MAINTENANCE HISTORY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTION MACHINE

• US 20090265064A1
• Filed: 01/05/2007
• Published: 10/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Furuno, Yoshinori
• Granted Patent: US 8,024,094 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/50
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/26 Indicating devices E02F5/145 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/267 Diagnosing or detecting failure of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2205/02 using a vehicle scan tool
• 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

The present invention provides a maintenance history information management system for a construction machine that is capable of enhancing the reliability of temporal information about maintenance history data. A data recording device 30 is incorporated in a hydraulic excavator 1 or other construction machine to process operating time or date and time. A mobile terminal 34 includes a CPU 36 for displaying construction machine maintenance items on a monitor 38. A worker can input data for the maintenance items as the maintenance history data. The mobile terminal 34 inputs the operating time or date and time from the data recording device 30 via first a communication cable and a communication connector and stores the input operating time or date and time in a storage device 35 in association with the maintenance history data.

Claims

1. A maintenance history information management system for a construction machine, comprising:

a data control device being incorporated in the construction machine to store machine information including a model name and a serial number and to process operating time or date and time;

a mobile terminal including control means for displaying construction machine maintenance items on display means, input means for enabling a worker to enter data for the maintenance items displayed on said display means, and storage means for storing the data entered through said input means as maintenance history data;

a plurality of communication connectors being provided for maintenance targets of the construction machine and communication-connected to said data control device; and

a communication cable for enabling to connect said mobile terminal to said communication connectors;

wherein said mobile terminal inputs the machine information and operating time or date and time from said data control device via said communication cable and said connector and stores the maintenance history data in said storage means in association with the input machine information and operating time or date and time.

3. The maintenance history information management system according to claim 1, wherein said control means of said mobile terminal causes said display means to display the maintenance history data stored in said storage means in accordance with an instruction entered by the worker.

4. The maintenance history information management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a management server being positioned far away from the construction machine to input the maintenance history data from said mobile terminal via communication means and record the input maintenance history data.

6. The maintenance history information management system according to claim 1, wherein said control means of said mobile terminal classifies the maintenance items by maintenance intervals and causes said display means to display maintenance items that correspond to maintenance intervals entered by the worker.

7. The maintenance history information management system according to claim 1, wherein said control means of said mobile terminal classifies the maintenance items by maintenance type and causes said display means to display maintenance items that correspond to a maintenance type selectively entered by the worker.

8. The maintenance history information management system according to claim 1, wherein said control means of said mobile terminal classifies the maintenance items by maintenance target and causes said display means to display maintenance items that correspond to a maintenance target selectively entered by the worker.

9. The maintenance history information management system according to claim 1, wherein said input means inputs the data on maintenance execution, maintenance results, countermeasure, or replenishment/replacement amount of oil or the like for the maintenance items as the maintenance history data.

10. The maintenance history information management system according to claim 9, wherein said control means of said mobile terminal has a function of extracting maintenance items, which were found to be nonconforming but are still not remedied or are due for maintenance but have not been inspected, and causing said display means to display the extracted maintenance items.

11. The maintenance history information management system according to claim 10, wherein said mobile terminal includes maintenance interval change means for changing maintenance interval settings for the maintenance items.

12. The maintenance history information management system according to claim 11, wherein said maintenance interval change means changes the maintenance interval setting to a multiple of a basic unit for input maintenance intervals that is close to predefined recommended maintenance intervals for a maintenance item.

13. The maintenance history information management system according to claim 1, wherein said control means of said mobile terminal reads the last maintenance history data stored in said storage means and displays data input fields for the maintenance items and the associated last maintenance history data within the same screen.

14. The maintenance history information management system according to claim 1, wherein said control means of said mobile terminal causes said display means to open a screen into which findings other than predetermined maintenance items can be entered;

and said storage means handles data input through said input means into the screen opened by said display means as findings data and stores the findings data in association with the machine information and operating time or date and time, which are input from said data control device via said first communication cable and said communication connectors.

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15. A maintenance history information management system for a construction machine that manages the history information about visual inspection of the construction machine having a plurality of zoned maintenance areas accessible to a worker, the maintenance history information management system comprising:

a data control device being incorporated in the construction machine to store machine information including a model names and a serial number and to process operating time or date and time;

a mobile terminal including control means for displaying construction machine maintenance items on display means, input means for enabling the worker to enter data for the maintenance items displayed on said display means, and storage means for storing the data entered through said input means as maintenance history data;

a plurality of communication connectors being provided for maintenance targets of the construction machine and communication-connected to said data control device; and

a communication cable for enabling to connect said mobile terminal to said communication connector;

wherein said mobile terminal inputs the machine information and operating time or date and time from said data control device via said communication cable and said communication connector and stores the maintenance history data in said storage means in association with the input operating time or date and time.