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US 12,263,441 B2Granted
System composed of an apparatus for treating a fluid, a handheld device and a method for operating such a system
AssigneeDonaldson Filtration Deutschland GmbH
InventorsJens Schäfer, Abdelkhalic Rbayti
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system composed of an apparatus to treat a fluid and a handheld device, wherein the apparatus has a communication unit with a radio antenna and the handheld device has a communication unit with a radio antenna and both communication units can exchange data with each other by means of radio communication, and the apparatus has a control unit, which can detect at least one status parameter of the apparatus and generate a signal which is dependent on the status parameter and can transfer it via the communication unit of the apparatus to the communication unit of the handheld device.
Claims12
A method to operate a system, whereby the system is composed of an apparatus to treat a fluid and a handheld device, wherein
- the apparatus has a communication unit with a radio antenna and the handheld device has a communication unit with a radio antenna and both communication units can exchange data with each other by means of radio communication and
- the apparatus has a control unit, which can detect at least one status parameter of the apparatus and generate a signal which is dependent on the status parameter and can transfer it via the communication unit of the apparatus to the communication unit of the handheld device;
- wherein the method comprises the following steps:
- the control unit detects a status parameter of the apparatus and generates a signal dependent on the status parameter and transmits the signal to the communication unit of the handheld device via the communication unit of the apparatus,
- whereby the handheld device after receiving the signal via the radio antenna of the communication unit of the handheld device generates a response signal which it transfers to the communication unit of the apparatus via the communication unit of the handheld device, characterized in that the response signal is transmitted from the communication unit of the apparatus to the control unit of the apparatus and the control unit of the apparatus places a positioning element of the apparatus depending on the response signal,
- wherein the handheld device has another communication unit with a radio antenna, with which the handheld device can exchange data via a mobile communications network and wherein the handheld device after receiving the signal exchanges data via a mobile communications network via the radio antenna of the another communication unit,
- wherein the data which is exchanged via the mobile communications network are the status parameters of the apparatus, and wherein the only way for the apparatus to exchange data with a remote computer or a remote server, which does not form part of a local network that is present at the site of the apparatus, is via the handheld device.
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A method to operate a system, whereby the system is composed of an apparatus
- to treat a fluid and a handheld device, wherein
- the apparatus has a communication unit with a radio antenna and the handheld device has a communication unit with a radio antenna and both communication units can exchange data with each other by means of radio communication and
- the apparatus has a control unit, which can detect at least one status parameter of the apparatus and generate a signal which is dependent on the status parameter and can transfer it via the communication unit of the apparatus to the communication unit of the handheld device, wherein the method comprises the following steps:
- the control unit detects a status parameter of the apparatus and generates a signal dependent on the status parameter and transmits the signal to the communication unit of the handheld device via the communication unit of the apparatus,
- whereby the handheld device after receiving the signal via the radio antenna of the communication unit of the handheld device generates a response signal which it transfers to the communication unit of the apparatus via the communication unit of the handheld device,
- characterized in that the response signal is transmitted from the communication unit of the apparatus to the control unit of the apparatus and the control unit of the apparatus places a positioning element of the apparatus depending on the response signal,
- wherein the handheld device has another communication unit with a radio antenna, with which the handheld device can exchange data via a mobile communications network and wherein the handheld device after receiving the signal exchanges data via a mobile communications network via the radio antenna of the another communication unit,
- wherein the only way for the apparatus to exchange data with a remote computer or a remote server, which does not form part of a local network that is present at the site of the apparatus, is via the handheld device, and
- wherein the handheld device is programmed to produce an input request to the operator of the handheld device, once the handheld device receives data from a remote server or a remote computer via the mobile communications network, the input request requesting the operator to confirm that this data is to be exchanged with the apparatus.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.