Remote portable display unit and engine analyzing system incorporating same

• US 6,227,043 B1
• Filed: 12/07/1999
• Issued: 05/08/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Snap-On Technologies Incorporated (Snap-On Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Snap-On Technologies Incorporated (Snap-On Incorporated)
• Inventors: Schoenbeck, Michael D., Hoferitza, Mark A.
• Primary Examiner(s): MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT
• Application Number:
  US09/456,172
• Time in Patent Office: 518 Days
• Field of Search: 73/116, 73/117.2, 73/117.3, 73/118.1
• US Class Current: 73/114.01
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 15/02 Details or accessories of testing apparatus

Abstract

An engine analyzing system includes an engine analyzer unit having a CRT display screen for displaying display data based on parameter data received from an associated engine. The system also includes a remote portable display unit with a second CRT display screen and a display control keypad. Each of the analyzer unit and the remote display unit has a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. The data displayed on the analyzer display screen is transmitted to the remote unit for display on its screen. By use of the keypad display control signals are transmitted from the remote unit to the analyzer unit for controlling the analyzer unit display and, thereby, the remote unit display.

Claims

1. A system for analyzing operating parameter data from a machine comprising:

an analyzing unit including a first display screen,

at least one probe for connecting the analyzing unit to an associated machine for receiving operating parameter data from the machine,

the analyzing unit including display processing means coupled to the first display screen and to the at least one probe and responsive to the parameter data for generating display data and causing the display data to be displayed on the first display screen,

and a transmitter coupled to the display processing means for transmission of the display data displayed on the first display screen; and

a remote portable hand-held unit having no on-board diagnostic processing and including a housing of a size to be easily held in a user'"'"'s hand and carried about the machine,

display apparatus disposed in the housing and having a second display screen, and

a receiver disposed in the housing and coupled to the second display screen to receive the display data transmitted by the transmitter for display thereof on the second display screen so that the display on the second display screen is the same as that on the first display screen.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the control unit includes a keypad.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the transmitter and the receiver are radio frequency devices.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the transmitter and said receiver are infrared devices.

5. A system for analyzing operating parameter data from a machine comprising:

an analyzing unit including a first display screen,

at least one probe for connecting the analyzing unit to an associated machine for receiving operating parameter data from the machine,

the analyzing unit including display processing means coupled to the first display screen and to the at least one probe and responsive to the parameter data for generating display data and causing the display data to be displayed on the first display screen,

a first transmitter coupled to the display processing means for transmission of the display data displayed on the first display screen, and

a first receiver coupled to the display processing means; and

a remote portable hand-held unit having no on-board diagnostic processing and including a housing of a size to be easily held in a user'"'"'s hand and carried about the machine,

display apparatus disposed in the housing and having a second display screen,

a second receiver disposed in the housing and coupled to the second display screen to receive the display data transmitted by the first transmitter for display thereof on the second display screen so that the display on the second display screen is the same as that on the first display screen,

a remote control unit for generating display control signals, and

a second transmitter coupled to the remote control unit for transmitting the display control signals to the first receiver for controlling the first display screen.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the control unit includes a keypad.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein each of the transmitters and each of the receivers is a wireless device.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein each of the transmitters and each of the receivers is an infrared device.