Centralized CO2 Recovery Data Management System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Managing CO2 recovery amounts across multiple vehicles equipped with CO2 recovery devices becomes increasingly inaccurate and difficult as the number of vehicles operated by businesses grows, making it challenging to accurately sum and track the recovered CO2.

Innovation Solution

An information management system comprising external devices and a server that communicate through a network, allowing vehicles to send CO2 recovery data to the server for centralized calculation and management, ensuring accurate summation and tracking of CO2 recovery amounts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If businesses manually add up CO2 recovery amounts for multiple vehicles, then they can manage the data without additional systems, but accuracy deteriorates as the number of vehicles increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccuracy of CO2 recovery amount summationVSAvoidcomplexity of data management process

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an information management system as an intermediary between multiple CO2 recovery devices and businesses. The system includes a server that receives CO2 recovery amount information from multiple vehicles, automatically calculates total recovery amounts, and manages the data centrally. This intermediary eliminates manual summation errors while maintaining simple business operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Quantity of substance

If businesses operate more vehicles to increase CO2 recovery potential, then total CO2 recovery amount increases, but management difficulty and omission risk increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetotal CO2 recovery amountVSAvoidreliability of data management

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The information management system implements automatic feedback mechanisms where CO2 recovery amount information is transmitted from vehicles to the server, which then processes and stores the data. The system provides feedback to businesses about total recovery amounts, enabling reliable tracking across any number of vehicles without increasing management burden or omission risk.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If businesses use manual methods to track CO2 recovery, then they avoid investing in additional systems, but time consumption and error probability increase with more vehicles

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveefficiency of CO2 recovery managementVSAvoidtime for adding up and managing CO2 data

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual mechanical data collection and summation methods with an automated information management system. The server automatically receives data from multiple vehicles, performs calculations, and manages records electronically. This substitution eliminates time-consuming manual work while improving productivity in managing CO2 recovery data across any fleet size.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS11633690B2Information management system and information management method

Publication Date: 2023.04.25 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK

AI summary

An information management system provided with a plurality of external devices able to send and receive information and a server configured to be able to communicate with the external devices. The external devices are configured to send to the server the amounts of CO2 recovery recovered by the vehicles provided with the CO2 recovery devices. The server is configured to add up and manage the amounts of CO2 recovery sent from the external device.