Patent ID: 11904725
Assignee: AUDI AG
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 6:
7. A counter device configured to:
represent an effective service history of a motor vehicle battery of a first vehicle of a plurality of motor vehicles as a count value by using as an increment counter, wherein the increment counter begins at zero, has no upper limit, and is configured to be increased in response to events which have an impact on a health and/or a degree of wear of the motor vehicle battery,
establish a starting count value of the count value,
detect at least one parameter which influences the health and/or the degree of wear of effective service life of the motor vehicle battery,
calculate, in the first vehicle, an estimated value for which the at least one parameter so detected influences the health and/or the degree of wear of effective service life of the motor vehicle battery using a calculation rule, wherein the calculation rule comprises at least one of: a mathematical formula, a tabular assignment, a mathematical model, a characteristic curve, and a mathematical algorithm, and
increase the starting count value by the estimated value to a current count value,
wherein one or more triggering events are defined which trigger the counter device to repeat: establishing the starting count value, detecting the at least one parameter, calculating the estimated value, and increasing the starting count value,
wherein the calculation rule is updateable based on at least one piece of update information,
wherein the at least one piece of update information is derived by a device separate from the first vehicle based on at least an evaluation of data provided by a second vehicle of the plurality of motor vehicles, which differs from the first vehicle, and the update information so derived is then transmitted from the device separate from the first vehicle to the first vehicle to update the calculation rule in the first vehicle, and
wherein the device separate from the first vehicle comprises a central processing device or communication infrastructure device.