System for backing up vehicle use data locally on a construction vehicle

• US 6,694,483 B1
• Filed: 04/12/2000
• Issued: 02/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Inventors: Nagata, Noritaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): CONNOLLY, MARK A
• Application Number:
  US09/547,992
• Time in Patent Office: 1,406 Days
• Field of Search: 713/502, 701/1, 701/33, 701/35, 701/114, 364/561, 369/21
• US Class Current: 715/201
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2025 Particular purposes of control systems not otherwise provided for E02F3/16, E02F3/26, sub-groups of E02F3/43, E02F3/651, sub-groups of E02F3/84, E02F3/907, E02F5/145 take precedence

Abstract

A data management device of a construction machine comprises a computing function for computing service meter time, a nonvolatile storage function for storing the computed data, and a transmission function for transmitting the data stored in the storage function to a monitor panel, while a monitor panel has a nonvolatile storage function for storing the data received from the data management device as backup data. With this configuration, a data management system for the construction machine which comprises the data management device and the monitor panel can reliably insure service meter time and other data even if a failure occurs to the data management device.

Claims

1. A data management system for a construction machine comprising a plurality of data management units for collecting and managing data from a plurality of working units in charge of operations related to traveling or work of the construction machine, the data management units being provided in the construction machine, wherein

a first data management unit comprises:

computing means for computing data on traveling or work of a working unit in charge of the traveling or work of the construction machine based on the data collected from the working unit;

storage means for storing the data computed by the computing means; and

transmission means for transmitting the data stored in the storage means to a second data management unit, and

the second data management unit comprises storage means for storing the data received from the first data management unit as backup data.

2. The data management system for a construction machine according to claim 1, wherein

the second data management unit further comprises return means for returning the backup data stored in the storage means to the first data management unit at a predetermined timing, and

the first data management unit further comprises updating means for updating the data stored in the storage means based on the backup data returned from the second data management unit.

3. A data management system for a construction machine comprising a plurality of data management units for collecting and managing data from a plurality of working units in charge of operations related to traveling or work of the construction machine, wherein

each one of the plurality of data management units comprises:

computing means for computing data on traveling or work of an working unit in charge of traveling or work of the construction machine based on the data collected from the working unit; and

storage means for storing the data computed by the computing means, and

at least one of the plurality of data management units further comprises judgment means for judging consistency of data which each one of the plurality of data management units stores in the storage means.