Apparatus for tracking and recording vital signs and task-related information of a vehicle to identify operating patterns
First Claim
1. A method for recording operation of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- monitoring production-related parameters of the vehicle, including a load carried by the vehicle;
monitoring one or more vital sign parameters of the vehicle, including one or more conditions of an engine of the vehicle and one or more conditions of a transmission of the vehicle;
detecting an overload condition;
detecting a critical state of one or more of one or both of the engine and transmission conditions; and
recording the overload condition and the critical state.
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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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30 Claims
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1. A method for recording operation of a vehicle, the method comprising:
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monitoring production-related parameters of the vehicle, including a load carried by the vehicle; monitoring one or more vital sign parameters of the vehicle, including one or more conditions of an engine of the vehicle and one or more conditions of a transmission of the vehicle; detecting an overload condition; detecting a critical state of one or more of one or both of the engine and transmission conditions; and recording the overload condition and the critical state. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An apparatus for recording operation of a vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
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first sensors for monitoring one or more production-related parameters of the vehicle, including a load carried by the vehicle; second sensors for monitoring one or more vital sign parameters of an engine of rise vehicle and one or more vital sign parameters of a transmission of the vehicle, a first memory for capturing information from the first and second sensors; a second memory adapted to receive the information from the first memory; a processor in communication with the first and second sensors and the first and second memories for detecting one or more values of one or more of the vital sign parameters indicating an anomaly and recording into the second memory the information captured by the first memory corresponding to a period of time immediately preceding detection of the anomaly. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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