Vehicle service system and method for returning periodic maintenance mileage thereof

• US 20070021884A1
• Filed: 01/31/2006
• Published: 01/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SIN ETKE Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: SIN ETKE Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Huang, Cheng-Hung, Chen, Kuo-Rong, Lee, Chun-Chung
• Application Number:
  US11/342,552
• Publication Number:
  US 20070021884A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/30
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/006 Indicating maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C

Abstract

A vehicle service system and a method for returning periodic maintenance mileage thereof is disclosed. The vehicle service system is applied to a vehicle and includes a mileage counter that counts the accumulated total mileage traveled by the car, a wireless communication module, and an in-car computer, which has several predetermined mileages and corresponding event notifications pre-stored in a memory module thereof and, receives the accumulated total mileage from the mileage counter and compares the accumulated total mileage to the predetermined mileages, and drives the wireless communication module to send the corresponding event notification to a remote receiver when the accumulated total mileage is compared in conformity with one of the predetermined mileages.

Claims

1. A method for returning periodic maintenance mileage information applied to a vehicle including an in-car computer, the in-car computer further including a memory module storing therein at least one predetermined mileage and at least one event notification corresponding to the at least one predetermined mileage, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) counting the mileage traveled by the vehicle and accumulating the counted mileage so as to obtain an accumulated total mileage;

(b) comparing the accumulated total mileage to the at least one predetermined mileage stored in the memory module of the in-car computer; and

(c) sending the event notification corresponding to the accumulated total mileage to a remote receiver through a wireless communication module configured in the vehicle when the accumulated total mileage is compared in conformity with one of the at least one predetermined mileage.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vehicle further includes an on-vehicle warning device electrically connected to the in-car computer and controlled by the in-car computer to output a corresponding warning signal when the accumulated total mileage is compared by the in-car computer to be in conformity with one of the predetermined mileages.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the on-vehicle warning device is selected from one of the devices of an on-vehicle stereo system, a buzzer, an LED (light emitting diode), and an LCD.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wireless communication module is selected from one of apparatuses of a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) module, a GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) module, a WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) module, a 3G wireless module, a PHS (Personal Handphone System) module, a UWB (Ultra Wideband) module, and a Bluetooth™

module.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the remote receiver receives the corresponding event notification, the remote receiver informs the user of the vehicle by means of at least one of message media of:

voice message, short text message, fax message, airmail, and e-mail.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the remote receiver is installed in a remote customer service center;

the memory module has stored therein the wireless communication address of the remote customer service center;

the in-car computer controls the wireless communication module to send the corresponding event notification to the remote receiver subject to the wireless communication address of the remote customer service center.

7. A vehicle service system applied to a vehicle, the vehicle service system comprising:

a mileage counter adapted to count the mileage traveled by the vehicle and to accumulate the counted mileage so as to obtain an accumulated total mileage;

a wireless communication module; and

an in-car computer electrically connected to the mileage counter and the wireless communication module, the in-car computer including a memory module, the memory module having stored therein at least one predetermined mileage and at least one event notification corresponding to the at least one predetermined mileage, the in-car computer being adapted to receive the accumulated total mileage from the mileage counter and to compare the accumulated total mileage to the at least one predetermined mileage and to drive the wireless communication module to send the event notification corresponding to the accumulated total mileage to a remote receiver when the accumulated total mileage is compared in conformity with one of the at least one predetermined mileage.

8. The vehicle service system as claimed in claim 7, further comprising an on-vehicle warning device electrically connected to the in-car computer and adapted to output a warning signal when the accumulated total mileage is compared by the in-car computer to be in conformity with one of the at least one predetermined mileage.

9. The vehicle service system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the on-vehicle warning device is selected from one of devices of an on-vehicle stereo system, a buzzer, an LED (light emitting diode), and an LCD.

10. The vehicle service system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the wireless communication module is selected from one of apparatuses of a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) module, a GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) module, a WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) module, a 3G wireless module, a PHS (Personal Handphone System) module, a UWB (Ultra Wideband) module, and a Bluetooth™

module.

11. The vehicle service system as claimed in claim 7, wherein when the remote receiver receives the corresponding event notification, the remote receiver informs the user of the vehicle by means of at least one of message media of:

voice message, short text message, fax message, airmail, and e-mail.

12. The vehicle service system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the remote receiver is installed in a remote customer service center;

the memory module has stored therein the wireless communication address of the remote customer service center;

the in-car computer controls the wireless communication module to send the corresponding event notification to the remote receiver subject to the wireless communication address of the remote customer service center.