VEHICLE-MOUNTED ELECTRONIC SYSTEM

• US 20100312417A1
• Filed: 06/02/2010
• Published: 12/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Renesas Electronics Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Renesas Electronics Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: NISHIUMI, Hiroyasu, ARAI, Soichiro, WAKABAYASHI, Tetsuaki
• Application Number:
  US12/792,329
• Publication Number:
  US 20100312417A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/023 for transmission of signals between vehicle parts or subsystems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3215 Monitoring of peripheral devices

Abstract

A vehicle-mounted electronic system includes: a standby ECU that performs standby operation when ignition is turned off; a plurality of non-standby ECUs that are inactive when the ignition is turned off; a sensor electric wire that is disposed between the plurality of sensors and the standby ECU to supply power from the standby ECU to the plurality of sensors; a sensor signal wire that carries a signal from the plurality of sensors to the standby ECU; and an ECU signal wire that is disposed between the non-standby ECU and the standby ECU to carry a wakeup request signal from the standby ECU to the non-standby ECU, in which the standby ECU, in response to signal input from the sensor, transmits the wake up request signal through the ECU signal wire to the non-standby ECU that corresponds to the signal from the sensor.

Claims

1. A vehicle-mounted electronic system comprising,

a plurality of sensors in which at least two sensors continue to operate after an ignition is turned off;

and

a plurality of ECUs, wherein;

a power supply wire and a signal wire of the at least two sensors are connected to at least one ECU of the plurality of ECUs;

a number of the at least one ECU is less than a number of ECU of the plurality of ECUs that is operated when the ignition is turned on; and

the at least one ECU functions as a standby ECU when the ignition is turned off.

2. The vehicle-mounted electronic system according to claim 1, wherein part of the plurality of sensors is connected through a LAN to the standby ECU.

3. The vehicle-mounted electronic system according to claim 1, wherein

the standby ECU monitors an input signal from the plurality of sensors, and activates at least one ECU from among the remainder of the plurality of ECUs that are in a sleep state or a off state when the ignition is turned off, in accordance with the input signal from the sensors.

4. The vehicle-mounted electronic system according to claim 1, wherein at least two ECUs alternately function as the standby ECU in predetermined pattern.

5. The vehicle-mounted electronic system according to claim 4, wherein the predetermined pattern is determined in accordance with at least on of time, temperature, and whether the ignition is off.

6. The vehicle-mounted electronic system according to claim 1, wherein the sensor is at least one of a radio frequency sensor for detecting a portable key, a physical contact sensor or an operation sensor switch disposed on a door handle or a door lock button;

an evaporation sensor;

a shock sensor; and

an intrusion sensor.

7. A vehicle-mounted electronic system comprising:

a standby ECU that enters a standby mode when ignition is turned off;

a plurality of non-standby ECUs that are respectively connected to a plurality of sensors that are operated when the ignition is turned off, wherein the non-standby ECU is in a sleep state or an off state when the ignition is turned off;

a sensor electric wire that connects the plurality of sensors to the standby ECU and through which power is supplied from the standby ECU to the plurality of sensors;

a sensor signal wire that carries a signal from the plurality of sensors to the standby ECU; and

an ECU signal wire that connects the plurality of non-standby ECU to the standby ECU, wherein the ECU signal wire carries a wakeup request signal from the plurality of standby ECU to the non-standby ECU,

wherein the standby ECU, in response to signal input from the sensor, transmits the wakeup request signal through the ECU signal wire to the non-standby ECU based on the signal from the sensor.

8. The vehicle-mounted electronic system according to claim 7, wherein at least two ECUs alternately function as the standby ECU in predetermined pattern.

9. The vehicle-mounted electronic system according to claim 8, wherein the predetermined pattern is determined in accordance with at least on of time, temperature, and whether the ignition is off.

10. The vehicle-mounted electronic system according to claim 7, wherein a signal through at least part of the sensor signal wire is multiplexed in relation to the plurality of sensors.

11. The vehicle-mounted electronic system according to claim 7, wherein the sensor is at least one of a radio frequency sensor for detecting a portable key, a physical contact sensor or an operation sensor switch disposed on a door handle or a door lock button;

an evaporation sensor;

a shock sensor; and

an intrusion sensor.

12. The vehicle-mounted electronic system according to claim 7, wherein:

the non-standby ECU is connected with an electric load in addition to the sensor; and

the electric load is that of at least one of a mirror retraction actuator, a door lock actuator, a seat positioning actuator, a steering positioning actuator, and a lighting device.