Vehicle driving mode display device and program for displaying vehicle driving mode

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9387801-B2
Application number	US-201414494870-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2014
Priority date	Sep 24, 2013
Publication date	Jul 12, 2016
Grant date	Jul 12, 2016

Abstract

A vehicle driving mode display device judges whether or not a following first condition or a following second condition is satisfied in a case that a vehicle is driven within a tolerance range, and if satisfied, issues a warning. The first condition is a case in which a difference between a standard speed indicated by the running speed pattern and the vehicle speed is gradually widened as time elapses. The second condition is a case in which the vehicle speed exceeds the tolerance range within a predetermined allowable time period when an acceleration at the moment is presumed to be kept.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle driving mode display device comprising:
a body part having a central processing unit which acquires vehicle speed; and
a screen where a running speed pattern, a tolerance range of the running speed pattern, and a vehicle speed at a moment when a measurement is conducted are plotted on a graph where time and the vehicle speed are plotted on each axes,
wherein in a case that the vehicle is driven within the tolerance range, the central processing unit is adapted to judge whether or not a first condition or a second condition is satisfied, and if the first condition or the second condition is satisfied, to issue a warning, wherein the first condition is a case in which a difference between an acceleration at a first time and a standard acceleration obtained from the running speed pattern is less than a difference between the acceleration at a second time when a predetermined time period has passed since the first time and the standard acceleration obtained from the running speed pattern, and wherein the second condition is a case in which, if the current acceleration is to be maintained, the vehicle speed would exceed the tolerance range within a predetermined allowable time period.

2. The vehicle driving mode display device described in claim 1 , wherein
the second condition is further a case in which an estimated time period required for the vehicle speed to exceed the tolerance range is less than the predetermined allowable time period when the acceleration at the first time is kept.

3. The vehicle driving mode display device described in claim 1 , wherein
in a case in which the vehicle speed is kept between an upper limit judgment initiation speed as being a speed that is within the tolerance range and that is greater than the standard speed indicated by the running speed pattern by a first predetermined value and a lower limit judgment initiation speed as being a speed that is within the tolerance range and that is less than the standard speed indicated by the running speed pattern by a second predetermined value, the judgment is not conducted.

4. The vehicle driving mode display device described in claim 1 , wherein
a specified area in the predetermined time period including the moment is displayed in a state of being enlarged in the vehicle speed axis direction.

5. The vehicle driving mode display device described in claim 1 , wherein
the vehicle speed axis of the graph is scrolled or can be scrolled so as to locate the running speed pattern at the moment near the center of the vehicle speed axis range in the graph.

6. The vehicle driving mode display device described in claim 4 , wherein
the specified area is enlarged so as to make the running speed pattern displayed in the specified area continuous with the running speed pattern in an ordinary display area that is adjacent to a future side of the specified area.

7. A recording medium for storing a computer-program for causing a vehicle driving mode display device including a body part having a central processing unit which acquires vehicle speed, to perform functions of:
displaying a screen where a running speed pattern, a tolerance range of the running speed pattern, and a vehicle speed at the moment are plotted on a graph where time and the vehicle speed are plotted on each axes;
judging whether or not a first condition or a second condition is satisfied in a case that the vehicle is driven within the tolerance range; and
if the first condition or the second condition is satisfied, issuing a warning, wherein the first condition is a case in which a difference between an acceleration at a first time and a standard acceleration obtained from the running speed pattern is less than a difference between the acceleration at a second time when a predetermined time period has passed since the first time and the standard acceleration obtained from the running speed pattern, and wherein the second condition is a case in which, if the current acceleration is to be maintained, the vehicle speed would exceed the tolerance range within a predetermined allowable time period.

Assignees

• Horiba Ltd

Inventors

• Okada Jungo
• Goto Kenichi
• Asada Hikaru
• Sasaki Tetsuo

Classifications

• B60Q3/04 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• G08B21/182 Primary

  Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold · CPC title

• G01M17/0074 Primary

  Details, e.g. roller construction, vehicle restraining devices · CPC title

• B60Q3/10

  for dashboards · CPC title