Patent ID: 7751796

Claim:
An in-vehicle emergency report device comprising: transmission means for transmitting a signal of an emergency report to a service center; and control means for starting, when a start trigger for the emergency report generates, an operation of the emergency report to cause the transmission means to transmit the signal to the service center; wherein means for interrupting the operation when a battery voltage of a single battery which supplies power to the in-vehicle emergency report device decreases to less than a given voltage after having started the operation, and means for re-starting the operation when the battery voltage of the single battery recovers to the given voltage; wherein the in-vehicle emergency report device, further comprising: a timer unit for registering a time instant, wherein the restarting means re-starts the operation when a time period from a first time instant obtained from the timer unit just after the start trigger generates to a second time instant obtained from the timer unit just after the battery voltage of the single battery returns to the given voltage is less than a given time period, and the restarting means does not re-start the operation when the time period is not less than the given time period.