OPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM

• US 20110204716A1
• Filed: 02/22/2011
• Published: 08/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
• Inventors: TAKAHASHI, Akira, SUGIMOTO, Yuji, ABE, Taiji
• Application Number:
  US13/031,965
• Publication Number:
  US 20110204716A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/10.8
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/382 Electronic temporisation with semiconductor amplification
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/08 electrically driven conjoint control of windscreen wiper motor and liquid supply of windscreen washer B60S1/482; conjoint control of windscreen wiper motor and means for cleaning parts o parts other than windscreens or front windows B60S1/56, B60S1/58, B60S1/606

Abstract

In an operation control system, when a selection manipulation for blinking one of turn lamps is inputted using an in-vehicle combination switch, a frequency signal corresponding to the selection manipulation is outputted from a signal oscillation section to a signal transformation section via a common control line. In addition, the signal transformation section causes, out of two individual signal lines, an individual signal line corresponding to the inputted frequency signal to be in an active state. One of driver sections blinks one of turn lamps corresponding to the individual signal line being in the active state. It is noted that a drive control section stops temporarily operations of the turn lamps while both the input signal lines are in the active state.

Claims

1. An operation control system to control operation states of a control target device that operates intermittently, the system comprising:

a manipulation input section to input a selection manipulation that selects one operation state out of a plurality of operation states of the control target device operating intermittently, the plurality of operation states being mutually exclusive towards one another;

a signal output section to output, out of a plurality of control frequencies, a control frequency, which corresponds to the selection manipulation inputted by the manipulation input section, to a common control line,

the plurality of control frequencies being predetermined to have mutually different frequencies assigned respectively to the plurality of operation states;

a signal transformation section to cause, out of a plurality of individual signal lines, an individual signal line, which corresponds to the control frequency inputted from the common control line, to become in an active state,

the plurality of individual signal lines respectively corresponding to the plurality of control frequencies;

a drive section to

connect with the plurality of individual signal lines, and

drive the control target device so as to become in an operation state corresponding to the individual signal line that is in an active state, out of the plurality of operation states; and

a drive control section provided in between the signal transformation section and the drive section so as to prohibit the drive section from driving the control target device for a duration while at least two individual signal lines out of the plurality of individual signal lines are in the active state.

2. The operation control system according to claim 1, wherein:

each of the individual signal lines includes an input signal line arranged in between the signal transformation section and the drive control section, and an output signal line arranged in between the drive control section and the drive section;

the drive control section is connected with the signal transformation section via a plurality of input signal lines, the drive control section including a plurality of logic circuits connected to the drive section via a plurality of output signal lines, respectively;

out of the plurality of output signal lines, an output signal line connected with one of the plurality of logic circuits is defined as a target output signal line relative to the one of the plurality of logic circuits;

out of the plurality of input signal lines, an input signal constituting one of the individual signal line along with the target output signal line is defined as a target input signal line relative to the one of the plurality of logic circuits while any other input signal line of the plurality of input signal lines excluding the target input signal is defined as a non-target input signal line relative to the one of the plurality of logic circuits; and

the drive control section causes the target output signal line to become in the active state only when the target input signal line is in the active state and, simultaneously, the non-target input signal line is in an inactive state.

3. The operation control system according to claim 1, wherein:

the control target device is a wiper provided in a vehicle; and

the plurality of operating states include a plurality of operation speeds of the wiper.

4. The operation control system according to claim 1, wherein:

the control target device is a pair of a left turn lamp and a right turn lamp that are arranged symmetrically in a left-right direction in a vehicle; and

the plurality of operation states include (i) a state where one of the left turn lamp and the right turn lamp is blinked and (ii) a state where an other of the left turn lamp and the right turn lamp is blinked.

5. The operation control system according to claim 2, wherein:

the control target device is a wiper provided in a vehicle; and

the plurality of operating states include a plurality of operation speeds of the wiper.

6. The operation control system according to claim 2, wherein:

the control target device is a pair of a left turn lamp and a right turn lamp that are arranged symmetrically in a left-right direction in a vehicle; and

the plurality of operation states include (i) a state where one of the left turn lamp and the right turn lamp is blinked and (ii) a state where an other of the left turn lamp and the right turn lamp is blinked.