Inventors:
Hemang Shah - Owatonna MN, US
Poojitha Dahanaike - Mankato MN, US
Mathew Pasztor - Kalamazoo MI, US
Brant Story - Faribault MN, US
Jim Kjeer - Blooming Prairie MN, US
Robert Kochie - Mantorville MN, US
International Classification:
G01M 17/00
US Classification:
701033000, 701029000, 701035000
Abstract:
A technical information management device includes an information manager, a data manager, a user interface builder, and a vehicle technical information database. The information manager accesses the database in order to provide a segment of the vehicle technical information to the user interface builder. The data manager receives conditioned input data from a vehicle diagnostic tool and sends it to the user interface builder. The user interface builder includes a graphics generator and a display screen formatter. The graphics generator converts the vehicle diagnostic data into graphical coordinate data and the display screen formatter formats the graphical coordinate data for real time display in a digital multimeter mode or in a scope mode. The user interface builder further can display a dual-display screen wherein half of the screen is a vehicle diagnostic data display and the other half of the screen displays vehicle technical information.