Emergency reporting system

• US 9,707,926 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2014
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Sogabe, Haruhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Garcia, Santiago
• Application Number:
  US14/893,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20160107609A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: 340436
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6893 Cars
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2022/4816 for sensing locking of buckle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/48 Control systems, alarms, or interlock systems, for the correct application of the belt or harness
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/00 Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental

Abstract

An emergency reporting system includes a seat belt detection unit, a speed change detection unit, an injury determination unit, and an emergency reporting unit. The seat belt detection unit detects a fastening state of seat belt when the vehicle stops moving assisted by collision prevention process that prevents vehicle collision in advance. The speed change detection unit detects a speed change during a time interval from when the collision prevention process is performed to when the vehicle is stopped. The injury determination unit determines the injury level of the vehicle occupant based on the detection results of the seat belt detection unit and the speed change detection unit. The emergency reporting unit emergently reports determined injury level of the vehicle occupant to a prescribed reporting destination. The emergency reporting system can properly determine the injury level of the vehicle occupant when vehicle collision is prevented in advance, and can emergently report the determined injury level.

Claims

1. An emergency reporting system comprising:

a seat belt detection unit detecting whether a seat belt is fastened on an occupant of a vehicle when the vehicle activates a collision prevention process and then stops moving for avoiding an occurrence of a collision, the collision prevention process being a process performed by the vehicle to prevent the occurrence of the collision by activating a brake;

a speed change detection unit detecting a speed change of the vehicle during a time interval from a time at which the collision prevention process is activated to a time at which the vehicle stops moving without a collision;

an injury determination unit determining an injury level that is a level of an injury that the occupant of the vehicle has received in a situation that the occurrence of the collision is predicted and prevented by the collision prevention process based on detection results detected by the seat belt detection unit and the speed change detection unit; and

an emergency reporting unit reporting the determined injury level of the occupant of the vehicle to a prescribed reporting destination.

2. The emergency reporting system according to claim 1, wherein

the speed change detection unit detects the speed change of the vehicle in at least one of a front-rear direction, a left-right direction, or an up-down direction of the vehicle.

3. The emergency reporting system according to claim 1, further comprising

an impact detection unit detecting an impact applied to the vehicle, wherein,

when the impact detection unit detects the impact applied to the vehicle during a time interval from the time at which the vehicle stops moving by the collision prevention process to a time at which a predetermined time period has elapsed from a stoppage of the vehicle,

the injury determination unit determines again the injury level of the occupant of the vehicle based on a detection result detected by the impact detection unit, and

the emergency reporting unit reports again the injury level of the occupant of the vehicle, which is re-determined by the injury determination unit.

4. The emergency reporting system according to claim 3, wherein

the impact detection unit detects a magnitude of the impact applied to the vehicle in at least one of a front-rear direction, a left-right direction, or an up-down direction of the vehicle.

5. The emergency reporting system according to claim 1, wherein

the vehicle is equipped with a pre-crash safety system, and

the collision prevention process includes a process performed by the pre-crash safety system.

6. The emergency reporting system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a wireless communication unit,

wherein the emergency reporting unit reports the determined injury level of the occupant of the vehicle to the prescribed reporting destination outside the vehicle via the wireless communication unit.

7. The emergency reporting system according to claim 1, wherein the injury level is determined after the vehicle stops moving.