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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2011
Akihiro Mitani, Hiroshima, JP;
Keiichiro Sueshige, Hiroshima, JP;
Tsuyoshi Kiyooka, Hiroshima, JP;
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
It is intended to make it possible to, even in a situation where a program and/or data to be written to a memory device of an electronic control unit provided in an automatic transmission become different in content, depending on a specification of a vehicle to be mounted with the automatic transmission, manage the electronic control unit while distinguishing only by a difference in hardware configurations thereof. Disclosed is a method which comprises: an assembling step () of assembling an automatic transmission, wherein the assembling step includes installing an electronic control unit in the automatic transmission; and a testing step () of testing the automatic transmission after completion of assembling in the assembling step (), wherein a writing step () is performed after the assembling step () and before the testing step (), to write vehicle-dependent information consisting of a program and/or data depending on a specification of a vehicle to be mounted with the automatic transmission, to a memory device of the electronic control unit installed in the automatic transmission.