Data Recorder For Vehicle

• US 20080059020A1
• Filed: 08/09/2007
• Published: 03/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: SATO, Jin
• Application Number:
  US11/836,569
• Publication Number:
  US 20080059020A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/35
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

A data recorder for vehicle compares a difference between previously acquired data and presently acquired data with a data threshold value which is set to every abnormal occurrence for a time-series data recorded temporarily in RAM, and determines whether the data is recorded in a data recording device, when various types of data associated with the abnormal occurrence is recorded. Specifically, if it is necessary to record the data with a fine accuracy, a setting of the threshold value for the data is made small, and if it is necessary to record the data with a coarse accuracy, a setting thereof for the data is made large. Accordingly, the data recording accuracy is appropriately set in correspond with the abnormal occurrence, therefore, the cause of the abnormal occurrence is ascertained later without using a recording capacity wastefully.

Claims

1. A data recorder, comprising:

a data acquiring unit that acquires data for use in a vehicle;

a comparison unit that compares previously acquired data with presently acquired data;

a judgment unit that judges whether the presently acquired data is recorded in response to a comparison result from the comparison unit;

a dataset management unit that creates a present dataset including present data and a recording flag for the present data when the judgment unit judges that the present data is recorded, and records at least a recording flag of the presently acquired data and does not record the presently acquired data when the judgment unit judges that the presently acquired data is not recorded; and

a recording unit that records the present dataset created by the data set management unit in a recording device.

2. The data recorder according to claim 1, wherein the comparison unit compares a threshold value set to every data with a difference between the previously acquired data and the presently acquired data, acquired by the data acquiring unit, and judges whether the presently acquired data is recorded.

3. The data recorder according to claim 1, wherein the comparison unit sets the threshold value to every data in response to an abnormal occurrence.

4. The data recorder according to claim 1, wherein the data acquired by the data acquiring unit (10) includes a sensor value and an instruction value.

5. The data recorder according to claim 1, wherein the recording device used by the recording unit includes a nonvolatile memory or a hard disk.

6. The data recorder according to claim 1, the dataset is provided at every sampling cycle of the data acquiring unit.

7. The data recorder according to claim 1, the recording unit determines a maximum quantity conformed to a predetermined setting data quantity to record the dataset in the recording device.

8. The data recorder according to claim 1, wherein the recording unit determines a data quantity to be recorded in response to an arisen abnormal occurrence to record the dataset in the recording device.

9. The data recorder according to claim 1, wherein data that is judged not to be recorded is compensated by data acquired at a previous time to carry out to restore the data, with respect to the dataset recorded by the recording unit.

10. The data recorder according to claim 1, wherein the recording flag and recording data are recorded in difference areas of the recording device, respectively, when the dataset is recorded by the recording unit, so that a wasteful empty area is not created in a data recording area even if a recording data quantity is changed.