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US 7,398,176 B2Granted
Battery testers with secondary functionality
AssigneeMidtronics, Inc.
InventorKevin I. Bertness
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Abstract
An electronic vehicle tester includes a battery tester configured to measure a parameter of a battery of a vehicle. A tire tester is configured to receive a parameter of a tire of the vehicle. A wireless receiver can be configured to receive pressure information from a transmitter associated with a tire of a vehicle.
Claims16
An electronic vehicle tester, comprising:
- a tire tester for use by an operator to couple to a tire of the vehicle and configured to receive a tire parameter of the tire of the vehicle, the tire tester including, a user input to receive an input from the operator and radio frequency (RF) output configured to wireless transmit the tire parameter;
- an electronic battery tester, comprising;
- first and second Kelvin connections configured to couple to terminals of a battery of the vehicle;
- a forcing function source configured to apply a forcing function to the battery through the Kelvin connections;
- a microprocessor configured to test the battery based upon the response of the batter to the forcing function;
- a memory;
- and
- a radio frequency (RF) input configured to receive the RF output from the tire tester which contains the tire parameter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.