Remote diagnosis and central fault evaluation method of decentralized electric devices, and decentralized electronic device

• US 7,110,757 B2
• Filed: 05/05/2001
• Issued: 09/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Herrmann, Matthias
• Primary Examiner(s): Cumming, William D.
• Application Number:
  US10/343,367
• Publication Number:
  US 20040132444A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,963 Days
• Field of Search: 455/452, 714/25
• US Class Current: 455/425
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements

Abstract

A method for remote diagnosis and central error evaluation of decentralized electronic devices (1) with an integrated telecommunications device (3) includes the steps of storing information about malfunctions of a decentralized electronic device (1) in a diagnosis memory (6) of the electronic device (1); making a telecommunications connection of the electronic device (1) with a central error evaluation station (7), controlled by the user of the electronic device (1); transmitting error data from the diagnosis memory (6) to the central error evaluation station (7); and evaluating the error data in the central error evaluation station (7).

Claims

1. A method for remote diagnosis and central error evaluation of decentralized electronic devices with integrated telecommunications devices, the method comprising the steps at:

storing information about malfunction of a decentralized electronic device as error data in a diagnosis memory of the electronic device;

executing one or more diagnosis programs stored in the diagnosis memory to select error data from the diagnosis memory;

making a telecommunications connection of the electronic device with a central error evaluation station controlled by a user of the electronic device;

transmitting error data from the diagnosis memory to the central error evaluation station; and

receiving results of diagnosis from the central error evaluation station by the electronic device after evaluation of the error data in the central evaluation station.

2. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising displaying the results of diagnosis in the electronic device.

3. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising providing maintenance of the electronic device by the diagnosis program as a function of the results of the diagnosis.

4. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising storing the diagnosis programs on a separate diagnosis card, so that the method can not be performed until the diagnosis current is read by a card reader connected trough an electronic device.

5. A decentralized electronic device, comprising integrated telecommunications devices;

a diagnosis memory for storing information about malfunctions of the electronic device as error data;

a diagnosis card, such that diagnosis programs are stored in said diagnosis memory or in said diagnosis card for selecting error data from the diagnosis memory;

a central error evaluation station to which the selected error data are transmitted, the electronic device being formed for making a telecommunications connection of the electronic device with said central error evaluation station controlled by a user of the electronic device for transmitting the error data from the diagnosis memory to the central error evaluation station and for receiving results of diagnosis from the central evaluation station by the electronic device after evaluation of the error data In the central evaluation station.

6. A decentralized electronic device as defined in claim 5, wherein the electronic device is formed so that the diagnosis programs for maintaining the electronic device are embodied as a function of the results of diagnosis.

7. A decentralized electronic device as defined in claim 5, and further comprising a card reader for reading the error data from the diagnosis card.