TWI804733B - Maintenance method of electric rental car - Google Patents

Abstract

A maintenance method for an electric rental car, comprising: after the maintenance personnel move the electric rental car to the designated rental station and operate a maintenance application program of a mobile device to designate the designated rental station to the electric rental car, The mobile device sends a listing request to a server; the server receives from the electric rental vehicle the power of the extracted battery and the vehicle location of the electric rental vehicle according to the listing request; and the server does not When a fault code of the electric rental car is received and it is determined that the electric quantity is greater than a first predetermined electric quantity and the location of the vehicle is within the designated electronic fence area, the server causes the electric rental car to belong to the designated The rental station is used to complete the putting on of the electric rental car, so that a renter can rent the electric rental car.

Description

Maintenance method of electric rental car

The present invention relates to a maintenance method for rental vehicles, in particular to a maintenance method for electric rental vehicles.

In recent years, the awareness of environmental protection has been on the rise. In view of the increasingly serious effects of global warming and climate change caused by greenhouse gases, in order to arouse the whole people to participate in energy conservation and carbon reduction, the government actively plans the development of public transportation and actively seeks to improve public transportation (such as the Czech Republic). transport, etc.) to encourage the public to take public transportation as much as possible, so as to reduce the use of private transportation.

However, no matter how convenient the above-mentioned mass transportation means such as the MRT, the user will eventually face the problem of how to reach the final destination after stepping out of the MRT station. Users will naturally be happy to take the MRT if they can reach their destination within a few minutes' walk after exiting the MRT station. However, if the exit of the MRT station is hundreds of meters or even more than one kilometer away from the destination, users naturally do not like to take the MRT, but would rather drive or ride a private motorcycle to complete the entire journey. Therefore, in view of the design of the current public transportation system, it is still impossible to fully take into account the last mile traffic transfer after stepping out of the exit of each transfer station. Therefore, the willingness of users who have such a last-mile traffic transfer demand to take the public transportation tool is low. Therefore, it is necessary to design and develop a new maintenance method for electric rental vehicles, so that after the electric rental vehicles are put on the shelves, they can be rented by users after they step out of the exit of the transfer station, and the electric rental vehicles rented by users can be guaranteed. The car is fault-free and its extracted battery has sufficient power.

Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide a method for maintaining and operating an electric rental vehicle.

Therefore, the maintenance method for electric rental vehicles in the technology of claim 1 of the present invention is suitable for putting an electric rental vehicle containing at least one extracted battery and including a communication control unit on the shelf to a designated electronic rental vehicle at a designated rental station. In the fenced area, wherein the designated rental station is set near the exit of one of the transfer stations of a public transport vehicle, the maintenance method of the electric rental car includes the following steps: (a) the maintenance personnel will After the electric rental car moves to the designated rental station and operates a maintenance application program of a mobile device to designate the designated rental station to the electric rental car, the mobile device sends a listing request to a server; (b) the According to the listing request, the server receives from the electric rental car a power of the extracted battery and a vehicle space of the electric rental car setting, the electric rental car uses the communication control unit to wirelessly transmit the electric quantity of the extracted battery and the vehicle position of the electric rental car to the server; and (c) when the server does not receive the electric One of the fault codes of the rental car, and when it is determined that the electric quantity is greater than a first predetermined electric quantity and the location of the vehicle is within the designated electronic fence area, the server causes the electric rental car to belong to the designated rental station, thereby Complete the listing of the electric rental car, so that a renter can rent the electric rental car.

In the maintenance method of the electric rental car in the technology of Claim 2 of the present invention, a quick response code is set on the electric rental car, the mobile device includes an image capture unit, and in the (a) step, the maintenance personnel Select the designated rental station on the maintenance application, and use the image capture unit to scan the quick response code of the electric rental car to assign the designated rental station to the electric rental car.

In the maintenance method of electric rental vehicles in the technology of claim 3 of the present invention, in the (a) step, the maintenance personnel selects the designated rental station on the maintenance application program, and then selects a list of vehicles to be put on the shelves Select one of the license plate numbers of the electric rental car to assign the designated rental station to the electric rental car.

In the maintenance method of the electric rental car in the technology of Claim 4 of the present invention, the first predetermined electric quantity is 50%.

The maintenance method of the electric rental car in the technology of claim 5 of the present invention, the electric rental car includes a low-power battery, and in the step (b), the server also receives the low-power battery from the electric rental car A voltage, in the (c) step, at the servo The device does not receive the fault code of the electric rental car, and determines that the electric quantity of the extracted battery is greater than the first predetermined electric quantity, the vehicle is located in the designated electronic fence area, and the voltage of the low-power battery is greater than one Under the condition of predetermined voltage, the server causes the electric rental car to be attached to the designated rental station.

In the method for maintenance and operation of an electric rental car in the technology of Claim 6 of the present invention, the first predetermined electric quantity is 50%, and the predetermined voltage is 12.3V.

The maintenance method of the electric rental car in the technology of claim 7 of the present invention, the electric rental car is accommodated with several extracted batteries, the maintenance method of the electric rental car also includes a (d) after the (c) step step, when the server determines that at least one of the removal conditions is satisfied, the server causes the electric rental car to no longer belong to the designated rental station, so as to remove the electric rental car from the shelves, wherein the removal The conditions are: the electric quantity of the extracted batteries is less than a second predetermined electric quantity; the voltage of the low-power battery is less than the predetermined voltage; the server receives the fault code of the electric rental car; the electric rental car is not rented , but is moved out of the designated electronic fence area by a predetermined distance.

In the method for maintenance and operation of an electric rental car in the technology of Claim 8 of the present invention, the first predetermined electric quantity is 50%, the predetermined voltage is 12.3V, and the second predetermined electric quantity is 30%.

In the method for maintenance and operation of an electric rental car in the technology of Claim 9 of the present invention, the low-power battery is a low-power lead-acid battery or a low-power lithium battery.

The effect of the present invention is: after the user steps out of the exit of the transfer station, he can immediately rent an electric rental car with no faults and enough battery power to carry out the follow-up journey, so as to solve the problem of stepping out of the transfer station. The traffic transfer demand of the last mile road.

1: designated rental station

11:Energy station

110: Inductive card reader

111: electric cabinet

112: Network communication unit

12: Specify the electronic fence area

121: first vertex

122: second vertex

123: The third vertex

124: The fourth vertex

2: Electric rental car

21: Battery box

22: Communication control unit

23:QR Code

24: Low power battery

3: Extract the battery

31:Near-field communication unit

4:Mobile device

41: storage unit

411: Maintenance APP

412: List of vehicles to be listed

413: Shelf button

42: Display unit

43: Network communication unit

44: Image capture unit

45: Input unit

46: Processing unit

47: Positioning unit

48:Near-field communication unit

5: Server

9:Transfer station

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Other features and functions of the present invention will be clearly presented in the implementation manner with reference to the drawings, wherein: Fig. 1 is a schematic top view, illustrating an embodiment of the maintenance method of the electric rental car of the present invention, which is suitable for accommodating The electric rental car with the extracted battery is placed on the shelf in a designated electronic fence area of a designated rental station, wherein the designated rental station is set near the exit of one of the transfer stations of a public transport vehicle; Figure 2 is a Side view, illustrating the energy station in this embodiment; Fig. 3 is a system architecture diagram, illustrating the system for implementing the embodiment of the maintenance and operation method for electric rental vehicles of the present invention; Fig. 4 is a flow chart, illustrating the present invention An embodiment of the maintenance method of an electric rental car; and FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an application program operation screen, illustrating that in this embodiment, after the maintenance personnel select the designated rental station in the maintenance application program of their mobile devices, then Select several electric rental vehicles to be put on the shelves in a vehicle list, so as to designate the designated rental station assigned to such electric rental vehicles.

Referring to Figures 1 to 5, the embodiment of the maintenance method of the electric rental car of the present invention is suitable for at least one electric rental car 2 (for example, 10 shown in Figure 1 ) that is bound and accommodates at least one battery 3 to be extracted respectively. The electric rental car 2) waiting to be put on the shelves is put on the shelves to a designated rental station 1. As shown in Figure 1, in this embodiment, the designated rental station 1 is set near the exit of one of the transfer stations 9 of a public transport (such as Kaohsiung MRT, etc. . . . ), and includes a An energy station 11 and a designated electronic fence area 12, wherein the designated electronic fence area 12 is constructed as a polygon with at least three vertices, each of which has its corresponding latitude and longitude, for example, the implementation in Figure 1 In an example, the designated fence area 12 is a quadrangle with a first vertex 121 , a second vertex 122 , a third vertex 123 and a fourth vertex 124 .

In this embodiment, the term "binding" refers to that before each electric rental car 2 is put on the shelves, a binding procedure must be used to make an extracted battery 3 save its battery identification code. The vehicle identification code of an electric rental car 2 will also be stored to complete the binding procedure between the extracted battery 3 and the electric rental car 2, so that the bound electric rental car 2 can only use the bound extraction Battery 3 supplies power.

In this embodiment, the system for implementing the maintenance method for electric rental vehicles of the present invention includes a server 5, the energy station 11, extraction batteries 3, and the electric rental vehicles. A rental car 2, and a mobile device 4 held by maintenance personnel.

As shown in Figures 2 and 3, in this embodiment, the energy station 11 is provided with a network communication unit 112, several electric cabinets 111, and an electronic ticket (such as a card, a leisure card) for inductively reading the renter. etc...), wherein the network communication unit 112 allows the energy station 11 to have the ability to communicate with the server 5 through the Internet. Each electrical cabinet 111 can accommodate an extraction battery 3 and charge the extraction battery 3 .

Each extraction battery 3 has elements such as a short-distance communication unit 31 . In this embodiment, the short distance communication unit 31 may be, for example, a near field communication (NFC) unit or the like.

In this embodiment, each electric rental vehicle 2 includes a communication control unit (communication control unit, CCU) 22, a battery box 21 for accommodating the at least one extracted battery 3, a corresponding to the electric rental vehicle 2 A quick response code (QR Code) 23 of the vehicle identification code, and a low-power battery 24, wherein the low-power battery 24 can be, for example, a lead-acid battery or a lithium battery, etc. . . . Wherein, the communication control unit 22 is used to communicate with the server 5 (through the Internet), so that the server 5 can obtain the real-time location information of the electric rental car 2, and can remotely control the electric rental car 2 .

In this embodiment, the mobile device 4 can be, for example, a smart phone, a wearable device, and the like. In this embodiment, the mobile device 4 includes a stored one-dimensional operation With the storage unit 41 of the program (APP) 411, a display unit 42, a network communication unit 43, an image capture unit 44, an input unit 45, a positioning unit 47, a short distance communication unit 48, and an electric The processing unit 46 is connected to the storage unit 41 , the display unit 42 , the network communication unit 43 , the image capture unit 44 , the input unit 45 , the positioning unit 47 and the short distance communication unit 48 . Wherein, the network communication unit 43 enables the mobile device 4 to communicate with the server 5 through the Internet (for example, by using 4G or 5G mobile communication technology, etc.). As for the display unit 42 and the input unit 45, since the mobile device 4 is a smart phone, etc., the display unit 42 and the input unit 45 are integrated into a touch display unit, so that the user can view the display unit from the touch display unit. The content displayed on the mobile device 4 (such as the operation screen of the APP 411 ) is input by touch on the touch display unit.

In this embodiment, the positioning unit 47 may be, for example, a GPS positioning unit, etc. . . . When the mobile device 4 communicates with the server 5 through the Internet, the mobile device 4 can send a mobile device location obtained by the positioning unit 47 to the server 5, so that the server 5 can determine Whether the distance between the mobile device 4 and the electric rental car 2 is within a predetermined distance (for example, 300 meters), when the distance between the mobile device 4 and the electric rental car 2 is within the predetermined distance, the maintenance application program (APP) 411 has the authority to control the electric rental car 2 .

In this embodiment, when the short-distance communication unit 31 of the extracted battery 3 is an NFC unit, the short-distance communication unit 48 of the mobile device 4 is correspondingly also NFC for near field communication.

In this embodiment, the details of the binding procedure between a specific electric rental vehicle 2 and a specific extracted battery 3 before being put on the shelves are roughly as follows: First, the maintenance personnel use the maintenance APP 411 of their mobile device 4 to scan the QR Code 23 of a specific electric rental car 2, so that the vehicle identification code of the specific electric rental car 2 can be temporarily stored in the storage unit 41 of the mobile device 4, and then the maintenance personnel use the short-range communication of the mobile device 4 The unit 48 senses the short-distance communication unit 31 of the specific extraction battery 3, and the vehicle identification code in the storage unit 41 of the mobile device 4 can be written into the specific extraction battery 3, thereby completing the specific electric lease The binding procedure between the car 2 and the specific withdrawn battery 3 .

As shown in FIG. 4 , the embodiment of the maintenance method of the electric rental vehicle of the present invention includes the following steps. As shown in step S71 and Figure 1, the maintenance personnel move the electric rental car 2 to be put on the shelf to the designated rental station 1 next to the exit of the transfer station 9 of public transportation, and operate the maintenance of the mobile device 4 APP 411 to assign the designated rental station 1 to the electric rental car 2 .

As shown in Figure 5, in this embodiment, the maintenance personnel select the designated rental station 1 (such as "Kaohsiung MRT Tsingpu Station" shown in Figure 5) on the maintenance APP 411, and then A license plate number of at least one electric rental vehicle 2 to be listed is selected from the list 412 of vehicles to be listed, and the designated rental station 1 is assigned to the electric rental vehicle 2 to be listed. For example, the page list 412 of the list of vehicles to be put on the shelves in Fig. 5 lists 11 electric vehicles available for putting on the shelves. The license plate number of the rental car 2 is EZZ-0001~EZZ-0011. When the maintenance personnel confirm that the license plate numbers of the 10 electric rental cars 2 in the designated electronic fence area 12 shown in Figure 1 are the ones to be put on the shelf in Figure 5 When the license plate numbers of the first 10 electric rental vehicles 2 in the vehicle list 412 are EZZ-0001~EZZ-0010, the maintenance personnel can click the verification button behind each of the 10 license plate numbers EZZ-0001~EZZ-0010 Take the square to select the 10 electric rental cars 2, and then, the maintenance personnel clicks one of the launch buttons 413 on the maintenance APP 411, and the maintenance APP 411 will generate a list related to the 10 electric rental cars 2 Listing request.

Or, in a variation of this embodiment, after the maintenance personnel select the designated rental station 1 on the maintenance APP 411, then the maintenance personnel can use the image capture unit of the mobile device 4 44 Scanning the QR Code 23 of each electric rental vehicle 2 to be put on the shelves, to designate the designated rental station 1 to these electric rental vehicles 2, thus generating the request for putting on shelves.

Next, as shown in step S72 , the mobile device 4 sends the listing request to the server 5 .

Next, as shown in step S73, the server 5 receives from each electric rental car 2 the power of the extracted battery 3 in the battery box 21, the vehicle position of each electric rental car 2, and the small The voltage of the power battery 24 . In this embodiment, each electric rental vehicle 2 uses its communication control unit 22 to wirelessly transmit the power of the extracted battery 3 in the corresponding battery box 21 and the vehicle position to the server 5 .

Then, as shown in step S74, the server 5 does not receive the error code (Error Code) of a certain electric rental car 2, and determines that the electric quantity of the extracted battery 3 is greater than a first predetermined electric quantity, the electric rental car 2 When the vehicle position is within the designated electronic fence area 12, and the voltage of the low-power battery 24 of the electric rental car 2 is greater than a predetermined voltage, the server 5 causes the electric rental car 2 to belong to the designated rental station 1 , to complete the putting on of the electric rental car 2.

In this embodiment, when the electric rental vehicle 2 is bound and accommodated with two extraction batteries 3, as long as the electric quantity of one of the extraction batteries 3 is greater than the first predetermined electric quantity (for example, 50%), the electric rental vehicle 2 If the fault code is not generated, the vehicle is located in the designated electronic fence area 12, and the voltage of the low-power battery 24 is greater than the predetermined voltage (for example, 12.3V), the electric rental car 2 can be successfully put on the shelf to the designated rental Station 1 is within the designated fence area 12 . Thus, when the user steps out of the exit of the transfer station 9, he can immediately rent one of these electric rental cars 2 that is free from failure and has sufficient power of the extracted battery 3 to carry out the follow-up journey to solve the problem. The traffic transfer demand of the last mile after stepping out of the transfer station 9.

Then, as shown in step S75, when the server 5 determines that at least one of the off-shelf conditions is met, the server 5 causes the electric rental vehicle 2 to no longer belong to the designated rental station 1, so that the The electric rental car 2 is off the shelves. In this embodiment, the off-shelf conditions are: the electric quantity of the two extraction batteries 3 is less than a second predetermined electric quantity (for example, 30%); the voltage of the low-power battery 24 is less than the predetermined voltage (for example, 12.3V ); The server 5 receives the fault code of the electric rental car 2; the electric rental car 2 has not been rented, but has been moved beyond the designated electronic fence area 12 for a predetermined distance. That is, when the electric rental car 2 that has been put on the shelf meets at least one of the above off-shelf conditions, the server 5 will automatically release the affiliation between the electric rental car 2 and the designated rental station 1, so that the electric rental car 2 Take it off the shelf, so that the car renter will not rent the electric rental car 2 that is faulty or has insufficient power from the extracted battery 3 .

In summary, the maintenance method of the electric rental car of the present invention has at least the following advantages and effects: (1) After the user steps out of the exit of the transfer station 9, he can immediately rent a car that is free from failure and has the power of the battery 3 extracted. Sufficient electric rental vehicles 2 to carry out follow-up trips to solve the traffic transfer needs of the last mile after the transfer station 9; (2) when the electric rental vehicles 2 that have been put on the shelves meet at least one off-shelf condition, The server 5 will automatically remove the affiliation between the electric rental car 2 and the designated rental station 1, so as to remove the electric rental car 2 from the shelves, so that the renter will not rent a car that is faulty or has insufficient battery power. Electric rental car 2; so really can reach the purpose of the present invention.

But the above-mentioned ones are only embodiments of the present invention, and should not limit the scope of the present invention. All simple equivalent changes and modifications made according to the patent scope of the present invention and the content of the patent specification are still within the scope of the present invention. Within the scope covered by the patent of the present invention.

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Claims (9)

A maintenance method for an electric rental car, which is suitable for putting an electric rental car containing at least one extraction battery and including a communication control unit onto a designated electronic fence area of a designated rental station, wherein the designated rental The station is set near the exit of one of the transfer stations of a public transport vehicle, and the designated electronic fence area is constructed as a polygon with at least three vertices, each of which has its corresponding latitude and longitude. The rental car maintenance method includes the following steps: (a) after the maintenance personnel move the electric rental car to the designated rental station and operate a mobile device maintenance application program to assign the designated rental station to the electric rental car Afterwards, the mobile device sends a listing request to a server; (b) the server receives from the electric rental car the power of the extracted battery and the vehicle location of the electric rental car according to the listing request, and the The electric rental car uses the communication control unit to wirelessly transmit the power of the extracted battery and the vehicle position of the electric rental car to the server; and (c) when the server does not receive the electric rental car a fault code, and it is determined that the electric quantity is greater than a first predetermined electric quantity and the vehicle position is within the designated electronic fence area, the server causes the electric rental car to belong to the designated rental station, so as to complete the electric The rental car is put on the shelf, so that a car renter can rent the electric rental car. The maintenance method of electric rental car as described in claim 1, wherein a quick response code is set on the electric rental car, and the mobile device includes an image capture In the step (a), the maintenance personnel selects the designated rental station on the maintenance application, and uses the image capture unit to scan the quick response code of the electric rental vehicle to A designated rental station is assigned to the electric rental vehicle. The maintenance method for electric rental vehicles as described in claim 1, wherein, in the (a) step, the maintenance personnel selects the designated rental station on the maintenance application, and then selects a list of vehicles to be put on the shelves Select one of the license plate numbers of the electric rental car to assign the designated rental station to the electric rental car. The maintenance method for electric rental vehicles as described in Claim 1, wherein the first predetermined electricity is 50%. The maintenance method for an electric rental car as described in claim 1, wherein the electric rental car includes a low-power battery, and in step (b), the server also receives the low-power battery from the electric rental car A voltage, in the step (c), when the server does not receive the fault code of the electric rental car, and it is determined that the electric quantity of the extracted battery is greater than the first predetermined electric quantity, the vehicle is located in the specified electronic range In the fenced area, and the voltage of the low-power battery is greater than a predetermined voltage, the server causes the electric rental car to belong to the designated rental station. The maintenance and operation method for electric rental vehicles as described in Claim 5, wherein the first predetermined electric quantity is 50%, and the predetermined voltage is 12.3V. The maintenance method of the electric rental car as described in claim 5, wherein, the electric rental car accommodates several extracted batteries, and the maintenance operation method of the electric rental car also includes a step (d) after the (c) step step, when the server determines that at least one of several off-shelf conditions is met, the server causes the electric rental car to stop Then belong to the designated rental station, so as to remove the electric rental car from the shelves, wherein the conditions for the removal are: the electric quantity of the extracted batteries is less than a second predetermined electric quantity; the voltage of the low-power battery is less than the predetermined electric quantity; voltage; the server receives the fault code of the electric rental car; the electric rental car has not been rented, but has been moved outside the designated electronic fence area for a predetermined distance. The method for maintaining and operating an electric rental vehicle according to claim 7, wherein the first predetermined power is 50%, the predetermined voltage is 12.3V, and the second predetermined power is 30%. The maintenance and operation method for electric rental vehicles as described in Claim 5, wherein the low-power battery is a low-power lead-acid battery or a low-power lithium battery.

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