Intelligent, Cloud-Based, and Real-Time Vehicle Care System

• US 20150170435A1
• Filed: 12/08/2014
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Power International Chemical & Oil Corporation
• Original Assignee: Power International Chemical & Oil Corporation
• Inventors: Ko, Po-Wen
• Application Number:
  US14/562,818
• Publication Number:
  US 20150170435A1
• 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 5/0816 Indicating performance data, e.g. occurrence of a malfunction

Abstract

An intelligent, cloud-based and real-time vehicle care system has a vehicle diagnostic device, a remote server and a user device. The vehicle diagnostic device is mounted in a vehicle and has a control unit and a wireless transmission unit. When the control unit receives a trouble code from a diagnostic system or determines that the vehicle encounters trouble based on vehicle information received from a CAN bus system, the control module provides trouble diagnostic information to the remote server, and then the remote server transmits the trouble diagnostic information to the user device. Therefore, the user can operate the user device to review whether the vehicle encounters trouble in real-time.

Claims

1. An intelligent, cloud-based, and real-time vehicle care system comprising a vehicle diagnostic device and a remote server, wherein

the vehicle diagnostic device is adapted to be mounted in a vehicle and has a control unit and a wireless transmission unit, and the control unit comprises:

a first receiving module for communicating with a diagnostic system to receive a trouble code from the diagnostic system;

a second receiving module for communicating with a CAN (control area network) bus system to receive vehicle information from the CAN bus system; and

a control module communicating with the first receiving module, the second receiving module and the wireless transmission unit, and generating and transmitting trouble diagnostic information via the wireless transmission unit when the control module receives the trouble code or determines that the vehicle has encountered trouble after analyzing the vehicle information; and

the remote server communicates with the wireless transmission unit of the vehicle diagnostic device to receive the trouble diagnostic information from the vehicle diagnostic device, and transmit the trouble diagnostic information to a user device;

the user device receives the trouble diagnostic information.

2. The vehicle care system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the control unit Of the vehicle diagnostic device comprises a first wireless module communicating with the control module;

and

the wireless transmission unit comprises

an antenna;

a second wireless module communicating with the first wireless module; and

a controller electrically connected to the second wireless module and the antenna to transmit the trouble diagnostic information via the antenna to the remote server when the controller receives the trouble diagnostic information from the control unit.

3. The vehicle care system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first wireless module communicates with the second wireless module by Bluetooth communication.

4. The vehicle care system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first wireless module communicates with the second wireless module by NFC (near field communication) communication.

5. The vehicle care system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the remote server communicates with the antenna of the wireless transmission unit by GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) communication, GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) communication, WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) communication, or LTE (Long Term Evolution) communication.

6. The vehicle care system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the remote server communicates with the antenna of the wireless transmission unit by GPRS (General Packet Radio Servicer) communication, GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) communication, WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) communication, or LTE (Long Term Evolution) communication.

7. The vehicle care system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the remote server communicates with the antenna of the wireless transmission unit by GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) communication, GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) communication, WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) communication, or LTE (Long Term Evolution) communication.