JP2002211357A - Seat belt wearing promotion device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a seat belt wearing promotion device capable of satisfactorily suppressing informing when the informing of wearing a seat belt is not required. SOLUTION: A vehicle running condition detector 4 determines a running/stop condition of a vehicle to output each condition signal to an annunciator 5 and determines running/stop of the vehicle using a vehicle speed pulse and a parking brake signal. When the annunciator 5 receives a signal indicating that an occupant does not wear a seat belt from a seat belt wearing detector 2 and receives a signal indicating that the vehicle is in a running condition from the vehicle running condition detector 4, it informs the occupant to wear the seat belt by a sound and an image for the occupant.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a seat belt wearing promotion device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The number of people who are injured or die due to traffic accidents is increasing year by year, which is a social problem. For example, in the event of a car crash, if a person wears a seat belt, a fatal accident can be avoided with a high probability even in a large accident, and injuries can often be made relatively light. This is a fact that everyone who drives a car knows, and the law requires that seat belts be worn.

[0003] However, in practice, seat belts are worn on highways, but some people use a car to go out for a short time or drive on ordinary roads without seat belts, and seat belts are still worn. At present it is not thoroughly enforced. Also, depending on the type of vehicle, if the user does not wear a seatbelt, a warning lamp will be displayed in the instrument panel to indicate that the user is not wearing a belt. Some are being done.

[0004] However, even in a vehicle equipped with such a warning function, there are some people who drive without noticing the lighting of the warning lamp, and some people who drive ignoring the warning lamp display. Unfortunately, this warning function alone has not yet made it possible to thoroughly wear a seat belt.

In order to solve such a problem, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
There is a technique disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 226314. This is because, when the belt wearing detection mechanism detects that the driver does not wear the seat belt, the sound generation mechanism notifies the driver of the wearing of the seat belt, thereby prompting the user to wear the seat belt. Things.

[0006]

However, in the above-mentioned prior art, since the notification is made after a certain period of time after the occupant is seated by the seating detection mechanism, it is not necessary to wear a seat belt unlike when the vehicle stops. In such a case, the notification by voice is also performed. Therefore, discomfort may be given to a passenger of the vehicle.

Further, in the above-mentioned prior art, since the wearing of the seat belt is simply notified by the sound generating mechanism,
It is still not enough to promote the use of seat belts.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and a first object of the present invention is to provide a seatbelt wearing promotion device that appropriately suppresses the notification when the notification of seatbelt wearing is not necessary. And

It is a second object of the present invention to provide a seat belt wearing promotion device which can more reliably promote wearing of a seat belt.

[0010]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, which is achieved to achieve the above object, it is determined by the belt wearing determining means that the occupant of the vehicle does not wear a seat belt. In addition, when the traveling state detecting means determines that the vehicle is in the traveling state, the notifying means notifies the occupant of the vehicle of the wearing of the seat belt.

The present invention pays attention to the fact that it is necessary to wear a seat belt when the vehicle is running, and notifies the occupant of the vehicle of the wearing of the seat belt when the vehicle is running. It is.

As a result, the notification can be suitably suppressed in a situation where it is not necessary to wear the seat belt.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, which has been made to achieve the above object, when the belt wearing determining means determines that the occupant does not wear a seat belt, Then, all or some of the functions of the in-vehicle device are changed to a state different from the normal function operation.

According to the present invention, there is provided an on-vehicle device having a function for improving the convenience of the occupant when the occupant does not wear a seat belt, for example, a navigation device,
By changing a part of normal functions such as an air conditioner and an audio to a state different from a normal function operation, a passenger is encouraged to wear a seat belt.

As a result, the wearing of the seat belt can be more reliably promoted.

At this time, as in the invention according to claim 3,
When it is determined by the belt wearing determining means that the occupant does not wear the seat belt, the display control means causes the display means to display a message urging the occupant to wear the seat belt.

By performing such display, when ordinary functions of the vehicle-mounted device such as the navigation device, the air conditioner, and the audio cannot be used, the passenger can easily understand why it cannot be used, and the user can easily wear the seat belt. It is possible to promote.

Further, according to the invention described in claim 4,
To improve the convenience of the occupant when the occupant of the vehicle is determined not to be wearing a seat belt by the belt wearing determining means, and when the running state detecting means detects that the vehicle is in the running state. All or some of the functions of the in-vehicle device having the above function are changed to a state different from the normal function operation.

That is, attention is paid to the fact that it is necessary to wear a seat belt when the vehicle is running, and all or a part of the functions of the predetermined device are replaced with the normal functions only when the vehicle is running. The state is changed to a state different from the operation.

As a result, it is possible to promote the wearing of the seat belt while appropriately suppressing the notification in the situation where the wearing of the seat belt is not necessary.

[0021]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS (First Embodiment) A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the overall configuration of the first embodiment.

The seatbelt wearing promotion device 1 of the present embodiment
Numeral 0 comprises a seat belt wearing detector 2, a vehicle running state detector 4 for detecting the running state of the vehicle, and an alarm 5.

The vehicle traveling state detector 4 judges the traveling / stopping state of the vehicle and outputs each state signal to the alarm 5. The traveling state detector 4 uses a vehicle speed pulse, a parking brake signal or the like to drive the vehicle. Judge to stop.

The annunciator 5 receives a signal from the seatbelt wearing detector 2 that the occupant is not wearing a seatbelt, and further receives a signal from the vehicle running state detector 4 that the vehicle is running. When the passenger is received, the passenger is notified by voice or image to prompt the user to wear the seat belt.

The vehicle running state detector 4 corresponds to the vehicle running state detecting means of the present invention. In addition, the alarm 5
It corresponds to the notification means of the present invention.

As described above, the present embodiment focuses on the fact that it is necessary to wear a seat belt when the vehicle is running, and confirms that the seat belt is not worn only when the vehicle is running. Then, the occupant of the vehicle is notified that the seat belt is worn.

As a result, the notification can be suitably suppressed in a situation where it is not necessary to wear the seat belt.

(Second Embodiment) An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the overall configuration of the seat belt wearing promotion device according to the second embodiment.

The seat belt wearing promotion device 1 includes a seat belt wearing detector 2 for determining whether or not the occupant wears a seat belt, a speaker 32, a GPS receiving means 33, a display means 34, and a key operating means 35. A known navigation device 3 including a storage unit 36 and the like.

The GPS receiving means 33 receives radio waves from artificial satellites, performs positioning processing, and outputs current position coordinate data of latitude and longitude indicating the current position of the vehicle. The display means 34 is installed in the vehicle interior, and displays information such as a road map, a current location name, a direction to a destination, and a distance. As the display means 34, a liquid crystal display device can be used. Further, the key operation means 35 is operated by an occupant of the vehicle or the like, and outputs various operation signals necessary for executing a navigation function such as setting a destination. The storage means 36 is a CDROM
And a DVD or the like, and a road map or the like is stored in advance.

Further, the control means 31 is provided with a CP (not shown).
U, ROM, RAM, etc.
Current position coordinate data from the receiving means 33, key operation means 3
Then, a key input signal from the device 4 is taken in, and a calculation process for displaying the route to the set destination on the display means 34 is executed. As will be described later, when a signal indicating that the occupant of the vehicle does not wear the seat belt is received from the seat belt wearing detector 2, the GPS receiving unit 33, the display unit 34, the key operation unit 35, and the like are provided. Is transmitted to the control means 31 to stop each function.

Next, the specific operation of the seatbelt wearing promotion device 1 configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

This flowchart is started when the ignition is turned on. Therefore, when the ignition is turned on by the occupant of the vehicle, in step S101, a seating sensor (not shown)
It is determined whether or not the passenger is sitting on the seat. As the seating sensor, a sensor that does not affect the vehicle equipment such as an optical sensor is adopted and installed on a meter panel, a seat, or a door. Further, a weight sensor or the like may be used as a sensor provided on the seat. When the determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S102.

In step S102, the seat belt wearing detector 2 determines whether or not the occupant has worn a seat belt. If a negative determination is made, step S
The process goes to 103 to stop all or part of the navigation function. Stopping all or part of this navigation function means disabling route search,
At least these functions, such as disabling the display of route guidance, restricting menu operations, not turning on the power, disabling the map display, and disabling the current location display and the current location scroll Stop one or all of them. Then, in step S104, a display is displayed on all or a part of the display means 34 to prompt the user to wear the seat belt. More specifically, as shown in FIG.
The data of "Please wear a seat belt" is read out from 6 and displayed on the display means 34. Then, after the processing of step S104 is performed, step S102
Return to

If an affirmative determination is made in step S102, the flow shifts to step S105 to enable the normal navigation function to be executed.

The processing in step S102 corresponds to the belt wearing determining means of the present invention. Step S1
Step 04 corresponds to the display control means of the present invention. Further, the display means 34 corresponds to the display means of the present invention.

The operation of the present embodiment has been described above, and the effect thereof will be described below.

That is, when it is determined that the user does not wear the seat belt as in the present invention, if all or a part of the navigation function is not used, the passenger can be seated compared to the sound notification means. Belt wearing can be promoted.

In this embodiment, the case where all or a part of the functions of the navigation device is stopped has been described. However, an on-vehicle device having a function for improving the convenience of the occupant of the vehicle, such as an air conditioner, Radio, TV,
All or some of the functions of the audio device or the like may be stopped.

Further, the present invention is not limited to the case where all or some of the functions of the vehicle-mounted device are stopped. When the function of the vehicle-mounted device is executed, for example, when a switch is pressed, as shown in FIG. "Please wear a seat belt."
May be displayed, or the fact may be notified by voice. That is, the operation may be changed to a different operation from the normal function operation of the vehicle-mounted device.

Further, as a modification of the present embodiment, the same function as in the first embodiment may be provided. That is, a vehicle running state detector may be further provided to stop all or a part of the functions of the navigation device, the air conditioner, and the like only when the vehicle is in the running state.

As a result, it is possible to promote the wearing of the seat belt while appropriately suppressing the notification in the situation where the wearing of the seat belt is not necessary.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an overall configuration diagram showing a second embodiment.

FIG. 3 illustrates a display device.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a first embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Seat belt wearing promotion device 2 Seat belt wearing detector 3 Navigation device 4 Vehicle running state detector 5 Notification means 34 Display means

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A belt wearing determining means for determining whether or not a occupant of a vehicle is wearing a seat belt; a running state detecting means for detecting a running state of the vehicle; A seat belt wearing promotion device provided with a notifying unit for notifying wearing, wherein the belt wearing determining unit determines that the occupant of the vehicle does not wear a seat belt, and the traveling state detecting unit The seatbelt wearing promotion device, wherein when the vehicle is detected to be in a running state, the notifying unit notifies the occupant of the vehicle of seatbelt wearing. 2. An in-vehicle device having a function for improving the convenience of a vehicle occupant, and a belt wearing determining means for determining whether or not the vehicle occupant wears a seat belt. When the belt wearing determination means determines that the occupant does not wear a seat belt, all or part of the functions of the vehicle-mounted device are changed to a state different from a normal function operation. Seat belt wearing promotion device. 3. The seat belt wearing promotion device according to claim 2, further comprising a display unit, wherein when the belt wearing determining unit determines that the occupant does not wear a seat belt, A seat belt wearing promotion device comprising: a display control means for displaying on the display means a message urging the occupant to wear the seat belt. 4. The seat belt wearing promotion device according to claim 2, further comprising a vehicle running state detecting means for detecting a running state of the vehicle, wherein the occupant of the vehicle is seat belted by the belt wearing determining means. It is determined that the vehicle is not wearing, and, when the traveling state detecting means detects that the vehicle is in a traveling state, all or a part of the functions of the on-vehicle device are in a state different from a normal functional operation. A seat belt wearing promotion device characterized by changing.