Operation vehicle monitoring device

• US 8,909,387 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Issued: 12/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Inventors: Ikeya, Hiroki
• Primary Examiner(s): Trammell, James
• Assistant Examiner(s): LANG, MICHAEL DEAN
• Application Number:
  US13/514,367
• Publication Number:
  US 20120245760A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,453 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701/11
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/00 Optical viewing arrangements; Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or video systems specially adapted for use in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/207 using multi-purpose displays, e.g. camera image and navigation or video on same display
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/267 Diagnosing or detecting failure of vehicles

Abstract

To provide an operation vehicle monitoring device that can reduce man hours for maintenance and realize the maintenance efficiency, it includes an input unit (201) in which a signal for instructing registration of a selected monitoring item is input, a display unit (202) that sequentially updates and displays the current detection content of a monitoring item selected from a plurality of monitoring items related to the operation state of the construction machine, a memory (206) that registers the monitoring item for which the signal for instructing the registration is input by the input unit (201), and a controller (203) that causes the display unit (202) to display the current detection content of the registered monitoring item when there is the monitoring item registered in the memory (206).

Claims

1. An operation vehicle monitoring device, including

a display unit configured to display a standard screen that displays state quantity of at least engine water temperature and remaining fuel amount as an operation state of an operation vehicle, and a service menu display screen for performing a maintenance and setting of the operation vehicle, and the service menu display screen being transitioned from the standard screen by a manager'"'"'s predetermined operation and displayed, where

the service menu display screen displays a plurality of menus related to the maintenance and setting of the operation vehicle, a monitoring item selection screen is shifted and displayed in which it is possible to select a plurality of monitoring items corresponding to a selected menu in case where one of the plurality of menus is selected, and the display unit displays a monitoring item selected from the plurality of monitoring items related to the operation state of the operation vehicle, comprising:

an input unit configured to input, by the manager, a signal that instructs a registration of the selected monitoring item;

a storage unit configured to register the monitoring item according to the input signal by the instruction of the registration;

a display control unit configured to force the display unit to display the monitoring item registered in the storage unit; and

a signal detection unit configured to detect a key-on signal and a key-off signal generated when a key switch of the operation vehicle is turned on and off respectively, and

wherein

when the monitoring item registered in the storage unit is displayed in the display unit by the manager'"'"'s predetermined operation, the display unit displays, in a same screen, the monitoring item registered in the storage unit, the current detection content of the monitoring items registered in the storage unit, and the state quantity of the engine water temperature and the remaining fuel amount and displays, by a graphic or a character, the state quantity, and

the display unit further displays a type of the state quantity by a graphic,

the monitoring device comprises a function of changing a screen displayed by the display unit immediately after a key-on signal is detected, according to time from when the signal detection unit detects a key-off signal when a key-off is performed in a case that the current detection content of the monitoring items is displayed in the display unit till when the signal detection unit detects the key-on signal, and

the function comprises that;

in a case where the signal detection unit detects the key-on signal before a predetermined time has elapsed after detecting the key-off signal, the display control unit forces the display unit to display the current detection content of the monitoring items registered in the storage unit, and

in a case where the signal detection unit detects the key-on signal after the predetermined time has elapsed after detecting the key-off signal, the display control unit forces the display unit to display the standard screen.

2. The operation vehicle monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays a plurality of tabs that can be switched to each other in a screen displaying the plurality of monitoring items, and one of the plurality of tabs corresponds to a screen displaying a list of monitoring items registered in the storage unit.

3. The operation vehicle monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring item relates to a hydraulic pump and/or an engine mounted on the operation vehicle.