US 12,263,441 B2
System composed of an apparatus for treating a fluid, a handheld device and a method for operating such a system
Jens Schäfer, Korschenbroich (DE); and Abdelkhalic Rbayti, Düsseldorf (DE)
Assigned to Donaldson Filtration Deutschland GmbH, Haan (DE)
Filed by Donaldson Filtration Deutschland GmbH, Haan (DE)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/087,628.
Application 18/087,628 is a continuation of application No. 16/479,879, granted, now 11,534,716, previously published as PCT/EP2018/051414, filed on Jan. 22, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 102017000519.2 (DE), filed on Jan. 23, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0182071 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. G05B 19/042 (2006.01); B01D 53/04 (2006.01); B01D 53/26 (2006.01); B01D 53/30 (2006.01); G08C 17/02 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01)
CPC B01D 53/30 (2013.01) [B01D 53/0415 (2013.01); B01D 53/0454 (2013.01); B01D 53/261 (2013.01); G05B 19/042 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); B01D 2257/80 (2013.01); G05B 2219/25196 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method to operate a system, whereby the system is composed of an apparatus to treat a fluid and a handheld device, wherein
the apparatus has a communication unit with a radio antenna and the handheld device has a communication unit with a radio antenna and both communication units can exchange data with each other by means of radio communication and
the apparatus has a control unit, which can detect at least one status parameter of the apparatus and generate a signal which is dependent on the status parameter and can transfer it via the communication unit of the apparatus to the communication unit of the handheld device; wherein the method comprises the following steps:
the control unit detects a status parameter of the apparatus and generates a signal dependent on the status parameter and transmits the signal to the communication unit of the handheld device via the communication unit of the apparatus,
whereby the handheld device after receiving the signal via the radio antenna of the communication unit of the handheld device generates a response signal which it transfers to the communication unit of the apparatus via the communication unit of the handheld device, characterized in that the response signal is transmitted from the communication unit of the apparatus to the control unit of the apparatus and the control unit of the apparatus places a positioning element of the apparatus depending on the response signal,
wherein the handheld device has another communication unit with a radio antenna, with which the handheld device can exchange data via a mobile communications network and wherein the handheld device after receiving the signal exchanges data via a mobile communications network via the radio antenna of the another communication unit,
wherein the data which is exchanged via the mobile communications network are the status parameters of the apparatus, and wherein the only way for the apparatus to exchange data with a remote computer or a remote server, which does not form part of a local network that is present at the site of the apparatus, is via the handheld device.