US 12,293,336 B2
Tire management system, tire management method
Masaki Teramoto, Kobe (JP); Kazuharu Tanimura, Kobe (JP); Takahiro Nishimoto, Kobe (JP); Kenji Yoneda, Kobe (JP); and Yukinori Hashimoto, Kobe (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., Kobe (JP)
Appl. No. 18/021,396
Filed by Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Kobe (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 13, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/037897
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 15, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/123897, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 16, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-206257 (JP), filed on Dec. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0306378 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/20 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0207 (2023.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 10/20 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/0213 (2013.01); G07C 5/006 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tire management system comprising:
processing circuitry configured to function as:
an acquisition processing portion configured to acquire, from at least a tire image acquisition apparatus, via a wireless communication network, state information regarding a state of a pneumatic tire attached to a vehicle when the vehicle is located in a predetermined specific range associated with the tire image acquisition apparatus;
a storage processing portion configured to store, into a predetermined storage portion, the state information acquired by the acquisition processing portion;
a detection processing portion configured to detect an abnormality of the pneumatic tire based on the state information stored in the storage portion;
a second output processing portion configured to, under a condition where the detection processing portion has detected the abnormality, wirelessly output, to a first output destination corresponding to the vehicle for display on a display of the vehicle, route information that indicates a route to a first location of a first office that is, among a plurality of offices where a maintenance service corresponding to the abnormality is provided, closest to a current position of the vehicle;
a third determination processing portion configured to, under a condition where the second output processing portion outputs the route information, determine whether or not an article used for the maintenance service is present in the first office; and
a fourth output processing portion configured to, under a condition where the third determination processing portion has determined that the article is absent at the first office, output second notification information, which includes an indication of the fact, to a third output destination corresponding to a second office that is, among the plurality of offices, closest to the first location of the first office and has the article; and
the tire image acquisition apparatus,
wherein the tire image acquisition apparatus is configured to acquire a tire image showing a ground-contact surface of the pneumatic tire as the state information regarding the state of the pneumatic tire,
wherein the tire image acquisition apparatus includes at least one image acquirer to acquire, under a condition where the pneumatic tire is on a photographing surface of the tire image acquisition apparatus, the tire image showing the ground-contact surface of the pneumatic tire, and
wherein the tire image acquisition apparatus is configured to output to the processing circuitry via the wireless communication network the state information regarding the state of the pneumatic tire corresponding to the ground-contact surface of the pneumatic tire.