Operation management apparatus

• US 8,240,287 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2010
• Issued: 08/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Hashimoto, Shoji, Kimata, Ryuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): MOULIS, THOMAS N
• Application Number:
  US12/704,072
• Publication Number:
  US 20100211285A1
• Time in Patent Office: 915 Days
• Field of Search: 701/101, 701/114, 701/115, 368/5, 368/6, 368/8, 123/196.S, 123/198.D
• US Class Current: 123/196.S
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 3/08 Registering or indicating the production of the machine either with or without registering working or idle time

Abstract

Operation management apparatus includes a control section for controlling operation of an internal combustion engine, a storage section for storing data of an integrated operating time of the engine monitored by the control section, and a display section capable of displaying not only operating states of the engine but also an integrated operating time of the internal combustion engine. The control section controls the display section to make a blinking display with a predetermined number of blinks, corresponding to the integrated operating time, at predetermined timing.

Claims

1. An operation management apparatus for managing an integrated operating time of an internal combustion engine, the operation management apparatus comprising:

a control section for controlling operation of the internal combustion engine;

a storage section for storing data of the integrated operating time of the internal combustion engine monitored by the control section; and

a display section capable of displaying not only an operating state of the internal combustion engine but also the integrated operating time of the internal combustion engine,

the control section controlling the display section to make a blinking display with a predetermined number of blinks, corresponding to the integrated operating time, at predetermined timing.

2. The operation management apparatus of claim 1, wherein, after the display section has made the blinking display, the control section controls the display section to switch from the blinking display to a display of the operating state of the internal combustion engine.

3. The operation management apparatus of claim 1, wherein the predetermined timing at which the control section causes the display section to make the blinking display is a time point when the internal combustion engine is activated.

4. The operation management apparatus of claim 3, wherein a power generator is connected to the internal combustion engine, and

wherein the predetermined timing at which the control section causes the display section to make the blinking display is a time point after the power generator starts generating electric power in response to activation of the internal combustion engine and the control section starts operating by being supplied with the electric power from the power generator.

5. The operation management apparatus of claim 1, wherein the predetermined timing at which the control section causes the display section to make the blinking display is a time point when the internal combustion engine is deactivated.

6. The operation management apparatus of claim 5, wherein a power generator is connected to the internal combustion engine, and

wherein the predetermined timing at which the control section causes the display section to make the blinking display is during a time period when the power generator is generating electric power necessary for operation of the control section after the internal combustion engine receives an engine stop instruction.

7. The operation management apparatus of claim 1, wherein the predetermined timing at which the control section causes the display section to make the blinking display is at least one time point during a time period from a time point when the internal combustion engine is activated to a time point when the internal combustion engine is deactivated.