CONTROL SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE

• US 20140244074A1
• Filed: 07/17/2012
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Kowada, Masahiro, Arie, Shinichi, Noguchi, Junpei
• Granted Patent: US 8,948,931 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/2
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/00 Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor for lighting vehicle interior B60Q3/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/03 for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems or for circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 1/00 Systems for signalling characterised solely by the form of transmission of the signal
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/00 Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 23/00 Alarms responsive to unspecified undesired or abnormal conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/001 Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12

Abstract

A control system for a vehicle, capable of suppressing increase in power consumption and reducing running cost when electric power supplied from power source is consumed by an on-vehicle electric device. The control system 1 for a vehicle V includes an ECU 2. If a predetermined communication state where a portable device 11 is estimated to be in a compartment of the vehicle V is established (if the answer to the question of the step 23 is NO) after a state where a power source position set by a changeover switch 22 is an accessory position has continued for a first predetermined time period (ΔT·TREF), the ECU 2 stops power supply from the power source to the on-vehicle electric device when a second predetermined time period (ΔT·TREF) elapses after the predetermined communication state was established (steps 26, 11, 13).

Claims

1. A control system for a vehicle that has a motive power source mounted thereon and has the motive power source enabled by wireless communication between a portable device and an on-vehicle communication device to operate, the control system controlling a state of power supply from a power source to the motive power source and an on-vehicle electric device according to the switching of a power source position of a power source position-switching device by an occupant, comprising:

power source position-detecting means for detecting the power source position; and

control means for controlling electric power from the power source such that the electric power is supplied to the on-vehicle electric device, when the detected power source position is in an accessory position in which the electric power from the power source is to be supplied to the on-vehicle electric device,

wherein in a case where a predetermined communication state between the on-vehicle communication device and the portable device is established in which the portable device is estimated to be in a compartment of the vehicle after a state in which the power source position is in the accessory position has continued for a first predetermined time period, said control means stops power supply from the power source to the on-vehicle electric device when a second predetermined time period elapses after a time at which the predetermined communication state is established.

2. The control system according to claim 1, further comprising door opened/closed state-detecting means for detecting an opened/closed state of doors of the vehicle, and

wherein based on a detection result from said door opened/closed state-detecting means, in a case where a condition that the predetermined communication state is not established and also the doors are in the opened state is satisfied after the state in which the power source position is in the accessory position has continued for the first predetermined time period, said control means stops the power supply from the power source to the on-vehicle electric device, when a third predetermined time period elapses after a time at which the condition is satisfied.

3. The control system according to claim 2, further comprising shift position-detecting means for detecting a shift position of an automatic transmission of the vehicle, and

wherein based on detection results from said shift position-detecting means and said door opened/closed state-detecting means, in a case where the predetermined communication state is not established and also the doors are in the closed state, after the state in which the power source position is in the accessory position has continued for the first predetermined time period, said control means continues, when the shift position is in a position other than a parking position, the power supply from the power source to the on-vehicle electric device.