Patent 7451025 was granted and assigned to Denso on November, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A power control circuit is provided in a vehicle control ECU mounted in a vehicle. The control circuit, when making a shift to a test mode by a test mode circuit, closes a relay to supply a power voltage from a battery to a power line in the similar manner as an ignition main switch is turned on. A logic circuit section of the test mode circuit is reset by an OR logic of a set level of a test terminal and a level of the power line.