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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for reliably transferring a synchronization frame between network devices even if congestion, or the like in a network occurs since the network devices cannot be synchronized in cycle type transfer communication when the synchronization frame is not received regularly. SOLUTION: The network device arranges the synchronization frame for synchronizing network devices in the network in the first period of each cycle for transfer. The network device has: a cycle timer for measuring time in the cycle; and a synchronization management section for stopping the transmission of the frame for a prescribed period to the next cycle in each cycle, based on information from the cycle timer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide optical communication equipment capable of constructing an in-vehicle communication protocol of a control system LAN by an optical communication system. SOLUTION: An optical signal transmitted from an ECU 1 transmits on a POF is distributed to a POF 13 by a first optical coupler 15, transmits the POF 13 in the direction of an arrow, is distributed by a fourth optical coupler 15 via a second optical coupler 15 and a third optical coupler 15, transmits a POF, and is received by an ECU 3. An optical signal transmitting the POF 13 is distributed by the first optical coupler 15 and is transmitted again to the ECU 1. In this case, the optical signal transmitting the POF 13 attenuates down to, for example, -20.0 dBm upon passing through the fourth optical coupler 15, and further attenuates by 3 dB at the first optical coupler 15 to be -23.0 dBm. Since this signal level is smaller than -22.0 dB being the sensitivity of an optical light reception part of the ECU 1, the signal cannot be received by the ECU 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information communication system which can urge the user to perform battery exchange or battery charging before battery depletion of a communication device, to thereby avoid an uncontrollable state of on-vehicle equipment by the communication device beforehand. SOLUTION: The information communication system is comprised of an electronic key for controlling a vehicle function, based on radio communication to and from the on-vehicle machine, and a portable terminal held by the vehicle owner. The electronic key has imparted thereto a function of monitoring a remaining amount of a battery of itself, and has a DCM mounted thereon, for exchanging data to and from a center via a communication circuit. The electronic key carries out determination as to whether or not the remaining amount of the battery falls to or below a predetermined value that is higher than a residual amount of the battery, capable of performing radio communication to and from the on-vehicle machine once. If the answer is affirmative, a notification that the remaining amount of the battery of the electronic key is lowered is transmitted from the DCM via the center to the portable terminal, to thereby notify the vehicle user. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To execute remote driving of on-vehicle apparatus on the basis of operation of a portable terminal under suitable conditions, concerning a remote controller. SOLUTION: The remote controller remotely controls driving of a predetermined on-vehicle apparatus by operation of the portable terminal of a vehicle user. The remote controller comprises a relative distance detecting means for detecting a relative distance between a vehicle and the portable terminal; and an apparatus drive controlling means prohibiting driving of the predetermined on-vehicle apparatus at the time of operation in case that the operation of the portable terminal is carried out under a condition that the relative distance is not less than a predetermined distance, and starting driving of the predetermined on-vehicle apparatus when the relative distance becomes less than the predetermined distance. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a failure analyzing system capable of supporting failure analyses effectively. SOLUTION: The correlation between the failure information relating to the vehicle failure acquired from a vehicle and the information indicating the surrounding environment of the vehicle fed via a specified external unit 50 positioned outside the vehicle is turned into a database, which is used in analyzing the vehicle failure. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To uniformly achieve a system for transmitting and receiving failure data of a vehicle by taking in a plurality of vehicle manufacturers, in regard to a failure diagnosis service system, a failure diagnosis service method, an onboard device, a failure information providing program, a computer readable recording medium with the failure information providing program recorded thereon, and an information center. SOLUTION: This failure diagnosis service system is provided with the onboard device 10 mounted on the respective vehicles, generating failure information generated in the vehicle in a format different for each of the vehicle manufacturers, and transmitting the generated failure data to the outside; the information center 20 for receiving the failure data transmitted by the onboard device 10 and storing the received failure data in a database 25; and a failure information obtaining device 30 provided in a dealer or a service plant related to the respective vehicle manufactures, and decoding the failure data stored in the information center 10 and corresponding to the vehicle manufacture so as to obtain the failure information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To safely verify operation of a device connected to an on-vehicle network.SOLUTION: In a vehicle operation verification system, including a verification device connected to an on-vehicle network and a verification target device, an operation verification command is transmitted from the verification device to the verification target device, to verify an operation of the verification target device based on a response result corresponding to the verification. Here, a timing for the verification device to transmit the operation verification command is set to be a case where: an information circulation volume in the on-vehicle network is equal to or less than a first predetermined volume; and a load on the verification target device is equal to or less than a second predetermined volume. A correlation between data content transmitted onto the on-vehicle network and a load status of the verification target device is preferably pre-stored in a storage means so that the load status of the verification target device is obtained by monitoring what kind of data is being transmitted.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To operate a communication system employing a master-slave system as a communication system employing a multi-master system.SOLUTION: A communication node for performing communication with a slave node connected via a communication bus includes: a priority level field setting unit for setting a priority level field including a priority level regarding transmission and reception of a message field to the message field to be transmitted or received to/from the slave node; a priority level field transmission unit for transmitting the priority level field; a communication bus state detection unit for detecting the state of the communication bus; a bus arbitration determination unit for determining whether the state of the communication bus corresponds with the state of the communication bus which should be detected by the priority level field having been transmitted; and a message frame transmission control unit for stopping transmission of the message field if it has been determined that the state of the communication bus is different from the state of the communication bus which should be detected by the priority level field having been transmitted.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To rapidly restructure a topology when a fault occurs.SOLUTION: A network system includes a preliminarily determined topology. Each node includes a topology information table 11 having information required for topology construction, a topology associated table 13 coordinating a topology ID against the fault and the topology information table 11, a topology modification detection part 14 for detecting the fault when a frame from other node is received, a topology selection part 15 for selecting the topology ID against the fault, and a frame transmission and reception part 18 for transmitting the frame storing the topology ID selected by the topology selection part 15 to an adjacent node. The topology modification detection part 14 of the adjacent node, when receiving the topology ID from the frame transmission and reception part 18, refers to the topology information table corresponding to the topology ID to modify its own setting.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce loss and the transmission mode dependence property of the loss, in an optical multiplexer/demultiplexer constituted of an optical waveguide branched through a wavelength selection filter.SOLUTION: The optical multiplexer/demultiplexer is constituted of first to third optical waveguide cores 1 to 3 and a wavelength selection filter 4. The first optical waveguide core 1 is branched into the second optical waveguide core 2 and the third optical waveguide core 3 with the wavelength selection filter 4 therebetween. A core diameter in the wavelength selection filter 4 of the first optical waveguide core 1 is smaller than a core diameter in the wavelength selection filter 4 of the second optical waveguide core 2. Therefore, radiation loss in the branch portion of the optical waveguide is reduced.