Remote monitoring terminal device for mobile work vehicle or vessel

• US 8,983,713 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2012
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Yanmar Company Limited (Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Shinohara, Yoshihiko, Sakamoto, Hirofumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G
• Assistant Examiner(s): HUYNH, LUAT T
• Application Number:
  US14/355,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20140324279A1
• Time in Patent Office: 874 Days
• Field of Search: 701/31.5, 700/112, 700/113
• US Class Current: 701/31.5
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0216 Human interface functionality, e.g. monitoring system providing help to the user in the selection of tests or in its configuration
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/00 Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/86 Performing a diagnostic of the sensing device
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

Disclosed is a remote monitoring terminal device for a mobile work vehicle or vessel, capable of informing the user of maximum, minimum, and average values for each sensor and a turn-on count of a switch. The remote monitoring terminal device includes: connection terminals; a data abridging control section for computing minimum, maximum, and average values of data collected over a period from a startup to the latest data acquisition and of actual operation data on actual operation and an occurrence count and durations of a predetermined event, on the basis of operation-state data acquired via the connection terminals and stored in a data storage section; and a communications section. In response to a manual turn-off of a startup switch of the mobile work vehicle or vessel, the data abridging control section transmits data stored in the data storage section, to the remote monitoring device via the communications section.

Claims

1. A remote monitoring terminal device for a mobile work vehicle or vessel, said remote monitoring terminal device being mounted to a mobile work vehicle or vessel for communication with a remote monitoring device to enable the mobile work vehicle or vessel to be remotely monitored by the remote monitoring device, said remote monitoring terminal device comprising:

connection terminals for feeding data on an operation state of the mobile work vehicle or vessel;

a data abridging control section including a first storage control arrangement and a second storage control arrangement,

said first storage control arrangement acquiring at predetermined intervals, and temporarily storing in a data storage section, the data on the operation state fed via the connection terminals, computing minimum, maximum, and average values of part of the data on the operation state collected over a period from a startup to a latest data acquisition and an occurrence count and durations of a predetermined event, all on the basis of the data stored at the predetermined intervals, and temporarily storing the computed minimum, maximum, and average values and the computed occurrence count and durations in the data storage section,

said second storage control arrangement computing minimum, maximum, and average values of actual operation data and an occurrence count and durations of the predetermined event on the basis of the data temporarily stored in the data storage section at the predetermined intervals, and temporarily storing the computed minimum, maximum, and average values and the computed occurrence count and durations in the data storage section, the actual operation data being part of the data on the operation state collected over a period from a startup to a latest data acquisition, the part being related to actual operation; and

a communications section for communication with the remote monitoring device,

wherein the data abridging control section transmits the minimum, maximum, and average values and the occurrence count and durations of the predetermined event, all stored in the data storage section, to the remote monitoring device via the communications section in response to a manual turn-off of a startup switch of the mobile work vehicle or vessel.

2. The remote monitoring terminal device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the data abridging control section specifies, for each type of data on the operation state, an operation selection as to whether the first storage control arrangement is activated alone from the first and second storage control arrangements, the second storage control arrangement is activated alone, or both the first and second storage control arrangements are activated, and activates at least either one of the first and second storage control arrangements on the basis of the specified operation selection.