Commercial vehicle, in particular fork-lift truck or industrial truck, with a data memory that is rigidly attached on the vehicle side and assigned to a parameterisable electronic control arrangement

• US 9,779,059 B2
• Filed: 02/19/2013
• Issued: 10/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jungheinrich AG
• Original Assignee: Jungheinrich AG
• Inventors: Kammerer, Markus, Schade, Ralf, Zens, Robert, Ries, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S
• Application Number:
  US13/770,128
• Publication Number:
  US 20130231831A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,687 Days
• Field of Search: 701 296, 701 50, 701 51, 701 324, 36442404, 180422
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/24 Electrical devices or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry

Abstract

A commercial vehicle comprises a functional arrangement comprising at least one drive motor for providing at least one working or operating function and a parameterisable electronic control arrangement configured to control the functional arrangement depending on a parameter dataset stored in the control arrangement. A data memory is provided, which is rigidly attached in the vehicle, separate from the control arrangement and in which at least one dataset relevant to the vehicle is stored or can be stored. The control arrangement is configured to read data of the dataset relevant to the vehicle from the data memory and/or to write data to the data memory for recording in the dataset relevant to the vehicle or to update the dataset relevant to the vehicle.

Claims

1. A commercial vehicle, comprising:

a functional arrangement comprising at least one drive motor for providing at least one working or operating function including a travelling function; and

a parameterisable electronic control arrangement (12), which is configured or programmed to control the functional arrangement depending on a parameter dataset stored in the control arrangement in relation to switching on or off the working or operating function or a respective working or operating function and/or in relation to a type of implementation of the working or operating function or a respective working or operating function; and

a data memory (14), which is rigidly attached and installed in a cable harness fixed to the frame of the vehicle, separate with respect to the control arrangement and in which at least one dataset relevant to the vehicle is stored or can be stored, the control arrangement being configured to read out data of the dataset relevant to the vehicle from the data memory (14) in a read access via a data connection (16) and/or, in a write access, to write data to the data memory (14) for recording in the dataset relevant to the vehicle or to update the dataset relevant to the vehicle,

wherein control arrangement (12) is configured, after a reset or restart, to read out data relevant to the vehicle from the data memory (14) and to compare said data with the corresponding data stored in the control arrangement (12) by determining whether said data from the data memory (14) is consistent with the corresponding data in the control arrangement (12), if the control arrangement (12) has already been parametrised,

wherein the control arrangement (12) emits a warning message in response to said data from the data memory (14) not being consistent with the corresponding data in the control arrangement (12).

2. The commercial vehicle according to claim 1, characterised in that the control arrangement (12), or at least one control arrangement module thereof, can be removed from the vehicle independently of the data memory (14) and can be replaced by an exchange control arrangement or an exchange control arrangement module.

3. The commercial vehicle according to claim 1, characterised in that the data relevant to the vehicle stored in the data memory (14) comprise the parameter dataset or a part data set of the parameter dataset.

4. The commercial vehicle according to claim 1, characterised in that the control arrangement (12) and/or the data memory (14) is configured for the control arrangement to be able to access the data memory only for reading but not writing.

5. The commercial vehicle according to claim 1, characterised in that the control arrangement (12) and/or the data memory (14) is configured for the control arrangement to be able to access a first memory portion of the data memory only for reading but not writing and to be able to access a second memory portion of the data memory for reading and writing.

6. The commercial vehicle according to claim 1, characterised in that the data memory (14) or the second memory portion is configured as an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) or in that the data memory (14) or the first memory portion is configured as a read-only memory (ROM) or as an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM).

7. The commercial vehicle according to claim 1, characterised in that the data connection (16) comprises at least one electric data line rigidly installed in the vehicle, the data connection being formed by a serial two-wire bus or a serial one-wire bus.

8. The commercial vehicle according to claim 1, characterised in that the control arrangement (12) is configured or programmed to read out data from the data memory (14) and to check said data using data of the parameter dataset stored in the control arrangement according to at least a first checking condition, and to respond to non-fulfillment of the checking condition by triggering at least one follow-up function and/or by blocking or limiting at least one working or operating function of the functional arrangement.

9. The commercial vehicle according to claim 1, characterised in that the control arrangement (12) is configured or programmed to read out data from the data memory (14) and to check said data using data of the parameter dataset stored in the control arrangement according to at least a second checking condition, and to respond to a fulfillment of the checking condition by clearing or deleting a limitation of at least one working or operating functional arrangement.

10. The control arrangement for a vehicle according to claim 1, characterised in that the control arrangement (12) is configured or programmed, after installation in the vehicle (10) for parameterisation in relation to this vehicle, to carry out a parameterising function, in which data is read out from the data memory (14) rigidly attached in a cable harness of the vehicle and stored as a parameter dataset in the control arrangement.

11. The control arrangement according to claim 10, characterised in that the control arrangement (12) is configured or programmed for the parameterising function to only be able to be carried out when no parameter dataset has previously been stored in the control arrangement, or, if a parameter dataset has previously been stored in the control arrangement, can only be carried out when an authorisation function clears the previously stored dataset on the basis of authorisation data fed to the control arrangement.

12. The control arrangement according to claim 10, characterised in that the control arrangement (12) is configured or programmed to read out data from the data memory (14) and to check said data using data of a parameter dataset previously stored in the control arrangement according to at least one checking condition, and to respond to non-fulfillment of the checking condition by triggering at least one follow-up function and/or by blocking or limiting at least one working or operating function of the functional arrangement.

13. A method for parameterising a control arrangement in relation to the vehicle according to claim 1, characterised in that data are read out from the data memory (14) rigidly attached in the vehicle and stored in the control arrangement (12) as parameter data of a parameter dataset.

14. The method for ensuring a parameter integrity and/or parameter compatibility of a parameter dataset stored in a control arrangement (12) in relation to a vehicle according to claim 1, characterised in that data are read out from the data memory (14) rigidly attached in the vehicle and compared with parameter data of a parameter dataset stored in the control arrangement (12).

15. The method according to claim 14, characterised in that the data read out from the data memory (14) and/or the parameter data of the parameter dataset are checked for data integrity.

16. The commercial vehicle of claim 7, wherein the data connection comprises a synchronous serial two-wire bus comprising an I²C bus or TWI bus.

17. A commercial vehicle, comprising:

a functional arrangement comprising at least one drive motor for providing at least one working or operating function including a travelling function; and

a parameterisable electronic control arrangement (12), which is configured or programmed to control the functional arrangement depending on a parameter dataset stored in the control arrangement in relation to switching on or off the working or operating function or a respective working or operating function and/or in relation to a type of implementation of the working or operating function or a respective working or operating function; and

a data memory (14), which is rigidly attached and installed in a cable harness fixed to the frame of the vehicle, separate with respect to the control arrangement and in which at least one dataset relevant to the vehicle is stored or can be stored, the control arrangement being configured to read out data of the dataset relevant to the vehicle from the data memory (14) in a read access via a data connection (16) and/or, in a write access, to write data to the data memory (14) for recording in the dataset relevant to the vehicle or to update the dataset relevant to the vehicle,

wherein the control arrangement (12) is configured or programmed to read out data from the data memory (14) and to check said data using data of the parameter dataset stored in the control arrangement according to at least a first checking condition, and to respond to non-fulfillment of the checking condition by triggering at least one follow-up function and/or by blocking or limiting at least one working or operating function of the functional arrangement,

wherein the checking is a comparison of said data from the data memory (14) with said data of the parameter dataset stored in the control arrangement, wherein if the comparison leads to the result the data on the control arrangement side and on the data memory side are consistent with one another, normal operation of the commercial vehicle is cleared, wherein otherwise a warning signal or a warning message is emitted.

18. A commercial vehicle, comprising:

a functional arrangement comprising at least one drive motor for providing at least one working or operating function including a travelling function; and

a parameterisable electronic control arrangement (12), which is configured or programmed to control the functional arrangement depending on a parameter dataset stored in the control arrangement in relation to switching on or off the working or operating function or a respective working or operating function and/or in relation to a type of implementation of the working or operating function or a respective working or operating function; and

a data memory (14), which is rigidly attached and installed in a cable harness fixed to the frame of the vehicle, separate with respect to the control arrangement and in which at least one dataset relevant to the vehicle is stored or can be stored, the control arrangement being configured to read out data of the dataset relevant to the vehicle from the data memory (14) in a read access via a data connection (16) and/or, in a write access, to write data to the data memory (14) for recording in the dataset relevant to the vehicle or to update the dataset relevant to the vehicle,

wherein the control arrangement (12) is configured or programmed to read out data from the data memory (14) and to check said data using data of the parameter dataset stored in the control arrangement according to at least a first checking condition, and to respond to non-fulfillment of the checking condition by triggering at least one follow-up function and/or by blocking or limiting at least one working or operating function of the functional arrangement,

wherein the checking is a comparison of said data from the data memory (14) with said data of the parameter dataset stored in the control arrangement, wherein if the comparison leads to the result that the data on the control arrangement side and on the data memory side are consistent with one another, normal operation of the commercial vehicle is cleared, wherein otherwise a warning signal or a warning message is emitted,

the control arrangement (12) is configured or programmed to read out data from the data memory (14) and to check said data using data of the parameter dataset stored in the control arrangement according to at least a second checking condition, and to respond to a fulfillment of the checking condition by clearing or deleting a limitation of at least one working or operating functional arrangement,

wherein the second checking condition is whether the control arrangement (12) has already been parametrised, but does not belong to the vehicle, in which it is now installed, wherein clearing of working or operating functions restricted based upon the parameters stored in the data memory (14) happens in response to a fulfillment of the second checking condition.