IP Library Granted Patent US 8,478,481
Granted Patent B2
US 8,478,481 · App. 10/595,904 · Granted Jul 2, 2013

Fuel-saving management system

Inventors: Hajime Igarashi (Hino, JP); Kenji Shimizu (Hino, JP); Hideki Tajika (Hino, JP)
Assignee: Hino Motors, Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,478,481
App. No.
10/595,904
Granted
Jul 2, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A fuel-saving management system allowing fuel-saving management and associated driver assistance. The system includes, mounted on a vehicle, information detectors detecting various information on the driving state of the vehicle, an information processor, in addition to processing the information detected by the information detectors, generating a warning when processed information satisfies required warning conditions, and an information storage device storing the processed information. In this system, when either a time during which the processed information is maintained to satisfy the required warning conditions, or an elapsed time of the processed information exceeds a previously set time, the information processor stores the occurrence of this overtime event into the information storage device. A setter allowing modification of the required warning conditions, and a printer outputting the information relating to the processed information are also mounted.

Claims (17)

1. A fuel-saving management system comprising, on a motor vehicle:

information detectors for detecting, respectively, vehicle speed, engine speed, and a fuel flow rate as information on a running state of the vehicle;

an information-processing device for processing the information detected by the information detectors, the information-processing device also generating a warning to a driver when the vehicle speed, the engine speed and the fuel flow rate satisfy required warning conditions; and

an information storage device storing occurrence values;

wherein the required warning conditions are satisfied by

the detected engine speed exceeding a previously-set engine speed warning value,

the detected vehicle speed not exceeding a previously set vehicle speed value, and

the detected fuel flow rate exceeding a previously set fuel flow rate value;

wherein the information-processing device stores an occurrence value into the information storage device only if the required warning conditions are satisfied for a duration that exceeds a previously set duration value.

2. A fuel-saving management system comprising, on a motor vehicle:

information detectors for detecting, respectively, vehicle speed and an accelerator angle;

an information-processing device for processing the information detected by the information detectors, the information-processing device also generating a warning to a driver when the vehicle speed and the accelerator angle satisfy required warning conditions; and

an information storage device storing occurrence values;

wherein the required warning conditions are satisfied by

the vehicle speed exceeding a previously set vehicle speed warning value and a previously set vehicle speed value, and

the accelerator angle exceeding a previously set accelerator angle value;

wherein the information-processing device stores an occurrence value into the information storage device only if the required warning conditions are satisfied for a duration that exceeds a previously set duration value.

Assignments (2)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 13, 2024
From: MIDCAP FUNDING IV TRUST
To: ORTHOPEDIATRICS CORP.; ORTHOPEDIATRICS US DISTRIBUTION CORP.; VILEX IN TENNESSEE, INC.; ORTHEX, LLC; TELOS PARTNERS, LLC; MD ORTHOPAEDICS, INC.; ORTHOPEDIATRICS US L.P.; ORTHOPEDIATRICS IOWA HOLDCO, INC.; MEDTECH CONCEPTS LLC
Reel/Frame 068586/0861 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 19, 2006
From: IGARASHI, HAJIME; SHIMIZU, KENJI; TAJIKA, HIDEKI
To: HINO MOTORS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 017642/0659 →
Priority Claims (6)
JP 2003-387323 · Nov 18, 2003 · national
JP 2003-387325 · Nov 18, 2003 · national
JP 2003-387327 · Nov 18, 2003 · national
JP 2004-135204 · Apr 30, 2004 · national
JP 2004-135211 · Apr 30, 2004 · national
JP 2004-135215 · Apr 30, 2004 · national
Continuity (1)
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