Diagnostic method for motor vehicles for checking electronically controlled systems

US5757645A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Josef Schneider · Diedorf, DE
• Hans Hohenner · Höchst im Odenwald, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 22, 1995
• Grant date: May 26, 1998
• Expiry date: Nov 22, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07C5/0808
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A diagnostic method for motor vehicles with a diagnostic device for checking electronically controlled systems, in which a fault memory provided in an electronic control device is interrogated and in which test steps to be performed in accordance with the information in the fault memory are prescribed. The test steps performed in response to the prescribed test steps are recorded in the electronic control device.