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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2021
Sonatus, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yu Fang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yixiang Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xuanran Zong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robin Reed, Redwood City, CA (US);
Andrew Ling, Daly City, CA (US);
Troy Michael Trenchard, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Sonatus, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An example system includes a vehicle having an Ethernet based network and a controller area network (CAN) based network; a CAN vehicle control device disposed onboard the vehicle and structured to control operation of a component of the vehicle; an Ethernet vehicle control device disposed onboard the vehicle and structured to electrically communicate with the CAN vehicle control device; an Ethernet switch disposed onboard the vehicle and having a plurality of physical ports connected to the Ethernet based network; a CAN gateway disposed onboard the vehicle and connected to the CAN based network and the Ethernet switch; and a network convergence circuit defined at least in part by the Ethernet switch and/or the CAN gateway, and structured to facilitate electronic communications between the Ethernet vehicle control device and the CAN vehicle control device.