Vehicular abnormality notification system, method and apparatus, and vehicle-mounted apparatus

• US 20070126559A1
• Filed: 12/06/2006
• Published: 06/07/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Adachi, Akito
• Granted Patent: US 7,973,653 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/425.500
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/102 a signal being sent to a remote location, e.g. a radio signal being transmitted to a police station, a security company or the owner
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/33 of global position, e.g. by providing GPS coordinates
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C

Abstract

An apparatus, a method and a system of vehicle abnormality notification in which predetermined information is transmitted to a predetermined subject when an abnormality in the vehicle state is detected in a vehicle are constructed so that even when an abnormality in the vehicle state has been detected in the vehicle, the aforementioned predetermined information is not transmitted to the predetermined subject if the vehicle is in a predetermined area.

Claims

1. A vehicle abnormality notification apparatus, comprising:

a receiving portion that receives abnormality occurrence information of a vehicle transmitted from the vehicle;

a control portion that determines a position of the vehicle;

a transmission portion that transmits predetermined information to a predetermined subject when the receiving portion receives the abnormality occurrence information; and

wherein when the control portion has determined that the vehicle is in a predetermined area, the transmission portion does not transmit the predetermined information to the predetermined subject.

2. The vehicle abnormality notification apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined area is a region where maintenance of a vehicle is performed.

3. The vehicle abnormality notification apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a storage portion that stores map data together with information regarding the predetermined area,

wherein the control portion determines whether or not the vehicle is in the predetermined area based on the map data stored in the storage portion.

4. The vehicle abnormality notification apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined subject is a display in a cabin of the vehicle, or a driver or an owner of the vehicle.

5. A vehicle-mounted apparatus comprising:

an abnormality detection portion that detects an abnormality of a vehicle; and

a transmission portion that transmits abnormality occurrence information to a terminal provided outside the vehicle when the abnormality detection portion detects an abnormality,

wherein when the vehicle is in a predetermined area, the transmission portion does not transmit the abnormality detection information.

6. The vehicle-mounted apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the predetermined area is a region where maintenance of a vehicle is performed.

7. The vehicle-mounted apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a vehicle position detection portion that detects a position of the vehicle; and

a control portion that stores map data together with information regarding the predetermined area,

wherein the control portion compares the vehicle position information with the map data, and determines whether or not the vehicle is in the predetermined area.

8. A vehicular abnormality notification system comprising:

a vehicle abnormality detection portion that detects an abnormality in a vehicle state;

a communication apparatus that transmits predetermined information to a predetermined subject when an abnormality in the vehicle state is detected;

a determination portion that determines whether or not the vehicle in which an abnormality in the vehicle state has been detected is in a predetermined area; and

information transmission prohibition portion that prevents the predetermined information from being transmitted from the communication apparatus to the predetermined subject when it is determined by the determination portion that the vehicle in which an abnormality in the vehicle state has been detected is in the predetermined area.

9. The vehicular abnormality notification system according to claim 8, wherein the predetermined area is a region where maintenance of a vehicle is performed.

10. The vehicle abnormality notification apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the predetermined subject is a display in a cabin of the vehicle, or a driver or an owner of the vehicle.

11. A vehicle abnormality notification method comprising:

determining a position of a vehicle when abnormality occurrence information regarding the vehicle transmitted from the vehicle is received;

transmitting predetermined information to a predetermined subject if it is determined that the vehicle is not in a predetermined area; and

preventing transmission of the predetermined information to the predetermined object if it is determined that the vehicle is in the predetermined area.

12. A vehicle abnormality notification method comprising:

monitoring presence/absence of an abnormality in a vehicle state;

transmitting abnormality occurrence information to a terminal outside a vehicle when an abnormality of the vehicle is detected and the vehicle is not in a predetermined area; and

preventing transmission of the abnormality occurrence information to the terminal outside the vehicle when an abnormality of the vehicle is detected and the vehicle is in a predetermined area.

13. A vehicle abnormality notification method comprising:

monitoring presence/absence of an abnormality in a vehicle state;

determining whether or not the vehicle is in a predetermined area when an abnormality in the vehicle state is detected;

transmitting predetermined information to a predetermined subject when it is determined that the vehicle is not in the predetermined area; and

prohibiting the predetermined information from being transmitted to the predetermined subject when it is determined that the vehicle is in the predetermined area.