Vehicle Maintenance Mesh Network for Tool Resource Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle maintenance facilities face inefficiencies due to redundant and duplicate functionalities among various maintenance devices, leading to increased costs and time required for vehicle maintenance.
Innovation Solution
A mesh network configuration is established among a plurality of vehicle maintenance devices, allowing them to communicate and share resources, thereby optimizing the use of capabilities and reducing redundant functionalities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple independent maintenance devices are used for vehicle inspections, then comprehensive inspection coverage is achieved, but device complexity and operational time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple independent maintenance devices into a single integrated device that can perform emission inspection, safety inspection, and OBD inspection functions. This merging eliminates the need for separate devices while maintaining comprehensive inspection coverage, directly resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated maintenance device is designed with multi-functional capabilities to perform various types of vehicle inspections (emission, safety, OBD) through a single system. This universal design allows one device to replace multiple specialized devices, reducing system complexity while preserving adaptability across different inspection types.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple independent maintenance devices are used for vehicle inspections, then comprehensive inspection capabilities are achieved, but maintenance time increases
Solution Approach 1:
By merging multiple inspection functions into a single integrated device, the patent enables simultaneous or sequential execution of emission, safety, and OBD inspections without requiring physical movement between separate devices, thereby reducing total maintenance time while maintaining comprehensive inspection capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated device performs preliminary checks and data collection across all inspection types in a coordinated manner, allowing for more efficient processing and reducing the overall time required to complete comprehensive vehicle inspections.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple independent maintenance devices are deployed, then functional coverage is improved, but cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functionalities of multiple independent devices into a single integrated maintenance device, reducing the quantity of physical devices required from multiple separate units to one unified system, thereby lowering costs while maintaining full functional coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated device is designed with universal capabilities to perform emission inspection, safety inspection, and OBD inspection functions, allowing one device to replace multiple specialized devices and reducing the overall device quantity needed in the maintenance facility.
Data Source
AI summary
A plurality of automotive tools each of which includes communication circuitry which provides communication between at least another tool in the plurality of tools, cluster forming circuitry configured to form a cluster comprises at least two tools in the plurality of tools, and data sharing circuitry configured to share data between the at least two tools in the cluster.