Vehicle power supply box device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10166938-B2
Application number	US-201715442226-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2017
Priority date	Sep 29, 2014
Publication date	Jan 1, 2019
Grant date	Jan 1, 2019

Abstract

A vehicle power supply box device includes: a first system which feeds electric power to first group electric parts requiring constant feed of power supply electric power; a second system which feeds electric power from to second group electric parts requiring feed of power supply electric power in response to a state of an ignition switch. The device further includes: a recovery switch portion connected between a second input side power supply line and an input of the first system; an input abnormality detecting portion which detects presence/absence of abnormality in the input of the first system; and a recovery control portion which controls the recovery switch portion to be turned ON/OFF in accordance with the presence/absence of the abnormality detected by the input abnormality detecting portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle power supply box device which is connected between: a first input side power supply line for constantly feeding power supply electric power from a main power supply on a vehicle and a second input side power supply line for feeding power supply electric power from the main power supply in association with a state of an ignition switch of the vehicle; and a plurality of electric parts mounted on the vehicle, the vehicle power supply box device comprising:
a first electric power control system which comprises at least one of a fuse, a switch and a relay, and which feeds electric power from the first input side power supply line to first group electric parts requiring constant feed of power supply electric power;
a second electric power control system which comprises at least one of a fuse, a switch and a relay, and which feeds electric power from the second input side power supply line to second group electric parts requiring feed of power supply electric power in response to the state of the ignition switch;
a recovery switch portion which is connected between the second input side power supply line and an input of the first electric power control system;
an input abnormality detecting portion which detects presence/absence of abnormality in the input of the first electric power control system; and
a recovery control portion which controls the recovery switch portion to be turned ON/OFF in accordance with the presence/absence of the abnormality detected by the input abnormality detecting portion,
wherein the recovery switch portion is connected between the second input side power supply line and the input of the first electric power control system at an upstream position of a relay which is turned ON/OFF in association with the state of the ignition switch.

2. The vehicle power supply box device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first electric power control system comprises:
a first electric power outputting system which feeds electric power to electric parts high in order of priority among the first group electric parts; and
a second electric power outputting system which feeds electric power to electric parts low in order of priority among the first group electric parts,

wherein an electric power consumption suppressing switch is connected to the second electric power outputting system, and
wherein the recovery control portion turns OFF the electric power consumption suppressing switch in association with an operation of turning ON the recovery switch portion.

3. The vehicle power supply box device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the input abnormality detecting portion monitors an input voltage to detect presence/absence of abnormality corresponding to presence/absence of disconnection.

4. The vehicle power supply box device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an operating portion which accepts an input operation from a user; and
a display portion which displays desired information as visual information,
wherein the recovery control portion displays visual information indicating occurrence of abnormality on the display portion in response to detection of the abnormality by the input abnormality detecting portion, and changes over the recovery switch portion to ON in response to detection of an instruction issued from the user to indicate permission of a recovery operation by the operating portion.

5. The vehicle power supply box device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a display portion which displays desired information as visual information,
wherein the recovery control portion displays, on the display portion, at least one of visual information indicating occurrence of abnormality and visual information indicating that a predetermined recovery operation is in execution due to the occurrence of the abnormality.

Assignees

• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Kinoshita Kousuke
• Takamatsu Masahiro
• Uezono Koichi

Classifications

• H02J1/122

  Provisions for temporary connection of DC sources of essentially the same voltage, e.g. jumpstart cables · CPC title

• B60R16/033

  characterised by the use of electrical cells or batteries (for propulsion puposes B60K1/04; supplying batteries to, or removing batteries from, vehicles B60S5/06; testing of charge state G01R31/36) · CPC title

• F02N11/087

  Details of the switching means in starting circuits, e.g. relays or electronic switches · CPC title

• H02J1/10

  Parallel operation of DC sources · CPC title

• B60R16/03 Primary

  for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems {or for (circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00)} · CPC title