Patent ID: 8356082

Claim:
A data communication system for a vehicle, which executes data communication between the vehicle and a center apparatus through a data updating unit of an energy refilling device when energy is refilled from the energy refilling device to the vehicle, wherein the vehicle comprises an on-vehicle terminal device comprising: a communication possibility detecting unit which detects that communication with the data updating unit of the energy refilling device is possible when the energy refilling device is connected to the vehicle; a receiving unit which receives, when the communication possibility detecting unit detects that communication is possible, data from the center apparatus through the data updating unit of the energy refilling device; a memory which stores data received by the receiving unit; an interruption judging unit which judges whether or not there are data for which reception has been interrupted, based on data stored in the memory; and a transmitting unit which transmits, when the interruption judging unit judges that there are data for which reception has been interrupted and the communication possibility detecting unit detects that communication is possible, a distribution request of remaining data of the interrupted reception to the center apparatus, and the center apparatus comprises: a receiving unit which receives the distribution request; a memory which stores the distribution request received by the receiving unit of the center apparatus; and a transmitting unit which transmits the remaining data of the interrupted reception to the on-vehicle terminal device based on the distribution request stored in the memory of the center apparatus, wherein the communication possibility detecting unit of the on-vehicle device detects that communication with the data updating unit of the energy refilling device is possible when the energy refilling device is connected to the vehicle by the energy refilling device activating a switch provided near an injection inlet of the vehicle such that the switch is physically activated by inserting the energy refilling device into the injection inlet, when the switch is physically activated, the transmitting unit of the on-vehicle device transmits the distribution request when the interruption judging unit judges that there are data for which reception has been interrupted, and the data received by the receiving unit includes sound data, image data, or sound and image data.