Management System for Moving Machine

• US 20080071470A1
• Filed: 09/16/2005
• Published: 03/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Inventors: Inui, Hiroshi, Hasegawa, Satoshi, Ono, Toyoichi, Kurihara, Youichirou
• Granted Patent: US 7,706,937 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/207
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2054 Fleet management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/08 Construction
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/202 Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching

Abstract

Information on current positions of a construction machine and a service car is transmitted from terminals 18, 28 of the construction machine and the service car, and the information is accumulated in a construction machine position information accumulation means 823 and a service car position information accumulation means 825. A service car search means 85 searches for a service car within a predetermined radius with the current position of a construction machine requiring maintenance as the center. Because the service car search means 85 can detects a service car near the subject construction machine, the need of searching for the service car on a map is eliminated and the service car can be easily found. Thus, construction machines and service cars can be appropriately managed.

Claims

1. A management system for moving machines including terminals mounted in the moving machines and a server connected with the terminals through a communication line to manage the moving machines,

wherein the moving machines include construction machines and service cars for performing maintenance on the construction machines,

wherein the server includes:

a construction machine position information acquiring means that acquires current position information of the construction machines from the terminals of the construction machines;

a construction machine detailed information accumulation means that accumulates detailed information of the construction machines;

a service car position information acquiring means that acquires current position information of the service cars from the terminals of the service cars; and

a service car search means that searches for the service car located within a predetermined range with a current position of a subject construction machine as reference based on the current position information of the construction machines acquired by the construction machine position information acquiring means and the current position information of the service cars acquired by the service car position information acquiring means, and

wherein the server transmits detailed information of the subject construction machine, among the detailed information accumulated in the construction machine detailed information accumulation means, to the service car searched out by the service car search means.

2. The management system for moving machines according to claim 1,

wherein the server includes a service car detailed information accumulation means that accumulates detailed information of the service cars, and

wherein the service car search means includes:

a condition acquiring means that acquires a detailed condition necessary for performing maintenance on the subject construction machine; and

a narrowing-down means that selects, among the service cars located within the predetermined range with the current position of the subject construction machine as reference, the service car matched to the detailed condition acquired by the condition acquiring means based on the detailed information accumulated in the service car detailed information accumulation means.

3. The management system for moving machines according to claim 2, wherein

the service car search means includes a re-search means that enlarges the predetermined range and performs a re-search when no service car is matched to the detailed condition.

4. A management system for moving machines including a server that manages the moving machines through a communication line,

wherein the moving machines include construction machines having no terminal and service cars for performing maintenance on the construction machines, the service cars each having a terminal, and

wherein the server includes:

a tentative position information accumulation means that accumulates position information of the construction machines as tentative position information of the construction machines, the position information of the construction machines being acquired either through the communication line or through an input operation means of the server;

a terminal-non-equipped vehicle detailed information accumulation means that accumulates detailed information of the construction machines acquired either through the communication line or through the input operation means;

a service car position information acquiring means that acquires current position information of the service cars from the terminals of the service cars; and

a service car search means that searches for the service car located within a predetermined range with a tentative current position of a subject construction machine as reference based on the tentative position information accumulation means and the current position information of the service cars acquired by the service car position information acquiring means, and

wherein the server transmits detailed information of the subject construction machine, among the detailed information accumulated in the terminal-non-equipped vehicle detailed information accumulation means, to the service car search out by the service car search means.

5. The management system for moving machines according to claim 4, wherein

the server includes a tentative position information updating means that acquires the tentative position information and updates information in the tentative position information accumulation means with the acquired tentative position information.

6. The management system for moving machines according to claim 4, wherein

the tentative position information is acquired from the terminal of the service car, and the server recognizes a current position of the service car transmitted from the terminal of the service car as the tentative position information of the construction machine.

7-11. -11. (canceled)