System for determining rental of construction machine

• US 20030110667A1
• Filed: 09/27/2002
• Published: 06/19/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Hiroshi, Shibata, Koichi, Sugiyama, Genroku, Komatsu, Hideki, Adachi, Hiroyuki, Hirata, Toichi
• Application Number:
  US10/239,987
• Publication Number:
  US 20030110667A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 37/348
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/127 Shopping or accessing services according to a time-limitation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0014 for vending, access and use of specific services not covered anywhere else in G07F17/00 meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity G07F15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0042 for hiring of objects

Abstract

A construction machine rental fee setting system comprises a receiver, provided at a location remote from a construction machine, that receives information relating to the usage conditions and/or the usage environment of the construction machine transmitted from the construction machine, and a rental fee setting device that sets a construction machine rental fee based on the information received at the receiver.

Claims

1. A construction machine rental fee setting system, comprising:

a receiver, provided at a location remote from a construction machine, that receives information relating to usage conditions and/or usage environment of the construction machine transmitted from the construction machine, and

a rental fee setting device that sets a rental fee for the construction machine based on the information received at the receiver.

3. A construction machine rental fee setting system according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein:

the information relating to the usage conditions of the construction machine includes at least one of information relating to a workload, information relating to a traveling load, information relating to a working time, information relating to a swiveling time, and information relating to a traveling time of the construction machine.

4. A construction machine rental fee setting system according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein:

the information relating to the usage conditions of the construction machine is information relating to whether a specialized function other than normal functions is used.

5. A construction machine rental fee setting system according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein:

the information relating to the environmental conditions of the construction machine includes any of information relating to a working location of the construction machine and information relating to weather.

6. A construction machine rental fee setting system according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein:

the receiver and the rental fee setting device are provided in a rental company, and

the receiver receives the information from the construction machine via a relay station.

7. A construction machine rental fee setting system according to claim 6, wherein:

the relay station transmits the information from the construction machine to the rental company using an electronic mail.

8. A construction machine rental fee setting system according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein:

the rental fee setting device sets the rental fee based on the information received by the receiver and loan data stored in a specified database.

2. A construction machine rental fee setting system, comprising:

an information acquisition unit, provided in a construction machine, that acquires information relating to usage conditions and/or usage environment of the construction machine;

a transmitter that transmits the information that has been acquired;

a receiver, provided at a location remote from the construction machine, that receives the information relating to the usage conditions and/or the usage environment of the construction machine transmitted from the transmitter, and

a rental fee setting device that sets a rental fee for the construction machine based on the information received at the receiver.

9. A rental fee setting system that receives information transmitted from a construction machine having been rented, using a receiving station, wherein:

the construction machine comprises a detector that detects a location of the construction machine, a measurement unit that measures operating conditions of the construction machine, and a transmitter that transmits the information relating to the location and the operating conditions, and

the receiving station comprises a receiver that receives the information transmitted from the construction machine, a weather information acquisition unit that acquires weather information for a region indicated by received location information, and a data processor that correlates and outputs the information relating to the operating conditions that has been received and the weather information that has been acquired.

10. A rental fee setting system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a fee setting device that sets a rental fee based on the information relating to the operating conditions that has been received, and wherein;

the data processor correlates and outputs the information relating to the operating conditions, the weather information and information relating to the rental fee.

11. A rental fee setting system that receives information transmitted from a construction machine having been rented, using a receiving station wherein:

the construction machine comprises a measurement unit that measures usage time of a specialized function other than normal functions, and transmitter that transmits information representing a specialized function usage time having been measured, and

the receiving station comprises a receiver that receives transmitted information.

12. A rental fee setting system according to claim 11, wherein:

the receiving station further comprises a fee calculating unit that calculates a usage charge for the specialized function based on the information about the specialized function usage time having been received.

13. A rental fee setting system according to claim 11, wherein:

a fee calculating system outputs fee data calculated by adding a usage charge for the specialized function to a normal fee.

14. A rental fee setting system that receives information transmitted from a construction machine having been rented, using a receiving station, wherein:

the construction machine comprises a measurement unit that measures a normal operating time and a usage time for a specialized function other than normal functions respectively, and a transmitter that transmits information representing measured operating time and specialized function usage time, and

the receiving station comprises a receiver that receives transmitted information, and a fee calculating unit that calculates a rental fee for the construction machine based-on received information.