DIAGNOSTIC METHOD AND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE COMPONENT OF A VEHICLE

• US 20130226391A1
• Filed: 02/27/2013
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: NORDBRUCH, Stefan, KNOOP, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/779,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20130226391A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/29.3
• 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: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

A diagnostic method for a vehicle component of a vehicle, a plurality of vehicles each having the same vehicle component being provided; during the operation of the vehicles, an operating parameter of the respective vehicle component being recorded and, as a function of the recorded operating parameter, a status message corresponding to the status of the respective vehicle component being sent to a server for an evaluation of the status message. A corresponding diagnostic device, a corresponding diagnostic system and a computer program are also described.

Claims

1. A diagnostic method for a vehicle component of a vehicle, a plurality of vehicles being provided with the same vehicle component in each case, the method comprising:

recording an operating parameter of the respective vehicle component during an operation of the vehicles; and

sending a status message corresponding to a status of the respective vehicle component as a function of the recorded apparatus parameters, the status message being sent to a server outside the vehicle for an evaluation of the status message.

2. The diagnostic method as recited in claim 1, wherein, in at least one vehicle, the corresponding operating parameter is additionally sent to the server that is external to the vehicle.

3. The diagnostic method as recited in claim 2, wherein, in at least one vehicle, the operating parameter and the status message is transmitted to a central communications device of the vehicle for the sending of the operating parameter and of the status message to the server that is external to the vehicle.

4. The diagnostic method as recited in claim 1, wherein, in at least one vehicle, a respective operating parameter of additional different vehicle components is recorded and, as a function of the recorded operating parameters, in each case a status message corresponding to the respective status of the additional vehicle components is transmitted to a central diagnostic device that is internal to the vehicle, which, as a function of the transmitted status messages, sends the status message to the server that is external to the vehicle.

5. The diagnostic method as recited in claim 1, wherein, in at least one vehicle, an environmental parameter corresponding to a vehicle environment is recorded and is correlated in time to the recorded operating parameter.

6. The diagnostic method as recited in claim 1, wherein, in at least one vehicle, a travel route parameter is recorded and is correlated in time to the recorded operating parameter.

7. The diagnostic method as recited in claim 1, wherein, in at least one vehicle, a vehicle status parameter is recorded and is correlated in time to the recorded operating parameter.

8. A diagnostic device for a vehicle component of a vehicle, comprising:

a recording device to record an operating parameter of the vehicle component; and

a sending device to send a status message corresponding to the recorded operating parameter to a server that is external to the vehicle, for an evaluation of the status message.

9. The diagnostic device as recited in claim 8, wherein the recording device is integrated into a controller of the vehicle component.

10. The diagnostic device as recited in claim 8, wherein a central diagnostic device is provided, which is connected to the recording device using a bus.

11. The diagnostic device as recited in claim 10, wherein the central diagnostic device is integrated into a central communications device including the sending device.

12. A diagnostic system for a vehicle component of a vehicle, comprising:

a diagnostic device including a recording device to record an operating parameter of the vehicle component, and a sending device to send a status message corresponding to the recorded operating parameter to a server that is external to the vehicle, for an evaluation of the status message; and

a server external to the vehicle to evaluate the status message.

13. A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program including program code for a diagnostic method for a vehicle component of a vehicle, a plurality of vehicles being provided with the same vehicle component in each case, the program code, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform the steps of:

recording an operating parameter of the respective vehicle component during an operation of the vehicles; and

sending a status message corresponding to a status of the respective vehicle component as a function of the recorded apparatus parameters, the status message being sent to a server outside the vehicle for an evaluation of the status message.