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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190533 | Method for shippers to manage fuel cost A computer-implemented method for managing fuel costs, along with a corresponding apparatus, and a corresponding medium are described. The method includes receiving transaction information at a Network Administrator, the transaction information being associated with... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190354 | Fuel efficiency measurement system and method for fuel cell vehicle A fuel efficiency measurement system includes a fuel supply tank for supplying hydrogen to be used as a fuel to a fuel cell of the vehicle during measurement of fuel efficiency and a precision electronic balance for detecting a weight of the fuel supply tank so as t... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185302 | Conservational vehicle routing A route-determination method includes gathering road-related data in a vehicle navigation system (VNS) for a plurality of routes between two locations. This may include weighting two or more of the possible routes in the VNS based at least on the road-related data. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8165791 | Vehicular fuel consumption notification apparatus and in-vehicle system An actual fuel consumption rate and a tentative fuel consumption rate are repeatedly acquired from an air-conditioning apparatus. The tentative fuel consumption rate is a fuel consumption amount per unit time to generate a power consumed under a post-offset preset t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155868 | Managing vehicle efficiency Historic vehicle state information specifying a plurality of performance values associated with the plurality of subsystems of the vehicle at a plurality of time points, including a current time point is stored at the vehicle. Historic neighbor vehicle state informa... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155867 | System and method for communicating with a vehicle about then-current vehicle operating conditions using a telematics unit A method for communicating with a vehicle about then-current vehicle operating conditions is disclosed herein. The method includes real-time monitoring, via a telematics unit in a vehicle, of vehicle data when the vehicle is traveling on a road segment, comparing th... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8140253 | Shift map switching control unit A shift map switching control unit includes a fuel level sensor 72, plural shift maps for deriving the shift timing of an automatic transmission 1b, and a controller 101 that selects one shift map out of the plural shift maps and controls... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8116971 | Training a driver of a vehicle to achieve improved fuel economy A system for training a driver to achieve improved fuel economy monitors the driving parameters of a vehicle, analyzes the monitored driving parameters, calculates suggested driving behavior adjustments, and communicates the driving behavior adjustments to the drive... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116972 | System and method for determining a vehicle refueling strategy A method for generating a fueling strategy that generally minimizes fueling costs for a specified route to be traveled by a vehicle during a multi-day time period may include, based on current and forecasted fuel prices for the multi-day time period, (i) selecting a... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108136 | Driver advisory system for fuel economy improvement of a hybrid electric vehicle The invention is an intelligent advisory system, which may be based on fuzzy rule-based logic to guide a vehicle driver in selecting an optimal driving strategy to achieve best fuel economy. The advisory system includes separate controllers for providing advisory in... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8078392 | Unburned fuel amount-estimating device in engine and temperature-estimating device of exhaust emission purifier There is provided with an ECU for estimating an unburned fuel amount (HC) emitted from an engine after fuel combustion or a temperature of a DPF based upon a required engine operating condition as a control target value. An exhaust gas temperature sensor for detecti... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068974 | Methods and systems for determining driver efficiency and operating modes in a hybrid vehicle A method for determining driver efficiency in a hybrid vehicle includes the steps of measuring a hybrid vehicle parameter, and calculating driver efficiency based, at least in part, on the hybrid vehicle parameter. The hybrid vehicle parameter is influenced, at leas... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8055439 | System for providing fuel-efficient driving information for vehicles A system for providing fuel-efficient driving information for a vehicle includes a fuel-efficient driving area calculation unit and a display unit. The fuel-efficient driving area calculation unit calculates a variable fuel-efficient driving area, which is divided i... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050856 | Methods and systems for powertrain optimization and improved fuel economy The technology described herein provides methods and systems for powertrain optimization and improved fuel economy including multiple displacement engine modeling and control optimization, automotive powertrain matching for fuel economy, cycle-based automotive shift... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8014938 | Fuel efficiency determination for an engine A module that calculates power loss for an internal combustion engine includes an air intake calculation module that determines a final air per cylinder (APC) value. A fuel mass rate calculation module that determines a fuel mass rate value based on the final APC va... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7974774 | Trip optimization system and method for a vehicle A system for operating a vehicle including an engine operating on at least one type of fuel is provided. The system includes a locator element to determine a location of the vehicle, a characterization element to provide information about a terrain of the vehicle, a... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7966121 | Fuel efficiency display device for fuel cell vehicle, and fuel efficiency displaying method for fuel cell vehicle This fuel efficiency display device for a fuel cell vehicle includes: a first interval vehicle efficiency obtaining device which obtains a first interval vehicle efficiency being a fraction of a generated traveling energy with respect to a consumed fuel amount in a ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7933713 | Control of peak engine output in an engine with a knock suppression fluid A method for supplying two types of fuel to an engine of a vehicle is disclosed. In one embodiment, an amount of a first fuel supplied to the engine is adjusted in response to a condition of a fuel separator. The method can improve vehicle drivability at least durin... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925426 | Power management systems and devices Described herein are devices, systems, and methods for managing the power consumption of an automotive vehicle, and thereby for optimizing the power consumption of the vehicle. The devices and systems for managing the power consumption of the vehicle typically inclu... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7904235 | Driving evaluation apparatus, driving evaluation program, and driving evaluation method There are provided a driving evaluation method for evaluating a fuel consumption rate of driving a vehicle in certain driving interval on the basis of driving data acquired at time of driving in the driving interval, including: calculating an energy consumption effi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7877198 | System and method for identifying fuel savings opportunity in vehicles A system and method of identify fuel savings opportunity in a fleet of vehicles based on a determination of fuel consumption due to modifiable use conditions is described. Modifiable use conditions, such as unauthorized usage, speeding and excessive idling, which re... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7778769 | Method and system for calculating least-cost routes based on historical fuel efficiency, street mapping and location based services This disclosure outlines a method, which enables a vehicle driver to achieve increased fuel efficiency by implementing least-cost route planning based on terrain data and derived from advanced mapping, logging and location based services. Actual fuel efficiency is r... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774130 | Methods and system for determining consumption and fuel efficiency in vehicles A method of determining fuel consumption in a vehicle through the OBDII bus is described. The fuel consumption is determined by using mass air flow (MAF) sensor data or manifold air pressure (MAP) sensor data, and obtaining and applying long term and short term fuel... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7765058 | Driver input analysis and feedback system A method of driver training to improve fuel economy performance of a vehicle, the method including, receiving selected vehicle and driver operating data indicative of driving conditions and operator inputs captured during previous vehicle operation, processing the r... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7742871 | Intelligent fuel oil monitoring system and method An intelligent fuel oil monitoring system includes a fuel level detector coupled to a fuel tank of a motor vehicle to detect the amount of the fuel oil in the fuel tank, a microcontroller coupled to the fuel level detector to receive traveling data of the motor vehi... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7729998 | Method for shippers to manage fuel costs A computer-implemented method for managing fuel costs, along with a corresponding apparatus, and a corresponding medium are described. The method includes receiving transaction information at a Network Administrator, the transaction information being associated with... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7693651 | Methods and systems for monitoring fuel status of vehicles A method for monitoring fuel status of a vehicle having a fuel tank includes the steps of determining an amount of fuel in the fuel tank, obtaining a geographic location of the vehicle, calculating a fuel threshold based at least in part on the geographic location, ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7668644 | Vehicle fuel informational system A vehicle fuel informational system is provided with a fuel level determination component, an onboard vehicle positioning component, an onboard vehicle navigation component and a low fuel notification component. The fuel level determination component determines a fu... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7647163 | Automated fueling information tracking and fuel hedging An automated system collects information related to various factors that affect fuel costs, and determines an optimal amount of fuel to be loaded on an aircraft. Information related to an aircraft's fuel efficiency is collected from the aircraft; price information i... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7603228 | Haptic apparatus and coaching method for improving vehicle fuel economy An apparatus is disclosed that includes a haptic actuator operatively associated with a pedal assembly of the vehicle, a human-machine interface (HMI) for enabling the driver to select between a plurality of fuel savings settings, and a controller coupled to a data ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7590485 | System and method for improved train handling and fuel consumption A system for improving fuel efficiency of a railroad train located on a railroad train having a locomotive consist including one or more railroad locomotives, said system including a position-determining device, a track profile database including terrain and contour... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7532974 | Fuel consumption estimating unit of vehicle Parameters having a correlation with a crowded condition of a road traveled by a vehicle are inputted to an ideal fuel consumption estimation model. This ideal fuel consumption estimation model estimates an ideal fuel consumption of vehicle based on the parameters. ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7522990 | System and method for improved train handling and fuel consumption A method of controlling the operation of a railroad train having a locomotive consist comprising one or more railroad locomotives to improve locomotive consist fuel efficiency, the method including calculating on-board the locomotive consist a load of the train bein... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7487036 | System for indicating, recording and evaluating driving data mode of vehicle for fuel economy A system for indicating, recording and evaluating a driving-data mode under three conditions of acceleration, speed maintenance and deceleration, in which the evaluated results are displayed on an LCD so that the vehicle is driven at a ¾ point of engine load capaci... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7463971 | Wireless data collection unit for fuel management system An electronic fueling data acquisition and wireless communications delivery system. The unit is mounted on Aircraft Fueling Vehicles and Aircraft Fuel Servicing Hydrant Vehicles (Hydrant Vehicles) and is hardwired to an external pulse transmitter. The pulse transmit... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7412313 | Maintenance assistance for a vehicle A system and method to provide navigational maintenance assistance for a vehicle includes a first step of estimating when the vehicle will require maintenance. A next step includes establishing a location and direction of travel of the vehicle. A next step includes ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406378 | Hybrid vehicle and control method thereof In response to simultaneous ON settings of a heater switch signal HSW and an eco switch signal ESW, an eco priority map is set to an intermittent operation permission map (step S350). The heater switch signal HSW is output from a heater switch that is operate... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7389165 | Attitude angle control apparatus, attitude angle control method, attitude angle control apparatus control program, and marine vessel navigation control apparatus An attitude angle control apparatus, an attitude angle control method, and an attitude angle control apparatus control program select an optimum attitude angle in a short period of time without being affected by disturbances at sea by measuring attitude angles and s... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7366591 | System and method for vertical flight planning A method for performing performance prediction with respect to a vertical flight plan. A system performs performance prediction with respect to a vertical flight plan of an aircraft that includes determining which vertical flight plan rules of a plurality of vertica... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360529 | Fuel level measurement and run time interpolation At least one aspect of the invention provides an improved fuel sensing system for a generator, in addition, one or more other aspects of the invention provide improved systems and methods for determining remaining run-time of a generator system. ... | 04/22/2008 |
