Vehicle test system having a gateway for determining whether an electronic device is testable, vehicle and vehicle test method

• US 10,546,436 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2017
• Issued: 01/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Chae, Junbyung, Jeon, Byeonggeon
• Primary Examiner(s): Refai, Ramsey
• Application Number:
  US15/799,696
• Publication Number:
  US 20180374282A1
• Time in Patent Office: 819 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2205/02 using a vehicle scan tool
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/00 Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0816 Indicating performance data, e.g. occurrence of a malfunction
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

A vehicle test system includes a vehicle including at least one electronic device and a gateway configured to determine whether the electronic device is testable, a test device configured to test the electronic device, in which the electronic device includes a controller for controlling an operation of the electronic device, and the gateway is configured to determine whether or not the electronic device is testable in a different manner depending on whether the electronic device includes a separate communication device and transmits a determined result to the test device.

Claims

1. A vehicle test system comprising:

a vehicle comprising at least one electronic device installed in the vehicle and a gateway configured to determine whether or not the electronic device is testable; and

a test device configured to test the electronic device,

wherein the electronic device comprises a controller for controlling an operation of the electronic device; and

wherein the gateway is configured to determine whether or not the electronic device is testable in a different manner depending on whether the electronic device comprises a separate communication device and transmits a determined result to the test device.

2. The vehicle test system of claim 1,

wherein the gateway is configured to determine whether or not the electronic device is testable based on a state of the controller received from the communication device when the electronic device comprises the communication device.

3. The vehicle test system of claim 2,

wherein the gateway is configured to determine that the electronic device is not testable when the controller is not operating normally and transmits a Negative Response Code (NRC) to the test device.

4. The vehicle test system of claim 2,

wherein the communication device comprises a microcontroller unit (MCU) capable of communicating with the gateway and controller;

and

wherein the controller comprises a central processing unit (CPU).

5. The vehicle test system of claim 3,

wherein the gateway is configured to determine that the electronic device is not testable and transmits the NRC to the test device if a central processing unit (CPU) is turned off or before booting is completed.

6. The vehicle test system of claim 5,

wherein the gateway is configured to determine whether or not the electronic device is testable based on an elapsed time after the controller of the electronic device is turned on when the electronic device does not comprise the communication device and the gateway is unable to communicate with the controller.

7. The vehicle test system of claim 6,

wherein the gateway is configured to transmit the NRC to the test device when a predetermined time has not elapsed after the controller of the electronic device is turned on.

8. The vehicle test system of claim 7,

wherein the gateway is configured to transmit a code indicating that testing of the electronic device is impossible to the test device when the predetermined time has not elapsed after the controller of the electronic device is turned on.

9. A vehicle comprising:

at least one electronic device installed in the vehicle; and

a gateway configured to communicate with an external device testing the electronic device and determine whether the electronic device is testable,

wherein the electronic device comprises a controller for controlling an operation of the electronic device; and

wherein the gateway configured to determine whether or not the electronic device is testable in a different manner depending on whether the electronic device comprises a separate communication device and transmits a determined result to the test device.

10. The vehicle of claim 9,

wherein the gateway is configured to determine whether or not the electronic device is testable based on a state of the controller received from the communication device when the electronic device comprises the communication device.

11. The vehicle of claim 10,

wherein the gateway is configured to determine that the electronic device is not testable when the controller is not operating normally and transmits a Negative Response Code (NRC) to the test device.

12. The vehicle of claim 10,

wherein the communication device comprises a microcontroller unit (MCU) capable of communicating with the gateway and controller;

and

wherein the controller comprises a central processing unit (CPU).

13. The vehicle of claim 12,

wherein the gateway is configured to determine that the electronic device is not testable and transmits a Negative Response Code (NRC) to the test device when the CPU is turned off or before booting is completed.

14. The vehicle of claim 9,

wherein the gateway is configured to determine whether or not the electronic device is testable based on an elapsed time after the controller of the electronic device is turned on when the electronic device does not comprise the communication device and the gateway is unable to communicate with the controller.

15. The vehicle of claim 14,

wherein the gateway is configured to transmit a Negative Response Code (NRC) to the test device when a predetermined time has not elapsed after the controller of the electronic device is turned on.

16. The vehicle of claim 14,

wherein the gateway is configured to transmit a code indicating that testing of the electronic device is impossible to the test device when a predetermined time has not elapsed after the controller of the electronic device is turned on.

17. A method for controlling a vehicle comprising at least one electronic device installed in the vehicle, the method comprising steps of:

determining whether the electronic device is testable; and

transmitting a determined result to an external device for testing the electronic device,

wherein the step of determining whether the electronic device is testable comprises determining whether the electronic device is testable in a different manner according to whether the electronic device comprises a microcontroller unit (MCU) capable of determining a state of a central processing unit (CPU) of the electronic device.

18. The method of claim 17,

wherein the step of determining whether the electronic device is testable comprises determining whether or not the electronic device is testable based on the state of the CPU received from the MCU when the electronic device comprises the CPU.

19. The method of claim 18,

wherein the step of determining whether the electronic device is testable comprises determining that the electronic device is not testable and transmitting a Negative Response Code (NRC) to the external device when the CPU is turned off or before booting is completed.

20. The method of claim 17,

wherein the step of determining whether the electronic device is testable comprises determining whether or not the electronic device is testable based on an elapsed time after the CPU of the electronic device is turned on when the electronic device does not comprise the MCU.

21. The method of claim 20,

wherein the step of determining whether the electronic device is testable comprises transmitting the NRC to the external device when a predetermined time has not elapsed after the CPU of the electronic device is turned on.

22. The method of claim 20,

wherein the step of determining whether the electronic device is testable comprises transmitting a code indicating that testing of the electronic device is impossible to the external device when a predetermined time has not elapsed after the CPU of the electronic device is turned on.