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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1995
Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Kariya, JP;
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.