System and method for testing the integrity of a vehicle testing/diagnostic system
AssigneeEnvirotest Systems Holdings Corp.
InventorsDonald Jackson Avery, Terry Edward Goretti
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Abstract
A system and method for testing the integrity of a vehicle testing/diagnostic system is provided. Examples of vehicle testing/diagnostic systems may include any equipment (portable or stationary) found in an automotive maintenance and/or testing environment (or other environment) that is capable of communicating with vehicle on-board diagnostic (OBD) systems. Prior to conducting an OBD test on one or more vehicles, an integrity testing system interfaces with a vehicle testing/diagnostic system to determine whether the vehicle testing/diagnostic system is capable of communicating via one or more predetermined communications protocols.
Claims16
An integrity testing system for testing the integrity of a vehicle testing/diagnostic system that is capable of communicating with an on-board diagnostic system of a vehicle, the integrity testing system comprising:
- an integrity testing connector that interfaces with a vehicle testing/diagnostic system;
- a receiving module that receives, via the integrity testing connector, signals from the vehicle testing/diagnostic system;
- a determination module that determines, based on the signals received by the receiving module, whether the vehicle testing/diagnostic system is capable of communicating with an on-board diagnostic system of the vehicle via one or more predetermined communications protocols;
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- a results module that conveys determinations of the determination module to a user.
A method of testing the integrity of a vehicle testing/diagnostic system that is capable of communicating with an on-board diagnostic system of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- receiving at an integrity testing system, via an integrity testing connector, signals from a vehicle testing/diagnostic system that are intended for an on-board diagnostic system (OBD) of a vehicle;
- determining, based on the received signals, whether the vehicle testing/diagnostic system is capable of communicating, via one or more predetermined communications protocols, with an on-board diagnostic system of a vehicle;
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- conveying determinations to a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.