Patent ID: 9644563
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: B60L,B60W,F02D

Claim:
1. An energy management system including a power system having a power source which supplies a power by consuming a fuel, and an energy consumption system having a device driven by the power supplied from the power source, the energy management system comprising: an engine control unit for controlling the power source in such a manner as to restrict a fuel consumption; a plurality of control units including a device control unit which controls the device in such a manner as to restrict the fuel consumption, wherein: one of the engine control unit and the device control unit is provided with a memory module in which a fuel consumption associated data about the fuel consumption is stored; the other control unit executes a control processing based on the fuel consumption associated data transmitted from said control unit; the fuel consumption associated data is established based on a driving condition of the power source as an parameter; the fuel consumption associated data includes a fuel map by which the fuel consumption can be retrieved based on the parameter; one of the engine control unit and the device control unit is provided with: the fuel consumption data is divided into multiple portions; and the expedited-data portion corresponds to one of the portions of the fuel consumption data, which are transmitted to the device control unit immediately after an engine controlled by the engine control unit is started.