle and along which the vehicle has traveled for a plurality of times; and
selecting, by the fueling management system, one of the ends of the stored historical route according to driving direction of the vehicle.

13. A method of automatically fueling a vehicle, comprising:
receiving, by a fueling control device in the vehicle, a load signal from an on-board network;
determining, by the fueling control device in the vehicle, that the vehicle needs to be filled with fuel in response to the load signal indicating that a loading weight of the vehicle exceeds a predetermined dead weight;
obtaining, by the fueling control device in the vehicle, information of vehicle status of the vehicle when determining that the vehicle needs to be filled with fuel;
sending, by the fueling c

Assignees

• Beijing Tusen Weilai Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wu Nan
• Zheng He

Classifications

• G01C21/3469 Primary

  Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects · CPC title

• G08G1/202

  Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching · CPC title

• G08G1/0962

  having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages · CPC title

• G08G1/096741

  where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle · CPC title

• B67D7/0401 Primary

  arrangements for automatically fuelling vehicles, i.e. without human intervention · CPC title