Apparatus for tracking and recording vital signs and task related information of a vehicle to identify operating patterns
First Claim
1. A system for monitoring and recording a vehicle'"'"'s state of health and activity preceding a crash of the vehicle, the system comprising:
- one or more first sensors mounted to the vehicle for monitoring state-of-health parameters of the vehicle and providing values of the parameters;
one or more second sensors mounted to the vehicle for monitoring one or more activity-related parameters of the vehicle and providing values of the parameters;
an electronic processor on-board the vehicle for acquiring the values of the state-of-health and activity-related parameters;
a memory for storing the values of the parameters acquired by the processor;
a device responsive to a sudden acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle and providing a signal to the processor in response thereto; and
, the processor including circuitry responsive to the signal for identifying the values of the state-of-health and activity-related parameters for a time period that includes a time immediately preceding the crash and a time during the crash.
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Abstract
An apparatus is provided for diagnosing the state of health of a vehicle and for providing the operator of the vehicle with a substantially real-time indication of the efficiency of the vehicle in performing an assigned task with respect to a predetermined goal. A processor on-board the vehicle monitors sensors that provide information regarding the state of health of the vehicle and the amount of work the vehicle has done. In response to anomalies in the data from the sensors, the processor records information that describes events leading up to the occurrence of the anomaly for later analysis that can be used to diagnose the cause of the anomaly. The sensors are also used to prompt the operator of the vehicle to operate the vehicle at optimum efficiency.
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1. A system for monitoring and recording a vehicle'"'"'s state of health and activity preceding a crash of the vehicle, the system comprising:
- one or more first sensors mounted to the vehicle for monitoring state-of-health parameters of the vehicle and providing values of the parameters;
one or more second sensors mounted to the vehicle for monitoring one or more activity-related parameters of the vehicle and providing values of the parameters;
an electronic processor on-board the vehicle for acquiring the values of the state-of-health and activity-related parameters;
a memory for storing the values of the parameters acquired by the processor;
a device responsive to a sudden acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle and providing a signal to the processor in response thereto; and
, the processor including circuitry responsive to the signal for identifying the values of the state-of-health and activity-related parameters for a time period that includes a time immediately preceding the crash and a time during the crash. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
- one or more first sensors mounted to the vehicle for monitoring state-of-health parameters of the vehicle and providing values of the parameters;
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20. A system for monitoring and recording a vehicle'"'"'s state of health and rate-of-work preceding a failure mode of the vehicle, the system comprising:
- a first sensor mounted to the vehicle for monitoring an operating parameter of the vehicle and generating vital sign data whose values determine a state of health of the vehicle;
one or more second sensors mounted to the vehicle for monitoring one or more production-related parameters of the vehicle and generating data whose values determine a rate of work done by the vehicle;
an electronic processor responsive to the rate-of-work data for determining a rate of work for the vehicle;
a device responsive to the vital sign data for detecting a failure mode of the vehicle; and
, the processor including means responsive to the detection of the failure mode by the device for (1) identifying rate-of-work data acquired contemporaneously with the detection of the failure mode and (2) storing in the memory a source of the failure mode and when the failure mode occurred in relationship to the identified data. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
- a first sensor mounted to the vehicle for monitoring an operating parameter of the vehicle and generating vital sign data whose values determine a state of health of the vehicle;
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29. A method for monitoring and recording a vehicle'"'"'s state of health and rate of work preceding a failure mode of the vehicle, the method comprising:
- monitoring a first parameter of the vehicle and generating vital sign data whose values determine a state of health of the vehicle;
monitoring a second parameter of the vehicle and generating data whose values are used to determine a rate of work performed by the vehicle;
determining a rate of work of the vehicle;
detecting a failure mode of the vehicle;
identifying and recording a source of the failure mode; and
identifying and recording the rate-of-work data immediately preceding the detection of the failure mode. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
- monitoring a first parameter of the vehicle and generating vital sign data whose values determine a state of health of the vehicle;
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35. A system for monitoring and recording a vehicle'"'"'s state of health and activity preceding a failure mode of the vehicle, the system comprising:
- one or more first sensors mounted to the vehicle for monitoring state-of-health parameters of the vehicle and providing values of the parameters;
one or more second sensors mounted to the vehicle for monitoring one or more activity-related parameters of the vehicle and providing values of the parameters;
an electronic processor on-board the vehicle responsive to the values of the state-of-health and activity-related parameters for collecting a chronology of anomalous values of one or more of the state-of-health parameters and correlating each of the anomalous values with contemporaneous values of the activity-related parameters;
a memory for storing the values acquired by the processor;
a device for detecting a failure of a component of the vehicle and providing a signal to the processor in response thereto; and
, the processor including circuitry responsive to the signal for identifying the anomalous values of the state-of-health parameter associated with the failed component and the correlated values of the activity-related parameters preceding the failure of the component. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
- one or more first sensors mounted to the vehicle for monitoring state-of-health parameters of the vehicle and providing values of the parameters;
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