EMERGENCY REPORT APPARATUS

• US 20120197462A1
• Filed: 01/18/2012
• Published: 08/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Sakai, Hiroshi, Masuda, Koichi
• Application Number:
  US13/352,606
• Publication Number:
  US 20120197462A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental

Abstract

A portable device includes an airbag deployment determination unit that detects a deployment of an airbag, a travel condition detection unit that determines a travel condition of a vehicle, a travel condition determination unit that compares the travel condition before and after the detected deployment of the airbag to determine whether the travel condition has changed. Based on a comparison performed by the travel condition determination unit, an emergency report unit performs an emergency report operation, when the travel condition determination unit determines a change in the travel condition of the vehicle before and after the detected deployment of the airbag.

Claims

1. An emergency report apparatus comprising:

an airbag deployment determination unit for detecting whether an airbag has been deployed;

a travel condition detection unit for detecting a travel condition of a vehicle;

a travel condition determination unit for determining whether the travel condition of the vehicle before and after the detected deployment of the airbag has changed by comparing the travel condition detected by the travel condition detection unit before the airbag deployment determination unit detected the deployment of the airbag and the travel condition detected by the travel condition detection unit and after the airbag deployment determination unit detected the deployment of the airbag; and

an emergency report unit for performing an emergency report operation when the travel condition determination unit determines that the travel condition before and after the detected deployment of the airbag has changed.

2. The emergency report apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a microphone of a portable device,

wherein the airbag deployment determination unit detects whether the airbag has been deployed by detecting sound or pressure change in association with the deployment of the airbag by using the microphone.

3. The emergency report apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a position detector for detecting a current position of the vehicle, wherein

the travel condition detection unit detects the travel condition of the vehicle based on the current position of the vehicle, and

the emergency report unit is configured not to perform the emergency report operation, when the vehicle is determined to be continuing a travel based on the travel condition of the vehicle detected by the travel condition detection unit.

4. The emergency report apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the emergency report unit is configured not to perform the emergency report operation when the emergency report apparatus is not coupled to the vehicle, or when the emergency report apparatus is not set to a drive mode.

5. The emergency report apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a vibration detection unit for detecting vibration of the vehicle generated during a travel of the vehicle,

wherein the emergency report unit is configured not to perform the emergency report operation when a vibration detection unit is detecting vibration of the vehicle after the deployment of the airbag.