Vehicular circuit body
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsYukinari Naganishi, Yasuyuki Saito, Taku Furuta, Noriaki Sasaki
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Abstract
A vehicular circuit body includes a plurality of backbone control boxes, a backbone trunk line portion connecting the backbone trunk line portions to each other, and a branch line sub-harness. A trunk includes has a power source line and a communication line, and a control includes a trunk line connection portion and a branch line connection portion.
Claims10
A vehicular circuit body provided in a vehicle including an engine room, a vehicle interior, a dash panel that separates the engine from the vehicle interior, and a floor that extends along the vehicle interior, the vehicular circuit body comprising:
- a plurality of control units;
- a trunk line that connects the plurality of control units to each other;
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- a branch line that directly or indirectly connects one of the plurality of control units to an accessory,
- wherein the trunk line has a first power source line and a communication line,
- wherein at least one of the control units has a trunk line connection portion to which the trunk line is connected, and a branch line connection portion to which the branch line is connected,
- wherein the at least one of the control units is mounted adjacent to the dash panel and spaced away from the floor
- wherein the plurality of control units includes:
- a first control unit that is disposed at a center in right-left direction of the vehicle,
- a second control unit that is disposed to be separated from the first control in a front-to-rear direction of the vehicle, and is disposed at the center in the right-left direction of the vehicle,
- a third control unit that is disposed to be separated from the first control unit in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle, and is disposed near a left end in the right-left direction of the vehicle,
- a fourth control unit that is disposed to be separated from the first control unit in the vehicle width direction, and at a position opposite to the third control unit, and
- wherein the trunk line includes:
- a first trunk line portion that extends in the front-to-rear direction of the vehicle and connects the first control unit and the second control unit to each other,
- a second trunk line portion that extends in the right-left direction of the vehicle and connects the first control unit and the third control unit to each other, and
- a third trunk line portion that extends in the right-left direction of the vehicle and connects the first control unit and the fourth control unit to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.