Engineless electrical communication interface
AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorGael Ducher
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Abstract
A control system (300) for a transport engineless refrigeration unit (301), the control system including: a controller (302) for communication between a vehicle (307) and a plurality of vehicle devices, the controller comprising: a vehicle data connection (306) for transmitting data to and from a vehicle; a vehicle engine on/off connection (308) for triggering start-up of the vehicle engine; a plurality of device data connections (314), each device data connection transmits data to and from at least one device external to the controller; and a device power connection (313), the device power connection supplies power from the controller to at least one device external to the controller.
Claims13
A control system for a transport engineless refrigeration unit (TERU), the control system comprising:
- a controller for communication between a vehicle and a plurality of vehicle devices, the controller comprising:
- a vehicle data connection for transmitting data to and from a vehicle;
- a vehicle engine on/off connection for triggering start-up of a vehicle engine;
- a plurality of device data connections, wherein each device data connection transmits data to and from at least one vehicle device;
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- a device power connection, wherein the device power connection supplies power from the controller to at least one vehicle device;
- wherein the controller is configured to trigger the start-up of the vehicle engine based on a determination by safety logic external to the controller that it is safe to start the engine, wherein the controller hence does not include the safety logic;
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- wherein the control system is configured to be retrospectively connected to a pre-existing, conventional TERU and/or any of the vehicle devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.