Remote portable display unit with wireless transceiver and engine analyzing system incorporating same

• US 6,029,508 A
• Filed: 03/25/1996
• Issued: 02/29/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Snap-On Technologies Incorporated (Snap-On Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Snap-On Technologies Incorporated (Snap-On Incorporated)
• Inventors: Schoenbeck, Michael D., Hoferitza, Mark A.
• Primary Examiner(s): MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT
• Application Number:
  US08/621,785
• Time in Patent Office: 1,436 Days
• Field of Search: 73/116, 73/117.2, 73/117.3, 73/118.1
• US Class Current: 73/116.01
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 15/02 Details or accessories of testing apparatus

Abstract

An engine analyzing system includes an engine analyzer unit having a CRT display screen for displaying display data based on parameter data received from an associated engine. The system also includes a remote portable display unit with a second CRT display screen and a display control keypad. Each of the analyzer unit and the remote display unit has a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. The data displayed on the analyzer display screen is transmitted to the remote unit for display on its screen. By use of the keypad display control signals are transmitted from the remote unit to the analyzer unit for controlling the analyzer unit display and, thereby, the remote unit display.

Claims

1. A system for analyzing operating parameter data from a machine comprising:

an analyzing unit including a first display screen, at least one probe for connecting said analyzing unit to an associated machine for receiving operating parameter data from the machine, said analyzing unit including display processing means coupled to said first display screen and to said at least one probe and responsive to the parameter data for generating display data and causing said display data to be displayed on said first display screen, and a wireless transmitter coupled to said display processing means for wireless transmission of the display data displayed on said first display screen; and

a remote portable hand-held unit having no on-board diagnostic processing and including a housing of a size to be easily held in a user'"'"'s hand and carried about the machine, display apparatus disposed in the housing and having a second display screen, and a wireless receiver disposed in the housing and coupled to said second display screen to receive the display data transmitted by said transmitter for display thereof on said second display screen so that the display on the second display screen is the same as that on the first display screen.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said first display screen is a cathode ray tube display.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said second display screen is a liquid crystal display.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said remote display apparatus is hand-held.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said analyzing unit is an automotive engine analyzer for analyzing internal combustion engines.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said transmitter and said receiver are radio frequency devices.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said transmitter and said receiver are infrared devices.

8. A system for analyzing operating parameter data from a machine comprising:

an analyzing unit including a first display screen, at least one probe for connecting said analyzing unit to an associated machine for receiving operating parameter data from the machine, said analyzing unit including display processing means coupled to said first display screen and to said at least one probe and responsive to the parameter data for generating display data and causing said display data to be displayed on said first display screen, a first wireless transmitter coupled to said display processing means for wireless transmission of the display data displayed on said first display screen, and a first wireless receiver coupled to said display processing means; and

a remote portable hand-held unit having no on-board diagnostic processing and including a housing of a size to be easily held in a user'"'"'s hand and carried about the machine, display apparatus disposed in the housing and having a second display screen, a second wireless receiver disposed in the housing and coupled to said second display screen to receive the display data transmitted by said first transmitter for display thereof on said second display screen so that the display on the second display screen is the same as that on the first display screen, a remote control unit for generating display control signals, and a second wireless transmitter coupled to said remote control unit for transmitting the display control signals to said first wireless receiver for controlling said first display screen.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein said remote control unit includes a keypad.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein said remote portable display apparatus includes a common housing in which said second display screen and said remote control unit and said second wireless transmitter and receiver are disposed.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein said analyzing unit is an automotive engine analyzer for analyzing internal combustion engines.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein said transmitter and said receiver are radio frequency devices.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein said transmitter and said receiver are infrared devices.