INSPECTION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20150161826A1
• Filed: 07/09/2014
• Published: 06/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: KIM, Dong Myong, YANG, Chang Mo
• Granted Patent: US 9,245,392 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B

Abstract

An inspection system for a vehicle and a method thereof to inspect whether various electronic components mounted inside a completed vehicle may be normally operated, may include a wireless on-board diagnostics device (OBD) which may be mounted in the vehicle entering an inspection process, a plurality of inspection computers, which wirelessly communicates with the wireless OBD, and may be provided for each corresponding inspection step, and a barcode reader which may be provided in the inspection computers, recognizes a barcode of the vehicle, transmits a vehicle information about the vehicle, on which the inspection may be performed, to the inspection computers.

Claims

1. An inspection system for a vehicle, which inspects whether various electronic components mounted inside a completed vehicle are normally operated, the inspection system comprising:

a wireless on-board diagnostics device (OBD) which is mounted in the vehicle entering an inspection process;

a plurality of inspection computers, which wirelessly communicates with the wireless OBD, and is provided for each corresponding inspection step; and

a barcode reader which is provided in the inspection computers, recognizes a barcode of the vehicle, transmits a vehicle information about the vehicle, on which the inspection is performed, to the inspection computers.

2. The inspection system of claim 1, wherein a separate barcode device recognizes the barcode of the vehicle, and the recognized barcode is input to the wireless OBD as a subsystem identification (SSID).

3. The inspection system of claim 1, wherein the wireless OBD transmits an inspection result of the vehicle received from each inspection step to an inspection computer provided in the corresponding inspection step.

4. The inspection system of claim 1, wherein a receiver configured to receive information transmitted from the wireless OBD is mounted in the inspection computers.

5. The inspection system of claim 1, wherein a worker directly mounts the wireless OBD to the vehicle, which has entered the inspection process, and separates the wireless OBD from the vehicle after each inspection step is completed.

6. The inspection system of claim 5, wherein each inspection computer matches the vehicle information received from the barcode reader and a vehicle information received from the wireless OBD, and stores an inspection record of the corresponding vehicle, on which the inspection is performed, in a corresponding inspection step.

7. The inspection system of claim 1, wherein each inspection step is continuously performed.

8. A method of controlling an inspection system for a vehicle, which inspects whether various electronic components mounted inside an assembly-completed vehicle are normally operated, the method comprising:

(A) mounting, by a worker, a wireless on-board diagnostics device (OBD) before the vehicle enters an inspection step, recognizing a barcode of the vehicle, and determining whether a subsystem identification (SSID) of the wireless OBD is changed;

(B) recognizing a vehicle information about the vehicle, which has entered a inspection process, in a corresponding inspection step after a change in the SSID of the wireless OBD is completed, determining whether the recognized vehicle information is matched with a vehicle information received from the wireless OBD, and performing the inspection; and

(C) separating, by the worker, the wireless OBD from the vehicle after a completion of each inspection step, and terminating the inspection process.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of (A) includes:

mounting, by the worker, the wireless OBD to a corresponding vehicle;

recognizing the barcode of the vehicle by using a separate barcode device, and inputting the recognized barcode to the wireless OBD as an SSID;

Receiving a signal output from the wireless OBD and determining whether the SSID is changed; and

returning the step of inputting the SSID into the wireless OBD again when it is determined that the SSID of the wireless OBD is not changed.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the step (B) includes:

when it is determined that the SSID of the wireless OBD is changed through the step (A), recognizing the barcode of the vehicle, which has entered the inspection process, with the barcode reader, and outputting the vehicle information to an inspection computer;

determining whether the vehicle information about the vehicle output to the inspection computer is matched with the SSID received from the wireless OBD;

when the vehicle information about the vehicle output to the inspection computer is not matched with the SSID received from the wireless OBD, returning to the step of recognizing the barcode of the vehicle, on which the inspection is to be performed, with the barcode reader, and outputting the recognized barcode to the inspection computer; and

when the vehicle information about the vehicle output to the inspection computer is matched with the vehicle information received from the wireless OBD, making the vehicle enter each inspection step of the inspection process, and performing the inspection.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the step (C) includes:

when each inspection step of the vehicle is completed through the step (B), separating, by the worker, the wireless OBD from the vehicle; and

determining inspection information about the vehicle from each inspection computer provided for each corresponding inspection step, after a completion of the separation of the wireless OBD, determining whether the vehicle is normal, transferring the vehicle, and completing a control of the inspection system.