Patent ID: 7587194

Claim:
An emergency report system for a vehicle, the system comprising: a wireless section that informs an emergency report center by transmitting data, when an airbag of the vehicle is expanded; a reset section that resets a CPU of the wireless section when an ignition switch of the vehicle is turned on from an off state; a determination section that determines whether or not the wireless section executes one process of a wireless signal waiting process and a wireless communicating process when the ignition switch is turned on from the off state; a reset prohibiting section that prohibits the reset section from resetting the CPU when the wireless section is determined to be executing the one process when the ignition switch of the vehicle is turned on from the off state; and a control section that controls the reset section to thereby reset the CPU of the wireless section, and receives (i) a reset signal for detecting that the ignition switch is turned on from the off state and (ii) an airbag-expansion signal for indicating an expansion of the airbag, the control section being coupled with the wireless section via a connector, and the control section executing, via the connector, the resetting of the CPU of the wireless section by the reset section.