JPH0733985B2 - Diagnostic equipment for automobile inspection and maintenance - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (1) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a diagnostic device for inspection and maintenance in vehicle inspection of a vehicle such as an automobile.

(2) Conventional Technology Conventionally, as this type of diagnostic device, a storage device that stores data of each vehicle to be inspected, an operation input device that inputs the address, name, vehicle number, and model of the owner of the vehicle to be inspected, By inputting a model from the operation input device, a series of diagnostic contents and judgment conditions corresponding to the model are read out from the storage device and a command of the diagnostic contents is issued, and the judgment result is compared with the judgment condition to judge pass / fail. There is known a device including a central processing and control device that implements the above, and a recording device that records a diagnosis result, a determination result, and the like.

(3) Problems to be Solved by the Invention According to this conventional diagnostic apparatus, an operator must input the vehicle owner's address, name, model, and vehicle number into the operation input device for each vehicle to be inspected. Therefore, not only does it take time and labor to reduce the work efficiency, but also there is a drawback that an input operation error to the operation input device occurs.

An object of the present invention is to provide a diagnostic device that eliminates input operation mistakes by a simple operation.

(4) Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides an IC card storing data such as the owner's address, name, vehicle number, and model for each vehicle to be inspected. A reading device that reads out these data from the IC card, a storage device that stores data such as diagnostic contents and determination conditions, and a series of diagnostic contents from the storage device according to the model of the vehicle to be inspected from the reading device. A central processing unit for selecting whether or not these diagnostic results match the determination conditions, and a recording device for recording the owner's address, name, model, vehicle number, diagnosis and determination results, etc. It consists of and.

(5) Action The IC card of the vehicle to be diagnosed is inserted into the insertion port of the reading device, and the owner's address, name, stored in the IC card,
Data such as a model number and a vehicle number are read by the reading device and input to the central processing and control unit. Then, in the central processing unit, a series of diagnostic contents and judgment conditions required according to the type of input data are selected, and whether each result of carrying out the diagnosis of the selected series of diagnostic contents matches the judgment conditions. A pass / fail judgment is made depending on whether or not it is. Then, the recording device prints out the owner's address, name, model, vehicle contents, diagnosis contents and the result and judgment result on a diagnosis sheet.

(6) Embodiment An embodiment of the diagnostic device of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(1) shows an IC card, (2) shows its reading device,
The IC card (1) is a synthetic resin plate of a size of a business card and has a well-known IC memory and a power source for the IC memory, such as a mercury battery, built in, and terminals from the IC memory exposed on the surface. The memory stores the address, name, model, vehicle number, etc. of the owner of the vehicle to be inspected. The reading device (2) has an insertion opening for the IC card (1), and when the IC card (1) is inserted into the insertion opening, the IC card (1) is attached to a terminal provided in the insertion opening. , The name of the owner of the vehicle under test stored in the IC memory of the IC card (1)
Data such as a model number and a vehicle number are input to a central processing control unit (4) described later.

(3) is a storage device, (4) is a central processing unit,
The storage device (3) has a conventionally known structure in which an IC memory, a magnetic disk, etc. are built in, and all diagnostic contents and all determination conditions are stored therein. Further, the central processing control device (4) comprises a CPU, and the read-out is performed. An input signal from the device (2) is input, a series of relevant diagnostic contents and its determination conditions are selected from the storage device (3) according to the type of the input signal, and the diagnostic contents and determination results are sequentially displayed on the surface device ( Indicated in 5) and comparing the diagnostic result such as the measured value which carried out the diagnostic content by this display with the judgment condition to judge the pass / fail, and further instruct the recording device (6) described later to make a predetermined recording. Have the function to Then, the recording device (6) receives the address, the name, the model, the vehicle number of the owner of the vehicle to be inspected by this command,
The contents of the diagnosis, the result thereof, and the judgment result are printed out on a diagnosis sheet. (7) indicates an interface, and (8a), (8b), (8c) ... indicate measuring devices such as an exhaust gas measuring device, a side slip tester, and a headlight tester.

Next, the operation of the diagnostic device of the above embodiment will be described.

An automobile, which is a vehicle to be inspected, is introduced into the diagnostic site, and the IC card (1) of the automobile, that is, the IC card (1) installed in the automobile or possessed by the owner of the automobile is read out. Insert it into the insertion opening of the device (2). When the IC card (1) is inserted, the terminal of the card (1) and the terminal in the insertion slot come into contact with each other, and the owner's address, name and the information stored in the memory in the guard (1) are stored. Data such as the model of the automobile and the vehicle number are read by the reading device (2) and these data are input to the central processing unit (4). Then, in the central processing control device (4), a series of diagnostic contents and judgment conditions corresponding to the vehicle type in the input data are selected from various diagnosis contents and judgment conditions in the storage device (3) and sequentially selected. Display of diagnostic contents (5)
Will be displayed. That is, when, for example, the exhaust gas measurement is first displayed on the display device (5), the operator performs the first exhaust gas measurement according to this display. The measured value of the exhaust gas is input from the exhaust gas measuring device (8a) to the central processing control unit (4) through the interface (7), and the central processing control unit (4) uses the measured value and a criterion as a judgment condition. When the measured values are compared with each other and the measured value is within the allowable reference value, it is judged as pass and the display device (5) displays a pass, for example, green.
However, when the central processing and control unit (4) determines that the measured value is outside the permissible standard, the display unit (5) displays, for example, a red color indicating a failure. In this way, after the completion of the execution of the first diagnosis content, the operator operates the operation switch on the site, so that the central processing unit (4) selects the next diagnosis content and outputs the diagnosis content, for example, the side slip tester. The measurement by is displayed on the display device (5). According to this display, the worker can check the side slip tester (8b).
Then, the side slip is measured by the central processing unit (4) and the pass / fail judgment is made by the same operation as described above. In this way, the operator makes a diagnosis according to the diagnosis contents sequentially displayed on the display device (5) by the operation of the central processing and control device (4), and finishes a series of diagnosis. Then, the diagnostic contents, the diagnostic result, the pass / fail judgment result, and the owner's address, name, vehicle number, model, etc. are printed out on the diagnostic report by the recording device (6), and the printed diagnostic report of the automobile. Can be handed over to the owner.

Further, when diagnosing the next vehicle to be inspected, the IC card (1) of the vehicle is inserted into the reading device (2) and the reading device (2) causes the owner's address, name, and The model, vehicle number, etc. are read and the diagnosis is carried out in the same manner as described above. By simply inserting the respective IC card (1) into the reading device (2) for each vehicle to be diagnosed in this way, the necessary data input is performed, the input operation is simplified, and the data input error is eliminated.

In addition, the IC card (1) has the address, name, and
In addition to the model and vehicle number, a series of diagnostic contents necessary for the car, data of the judgment conditions are stored, or IC
If the card (1) is made to store the data of the diagnosis result and the judgment result after the diagnosis together with these data and a reading / writing device is adopted instead of the reading device (2), the storage device (3) becomes The present invention can be easily applied to diagnosis of a large number of automobiles with a small capacity.

(7) Effects of the Invention As described above, according to the present invention, an IC card storing data such as the owner's address, name, vehicle number, and model is prepared for each vehicle to be inspected. Since the necessary input data is input to the central processing and control unit by inserting the IC card of the above into the insertion port of the reading device, the data input operation becomes extremely simple and the occurrence of data input errors can be prevented. Have an effect.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawing is a block diagram of one embodiment of the diagnostic device of the present invention. (1) …… IC card (2) …… Reading device (3) …… Storage device (4) …… Central processing controller (6) …… Recording device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The address of the owner of each vehicle to be inspected,
Each IC card that stores data such as name, vehicle number, and model, a reading device that reads out these data from the IC card, a storage device that stores data such as diagnostic content, determination conditions, and the like from the reading device. A central processing unit that selects a series of diagnostic contents and determination conditions from the storage device according to the type of vehicle to be inspected and determines whether the results of these diagnoses match the determination conditions, and the owner's address and name. A diagnostic device for inspection and maintenance of an automobile, comprising: a recording device for recording a model, a vehicle number, a diagnosis result, a determination result, and the like.