US 12,449,801 B2
Electronic control device and method for setting control data
Hiroyuki Takada, Hitachinaka (JP); Koji Yuasa, Hitachinaka (JP); and Masahiro Sonoda, Hitachinaka (JP)
Assigned to Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/438,277
Filed by Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/009146
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 10, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/189281, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 24, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-050126 (JP), filed on Mar. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0147040 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 50/00 (2006.01); G05B 23/02 (2006.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 23/0294 (2013.01) [G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G07C 5/085 (2013.01); B60W 50/00 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0083 (2013.01); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02); G05B 2223/02 (2018.08)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic control device comprising an electronically rewritable nonvolatile memory which has first storage area and second storage area,
wherein the first storage area stores a control program in which control data is embedded, and
the second storage area stores a plurality of control data usable for the control program and a rewrite program for rewriting the control data of the control program to one piece of control data selected from the plurality of control data,
wherein the plurality of control data is compatible with an automobile model of a largest number among multiple automobile models to be equipped with a same electronic control device, the plurality of control data is stored in the second storage area.