Electronic control device and vehicle control system

• US 9,043,081 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Issued: 05/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Keihin Corporation (Hitachi, Ltd.), Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Yoshikawa, Taku, Daibo, Shinichi, Kobata, Yuichi, Hoshi, Daisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheung, Calvin
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHNEIDER, PAULA LYNN
• Application Number:
  US13/611,086
• Publication Number:
  US 20130066519A1
• Time in Patent Office: 986 Days
• Field of Search: 701/36, 713/323
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 1/00 Supplying electric power to auxiliary equipment of vehicles circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/80 Time limits
• 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: H02J 2310/46 for ICE-powered road vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/005 using a power saving mode for copiers G03G15/5004
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/92 Energy efficient charging or discharging systems for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors specially adapted for vehicles

Abstract

The present invention provides an electronic control device including a processing unit having a function of shifting to a sleep mode in which the processing unit is adapted to start up from the sleep mode according to occurrence statuses of one or more startup factors, and shift to the sleep mode according to a system power supply voltage.

Claims

1. An electronic control device which is connected to a low-voltage battery that outputs a system power supply voltage and a power supply relay which is interposed on a power supply line connecting the low-voltage battery and a second electronic control device, the electronic control device comprising:

a processing unit that controls the power supply relay; and

a power supply monitoring unit that accepts a monitoring voltage from a contact that is disposed between an output of the power supply relay and an input of the second electronic control device, and outputs an output signal indicating a determination result whether or not the monitoring voltage is not more than a threshold value,

wherein the processing unit is structured to start up from a sleep mode to turn on the power supply relay according to states of one or more interrupt signals, which causes the system power supply voltage to be supplied to the second electronic control device, and the processing unit starts a sampling from the power supply monitoring unit, and

when the monitoring voltage is detected to be not more than the threshold value based on the output signal of the power supply monitoring unit, the processing unit is structured to shift to the sleep mode and stop the sampling from the power supply monitoring unit.

2. The electronic control device according to claim 1,

wherein the processing unit is structured to perform sampling of the output signal from the power supply monitoring unit at constant intervals, count a number of times that the monitoring voltage is detected to be not more than the threshold value based on the sampling of the output signal, and shift to the sleep mode if the number of times reaches a predetermined number of times.

3. The electronic control device according to claim 1, wherein the interrupt signals are signals from an ignition switch, a communication device, a rapid charging switch, and a normal charging switch.

4. A vehicle control system for use in a vehicle having a motor as a power source, comprising:

a high-voltage battery for driving the motor;

a connection-destination switching unit that switches a connection destination of the high-voltage battery; and

an electronic control device that controls the connection-destination switching unit to switch the connection destination of the high-voltage battery, thereby controlling charge and discharge of the high-voltage battery,

wherein the electronic control device is connected to a low-voltage battery that outputs a system power supply voltage and a power supply relay which is interposed on a power supply line connecting the low-voltage battery and a second electronic control device,

wherein the electronic control device comprises;

a processing unit that controls the power supply relay; and

a power supply monitoring unit that accepts a monitoring voltage from a contact that is disposed between an output of the power supply relay and an input of the second electronic control device, and outputs an output signal indicating a determination result whether or not the monitoring voltage is not more than a threshold value, and

wherein the processing unit is structured to start up from a sleep mode to turn on the power supply relay according to states of one or more interrupt signals, which causes the system power supply voltage to be supplied to the second electronic control device, and the processing unit starts a sampling from the power supply monitoring unit, and when the monitoring voltage is detected to be not more than the threshold value based on the output signal of the power supply monitoring unit, the processing unit is structured to shift to the sleep mode and stop the sampling from the power supply monitoring unit.