JPH10157578A - Vehicle information control device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control the vehicle information such as the maintenance condition by providing a retrieving means to retrieve the vehicle information on the prescribed vehicle number among the vehicle numbers, and a display means to display the vehicle information on the retrieved vehicle number and the prescribed vehicle number. SOLUTION: A retrieval part 22 performs the collation retrieval of the four- digit vehicle number registered in a vehicle information storage part 21 in advance with the simplified vehicle number which is decoded by a second reception part 23, and when the numbers are agreed with each other, all the agreed vehicle numbers, i.e., one or a plurality of vehicle numbers including the agreed four-digit Arabian capital numerals are transmitted to a second transmission part 24. The second transmission part 24 prepares the telegraphic message of the retrieved vehicle number, and returns it to a first reception part of a terminal equipment 1. The telegraphic message returned from a central unit 2 is received and decoded by the first reception part of the terminal equipment l, and a display part displays the detailed vehicle information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle information management device provided at a gas station, for example, for managing vehicle information such as maintenance status.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, at a gas station or the like, it is necessary to grasp the past vehicle maintenance situation and carry out appropriate vehicle maintenance. Therefore, vehicle information of a visiting vehicle is managed. In general, management was done with gasoline-independently formatted documents.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional vehicle information management based on documents, a vehicle number of a visited vehicle, that is, a document corresponding to a specified specific vehicle number is manually searched, and a vehicle based on the document is searched. We can carry out appropriate vehicle maintenance by grasping the information.

However, a long search time is required to manually search for a document corresponding to a specific vehicle number from a large number of documents. Therefore, for example, when a vehicle user visits a gas station, it is not possible to quickly grasp the vehicle information of the specific vehicle number, so that there has been a problem that appropriate vehicle maintenance cannot be provided to the user.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to realize a vehicle information management device capable of quickly providing vehicle information corresponding to a specific vehicle number.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for inputting a simplified vehicle number simplified to a large Arabic number of four digits or less in a vehicle number. Means, vehicle information storage means for storing vehicle information associated with the vehicle number, and searching for the vehicle number based on the simplified vehicle number, and searching for the vehicle information of the specified specific vehicle number from the vehicle number A search means and a display means for displaying vehicle information of the searched vehicle number and the specific vehicle number are provided.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, a vehicle information input means for inputting the latest vehicle information is provided in connection with the vehicle information storage means.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the vehicle according to the first or second aspect, the vehicle information management device is provided at a gas station, and the vehicle information storage means is provided when a vehicle is registered. In addition to storing the calculated travel distance calculated based on the travel distance and the number of times of refueling, the display means is configured to display the calculated travel distance.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first to third aspects, the input means is formed so that the simplified vehicle number is manually input.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the first to third aspects, the input means is formed so that the simplified vehicle number is input by voice.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A first embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. This is the input unit 1
1, first transmission unit 12, first reception unit 13, and display unit 14
A terminal device 1 installed at a refueling place of a gas station with
The vehicle information storage unit 21, the search unit 22, the second reception unit 23, and the second transmission unit 24 are provided to include a central device 2 installed in an office of a gas station and a vehicle information input device 3. Have been. The terminal device 1 and the central device 2 are transmitted and received wirelessly.

First, the terminal device 1 will be described. The input unit 11 has a numeric keypad and forms an input means, and a simplified vehicle number simplified to a four-digit Arabic large number of the vehicle number is manually input.

The first transmission unit 12 creates a message including the simplified vehicle number, and transmits the message to the central device 2 by radio using a transmission radio wave. The first receiving unit 13 receives and decodes a transmission radio wave transmitted from the central device 2. The display unit 14
It is configured to include an LED or a liquid crystal, and displays information received by the first receiving unit 13.

Next, the central device 2 will be described. The vehicle information storage unit 21 forms a vehicle information storage unit by a hard disk drive having a hard disk capable of reading and writing information, and stores vehicle information such as a user (user) of the vehicle, a user address, or an oil change time. It is stored in association with the vehicle number. For this one,
Details will be described later.

The retrieval unit 22 forms a retrieval means by a personal computer, and retrieves a simplified vehicle number from vehicle numbers stored in advance based on the simplified vehicle number input at the input unit 11 of the terminal device 1. In addition to searching for the included vehicle number, the vehicle information of the specified specific vehicle number is searched from the searched vehicle numbers. The second receiving unit 23 receives and decodes a message transmitted wirelessly from the first transmitting unit 12. The second transmission unit 24 creates a message including the vehicle number searched by the search unit 22 and the vehicle information of the specific vehicle number, and transmits the message to the first reception unit 13 of the terminal device 1.

The vehicle information input device 3 is provided with another input unit 31 having a keyboard and a numeric keypad, forms vehicle information input means, and is provided in connection with the vehicle information storage unit 21;
The latest vehicle information such as vehicle maintenance, maintenance history, oil change time, etc. is input and the vehicle information storage unit 21
Update or add vehicle information.

Here, the vehicle information storage unit 21 stores a calculated travel distance calculated based on the travel distance and the number of times of refueling at the time of registration of the vehicle. That is, assuming that the traveling distance registered at a certain point in the past is a, the traveling distance registered for the second time is b, and the number of times of refueling is c, the refueling 1
The average traveling distance d per time is calculated by the following formula. Average traveling distance (d) = {(b)-(a)} / (c) Accordingly, if the number of times of refueling after the second time is e, the calculated traveling distance is calculated by the following formula. Calculated travel distance = (b) + (d) × {(e) +1} Further, for a vehicle for which the second travel distance b has not been registered, the average travel distance d is stored in the vehicle information storage unit 21. Use the average of the average mileage of all vehicles,
Alternatively, a default value registered in advance is adopted.

The operation and handling operation of the apparatus will be described. A vehicle number consisting of four-digit Arabic large numbers written on the license plate 41 of the vehicle 4 entering the gas station, that is, a simplified simplified vehicle number is visually confirmed, and the simplified vehicle number is input to the input unit 11. And transmitted to the first transmission unit 12. The first transmission unit 12 creates a message including the simplified vehicle number, and sends the message to the second reception unit 23 of the central device 2. The transmitted message is the second
The data is received and decoded by the receiving unit 23 and sent to the searching unit 22.

The search unit 22 performs a collation search between the four-digit vehicle number included in the vehicle number registered in advance in the vehicle information storage unit 21 and the simplified vehicle number decoded by the second receiving unit 23, and Are transmitted to the second transmitting unit 24, all of the matched vehicle numbers, that is, one or more vehicle numbers including the matched four-digit Arabic large numbers. The second transmission unit 24 creates a telegram of the searched vehicle number and returns it to the first reception unit 13 of the terminal device 1. When the simplified vehicle numbers do not match, the second transmission unit 2
4 creates a message indicating that it is a new user,
Reply to the receiving unit 13.

The message returned from the central unit 2 is received and decoded by the first receiving unit 13 of the terminal device 1. Display 1
Reference numeral 4 indicates one or more vehicle numbers including the four-digit Arabic large number returned from the central device 2. By comparing the displayed vehicle number with the actual vehicle number visually, the registered person can specify which registered vehicle the vehicle is. Then, one of the vehicle numbers specified by the input unit 11 is input, and the specific vehicle number is transmitted to the first transmission unit 12 of the terminal device 1 and transmitted.

The message from the first transmission unit 12 is sent to the central unit 2
Is received and decrypted by the second receiving unit 23. The received message is sent to the search unit 22, and the search unit 22 transmits detailed vehicle information corresponding to the specific vehicle number registered in the vehicle information storage unit 21 to the second transmission unit 24. The second transmission unit 24 creates a message including the vehicle information, and returns the message to the first reception unit 13 of the terminal device 1. The telegram returned from the central device 2 is received and decoded by the first receiving unit 13 of the terminal device 1, and the display unit 14 displays detailed vehicle information.
Appropriate vehicle maintenance is performed based on the displayed detailed vehicle information. Here, in the displayed detailed information on the vehicle, the calculated travel distance of the vehicle described above is displayed.

In the vehicle information management apparatus according to the first embodiment, as described above, the input unit 11 inputs a simplified vehicle number consisting of four Arabic numerals, and the vehicle information storage unit 21 converts the simplified vehicle number into a vehicle number. The search unit 22 searches for the vehicle number based on the simplified vehicle number from the vehicle information stored in association with the vehicle information. The search unit 22 searches for the vehicle information at the specified vehicle number from the searched vehicle numbers, and displays the vehicle information. 14
Displays the vehicle information of the vehicle number and the specific vehicle number searched by the search unit 22, so that the input time can be shortened and the number of input errors can be reduced as compared with the case where the vehicle number is input instead of the simplified vehicle number. Thus, vehicle information for performing appropriate vehicle maintenance corresponding to a specific vehicle number can be promptly provided.

Since the vehicle information input unit 3 for inputting the latest vehicle information is provided in connection with the vehicle information storage unit 21, the vehicle information storage unit 21 stores the latest vehicle information associated with the vehicle number. In addition, it is possible to provide vehicle information for performing optimal vehicle maintenance based on updated vehicle information.

If the vehicle information management device is provided at a service station, the vehicle information storage unit 21 stores the travel distance at the time of registration of the vehicle and the calculated travel distance calculated from the number of times of refueling. The calculated mileage is displayed on the display unit 1.
4 is displayed, a service is provided for notifying the user of the vehicle of at least the oil change time, the tire change time, and the like by grasping the mileage with the calculated mileage without checking the mileage meter of the vehicle every time a visit is made. Can be provided.

Further, since the simplified vehicle number is input manually by the input unit 11, the equipment cost can be reduced without using expensive equipment such as an image processing apparatus, and the simplified vehicle number can be input without error. Thus, the vehicle number can be reliably specified.

In the first embodiment, the simplified vehicle number, which is simplified to a four-digit Arabic large number of the vehicle number, is input to the input unit 11, but the simplified vehicle number is not one digit but one to three digits. May be input, and there is no limitation.

In the first embodiment, the vehicle information storage unit 21 stores the calculated travel distance and the calculated travel distance based on the number of refueling times at the time of registration. When installed in a maintenance shop or the like, the calculated travel distance does not have to be stored and is not limited.

A second embodiment of the present invention will be described below.
In the second embodiment, functions different from those in the first embodiment will be described. The input unit 11 inputs a simplified vehicle number simplified to a four-digit Arabic large number of the vehicle number by voice without providing a numeric keypad.

In the vehicle information management apparatus according to the second embodiment, as described above, since the input unit inputs the simplified vehicle number by voice, expensive equipment such as an image processing apparatus is used. Thus, it is possible to easily specify the vehicle number by lowering the equipment cost and reducing the number of input steps.

[0030]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the input means receives a simplified vehicle number consisting of Arabic numerals of four digits or less,
Searching means searches the vehicle information based on the simplified vehicle number from the vehicle information stored in association with the vehicle number by the vehicle information storage means, and the vehicle at the specific vehicle number specified from the searched vehicle numbers Since the information is searched and the display means displays the vehicle information of the vehicle number and the specific vehicle number searched by the search means, the input time can be shortened as compared with the case where the vehicle number is input instead of the simplified vehicle number. It is possible to promptly provide vehicle information for performing appropriate vehicle maintenance corresponding to a specific vehicle after reducing input errors.

According to the second aspect, in addition to the effect of the first aspect, the vehicle information input means for inputting the latest vehicle information is provided in connection with the vehicle information storage means. Can store the latest vehicle information associated with the vehicle number and provide vehicle information for performing optimal vehicle maintenance based on the updated vehicle information.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the effects of the first or second aspect, if the vehicle information management device is provided at a gas station, the vehicle information storage means is used when the vehicle is registered. In addition to storing the calculated mileage calculated from the mileage and the number of times of refueling, the display means displays the calculated mileage. It is possible to provide a service that grasps the distance and informs the user of the vehicle at least the oil change time, the tire change time, and the like.

According to the fourth aspect, in addition to the effects of the first to third aspects, since the input means is formed so that the simplified vehicle number is manually input, the apparatus is expensive as an image processing apparatus. The equipment cost can be reduced without using the equipment, and the simplified vehicle number can be input without error and the vehicle number can be specified reliably.

According to the fifth aspect, in addition to the effects of the first to third aspects, since the input means is formed so as to input the simplified vehicle number by voice, it is expensive as an image processing apparatus. The equipment number can be easily specified by reducing the equipment cost without using the equipment and reducing the input man-hour.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a terminal device provided with an input unit and a display unit according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a central device provided with a vehicle information storage unit and a search unit, and a vehicle information input device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Input part (input means) 14 Display part (display means) 21 Vehicle information storage part (vehicle information storage means) 22 Search part (search means) 3 Vehicle information input part (vehicle information input means)

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An input means for inputting a simplified vehicle number simplified to Arabic large numbers of four digits or less among vehicle numbers, a vehicle information storage means for storing vehicle information associated with the vehicle number, a simplified vehicle Search means for searching for a vehicle number based on the vehicle number and searching for vehicle information of the specified vehicle number specified from the vehicle numbers, and display means for displaying the searched vehicle number and vehicle information of the specified vehicle number And a vehicle information management device. 2. The vehicle information management device according to claim 1, wherein vehicle information input means for inputting the latest vehicle information is provided in connection with said vehicle information storage means. 3. The vehicle information management device is provided at a gas station, and the vehicle information storage means stores a calculated travel distance calculated based on a travel distance and a refueling frequency at the time of registration of the vehicle. 3. The vehicle information management device according to claim 1, wherein the display means is formed so as to display the calculated travel distance. 4. The vehicle information management device according to claim 1, wherein the input unit is formed so that the simplified vehicle number is manually input. 5. The vehicle information management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input means is formed so that the simplified vehicle number is input by voice.