# US 2018/0025561 A1 · Method and apparatus for fault-remedying, defect-eliminating or maintenance work > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2018/0025561 A1 - Document ID: US20180025561A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/655,465 - Filed: 2017-07-20 - Published: 2018-01-25 - Earliest claimed: 2016-07-25 - Assignees: Deere & Company - Applicants: Deere & Company - Inventors: Martin BUEERMANN - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180025561A1 ## CPC - G07C 5/12: in graphical form - A01B 71/02: Setting or adjusting mechanisms - G01C 21/20: Instruments for performing navigational calculations (G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence) - G07C 5/006: {Indicating maintenance} - G07C 5/008: {communicating information to a remotely located station (transmission systems for measured values G08C)} - G07C 2205/02: using a vehicle scan tool - G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE - A01B: SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL (making or covering furrows or holes for sowing, planting or manuring A01C5/00; mowers convertible to soil working apparatus or capable of soil working A01D42/04; mowers combined with soil working implements A01D43/12; soil working for engineering purposes E01, E02, E21) - G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S) ## Abstract A method for guiding an operator of a mobile working machine (or a device coupled to the machine) to a position to be located for fault-remedying, defect-eliminating or maintenance work, by determining data in respect of the position that is to be located on the working machine (or the device coupled to the machine) using a diagnosis system, transmitting the data to a portable device in respect of the position that is to be located, and outputting direction instructions to the position based on the data, by virtue of the portable device in order to guide the portable device to the position that is to be located. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for guiding an operator to a position on a mobile working machine or a device which is coupled to said mobile working machine, which position is to be located for fault-remedying, defect-eliminating or maintenance work, comprising the following steps: ascertaining data in respect of the position that is to be located on the working machine or on the device which is coupled to said working machine using a diagnosis system, transmitting the data in respect of the position that is to be located to a portable device, and outputting direction instructions, which are based on the data, by virtue of the portable device for the purpose of guiding the portable device to the position that is to be located. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of outputting direction instructions includes direction instructions which lead to a reference point first being output by the portable device, the situation of the reference point being reached by means of the portable device being verified and finally direction instructions which provide guidance from the reference point to the position that is to be located being output by the portable device. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the step of verifying that the reference point has been reached includes the reference point being photographed by the portable device and data which is derived from the photograph taken being compared with stored data. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of ascertaining data in respect of the position that is to be located includes ascertaining a plurality of positions which come into question. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting data in respect of the position that is to be located to the portable device comprises displaying a code on a display device which is connected to the diagnosis system and a photograph being taken by or the code being input into the portable device. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the portable device and the working machine are each equipped with a position-determining system, and the portable device receives position data from the working machine. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the portable device shows procedural instructions to the operator after the position that is to be located has been reached. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the portable device cooperates with the diagnosis system in an interactive manner in order to check the success of the work which was carried out at the position by the operator. ### Claim 9 A portable device for assisting in finding a position on a working machine or a device which is coupled to said working machine, which position is to be located for fault-remedying, defect-eliminating or maintenance work, wherein the working machine is equipped with a diagnosis system which is programmed to calculate the position that is to be located on the working machine or on a device which is coupled to said working machine, and a digital microprocessor of the portable device is programmed to receive data in respect of the position that is to be located and, on the basis of said data, to output direction instructions for the purpose of guiding the portable device to the position that is to be located. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) A combination comprising a working machine which is equipped with a diagnosis system which is programmed for calculating a position on the working machine or on a device which is coupled to said working machine, which position is to be located for fault-remedying, defect-eliminating or maintenance work, and a portable device as claimed in claim 9.