Vehicle equipped with self-diagnostic system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTomoaki Yoshiyama
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Abstract
The vehicle includes a vehicle control ECU including a recording unit that records a self-diagnosis result and the like as diagnostic data, and a gateway ECU. The gateway ECU has a function of outputting diagnostic data to a diagnostic tool outside the vehicle when diagnosing the vehicle, a function of measuring a communication speed when outputting the diagnostic data to the diagnostic tool, a function of determining whether to perform advance transmission of the diagnostic data on the basis of a measurement result of the communication speed, and a function of performing advance transmission of the diagnostic data to a management server outside the vehicle through wireless communication when it is determined that the advance transmission is performed.
Claims5
A vehicle comprising:
- a recording unit configured to record diagnostic data to be used to diagnose the vehicle;
- an output unit configured to output the diagnostic data recorded in the recording unit to a diagnostic tool outside the vehicle;
- a measurement unit configured to measure a communication speed when the output unit outputs the diagnostic data to the diagnostic tool;
- a determination unit configured to determine whether to perform advance transmission based on a measurement result of the communication speed from the measurement unit;
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- a transmission unit configured to transmit the diagnostic data recorded in the recording unit to outside of the vehicle through wireless communication when the determination unit determines to perform the advance transmission.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.