Patent ID: 8155823

Claim:
A failure information system for transmitting failure information of a vehicle to an outside diagnosis center comprising: signal receiving means for receiving a signal indicating a failure of a vehicle-mounted system; vehicle-run judging means for judging that the vehicle is running; run-distance calculation means for: calculating a run-distance of the vehicle since the signal receiving means received the signal indicating a failure in response to a judgment of the vehicle-run judging means that the vehicle is running at a time point when the signal receiving means receives the signal indicating a failure, and not calculating the run-distance of the vehicle in response to the judgment of the vehicle-run judging means that the vehicle is not running at a time point when the signal receiving means receives the signal indicating a failure, on the basis of a judgment that the signal indicating a failure is not reliable; reliability judging means for judging that the signal indicating a failure is reliable instead of not reliable, if the signal receiving means continuously receives the signal indicating a failure until the run-distance exceeds a preset distance level; and over-vehicle communication means for transmitting failure information that includes the signal indicating a failure to an outside station when the reliability judging means judges that the signal indicating a failure is reliable.