Mazda Motor Corporation

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Makoto Mutoh

Osamu Michihira

Yutaka Matsuda

Toshimichi Tokunaga

Yusaku Himono

A multiplex transmission system for automotive vehicles includes a plurality of communication nodes interconnected via a common multiplex transmission line. Each communication node includes a communication control device for controlling communication among the communication nodes in accordance with a decentralized multiplex protocol, a transmitting device for transmitting a reception acknowledgement signal to the multiplex transmission line upon receiving reception data from the multiplex transmission line normally in a reception mode, a memory device for storing beforehand, as data in table form, reception acknowledgment signals from respective ones of the communication nodes in a predetermined state, a comparator device for comparing, after a transmission, an actual reception acknowledgment signal from each communication node with the data table in a transmission mode, and a re-transmission control device for performing re-transmission control of communication among the communication nodes based on the results of the comparison.

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Akita, Japan

Makoto Mutoh