Warning apparatus, warning server, warning system, and automobile

• US 7,365,639 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2006
• Issued: 04/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yuhara, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TAI T
• Application Number:
  US11/357,382
• Publication Number:
  US 20060145822A1
• Time in Patent Office: 802 Days
• Field of Search: 340/425.5, 340/426.1, 340/426.15, 340/426.22, 340/457, 340/901, 340/933, 340/384, 340/539.1, 340/539.22, 340/425.8, 340/438
• US Class Current: 340/425.5
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/04 operating on the propulsion system, e.g. engine or drive motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/06 operating on the vehicle transmission
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/104 characterised by the type of theft warning signal, e.g. visual or audible signals with special characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/2018 Central base unlocks or authorises unlocking
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/04 Access control involving a hierarchy in access rights
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/62 Comprising means for indicating the status of the lock
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00182 operated with unidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/017 identifying vehicles G08G1/015, G08G1/054 take precedence
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/207 with respect to certain areas, e.g. forbidden or allowed areas with possible alerting when inside or outside boundaries

Abstract

Herein disclosed is a warning apparatus for an automobile, comprising: a receiving unit for receiving a driver'"'"'s information from a memory device memorizing said driver'"'"'s information; a memorizing unit for memorizing an automobile insurance information; a determining unit for determining whether or not the driver is an insurant on the basis of said driver'"'"'s information and the automobile insurance information; and a warning unit for warning the driver not to drive when the determining unit has determined that the driver is not said insurant.

Claims

1. A warning system, comprising:

a warning server memorizing automobile insurance information, receiving driver information, and transmitting a comparison result between the automobile insurance information and the drivers information; and

a warning apparatus located in an automobile transmitting the driver information to the warning server, receiving the comparison result from the warning server, and warning not to drive upon the comparison result indicating the driver being uninsured.

2. A warning system of claim 1, wherein the warning apparatus produces a permission signal permitting the driver to operate the automobile upon the comparison result indicating the driver being insured.

3. A warning system of claim 1, wherein the warning apparatus produces a prevention signal preventing the driver from operating the automobile upon the comparison result indicating the driver being uninsured.

4. A warning system of claim 1, wherein the warning server stores the comparison result related to an automobile starting condition received from the warning apparatus.

5. A warning system of claim 4, wherein the warning server decides an accounting model on the basis of the comparison result related to the automobile starting condition.

6. A warning system of claim 1, wherein the warning apparatus receives the driver information memorized in a memory device.

7. A warning system of claim 1, wherein the warning apparatus receives the driver information memorized in an electronic key for the automobile.

8. A warning system of claim 1, wherein the warning apparatus receives the driver information memorized in an electronic driver license.