Trouble shooting system for an electric vehicle

Patent · Tue Jan 14 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6023296

Horiuchi, M

This patent describes a trouble shooting system for an electric vehicle. The electric vehicle contains a driving mechanism, a driving operation part and a control device. The driving mechanism includes a power source, an electric motor and a modality for controlling output level from the power supply to the electric motor in response to the driving operation part. The control device includes a microprocessor which receives commands from the driving operation part and supplies a control signal to the driving mechanism in response to a stored drive control program. The trouble shooting system consists of control device storage mechanisms for storing trouble shooting programs for various parts of the vehicle which are executed by the microprocessor. This system also includes a command generating modality responsive to manual operation for supplying a command to the microprocessor to initiate the execution and read out of a selected trouble shooting program and a method by which the microprocessor may display the program being processed.

• Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo
• Patent Number(s): US 4564942
• OSTI ID: 6023296
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330300* -- Advanced Propulsion Systems-- Electric-Powered Systems
COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS
COMPUTERS
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
CONTROL SYSTEMS
DISPLAY DEVICES
ELECTRIC MOTORS
ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLES
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
FAILURE MODE ANALYSIS
MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
MICROPROCESSORS
MOTORS
POWER SUPPLIES
PROGRAMMING
READOUT SYSTEMS
SYSTEM FAILURE ANALYSIS
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
VEHICLES