System and method for managing time for vehicle fault diagnostic apparatus
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1. A vehicle fault diagnostic apparatus comprising:
- a communication network;
a plurality of controllers, each of said plurality of controllers having connected thereto at least one of a respective sensor and a respective actuator for detecting a fault of the respective at least one and for transmitting detected fault data through said communication network; and
a master controller for receiving said detected fault data from said communication network;
wherein said master controller transmits a counted time to each of said plurality of controllers as a standard time; and
wherein each respective one of said plurality of controllers, when detecting a fault of the respective at least one to produce detected fault data, determines a time relating to a fault diagnosis on a basis of the standard time which was transmitted by the master controller to the respective one of said plurality of controllers.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and a method for managing time for a vehicle fault diagnostic apparatus by which temporal contradictions and errors between controllers are eliminated, and fault diagnosis is reliably performed by accurate time. To this end, the system includes a master controller (1) for transmitting a counted time as a standard time, and a plurality of controllers (11a, 11b, 11c, . . . , 11n) for determining the time relating to the fault diagnosis on the basis of the received standard time when fault data of sensors, etc., are detected.
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1. A vehicle fault diagnostic apparatus comprising:
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a communication network; a plurality of controllers, each of said plurality of controllers having connected thereto at least one of a respective sensor and a respective actuator for detecting a fault of the respective at least one and for transmitting detected fault data through said communication network; and a master controller for receiving said detected fault data from said communication network; wherein said master controller transmits a counted time to each of said plurality of controllers as a standard time; and wherein each respective one of said plurality of controllers, when detecting a fault of the respective at least one to produce detected fault data, determines a time relating to a fault diagnosis on a basis of the standard time which was transmitted by the master controller to the respective one of said plurality of controllers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of managing time for a vehicle fault diagnostic apparatus in which each of a plurality of controllers is connected to at least one of a respective sensor and a respective actuator for detecting a fault of said at least one, said method comprising the steps of:
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transmitting to each of said plurality of controllers a standard time; storing, in each of said plurality of controllers which detects a fault, detected fault data and at least one of an occurrence time of said fault and an elapsed time, whereby at least one of said occurrence time and said elapsed time is regarded as a time relating to the detected fault; and each of said plurality of controllers determining a time relating to a fault, detected by a respective controller, on a basis of said standard time. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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