ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20110077820A1
• Filed: 09/28/2010
• Published: 03/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: TOKUI, Nobumasa, HAJI, Yoshiyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,738,223 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 1/023 for acceleration measuring devices
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/08 with conversion into electric or magnetic values

Abstract

An electronic control device is mounted in a vehicle and controls a control target provided in the vehicle. An acceleration sensor detects an acceleration of the vehicle. An angular velocity sensor detects an angular velocity of the vehicle. The acceleration sensor and the angular velocity sensor are mounted on an electronic substrate. A housing accommodates the electronic substrate and is fixed to a body of the vehicle. The electronic substrate is fixed to the housing at least four fixing points, and the acceleration sensor and the angular velocity sensor are arranged in the smallest target area from among a plurality of areas having multiple points selected from the at least four fixing points as vertexes.

Claims

1. An electronic control device which is mounted in a vehicle and controls a control target provided in the vehicle, the electronic control device comprising:

an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration of the vehicle;

an angular velocity sensor that detects an angular velocity of the vehicle;

an electronic substrate on which the acceleration sensor and the angular velocity sensor are mounted; and

a housing that accommodates the electronic substrate and is fixed to a body of the vehicle,

wherein the electronic substrate is fixed to the housing at least four fixing points, and the acceleration sensor and the angular velocity sensor are arranged in the smallest target area from among a plurality of areas having multiple points selected from the at least four fixing points as vertexes.

2. The electronic control device as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the electronic substrate has a substantially rectangular substrate surface,

wherein the at least four fixing points are respectively arranged in the vicinity of four corners of the substrate surface and in the vicinity of a position out of a center of one side of the substrate surface, and

wherein the smallest area from among a plurality of triangular areas having three points selected from the at least four fixing points as vertexes is set as the target area.

3. The electronic control device as set forth in claim 2,

wherein the housing has fixing portions which are fixed to the body of the vehicle and arranged in the vicinity of three corners selected from four corners of a substantially rectangular opposing surface which is opposed to the body of the vehicle, and

wherein a pitch between the fixing portions in the vicinity of both ends of one side of the opposing surface is smaller than a pitch between the fixing portions in the vicinity of both ends of another side of the opposing surface.

4. The electronic control device as set forth in claim 3, wherein the fixing portion provided at the position out of the center of one side of the substrate surface is arranged in the vicinity of the one side of the opposing surface in the housing where the pitch between the fixing portions is small.

5. The electronic control device as set forth in claim 2, further comprising a capacitor which is capable of supplying accumulated charge to a component mounted on the electronic substrate,

wherein the capacitor is arranged in the vicinity of one corner of the substrate surface other than the target area in the electronic substrate.

6. The electronic control device as set forth in claim 5, further comprising a connector that communicates a signal with an external device,

wherein the connector is arranged along a side whose one end is an opposing corner of the substrate surface, at which the capacitor is arranged, in the electronic substrate.

7. The electronic control device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the electronic substrate is directly fixed to the housing.

8. The electronic control device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the angular velocity sensor and the acceleration sensor are arranged in the target area such that a resonance frequency at a mounting position of the angular velocity sensor is higher than the resonance frequency at a mounting position of the angular velocity sensor.

9. The electronic control device as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the housing has fixing portions which are fixed to the body of the vehicle, and

wherein the angular velocity sensor is arranged in an overlapped area where the target area and an area defined by the fixing portions overlap each other.

10. An electronic control device which is mounted in a vehicle and controls a control target provided in the vehicle, the electronic control device comprising:

an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration of the vehicle;

an angular velocity sensor that detects an angular velocity of the vehicle;

an electronic substrate on which the acceleration sensor and the angular velocity sensor are mounted; and

a housing that accommodates the electronic substrate and is fixed to a body of the vehicle,

wherein the electronic substrate is fixed to the housing at a plurality of fixing points, and the plurality of fixing points include first fixing points which are respectively arranged in the vicinity of four corners of a substantially rectangular substrate surface of the electronic substrate and a second fixing point which is arranged close to one of the four first fixing points so as to sandwich the acceleration sensor and the angular velocity sensor.

11. An electronic control device which is mounted in a vehicle and controls a control target provided in the vehicle, the electronic control device comprising:

an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration of the vehicle;

an angular velocity sensor that detects an angular velocity of the vehicle;

an electronic substrate on which the acceleration sensor and the angular velocity sensor are mounted; and

a housing that accommodates the electronic substrate and is fixed to a body of the vehicle,

wherein the electronic substrate is fixed to the housing at least four fixing points, and the acceleration sensor and the angular velocity sensor are arranged in a target area having the highest resonance frequency from among a plurality of areas having multiple points selected from the at least four fixing points as vertexes.