Drive management system

• US 4,858,133 A
• Filed: 03/15/1988
• Issued: 08/15/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tokyo Keiki Inc.
• Original Assignee: Tokyo Keiso Company
• Inventors: Takeuchi, Kunihiko, Ikeda, Hajime, Horinouchi, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Mis, David
• Application Number:
  US07/168,254
• Time in Patent Office: 518 Days
• Field of Search: 340/52 F, 364/424.01, 364/424.03, 364/424.04
• US Class Current: 701/35
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

Drive data such as vehicle velocity, engine rotational speed, and the like are recorded into a memory module in a state in which the memory module is attached to a vehicle. When drive management data is made, the memory module is detached from the vehicle and set to a read unit. When the read unit reads out the drive data recorded in the memory module, the drive management data such as drive period of time, rest period of time, maximum drive speed, drive distance, and the like are calculated on the basis of the readout data. The drive records classified every driver or every vehicle are automatically made.

Claims

1. A drive management system comprising:

a memory module having a memory medium for recording predetermined drive data as numerical valves in a state in which said memory module is attached to a vehicle;

reading means for reading out the drive data recorded in said memory module by detaching the memory module from the vehicle; and

management data processing means for calculating drive management data such as drive period of time, rest period of time, maximum drive velocity, drive distance, and the like on the basis of the drive data read out of the memory module by said reading means, and for making drive data classified for every driver and/or every vehicle;

and, wherein each of said memory module and said reading means has therein induction coils, and said system further comprises;

power supply means for supplying a power source from the reading means to the memory module by a contactless induction coupling of certain of said induction coils, and

data transmitting means for performing a bidirectional transmission to read out the drive data from the memory module to the reading means by a contactless induction coupling of said induction coils.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein said memory module records numerical valve data of an engine rotational speed and a drive velocity together with time data every predetermined unit time in the state in which the memory module is attached to the vehicle.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein said management data processing means has drive time calculating means for searching the velocity data of every unit time which is included in the drive data read out of the memory module, for counting the number of velocity data other than the velocity of 0, and thereby for obtaining the drive period of time.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein said management data processing means has rest time calculating means for searching the velocity data of every unit time which is included in the drive data read out of the memory module, for counting the number of velocity data of the velocity 0, and thereby for obtaining the rest period of time.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein said management data processing means has rest time calculating means for searching the velocity data of every unit time which is included in the drive data read out of the memory module, and when a predetermined number of velocity data of the velocity 0 continue, for counting the number of said continuous velocity data of the velocity 0, and thereby for obtaining the rest period of time.

6. A system according to claim 1, wherein said management data processing means has drive time calculating means for searching the engine rotational speed and the velocity data of every unit time which are included in the drive data read out of the memory module, for obtaining a ratio between said engine rotational speed and the velocity of said velocity data, for counting the number of velocity data corresponding to the ratio which exceeds a predetermined ratio to obtain the drive period of time, and for determining that said drive period of time is the time when a degree of drive fatigue is high and outputting this drive period of time.