INFORMATION DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE

• US 20100198455A1
• Filed: 09/25/2008
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
• Inventors: Shimoshimano, Hideo, Kuga, Kouji, Hotta, Nobuyuki
• Application Number:
  US12/679,559
• Publication Number:
  US 20100198455A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/33
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/006 Indicating maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• 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

Abstract

An information distributing system and a vehicle-mounted device that are able to distribute or acquire information related to vehicle maintenance. The information distributing system comprises vehicle-mounted devices (10) and a center apparatus (30). Each vehicle-mounted device (10) includes a communication part (3b) that communicates with the center apparatus (30) via a roadside apparatus (20); a storing part (3c) that stores uplink information including information related to the driving of a target vehicle (C); and a control part (4) that causes the uplink information to be transmitted to the center apparatus (30). The center apparatus (30) includes a communication part (35) that communicates with the vehicle-mounted devices (10) via roadside apparatuses (20); a storing part (34) that manages and stores maintenance history information related to the maintenance of the target vehicle (C) for each vehicle-mounted device (10); and a control part (31) that produces, based on both the uplink information received via the communication part (35) and the maintenance history information stored by the storing part (34), maintenance notification information for notifying a maintenance timing for each vehicle-mounted device (10) and that causes the maintenance notification information to be transmitted to the vehicle-mounted device (10).

Claims

1. An information distributing system in which a vehicle-mounted device is mounted on each of one or more vehicles and connected to a center apparatus via a roadside wireless device in a manner capable of making wireless communication,

wherein the vehicle-mounted device comprises:

a first communication unit adapted to communicate with the center apparatus via the roadside wireless device;

a first storage unit adapted to store driving information of the vehicle mounted with the vehicle-mounted device; and

a first control unit adapted to read the driving information from the first storage unit and causing the first communication unit to transmit the information to the center apparatus, and

wherein the center apparatus comprises;

a second communication unit adapted to communicate with the vehicle-mounted device via the roadside wireless device;

a second storage unit adapted to store maintenance history information of the vehicle in association with the vehicle-mounted device mounted on the vehicle; and

a second control unit adapted to produce maintenance notification information for notifying maintenance timing of the vehicle on the basis of the driving information transmitted from the vehicle-mounted device and the maintenance history information read from the second storage unit and causing the second communication unit to transmit the produced maintenance notification information to the vehicle-mounted device of the vehicle.

2. The information distributing system according to claim 1, wherein the maintenance history information includes a history of inspection timing when an inspection has previously been executed, and the second control unit produces maintenance notification information for notifying inspection timing of the vehicle on the basis of the driving information and the maintenance history information and causes the second communication unit to transmit the produced maintenance notification information to the vehicle-mounted device.

3. The information distributing system according to claim 1, wherein the maintenance history information includes an exchange history of exchanging consumables of the vehicle, and the second control unit produces maintenance notification information for notifying timing of exchanging consumables of the vehicle on the basis of the driving information and the maintenance history information and causes the second communication means unit to transmit the produced maintenance notification information to the vehicle-mounted device of the vehicle.

4. The information distributing system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle-mounted device comprises display unit, and

the first control unit causes the display unit to display the maintenance notification information transmitted from the center apparatus.

5. The information distributing system according to claim 1, wherein the first control unit causes the first storage unit to temporarily store the maintenance notification information transmitted from the center apparatus, and causes the display unit to display the information after a lapse of a prescribed time period.

6. A vehicle-mounted device mounted on each of one or more vehicles and connected to a center apparatus via a roadside wireless device in a manner capable of making wireless communication, the vehicle-mounted device comprising:

a communication unit adapted to communicate with the center apparatus via the roadside wireless device;

a storage unit adapted to store driving information of the vehicle mounted with the vehicle-mounted device; and

a control unit adapted to read the driving information from the storage unit and causing the communication unit to transmit the information to the center apparatus.