Remote monitoring terminal device for mobile work vehicle or vessel

• US 9,002,570 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2012
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd. (Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Yanmar Company Limited (Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sakamoto, Hirofumi, Kusuno, Junya, Satake, Manabu, Uezumiya, Keisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Tarcza, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dunn, Alex C
• Application Number:
  US14/350,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20140244100A1
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• Field of Search: 701/31.5
• US Class Current: 701/31.5
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/13 Plc programming
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2223/06 Remote monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0264 Control of logging system, e.g. decision on which data to store; time-stamping measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

Disclosed is a remote monitoring terminal device including: connection terminals (T, . . . ); a data storage control section for storing, in a first data storage section at predetermined intervals, only a predetermined number of latest data sets fed via the connection terminals (T, . . . ); a sampling data storage control section for storing in a second data storage section sampling data obtained by sampling the data stored in the first data storage section at sampling intervals (TC); and a communications section, wherein the sampling data storage control section transmits the sampling data stored in the second data storage section to the remote monitoring device via the communications section in response to a request from the remote monitoring device or in response to an end of a work.

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 storage control section for temporarily storing, in a first data storage section at predetermined intervals, only a predetermined number of latest data sets in the data fed via the connection terminals;

a sampling data storage control section for storing in a second data storage section sampling data obtained by sampling the predetermined number of data sets stored in the first data storage section at sampling intervals each of which is equal to the predetermined interval times an integer greater than or equal to 2; and

a communications section for communication with the remote monitoring device,

wherein the sampling data storage control section transmits the sampling data stored in the second data storage section to the remote monitoring device via the communications section in response to a request from the remote monitoring device or in response to an end of a work.

2. The remote monitoring terminal device as set forth in claim 1, wherein in response to the predetermined number being reached by a data storage count that the data is stored in the first data storage section, the data storage control section transmits the predetermined number of data sets stored in the first data storage section to the remote monitoring device via the communications section and initializes the data storage count.