Vehicle on-board diagnosing system

• US 4,906,970 A
• Filed: 08/01/1989
• Issued: 03/06/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Momura, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Crosland, Donnie L.
• Application Number:
  US07/388,315
• Time in Patent Office: 217 Days
• Field of Search: 340/459, 340/461, 340/462, 340/438, 340/439, 340/517, 340/521, 340/525, 364/550, 364/442, 364/424.03, 364/424.04, 364/551.01
• US Class Current: 340/459
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/006 on road vehicles, e.g. automobiles or trucks testing of ignition installations peculiar to internal combustion engines F02P17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005

Abstract

A vehicle on-board diagnosing system having a display, a plurality of units operatively connected to a plurality of systems to be diagnosed, and a system selecting device which is constructed and arranged such as to select one of the plurality of units and connect same to the display to allow delivery of data from the subject unit to the display.

Claims

1. A vehicle on-board diagnosing system in a vehicle having a plurality of systems to be diagnosed, the vehicle on-board diagnosing system comprising:

a plurality of units operatively connected to the plurality of systems to be diagnosed, each having at least one signal line for delivering a result of diagnosis;

a display unit having at least one signal input, said display unit including means for displaying information derived from said signal input; and

a selecting device including a first connector part having mounted thereon a plurality of columns of electric terminals, each of said columns corresponding to one unit of said plurality of units and each of said columns including a pair of terminals electrically connected to one of said units and a second pair of terminals connected to said signal input of said display unit, including a second connector part having a column of terminals selectively and mateably engageable with each of said columns of terminals in said first connector part, pairs of terminals in said second connector part being connected together so that mating engagement of the terminals in said first connector part with the terminals in said second connector part establishes connection between a pair of terminals in one of said columns in said first connector part corresponding to one of said plurality of units and a pair of terminals in the same column connected to said signal input of said display unit, whereby said second connector part may be selectively mateably engaged with selected columns of terminals in said first connector part.