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• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01D—MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • G01D13/00—Component parts of indicators for measuring arrangements not specially adapted for a specific variable
  • G01D13/22—Pointers, e.g. settable pointer
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
  • B60K35/00—Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
  • B60K35/00—Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
  • B60K35/20—Output arrangements, i.e. from vehicle to user, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
  • B60K35/21—Output arrangements, i.e. from vehicle to user, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor using visual output, e.g. blinking lights or matrix displays
  • B60K35/214—Variable gauge scales, e.g. scale enlargement to adapt to maximum driving speed
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
  • B60K35/00—Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
  • B60K35/60—Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01P—MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION, OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE, ABSENCE, OR DIRECTION, OF MOVEMENT
  • G01P1/00—Details of instruments
  • G01P1/07—Indicating devices, e.g. for remote indication
  • G01P1/08—Arrangements of scales, pointers, lamps or acoustic indicators, e.g. in automobile speedometers
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01P—MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION, OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE, ABSENCE, OR DIRECTION, OF MOVEMENT
  • G01P1/00—Details of instruments
  • G01P1/07—Indicating devices, e.g. for remote indication
  • G01P1/08—Arrangements of scales, pointers, lamps or acoustic indicators, e.g. in automobile speedometers
  • G01P1/10—Arrangements of scales, pointers, lamps or acoustic indicators, e.g. in automobile speedometers for indicating predetermined speeds
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G12—INSTRUMENT DETAILS
  • G12B—CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF INSTRUMENTS, OR COMPARABLE DETAILS OF OTHER APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • G12B11/00—Indicating elements; Illumination thereof
  • G12B11/02—Scales; Dials

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device and a method for inputting and displaying values as well as a corresponding system.
• the invention also relates to a system for testing a device under test. Under a test object to be tested in particular electronic
• test devices When testing electronic devices for fitness, specialized test devices are often used. For example, such test devices may generate input signals for the device under test and receive and evaluate thereon output signals of the device under test. Furthermore, test devices can use model calculations to determine a desired value which the output signal of the test object should ideally assume. For a complete test, it is advantageous to be able to quickly change an input signal or a plurality of input signals for the test object and / or the model calculation. The input signal or signals may in particular be setpoints.
• Used control devices which can also be referred to as an operator computer, operator PC or, English, as an operating PC.
• the test device Via a software executed by the display and control device, the test device can be controlled in real time and values output by the test device can be displayed in real time.
• a system of a test device and a Display and control device is also referred to as hardware-in-the-loop system, short: HIL system.
• Such display and control devices ie devices for displaying and entering values, are often made particularly compact, so that they are portable and versatile.
• the present invention discloses a device having the features of claim 1, a system having the features of claim 6 and a method having the features of claim 9.
• an apparatus for entering and displaying values comprising: a scale of values; a first indicator device and a second indicator device, by means of which values can be indexed on the scale of values; wherein the first indicator means is adaptable by a user to index a first value to be entered on the scale of values; a controller adapted to determine the first value indexed by the first indicator means;
• Interface device by means of which the determined first value can be transmitted to a further device and by means of which a second value generated by the further device based on the transmitted first value can be received; the control and display device being designed to adjust the second indicator means automatically based on the received second value to index the second value on the scale of values.
• the value scale can be in particular a numerical value scale, which
• the corresponding indicator means a value of the scale of values, in particular uniquely, for example, by pointing to the value, by lighting or backlighting the value, by visualizing the value, by orbiting the value or the like.
• the first and second values preferably relate to the same size, in particular a physical quantity, for example a rotational speed of a shaft or of an engine or similar variables.
• the further device may in particular be a test device, i. a device designed to test a device under test using the first value and / or to calculate a model value based on the first value.
• the further device may also be a regulating device or an actuator device.
• the invention provides a system with a device according to the invention and with a further device which is designed to generate the second value based on a first value received from the interface device of the device and to which
• the invention provides a method of entering and displaying values, comprising the steps of: adjusting a first indicator means by a user to index a first value on a scale of values; Determining the indexed first value; Generating a second value based on the determined first value; and automatically adjusting a second indicator means such that the second indicator means indicates the second value on the scale of values.
• the finding underlying the present invention is that one and the same scale of values can be used both for indexing a value to be entered and for indexing at least one value to be displayed.
• the invention thus provides a particular
• Space-saving option for simultaneous display of the second and for entering the first value in particular in real time.
• the user is enabled by the device according to the invention and the corresponding method to be able to change both a value to be entered on a single scale of values and to be able to read the result of these changes directly.
• a likelihood that a result of a change in the value to be inputted is overlooked by the user is reduced.
• a multiplicity of values can be represented by a correspondingly large number of indicator devices, for example two, three, four or even more, without requiring additional space.
• the device can be made even more compact, or provide additional space-consuming functions, while maintaining the same size.
• the invention provides a particularly intuitive operation of
• the first and second indicator means are designed such that both the first and second indicator means are recognizable to the user if both the first and second indicator means indicate the same value on the scale of values.
• the indicator devices are displayed virtually on a screen device.
• both the first and the second value possibly also other values, can be read out at the same time for the user at any time.
• the device comprises a screen device, by means of which the value scale and / or the first and / or the second indicator device can be displayed.
• the scale of values can be flexibly adapted, for example automatically to a connected one
• Test device and / or a test specimen to be tested.
• the value scale is a linear, an elliptical, an elliptical-segment-shaped, a circular or a circular-segment-shaped scale of values, in particular one each
• the device comprises at least one digital display device which is designed to display the first value displayed by the first indicator device and / or the second value indexed by the second indicator device and / or any further values in numerical form.
• the indexed values are particularly fast and precise and at the same time space-saving readable.
• the further device of the system according to the invention is adapted to the second value based on the first value using a in the further device
• the further device is a test device which is designed to generate the second value by transmitting the first value to a test object to be tested and a value generated by the test object in response to the transmitted first value second value determined.
• the first and / or the second value if appropriate also further values, an actual value, a desired value, an estimated value or a measured value are in each case related to one and the same variable.
• an actual value, a desired value, an estimated value or a measured value are in each case related to one and the same variable.
• FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a device for inputting
• Fig. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a device for inputting and displaying values according to still another embodiment of the present invention
• FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart for explaining a method of
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic block diagram of a device 10 for
• the device 10 comprises a scale of values 16 as well as a first indicator device 21 and a second one
• Indicator device 22 by means of which values on the scale of values 16 are indexable.
• the scale of values 16 may be a linear, elliptical,
• horseshoe-shaped, value scale be formed.
• Indicator devices 21, 22 may be designed or shown as physical pointer flags or, preferably, as virtual pointer flags.
• the individual pointer flags can be designed or illustrated with different lengths, widths, shapes and / or colors.
• the first indicator device 21 is adapted by a user, in particular displaceable, rotatable and / or pressed to a
• control device 14 of the device 10 is the by the first
• the Indicator device indexed first value 51 determinable.
• the device 10 further comprises an interface device 18, by means of which the determined first value 51 can be transmitted to a further device 60 and by means of which a second value 52 generated by the further device 60 based on the transmitted first value 51 can be received.
• the control and display device 14 is designed to be the second
• Indicator device 22 automatically based on the received second Value 52 for indexing the second value 52 on the value scale 16
• the device 10 and each of the alternatives or variants of the device 10 described below can be implemented in terms of hardware or software or in a mixture of hardware and software.
• the first and second indicator means 21, 22 may be physical
• the system 1 comprises the device 10 as well as the further device 60.
• the further device 60 may be configured to store the second value 52 based on the first value 51 using a device 60 stored in the further device 60
• the further device 60 may be configured to generate the second value 52 by transmitting the first value 51 to a device under test 70 and a value generated by the device under test 70 in response to the transmitted first value 51 second value 52 or determined as a third value.
• the further device may in particular be a test device 60.
• the further device for explanation will be described as a test device 60.
• the further device can also be, for example, a regulating device or an actuator device which has the first value
• the further device may be a thermostat.
• the test object 70 may be, in particular, an electronic
• test object preferably to an electronic device in, or for use in, a motor vehicle.
• the test object may be an electronic control unit (ECU) for a motor vehicle, in particular for its drive. which is usable for generating the second value 52 or a fourth value.
• ECU electronice control unit
• Fig. 2 shows a schematic block diagram of a device 110 for inputting and displaying values according to still another
• the device 110 is a variant of the device 10 and may also be included in the system 1 or a variant thereof.
• the device 110 further comprises a screen device 112, by means of which a value scale 116 and a first indicator device 121 and a second
• Indicator 122 can be displayed graphically.
• FIGS. 3A to 3C show, in sections, the value scale 116 represented by the screen device 112, the first indicator device 121 and the second indicator device 122 in three different situations.
• the scale of values 116 is formed according to FIG. 3A as a horseshoe-shaped numerical scale with exemplary values of minus six thousand to plus six thousand.
• the first indicator means 121 is formed and shown as a bar 124 which, similar to a physical pointer flag, is rotatably fixed at a first end at a midpoint 115 of the scale of values 116, while a second unfixed end of the bar 124 indicates numerical values on the scale of values 116 ,
• the first indicator device 121 for example, also arrow-shaped, triangular, etc. may be formed.
• the first indicator means 121 is rotatable by a user so that numerical values on the scale of values 116 are indexable by means of the second end of the bar 124.
• the rotation of the bar 124 may, for example, be done by means of a pointing device, which is connectable to the device 110.
• the pointing device can be, for example, a computer mouse, a trackball, a joystick or a touchscreen, which can be connected to the device 10 or integrated into the device 10.
• the screen device 112 may be designed as a touchscreen and thus also act as a pointing device.
• One of the pointing device Moving the graphic pointer 150 such as a mouse pointer, may be controlled to change its appearance, such as from an arrow to a hand, when it is directed to a portion of the scale of values 116 or to the bar 124, see Fig. 3B.
• this value is indexable on the scale of values 116.
• the value so indicated is automatically displayed by the control device 114 as
• the scale 116 may further include at least one designated area 140 which may be activated to set the first indicator means 121 precisely to a predetermined value for each designated area 140. If the marked areas 140 are designed, for example, as mechanical push buttons or touch control surfaces, the activation can take place by pressing the marked area. In Fig. 3B, a case is shown in which the designated area 140 is graphically represented by the screen device 112 and clickable by means of the pointer 150. By clicking a designated area 140, in FIG. 3B, for example, a designated area 140, which is assigned a numerical value of minus three thousand, the first indicator device 121, as shown in FIG.
• the pointer 150 may be configured to change its appearance, such as from an arrow to a hand, while positioned over one of the designated areas 140.
• any values on the value scale 116 can be indexed with the first indicator device 121. Alternatively it can be provided that only certain values can be indexed on the scale of values 116,
• the controller 114 may be configured to over the Interface device 18 automatically receive information from the device under test 70, for example via the further device, in particular test device 60, which values for the device under test 70 or the other device, in particular test device 60, are permissible or harmless, whereupon the indicator device 121 is shown correspondingly adjustable becomes.
• a permissible one is shown correspondingly adjustable becomes.
• Range for the first indicator means 121 can be represented, for example, colored or backlit on the scale of values 116.
• control device 114 By the control device 114, the determined first value 51 in a first, digital or analog signal to the interface device 18 of
• test device 110 forwarded by which the first signal is automatically transmitted to a connected to the interface device 18 test device 60.
• the test device 60 can be a real-time computer (RTPC)
• Test device 60 may be configured to generate and / or evaluate computational models in a real-time environment using the transmitted first signal and / or transmitted first value 51. Based on this, the test device 60 generates a second value 52, which can be transmitted to the interface device 18 by a second digital or analog signal. Instead of, or in addition to, using a computational model, the test device 60 may also be configured to communicate the first value 51 to a device under test 70 and a response of the device under test 70 to the first value 51 as the second value 52 and / or one third value to determine which or which to the interface device 18th
• the second value 52 transmitted to the interface device 18 is forwarded to the control device 114, which is automatically the second
• Indicator device 122 controls to index the second value 52 on the value scale 116.
• the second indicator device 122 is designed as a virtual pointer flag in such a way that it does not cover or be covered by the bar 124 of the first indicator device 121 if the first and second indicator devices 121, 122 indicate the same value on the scale 116.
• both the first and the second indicator devices 121, 122 are always advantageously readable, for example by being illustrated in the drawing Graphical level further down indicator devices are shown wider than the indicator devices further up.
• FIG. 3D shows a detail of an alternative display represented by the screen device 112. This display includes the value scale 116, the first one
• the display comprises a third indicator device 123 and a first to third digital display device 231, 232, 233, which may optionally also be part of the device 110.
• the third indicator device 123 is designed to index a third value, which was transmitted to the interface device 18, on the value scale 116.
• the third value may in particular be generated based on the first value 51 of the test device 60 and / or the test piece 70 and to the
• the second value 52 may be a model value determined by the test apparatus 60 and the third value may be a value determined by an ECU as the device under test 70, for which both the user-input first value 51 is a desired target value , Input value or comparison value.
• the first, second and third digital display devices 231, 232, 233 indicate in each case by means of numerals that value which the first, second and third indicator devices 121, 122, 123 indicate correspondingly on the scale of values 116.
• the first display device 231 may be configured to be adaptable by the user by entering digits. This can be done, for example, by means of a keyboard, a keypad, etc., which may each be represented by the screen device 122 or may be physically formed and connected to the device 110.
• 3D illustrates a situation in which the user has for example entered the value "3333" into the first digital display device 231, 232, 233.
• the control device 114 has adapted the first indicator device 121 to the value "3333" to index the value scale 116.
• the second and third digital display devices display "3335" as the second value 52 and the third value, respectively. Due to the adaptable first digital display device 231, the first value 51 can be input particularly precisely.
• Display 232, 233, the second value 52 and the third value are particularly accurate read.
• the first, second and third are advantageous
• Indicator device 121, 122, 123 and the first, second and third digital display devices 231, 232, 233 are each formed in pairs of the same color, so that it is immediately obvious to the user which
• Indicator device 121 and a border 234 of the first digital
• Display device 231 shown in blue, while a pointer needle of the second indicator device 122 and a border 235 of the second digital display device 232 and a red pointer needle of the third
• Display device 233 are shown in green.
• FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart for explaining a method of inputting and displaying values according to another embodiment of the present invention.
• the method according to FIG. 4 can be implemented in particular with one of the devices according to the invention, in particular one of the devices 10, 110, and can be adapted in accordance with all variants and developments described with regard to the device according to the invention, in particular with respect to the device 10, 110.
• a first indicator means 21; 121 adjusted by a user to obtain a first value 51 on a scale of values 16; 116 to index.
• the indexed first value 51 is determined.
• the determined first value 51 is transmitted to a test device 60.
• a second value 52 is generated or calculated by the test device 60 based on the transmitted first value 51.
• the second indicator means 22; 122 adapted, in particular rotated and / or shifted, that the second indicator means 22; 122 the second value 52 on the scale of values 16; 116 indexed.

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