# US 12,214,631 B2 · Vehicle state grasping system

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- Number: US 12,214,631 B2
- Document ID: US12214631B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 18/324,153
- Filed: 2023-05-26
- Published: 2024-02-01
- Granted: 2025-02-04
- Earliest claimed: 2022-07-28
- Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: Tsuyoshi Andou; Takahiro Kamogawa; Yosuke Kimura
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12214631B2

## CPC

- 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}
- B60C 23/061: {by monitoring wheel speed (measuring distance traversed on the ground by vehicles G01C22/00)}
- G07C 5/008: {communicating information to a remotely located station (transmission systems for measured values G08C)}
- G07C 5/0808: {Diagnosing performance data (testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005)}
- G07C 5/0816: {Indicating performance data, e.g. occurrence of a malfunction}
- B60C: VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES
- G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE

## Abstract

After the air pressure of the tire of the vehicle has decreased to a predetermined abnormal value, the system management server determines that the vehicle has returned to a normal value without performing a tire replacement operation or a tire repair operation (for example, there is a driver that continuously drives the vehicle by replenishing air without performing a tire replacement even if the tire is punctured), and transmits abnormality notification information to the administrator terminal device. Thus, the warning information is provided to the current driver of the vehicle by the operation of the administrator terminal device by the administrator.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A vehicle state grasping system that is able to grasp a state of a vehicle in a vehicle usage mode in which a plurality of drivers shares the vehicle under an administrator, the vehicle state grasping system comprising:
an air pressure recognition unit that recognizes an air pressure of a tire of the vehicle;
an air pressure information transmitting unit that transmits information on the air pressure of the tire recognized by the air pressure recognition unit; and
a system management server that receives the information on the air pressure of the tire transmitted by the air pressure information transmitting unit, wherein:
the system management server includes an abnormality notification information generating unit that generates abnormality notification information when a normal value of the air pressure of the tire is recovered without performing any of a tire replacement operation and a tire repair operation after the air pressure of the tire drops to a predetermined abnormal value, based on the received information on the air pressure of the tire;
the system management server includes an abnormality notification information transmitting unit that transmits the abnormality notification information to a communication device operated by the administrator when the abnormality notification information is received from the abnormality notification information generating unit; and
the communication device is configured to be able to provide warning information to at least one of a user interface device mounted on the vehicle and a terminal carried by a current driver of the vehicle by an operation of the administrator.

### Claim 2

A vehicle state grasping system that is able to grasp a state of a vehicle in a vehicle usage mode in which a plurality of drivers shares the vehicle under an administrator, the vehicle state grasping system comprising:
an air pressure recognition unit that recognizes an air pressure of a tire of the vehicle;
an air pressure information transmitting unit that transmits information on the air pressure of the tire recognized by the air pressure recognition unit; and
a system management server that receives the information on the air pressure of the tire transmitted by the air pressure information transmitting unit, wherein:
the system management server includes an abnormality notification information generating unit that generates abnormality notification information when a normal value of the air pressure of the tire is recovered without performing any of a tire replacement operation and a tire repair operation after the air pressure of the tire drops to a predetermined abnormal value, based on the received information on the air pressure of the tire; and
the system management server includes a warning information transmitting unit that transmits warning information to at least one of a user interface device mounted on the vehicle and a terminal carried by a current driver of the vehicle when the abnormality notification information is received from the abnormality notification information generating unit.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The vehicle state grasping system according to claim 2, wherein the system management server raises a warning level of the warning information transmitted from the warning information transmitting unit when the normal value of the air pressure of the tire is recovered without performing any of the tire replacement operation and the tire repair operation after the air pressure of the tire of the same vehicle drops to the predetermined abnormal value again after the warning information is transmitted to at least one of the user interface device mounted on the vehicle and the terminal carried by the current driver of the vehicle from the warning information transmitting unit.

### Claim 4

A vehicle state grasping system that is able to grasp a state of a vehicle in a vehicle usage mode in which a plurality of drivers shares the vehicle under an administrator, the vehicle state grasping system comprising:
an air pressure recognition unit that recognizes an air pressure of a tire of the vehicle;
an air pressure information transmitting unit that transmits information on the air pressure of the tire recognized by the air pressure recognition unit; and
a system management server that receives the information on the air pressure of the tire transmitted by the air pressure information transmitting unit, wherein:
the system management server includes an abnormality notification information generating unit that generates abnormality notification information when a normal value of the air pressure of the tire is recovered without performing any of a tire replacement operation and a tire repair operation after the air pressure of the tire drops to a predetermined abnormal value, based on the received information on the air pressure of the tire;
the system management server includes an abnormality notification information transmitting unit that transmits the abnormality notification information to a communication device operated by the administrator on condition that the abnormality notification information is received;
the system management server includes a warning information transmitting unit that transmits warning information to at least one of a user interface device mounted on the vehicle and a terminal carried by a current driver of the vehicle on condition that the abnormality notification information is received;
the system management server includes a transmission destination switching unit that is able to switch between a first transmission mode to transmit the abnormality notification information to the abnormality notification information transmitting unit and a second transmission mode to transmit the abnormality notification information to the warning information transmitting unit;
the system management server includes a history information storage unit that stores driving history information of each of the drivers; and
when the air pressure of the tire recovers the normal value without performing any of the tire replacement operation and the tire repair operation after the air pressure of the tire drops to the predetermined abnormal value, the transmission destination switching unit switches to the first transmission mode when the driver is a driver with a past history of recovering the normal value of the air pressure of the tire without performing any of the tire replacement operation and the tire repair operation after the air pressure of the tire drops to the predetermined abnormal value, and switches to the second transmission mode when the driver is any other driver than the driver with the history, with reference to the driving history information of each of the drivers stored in the history information storage unit.