Patent ID: 7274924

Claim:
An emergency report system, comprising: an emergency report terminal device mounted in a vehicle, the terminal device being configured to perform an emergency report communication process via a cellular phone network, the communications process being configured to call an emergency report center in the event of an emergency, to transfer positional information about said vehicle, and to establish voice communication to convey the information about the emergency; wherein said emergency report terminal device includes built-in wireless communication means for performing said emergency report communication process and control means for transmitting a phone number of a cellular phone, not in communication with said emergency report terminal device, to said emergency report center when data is transmitted by said built-in wireless communication means, and said emergency report center uses the phone number of said cellular phone, which is transmitted from said emergency report terminal device, to place a call directly to said cellular phone and establish voice communication to obtain the information about a situation in which an emergency report has been made to thereby establish communications by said built-in wireless communication means and said cellular phone.