Patent ID: 7239946
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: G01M

Abstract:
1. A method for diagnosis of a vehicle comprising: monitoring a first plurality of distributed sensor signals in a first control unit; monitoring a second plurality of distributed sensor signals in a second control unit; determining in the first control unit a first diagnostic trouble code (first DTC) at a first instant of time; determining in the second control unit a second DTC at a second instant of time, the second instant of time being within a predetermined time of the first instant of time; storing a first dataset in a first storage media when the first DTC is determined, the first dataset including the first DTC and a predetermined first group of the first plurality of sensor signals; and storing the second DTC in the first dataset in the first storage media when the second DTC is determined, the stored first dataset being transferable to a remote fault-diagnostic module at a later instant of time to be analyzed.