Vehicle diagnostic system
A vehicle diagnostic system capable of diagnosing ECUs for partial networking includes a communication bus mounted on a vehicle, a plurality of controllers for controlling vehicle operations, and a diagnostic equipment to collect diagnostic information from the controllers through the communication bus and to diagnose the vehicle operations. The controllers are connected with each other through the communication bus. Each of controllers operates in a normal mode and in a sleep mode, the sleep mode being an operation mode in which all of or a part of the functions excluding at least a function for receiving an wake-up instruction to return to the normal mode through the communication bus are suspended. At least one of the controllers is configured to send the wake-up instruction to all the other controllers in response to receiving a predetermined signal from the diagnostic equipment.
1. A vehicle diagnostic system comprising:
a communication bus mounted on a vehicle;
a plurality of controllers for controlling vehicle operations, the controllers being connected with each other through the communication bus; and
a diagnostic equipment to collect diagnostic information from the controllers through the communication bus and to diagnose the vehicle operations;
wherein each controller operates both in a normal mode and in a sleep mode, the normal mode being an operation mode in which all of functions are operational, and the sleep mode being an operation mode in which all of or a part of the functions excluding at least a function for receiving an wake-up instruction to return to the normal mode through the communication bus are suspended,
wherein at least two of the controllers are configured to send the wake-up instruction to the other controllers in response to receiving a predetermined signal from the diagnostic equipment,
wherein the diagnostic equipment determines whether each of the controllers is in a state capable of communication, and
wherein the diagnostic equipment selects one controller determined to be in a state capable of communication from the at least two of the controllers and sends the predetermined signal to the selected one controller.
2. The vehicle diagnostic system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the diagnostic equipment selects the one controller according to predetermined criteria.
3. The vehicle diagnostic system according to claim 2 ,
wherein the predetermined criteria is that, searching controllers capable of communication among the at least two of the controllers in a predetermined order, the controller found first is selected as the one controller.
4. A vehicle diagnostic system comprising:
a communication bus mounted on a vehicle;
a plurality of controllers for controlling vehicle operations, the controllers being connected with each other through the communication bus; and
a diagnostic equipment to collect diagnostic information from the controllers through the communication bus and to diagnose the vehicle operations;
wherein each controller operates both in a normal mode and in a sleep mode, the normal mode being an operation mode in which all of functions are operational, and the sleep mode being an operation mode in which all of or a part of the functions excluding at least a function for receiving an wake-up instruction to return to the normal mode through the communication bus are suspended,
wherein at least two of the controllers are configured to send the wake-up instruction to the other controllers in response to receiving a predetermined signal from the diagnostic equipment,
wherein the diagnostic equipment is configured to send the predetermined signal to the at least two of the controllers simultaneously,
wherein each of the at least two of the controllers is assigned a different length of an observation time, and
wherein each of the at least two of the controllers sends the wake-up instruction to the other controllers if it does not receives the wake-up instruction from any one of the other controllers within the observation time assigned to its own controller, after receiving the predetermined signal.