Yazaki Corporation

Yo Yanagida

Terumitsu Sugimoto

Atsushi Kawamura

Naoyuki Shiraishi

Takahiro Nakahara

Antony Wambugu Ngahu

Keisuke Ueta

Takashi Shiroki

A non-contact power transmission device includes a resonance coil and a resonance capacitor, and includes impedance variable circuits the impedance of which can be changed. In the non-contact power transmission device, a power transmission side controller changes impedance of one of the impedance variable circuits, a power reception side controller changes impedance of the other one of the impedance variable circuits, and output impedance on a power supply side with respect to a power transmission coil unit and input impedance on a load side with respect to the power transmission coil unit are matched.

Non-contact power transmission device

A wireless transmission device includes a coil that generates a magnetic field, and a resonant power storage element module electrically connected with the coil, capable of accumulating electric power, and constitutes a resonance circuit corresponding to a power transmission frequency in cooperation with the coil when transmitting the electric power via the coil. The resonant power storage element module includes a substrate with which a first electric wire and a second electric wire larger in an amount of heat generation than the first electric wire at the time of energization are connected, and a plurality of power storage elements mounted on the substrate. A distance between the power storage elements adjacent to each other on a side of a connection portion connected with the second electric wire in the substrate is larger than that on a side of a connection portion connected with the first electric wire in the substrate.

Wireless transmission device

Plural communication areas are provided, and plural electronic control units for mutually making communication in each of the communication areas are provided. A vehicular power line communication system includes a power line coupling the respective communication areas to one another, branch power lines coupling the respective electronic control units in each of the communication areas to one another, and a battery for supplying electric power to the electronic control units through the power line and the branch power lines. The power line is formed of a +B line turning to a positive polarity and a ground line turning to a negative polarity, which are cabled to be spaced from each other in a part of the power line. The branch power lines superpose communication data thereon, thereby making data communication.

Vehicular power line communication system

A power line communication system includes a master ECU for supplying electric power, a plurality of slave ECUS and a plurality of power-supply lines connecting the slave ECUS to the master ECU respectively. The power-supply lines including at least one first power-supply line on which a control signal is superimposed and at least one second power-supply line on which no control signal is superimposed. The control signal is superimposed on the first power-supply line by the master ECU and also communicated between the master ECU and the slave ECUS connected to the first power-supply line. Impedance per unit length of the first power-supply line is set smaller than impedance per unit length of the second power-supply line.

Power line communication system

A communication system includes a power line, a plurality of PLC networks connected to the power line in common, and an electronic control unit for controlling an electric equipment, connected to the power line between the PLC networks. The electronic control unit includes a bypass capacitor that attenuates a communication signal transmitting over the power line.

Communication system

An ASK communication device includes a master station and slave stations connected to the master station through a bus line. The master station includes a transmission unit for ASK-modulating a carrier signal outputted from an oscillation circuit owned thereby and outputting, to a bus line, ID signals of the respective stations and data transmitted to the respective slave stations in a case of transmitting the data from the master station, and outputting the ID signal of the slave station as a transmission source and the carrier signal to the bus line in a case of transmitting the data from the slave station, and a master-side reception unit for receiving, through the bus line, the data transmitted from the slave station. The at least one slave station includes a slave-side reception unit for receiving the data transmitted from the master station and other slave stations, and an attenuation unit for attenuating and ASK-modulating the carrier signal outputted from the master station to the bus line.

ASK communication device

A load control apparatus is connected to a master station through a power line supplied with direct-current power. The load control apparatus is driven by the direct-current power supplied from the power line to communicate with the master station through the power line. The load control apparatus includes a PLC part, first and second branch lines, connected to the power line, an impedance element connected to only the second branch line, a motor connected to only the first branch line, a condenser connected in parallel with the motor, the condenser having a capacitance resonating with an inductance component of the motor and frequency of the communication signal, a control part configured to perform a variety of processes, based on the communication signal received by the communication part communicating with the master station, and a circuit power part connected to the second branch line through the impedance element and configured to supply the PLC part and the control part with the desired power.

Load control apparatus and load control system

An ECU monitoring device includes a monitoring ECU connected to a power line for supplying power from a main battery to an immobilizer ECU. The monitoring ECU includes a high-frequency signal generating circuit for superimposing a high-frequency signal on the power line, a high-frequency signal detecting circuit for detecting the high-frequency signal superimposed on the power line and a CPU for judging a connection between the power line and the immobilizer ECU or between the power line and a false instrument. With the constitution, the ECU monitoring device can detect a situation that the immobilizer ECU is detached from a vehicle with high accuracy, preventing the vehicle from being stolen by theft.

Monitoring device for monitoring electronic control units on a vehicle

A communication system includes a main power line and a plurality of PLC networks connected to the main power line in common. At least one of the PLC networks includes a plurality of nodes. One node of the nodes in the PLC network is connected to the main power line. The other nodes are interconnected via a sub power line so as to receive power from the main power line through the one node. An inductor provided in the one node is connected to the main power line and the sub power line.

Communication system and PLC network

A power line communication device for a vehicle is provided with an internal electronic control unit connected to a connection point on a power line, which communicates with an external electronic control unit by a communication signal superimposed on a supply voltage applied to the power line, and an impedance element inserted between the connection point and an external load. The impedance element suppresses attenuation of the communication signal.

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