Emergency report device

• US 7,587,489 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2006
• Issued: 09/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Koie, Yoshio
• Primary Examiner(s): BAROT, BHARAT
• Application Number:
  US11/446,757
• Publication Number:
  US 20060294229A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,191 Days
• Field of Search: 709202-203, 709223-224, 4554041-4042
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/002 Generating a prealarm to the central station

Abstract

Transmission of an emergency report from an emergency report device is either permitted or prohibited depending on a registration condition of an identification code received by the emergency report device from an external device. The registration condition of the identification code in a service center is notified from the emergency report device to a user as a guidance message.

Claims

1. An emergency report device, the emergency report device used in combination with an emergency report system having a service center for providing an emergency service upon receiving a registered identification code that identifies a specific emergency report device, the emergency report device comprising:

means for notifying a condition of the emergency report device to a user;

means for receiving the identification code from an external device when the external device is coupled with the emergency report device;

means for storing the identification code received by the receiving means;

a transmitter for transmitting an emergency report; and

a controller for controlling the transmitter in response to a transmission trigger signal,

wherein the transmission trigger signal is provided from a predetermined device,

transmission of the emergency report from the transmitter of the emergency report device in response to the transmission trigger signal is prohibited when the identification code received by the receiving means is not identical with the identification code stored in the storing means,

the notifying means notifies the user of an absence of registration of the identification code in the service center, and

prohibition of transmission of the emergency report from the transmitter is terminated when the registration of the identification code in the service center is confirmed by the controller.

2. The emergency report device as in claim 1,

wherein the controller permits the transmitter to transmit the emergency report upon provision of the emergency report transmission trigger when the identification code received by the receiving means from the external device is identical with the identification code stored in the storing means, and

the notifying means notifies the user of existence of registration of the identification code in the service center.

3. The emergency report device as in claim 1, wherein the external device is a navigation system.

4. A method for transmitting an emergency report from an emergency report device to a service center of an emergency report system, the emergency report device having a display, a receiver, a memory, a transmitter, and a controller, the method comprising;

receiving an identification code that identifies a specific emergency reporting device from an external device by the receiver;

comparing the identification code received by the receiver with the identification code stored in the memory; and

determining whether the identification code received by the receiver is identical with the identification code stored in the memory,

controlling the transmitter for transmitting an emergency report to the service center,

wherein the controller prohibits transmission of the emergency report from the transmitter and displays notification on the display that informs the user of an absence of registration of the identification code in the service center when the received identification code is not identical with the stored identification code in the memory.

5. The method for transmitting an emergency report as in claim 4,

wherein the controller permits transmission of the emergency report from the transmitter and displays notification on the display that informs the user of existence of registration of the identification code in the service center when the received identification code is identical with the stored identification code in the memory.

6. The method for transmitting an emergency report as in claim 4, wherein the step of receiving the identification code includes receiving the identification code from a navigation system.

7. An emergency report device, the emergency report device used in combination with an emergency report system having a service center for providing an emergency service upon receiving a registered identification code that identifies a specific emergency report device ,the emergency report device comprising:

means for notifying a condition of the emergency report device to a user;

means for receiving the identification code from an external device when the external device is coupled with the emergency report device;

means for storing the identification code received by the code receiving means;

a transmitter for transmitting an emergency report; and

a controller for controlling the transmitter in response to a transmission trigger signal;

wherein

a transmission trigger signal is provided for the controller from a predetermined outside device, when the identification code received by the receiving means is not identical with the identification code that identifies the individual emergency report device stored in the storing means, until the registration in the service center of the identification code received by the receiving means is confirmed by the controller, the notifying means notifies the user of an absence of registration, in the service center, of the identification code received by the receiving means.

8. The emergency report device as in claim 7, wherein the outside device is a navigation system.