Vehicle operation information management evaluation system

• US 20050096836A1
• Filed: 05/14/2003
• Published: 05/05/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Miyama, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Miyama, Inc.
• Inventors: Sakaguchi, Satoshi, Minami, Katsuaki
• Application Number:
  US10/504,423
• Publication Number:
  US 20050096836A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/123
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

An operation management system is provided, which includes a database (105) that accumulates operation information, including a fuel consumption amount, that is gathered from a running vehicle (A1 to B2) through a network (20); and a management device (103, 104) that sends the gathered operation information and the operation information accumulated in the database (105) to a client computer (A10, B10) through the network (20). The management device (103, 104) receives an instruction for the vehicle (A1 to B2) from the client computer (A10 and B10), and sends the received instruction to the vehicle (A1 to B2).

Claims

1. A vehicle operation information management and evaluation system, comprising:

a database (105) that accumulates operation information, including a fuel consumption amount, that is gathered from a running vehicle (A1 to B2) through a network (20); and

a management device (103, 104) that sends the operation information accumulated in the database (105) to a client computer (A10, B10) through the network (20), wherein

the management device (103, 104) functions to;

receive an instruction for the vehicle (A1 to B2) from the client computer (A10, B10); and

send the received instruction to the vehicle (A1 to B2).

4. The vehicle operation information management and evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle (A1 to B2) comprises:

a detecting device (3) that detects the operation information including the amount of fuel consumption; and

a communications device (9) that sends the detected operation information to the database (105) through the network (20), and receives instructions from the management device (103, 104) through the network 20.

2. A vehicle operation information management and evaluation system, comprising:

a database (105) that accumulates operation information, including a fuel consumption amount, that is gathered from a running vehicle (A1 to B2) through a network (20); and

a management device (103, 104) that sends the operation information accumulated in the database (105) to a client computer (A10, B10) through the network (20), wherein

the management device (103, 104) functions to;

judge whether or not the fuel consumption amount of the vehicle (A1 to B2) has increased, based on the operation information accumulated in the database (105); and

send an instruction that suppresses the increase in fuel consumption amount to the vehicle (A1 to B2), and reports to the client computer (A10, B10) that the instruction has been sent to the vehicle (A1 to B2), for cases where the fuel consumption amount is judged to have increased.

3. The vehicle operation information management and evaluation system according to claim 2, wherein the management device (103, 104):

judges a driving state under which the fuel consumption amount increases based on the operation information; and

sends an instruction to the vehicle (A1 to B2) for suppressing the increase in fuel consumption amount, according to the judged driving state, for cases where the driving state that increases the fuel consumption amount has been judged.

6. The vehicle operation information management and evaluation system according to claim 2, wherein the vehicle (A1 to B2) comprises:

a detecting device (3) that detects the operation information including the amount of fuel consumption; and

a communications device (9) that sends the detected operation information to the database (105) through the network (20), and receives instructions from the management device (103, 104) through the network 20.

5. A vehicle operation information management and evaluation system, comprising:

database means (105) that accumulates operation information, including a fuel consumption amount, that is gathered from a running vehicle (A1 to B2) through a network (20); and

management means (103, 104) that sends the operation information accumulated in the database means (105) to a client computer (A10, B10) through the network (20), wherein

the management means (103, 104);

receives an instruction for the vehicle (A1 to B2) from the client computer (A10, B10); and

sends the received instruction to the vehicle (A1 to B2).

7. A vehicle operation information management and evaluation system, comprising:

database means (105) that accumulates operation information, including a fuel consumption amount, that is gathered from a running vehicle (A1 to B2) through a network (20); and

management means (103, 104) that sends the operation information accumulated in the database means (105) to a client computer (A 10, B 10), through the network (20), wherein

the management means (103, 104);

judges whether or not the fuel consumption amount of the vehicle (A1 to B2) has increased, based on the operation information accumulated in the database means (105); and

sends an instruction that suppresses the increase in fuel consumption amount to the vehicle (A1 to B2), and reports to the client computer (A10, B10) that the instruction has been sent to the vehicle (A1 to B2), for cases where the fuel consumption amount is judged to have increased.