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US 10,875,479 · App. 16/231,346 · Granted Dec 29, 2020

Vehicular circuit body

Inventors: Masahiro Takamatsu (Shizuoka, JP); Koichi Uezono (Shizuoka, JP); Kousuke Kinoshita (Shizuoka, JP); Atsushi Nakata (Shizuoka, JP); Yasuyuki Saito (Shizuoka, JP); Kazuyuki Oiwa (Shizuoka, JP); Terumitsu Sugimoto (Shizuoka, JP); Taku Furuta (Shizuoka, JP); Noriaki Sasaki (Shizuoka, JP); Yukinari Naganishi (Shizuoka, JP); Sadaharu Okuda (Shizuoka, JP); Kunihiko Yamada (Shizuoka, JP)
Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
B60R16/0239B60K37/00B60R16/02B60R16/0207B60R16/0215B60R16/0238B60R16/03B60R16/033B60R16/0315H01B7/0045H01R13/44H01R13/62H01R13/64H02G3/081H04L12/10H04L12/42H04L12/66H01R9/2483H01R2201/26H02G3/32H04L67/12
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Patent No.
US 10,875,479
App. No.
16/231,346
Granted
Dec 29, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicular circuit body provided in a vehicle includes a trunk line that extends in at least a front-and-rear direction of the vehicle and a plurality of control boxes that are provided in the trunk line. The trunk line includes a power source line having a predetermined current capacity and a communication line having a predetermined communication capacity. The communication line is routed so that at least a part of the plurality of control boxes are connected in a ring form.

Claims (21)

1. A vehicular circuit body provided in a vehicle, comprising:

a trunk line that extends in at least a front-and-rear direction of the vehicle along a center portion of the vehicle with respect to the leftward-and-rightward direction of the vehicle; and

a plurality of control boxes that are provided in the trunk line,

wherein the trunk line includes a power source line having a predetermined current capacity and a communication line having a predetermined communication capacity,

wherein the communication line is routed so that at least a part of the plurality of control boxes are connected in a ring form,

wherein the control boxes are arranged along a linear path in the front-and-rear direction of the vehicle, and

wherein the communication line includes a forward route that is connected to each of the control boxes that are connected in ring form and a backward route that is connected to each of the control boxes that are connected in ring form, and the backward route is in parallel to the forward route.

2. The vehicular circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the trunk line includes:

a first communication line that is routed so that the at least a part of the plurality of control boxes are connected in a ring form; and

a second communication line that is routed so that another portion of the plurality of control boxes are connected in a form that is different from the ring from.

3. The vehicular circuit according to claim 2 , wherein the second communication line is routed so that another portion of the plurality of control boxes are connected in a star form.

4. The vehicular circuit according to claim 2 , wherein the second communication line is routed so that another portion of the plurality of control boxes are connected in a P2P form.

5. The vehicular circuit according to claim 1 , wherein

the trunk line includes: a first trunk line portion that extends in the front-and-rear direction of the vehicle along a center portion of the vehicle with respect to the leftward-and-rightward direction of the vehicle, the first trunk line portion includes a first communication line having the predetermined communication capacity;

a second trunk line portion that includes a second communication line having a predetermined communication capacity, and

the plurality of control boxes includes:

a plurality of first control boxes provided in the first trunk line portion; and

a plurality of second control boxes provided in the second trunk line portion,

the first communication line is routed so that the first control boxes are connected in the ring form, and

the second communication line is routed so that the second control boxes are connected in a form that is different from the ring form.

6. The vehicular circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the trunk line includes: a first trunk line portion that extends in the front-and-rear direction of the vehicle along the center portion of the vehicle with respect to the leftward-and-rightward direction of the vehicle; and a second trunk line portion that extends in the leftward-and-rightward direction of the vehicle such that the first trunk line and the second trunk line form a T shape.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 5, 2023
From: YAZAKI CORPORATION
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063845/0802 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 21, 2018
From: TAKAMATSU, MASAHIRO; UEZONO, KOICHI; KINOSHITA, KOUSUKE; NAKATA, ATSUSHI; SAITO, YASUYUKI; OIWA, KAZUYUKI; SUGIMOTO, TERUMITSU; FURUTA, TAKU; SASAKI, NORIAKI; NAGANISHI, YUKINARI; OKUDA, SADAHARU; YAMADA, KUNIHIKO
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 047847/0592 →
Priority Claims (4)
JP 2016-125287 · Jun 24, 2016 · national
JP 2016-125896 · Jun 24, 2016 · national
JP 2016-131167 · Jun 30, 2016 · national
JP 2016-187627 · Sep 26, 2016 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2017023307 · Jun 23, 2017
Related Publication 20190118739A1 · Apr 25, 2019