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In-vehicle emergency report apparatus

  • US 20080203814A1
  • Filed: 02/25/2008
  • Published: 08/28/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An emergency report apparatus for a vehicle, the apparatus comprising:

  • a power supplying device configured to switch between (i) a vehicle battery power supply state in which power supplied from a vehicle battery is used as operating power and (ii) an auxiliary battery power supply state in which power supplied from an auxiliary battery is used as operating power; and

    a control circuit configuredto acquire a result of determination by a collision possibility determining unit that determines whether or not there is a possibility that the vehicle will collide with something and a result of determination by a collision determining unit that determines whether or not the vehicle has collided with something, andto perform an emergency report operation when the collision determining unit determines that the vehicle has collided with something,wherein the control circuit causes the power supplying device to make a transition from the vehicle battery power supply state to the auxiliary battery power supply state only when the collision possibility determining unit determines that there is a possibility that the vehicle will collide with something in the vehicle battery power supply state, andwherein the control circuit causes the collision determining unit to use power supplied from the auxiliary battery as operating power and determine whether or not the vehicle has collided with something.

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