Vehicle Coating Incentives to Preserve Resale Paint Value

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicles with removable coatings face challenges in maintaining the commercial value due to the peeling off of easily peelable layers, which affects the resale and leasing value.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device provides incentives to users who maintain the peelable coating film on their vehicles, calculating incentives based on the condition, area, and time since application of the coating, and market demand to motivate users to keep the coating intact.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a coating film with an easily peelable layer is applied to a vehicle, then the vehicle can be resold or leased with preserved original paint quality, but the commercial value decreases due to peeling off of the coating film

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoriginal paint preservationVSAvoidcommercial value
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides incentives to users in advance to maintain the coating film before peeling occurs. By offering rewards based on anticipated future conditions (intact coating film at resale/lease), the system motivates users to preserve the coating film throughout the usage period, thereby preventing commercial value loss while maintaining original paint quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes a feedback mechanism where users receive incentive information based on the condition of their coating film. The processor acquires information about the coating film state and provides corresponding incentive feedback to users, creating a closed-loop system that encourages continuous maintenance of the coating film to preserve both paint quality and commercial value

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Quantity of substance

If the coating film is maintained intact for a long period, then the incentive amount increases, but the degree of degradation of the coating film increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveincentive amountVSAvoidcoating film integrity
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts incentive parameters based on multiple factors including elapsed time, area of intact coating film, and degree of degradation. By changing the calculation parameters of incentives to account for degradation while extending maintenance duration, the system balances the quantity of incentives provided against the actual condition of the coating film, encouraging long-term maintenance without excessive rewards for severely degraded films

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12406278B2Information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium
Publication Date: 2025.09.02 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

An information processing device includes a processor configured to provide an incentive to a first user who sells or returns a first vehicle in which a part of a first coating film including an easily peelable layer is not peeled off.