TWI699714B - Electric car rental management system - Google Patents

Abstract

An electric vehicle rental management system includes multiple electric vehicles, multiple parking devices, multiple lease management units, and a lease servo device. Each electric vehicle can send battery performance information and reservation return information to the rental servo device. Each rental management unit can send a list of rentable vehicles and a list of available parking spaces to the rental server. The rental servo device will notify the corresponding parking device of the electric vehicle that is available for parking or replacement when it receives the reservation return message or analyzes an abnormal battery performance message. The design that can send the reservation return message and the battery performance information through the electric car, and the design of the rental servo device can help find the nearby stations where the car can be returned and exchanged, which can improve the convenience of return and exchange.

Description

Electric car rental management system

The invention relates to a lease management system, in particular to an electric vehicle lease management system.

In order to respond to environmental protection, reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and improve air quality, more and more cities have begun to plan public electric vehicle systems, which can be convenient for citizens to rent and reduce the number of motor vehicles. However, there are still many shortcomings in the design of the current electric vehicle rental system. Although the design of the electric vehicle loan and return service provides the service of land rent and land return, because each rental station has a limited number of parking spaces for the returned electric vehicle , So it often happens that when a renter rides to a rental station to return the car and finds that the rental station has no empty parking spaces for the car to be returned, it is very troublesome to look around for the rental station to park and return the car. , Even the rental site where the car was finally returned and parked is far away from the place originally scheduled to go.

In addition, the running power of electric vehicles comes from the installed battery modules. When the performance of the battery modules is reduced or abnormal, the renter will usually not notice, and the rental site will not control it, so the renter may rent the battery For electric vehicles with performance problems, the battery module cannot supply power normally during the ride. At this time, the renter can only lead the electric bicycle to find a nearby rental station to return the car, which often triggers the renter and management Unhappy disputes between units.

Therefore, the purpose of the present invention is to provide an electric vehicle rental management system that can improve at least one of the disadvantages of the prior art.

Therefore, the electric vehicle rental management system of the present invention includes multiple electric vehicles, multiple parking devices, multiple rental management units, and a rental servo device. Each electric vehicle includes a battery module, a battery management module that can measure the performance of the battery module and output a battery performance message, and a message notification module that can wirelessly send the battery performance Message, and can be operated to send an appointment return message wirelessly. Each parking device includes a plurality of parking units respectively for parking and signal connection of an electric vehicle. The lease management units are separately signaled to connect to the parking devices, and each lease management unit can count the number of electric vehicles currently available for lease on the respective parking device to create a list of leaseable vehicles, and can count the current availability The number of parking units for parking to generate a list of available parking spaces. The rental servo device can aggregate the list of rentable vehicles and the list of parking spaces, and will analyze from the list of parking spaces that there are parking spaces available for parking when receiving a return reservation message The parking device of the unit, and wirelessly send a return site message containing the location of the compared parking device to the electric vehicle that sent the scheduled return message, and receive and analyze a battery performance message When the battery is abnormal, analyze the parking devices of the electric vehicles that can be rented from the list of rental vehicles, and wirelessly send a car exchange station message containing the location of the compared parking device. To the electric vehicle corresponding to the battery performance message representing the abnormal battery.

The effect of the present invention lies in the design that the electric car can be operated to send the reservation return message, the leased electric car can transmit the battery performance information, and the rental servo device can assist in finding nearby stations where the car can be returned and exchanged. The design can avoid the problem of not being able to return a parking space and improve the convenience of returning and changing cars.

Referring to Figures 1 and 2, an embodiment of the electric vehicle rental management system of the present invention includes a plurality of electric vehicles 3 available for rental, a plurality of parking devices 4 for the electric vehicles 3 to park, and a plurality of separate signals The rental management unit 6 connected to the parking devices 4 and a signal is connected to the electric vehicles 3 and the rental server 5 of the rental management unit 6. Each parking device 4 is respectively set at a rental site for powering the electric vehicle 3 to park, and the rental server device 5 is a cloud server device. Since these electric vehicles 3 have the same structure, for the convenience of description, the structure and functions of an electric vehicle 3 are described as an example below.

The electric vehicle 3 includes a battery module 31, a battery management module 32, a satellite positioning module 33 capable of positioning and outputting a current position information, a display module 34, and a battery module that can interact with the parking devices 4 and The information notification module 35 of the rental server 5 signal connection. The battery management module 32 can detect the performance of the battery module 31, such as temperature, voltage, current, and battery cell status, and output a battery performance message correspondingly. Since detecting battery performance is a prior art and there are many methods, No more details.

The message notification module 35 can be operated to wirelessly send a car return reservation message to the rental server 5, and can periodically wirelessly send the battery performance message to the rental server 5 during the rental period. And the message notification module 35 will receive and store a loaned vehicle identification data sent by the corresponding rental management unit 6 for this rental when the respective electric car 3 is loaned out, and will return the car in the reservation message The current location information and the identification data of the loaned vehicle are respectively carried in the battery performance information. In addition, when the message notification module 35 is connected to one of the parking devices 4, the battery performance message with the identification data of the loaned vehicle will be sent to the lease management connected to the parking device 4 by the signal. Unit 6.

In this embodiment, the message notification module 35 communicates and transmits data with the rental servo device 5 through wireless communication technology, and when the electric vehicle 3 is electrically connected to a parking device 4 for charging, it uses wired Communication technology and/or wireless communication technology and the signal is connected to the parking device 4. The wireless communication technology used between the notification module 35 and the rental server device 5 can be mobile communication technologies such as WIFI or 3G and 4G, and the wireless communication technology used between the notification module 35 and a parking device 4 It can be mobile communication technologies such as Bluetooth, RFID, WIFI, or 3G and 4G.

Since the parking devices 4 are connected to the lease management units 6 one by one in signal connection, for the convenience of description, the following is an example of a parking device 4 and a lease management unit 6 that are connected to each other by signals. The structure and function of the parking device 4 and the lease management unit 6 are described.

The parking device 4 includes a plurality of parking units 41 and a plurality of charging units 42 corresponding to the parking units 41 respectively.

Each parking unit 41 can be used for parking an electric vehicle 3, and will be signally connected to the information notification module 35 of the electric vehicle 3 parked to receive the battery performance information. Each charging unit 42 can be electrically connected to the electric vehicle 3 parked in the corresponding parking unit 41 to charge the electric vehicle 3.

In this embodiment, the lease management unit 6 is a hardware device adjacently arranged around the parking device 4, and stores a plurality of the parking units 41 parked on the parking device 4, respectively. Wait for the starting tool (not shown) corresponding to the electric vehicle 3, such as a car key. The lease management unit 6 includes a list creation module 61, a return management module 62, a lease management module 63, and a lease prohibition management module 64.

The list creation module 61 can summarize and count the number of parking units 41 that the parking device 4 is currently available for parking to generate a list of available parking spaces, and can summarize and count the number of electric vehicles currently available for rent on the parking device 4 The number of vehicles 3 is used to establish a list of rentable vehicles, and each electric vehicle 3 in the list of rentable vehicles is set with a vehicle identification data to be rented.

The return management module 62 will receive the battery performance information through the parking unit 41 when one of the parking units 41 starts to connect with an electric vehicle 3 signal, and delete the loaned vehicle identification data of the electric vehicle 3 , And re-create a vehicle identification data for the electric vehicle 3 connected with the parking unit 41 signal, add the electric vehicle 3 statistics to the list of rentable vehicles, and delete the corresponding parking space list in the list of available parking spaces. The parking unit 41 uploads the modified list of rentable vehicles, the list of available parking spaces, and the battery performance information of the electric vehicle 3 to the rental servo device 5.

In addition, when the return management module 62 receives a return site message sent by the rental server device 5, according to the loaned vehicle identification data and a parking unit 41 data contained in the return site message, The identification data of the loaned vehicle is associated and bound to the corresponding parking unit 41 in the list of available parking spaces, and the parking unit 41 can only be used for parking the electric vehicle 3 with the identification data of the associated loaned vehicle. The parking is connected to the signal, that is, it cannot be connected to the signal of the electric vehicle 3 with other loaned vehicle identification data, and the parking unit 41 that is associated and bound will be deleted from the list of available parking spaces, and the changed The list of available parking spaces is uploaded to the rental server 5 again.

The lease management module 63 can be operated to lease an electric car 3, and when an electric car 3 is successfully rented, it will send a loan vehicle identification data to the message of the electric car 3 via the corresponding parking unit 41 The module 35 is notified and a starting tool for starting the electric vehicle 3 is released.

The rental management module 63 can also be activated by a car exchange station message sent by the rental server 5. The car exchange station message will contain identification data of the loaned vehicle and identification data of the vehicle to be lent. The rental management module Group 63 will delete the electric car 3 corresponding to the vehicle identification data of the vehicle to be lent in the message of the exchange site from the list of rental vehicles, and cannot be rented, and upload the revised list of rental vehicles to the rental again Servo device 5. In addition, the rental management module 63 will operate to input a loan vehicle identification data that matches the loan vehicle identification data carried by the exchange station message, or the return management module 62 will pass through a parking device 4 When the received identification data of a loaned vehicle matches the identification data of the loaned vehicle contained in the message of the exchange station, release the electric vehicle corresponding to the identification data of the vehicle to be loaned contained in the message of the exchange station to activate 3 The start-up tool allows renters to replace electric vehicles3.

The rental prohibition management module 64 will be triggered by a rental prohibition signal sent by the rental server 5, the rental prohibition signal will contain a vehicle identification data to be loaned or a loan vehicle identification data, the rental prohibition management module 64 The electric vehicle 3 corresponding to the identification data of the vehicle to be loaned will be deleted from the list of rentable vehicles, and the rental will be prohibited, and the loan vehicle with the rental prohibition signal will be received at the parking units 41 When identifying the battery performance information of the data, the return management module 62 is controlled to prohibit the electric vehicle 3 from being included in the list of leaseable vehicles, so as to prohibit the lease.

The rental server device 5 has built-in the site locations of the parking devices 4, and can receive the battery performance information wirelessly sent by the electric vehicles 3, and receive the parking available from the rental management unit 6 Bit list, the list of these rentable vehicles, and the battery performance information. The rental server device 5 includes a site information aggregation unit 51, a return site management unit 52, a car swap site management unit 53, and a battery performance analysis unit 54. The site message aggregation unit 51 can receive and aggregate the rentable vehicle lists and the available parking space lists sent by the lease management units 6.

The return site management unit 52 can compare the location of the current location information contained in the reservation return message based on the site locations of the parking devices 4 when receiving a reservation return message All the parking devices 4 of the parking unit 41 that can be parked are still in the list of parking spaces within a certain distance. In this embodiment, the parking device 4 with the shortest distance from the location represented by the current location information is found by comparison. Then, the return site management unit 52 will select a parking unit 41 from the list of parking spaces corresponding to the parking device 4, and generate a parking device 4 with the comparison. The return site information of the station location and the selected parking unit 41 data, and the return station information is returned to the electric vehicle 3 that issued the reservation return message, driving the display of the electric vehicle 3 The module 34 displays the return station information. In addition, the return site management unit 52 will additionally entrain the loan vehicle identification data in the scheduled return message in the return site message, and then additionally send the return site message to the corresponding parking device The lease management unit 6 connected by the signal 4 drives the lease management unit 6 to associate the selected parking unit 41 with the loan vehicle identification data.

The battery performance analysis unit 54 can analyze each battery performance message to determine whether the corresponding battery module 31 is abnormal, and when it is determined that the battery performance message transmitted by an electric vehicle 3 represents a battery abnormality, it triggers the start of the car swap site management Unit 53.

When the car swap station management unit 53 is triggered to start, it will compare the current location information carried by the battery performance information to the nearest electric car 3 corresponding to the battery performance information, and the corresponding rental car list is still available. There is a parking device 4 of the electric vehicle 3 that can be rented, and an electric vehicle 3 is selected from the list of the rentable vehicles corresponding to the parking device 4, and an entrained parking device 4 is sent to the vehicle. The station location of the parking device 4 and the selected exchange station information of the identification data of the vehicle to be borrowed of the electric vehicle 3 are sent to the corresponding electric vehicle 3, driving the display module 34 of the electric vehicle 3 to display the The message content of the transfer site. At the same time, the car swap site management unit 53 will also include the loan vehicle identification data of the electric vehicle 3 in the car swap site message, and send the car swap site message to the compared parking site. The rental management unit 6 connected with the signal of the parking device 4. In addition, the car swap site management unit 53 will also send a rental prohibition signal containing the identification data of the loaned vehicle in the battery performance message to the compared The lease management unit 6 signally connected to the parking device 4.

In addition, when the battery performance analysis unit 54 determines that a battery performance message transmitted by a rental management unit 6 represents battery abnormality, it will also trigger the activation of the car swap site management device 53, and the car swap site management device 53 will target the battery. The electric vehicle 3 corresponding to the performance message returns the lease prohibition signal to the lease management unit 6.

When the electric car rental management system of the present invention is used, the renter can rent the electric car 3 parked in the corresponding parking device 4 from one of the rental management units 6. When the rental is successful, the rental management unit 6 will release the corresponding activation tool , The electric car 3 for the renter to start the rental, there are many ways to rent, and it is not the focus of the improvement of this case, so it will not be described in detail.

When the renter wants to return the electric car 3, the message notification module 35 on the electric car 3 can be operated to send the car return reservation message. When the rental servo device 5 receives the reservation return message, it compares the parking device 4 that is closest to the electric vehicle 3 and has a parking unit 41 for return parking, and returns the return site information To the electric car 3, the electric car 3 will display the message content of the car return site on the display module 34, so that the renter can view and understand which parking device 4 should return the car to. In addition, the rental server device 5 will also send the return station message to the rental management unit 6 signaled to the corresponding parking device 4, and drive the rental management unit 6 to the parking device 4 that has been reserved. The parking unit 41 is reserved for parking and returning the electric vehicle 3 reserved for parking. The rental management unit 6 will re-upload the modified list to the rental server 5 when the list of available parking spaces and the list of available rental vehicles are modified.

Each electric vehicle 3 will periodically detect and return the battery performance information to the rental servo device 5 during the period of being loaned out for riding. The rental servo device 5 will analyze and determine that the battery performance information represents an abnormal battery. Compare the parking device 4 of the electric car 3 that is closest to the electric car 3 and also has the electric car 3 available for rent, and send the message of the exchange station to the corresponding electric car 3, and drive the electric car 3 to the display module 34 displays the message content of the car-changing site, so that the renter knows that the battery is abnormal and to which parking device 4 can be changed. In addition, the rental server device 5 will also send the exchange station message and the rental prohibition signal to the rental management unit 6 connected to the corresponding parking device 4, so as to drive the rental management unit 6 to remain parked on the parking device. The electric car 3 corresponding to 4 is for the renter to replace, and the electric car 3 that has been returned and judged as abnormal battery is not included in the list of rentable vehicles, that is, the electric car 3 that has been returned and the battery is abnormal is replaced Can no longer be rented.

It must be noted that, in this embodiment, the lease management units 6 are physical devices arranged beside the corresponding parking devices 4, respectively, which can be used to operate the leased electric vehicles parked at the respective parking devices 4. 3. A starter tool to start the electric car 3 will be released. However, when implemented, in other implementation aspects of the present invention, the lease management units 6 can be directly integrated into the lease server device 5 through software programs and/or electronic circuits. In this implementation aspect, the lease management units 6 The rental management unit 6 can be connected by a signal from a mobile device (not shown) to perform the rental operation of the electric vehicle 3, and the activation tool is no longer released, but can be changed to drive the corresponding parking unit 41 lock The rented electric vehicle 3 is returned, and the leased electric vehicle 3 is unlocked and released. However, when implemented, the lease management unit 6 manages the lease return method of the electric vehicle 3 of the parking device 4 is not limited to this.

In summary, the design of the electric vehicles 3 that can be operated to send the reservation return message, as well as the design of the parking device 4, the rental management unit 6, and the rental servo device 5, when the renter wants When returning the rented electric car 3, the rental servo device 5 can provide a parking device 4 with a parking unit 41 around it for parking and returning the car, so that the renter can return the car more conveniently and avoid finding a parking space problem. In addition, through the design of the leased electric vehicles 3 that can periodically transmit the battery performance information, and the lease management unit 6 can periodically return the design of the battery-type performance information of the leased electric vehicles 3, when the When the battery of the rented electric car 3 is abnormal, the renter can be notified to the nearby parking device 4 to change the car, and the corresponding rental management unit 6 can be driven to cancel the rental function of the electric car 3 with abnormal battery, which can greatly reduce the rent of the renter. The incidence of failure to ride due to battery failure during riding. Therefore, the electric vehicle rental management system of the present invention is indeed a very innovative design, which can indeed achieve the purpose of the invention.

However, the above are only examples of the present invention. When the scope of implementation of the present invention cannot be limited by this, all simple equivalent changes and modifications made according to the scope of the patent application of the present invention and the content of the patent specification still belong to This invention patent covers the scope.

3‧‧‧Electric vehicle 31‧‧‧Battery module 32‧‧‧Battery management module 33‧‧‧Satellite positioning module 34‧‧‧Display module 35‧‧‧Message notification module 4‧‧‧Parking Device 41‧‧‧Parking unit 42‧‧‧Charging unit 5‧‧‧Rental servo device 51‧‧‧Site message aggregation unit 52‧‧‧Return to the station management unit 53‧‧‧Car exchange station management unit 54‧ ‧‧Battery Performance Analysis Unit 6‧‧‧Leasing Management Unit 61‧‧‧List Building Module 62‧‧‧Car Return Management Module 63‧‧‧Leasing Management Module 64‧‧‧Leasing Prohibition Management Module

Other features and effects of the present invention will be clearly presented in the embodiment with reference to the drawings, in which: Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the electric vehicle rental management system of the present invention; and Figure 2 is the embodiment Function block diagram.

3‧‧‧Electric car

31‧‧‧Battery Module

32‧‧‧Battery Management Module

33‧‧‧Satellite positioning module

34‧‧‧Display Module

35‧‧‧Message notification module

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41‧‧‧Parking Unit

42‧‧‧Charging unit

5‧‧‧Rental Servo Device

51‧‧‧Site Information Integration Unit

52‧‧‧Return the site management unit

53‧‧‧Car exchange station management unit

54‧‧‧Battery performance analysis unit

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61‧‧‧List creation module

62‧‧‧Return management module

63‧‧‧ Rental Management Module

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Claims (9)

An electric vehicle rental management system includes multiple electric vehicles, multiple parking devices, multiple lease management units, and a rental servo device. Each electric vehicle includes a battery module and a battery module that can be measured. The performance of the group is a battery management module that outputs a battery performance message, and a message notification module that can wirelessly send the battery performance message, and can be operated to wirelessly send a car return reservation message; each The parking device includes a plurality of parking units which can respectively be used for parking an electric vehicle and connected to a signal; the rental management units are separately signal connected to the parking devices, and each rental management unit can count the respective parking devices The number of electric vehicles currently available for rental can be used to establish a list of available rental vehicles, and the number of parking units currently available for parking can be counted to generate a list of available parking spaces; the rental servo device can aggregate the list of these available rental vehicles with the Wait for the list of available parking spaces, and when receiving an appointment to return the car, analyze the parking devices that still have parking units available for parking from the list of such available parking spaces, and send a wireless message containing the comparison The return station message of the station location of a parking device to the electric vehicle that sent the reservation return message, and when a battery performance message is received and analyzed to indicate that the battery is abnormal, it can be analyzed from the list of the rental vehicles Send out the parking device of the electric vehicle that is still available for rental, and wirelessly send a car swap station message containing the location of the compared parking device to the electric vehicle corresponding to the battery performance message representing the abnormal battery . The electric vehicle rental management system according to claim 1, wherein each electric vehicle further includes a satellite positioning module capable of positioning and outputting a current position information, and the message notification module will report the return information and the battery The performance information includes the current location information, the rental server has the built-in station locations of the parking devices, and includes a station information that can receive the list of the available parking spaces and the list of the rental vehicles Summarizing unit, a battery performance analysis unit that can analyze whether the battery performance information represents battery abnormality, and a return site management unit that can compare the current location information in the scheduled return message Within a specific distance of the location, and there is a parking device of the parking unit that can be parked in the corresponding parking space list, and correspondingly send the return station message. The electric vehicle rental management system according to claim 2, wherein the return site management unit compares the location distance with the current location information of the scheduled return message to the shortest location, and the corresponding available parking space list is still A parking device with a parking unit that can be parked. The electric vehicle rental management system according to claim 2, wherein each message notification module also includes a loaned vehicle identification data in the scheduled return message, and the return site management unit will also return the reserved vehicle The identification data of the loaned vehicle in the message is carried in the return site message and sent to the rental management unit connected to the parking device corresponding to the return site message. Each rental management unit can be corresponding to the The return station message is triggered, and a parking unit currently available for parking of each parking device is associated and bound with the loan vehicle identification data contained in the return station message, and will be bound by the loan vehicle identification data The associated and bound parking unit is removed from the list of available parking spaces. The electric vehicle rental management system according to claim 2, wherein the rental server device further includes a car swap site management unit, and the car swap site management unit can compare the current position of the battery performance information representing battery abnormality The information is within a specific distance of the location, and there is a parking device of the electric vehicle that is available for rental in the corresponding rental vehicle list, and the message of the car swap station is correspondingly sent to the battery performance message representing the abnormal battery The electric car. The electric vehicle rental management system according to claim 5, wherein the car swap site management unit compares and finds that the position distance from the current position information of the battery performance information is the shortest, and the corresponding rental vehicle list still has A parking device for electric vehicles that can be rented. The electric vehicle rental management system according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the rental server device can receive the battery performance information sent by the electric vehicle connected to the corresponding parking unit signal via each rental management unit, the The car swap station management unit can receive and analyze a battery performance message representing battery abnormality, and send a rental prohibition signal to the corresponding rental management unit for the electric vehicle corresponding to the battery performance message, and each rental management unit can be corresponding to that The rental prohibition signal is triggered, and the electric vehicle corresponding to the rental prohibition signal is deleted from the list of rental vehicles. The electric vehicle rental management system according to claim 7, wherein the information notification module of each electric vehicle that has been leased also includes a loaned vehicle identification data in the respective battery performance information. The rental vehicle list has a vehicle identification data for each electric vehicle that is available for rental. The car exchange station management unit will select a vehicle to be borrowed from the list of rental vehicles corresponding to a parking device. The vehicle identification data, and the identification data of the vehicle to be borrowed, and the identification data of the loaned vehicle representing the battery performance information of the abnormal battery are clipped into the exchange site message, and the exchange site message is additionally sent to The rental management unit corresponding to the parking device is compared. Each rental management unit can be operated to input a loaned vehicle identification data, and can be connected to an electric vehicle through the parking unit signal. The parking unit reads the loaned vehicle identification data of the battery performance information of the electric vehicle, and when the loaned vehicle identification data input or read matches the loaned vehicle identification data in the exchange station message , Provide a starter tool for the electric vehicle corresponding to the identification data of the vehicle to be borrowed from the information of the vehicle exchange site. The electric vehicle rental management system according to claim 7, wherein the information notification module of each electric vehicle that has been leased also includes a loaned vehicle identification data in the respective battery performance information. The rental vehicle list has a vehicle identification data for each electric vehicle that is available for rental. The car exchange station management unit will select a vehicle to be borrowed from the list of rental vehicles corresponding to a parking device. The vehicle identification data, and the identification data of the vehicle to be borrowed, and the identification data of the loaned vehicle representing the battery performance information of the abnormal battery are clipped into the exchange site message, and the exchange site message is additionally sent to The rental management unit corresponding to the parking device is compared, and each rental management unit can read the battery performance information of the electric vehicle through the parking unit when the corresponding parking unit signal is connected to an electric vehicle When the read identification data of the loaned vehicle matches the identification data of the loaned vehicle in the exchange station message, drive the identification of the waiting vehicle parked with the exchange station message The parking unit of the electric vehicle corresponding to the data is unlocked to release the electric vehicle.

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