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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1997
Calsonic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle air-conditioning system includes an air-conditioning amplifier unit being connected to a plurality of door actuators through one communication and one power line; and the air-conditioning amplifier unit having first door-operation self-diagnostic means which sends to the door actuator target stopping position data for bringing doors in a full-open condition or full-close condition; if there is a change in an instruction value, after the lapse of a preset period of time which takes into account the time period required for the door to arrive at a target position and a lag in communication, the self-diagnostic means determining that the doors are in a normal condition when the signal returned from the door actuator represents that the doors are in a stopped state but determining that the doors are in an abnormal condition when the signal represents that the doors are in an actuated state.