Vehicle communication system
First Claim
1. A vehicle communication system comprising:
- a plurality of multiple vehicle-mounted computers for carrying out various computations required for electronic controls of a vehicle, each vehicle-mounted computer including a communication device for data transmission therethrough;
a common communication line connecting the vehicle-mounted computers to each other via respective ones of the communication;
each of the vehicle-mounted computers assigning identification data to computation data to indicate a priority of the computation data so that the computation data is sent from the respective ones of the communication devices to the common communication line;
each of the vehicle-mounted computers reordering the prioritized computation data and sending the reordered data to said respective ones of the communication devices in an order of highest priority as indicated by said identification data; and
the communication devices sending the reordered computation data to the common communication line in an order received.
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Abstract
An engine ECU, an AT ECU, a meter ECU and an ABS ECU are connected by a common communication line. The CPU of the engine ECU computes various transmission data according to the detection results of sensors and switches and stores it in a memory. The CPU reorders the transmission data in the memory in ID order according to a preset ID (identification data). The reordered transmission data is then sent to the communication control circuit via a data transmission line. The transmission data is sent to the communication line according to transmission order. By sending the transmission data in the ID order, it is possible to minimize the transmission waiting time of high priority data. Moreover, if there is collision of different data on the communication line, the higher priority data is given priority in sending.
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1. A vehicle communication system comprising:
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a plurality of multiple vehicle-mounted computers for carrying out various computations required for electronic controls of a vehicle, each vehicle-mounted computer including a communication device for data transmission therethrough; a common communication line connecting the vehicle-mounted computers to each other via respective ones of the communication; each of the vehicle-mounted computers assigning identification data to computation data to indicate a priority of the computation data so that the computation data is sent from the respective ones of the communication devices to the common communication line; each of the vehicle-mounted computers reordering the prioritized computation data and sending the reordered data to said respective ones of the communication devices in an order of highest priority as indicated by said identification data; and the communication devices sending the reordered computation data to the common communication line in an order received. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A vehicle communication system comprising:
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a plurality of multiple vehicle-mounted computers for carrying out, at different processing cycles, various computations required for electronic controls of a vehicle, each vehicle-mounted computer including a communication device for data transmissions therethrough; a common communication line connecting the vehicle-mounted computers to each other via respective ones of the communication devices; each of the vehicle-mounted computers assigning identification data to computation data to indicate an order of priority of the computation data so that the computation data is sent from the respective ones of the communication devices to the common communication line; and each of the vehicle-mounted computers placing the computation data in groups, each of the groups corresponding to a processing cycle and sending each of the groups to the common communication devices starting in an order of one of the groups having a shortest processing cycle and in an order of one of the computation data in the one of the groups having a highest priority as indicated by the identification data.
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6. A method of transmitting data in a vehicle communication system including a plurality of multiple vehicle-mounted computers, comprising:
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assigning an identification data indicating a respective priority to each one of a plurality of computation data items computed by each of the vehicle-mounted computers; storing the each one of the computation data items in a memory of one of the vehicle-mounted computers; and reordering the computation data items stored in said memory in an order of priority based on the identification data of the each one of the computation data items; and transmitting the reordered computation data items to a communications line in the order of priority. - View Dependent Claims (7)
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8. A method of transmitting data in a vehicle communication system including a plurality of multiple vehicle-mounted computers, comprising:
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assigning an identification data indicating a respective priority to each one of a plurality of computation data items computed by each of the vehicle-mounted computers; grouping, for each one of a plurality of processing cycles of one of the vehicle-mounted computers, a plurality of computation data items; transmitting to a communication line, for each grouping of the computation data items, starting in an order of one of the computation data items calculated according to a shortest one of the processing cycles and in an order of highest priority as indicated by the respective identification data. - View Dependent Claims (9)
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