Wiring method and wiring system for structures
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsIchirou Yoshida, Kimiaki Tanaka
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Abstract
A unitized wiring portion (wiring unit) has a hard pipe member, a wire provided in the pipe member, and outside wiring connectors connected at each end of the wire. A plurality of wiring units are prepared in advance wherein wiring units are divided into multiple groups having different length of wires and so on. The wiring units are arranged in a structure (e.g. a vehicle body) and the outside wiring connectors are connected to each other to form a wiring network. The wiring units are fixed to frame and/or reinforcing members to thereby increase mechanical strength of the structure.
Claims17
A wiring method for a structure, which is composed of multiple frame and/or reinforcing members and in which multiple wires are provided along with or embedded in the frame and/or reinforcing members, comprising steps of:
- preparing multiple wiring units, each having a hard pipe member a wire provided in the pipe member, outside wiring connectors provided at outside of the pipe member and connected to each end of the wire, wherein the pipe member, the wire and the outside wiring connectors are unitized as the wiring unit;
- preparing multiple different groups of the wiring units, each group of the wiring units having the multiple wiring units, and length and/or diameter of the pipe member being different from group to group;
- arranging the different groups of the wiring units to the respective frame and/or reinforcing members and electrically connecting neighboring outside wiring connectors of the wiring units with each other to form a wiring network for the structure, an electronic control unit and an electrical device being connected to the wiring network;
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- fixing each of the wiring units to the respective frame and/or reinforcing members so as to increase mechanical strength of the structure.
A wiring system for a structure comprising:
- a wiring network provided for the structure and having multiple wiring connectors;
- each of the wiring connectors having its own ID information, each of the wiring connectors having a pair of connector parts which are detachably connected to each other so that any electrical parts including a wire may be additionally connected to detached connector parts of the wiring connector;
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- an electronic control unit provided in the wiring network, wherein the electronic control unit automatically figures out a wiring topology indicating a connecting pattern of the wiring connectors and the electrical parts, which are connected to the electronic control unit via the wiring network, based on the ID information of the wiring connectors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.