Simplified Battery Tester with Smart Device Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing battery testers are complex and costly due to their integrated design, requiring users to manually input context parameters, which can lead to errors and increased complexity in determining battery health, especially for diverse battery types like AGM batteries.
Innovation Solution
A simplified testing device that measures basic parameters and transmits them to a smart device for analysis, leveraging the smart device's user interface, memory, and communication capabilities to input context information and perform qualitative analysis, with the option to connect to a web server for advanced analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If an integrated battery tester design is used, then the device can perform complete battery testing functions, but the device complexity and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The battery testing system is divided into two separate components: a simplified testing device that performs only measurement functions, and a smart device that performs analysis and interpretation. This segmentation reduces the complexity of the physical tester while maintaining complete testing capabilities through the combination of both devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The analysis and interpretation functions are extracted from the traditional integrated tester and relocated to the smart device. The simplified tester retains only the essential measurement capabilities, while the smart device handles context parameter input, data analysis, and result interpretation.
2Reliability
If an integrated battery tester with manual input interface is used, then the device can accept context parameters, but user errors increase and ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The smart device leverages its existing capabilities (camera, processor, communication interfaces) to automatically capture and process battery information. The system uses the smart device's own resources to perform identification and analysis without requiring manual data entry, thereby reducing user errors and improving ease of operation.
3Reliability
If traditional ohmic testing methods are used, then battery health can be determined, but the testing device cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The smart device, which the user already possesses and uses for other purposes, is utilized to perform the complex analysis and interpretation functions. This multi-functional approach allows the same device to serve both personal purposes and specialized battery testing analysis, thereby reducing the need for a dedicated expensive tester.
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AI summary
A system and method for testing equipment, apparatuses, or components with distributed measurement and analytical functions. The system comprises a simplified test circuit for obtaining key data representative of the operational characteristics of said equipment, apparatus, or component and transmitting these to a sophisticated device capable of other uses, such as a smart phone or tablet computer. The latter analyzes the raw data with reference to values for nominal characteristics or operation of the equipment, apparatus, or component and provides a result indicative of the condition thereof, or may transmit the data over the Internet to a remote computer for performing the analysis.