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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2004
Applicant:
Hajime Hosoya, Atsugi, JP;
Inventor:
Hajime Hosoya, Atsugi, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo-to, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An air pump is driven under a condition where a check valve is not opened, and an occurrence of failure in the check valve and the air pump is diagnosed based on a driving load of the air pump or a pressure upstream of the check valve or a pressure downstream of the check valve at the time.