MULTIPURPOSE IN-VEHICLE DIAGNOSTIC II ADAPTER

• US 20150057874A1
• Filed: 10/31/2014
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Allen Bailey Jones
• Original Assignee: Cability, Inc.
• Inventors: Jones, Allan Bailey
• Application Number:
  US14/530,008
• Publication Number:
  US 20150057874A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/31.4
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/02 electric constitutive elements
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/023 for transmission of signals between vehicle parts or subsystems
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0315 using multiplexing techniques multiplexing for transmission of signals G08C15/00; multiplexing for electrical communication in general H04J
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 2210/26 Algorithms, instructions, databases, computerized methods and graphical user interfaces employed by a user in conjunction with the wheel aligner
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/00 Testing of vehicles testing fluid tightness G01M3/00; testing elastic properties of bodies or chassis, e.g. torsion-testing, G01M5/00; testing alignment of vehicle headlight devices G01M11/06; testing of engines G01M15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/007 using microprocessors or computers
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2205/02 using a vehicle scan tool
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/00 Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0858 wherein the data carrier is removable
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/06 Intermediate parts for linking two coupling parts, e.g. adapter with a holder adapted for supporting apparatus to which its counterpart is attached H01R33/94
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/065 with built-in electric apparatus

Abstract

The present invention is directed to an extension connector. The extension connector may include a first connector communicatively coupled to an in-vehicle connector associated with an automobile. The extension connector may further include a second connector that may be communicatively coupled to the first connector. The extension connector may further include a third connector that may be communicatively coupled to the first connector and the second connector.

Claims

1. An method of in-vehicle diagnostic connector interfacing, comprising:

communicatively coupling a first connector that is compatible with the in-vehicle diagnostic connector to a second connector that includes physical and electrical features that are substantially the same as the in-vehicle diagnostic connector;

enabling access through a third connector to a plurality of signals communicatively coupled between the first connector and the second connector while providing full access to each of the first and second connectors; and

disposing the first, second, and third connectors in a housing that is suitable for long-term in-vehicle use and for rigidly and compactly integrating the first, second, and third connectors.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first connector and the second connector conform to one of J1962 and J1939 connection requirements.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicatively coupling a processor into the housing, the processor coupled to terminals of the first connector for communicating with terminals of the third connector.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising a wireless transceiver for communicating with the processor via one of Bluetooth, WiFi, WiMax and LTE wireless communication.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising making available signals of the in-vehicle diagnostic connector on correspondingly-numbered terminals of the first, second and third connectors.