WARNING APPARATUS, WARNING SERVER, WARNING SYSTEM, AND AUTOMOBILE

• US 20080122593A1
• Filed: 01/23/2008
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yuhara, Masahiro
• Application Number:
  US12/018,282
• Publication Number:
  US 20080122593A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/425.5
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/04 operating on the propulsion system, e.g. engine or drive motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/06 operating on the vehicle transmission
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/104 characterised by the type of theft warning signal, e.g. visual or audible signals with special characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/2018 Central base unlocks or authorises unlocking
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/04 Access control involving a hierarchy in access rights
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/62 Comprising means for indicating the status of the lock
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00182 operated with unidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/017 identifying vehicles G08G1/015, G08G1/054 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/207 with respect to certain areas, e.g. forbidden or allowed areas with possible alerting when inside or outside boundaries

Abstract

Herein disclosed is a warning apparatus for an automobile, comprising: a receiving unit for receiving a driver'"'"'s information from a memory device memorizing said driver'"'"'s information; a memorizing unit for memorizing an automobile insurance information; a determining unit for determining whether or not the driver is an insurant on the basis of said driver'"'"'s information and the automobile insurance information; and a warning unit for warning the driver not to drive when the determining unit has determined that the driver is not said insurant.

Claims

1. A warning server, comprising:

a memorizing unit for memorizing automobile insurance information; and

a communication unit receiving driver information from a warning apparatus located in an automobile and transmitting a comparison result between the automobile insurance information and the drivers information to the warning apparatus.

2. A warning server of claim 1, in further comprising a storing unit storing the comparison result related to an automobile starting condition received from the warning apparatus to the communication unit.

3. A warning server of claim 2, further comprising a deciding unit deciding an accounting model on the basis of the comparison result related to the automobile starting condition.