Vehicular circuit body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11407371-B2
Application number	US-202117183343-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2021
Priority date	Jun 24, 2016
Publication date	Aug 9, 2022
Grant date	Aug 9, 2022

Abstract

A vehicular circuit body includes a trunk line that includes a power source line and a communication line, and that is routed in a vehicle body; and a plurality of control boxes that are disposed in a distribution manner along the trunk line. The trunk line includes a first trunk line portion extending in a front-and-rear direction of the vehicle body and a second trunk line portion extending in a leftward-and-rightward direction of the vehicle body. The plurality of control boxes include a branch control box that connects the first trunk line portion and the second trunk line portion, and distributes power from one of the first trunk line portion and the second trunk line portion to the other one.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicular circuit body, comprising:
a trunk line that includes a power source line having a predetermined current capacity and a communication line having a predetermined communication capacity, and that is routed in a vehicle body;
a branch line that is directly or indirectly connected to an accessory; and
a plurality of control boxes that are disposed in a distribution manner along the trunk line, each having a control unit that distributes at least one of power from the power source line, supplied to the trunk line, and a signal from the communication line, to the branch line connected to the trunk line,
wherein the trunk line is formed of a routing material having at least one kind of conductor among a flat conductor, a round bar conductor, and a stranded wire,
wherein the communication line of the trunk line is routed so that the plurality of control boxes are connected in a ring form,
wherein the plurality of control boxes includes an upstream side control box disposed at an upstream side of the trunk line, an intermediate control box that the trunk line extends through uninterrupted, and a downstream side control box disposed at a downstream end of the trunk line and the trunk line terminates at the downstream side control box, and
wherein the trunk line is routed from the upstream side control box to the downstream side control box via the intermediate control box, in a linear manner in a front-and-rear direction of the vehicle body at the center of the vehicle body in the leftward-and-rightward direction.

2. The vehicular circuit body according to claim 1 ,
wherein the trunk line includes two communication lines, and
wherein one ends and the other ends of the two communication lines are respectively connected so that the two communication lines are configured in a ring form.

Assignees

• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Takamatsu Masahiro
• Uezono Koichi
• Kinoshita Kousuke
• Nakata Atsushi
• Saito Yasuyuki
• Oiwa Kazuyuki
• Sugimoto Terumitsu
• Furuta Taku
• Sasaki Noriaki
• Naganishi Yukinari
• Okuda Sadaharu
• Yamada Kunihiko

Classifications

• H02G3/081

  Bases, casings or covers · CPC title

• H02G3/32

  using mounting clamps · CPC title

• H02G3/08

  Distribution boxes; Connection or junction boxes · CPC title

• B60K35/22

  Display screens · CPC title

• B60K37/20

  Dashboard panels · CPC title