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Granted Patent B2
US 10,733,821 · App. 16/273,218 · Granted Aug 4, 2020

Key information management device and key information management method

Inventors: Ryuichi Suzuki (Nagakute, JP); Yuki Ito (Iwakura, JP); Hiroyasu Shiokawa (Nagoya, JP); Yasumasa Kobayashi (Nagoya, JP); Naoki Yamamuro (Nagoya, JP); Makoto Akahane (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G07C9/00309B60R25/241G07C9/00571G07C9/27G07C2009/00547
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Patent No.
US 10,733,821
App. No.
16/273,218
Granted
Aug 4, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A key information management device includes: a reception unit configured to receive a movement request for moving a first vehicle, the first vehicle employing a key system in which locking and unlocking are performed by receiving key information on the first vehicle sent from at least one of a first terminal of a first user and a second terminal of a second user different from the first user; a storage unit configured to store the key information on the first vehicle and information on the first terminal to which the key information on the first vehicle has been delivered; and a control unit configured to send the key information on the first vehicle to the second terminal.

Claims (29)

1. A key information management device comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive a movement request for moving a first vehicle, the first vehicle employing a key system in which locking and unlocking are performed by receiving key information on the first vehicle sent from at least one of a first terminal of a first user and a second terminal of a second user different from the first user;

a storage unit configured to store the key information on the first vehicle and information on the first terminal to which the key information on the first vehicle has been delivered; and

a control unit configured to send the key information on the first vehicle to the second terminal, wherein

the second terminal is a terminal around the first vehicle, and

the control unit is configured to detect the first vehicle parked on a planned route of a second vehicle different from the first vehicle.

2. The key information management device according to claim 1 , wherein

the second terminal is a terminal transmitting the movement request.

3. The key information management device according to claim 2 , wherein

the control unit is configured to send the key information on the first vehicle to the terminal transmitting the movement request when the terminal transmitting the movement request is registered in advance as a terminal carried by the second user who is permitted to move the first vehicle.

4. The key information management device according to claim 1 , wherein

the terminal around the first vehicle is a terminal present within a predetermined range from the first vehicle.

5. The key information management device according to claim 1 , wherein

the terminal around the first vehicle is a terminal of a user belonging to a predetermined organization having jurisdiction over an area including a current position of the first vehicle.

6. The key information management device according to claim 1 , wherein

the control unit is configured to send a signal for prompting a movement of the first vehicle to the second terminal, together with the key information on the first vehicle.

7. A key information management device comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive a movement request for moving a first vehicle, the first vehicle employing a key system in which locking and unlocking are performed by receiving key information on the first vehicle sent from at least one of a first terminal of a first user and a second terminal of a second user different from the first user;

a storage unit configured to store the key information on the first vehicle and information on the first terminal to which the key information on the first vehicle has been delivered; and

a control unit configured to send the key information on the first vehicle to the second terminal, wherein

the first vehicle includes a data communication device having a communication function, and

the control unit is configured

to send an alert notification to the data communication device, and

not to send the key information on the first vehicle to any terminal when a response to the alert notification is obtained from the data communication device.

8. A key information management method comprising:

receiving, by a key information management device managing key information on a first vehicle, a movement request for moving the first vehicle employing a key system in which locking and unlocking are performed by receiving the key information on the first vehicle sent from at least one of a first terminal of a first user and a second terminal of a second user different from the first user, and the second terminal is a terminal around the first vehicle;

storing, in a storage unit, the key information on the first vehicle and information on the first terminal to which the key information on the first vehicle has been delivered;

sending the key information on the first vehicle to the second terminal; and

detecting the first vehicle parked on a planned route of a second vehicle different from the first vehicle.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 12, 2019
From: SUZUKI, RYUICHI; ITO, YUKI; SHIOKAWA, HIROYASU; KOBAYASHI, YASUMASA; YAMAMURO, NAOKI; AKAHANE, MAKOTO
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-031589 · Feb 26, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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