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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2011
Francois-regis Lavenier, Exincourt, FR;
Mircea Mateica, Timisoara, RO;
Gerd Meyering, Haren, DE;
Arnd Langenstein, Essen, DE;
Francois-Regis Lavenier, Exincourt, FR;
Mircea Mateica, Timisoara, RO;
Gerd Meyering, Haren, DE;
Arnd Langenstein, Essen, DE;
INERGY AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH (Societe Anonyme), Brussels, BE;
Abstract
A method for diagnosing an electrical circuit including at least one electrical device, an actuator for the device controlled by a high side actuating switch and a low side actuating switch, and at least one additional switch not in series with any of the HS or LS switch, the method including: to each of the possible statuses of the circuit, giving a code; sequentially putting the circuit in at least some of these statuses for a given time period; during each of these periods, measuring voltage and/or current in different parts of the circuit and giving a code to the measurement; and establishing a diagnosis of correct functioning or of a malfunctioning of at least some elements of the circuit according to a pre-established correlation between the status codes and the measurement codes.