Instant detection system of vehicle

• US 9,704,308 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2015
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chiu Chau Enterprise Co., Ltd., Signal Technology Instrument Inc.
• Original Assignee: Chiu Chau Enterprise Co., Ltd., Signal Technology Instrument Inc.
• Inventors: Li, Tien-Hua, Hsu, Chih-Wei, Su, Chih-Hui, Chen, Chih-Jung, Chuang, Yu-Chieh
• Primary Examiner(s): OH, HARRY Y
• Application Number:
  US14/951,516
• Publication Number:
  US 20170061712A1
• Time in Patent Office: 594 Days
• Field of Search: 701 291
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/00 Details of control systems for road vehicle drive control not related to the control of a particular sub-unit , e.g. process diagnostic or vehicle driver interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0816 Indicating performance data, e.g. occurrence of a malfunction
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0825 using optical means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

An instant detection system of a vehicle is provided. The vehicle has wheel assemblies and a brake system, and the wheel assemblies are coupled with the brake system. The instant detection system includes temperature detectors, rotational speed detectors, acoustic detectors, an analysis host and an alarm device. The temperature detectors are disposed on the brake system, and the acoustic detectors and the rotational detectors are disposed adjacent to the wheel assemblies for respectively detecting temperature information and sound information of the wheel assemblies and the brake system, and speed information of the vehicle. The analysis host is coupled with the above-mentioned detectors to receive and analyze the temperature, the sound and the speed information, so as to generate alarm information. The alarm device generates breakdown information according to the alarm information.

Claims

1. An instant detection system of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle comprises a body, a plurality of wheel assemblies and a brake system, the wheel assemblies and the brake system are disposed on the body respectively, each of the wheel assemblies comprises a wheel, a rim and an axle, and the wheel assemblies are coupled with the brake system, the instant detection system comprising:

a plurality of temperature detectors, disposed on the brake system and configured to detect temperature information of the brake system;

a plurality of rotational speed detectors, disposed on the body and adjacent to the wheel assemblies to detect speed information of the wheel assemblies;

a plurality of acoustic detectors, disposed on the body and adjacent to the brake system to detect sound information of the wheel assemblies or sound information of the brake system;

an analysis host, disposed on the body and coupled with the temperature detectors, the rotational speed detectors and the acoustic detectors to receive the temperature information, the speed information and the sound information, and instantly analyze the temperature information, the speed information and the sound information to generate alarm information; and

an alarm device, coupled with the analysis host and configured to receive the alarm information and display the breakdown information of the vehicle according to the alarm information.

2. The instant detection system according to claim 1, wherein the brake system further comprises a plurality of brake calipers and a plurality of brake discs, each of the brake calipers is coupled to the axle, and the brake calipers are movably clipped on the brake discs respectively.

3. The instant detection system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle further comprises a suspension system disposed on the body and coupled with the axle, the suspension system comprises a spring, a damper and a plurality of linking rods, the spring sleeves the damper, and the linking rods are connected to the axle.

4. The instant detection system according to claim 3, further comprising at least one acceleration detector disposed on at least one of the linking rods and configured to detect vibration information of the brake system, the wheel assemblies and the suspension system.

5. The instant detection system according to claim 4, wherein the analysis host is coupled with the at least one acceleration detector to receive the vibration information and analyzes according to at least one of the vibration information, the temperature information, the speed information and the sound information to generate the alarm information.

6. The instant detection system according to claim 4, wherein the analysis host generates a vibration feature and an acoustic feature according to the speed information, the sound information and the vibration information, and the analysis host analyzes the vibration feature and the acoustic feature to generate the alarm information.

7. The instant detection system according to claim 6, wherein the vehicle further comprises:

a plurality of universal joints; and

a clutch, coupled to the universal joints sequentially.

8. The instant detection system according to claim 7, wherein the analysis host determines whether abnormality occurs to the clutch and/or the universal joints according to the vibration feature and the acoustic feature and generates the alarm information to instruct the alarm device to generate the breakdown information when the abnormality occurs to the clutch and/or the universal joints.

9. The instant detection system according to claim 4, wherein a plurality of normal vibration features and a plurality of normal acoustic features are built in the analysis host, and the analysis host compares the vibration feature with the normal vibration features and compares the acoustic feature with the normal acoustic features, so as to determine operation states of the wheel assemblies and the brake system.

10. The instant detection system according to claim 4, wherein the analysis host comprises a digital signal processor (DSP) to compute the temperature information, the speed information, the vibration information and the sound information to generate the alarm information.

11. The instant detection system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a cloud server, configured to receive the alarm information from the analysis host and transmit the alarm information to the alarm device deployed in a remote end through a network.

12. The instant detection system according to claim 1, wherein the alarm device comprises a display panel configured to display the breakdown information of the vehicle.

13. The instant detection system according to claim 1, wherein the sound information comprises a frequency and amplitude of abnormal noise generated by the vehicle.

14. The instant detection system according to claim 1, wherein the breakdown information is generated in a manner of a breakdown light or a breakdown alarm sound.

15. The instant detection system according to claim 1, wherein the alarm device comprises an alarm light and/or a buzzer.

16. The instant detection system according to claim 1, wherein the brake system comprises a disc brake system and a drum brake system.