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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2005
Applicant:
Mary T. Hedges, Greentown, IN (US);
Inventor:
Mary T. Hedges, Greentown, IN (US);
Assignee:
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An electronic control unit and a method of diagnosing an electronic control unit on a vehicle are provided. The method includes the steps of storing in memory information on variables to collect, selecting a trigger, monitoring for a predetermined event, activating the trigger based on the detection of the event, collecting the variables upon activation of the trigger, and storing the collected variables in memory. The collected variable may be read via a pre-existing production serial link to diagnose the electronic control unit.