TW201426606A - Method for inputting automobile maintenance and repair description data - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for inputting automobile maintenance and repair description data classifies various complicated automobile maintenance and repair problems into expressions in respect of item parts, symptoms, situations, automobile conditions, and portions with the item parts being the primary items and each part being associated with remarks of corresponding symptoms, situations, automobile conditions, portions, and associated noises. A display screen first shows a first form with input fields to allow a user to enter texts or symbols including the names of item parts associated therewith; then the display screen shows a second form corresponding to the texts or symbols of all the parts entered to allow the user to select the parts to be subjected to malfunction repair/maintenance; and next, the display screen shows the selected parts that are subjected to malfunction repair/maintenance and a third form corresponding to the symptoms, situation, or automobile conditions, or portions, or remarks of the parts to allow the user to select information of the repair/maintenance operation, whereby the user is allowed to express the problem of maintenance and repair of an automobile in a simple, efficient, complete, and correct manner.

Description

Vehicle maintenance instruction data input method

The present invention relates to a faulty maintenance operation of a vehicle, and more particularly to an input method for a maintenance instruction at the time of vehicle fault repair.

Cars are a necessary vehicle for transportation in today's society. There are 75 million vehicles in the world each year, and the annual growth rate is 4.5%. There are about 6.9 million Taiwanese cars. Although they are already supersaturated, there are still 350,000 vehicles per year. These vehicles are inspected and maintained up to about 20 million vehicles per year.

Cars are highly technically intensive mass-produced goods. Maintenance requires relatively advanced technology, and the required educational training and practical experience are long and numerous. Therefore, it is difficult, costly, time-consuming and costly for a mature technician to develop (usually destroying customer vehicles due to lack of experience). Car repair is a hard industry. It requires physical strength, a black and dirty working environment, and no air conditioning. The younger generation gradually gives up this industry, resulting in a lack of labor and a rare industry.

Cars can fail and fall into two categories:

1. Failure caused by production: refers to the abnormality or loss that occurs due to the inaccuracy of design, manufacture, and assembly, resulting in early (referring to other parts) or reaching design limits.

2. Failure caused by use: It refers to the abnormality or loss caused by the user's use environment, use conditions or frequency exceeding the average user, resulting in early or reaching design limits.

These two types of faults are usually interactive, resulting in the diversity and complexity of automotive faults. However, in batch production, there is usually a rule that is in certain parts, in certain years, in certain Similar conditions will occur with the use of conditions. If these phenomena can be systematically sorted and input into the computer, after statistical, analysis, and induction, certain repair rules can be obtained, making troubleshooting easier, relying on experienced technical personnel can be reduced, and talents are easy to develop and consumers. The vehicle also reduces the chance of being tested wrong.

Due to industry competition, the dealer repair factory and even the workshop repair factory owned by each car factory have been equipped with a dealer management system (DMS: Dealer Management System, or POS (Point Of Seal) to manage customer maintenance operations and records. Due to the abnormality or failure of the customer's reaction, description, complexity, variety, no rules, plus the need to input into the computer, there is difficulty in typing and typing, which results in the computer data of the repair shop or workshop repair factory of each car factory. Record the spare parts, amount, customer information, repairs and dates used in the repair, and the descriptions of the vehicle's abnormalities and faults reflected and described by the customer are not recorded in the computer database (usually handwritten on the paper repair work order) In this case, the regularity and experience of maintenance cannot be counted and quenched, as a reference for future maintenance work for similar fault situations.

Taiwan Patent No. 201216180 discloses a smart car repair and management method that utilizes network technologies (such as cloud, web, web2) to repair various problems encountered by automobiles, such as how to determine the cause of the malfunction, various vehicles. The maintenance problem of the model, how to eliminate the cause of the fault, etc., through the experts in the field of automobile maintenance, the maintenance technology and experience of many years are integrated into a vehicle maintenance expert system, and the inference mechanism can be used to input the fault problem of the user through analysis and calculation. The cause of the fault can be listed according to the fault percentage, and the user can detect it in sequence; when the repair is completed, each maintenance record is automatically transmitted to the smart cloud program, and a data data is added to make the reasoning mechanism faster and more accurate.

The above-mentioned Taiwan patent does not specifically disclose the text that guides the user to input and describe the fault of the car in a unified and correct manner. Different users will not know how to correctly describe the problem of the car fault, even if the description text of the vehicle fault problem is reluctantly input, It is difficult for the maintenance system or maintenance personnel to identify the problem, and it is impossible to use the previous experience to perform the most appropriate maintenance work.

The present invention has been made in order to allow a user to easily, quickly, completely, and correctly express the problem that the vehicle requires maintenance.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a method for inputting vehicle maintenance instruction data, which is to summarize the various complicated vehicle maintenance problems into the vehicle parts, symptoms, conditions, vehicle conditions and parts, and the machine parts are the program. Each machine has a matching symptom, condition, condition, location or remarks about the symptoms of the abnormal sound. It can specifically guide the user to select and describe the text of the vehicle maintenance in a unified and correct manner. Different users can unify and Correctly describe the problem of vehicle maintenance, so that maintenance personnel can easily identify the problem, and can use the past experience to carry out the most appropriate maintenance work.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for inputting a vehicle maintenance instruction data by first displaying a screen for a user to input a first form of an input field containing characters or symbols corresponding to the name of the vehicle; and then displaying the screen a second form corresponding to all the parts of the entered text or symbol for the user to select the part to be repaired; and then causing the screen to display the selected part to be repaired and corresponding to the part The third form of symptoms or conditions or conditions or parts or notes for the user to select the information to be repaired, so that the user can easily, quickly, completely and correctly express the problem that the vehicle needs to be repaired.

For other purposes and functions of the present invention, please refer to the drawings and the embodiments, which are described in detail below.

The inventor has been engaged in the automotive industry for 30 years. He has consulted more than ten brand factory dealer repair factories in Taiwan, visited more than 30 senior teachers, and read more than 100,000 repair work orders. He found that the problem of car faults is difficult to describe in words. There is no certain grammar to describe the abnormality and failure of the car, and this grammar should be simple, simple, and typed, and then have the opportunity to input the computer, accumulate the information of the vehicle abnormality and failure, then analyze, summarize, and sort out the maintenance rules and experience.

The inventor will describe the words of vehicle anomalies and faults. After summarizing and sorting, the inventors use five parts to express them, which are the parts, symptoms, conditions, conditions and parts.

Machine parts: refers to the zero, matching, components that can be recognized from the outside on the vehicle, such as engine, engine computer, fan belt, air conditioning belt, power belt, rocker cover, gearbox bottom case, steam door, water tank, water pump, cooling fan , exhaust pipe, silencer, tail pipe, exhaust pipe lifting lug, fuel, oil pipe, fuel tank, gasoline core, fuel tank cap, fuel pump, carburetor, fueling pedal, clutch pedal, brake pedal, fueling pedal rubber, clutch Pedal rubber, fuel line, clutch line, hand brake line, battery, starter motor, generator, spark plug, high voltage line, gearbox, drive shaft, rear axle, universal bearing, clutch, gearshift lever/head, gearshift panel, transmission Shaft boot, steering wheel boot, tire, spare tire, air nozzle, spare tire carrier, wheel/aluminum/steel ring, rim cover, tire screw, chassis, shock absorber, tire positioning, brake, handcart, brake Disc, brake drum, brake disc, steering wheel, bumper, body, windshield, fender, hood, water tank shield, skylight, sign, back bed, side skirt, door, lift, rear view mirror, door handle , door locks, mud troughs, auxiliary handles, tailgate lifts, window clasps, roofs, door and window glass, roof beading, trunk lids, sunroof sun visors, slats, underlights, engine locks, waterproof rubber Drummer, hood lifter, sunroof glass, engine room insulation pad, air conditioner, compressor, blower, evaporator, air conditioning filter, air outlet, evaporator housing, dryer, thermostat, wiper blade, wiper motor , water spray canister, condenser fan, low pressure pipe, wiper arm, water jet motor, water jet head, high pressure pipe, wiper connecting rod, condenser, sound, radar, clock (electronic), audio speaker, anti-theft device, cigarette lighter, sound Panel, anti-theft speaker, CCD lens, antenna, GPS navigation, remote control, CD box, driving recorder, headlights, small lights, air conditioning, audio, etc.

Symptoms: refers to the phenomenon of vehicle abnormality and failure, such as engine-related symptoms: not easy to start, unable to start, unable to start, lack of horsepower, not smooth, jitter, water, oil leakage, fuel consumption, burning oil, carbon deposit , easy to extinguish, overheat, rupture, black smoke, white smoke, abnormal sound; symptoms associated with engine computers: theft; symptoms associated with fan belts, air conditioning belts or power belts: too tight, too loose, worn, Breakage, cracking, aging, shedding, abnormal sound; symptoms associated with rocker cover, oil sump, etc.: oil leakage, cracking, deformation, sliding teeth, too loose, falling off; symptoms related to the valve: abnormal sound; Symptoms related to water tank: water leakage, cracking, deformation, aging, falling off, rust; symptoms related to water pump: water leakage, rust, abnormal sound; symptoms related to cooling fan: no action, bad movement, no stop, stuck /bite, vibration, jitter, abnormal sound; symptoms associated with the exhaust pipe: air leakage, rust, cracking, deformation, breakage, shedding, irregularity, abnormal sound; symptoms associated with the exhaust pipe lifting ear: break, fall off ;versus Fuel-related symptoms: add wrong oil, odor; symptoms related to tubing and fuel tank: oil leakage, rust, crack, deformation; symptoms related to fuel tank cap: oil leakage, cracking, deformation, gas leakage, shedding, jamming / Knocking death; symptoms related to fuel pump: oil leakage, no action; symptoms related to carburetor: oil leakage, air leakage; symptoms related to fueling pedal, clutch pedal or brake pedal: stroke/play is too large, Stroke/slip is too small, bad return, too tight, stuck/bited, worn, abnormal, idling, jitter; symptoms related to fuel line, clutch line or handcuff line: too tight, broken, falling off Symptoms related to the battery: no action, rust, cracking, abnormal sound, aging, odor, poor charging; symptoms associated with starting the motor: no action, bad return, no stop, abnormal sound; related to the generator Symptoms: no movement, poor charging, abnormal sound; symptoms related to spark plug or high voltage line: leakage, aging, falling off, abnormal sound; symptoms related to gearbox, drive shaft, etc.: oil leakage, difficulty in gear shifting, no movement, vibration Broken Crack, abrasion, shedding, abnormal sound; symptoms associated with the clutch: odor, slip, abnormal sound; symptoms associated with the gear lever/head: too loose, poor return, shedding, addition/modification; symptoms associated with the gear panel : Poor appearance, poor plating, shedding, cracking, no light; symptoms related to tires or spare tires: insufficient pressure, air leaks, cracks, cracks, deformation, aging, theft, eating tires; and wheel / aluminum / steel Symptoms related to the ring or rim cover: poor plating, deformation, rust/corrosion, shedding, addition/modification; symptoms associated with tire screws: breakage, looseness, slippery teeth, addition/modification; related to chassis and shock absorbers Symptoms: oil leakage, deformation, abnormal sound; symptoms related to tire positioning: eating, bias, left, right, bad, irregular; symptoms related to braking: no movement, oil leakage, jitter, bias , left, right, odor, abnormal sound; symptoms related to handcuffs: too tight, stuck / seized, no action, bad return, excessive stroke / clearance, stroke / clearance is too small; and brake disc Related symptoms, such as car drums or brake pads: grinding Damage, deformation, rust/eclipse, abnormal sound; symptoms related to the steering wheel: not correct, bad return, too tight, too much play, jitter, left, right, abnormal sound.

Condition: refers to the external environment description of the vehicle in use, abnormality and failure, such as engine-related conditions: cold car, after exposure, occasionally, traffic jam, downhill, uphill, rainy, after car wash; with fan belt Conditions related to air-conditioning belts, etc.: cold, occasional, rainy, after car washing; conditions related to batteries, generators, spark plugs, high-voltage lines, etc.: rainy days, after car washing; conditions related to gearboxes, drive shafts, etc.: cold Cars, occasionally, chopping roads, up/down slopes; conditions related to clutches: uphill, traffic jams; conditions related to chassis and shock absorbers: occasional, chopping, downhill, uphill; Status: cold, occasional, rainy, car wash; conditions related to brake discs, brake drums, brakes, etc.: cold cars, occasionally.

Vehicle condition: refers to the operating state when the vehicle is abnormal and faulty, such as the engine-related condition: acceleration, idling, taxiing, starting, high speed 90km (km) / hr (hour), medium speed 40~90km /hr, low speed 40km/hr or less; car condition related to fan belt, air conditioning belt, etc.: acceleration, idling, high speed above 90km/hr, medium speed 40~90km/hr, low speed 40km/hr or less; and gearbox, Vehicle-related conditions such as transmission shaft: at the time of shifting, at the start, at a high speed of 90km/hr or more, at a medium speed of 40~90km/hr, at a low speed of 40km/hr or less; the condition of the clutch: at the start, at a high speed of 90km/hr or more, Speed 40~90km/hr, low speed 40km/hr or less; car condition related to chassis and shock absorber: start time, brake time, acceleration time, steering time, returning time; and brake, brake disc, brake drum, brake disc Related car conditions: When driving; The steering conditions related to the steering wheel: when turning, when returning, when the speed is above 90km/hr, the medium speed is 40~90km/hr, and the low speed is below 40km/hr.

Location: refers to the location of the machine (because the vehicle parts are often left and right, etc.), such as the engine-related parts: engine room; and tires, wheels / aluminum / steel ring, tire screws, chassis, shock absorbers, Relevant parts such as brake discs, brake drums, and brake pads: front/rear, left/right, etc.

In addition, the description of abnormal sounds in the symptoms is also very necessary, but it is difficult. The inventor uses the onomatopoeia to summarize the vehicle's abnormal sounds in the notes, such as the engine-related noise notes: hum, hum, cheer, hum, hum, hum, 哒Humming, humming; noise related to fan belts, air conditioning belts, etc. Remarks: hum, hum, hum; reverb related to the valve: hum; noise related to the pump : humming, humming; noise related to the cooling fan: buzzing, humming; noise associated with the exhaust pipe, silencer or tail pipe Note: hum, hum, broken Broken sound, squeaking; noise related to the fuel pedal, clutch pedal or brake pedal: card click, hum, hum, rattle, hum, hum; related to the starter motor Unvoiced notes: card sound, kaka sound, hum, humming; noise related to the generator: la la, hum, hum; sounds related to Mars plug, high voltage line, etc. Remarks: humming; abnormal sound related to gearbox, drive shaft, etc.: Kaka sound, Humming, snoring, cheering, snoring, snoring, banging; noise related to the clutch: la la, humming; noise related to the chassis, shock absorbers: Beep, kaka, snoring, snoring, snoring, snoring; noise related to the car: Kaka, hum, hum, hum, hum; Related sounds such as brake discs, brake drums or brake discs: humming, humming; sounds related to the steering wheel: card sound, hum, hum, hum, squeak, etc.

The invention will describe the words of vehicle abnormality and failure, and according to the above-mentioned remarks of the vehicle's parts, symptoms, conditions, vehicle conditions, parts and related abnormal sound symptoms, the computer can be used to facilitate the user, according to the screen display of the computer. The maintenance form, the text input operation describing the vehicle abnormality and failure; and the computer can be electrically connected to a receiver, and the receiver can further read the identification signal set on the vehicle to confirm the identity of the vehicle, and then display the screen of the computer. Corresponding to the vehicle maintenance form, the user can conveniently and correctly perform text input operations describing vehicle abnormalities and malfunctions. The invention can be applied to various vehicles such as automobiles, electric vehicles, and locomotives.

As shown in the first, second, third, and fourth figures, the method for inputting vehicle maintenance data of the present invention uses a computer for inputting operations by a user, including the following steps:

(1) causing the receiver to read the identification signal provided on the vehicle to confirm the identity of the vehicle; the identification signal on the vehicle may be attached to the vehicle, currently used for eTag for highway toll collection; and the receiver is eTag Reader.

(2) causing the screen display of the computer to include the first form 1 of the input field 11 for the user to input the text or symbol of the name of the corresponding vehicle; wherein the text or symbol may be a word corresponding to the name of the vehicle or Pinyin symbol; as shown in Fig. 2, the user inputs a consonant (consonant) symbol "one" in the pinyin of the name of the vehicle corresponding to the input field 11 of the first form 1 (Almanac can also be used) Symbol input);

(3) causing the screen to display the second form 2 corresponding to all the parts of the input text or symbol for the user to select the part to be repaired; as shown in FIG. 3, the second form 2 is displayed with the pinyin The parts related to the initial symbol of the symbol "1" include "engine" and "engine computer". The user selects the part to be repaired as "engine";

(4) causing the screen to display the mechanical parts selected for maintenance and the third form 3 corresponding to the symptoms or condition of the machine or the condition or part or remarks for the user to select the information to be repaired; As shown in the figure, the third form 3 shows the symptoms related to the "engine": not easy to start, unable to start, unable to start, insufficient horsepower, not smooth, jitter, water ingress, oil leakage, fuel consumption, oil burning, carbon deposit, easy Flameout, overheating, rupture, black smoke, white smoke, abnormal sound, among which the user selects "not smooth" and "uneven"; the situation related to "engine": cold car, after exposure, occasionally, when traffic jam, Downhill, uphill, rainy, car wash, the user selects "cold car"; the car condition related to the "engine": acceleration, idling, taxiing, starting, high speed 90km (km) / hr (hour Above, medium speed 40~90km/hr, low speed 40km/hr or less, the user selects "starting time" and "low speed 40km/hr or less"; the part related to "engine": engine room; and "engine" Remarks related to "Alone": hum, snoring, Friends, hum, whine sound, the sound of minions, clatter, Koukou sound, where the user selects "clatter";

(5) Store or further print the information selected in the third form 3 for maintenance, for maintenance personnel to refer to during maintenance.

The invention summarizes various complicated vehicle maintenance problems into the vehicle parts, symptoms, conditions, vehicle conditions and parts, and the machine parts are used as a program, and each machine has a corresponding symptom, situation, vehicle condition, The part or the remarks about the abnormal sound symptoms can easily guide the user to select the relevant parts, and then the relevant symptoms, conditions, condition, location or remarks about the abnormal sound symptoms are extracted by the user for further selection by the user. It is simple, fast, complete and correct to express the problem that the vehicle needs to be repaired.

In order to make the input of the "mechanical component" convenient and easy, the present invention only takes the consonant (or initial consonant) of the "mechanical component" as the input primary key. Since all the words of the "mechanical component" are limited, the search is easy. fast. If there are more options for the "Mechanical", you can enter a sub-tone (consonant) to reduce the option. Relevant symptoms, conditions, conditions, parts or remarks about abnormal sound symptoms associated with "mechanical parts" are entered as options, which is quick and easy.

The invention enables the vehicle repairing factory to store the information selected by the customer for fault repair in the computer database, and then can statistically and quench the information of various fault repairs as a reference for future maintenance work for similar fault situations.

The invention can specifically guide the user to select and describe the text of the vehicle maintenance uniformly and correctly, and various users can uniformly and correctly describe the problem of vehicle maintenance, so that the maintenance personnel can easily confirm the problem, and can use the previous experience to perform the most. Proper maintenance work.

The above descriptions are only examples of the use of the technical content of the present invention, and any modifications and variations made by those skilled in the art using the present invention are within the scope of the patent claimed.

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Fig. 1 is a flow chart showing a method of inputting vehicle maintenance instruction data of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a schematic view of the first form of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a schematic illustration of a second form of the invention. .

Figure 4 is a schematic illustration of a third form of the invention.

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Claims (8)

A method for inputting vehicle maintenance instruction data is to use a computer for inputting a user, including the following steps:
(1) causing the screen display of the computer to include a first form of an input field for the user to input one of the characters or symbols of the name of the corresponding vehicle;
(2) causing the screen to display a second form corresponding to all of the entered characters or symbols for the user to select the part to be repaired;
(3) causing the screen to display a mechanical component selected for maintenance and a third form corresponding to at least one of a symptom or condition or a vehicle condition or location of the mechanical component for the user to select information for maintenance;
(4) storing the information selected in the third form for fault repair, for reference by the maintenance personnel for maintenance;
Wherein the mechanical part of the vehicle refers to a zero, a component or a component identifiable from the outside of the vehicle; the symptom refers to a phenomenon describing the abnormality and failure of the vehicle; the condition refers to an externality in which the abnormality and failure of the vehicle occur during use. Environmental description; the vehicle condition refers to the operating state when the vehicle is abnormal and faulty; the location refers to the location of the vehicle's parts. A method for inputting a vehicle maintenance instruction data according to claim 1, wherein the symptom includes a phenomenon of abnormal sound; and the third form includes a symptom of an abnormal sound. The method for inputting a vehicle maintenance instruction data according to claim 2, wherein the third form includes an abnormal note describing an abnormal sound. A method of inputting a vehicle maintenance instruction data as described in claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the input field is an initial symbol in the phonetic symbol for the user to input the name of the corresponding vehicle. The method for inputting a vehicle maintenance instruction data according to claim 4, wherein the step (4) further comprises printing information selected in the third form to be repaired. The method for inputting the vehicle maintenance instruction data described in claim 5, wherein the step (1) further comprises the following steps:
Having a receiver electrically connected to the computer read an identification signal provided on the vehicle to confirm the identity of the vehicle;
Wherein the first form in the step (2) is a first form corresponding to the vehicle of the confirmed identity. The method for inputting the vehicle maintenance instruction data described in claim 1, 2, 3 or 4, wherein the step (1) further comprises the following steps:
Having a receiver electrically connected to the computer read an identification signal provided on the vehicle to confirm the identity of the vehicle;
Wherein the first form in the step (2) is a first form corresponding to the vehicle of the confirmed identity. The method for inputting the vehicle maintenance instruction data according to claim 7 of the patent application, wherein the step (4) further comprises printing the information selected in the third form to be repaired by the fault.