US 12,236,724 B2
Reprogramming tool
Yusuke Komatsu, Tokyo (JP); and Yoichi Izumi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/059,048.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-201763 (JP), filed on Dec. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0186694 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); H01R 31/08 (2006.01)
CPC G07C 5/008 (2013.01) [G07C 5/0808 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A reprogramming tool comprising a connector configured to be detachably coupled to a diagnostic connector with which a vehicle is provided,
the diagnostic connector comprising a vehicle-side first terminal, a vehicle-side second terminal, a vehicle-side third terminal, the vehicle-side first terminal being always coupled to a battery of the vehicle, the vehicle-side second terminal being coupled to the battery through an ignition relay that is configured to connect the vehicle-side second terminal and the battery in a case where a power state of the vehicle is a state in which an ignition is ON, the vehicle-side third terminal being coupled to a unit in the vehicle to be reprogrammed,
the connector of the reprogramming tool comprising:
a tool-side first terminal configured to be coupled to the vehicle-side first terminal of the diagnostic connector;
a tool-side second terminal configured to be coupled to the vehicle-side second terminal of the diagnostic connector; and
a tool-side third terminal configured to be coupled to the vehicle-side second terminal of the diagnostic connector,
the reprogramming tool comprising a short-circuit mechanism configured to short-circuit the tool-side first terminal and the tool-side second terminal.