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US 12,179,664 B2Granted
Apparatus for alerting fire of a vehicle and method thereof
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsGeun Ok Sin, Won Jun Lee
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Abstract
A fire alerting apparatus for a vehicle, includes: a temperature sensing device configured to detect a temperature of a bus bar of a high-voltage junction box; and performing a warning by determining at least one of a fire warning state, an overtemperature state, or a vehicle inspection state in accordance with a temperature detection result of the temperature sensing device.
Claims18
A fire alerting apparatus for a vehicle, the fire alerting apparatus comprising:
- a temperature sensing device configured to detect a temperature of a bus bar of a junction box;
- and
- a controller configured to perform a warning by determining at least one of a fire warning state, an overtemperature state, or a vehicle inspection state in accordance with a result of detecting the temperature of the bus bar,
- wherein the controller determines whether the junction box is in a normal state, in a fire risk situation, or in the overtemperature state based on a level of the temperature of the bus bar,
- wherein the controller is configured to determine whether the temperature of the bus bar is greater than a first reference value,
- wherein when the temperature of the bus bar is greater than the first reference value, the controller is configured to determine whether the temperature of the bus bar is greater than a second reference value which is greater than the first reference value, and
- wherein when the temperature of the bus bar is greater than the second reference value and a vehicle state is in an abnormal load state in which overcurrent or overvoltage occurs, the controller is configured to conclude that the vehicle is in the fire risk situation and to output the warning including a fire warning notification through an interface device.
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A fire alerting method for a vehicle, the fire alerting method comprising:
- detecting a temperature of a bus bar of a junction box;
- and
- performing, by a controller, a warning by determining at least one of a fire warning state, an overtemperature state, or a vehicle inspection state in accordance with a temperature detecting result of a temperature sensing device,
- wherein the performing of the warning includes determining whether the junction box is in a normal state, in a fire risk situation, or in the overtemperature state based on a level of the temperature of the bus bar,
- wherein the performing of the warning includes:
- determining, by the controller, whether the temperature of the bus bar is greater than a first reference value,
- when the temperature of the bus bar is greater than the first reference value, determining, by the controller, whether the temperature of the bus bar is greater than a second reference value which is greater than the first reference value, and
- when the temperature of the bus bar is greater than the second reference value and a vehicle state is in an abnormal load state in which overcurrent or overvoltage occurs, concluding, by the controller, that the vehicle is in the fire risk situation and outputting the warning including a fire warning notification through an interface device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.