Facility-use management system, in-vehicle control apparatus, and in-facility apparatus

• US 9,925,836 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2014
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Sogabe, Haruhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Cass, Jean Paul
• Application Number:
  US14/917,202
• Publication Number:
  US 20160207363A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,314 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/044 Near field triggers, e.g. magnets or triggers with 125 KHz
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0442 the transmitted signal comprises further information, e.g. instruction codes, sensor characteristics or identification data
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0471 System initialisation, e.g. upload or calibration of operating parameters
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0472 to manually allocate ID codes or mounting positions, e.g. by service technicians
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0479 Communicating with external units being not part of the vehicle, e.g. tools for diagnostic, mobile phones, electronic keys or service stations

Abstract

An ECU is used to a tire pressure monitoring system of a vehicle. The ECU includes a contact storage portion and a post-replacement ID reporting section. The contact storage portion stores previously a contact of a management computer of a facility that the vehicle uses. The post-replacement ID reporting section transmits a post-replacement tire ID of a tire, which is substituted in the tire replacement, to the contact in the contact storage portion via a communication network when the tire replacement is detected by a tire replacement detection section. The management computer includes a registration change section that registers the post-replacement tire ID in a registration portion upon receiving the post-replacement tire ID.

Claims

1. A facility-use management system comprising:

a tire pressure monitoring system of a vehicle having an in-vehicle control apparatus including a first CPU and a first memory storing a first executable program, the in-vehicle control apparatus being configured to

receive a first tire ID from a sensor unit provided in at least one tire of the vehicle, the first tire ID identifying the tire; and

an in-facility apparatus in a facility, including a second CPU and a second memory storing a second executable program and

a registration portion in which a second tire ID is registered, the second tire ID corresponding to a permitted vehicle that is provided with a use permission of the facility,

the in-facility apparatus being configured to receive the first tire ID wirelessly transmitted directly from the sensor unit, and

determine a use permission of the facility depending on whether the first tire ID received by the in-facility apparatus is included in the second tire ID registered in the registration portion,

the in-vehicle control apparatus including

a contact storage configured to store previously a contact of an in-facility apparatus of at least one facility that the vehicle uses,

the in-vehicle control apparatus being configured to

detect a tire replacement that is made in the vehicle, and

transmit a post-replacement tire ID of a tire that is substituted in the tire replacement to the contact stored in the contact storage via a communication network in response to the in-vehicle control apparatus detecting the tire replacement made in the vehicle, and

the in-facility apparatus being further configured to

automatically register the post-replacement tire ID in the registration portion in response to the post-replacement tire ID being transmitted from the in-vehicle control apparatus via the communication network,

wherein;

the contact storage stores

respective contacts of in-facility apparatuses of a plurality of facilities that the vehicle uses, and

a determination target tire position that is used for determining a use permission in each of the plurality of in-facility apparatuses,

the in-vehicle control apparatus is configured to extract the contact of the in-facility apparatus based on information stored in the contact storage and transmit the post-replacement tire ID to the contact extracted by the in-vehicle control apparatus via a communication network,

the in-vehicle control apparatus extracts the contact of the in-facility apparatus having the determination target tire position that

includes a replacement target tire position of the tire that is substituted in the tire replacement detected by the in-vehicle control apparatus, and, simultaneously,

does not include any other tire position different from the replacement target tire position,

 

based on the information stored in the contact storage,

the contact storage stores respective contacts of in-facility apparatuses of a plurality of facilities that the vehicle uses while simultaneously storing a determination target tire position and a use degree of the vehicle with respect to each of the plurality of in-facility apparatuses;

the in-vehicle control apparatus is further configured to

perform a determination based on information stored in the contact storage when the in-vehicle control apparatus detects the tire replacement, and, simultaneously, fails to receive the post-replacement tire ID from the sensor unit of the tire substituted in the tire replacement that is detected, the determination being as to whether the use degree of the in-facility apparatus having the determination target tire position that includes a replacement target tire position of the tire substituted in the tire replacement detected by the in-vehicle control apparatus is equal to or greater than a predetermined degree, and

request a tentative permission that temporarily provides a use permission of the facility when the in-vehicle control apparatus determines that the use degree is equal to or greater than a predetermined degree, and

the contact of the in-facility apparatus stored in the contact storage includes an address of the in-facility apparatus.

2. The facility-use management system according to claim 1, wherein the in-vehicle control apparatus is further configured to transmit

the post-replacement tire ID to the contact stored in the contact storage via the communication network when the in-vehicle control apparatus detects the tire replacement made, and, simultaneously, the in-vehicle control apparatus receives the post-replacement tire ID from the sensor unit of the tire substituted in the tire replacement that is detected.

3. The facility-use management system according to claim 1, wherein:

the second tire ID is registered in the registration portion to be associated with each vehicle that is provided with a use permission; and

when registering the post-replacement tire ID in the registration portion, the in-facility apparatus registers the post-replacement tire ID by replacing a tire ID that is previously registered as the second tire ID corresponding to the vehicle serving as a transmission source that transmits the post-replacement tire ID.

4. The facility-use management system according to claim 1, wherein

information stored in the contact storage is updated using new information received one by one from the in-facility apparatus via the communication network.

5. An in-vehicle control apparatus used in the facility-use management system according to claim 1.

6. An in-facility apparatus used in the facility-use management system according to claim 1.