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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
May. 19, 2000
Yoshinori Ohno, Aichi, JP;
Tateo Kume, Aichi, JP;
Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A self-diagnosis system for a vehicle, with which it is possible, without requiring skill and practice, to realize running according to a running pattern and easily and certainly cause an ECU to execute a self-diagnosis. The self-diagnosis system comprises: a vehicle state detecting unit for detecting a vehicle state; a data processing unit for executing a diagnosis of a diagnosis object device on the basis of a predetermined running pattern preset in correspondence with the diagnosis object device and a vehicle state detected by the vehicle state detecting unit when running according to the running pattern is carried out; and a diagnosis data processing unit, data-transferably connected to the data processing unit, for obtaining and displaying data from the data processing unit, and under a condition that the diagnosis data processing unit is data-transferably connected to the data processing unit and the vehicle is run in a predetermined running pattern corresponding to a diagnosis object device in order to execute a diagnosis to the diagnosis object device, the diagnosis data processing unit displays that an execution condition is established when the execution condition of the diagnosis corresponding to the running pattern is established.