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.
Claims14
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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.