Apparatus and methods for facilitating vehicle maintenance
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1. A system for facilitating maintenance of one or more vehicles comprising:
- on each vehicle, a control subsystem having one or more controllers configured to obtain information pertaining to at least one condition of the vehicle; and
a base computer configured to communicate wirelessly with the control subsystem, the base computer further configured with the one or more controllers to interpret the information.
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Abstract
A system for facilitating maintenance of one or more vehicles. On each vehicle, a control subsystem includes one or more controllers that obtain information pertaining to a condition of the vehicle. A base computer communicates wirelessly with the control subsystem. The base computer and controller(s) interpret the information. This system allows the performance of a fleet of vehicles to be monitored automatically.
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21 Claims
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1. A system for facilitating maintenance of one or more vehicles comprising:
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on each vehicle, a control subsystem having one or more controllers configured to obtain information pertaining to at least one condition of the vehicle; and
a base computer configured to communicate wirelessly with the control subsystem, the base computer further configured with the one or more controllers to interpret the information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of facilitating maintenance of a vehicle, the method comprising:
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obtaining data pertaining to at least one condition of the vehicle;
transmitting the data wirelessly to a base computer; and
interpreting the data;
wherein the obtaining and transmitting are performed using a control subsystem of the vehicle, and the interpreting is performed using the base computer and one or more controllers of the vehicle control subsystem. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system for facilitating maintenance of one or more vehicles comprising:
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a base computer; and
one or more control subsystems, each control subsystem configured in a corresponding one of the one or more vehicles and further configured to communicate wirelessly with the base station;
each control subsystem comprising one or more controllers configured to obtain data relating to one or more conditions of the one or more vehicles and transmit the data to the base computer. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21)
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