STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20130254468A1
• Filed: 03/18/2013
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
• Original Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
• Inventors: MIYAKI, Tomohiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,400,742 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/103
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 61/045 for outboard marine engines
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/042 for stopping the engine
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/2406 using essentially read only memories
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/249 Methods for preventing the loss of data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0246 in block erasable memory, e.g. flash memory

Abstract

A storage control device of an outboard motor writing operation history information of the outboard motor to a nonvolatile memory by using an electric power generated by driving of an internal combustion engine, the storage control device includes a stop instruction detecting unit detecting a stop instruction of the driving of the internal combustion engine by a boat operator, a writing unit writing the operation history information to the nonvolatile memory in accordance with the stop instruction detected by the stop instruction detecting unit, a write judgment unit judging whether or not the operation history information is written to the nonvolatile memory by the writing unit, and a stop processing unit stopping the driving of the internal combustion engine after it is judged that the operation history information is written to the nonvolatile memory by the write judgment unit.

Claims

1. A storage control device of an outboard motor writing operation history information of the outboard motor to a nonvolatile memory by using an electric power generated by driving of an internal combustion engine, the storage control device comprising:

a stop instruction detecting unit detecting a stop instruction of the driving of the internal combustion engine by a boat operator;

a writing unit writing the operation history information to the nonvolatile memory in accordance with the stop instruction detected by the stop instruction detecting unit;

a write judgment unit judging whether or not the operation history information is written to the nonvolatile memory by the writing unit; and

a stop processing unit stopping the driving of the internal combustion engine after it is judged that the operation history information is written to the nonvolatile memory by the write judgment unit.

2. The storage control device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage processing unit storing the operation history information of the outboard motor at a volatile memory,

wherein the writing unit writes the operation history information stored at the volatile memory by the storage processing unit to the nonvolatile memory.

3. The storage control device according to claim 1,

wherein the storage control device operates by using only the electric power generated by the driving of the internal combustion engine.

4. A storage control method of an outboard motor writing operation history information of the outboard motor to a nonvolatile memory by using an electric power generated by driving of an internal combustion engine, the storage control method comprising:

a stop instruction detecting step of detecting a stop instruction of the driving of the internal combustion engine by a boat operator;

a writing step of writing the operation history information to the nonvolatile memory in accordance with the stop instruction detected by the stop instruction detecting step;

a write judgment step of judging whether or not the operation history information is written to the nonvolatile memory by the writing step; and

a stop processing step of stopping the driving of the internal combustion engine after it is judged that the operation history information is written to the nonvolatile memory by the write judgment step.

5. A program product for causing a storage control device of an outboard motor writing operation history information of the outboard motor to a nonvolatile memory by using an electric power generated by driving of an internal combustion engine, to execute:

a stop instruction detecting step of detecting a stop instruction of the driving of the internal combustion engine by a boat operator;

a writing step of writing the operation history information to the nonvolatile memory in accordance with the stop instruction detected by the stop instruction detecting step;

a write judgment step of judging whether or not the operation history information is written to the nonvolatile memory by the writing step; and

a stop processing step of stopping the driving of the internal combustion engine after it is judged that the operation history information is written to the nonvolatile memory by the write judgment step.