摘要 |
In a network system having a network diagnostic facility, a plurality of control units are provided, each one of the control units being connected to a common communication line via its corresponding branch line to enable a mutual communication with the other control unit; and a normal state checking facility responsive to a diagnostic command signal from a network diagnostic device to transmit an interrogation signal from any one of the control units to all of the other control units which are connected to the common communication line and to output respective results of receiving acknowledgement signals from the all of the other control units within respective constant periods of time in response to the interrogation signal transmitted from the one of the control units to the diagnostic device, the health state checking facility being installed on each of the control units. The network diagnostic device generates a correlation map for an engineer to intuitively recognize a location of the failure in the network system.
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