Patent ID: 8798854
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: G07C

Abstract:
1. A data recorder mounted to a vehicle to which a failure detector is mounted, the failure detector being configured to (i) make, for multiple types of failure, a determination of whether or not a failure is occurring, and (ii) record failure information indicating an occurrence of the failure in a non-volatile failure information storage unit upon determining that the failure is occurring, the data recorder comprising: a behavior detection device that detects a specific behavior of the vehicle, the specific behavior being defined as a behavior that can occur in conjunction with a driver's operation of the vehicle; a record processing device that records a predetermined control data of the vehicle in a non-volatile data storage device when the behavior detection device detects the specific behavior of the vehicle; and a cause determination device that: wherein: when the cause determination device determines that the presently-occurring failure, which is recorded as the failure information in the non-volatile failure information storage unit, is not the cause of occurrence of the specific behavior, the record processing device is permitted to record the control data in the non-volatile data storage device; and when the cause determination device determines that the presently-occurring failure, which is recorded as the failure information in the non-volatile failure information storage unit, is the cause of occurrence of the specific behavior, the record processing device is prohibited from recording the control data in the non-volatile data storage device.