WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE AND METHOD OF USE

• US 20100075608A1
• Filed: 07/28/2009
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Kim, Hyeon Soo, Jeong, Jae Hun, Ji, Sang Woo
• Granted Patent: US 8,472,875 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/66.100
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/45 External transmission of data to or from the vehicle
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]

Abstract

The present invention relates to technology which performs wireless communications of a vehicle by selectively operating a wireless communications module of a vehicle connected to an AP (Access Point) which collects vehicle information according to the state of the vehicle. The present invention includes a vehicle information storage unit that stores vehicle information collected from each electronic control unit of a vehicle; a wireless communications module that performs wireless communications with an AP (Access Point); and a wireless communications controller that controls a connection state of the AP with the wireless communications module by selectively operating the wireless communications module according to the state of the vehicle, and sends the vehicle information to the AP through the wireless communications module.

Claims

1. A wireless telecommunications system for a vehicle, comprising:

a vehicle information storage unit that stores vehicle information collected from each electronic control unit of a vehicle;

a wireless communications module that performs a wireless communications with an AP (Access Point); and

a wireless communications controller that controls a connection state of the wireless communications module with the AP by selectively operating the wireless communications module according to the state of the vehicle, and sends the vehicle information to the AP through the wireless communications module.

2. The wireless telecommunications system for vehicle of claim 1, further comprising a communications record information storage unit in which the wireless communications record of a vehicle is stored.

3. The wireless telecommunications system for vehicle of claim 2, wherein the wireless communications controller inquires information of the wireless communications record when the speed of the vehicle is lower than a given speed, and normally operates the wireless communications module if a given time elapses after a final AP connection.

4. The wireless telecommunications system for vehicle of claim 2, wherein the wireless communications controller inquires information of the wireless communications record, and normally operates the wireless communications module if a given time elapses after the final AP connection.

5. The wireless telecommunications system for vehicle of claim 1, wherein the wireless communications controller sends the vehicle information to the wireless communications module when a sending of the vehicle information is approved from a driver.

6. The wireless telecommunications system for vehicle of claim 5, wherein the wireless communications controller outputs a message which asks the driver a communications approval through a display.

7. The wireless telecommunications system for vehicle of claim 5, wherein the wireless communications controller outputs a message which asks the driver a communications approval through a speaker.

8. The wireless telecommunications system for vehicle of claim 5, wherein the wireless communications controller receives a communications approval confirmation command from a display.

9. The wireless telecommunications system for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the wireless communications controller normally operates the wireless communications module although a given time does not pass after the wireless communication module lastly communicates with a AP when malfunction information transmitted from a specific electronic control unit is included in the vehicle information.

10. The wireless telecommunications system for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the wireless communications controller normally operates the wireless communications module by providing battery power to the wireless communications module, when a power source for a vehicle is turned off before the communications of the wireless communications module with the AP is terminated.

11. A wireless communications method for vehicle, comprising the steps of:

(a) collecting vehicle information from one or more electronic control units of a vehicle

(b) connecting the wireless communications module with an AP by selectively operating the wireless communications module of the vehicle according to a state of the vehicle; and

(c) sending the vehicle information to the AP through the wireless communications module.

12. The wireless telecommunications method for vehicle of claim 11, wherein step (b) comprises operating the wireless communications module when the vehicle speed is lower than a given speed so that the wireless communications module communicates with the AR

13. The wireless telecommunications method for vehicle of claim 11, wherein step (b) comprises operating the wireless communications module if the vehicle speed is lower than a given speed while a given time elapses after a final AP connection of the vehicle so that the wireless communications module communicates with the AR

14. The wireless telecommunications method for vehicle of claim 11, wherein step (b) comprises operating the wireless communications module if a given time elapses after a final AP connection of the vehicle so that the wireless communications module communicates with the AR

15. The wireless telecommunications method for vehicle of claim 11, wherein the step (b) comprises operating the wireless communications module if malfunction information transmitted from a specific electronic control unit is included in the vehicle information so that the wireless communications module communicates with the AR

16. The wireless telecommunications method for vehicle of claim 11, wherein step (c) further comprises obtaining an approval for sending the vehicle information from a driver of the vehicle.

17. The wireless telecommunications method for vehicle of claim 16, wherein step (c) further comprises outputting a message which inquires the approval for sending the vehicle information of the driver through a display or a speaker.

18. The wireless telecommunications method for vehicle of claim 11, further comprising providing battery power to the wireless communications module, in the case a power source for a vehicle is turned off while the wireless communications module of the vehicle communicates with the AP.

19. The wireless telecommunications method for vehicle of claim 11, further comprising transiting to a state where the wireless communications module cannot communicate with an arbitrary AP when the communications of the wireless communications module of the vehicle with the AP is finished.

20. The wireless telecommunications method for vehicle of claim 18, further comprising transiting to a state where the wireless communications module cannot communicate with an arbitrary AP when the communications of the wireless communications module of the vehicle with the AP is completed.