Patent ID: 8935013
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: B60R,G07C

Abstract:
1. A vehicle accident history recorder comprising: a collision detection sensor for detecting a collision of a vehicle; a collision determination section for determining an occurrence of the collision based on a detection result of the collision detection sensor; a yaw rate sensor for detecting a yaw rate of the vehicle; a damaged portion determination section for determining a damaged portion of the vehicle in the collision based on the detection result of the collision detection sensor and a detection result of the yaw rate sensor when the collision determination section determines the occurrence of the collision; and a storage device for storing a determination result of the damaged portion determination section in a readable form, wherein: the determination result of the damaged portion determination section includes: a first damage information which identifies whether or not a damaged face of the vehicle is a front face of the vehicle; and a second damage information which identifies one of a plurality of portions of the damaged face as the damaged portion by dividing the damaged face into the plurality of portions in a vehicle left-right direction when the first damage information identifies the front face of the vehicle as the damaged face.