Modular harness system
AssigneePhillips Connect Technologies LLC
InventorsEdward Weaver, Adam Bean, Douglas Chambers
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Abstract
An electrical harness system for communicatively coupling a first bus node to a bus controller includes a data bus including a first cable segment and a first data line and a second data line, the first and second data lines extending in parallel along a length of the first cable segment and being electrically coupled together at a first end of the data bus, the first bus node being connected to the first data line and not to the second data line, and first and second termination impedances electrically coupled to the first and second data lines at a second end of the data bus.
Claims20
An electrical harness system for communicatively coupling a first bus node to a bus controller, the electrical harness system comprising:
- a data bus comprising a first cable segment and a first data line and a second data line, the first and second data lines extending in parallel along a length of the first cable segment and being electrically coupled together at a first end of the data bus, the first bus node being connected to the first data line and not to the second data line;
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- first and second termination impedances electrically coupled to the first and second data lines at a second end of the data bus.
A bus node for communicating on a data bus, the bus node comprising:
- a circuit configured to perform a process in response to a command received through the data bus;
- a first connector and a second connector, the first connector being configured to couple the bus node to a cable segment of a data bus, the data bus comprising a first data line and a second data line extending in parallel along a length of cable segment of the data bus, the first and second data lines being electrically coupled together at a first end of the data bus;
- a first conductor coupled between the first and second connectors, and electrically coupled to the circuit inside the bus node;
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- a second conductor coupled between the first and second connectors and electrically insulated from the circuit inside the bus node,
- wherein the first conductor is configured to be electrically connected to the first data line, and
- wherein the second conductor is configured to be electrically connected to the second data line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.