Trouble diagnosing device

• US 7,366,596 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2004
• Issued: 04/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi FUSO Truck & Bus Corporation (Daimler Truck Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi FUSO Truck & Bus Corporation (Daimler Truck Holding AG)
• Inventors: Kawauchi, Hiroshi, Kitajima, Akihisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Beaulieu; Yonel
• Application Number:
  US10/911,066
• Publication Number:
  US 20050065679A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,364 Days
• Field of Search: 701 29- 36, 702182-188, 714/100, 714/25
• US Class Current: 701/29
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

A trouble diagnosing device connectable to an ECU mounted on a vehicle and equipped with a memory to store current trouble information and past trouble information, and the trouble diagnosing device includes a display screen to display a diagnosed trouble state, and a simultaneous display unit to call trouble information stored in the memory and make both of the current trouble information and past trouble information displayed at a same time on the display screen.

Claims

1. A trouble diagnosing device connectable to an electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle and equipped with a trouble storing unit configured to store current trouble information and past trouble information, the trouble diagnosing device comprising:

a display screen configured to display a diagnosed trouble state, the display screen including a current trouble information display section and a past trouble information display section; and

a simultaneous display unit configured to call trouble information stored in the trouble storing unit and make both of the current trouble information and past trouble information displayed at a same time on the current trouble information display section and the past trouble information display section of the display screen,

wherein the simultaneous display unit displays at the same time the current and past trouble information including the same trouble information and the current and past trouble information display sections, respectively.

2. The trouble diagnosing device according to claim 1, wherein the display screen includes trouble count display sections further indicating total numbers of the current and past trouble information when the current trouble information and past trouble information are displayed at the same time on the display screen.

3. The trouble diagnosing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a trouble information erasing unit configured to instruct erasing of certain trouble information of at least one group of the current trouble information or the past trouble information stored in the trouble storage unit while the current trouble information and past trouble information are being displayed on the display screen.

4. The trouble diagnosing device according to claim 1, wherein the trouble diagnosing device is a computer terminal with an interface equipment for interfacing with the electronic control device.

5. The trouble diagnosing device according to claim 1, wherein the display screen is of a touch panel-type, and a plurality of trouble information displayed on the display screen are placed respectively in independent cells, each cell having a width of about 1/30 to 1/15 of a length of a diagonal line of the display screen.

6. The trouble diagnosing device according to claim 1, wherein the display screen is of a touch panel-type, and a plurality of trouble information displayed on the display screen are placed respectively in independent cells, each cell having a width of about 0.39 inch to 0.79 inch when the display screen has a size of 12.1 inches, about 0.49 inch to 0.98 inch when the display screen has a size of 15 inches, and about 0.56 inch to 1.11 inches when the display screen has a size of 17 inches.

7. The trouble diagnosing device according to claim 1, wherein the display screen is of a touch panel-type, and the display screen further displays a print instruction section, and the trouble diagnosing device further comprises a printing unit configured to print out present contents displayed on the display screen when the print instruction section on the screen is touched.

8. The trouble diagnosing device according to claim 1, wherein the current and past trouble information comprise diagnostic codes.

9. A trouble diagnosing device connectable to an electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle, the trouble diagnosing device comprising:

a trouble storing unit for storing current trouble information and past trouble information;

a display screen for displaying a diagnosed trouble state;

a simultaneous display unit for displaying both the current trouble information and the past trouble information at a same time on the display screen; and

a trouble information erasing unit for instructing erasing of certain trouble information of at least one group of the current trouble information or the past trouble information stored in the trouble storage unit while the current trouble information and past trouble information are being displayed on the display screen.