US 11,835,540 B2
Method of operating a facility, facility and system
Simon Trinkle, Kaisersbach (DE); Tim Vogt, Schwaebisch Gmuend (DE); and Mario Buser, Kufstein (AT)
Assigned to Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG, Waiblingen (DE)
Filed by Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG, Waiblingen (DE)
Filed on Nov. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/454,652.
Claims priority of application No. 20207419 (EP), filed on Nov. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0155333 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. G01P 15/08 (2006.01); G01P 1/07 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01)
CPC G01P 15/08 (2013.01) [G01P 1/07 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a device, wherein the device is arranged on or in a mobile motor-driven processing device, wherein the device has:
an inertial sensor device with at least one inertial sensor formed to detect an inertial variable, and
a control device,
the method comprising the steps of:
a) operating the inertial sensor device in a motion-monitoring operating mode to monitor whether the inertial variable or a variable based on the inertial variable fulfills a motion criterion, wherein the motion criterion is characteristic of a motion of the processing device;
b) if the motion criterion is fulfilled, operating the inertial sensor device in a shock and/or impact-monitoring operating mode to monitor whether the inertial variable or a variable based on the inertial variable fulfills a shock and/or impact criterion, wherein the shock and/or impact criterion is characteristic of an atypical motion of the processing device; and
c) if the shock and/or impact criterion is fulfilled, transmitting an information signal in the form of an interrupt signal from the inertial sensor device to the control device, and operating the control device as a function of the transmitted information signal, wherein:
the motion criterion is different from the shock and/or impact criterion,
at a point in time, the inertial sensor device is only capable of monitoring one of whether the motion criterion is fulfilled or whether the shock and/or impact criterion is fulfilled, and is not capable of monitoring both whether the motion criterion is fulfilled and whether the shock and/or impact criterion is fulfilled,
the processing device is a garden, forest, construction, and/or soil cultivation device,
the control device is in an energy-saving state for at least a large part of the time, during step a) and/or step b), and
step c) further comprises: transitioning the control device from the energy-saving state to an active state as a function of the transmitted information signal.