SYSTEM FOR DETECTING COMPONENTS OF A VEHICLE

• US 20160147521A1
• Filed: 04/30/2014
• Published: 05/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Hieronymi, Felix
• Application Number:
  US14/899,287
• Publication Number:
  US 20160147521A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

System for detecting components (41, 42, 43, 44) of a vehicle (2), in particular of a motor vehicle, which comprises at least one component (41, 42, 43, 44), having at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) which can be read in a wireless manner and is associated with at least one component (41, 42, 43, 44) of the vehicle (2); at least one data reading apparatus (6) which can be arranged in the vehicle (2) in particular and which is designed in order to read data which is stored in the at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) in a wireless manner; and at least one transmission apparatus (8) which can be arranged in the vehicle (2) in particular and which is designed in order to transmit the data which is read from the at least one data reading apparatus (6) to at least one receiving apparatus (12).

Claims

1. A system for detecting components (41, 42, 43, 44) of a vehicle (2), which comprises at least one component (41, 42, 43, 44), having:

at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) which can be read in a wireless manner and is associated with at least one component (41, 42, 43, 44) of the vehicle (2);

at least one data reading apparatus (6) arranged in the vehicle (2) and which is configured to read data which are stored in the at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) in a wireless manner;

at least one transmission apparatus (8) arranged in the vehicle (2) and which is configured to transmit the data which are read from the at least one data reading apparatus (6) to the at least one receiving apparatus (12);

a workshop system (15) which is configured to select a software for at least one control unit (22) of the vehicle (2) using the data read from the at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) and transmitted to the receiving apparatus (12);

a transmission apparatus (13) which is configured to transmit the selected software in a wireless manner to the vehicle (2); and

a vehicle receiving apparatus (9) which is configured to receive selected software and to install said software in at least one control unit (22) of the vehicle (2).

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system additionally comprises an evaluation apparatus (24) which is designed to determine type, number and/or identity of the components (41, 42, 43, 44) installed in the vehicle (2) on the basis of the data transmitted to the receiving apparatus (12).

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the system comprises:

at least one memory apparatus (16) which is configured to store component identification data sets which are associated with respectively one component (41, 42, 43, 44) and one comparison unit (26) which is configured to compare the data transmitted to the receiving apparatus (12) with data in the component identification data sets and to identify at least one component identification data set which contains the data transmitted to the receiving apparatus (12) in order to determine type, number and/or identity of the components (41, 42, 43, 44) installed in the vehicle (2).

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) is a passive memory element (51, 52, 53, 54).

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) is an active memory element (51, 52, 53, 54).

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system additionally comprises at least one second transmission apparatus (13) which is disposed outside of the vehicle (2) and at least one vehicle receiving apparatus (9) is be disposed in the vehicle (2) and is designed to receive a signal transmitted from the second transmission apparatus (13).

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the transmission and receiving apparatuses (8, 9, 12, 13) are designed to transmit the data per infrared light and/or electromagnetically, via a mobile radio network, WLAN, Bluetooth®

, and/or via the internet.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the evaluation apparatus (24) additionally comprises a configuration comparison apparatus (25) which is configured to compare the data of the vehicle (2) currently read from the at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) and transmitted to the receiving apparatus (12) with data of the same vehicle (2) read out at an earlier point in time from at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) and transmitted to the receiving apparatus (12) in order to detect possible changes in the component configuration of the vehicle (2).

9. A vehicle (2), in particular a motor vehicle, which is equipped with a system according to claim 1 and with at least one component (41, 42, 43, 44) which is provided with a memory element (51, 52, 53, 54).

10. The vehicle (2) according to claim 1, wherein the system is set up such that data are read from at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) disposed in or on the vehicle (2) and are sent out from the at least one transmission apparatus (8) at at least one predefined point in time.

11. The vehicle (2) according to claim 10 comprising a vehicle configuration comparison apparatus (7) which is configured to compare the data of the vehicle (2) currently read from the at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) with data of the same vehicle (2) read and transmitted at an earlier point in time from at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54), and only then to transmit data from the vehicle (2) to the receiving apparatus (12) if the current configuration of the vehicle (2) is different from the configuration that was last transmitted.

14. The system according to claim 4, wherein the passive memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) is an RFID element.

15. The vehicle (2) according to claim 10, wherein the at least one predefined point in time is when starting and/or stopping an engine disposed in the vehicle (2).

16. The vehicle (2) according to claim 10, wherein the at least one predefined point in time is at predefined intervals.

12. A method for detecting components (41, 42, 43, 44) of a vehicle (2) which comprises at least one component (41, 42, 43, 44) with which a memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) that is read in a wireless manner is associated, wherein the method comprises:

reading data in a wireless manner from the at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54);

transmitting the read data to at least one receiving apparatus (12);

selecting a software for the at least one control unit (22) of the vehicle (2) using the data read from the at least one memory element (51, 52, 53, 54) and transmitted to the at least one receiving apparatus (12);

transmitting the selected software in a wireless manner to the vehicle (2); and

installing said software in at least one control unit (22) of the vehicle (2).

13. The method according to claim 12, which additionally further comprising

comparing the data transmitted to the receiving apparatus (12) with data in stored component identification data sets, which are associated with respectively one component (41, 42, 43, 44);

and

identifying a component identification data set which contains the data transmitted to the receiving apparatus (12) in order to thus determine type, number and/or identity of the components (41, 42, 43, 44) installed in the vehicle (2).