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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9950579-B2
Application number	US-201414917196-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 21, 2014
Priority date	Sep 10, 2013
Publication date	Apr 24, 2018
Grant date	Apr 24, 2018

Abstract

A management computer transmits to a vehicle a request of vehicle ID to identify the vehicle, when a tire ID of the vehicle is not registered in a registration portion. Upon receiving the request, a transmission pattern adjustment section of an ECU of tire pressure monitoring system of the vehicle controls a sensor unit of at least one tire to transmit electric waves in transmission pattern expressing the vehicle ID. The management computer permits the vehicle to use a facility when a vehicle ID specified from the received transmission pattern on electric waves is registered in a registration portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A facility-use management system comprising:
an in-vehicle control apparatus used to a tire pressure monitoring system of a vehicle, the in-vehicle control apparatus including a tire ID transmission request section that transmits a tire ID transmission request to a sensor unit provided in at least one tire of the vehicle, the tire ID transmission request requesting a transmission of a first tire ID identifying the tire; and
an in-facility apparatus including
an in-facility reception section that receives the first tire ID transmitted wirelessly from the sensor unit,
a registration portion in which at least one second tire ID corresponding to a permitted vehicle that is provided with a use permission of a facility is registered, and
a use permission section that provides a use permission of the facility to the vehicle when the first tire ID received by the in-facility reception portion is included in the second tire ID registered in the registration portion,

the in-facility apparatus including
a vehicle ID transmission request section that requires the in-vehicle control apparatus to transmit a first vehicle ID that identifies the vehicle when the first tire ID received by the in-facility reception section is not included in the second tire ID registered in the registration portion, wherein in the registration portion, a second vehicle ID identifying the permitted vehicle is registered in addition to the second tire ID,

the in-vehicle control apparatus including
a transmission pattern adjustment section that adjusts a transmission pattern on electric waves transmitted from the sensor unit wirelessly to express the first vehicle ID, the transmission pattern adjustment section adjusting the transmission pattern on electric waves transmitted from the sensor unit to express the first vehicle ID when the vehicle ID transmission request is transmitted from the vehicle ID transmission request section,

the in-facility apparatus further including
a vehicle ID specification section that specifies the first vehicle ID from the transmission pattern on electric waves transmitted wirelessly from the sensor unit,

wherein the use permission section provides the vehicle with a use permission to use the facility when the first vehicle ID specified by the vehicle ID specification section is included in the second vehicle ID registered in the registration portion.

2. A facility-use management system comprising:
an in-vehicle control apparatus used to a tire pressure monitoring system of a vehicle, the in-vehicle control apparatus including a tire ID transmission request section that transmits a tire ID transmission request to a sensor unit provided in at least one tire of the vehicle, the tire ID transmission request requesting a transmission of a first tire ID identifying the tire; and
an in-facility apparatus including
an in-facility reception section that receives the first tire ID transmitted wirelessly from the sensor unit,
a registration portion in which at least one second tire ID corresponding to a permitted vehicle that is provided with a use permission of a facility is registered, and
a use permission section that provides a use permission of the facility to the vehicle when the first tire ID received by the in-facility reception portion is included in the second tire ID registered in the registration portion,

the in-facility apparatus including
a vehicle ID transmission request section that requires the in-vehicle control apparatus to transmit a first vehicle ID that identifies the vehicle when the first tire ID received by the in-facility reception section is not included in the second tire ID registered in the registration portion,

the in-vehicle control apparatus including
a pre-replacement tire ID storage portion that stores a pre-replacement tire ID that is a tire ID of a tire of the vehicle replaced by a tire replacement, the pre-replacement tire ID being stored even after the tire is replaced by the tire replacement, and
a transmission pattern adjustment section that adjusts a transmission pattern on electric waves transmitted from the sensor unit wirelessly to express the first vehicle ID,
wherein the transmission pattern adjustment section adjusts the transmission pattern on electric waves from the sensor unit to express the pre-replacement tire ID that is stored as the first vehicle ID of the vehicle in the pre-replacement tire ID storage portion, when the first vehicle ID transmission request is transmitted from the vehicle ID transmission request section,

the in-facility apparatus including
a vehicle ID specification section that specifies the pre-replacement tire ID as the first vehicle ID expressed by the transmission pattern transmitted from the sensor unit wirelessly,

wherein the use permission section provides the vehicle with a use permission to use the facility when the pre-replacement tire ID, as the first vehicle ID, specified by the vehicle ID specification section is included in the second vehicle ID registered in the registration portion.

3. The facility-use management system according to claim 1 , wherein:
in the registration portion, the second tire ID of the permitted vehicle and the second vehicle ID are registered to be associated with each other; and
the in-facility apparatus includes a re-registration section that performs a re-registration that replaces the second tire ID associated with the second vehicle ID in the registration portion with the first tire ID that is received by the in-facility reception section when the first vehicle ID specified by the vehicle ID specification section is included in the second vehicle ID registered in the registration section.

4. The facility-use management system according to claim 1 , wherein
when the in-facility reception section receives the first tire ID of the sensor unit of each of all tires of the vehicle,
the transmission pattern adjustment section adjusts the transmission pattern to express the first vehicle ID of the vehicle such that the transmission pattern on electric waves is transmitted wirelessly by all sensor units of all the tires of the vehicle.

5. The facility-use management system according to claim 1 , wherein
when the in-facility reception section receives the first tire ID from a sensor unit of at least one tire among all tires of the vehicle and simultaneously does not receive the first tire ID from another sensor unit of at least another tire of all the tires, the transmission pattern adjustment section adjusts the transmission pattern to express the first vehicle ID such that the transmission pattern on electric waves is transmitted wirelessly by a sensor unit providing a maximum reception level of the first tire ID among all sensor units of all the tires.

6. The facility-use management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the transmission pattern adjustment section adjusts the transmission pattern on electric waves by adjusting transmission timings at which tire ID transmission requests are respectively transmitted from the tire ID transmission request section to sensor units of all tires of the vehicle to cause the first tire ID to be wirelessly transmitted by the sensor units of all the tires.

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

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

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Sogabe Haruhiko

Classifications

• B60C23/0471

  System initialisation, e.g. upload or calibration of operating parameters · CPC title

• B60C23/0479 Primary

  Communicating with external units being not part of the vehicle, e.g. tools for diagnostic, mobile phones, electronic keys or service stations · CPC title

• B60C23/04

  mounted on the wheel or tyre · CPC title

• B60C23/044

  Near field triggers, e.g. magnets or triggers with 125 KHz · CPC title

• E04H6/42

  Devices or arrangements peculiar to garages, not covered elsewhere, e.g. securing devices, safety devices {, monitoring and operating schemes; centering devices} · CPC title