Patent ID: 7020548
Filing Date: 2006-03-28
Classification: G01M

Abstract:
1. A vehicle recorder comprising: a disk drive configured to record vehicular information; a recording controller configured to control recording operation of the disk drive; and an interface controller configured to control data transfer between the recording controller and the disk drive; wherein the disk drive comprises a processor configured to process data from the recording controller and output the processed data; a head disk assembly configured to record the processed data; and a switch configured to provide on/off operation on transfer of the processed data between the processor and the head disk assembly; wherein the on/off operation of the switch is controlled by a first control signal and a second control signal; wherein the first control signal is a control signal output from a vehicle disorder signal source of a vehicle for enabling the switch to transfer the processed data, and the second control signal is a control signal output from a recording restart controller of the vehicle for disabling the switch to transfer the processed data.