Construction machine management apparatus and construction machines management system

• US 7,493,112 B2
• Filed: 04/27/2007
• Issued: 02/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Shibata, Koichi, Ono, Kiyoshi, Hirata, Toichi, Tomikawa, Osamu, Onoue, Hiroshi, Watanabe, Hiroshi, Karasawa, Hideo, Sugiyama, Genroku, Adachi, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost; Dwayne D
• Assistant Examiner(s): DESIR, PIERRE LOUIS
• Application Number:
  US11/790,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20070202861A1
• Time in Patent Office: 662 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.2, 455/412.1, 455/418, 455/420, 701/35, 701/33, 701/29, 701/50, 701/213, 701/208, 345/169, 340/438, 340/439
• US Class Current: 455/420
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/26 Indicating devices E02F5/145 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

Assessment information needed to calculate a used vehicle assessment value of a hydraulic excavator 10 is input to a portable telephone 20 and is then transmitted from the portable telephone 20. The transmitted assessment information is received at a manufacturer'"'"'s base station 40 at a remote location. The used vehicle assessment value of the hydraulic excavator 10 is calculated based upon the received assessment information, and history information and operation information on the hydraulic excavator 10 read out from an operation information database 43 and a history database 42 in correspondence to an ID number assigned to the hydraulic excavator which is included in the assessment information.

Claims

1. A portable telephone-compatible construction machine comprising:

a control device;

a sensor that is connected to the control device;

a storage unit that stores data related to operation information based upon a detection output from the sensor, and data to be overwritten that is used for controlling of the construction machine, is data to be overwritten according to a nature of work which the construction machine undertakes, and can be overwritten with data from a portable telephone, the portable telephone comprising;

a selection device that selects either a telephone mode in which normal telephone processing is executed or a data output mode in which data are output to the control device of the construction machine,

a data input/output device that is connected with the control device of the construction machine via wireless communication or a cable, inputs the data to be overwritten from the control device of the construction machine, and outputs the data having been overwritten to the control device of the construction machine in the data output mode,

a display unit at which the data to be overwritten input from the control device of the construction machine are displayed in the data output mode, and

an operation unit that is operated to enter telephone numbers in the telephone mode and is operated to overwrite the data to be overwritten displayed at the display unit in the data output mode; and

a transmission/reception device that transmits data to the portable telephone and receives data from the portable telephone, via wireless communication or a cable, wherein

the control device transmits the data related to operation information and the data to be overwritten stored in the storage unit to the portable telephone via the transmission/reception device, and overwrites the data to be overwritten stored in the storage unit with the data to be overwritten having been overwritten and having been received.

2. A portable telephone-compatible construction machine according to claim 1, wherein:

the data to be overwritten comprise data related to a shape of a front member of the construction machine.

3. A portable telephone-compatible construction machine comprising:

a control device;

a sensor that is connected to the control device;

a storage unit that stores data related to operation information based upon a detection output from the sensor, and data to be overwritten that is used for controlling of the construction machine, is data to be overwritten according to a nature of work which the construction machine undertakes, and can be overwritten with data from a portable telephone, the portable telephone comprising;

a selection device that selects one of a telephone mode in which normal telephone processing is executed, a data input mode in which data stored in the control device of the construction machine are input, a data output mode in which data are output to the control device of the construction machine, and a transmission/reception mode in which data are transmitted to and received from a base station,

a data input/output device that is connected with the control device of the construction machine via wireless communication or a cable, inputs the data from the control device of the construction machine in the data input mode, and inputs the data to be overwritten from the control device of the construction machine to output data having been overwritten to the control device of the construction machine in the data output mode,

a display unit at which the data and the data to be overwritten input through the data input/output device are displayed,

an operation unit that is operated to enter telephone numbers in the telephone mode and is operated to overwrite the data to be overwritten displayed at the display unit in the data output mode, and

a communication unit that transmits the data input through the data input/output device to the base station in the transmission/reception mode; and

a transmission/reception device that transmits data to the portable telephone and receives data from the portable telephone, via wireless communication or a cable, wherein

the control device transmits the data related to operation information and the data to be overwritten stored in the storage unit to the portable telephone via the transmission/reception device, and overwrites the data to be overwritten stored in the storage unit with the data to be overwritten having been overwritten and having been overwritten and having been received.

4. A portable telephone-compatible construction machine according to claim 3, wherein:

the data to be overwritten comprise data related to a shape of a front member of the construction machine.