Gateway device

• US 9,224,251 B2
• Filed: 10/04/2013
• Issued: 12/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Harata, Yuzo, Natsume, Mitsuyoshi, Takahashi, Yasuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN
• Application Number:
  US14/433,870
• Publication Number:
  US 20150254909A1
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• Field of Search: 701/29.1, 701/31.4, 701/31.5, 701/32.7, 701/32.8, 701/33.2, 701/33.4, 701/33.7, 701/34.3, 701/34.4, 709/218, 702182-185, 702/188
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0205 by means of a monitoring system capable of detecting and responding to faults
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0216 Human interface functionality, e.g. monitoring system providing help to the user in the selection of tests or in its configuration
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2205/02 using a vehicle scan tool
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/006 Indicating maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0816 Indicating performance data, e.g. occurrence of a malfunction
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0858 wherein the data carrier is removable
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/44 Star or tree networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/46 Interconnection of networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/4625 Single bridge functionality, e.g. connection of two networks over a single bridge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/40273 the transportation system being a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/40293 the transportation system being a train
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/28 Timers or timing mechanisms used in protocols

Abstract

A gateway device includes a request receiving portion, a request storage, a request conversion portion, a request transmitting portion, a response receiving portion, a response storage, a response conversion portion, and a response transmitting portion. When receiving, from a first diagnosis purpose tool, a diagnosis request for performing a malfunction diagnosis to an ECU equipped to a vehicle, the gateway device relays a diagnosis request and a diagnosis response between the first diagnosis purpose tool and the ECU. When receiving, from a second diagnosis purpose tool, a diagnosis request for performing a malfunction diagnosis to the ECU equipped to the vehicle, the gateway device relays a diagnosis request and a diagnosis response between the second diagnosis purpose tool and the ECU after converting identification informations of the diagnosis request and the diagnosis response.

Claims

1. A gateway device comprising:

a request receiving portion receiving, from a first diagnosis purpose tool, a diagnosis request that requests an execution of a malfunction diagnosis to an electronic control unit equipped to a vehicle, the request receiving portion further receiving, from a second diagnosis purpose tool, a target diagnosis request that requests an execution of a malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit, the target diagnosis request having a first identification information, the malfunction diagnosis requested by the target diagnosis request being identical to the malfunction diagnosis requested by the diagnosis request;

a request storage storing a request conversion reference information that indicates a correspondence relation between the first identification information and a second identification information, the second identification information being different from the first identification information;

a request conversion portion converting, based on the request conversion reference information, the first identification information, which is included in the target diagnosis request, to the corresponding second identification information;

a request transmitting portion transmitting the diagnosis request received by the request receiving portion to an in-vehicle local area network to which the electronic control unit is connected, the request transmitting portion further transmitting the target diagnosis request to the in-vehicle local area network after the request conversion portion converts the first identification information to the second identification information;

a response receiving portion receiving a diagnosis response, the diagnosis response being output from the electronic control unit to the in-vehicle local area network as a response to the diagnosis request;

a response storage storing a third identification information, the third identification information being an identification information of a diagnosis response, which is a response to the target diagnosis request, the response storage further storing a response conversion reference information that indicates a correspondence relation between the third identification information and a fourth identification information, the fourth identification information being different from the third identification information;

a response conversion portion converting, based on the response conversion reference information, the third identification information, which is included in the diagnosis response to the target diagnosis request, to the corresponding fourth identification information; and

a response transmitting portion transmitting, to the first diagnosis purpose tool, the diagnosis response to the diagnosis request, the diagnosis response being received by the response receiving portion and the first diagnosis purpose tool being a transmission source of the diagnosis request, the response transmitting portion further transmitting, to the second diagnosis purpose tool, the diagnosis response to the target diagnosis request after the response conversion portion converts the third identification information of the diagnosis response to the fourth identification information, the second diagnosis purpose tool being a transmission source of the target diagnosis request.

2. The gateway device according to claim 1, wherein

the first identification information and the fourth identification information have use purposes other than malfunction uses that are defined under a communication protocol related to a communication performed by the electronic control unit using the in-vehicle local area network, and

the second identification information and the third identification information have use purposes, which are defined as the malfunction uses under the communication protocol.

3. The gateway device according to claim 1, wherein

the first diagnosis purpose tool is provided by an external connection tool that temporarily connects with the gateway device via a transmission path,

the second diagnosis purpose tool is provided by a communication unit and is connected to the in-vehicle local area network, the communication unit performs a communication with a center positioned outside the vehicle or performs a communication with a different device positioned outside the vehicle,

the request receiving portion receives the diagnosis request from the external connection tool via the transmission path and receives the target diagnosis request from the communication unit via the in-vehicle local area network, the communication unit outputs the target diagnosis request to the in-vehicle local area network,

the response transmitting portion transmits, to the external connection tool, the diagnosis response to the diagnosis request of the external connection tool via the transmission path, and transmits, to the communication unit, the diagnosis response to the target diagnosis request of the communication unit via the in-vehicle local area network, and

the diagnosis response to the diagnosis request of the external connection tool is generated by and transmitted from the electronic control unit, and the diagnosis response to the target diagnosis request of the communication unit is generated by and transmitted from the electronic control unit and has the fourth identification information.

4. The gateway device according to claim 1, further comprising

a resending request portion, wherein,

when the request transmitting portion transmits the diagnosis request from the first diagnosis purpose tool to the in-vehicle local area network at a previous time, the request receiving portion receives the target diagnosis request from the second diagnosis purpose tool during a waiting period for the diagnosis response to the diagnosis request that is transmitted at the previous time, and the second identification information corresponding to the first identification information of the target diagnosis request is identical to the identification information of the diagnosis request previously transmitted by the request transmitting portion, the resending request portion transmits a resending request, which requests for a resending of the target diagnosis request after an elapse of a predetermined time period, to the second diagnosis purpose tool.

5. The gateway device according to claim 4, wherein,

when the request transmitting portion transmits the target diagnosis request from the second diagnosis purpose tool to the in-vehicle local area network at a previous time, the request receiving portion receives the diagnosis request from the first diagnosis purpose tool during awaiting period for the diagnosis response to the target diagnosis request that is transmitted at the previous time, and the identification information of the diagnosis request is identical to the second identification information corresponding to the first identification information of the target diagnosis request previously transmitted by the request transmitting portion, the resending request portion transmits a resending request, which requests for a resending of the diagnosis request after an elapse of the predetermined time period, to the first diagnosis purpose tool.

6. The gateway device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an arbitration portion; and

a delay portion, wherein

one of the first diagnosis purpose tool and the second diagnosis purpose tool is defined as a non-prioritized tool and a remaining one of the first diagnosis purpose tool and the second diagnosis purpose tool is defined as a prioritized tool,

the prioritized tool has a priority higher than a priority of the non-prioritized tool,

when the request receiving portion receives the diagnosis request from the non-prioritized tool for the execution of the malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit at a previous time and receives the diagnosis request from the prioritized tool for the execution of the malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit before an end of the malfunction diagnosis requested by the non-prioritized tool at the previous time, the arbitration portion controls the request transmitting portion to cancel an output of the diagnosis request, which is transmitted from the non-prioritized tool, and controls the response transmitting portion to cancel a transmission of the diagnosis response to the non-prioritized tool, and

when the, request receiving portion receives the diagnosis request from the non-prioritized tool for the execution of the malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit at a previous time and receives the diagnosis request from the prioritized tool for the execution of the malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit before the end of the malfunction diagnosis requested by the non-prioritized tool at the previous time, the delay portion transmits, to the prioritized tool, a resending request that requests for a resending of the diagnosis request after an elapse of a predetermined time period.

7. The gateway device according to claim 6, wherein

the prioritized tool is provided by an external connection tool, and

the non-prioritized tool is provided by a communication unit.

8. The gateway device according to claim 6, wherein

the prioritized tool is provided by a communication unit, and

the non-prioritized tool is provided by an external connection tool.

9. The gateway device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an arbitration portion; and

a delay portion, wherein,

in a case where the first diagnosis purpose tool has a priority higher than a priority of the second diagnosis purpose tool,

when the request receiving portion receives the target diagnosis request from the second diagnosis purpose tool for the execution of the malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit at a previous time and receives the diagnosis request from the first diagnosis purpose tool for the execution of the malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit before an end of the malfunction diagnosis requested by the second diagnosis purpose tool at the previous time, the arbitration portion controls the request transmitting portion to cancel an output of the target diagnosis request, which is transmitted from the second diagnosis purpose tool, and controls the response transmitting portion to cancel a transmission of the diagnosis response to the second diagnosis purpose tool, and

when the request receiving portion receives the target diagnosis request from the second diagnosis purpose tool for the execution of the malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit at a previous time and receives the diagnosis request from the first diagnosis purpose tool for the execution of the malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit before the end of the malfunction diagnosis requested by the second diagnosis purpose tool at the previous time, the delay portion transmits, to the first diagnosis purpose tool, a resending request that requests for a resending of the diagnosis request after an elapse of a predetermined time period.

10. The gateway device according to claim 9, wherein,

in a case where the second diagnosis purpose tool has a priority higher than a priority of the first diagnosis purpose tool,

when the request receiving portion receives the diagnosis request from the first diagnosis purpose tool for the execution of the malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit at a previous time and receives the target diagnosis request from the second diagnosis purpose tool for the execution of the malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit before an end of the malfunction diagnosis requested by the first diagnosis purpose tool at the previous time, the arbitration portion controls the request transmitting portion to cancel an output of the diagnosis request, which is transmitted from the first diagnosis purpose tool, and controls the response transmitting portion to cancel a transmission of the diagnosis response to the first diagnosis purpose tool, and

when the request receiving portion receives the diagnosis request from the first diagnosis purpose tool for the execution of the malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit at a previous time and receives the target diagnosis request from the second diagnosis purpose tool for the execution of the malfunction diagnosis to the electronic control unit before the end of the malfunction diagnosis requested by the first diagnosis purpose tool at the previous time, the delay portion transmits, to the second diagnosis purpose tool, a resending request that requests for a resending of the target diagnosis request after an elapse of the predetermined time period.