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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2004
Johan Larsson, Stenungsund, SE;
Daniel Johansson, Karna, SE;
BO Hammerlid, Greensboro, NC (US);
Volvo Lastvagnar AB, Gothenburg, SE;
Abstract
Method for collecting data from a motor-driven vehicle that is provided with a microprocessor having memory for storing a particular quantity of data. The data is provided by a number of sensors connected to the vehicle and its motor and is recorded and compiled into a specific data file upon each recording occasion when it its ascertained that conditions are fulfilled for recording a data file. This is recorded as a non-erasable reference data file. Upon subsequent occasions when the conditions are fulfilled, a number of successively erasable data files are successively recorded and stored within the predetermined quantity of data.