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US 12,380,373 · App. 17/074,092 · Granted Aug 5, 2025

Information system for industrial vehicles including cyclical recurring vehicle information message

Inventors: Timothy A. Wellman (Coldwater, OH); Dean E. Winner (Celina, OH)
Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
G06Q10/06G05D1/0287G05D1/0291G06Q10/0637G06Q10/083
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Patent No.
US 12,380,373
App. No.
17/074,092
Granted
Aug 5, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An information system for an industrial vehicle comprises an electronic component on the industrial vehicle that is programmably configured to obtain data by communicating across a vehicle network bus of the industrial vehicle with at least one other component of the industrial vehicle. The information system also comprises memory that stores industrial vehicle information according to a mapping specified by a data object model. Moreover, a processor on the industrial vehicle is programmed to repeatedly perform a cyclically recurring operation that extracts at least a portion of the industrial vehicle information stored in the memory device as broadcast information, generates at least one broadcast message representing the extracted broadcast information, and transmits the generated at least one broadcast message on the vehicle network bus. Accordingly, the entire contents of the broadcast information are repeatedly transmitted across the vehicle network bus in a cyclically recurring manner.

Claims (78)

1. An information system for an industrial vehicle, the system comprising:

an industrial vehicle having a vehicle network bus and components electrically coupled to the vehicle network bus that generate industrial vehicle information, wherein industrial vehicle information for at least one component changes over time;

an information master on the industrial vehicle having memory that stores a current state of the industrial vehicle information according to a mapping specified by a data object model, wherein the current state of the industrial vehicle information is collected into the memory by exchanging information with the components using the vehicle network bus such that the current state of the industrial vehicle information is updated over time; and

a processor on the industrial vehicle that is programmed to repeatedly perform a cyclical operation that broadcasts the current state of the industrial vehicle information from the memory, wherein for each cycle of the cyclical operation, the processor:

extracts at least a portion of the current state of the industrial vehicle information stored in the memory according to the mapping specified by the data object model as broadcast information;

generates at least one broadcast message representing the extracted broadcast information; and

transmits each generated broadcast message locally on the vehicle network bus of the industrial vehicle;

wherein:

entire contents of the broadcast information are repeatedly transmitted across the vehicle network bus; and

each generated broadcast message is transmitted based upon a predetermined periodic time interval.

2. The information system according to claim 1 , wherein the collected data is collected by a network bus-enabled vehicle electronic control module that is designated as the information master.

3. The information system according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle network bus comprises at least one communications strategy including controller area network (CAN) bus, ZigBee, Bluetooth, Local Interconnect Network (LIN), and time-triggered data-bus protocol (TTP), and the processor is implemented in the electronic component.

4. The information system according to claim 1 , wherein:

the vehicle network bus comprises a controller area network (CAN) bus; and

the processor is implemented as part of the information master.

5. The information system according to claim 1 , wherein collected data comprises at least one of event codes, component states, component status information, hour meter readings, energy measurements, and hydraulic measurements.

6. The information system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor transmits the generated at least one broadcast message on the vehicle network bus by streaming the generated at least one broadcast message.

7. The information system according to claim 6 , wherein the processor is further programmed to:

set the periodic time interval.

8. The information system according to claim 7 , wherein the periodic time interval is within a range of 1-999 milliseconds.

9. The information system according to claim 1 , wherein the collected data is collected by an information linking device that enables wireless communication with a remote server.

10. The information system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to:

compute industrial vehicle information from at least a portion of the collected data;

create statistics from at least a portion of the collected data;

or a combination thereof.

11. The information system according to claim 1 , wherein:

an information linking device receives the broadcast information transmitted across the vehicle network bus; and

the information linking device wirelessly transmits the broadcast information to a remote server.

12. The information system according to claim 1 , wherein the collected data is collected by an electronic component that obtains the collected data by submitting a query to at least one other component of the industrial vehicle across the vehicle network bus.

13. The information system according to claim 1 , wherein the collected data is collected by an electronic component that obtains the collected data by from at least one other component of the industrial vehicle across the vehicle network bus.

14. The information system according to claim 1 , wherein:

the at least one broadcast message comprises a plurality of broadcast messages; and

a device connected to the vehicle network bus must receive each of the plurality of broadcast messages in order to reconstruct the entirety of the broadcast information.

15. The information system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to operate in a select one of a live mode or a normal mode, wherein:

when operating in the normal mode, an information linking device connected to the vehicle network bus is programmed to:

receive the cyclically recurring transmission of the broadcast information; and

log the received broadcast information; and

when operating in the live mode, the information linking device is programmed to:

receive the cyclically recurring transmissions of the broadcast information; and

wirelessly transmit the received broadcast information to a remote server.

16. An information system for an industrial vehicle, the system comprising:

an industrial vehicle having a vehicle network bus and components electrically coupled to the vehicle network bus that generate industrial vehicle information, wherein industrial vehicle information for at least one component changes over time;

an information master on the industrial vehicle having memory that stores a current state of the industrial vehicle information according to a mapping specified by a data object model, wherein the current state of the industrial vehicle information is collected into the memory by exchanging information with the components using the vehicle network bus such that the current state of the industrial vehicle information is updated over time; and

a processor on the industrial vehicle that is programmed to repeatedly perform a cyclical operation that broadcasts the current state of the industrial vehicle information from the memory, wherein for each cycle of the cyclical operation, the processor:

extracts at least a portion of the current state of the industrial vehicle information stored in the memory according to the mapping specified by the data object model as broadcast information;

generates a plurality of broadcast messages that collectively represent the extracted broadcast information; and

transmits each generated broadcast message locally on a vehicle network bus of the industrial vehicle;

wherein:

entire contents of the broadcast information are repeatedly transmitted across the vehicle network bus; and

a device connected to the vehicle network bus must receive each of the plurality of broadcast messages in order to reconstruct the entirety of the broadcast information.

17. The information system according to claim 16 , wherein:

an information linking device receives the broadcast information transmitted across the vehicle network bus; and

the information linking device wirelessly transmits the broadcast information to a remote server.

18. The information system according to claim 16 , wherein the processor is further programmed to operate in a select one of a live mode or a normal mode, wherein:

when operating in the normal mode, an information linking device connected to the vehicle network bus is programmed to:

receive the cyclically recurring transmission of the broadcast information; and

log the received broadcast information; and

when operating in the live mode, the information linking device is programmed to:

receive the cyclically recurring transmissions of the broadcast information; and

wirelessly transmit the received broadcast information to a remote server.

19. An information system for an industrial vehicle, the system comprising:

an industrial vehicle having a vehicle network bus and components electrically coupled to the vehicle network bus that generate industrial vehicle information, wherein industrial vehicle information for at least one component changes over time;

an information master on the industrial vehicle having memory that stores a current state of the industrial vehicle information according to a mapping specified by a data object model, wherein the current state of the industrial vehicle information is collected into the memory by exchanging information with the components using the vehicle network bus such that the current state of the industrial vehicle information is updated over time; and

a processor on the industrial vehicle that is programmed to repeatedly perform a cyclical operation that broadcasts the current state of the industrial vehicle information from the memory, wherein for each cycle of the cyclical operation, the processor:

extracts at least a portion of the current state of the industrial vehicle information stored in the memory according to the mapping specified by the data object model as broadcast information;

generates at least one broadcast message representing the extracted broadcast information; and

transmits each generated broadcast message locally on a vehicle network bus of the industrial vehicle;

wherein:

an entire contents of the broadcast information are repeatedly transmitted across the vehicle network bus;

each generated broadcast message is transmitted based upon a predetermined periodic time interval; and

a device connected to the vehicle network bus must receive each of the plurality of broadcast messages in order to reconstruct the entirety of the broadcast information.

20. The information system according to claim 19 , wherein the processor is further programmed to operate in a select one of a live mode or a normal mode, wherein:

when operating in the normal mode, an information linking device connected to the vehicle network bus is programmed to:

receive the cyclically recurring transmission of the broadcast information; and

log the received broadcast information; and

when operating in the live mode, the information linking device is programmed to:

receive the cyclically recurring transmissions of the broadcast information; and

wirelessly transmit the received broadcast information to a remote server.

Continuity (4)
Continuation 15989781 · May 25, 2018
Continuation 12871001 · Aug 30, 2010
Provisional Application 61238916 · Sep 1, 2009
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