JPH1170844A - Vehicle emergency reporting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To report a trouble rapidly, and to carry out a repairing in a short time. SOLUTION: In this vehicle emergency reporting device, present position is measured by a GPS receiver 26, the oil amount 12, the oil temperature 13, the cooling water amount 14, the cooling water temperature 15, the battery consumption 19, the engine rotation frequency 21, the speed 22, the shock sensor output 23, the output of fire alarm 24, and the like are watched constantly by a vehicle condition watching means 11, and a generation of abnormality is watched, and when an abnormal condition is generated, its emergency degree is analyzed, and depending on the result, the condition of the accident, the information of the vehicle condition, and the present position, are reported automatically to one or more of a fire station, a police station, a service station, and the like, near the present position.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle emergency notification device for notifying an abnormal state of a vehicle when the vehicle is in an abnormal state.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a vehicle becomes abnormal,
When an automobile telephone or a mobile telephone is provided, a person riding the vehicle has contacted a service station, a fire station, a police station, or the like by telephone. If such a mobile telephone is not provided, it is necessary to go to the place where the public telephone is located and make contact.

[0003] It is very convenient for a maintenance person at a service station, for example, to appropriately notify the state of the vehicle at the time of the communication, but the reporter cannot always notify the appropriate situation.

[0004]

According to the present invention, the state of the vehicle is monitored by the vehicle state monitoring means, and the current position of the vehicle is measured by the position measuring means. The monitored vehicle state and the current position measured by the position measuring means are reported by the reporting means.

[0005]

FIG. 1 shows an example of the functional configuration of the present invention. In the present invention, a vehicle state monitoring means 11 is provided, and the state of each part of the vehicle is detected and monitored by the means 11. For example, the amount of lubricating oil in the vehicle is detected by oil amount detecting means 12, the temperature of the lubricating oil is detected by oil temperature detecting means 13, the amount of engine cooling water is detected by cooling water amount detecting means 14, The temperature of the cooling water is detected by the cooling water temperature detecting means 15. Further, the temperature of the engine is detected by the engine temperature detecting means 16, the state of the engine oil is detected by the engine oil detecting means 17, the gasoline remaining amount is detected by the gasoline amount detecting means 18, and the battery fluid amount is detected by the battery amount detecting means. Detected by means 19. Further, the current function state is detected by the engine speed detecting means 21, the speed of the vehicle is detected by the speed sensor 22, the impact received by the vehicle is detected by the impact sensor 23, and the fire condition of the vehicle is detected by the fire. It is detected by the detecting means 24. The static state of these vehicles,
The dynamic state is detected and input to the vehicle state monitoring means 11.

Further, in the present invention, the current position of the vehicle is detected. For example, a GPS receiver 26 is provided to measure the current position of the vehicle using GPS satellites. Various information is displayed on the display 27. Further, a telephone number database 28 of various emergency report destinations such as a vehicle accident service station, a road monitoring center station, a fire station, a police station, and the like is provided. A state recorder 29 for recording various vehicle states, particularly data for a predetermined time before and after an emergency, is provided, and a telephone 31 is provided as well as a speaker 32 for in-vehicle broadcasting as required, and a cancel switch 30, Emergency switch 33 for manually commanding an emergency state, confirmation switch 3 for accident occurrence display notification
4 are provided, and according to the input and state of these various devices,
A control unit 35 including a microcomputer for performing determination and processing is provided.

This device operates as shown in FIG. The control unit constantly captures and analyzes various data of the vehicle state monitoring means 11 (S1) and monitors whether an abnormality has occurred in the vehicle (S2). When an abnormality is detected, it is determined whether or not the abnormality has a high degree of urgency such that the impact sensor 21 or the fire notification means 24 operates (S3). Displays a message to the effect that the passenger (driver) is automatically notified on the display 27,
The notification is also made from the speaker 32 by voice. (S4).

Then, a response from the occupant by the confirmation switch 34 is waited for a predetermined time (S5). For example, impact sensor 2
Even if an abnormality occurs based on the operation 3, it is based on the fact that the vehicle has climbed an obstacle, and if the driver (driver) can perform the judgment process regardless of personal injury, confirm that the automatic notification is canceled. The switch 34 is operated.
However, for example, when a passenger loses consciousness due to personal injury,
When the confirmation switch 34 cannot be operated even if the user is conscious, the control unit 35 determines that there is no confirmation response and issues an automatic notification (S6). This automatic report is issued by the GPS receiver 26
Database 2 from the current position of the vehicle obtained
8 is performed on the fire station and police station near the current location. This operation is performed by a normal automatic dialing technique, when a call is transmitted from the telephone 31 and there is an incoming call response from the other party, by voice synthesis or by data information using a modem, the current position, vehicle accident, etc. This is performed by transmitting determined information.

After the confirmation switch 34 is operated in step S5, the driver (passenger) judges the situation and if necessary operates the emergency switch 33, a report similar to the automatic emergency report is made. . If the emergency switch 33 is not operated in step S7, or if it is determined in step S3 that the urgency is low (for example, if the amount of cooling water or oil is low), a message indicating whether a repair request is required is displayed. It is displayed on the display 27 (S8), and when the rider determines that the abnormality can be handled by himself, the cancel switch is operated. The control unit 35 checks whether the cancellation has been performed (S
9) If the cancellation has not been made, an appropriate service station is searched from the database 28 at an appropriate service station in accordance with the abnormal situation at that time, and automatically sent to the searched service station or the road monitoring center. (S10). For the notification, the status data of the vehicle at that time obtained from the vehicle status monitoring means is used as the status recorder 29.
Include the recorded data of These data are stored in the control unit 35.
Then, the abnormality at that time can be analyzed, and only the required one can be selected and reported. Therefore, the service technician of the service station receiving the notification can estimate the cause of the occurrence of the abnormality, and prepare in advance what is necessary for repair in accordance with the cause.

[0010] In addition, the display device displays the location information of the service station that has reported the information. The emergency switch 33 and the confirmation switch 34 are provided, for example, next to each other,
After the confirmation switch 34 is turned on, the operator does not want to turn on the emergency switch 33 but find it immediately and take a long time to search. From such a point, the check of the confirmation switch 34 may be omitted, and if the cancel switch is not turned on, the report may be automatically made according to the degree of urgency.

Also, when reporting to the fire department and / or police station, vehicle status data may also be reported.

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention, when an abnormality occurs, it is automatically reported to a fire station or service station near the current position of the vehicle according to the type and state of the abnormality. Even if the person cannot be reported due to a personal injury, it is automatically reported and there is a high possibility that human lives will be saved.
In addition, for example, in the case of an abnormality due to a failure, even if this is reported over the telephone, the state of the vehicle cannot be properly notified, and the repair staff had to start at the site to clarify the cause of the failure. Since the vehicle status data and, in some cases, the data on the past occurrence of the failure are also reported, the cause of the failure can be estimated in advance, tools and the like corresponding to this can be prepared, and Repair time can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a functional configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A vehicle state monitoring means provided in a vehicle for monitoring a state of the vehicle, a position measurement means for measuring a current position of the vehicle, and a monitor by the monitoring means when an abnormality occurs in the vehicle. A vehicle emergency notification device, comprising: a notification unit configured to report the state of the vehicle and the measurement current position.