US 9,317,977 B2Granted

Mobile communication interface, system having a mobile communication interface, and method for identifying, diagnosing, maintaining, and repairing a vehicle

AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH

InventorsRamon Amirpour, Guenter Nobis, Roger Malmsheimer

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Abstract

A method for identifying and diagnosing a vehicle includes: storing customer, vehicle, and repair shop order data of the vehicle in a work data memory device of a mobile communication interface; connecting the mobile communication interface to the vehicle and connecting a first vehicle inspection device at least to the mobile communication interface at a first work station; carrying out a first set of inspections on the vehicle using the first vehicle inspection device and/or the mobile communication interface; carrying out a second set of inspections on the vehicle using a second vehicle inspection device and/or the mobile communication interface on the basis of the first inspection results; and storing the customer, vehicle, and repair shop order data as well as the first and second inspection results of the vehicle into the central customer database.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A method for identifying and diagnosing a vehicle in a repair shop, comprising:

downloading customer, vehicle, and repair shop order data of the vehicle from a central customer database into a work data memory device of a mobile communication interface;
connecting the mobile communication interface to the vehicle and connecting a first vehicle inspection device at least to the mobile communication interface at a first work station;
reading out the customer, vehicle, and repair shop order data from the work data memory device of the mobile communication interface in a control computer of the first vehicle inspection device;
carrying out a first set of inspections on the vehicle using at least one of the first vehicle inspection device and the mobile communication interface;
storing the first inspection results in the work data memory device of the mobile communication interface by the first vehicle inspection device;
disconnecting the first vehicle inspection device from the vehicle;
connecting a second vehicle inspection device to the vehicle and reading out the customer, vehicle, and repair shop order data as well as the first inspection results from the work data memory device of the mobile communication interface into the second vehicle inspection device at a second work station;
carrying out a second set of inspections of the vehicle using at least one of the second vehicle inspection device and the mobile communication interface connected to the vehicle on the basis of the first inspection results;
storing the second inspection results in the work data memory device of the mobile communication interface by the second vehicle inspection device;
and
reading out the customer, vehicle, and repair shop order data as well as the first and the second inspection results of the vehicle from the work data memory device of the mobile communication interface into the central customer database.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/124,336Filed 23 May 2012
Priority: DE 10 2011 077 1968 Jun 2011
Published: US 2014/0188331 A13 Jul 2014
Granted: 19 Apr 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G07C 5/008
Registering or indicating the working of vehicles: communicating information to a remotely located station
G07C 5/0808
Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working,…
G07C 5/085
Registering performance data: using electronic data carriers
G07C
Time or attendance registers