Warning apparatus, warning server, warning system, and automobile

• US 20060145822A1
• Filed: 02/17/2006
• Published: 07/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yuhara, Masahiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,365,639 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/425.500
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/04 operating on the propulsion system, e.g. engine or drive motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/06 operating on the vehicle transmission
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/104 characterised by the type of theft warning signal, e.g. visual or audible signals with special characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/2018 Central base unlocks or authorises unlocking
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/04 Access control involving a hierarchy in access rights
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/62 Comprising means for indicating the status of the lock
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00182 operated with unidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/017 identifying vehicles G08G1/015, G08G1/054 take precedence
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/207 with respect to certain areas, e.g. forbidden or allowed areas with possible alerting when inside or outside boundaries

Abstract

Herein disclosed is a warning apparatus for an automobile, comprising: a receiving unit for receiving a driver'"'"'s information from a memory device memorizing said driver'"'"'s information; a memorizing unit for memorizing an automobile insurance information; a determining unit for determining whether or not the driver is an insurant on the basis of said driver'"'"'s information and the automobile insurance information; and a warning unit for warning the driver not to drive when the determining unit has determined that the driver is not said insurant.

Claims

1. A warning server, comprising:

a communications unit for receiving driver'"'"'s information;

a memorizing unit for memorizing automobile insurance information; and

a determining unit for determining whether or not said driver is an insurant by comparing said driver'"'"'s information received by said communications unit with said automobile insurance information memorized in said memorizing unit, and

said communications unit being operative to transmit results information on results determined by said determining unit.

2. A warning server as set forth in claim 1, which further comprises a results information memorizing unit for memorizing said results information on results determined by said determining unit.

3. A warning server as set forth in claim 2, in which said communications unit is operative to receive condition information on a start of said automobile, and in which said results information storing unit is operative to produce supervisory information on mutual relation between said results information with said condition information received by said communications unit, and to memorize said supervisory information.

4. A warning server as set forth in claim 3, which further comprises an accounting model deciding unit for deciding on an accounting model on the basis of said supervisory information memorized in said results information storing unit.

5. A warning system, comprising:

a warning apparatus for an automobile; and

a waning server to be communicated with said warning apparatus, said warning server, including;

a communications unit for receiving driver'"'"'s information from said warning apparatus;

a memorizing unit for memorizing automobile insurance information; and

a determining unit for determining whether or not said driver is an insurant by comparing said driver'"'"'s information received by said communications unit with said automobile insurance information memorized in said memorizing unit, and

said warning apparatus including a warning unit for warning said driver not to drive when said determining unit of said warning server has determined that said driver is not said insurant.

6. A warning system as set forth in claim 5, in which said warning apparatus further includes a permission signal producing unit for producing a permission signal to permit said driver to operate said automobile when said determining unit of the warning server has determined that said driver is said insurant.

7. A warning system as set forth in claim 5, in which said warning apparatus further includes a prevention signal producing unit for producing a prevention signal to prevent said driver from operating said automobile a prevention when said determining unit of the warning server has determined that said driver is not said insurant.

8. A warning system as set forth in claim 5, in which said warning server further includes a results information storing unit for memorizing results information on results determined by said determining unit of said warning server.

9. A warning system as set forth in claim 8, in which said communications unit of said warning server is operative to receive condition information on a start of said automobile from said warning apparatus, and in which said results information storing unit of said warning server is operative to produce supervisory information on mutual relation between said results information with said condition information received by said communications unit of said warning server, and to memorize said supervisory information.

10. A warning system as set forth in claim 9, in which said warning server further includes an accounting model deciding unit for deciding on an accounting model on the basis of said supervisory information memorized in said results information storing unit.

11. A warning system as set forth in claim 5, which further comprises a memory device for memorize driver'"'"'s information, and in which said receiving unit of said warning server is operative to receive said driver'"'"'s information from said memory device through said warning apparatus.

12. A warning system as set forth in claim 11, in which said memory device is constituted of an electronic key to said automobile.

13. A warning system as set forth in claim 11, in which said memory device is constituted of an electronic driver'"'"'s license having license information on said automobile.

14. A warning system as set forth in claim 13, in which said warning server further includes a determining unit for determining whether or not said license information is legitimate on the basis of said license information memorized in said electronic driver'"'"'s license.