Patent ID: 8078355

Claim:
A failure-diagnosis information collection system comprising: a vehicle abnormality detection device for detecting a plurality of abnormality items, the vehicle abnormality detection device including a decision unit for deciding whether a detected one of the plurality of abnormality items has actually occurred, and if a time during which the decision unit continuously decides whether the abnormality has occurred reaches an abnormality confirmation time, storing abnormality information signifying that the abnormality has occurred, wherein: the abnormality confirmation time varies depending on the abnormality detection device; and the vehicle abnormality detection device includes a plurality of units storing time-instant information associated with an abnormality recognition time at which the decision unit changes from deciding that no abnormality has occurred to deciding that an abnormality has occurred, the time-instant information stored as an abnormality unconfirmed decision; wherein: each of the plurality of units included in the vehicle abnormality detection device stores time-instant information associated with a time at which abnormality information is stored as an abnormality confirmation time; and each of the time-instant information associated with the abnormality recognition time and the time-instant information associated with the time at which abnormality information is stored as the abnormality confirmation time global timer value originating from a clock.