Transport Management Device for Vehicle Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

In car rental and sharing services, users face a significant burden in transporting vehicles between designated pickup and drop-off points, especially for elderly, ill, or those with children, or in adverse weather conditions.

Innovation Solution

A transport management device and system that determines a suitable transporter to pick up the vehicle from the owner's designated point and deliver it to the renter's designated point, reducing the user's movement load by facilitating vehicle transport through a network of registered transporters.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the user rents a vehicle through traditional car rental or sharing services, then the vehicle can be made available to the user, but the user bears a large movement load by needing to go to the delivery point designated by the agency

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidtime and effort for user to travel to pickup point

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a transporter as an intermediary entity that picks up the vehicle from the owner's designated location and delivers it to the renter's designated location. This mediator (transporter) handles the physical transport task, freeing the user from the burden of traveling to the pickup point while ensuring the vehicle reaches the intended destination.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of requiring the user to go to the vehicle's location (traditional model), the system inverts the approach by having the vehicle brought to the user's designated location. The transport flow is reversed: rather than user→pickup point→vehicle, it becomes vehicle→delivery point→user, fundamentally changing who performs the movement action.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Adaptability or versatility

If the user rents a vehicle through traditional car rental services, then the vehicle can be made available to the user, but the user faces additional burdens in adverse weather conditions, when elderly, ill, injured, or accompanied by children

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveservice accessibilityVSAvoidadverse weather and physical condition challenges

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The transporter acts as a protective intermediary that shields the user from adverse conditions during vehicle transport. Whether the user is elderly, ill, injured, accompanied by children, or facing bad weather, the transporter handles the physical exposure to these harmful factors while the user remains protected at their designated location.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables users to receive the vehicle at their own designated location without needing to physically travel, allowing them to self-serve in a protected state. The user designates their preferred pickup location and the system arranges for the vehicle to come to them, eliminating the need for users to expose themselves to adverse conditions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Ease of operation

If the user rents a vehicle through traditional car sharing services, then the vehicle can be made available to the user, but the user bears a large movement load when there are many baggages

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of vehicle pickupVSAvoidphysical effort required for user to transport baggage

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSForce

Solution Approach 1:

The transporter serves as a mediator that assumes the physical burden of transporting the vehicle and any associated baggage. Instead of the user having to physically handle heavy bags while traveling to the pickup point, the transporter manages the logistics of bringing the vehicle and belongings to the user's designated location, eliminating the physical force requirement from the user.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20230186379A1Transport management device, transport management system, and transport management method

Publication Date: 2023.06.15 PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYST CO LTD

AI summary

A transport management device is configured to manage transport of a vehicle for rent. The transport management device includes: a memory; and a processor that is coupled to the memory, and when executing a program stored in the memory, performs operations. The operations include: determining, based on transporter information including information about one or more transporters who transport the vehicle between an owner of the vehicle and a renter of the vehicle, a first transporter from among the one or more transporters, the first transporter being capable of picking up the vehicle at a first point designated by the owner and transporting the vehicle picked up at the first point to a second point designated by the renter; and transmitting, to a terminal of the first transporter, first transport request information including information indicating the first point and the second point.