Patent ID: 8391831

Claim:
An emergency notification in-vehicle terminal mountable to a vehicle and configured to transmit emergency information to a vehicle service center in response to detection of an occurrence of an emergency situation involving the vehicle, the emergency notification in-vehicle terminal comprising: a determination portion configured to determine, in response to the detection of the occurrence of the emergency situation, whether the emergency notification in-vehicle terminal is operating by an electric power of a back-up battery; a transmission portion configured to transmit a minimum necessary amount of the emergency information to the vehicle service center when the determination portion determines that the emergency notification in-vehicle terminal is operating by the electric power of the back-up battery; and a memory portion configured to store a phone number, the phone number being incorporated into the minimum necessary amount of the emergency information, wherein; the phone number is a cell-phone number, the transmission portion is further configured to transmit a predetermined data in addition to the minimum necessary amount of the emergency information to the vehicle service center in cases where the determination portion determines that the emergency notification in-vehicle terminal is operating not by the electric power of the back-up battery but by an electric power of a vehicle battery; the back-up battery is a power source dedicated to the emergency notification in-vehicle terminal; and the vehicle battery is another power source common to parts of the vehicle.