Vehicle managing device

• US 20030033175A1
• Filed: 07/02/2002
• Published: 02/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Uehara, Takashi, Kokubu, Mamoru, Nakamura, Kazuhiro, Watanabe, Toshiyasu, Ogura, Koichi
• Application Number:
  US10/187,270
• Publication Number:
  US 20030033175A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00

Abstract

A vehicle managing device is provided with a control station of a vehicle use shared system in which a user ID number is compared with an ID number registered on an ID terminal owned by the user. The vehicle managing device includes a reservation information storage unit which stores vehicle reservation information of the user so as to relate to the user ID number; a vehicle reservation confirmation unit which confirms a presence of a reservation made by the user on a vehicle the user wishes to use by retrieving the reservation information storage unit using the user ID number transmitted from the vehicle; and a vehicle rental control unit which, if it is determined that the user has made a reservation on another vehicle, cancels the reservation made by the user and instructs rental permission to the vehicle the user wishes to use.

Claims

1. A vehicle managing device, which is provided with a control station of a vehicle use shared system in which at least permission of a user to enter into a shared vehicle is controlled by setting an identification number of a user, who made a reservation for said shared vehicle, on said shared vehicle, and comparing said identification number of said user with an identification number registered on an identification terminal owned by said user at said shared vehicle side, said vehicle managing device, comprising:

a reservation information storage unit which stores vehicle reservation information of said user so as to relate to said identification number of said user;

a vehicle reservation confirmation unit which confirms a presence of a reservation made by said user on a vehicle said user wishes to use by retrieving said reservation information storage unit using said identification number of said user transmitted from said vehicle said user wishes to use; and

a vehicle rental control unit which, if it is determined that said user has made a reservation on another vehicle, as a result of a confirmation process carried out by said vehicle reservation confirmation unit, cancels the reservation made by said user and instructs rental permission to said vehicle said user wishes to use.

2. A vehicle managing device according to claim 1, wherein

said vehicle rental control unit, if it is determined that said user has not made a reservation on another vehicle, as a result of the confirmation process carried out by said vehicle reservation confirmation unit, instructs rental permission to said vehicle said user wishes to use.

3. A vehicle managing device according to claim 1, wherein

said vehicle rental control unit, if it is determined that said user has not returned a vehicle said user previously used, instructs no rental permission to said vehicle said user wishes to use.