Patent ID: 8223060
Filing Date: 2012-07-17
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. An electric control system comprising: a plurality of electric control devices that are connected each other to perform data communication through a communication line for controlling an operation of an object to be controlled, wherein one electric control device among the plurality of electric control devices comprises: a recording unit that records data; a transmitting unit that transmits data to another electric control device among the plurality of electric control devices; a receiving unit that receives data from the another electric control device; and a determining unit that performs a determination whether the recording unit can record data to be received by the receiving unit or not, wherein, the determination performed by the determining unit is based on a judgment whether on the recording unit there remains a recording space for an amount of the data to be received by the receiving unit, and a judgment whether a malfunction exists on the recording unit; the recording unit of the one electric control device records data determined to be recordable by the determining unit of the one electric control device; the transmitting unit of the one electric control device transmits an amount information of data determined to be non-recordable by the determining unit of the one electric control device to the another electric control device; the transmitting unit of the one electric control device transmits the data determined to be non-recordable by the determining unit of the one electric control device to the another electric control device, when the determining unit of the another electric control device determines that the data determined to be non-recordable by the determining unit of the one electric control device can be recorded; and the recording unit of the another electric control device records the data determined to be non-recordable by the determining unit of the one electric control device.