Method for diagnosing a state in a vehicle, and diagnostic testing device

• US 10,157,511 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2015
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Woerz, Andreas, Treiber, Klaus, Engelhardt, Matthias
• Primary Examiner(s): Sweeney, Brian P
• Application Number:
  US15/308,008
• Publication Number:
  US 20170053464A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,366 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/40 Bus networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/40215 Controller Area Network CAN
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/40273 the transportation system being a vehicle

Abstract

A method for diagnosing a state in a vehicle, which has a CAN communications bus to which electronic control units of the vehicle are connected, includes providing a rest state of the vehicle; coupling a diagnostic testing device to at least one diagnostic terminal of the vehicle; monitoring of the CAN communications bus by the diagnostic testing device with regard to CAN messages sent out after entry into the rest state; detecting of a CAN message sent out on the CAN communications bus after entry into the rest state, and assigning of the detected CAN message to an electronic control unit sending out the CAN message; providing information regarding a chronological appearance of the detected CAN message in a series of CAN messages appearing on the CAN communications bus after entry into the rest state; and providing information for identifying the electronic control unit sending out the detected CAN message.

Claims

1. A method for diagnosing a state in a vehicle, the vehicle having a CAN communications bus to which electronic control units of the vehicle are connected, the method comprising:

providing a rest state of the vehicle, in which at least a portion of the electronic control units are configured not to send out a CAN message via the CAN communications bus in a normal operation;

coupling a diagnostic testing device to at least one diagnostic terminal of the vehicle, the at least one diagnostic terminal being able to be coupled to the CAN communications bus;

monitoring the CAN communications bus by the diagnostic testing device with regard to CAN messages sent out after entry into the rest state;

detecting, by the diagnostic testing device, a CAN message sent out on the CAN communications bus after entry into the rest state, and assigning, by the diagnostic testing device, the detected CAN message to an electronic control unit sending out the CAN message;

providing, by the diagnostic testing device, information regarding a chronological appearance of the detected CAN message in a series of CAN messages appearing on the CAN communications bus after entry into the rest state; and

providing, by the diagnostic testing device, information for identifying the electronic control unit sending out the detected CAN message.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein information is provided as to whether the detected CAN message appears first in the series of CAN messages appearing on the CAN communications bus.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein information regarding an order of the CAN messages appearing on the CAN communications bus after entry into the rest state is provided.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the information regarding a chronological appearance of the detected CAN message is generated with the aid of a listing of at least a portion of the CAN messages appearing on the CAN communications bus since entry into the rest state.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein a data content of the detected CAN message is acquired, optionally decrypted, and displayed on the diagnostic testing device.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein an assignment information item is stored in the diagnostic testing device, in order to identify, with the aid of an identification information item, the electronic control unit sending out the detected CAN message, the identification information item being contained in the detected CAN message.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein in order to bring about the rest state of the vehicle, an ignition system of the vehicle is switched off and the vehicle is locked.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the information item for identifying the electronic control unit sending out the detected CAN message is displayed and stored by the diagnostic testing device.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein a detection time in the form of a clock time of the detected CAN message is displayed.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the diagnostic testing device filters out CAN messages of electronic control units, which are configured to send out at least one CAN message via the CAN communications bus in the rest state of the vehicle, during a normal operation.

11. A diagnostic testing device for diagnosing a state in a vehicle, the vehicle having a CAN communications bus, to which electronic control units of the vehicle are connected, the diagnostic testing device including:

a terminal for coupling to at least one diagnostic terminal of the vehicle, the diagnostic terminal of the vehicle being able to be coupled to the CAN communications bus;

a monitoring device for monitoring the CAN communications bus with regard to CAN messages sent out after entry into a rest state of the vehicle, in which at least a portion of the electronic control units are configured not to send out a CAN message via the CAN communications bus in a normal operation, the monitoring device being configured to detect a CAN message sent out on the CAN communications bus after entry into the rest state, and to assign the detected CAN message to an electronic control unit sending out the CAN message; and

an information device which is configured to provide information regarding a chronological appearance of the detected CAN message in a series of CAN messages appearing on the CAN communications bus after entry into the rest state, and to provide information for identifying the electronic control unit sending out the detected CAN message.