Construction machine management apparatus and construction machines management system

• US 20070202861A1
• Filed: 04/27/2007
• Published: 08/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Hiroshi, Shibata, Koichi, Karasawa, Hideo, Sugiyama, Genroku, Adachi, Hiroyuki, Ono, Kiyoshi, Tomikawa, Osamu, Onoue, Hiroshi, Hirata, Toichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,493,112 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.200
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/26 Indicating devices E02F5/145 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

Assessment information needed to calculate a used vehicle assessment value of a hydraulic excavator 10 is input to a portable telephone 20 and is then transmitted from the portable telephone 20. The transmitted assessment information is received at a manufacturer'"'"'s base station 40 at a remote location. The used vehicle assessment value of the hydraulic excavator 10 is calculated based upon the received assessment information, and history information and operation information on the hydraulic excavator 10 read out from an operation information database 43 and a history database 42 in correspondence to an ID number assigned to the hydraulic excavator which is included in the assessment information.

Claims

1. A portable telephone comprising:

a selection device that selects either a communication mode in which communication is executed or a data input mode in which various types of data are input from a control device of a construction machine;

a data input device to which data are input from the control device of the construction machine in the data input mode; and

a display unit at which the data input through the data input device are displayed.

2. A portable telephone comprising:

a selection device that selects either a communication mode in which communication is executed or a data output mode in which various types of data are output to a construction machine; and

a data output device that outputs the various types of data to the construction machine in the data output mode.

4. A portable telephone-compatible construction machine comprising:

a reception device that receives various types of data from a portable telephone according to claim 2;

a recording unit that records operation information and the like with regard to the construction machine; and

an overwrite device that overwrites data inside the recording unit based upon the various types of data having been received.

3. A portable telephone comprising:

a selection device that selects a communication mode in which communication is executed, a data input mode in which various types of data are input from a control device of a construction machine or a data output mode in which various types of data are output to the construction machine;

a data input device to which the various types of data are input from the control device of the construction machine in the data input mode;

a display unit at which the various types of data input through the data input device are displayed; and

a data output device that outputs the various types of data to the construction machine in the data output mode.

5. A data transmission/reception method achieved by utilizing a portable telephone, wherein:

various types of data are taken into the portable telephone from a control device of a construction machine;

the various types of data having been taken in are transmitted to a base station from the portable telephone; and

the various types of data transmitted from the portable telephone are received at the base station.

6. A data transmission/reception method achieved by utilizing a portable telephone according to claim 5, wherein:

the data transmitted from the portable telephone and received at the base station are processed at the base station;

the processed data are transmitted from the base station to the portable telephone, which has transmitted the unprocessed data;

the processed data transmitted from the base station are received at the portable telephone; and

the received data are displayed at the display unit of the portable telephone.

7. A computer program product for a portable telephone containing a program that enables a computer in the portable telephone to execute;

a selection procedure to select a communication mode in which communication is executed or a data input mode in which various types of data are input from a control device of a construction machine;

a data input procedure to input the data from the control device of the construction machine in the data input mode; and

a display procedure to display the data input through the data input procedure.

10. A computer program product according to claim 7 achieved as a recording medium having the program recorded therein.

11. A computer program product according to claim 7 achieved as a carrier wave on which the program is embodied as a data signal.

8. A computer program product for a portable telephone containing a program that enables a computer in the portable telephone to execute;

a selection procedure to select either a communication mode in which communication is executed or a data output mode in which various types of data are output to a construction machine; and

a data output procedure to output the data to the construction machine in the data output mode.

9. A computer program product for a portable telephone containing a program that enables a computer in the portable telephone to execute;

a selection procedure to select a communication mode in which communication is executed, a data input mode in which various types of data are input from a control device of a construction machine or a data output mode in which various types of data are output to the construction machine;

a data input procedure to input the data from the control device of the construction machine in the data input mode;

a display procedure to display the data input through the data input procedure; and

a data output procedure in which the data are output to the construction machine in the data output mode.