Vehicular information storage device and power outage-resistant storage system and method for the same
First Claim
1. A vehicular information storage device comprising:
- storage means for storing information therein and retaining said stored information even during electric power cut-off;
extracting means for processing information needed for analysis and maintenance of vehicular and internal combustion engines, said processed information relating to a predetermined period of time, and for extracting said information at a predetermined time interval;
determining means for determining from among regions set beforehand a region of information to which information extracted by said extracting means belongs;
counting means for incrementing a counter in a predetermined storage region of said storage means in correspondence with a region determined by said determining means; and
data restoration means for restoring a count value of said counter in said predetermined storage region based on count values of other storage regions after an irregularity is determined in data of said predetermined region through comparison of data stored in said storage regions.
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Abstract
A vehicular information storage device includes an EEPROM, an extracting device which processes and extracts vehicle information, a determination device which determines from among regions set beforehand the region of the extracted information, and a counting device for incrementing a counter in correspondence with the region determined by the determination device. The needed information is extracted properly at a predetermined period along with the determination of the region where such information belongs. Further, the EEPROM used by the system is composed of three data regions with all three data regions set to a reset state at an initial state. The data regions are decremented sequentially at a minimum period required by a measurement parameter. Since updating from "1" to "0" is possible for individual cells and there is no need for resetting, processing time is reduced. Also, when data in one of the data regions is determined to be irregular due to, e.g., a power outage, it can be restored using the count values of the two other data regions.
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22 Claims
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1. A vehicular information storage device comprising:
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storage means for storing information therein and retaining said stored information even during electric power cut-off; extracting means for processing information needed for analysis and maintenance of vehicular and internal combustion engines, said processed information relating to a predetermined period of time, and for extracting said information at a predetermined time interval; determining means for determining from among regions set beforehand a region of information to which information extracted by said extracting means belongs; counting means for incrementing a counter in a predetermined storage region of said storage means in correspondence with a region determined by said determining means; and data restoration means for restoring a count value of said counter in said predetermined storage region based on count values of other storage regions after an irregularity is determined in data of said predetermined region through comparison of data stored in said storage regions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. An internal combustion engine operational history storage device which measures time using an EEPROM, said device comprising:
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at least three data regions in said EEPROM to store data for a measurement item; counting means for counting data stored in said data regions; data computing means for processing as measured data a total of data counted by said counting means and stored in said data regions; and data restoration means for restoring a count value for a first data region based on count values of other data regions after an irregularity is determined in data of said first data region through comparison of data stored in said data regions. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An automotive data acquisition system comprising:
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extracting means for processing and extracting information needed for analysis and maintenance of vehicular and internal combustion engines at a predetermined time interval, said information relating to a predetermined period of time; a first memory for storing data therein; determining means for determining which of a plurality of predetermined categories to which said extracted information belongs; first modifying means for modifying data in a predetermined storage region of said first memory, said predetermined storage region corresponding to one of said predetermined categories to which said extracted information belongs, said first modifying means including counting means for incrementing a counter in correspondence with a category determined by said determining means; and restoration means for restoring a count value for said predetermined storage region based on count values of other storage regions after an irregularity is determined in data of said predetermined storage region through comparison of data stored in said storage regions. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. A vehicular information storage device comprising:
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storage means for storing information therein and retaining said stored information even during electric power cut-off; extracting means for processing information needed for analysis and maintenance of vehicular and internal combustion engines, said processed information relating to a predetermined period of time, and for extracting said information at a predetermined time interval; determining means for determining from among regions set beforehand a region of information to which information extracted by said extracting means belongs; counting means for incrementing a counter in a predetermined storage region of said storage means in correspondence with a region determined by said determining means, for omitting resetting said storage means during a first set of operations, said first set of operations being one of odd-numbered operations and even-numbered operations, and for resetting said storage means during a second set of operations, said second set of operations being the other of said odd-numbered operations and said even-numbered operations.
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15. An internal combustion engine operational history storage device which measures time using an EEPROM, said device comprising:
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at least three data regions in said EEPROM to store data for a measurement item; counting means for counting data stored in said data regions, for resetting said EEPROM during a first set of operations, said first set of operations being one of odd-numbered operations and even-numbered operations, and for omitting resetting of said EEPROM during a second set of operations, said second set of operations being the other of said odd-numbered operations and said even-numbered operations; and data computing means for processing as measured data a total of data counted by said counting means and stored in said data regions. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An automotive data acquisition system comprising:
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extracting means for processing and extracting information needed for analysis and maintenance of vehicular and internal combustion engines at a predetermined time interval, said information relating to a predetermined period of time; a first memory for storing data therein; determining means for determining which of a plurality of predetermined categories to which said extracted information belongs; first modifying means for modifying data in a predetermined storage region of said first memory, said predetermined storage region corresponding to one of said predetermined categories to which said extracted information belongs, said first modifying means including counting means for incrementing a counter in correspondence with a category determined by said determining means, for omitting resetting said first memory during a first set of operations, said first set of operations being one of odd-numbered operations and even-numbered operations, and resetting said first memory during a second set of operations, said second set of operations being the other of said odd-numbered operations and said even-numbered operations.
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Specification