Communication system for vehicle
AssigneesDenso Corporation, Aisin Aw Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroki INOUE, Yuichi Ochiai, Tomohiro Kani, Ichiro Usami, Takashi Wada
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Abstract
A communication system for a vehicle includes: a plurality of controllers mounted on the vehicle; a data communication network for coupling the plurality of controllers with each other so that the controllers transmit data to and receive data from each other via the data communication network; a failure diagnosis device for diagnosing whether each controller is normal; a failure diagnosis activation device for activating the failure diagnosis device; and an avoiding condition setting device for setting an avoiding condition, which provides to avoid execution of the failure diagnosis when the failure diagnosis device is activated.
Claims6
A communication system for a vehicle comprising:
- a plurality of controllers mounted on the vehicle;
- a data communication network for coupling the plurality of controllers with each other so that the controllers transmit data to and receive data from each other via the data communication network;
- a failure diagnosis device for diagnosing whether each controller is normal;
- a failure diagnosis activation device for activating the failure diagnosis device;
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- an avoiding condition setting device for setting an avoiding condition, which provides to avoid execution of failure diagnosis when the failure diagnosis device is activated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.