Patent ID: 6662090
Filing Date: 2003-12-09
Classification: B60S,G06Q,G07C

Abstract:
A protective maintenance service system for vehicles by a service provider, with which a business unit that controls a plurality of vehicles makes a contract of protective maintenance service for monitoring conditions of inspection required parts of the respective vehicles that are under the control of said business unit, wherein databases comprise,a vehicle database provided by the business unit in advance, which stores the information of vehicles under the control of the business unit, a vehicle inspection parts database, which stores the contents and service lives of the inspection required parts of the respective vehicles that are provided by the business unit in advance and stored in said vehicle database, a part condition sensor database, which stores the sensors attached to the parts that require continuous condition monitoring, of the respective inspection required parts stored in said vehicle inspection parts database, an environment sensor database, which stores the sensors that are mounted on the vehicles stored in said vehicle database and detect the ambient environments of the vehicles, a vehicle service environment database, which stores the environmental conditions under which the vehicles stored in said vehicle database are in service, a road/road surface database, which stores the information on roads and road surfaces on maps incorporating the road and road surface data that is provided by said respective vehicles, a vehicle condition monitoring database, which stores the conditions of the respective parts of the respective vehicles that are stored in said vehicle database, a maintenance database, which stores the information on repair and replacement of the respective inspection required parts that are stored in said vehicle inspection parts database at inspection-maintenance, a map database, which stores the map information throughout a country, and the current degradation conditions of the respective parts are stored in said vehicle condition monitoring database, by determining the degradation conditions of the inspection required parts stored in said vehicle inspection parts database on the basis of, the part condition information detected by the part condition sensors and stored in said part condition sensor database, the environment information of the vehicles in service stored in said vehicle service environment database based on the vehicle ambient environment information detected by the environment sensors stored in said environment sensor database, and the road and road surface information stored in said road/road surface information database.