Vehicle Emergency Control System with Confirmation Timer

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle emergency systems face challenges in accurately differentiating between genuine and false emergency mode activations, leading to potential fines or penalties for occupants, and lack mechanisms to swiftly cancel false activations.

Innovation Solution

An electronic apparatus that includes a human machine interface (HMI) to display user-selectable elements for enabling and canceling emergency modes, a timer to delay communication with emergency services, and options to terminate established communications, providing multi-layered protection against false activations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If the emergency mode is activated immediately upon user selection, then the emergency response time is reduced, but the risk of false activation increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveemergency response timeVSAvoidfalse activation risk

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary verification by displaying a confirmation prompt to the user before actually establishing communication with emergency services. This preliminary action allows the user to review their decision and cancel if it was a false activation, while still maintaining fast response by only delaying by the confirmation screen display time rather than a long timer period.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides immediate feedback to the user by displaying a confirmation screen that shows the emergency mode has been selected and asks for final confirmation. This feedback loop allows the user to verify their intent before the system proceeds with establishing emergency communication, thereby preventing false activations while maintaining rapid response capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If a confirmation prompt is displayed before activating emergency mode, then false activations are reduced, but the time to establish emergency communication increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefalse activation preventionVSAvoidtime to establish emergency communication

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The confirmation prompt is displayed as a preliminary verification step that requires minimal user interaction (such as pressing any button or touching the screen) to confirm. This preliminary action prevents false activations by ensuring intentional activation while minimizing the time added to the emergency response process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of user interaction from requiring complex confirmation (such as multiple buttons or specific sequences) to a simple acknowledgment action. This parameter change reduces the time required for confirmation while still effectively preventing false activations by ensuring deliberate user intent.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If the system allows cancellation of emergency mode after activation, then false activations can be corrected, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefalse activation correctionVSAvoidcontrol mechanism complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides a cancellation option on the confirmation screen before emergency communication is established. This preliminary cancellation opportunity allows users to correct false activations before the emergency response is fully initiated, and the cancellation mechanism is integrated into the same confirmation screen without requiring separate controls or complex procedures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The cancellation function is extracted as a distinct option on the confirmation screen, separate from the emergency activation flow. By placing the cancellation option on the confirmation screen itself, the system allows users to easily revoke their emergency activation request before communication is established, without adding complex post-activation cancellation mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11225145B1Apparatus and method for emergency control for vehicle

Publication Date: 2022.01.18 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD

AI summary

An electronic apparatus for an emergency control is provided. The electronic apparatus controls a human machine interface associated with a first vehicle to display a first user-selectable element. The electronic apparatus receives a first input, which corresponds to a first selection of the first user-selectable element. The first selection indicates a request to enable an emergency mode. The electronic apparatus activates a timer, which is associated with the electronic apparatus, for a pre-determined time period based on the first input. The electronic apparatus establishes a first communication with an emergency device associated with the first vehicle for the emergency mode, based on an expiration of the timer. The electronic apparatus deactivates a second user-selectable element on the human machine interface based on the first communication. The electronic apparatus receives one or more control instructions for the first vehicle from the emergency device based on the first communication.