A cable system for a truck trailer with connectors having a main power connection, a ground connection, and one, two, or more communication cable connections. Connectors include at least a power and ground connection for electrically connecting an individual trailer to the cable system. A master control circuit may be included in the trailer nosebox, and the master control circuit configured to send commands to slave control circuits mounted within the connectors. The slave control circuits in the connectors are configured to receive a control command sent by the master control circuit that may include an address, mode identifiers, or other indications of which connectors in the cable system should take action, and what actions should be taken.

An in-vehicle network system which is mounted on a vehicle includes an electronic control unit, a plurality of gateway devices, and a plurality of sensor devices that collects ambient information which is information around the vehicle. Each of the sensor devices communicates with the electronic control unit via at least one gateway device. The electronic control unit includes a mode management unit that determines one operation mode in a plurality of operation modes associated with the sensor device to be operated, and a sleep instruction control unit that specifies a gateway device which is the gateway device, in which the connected sensor device does not operate, and does not need to relay sensor information, based on the operation mode determined by the mode management unit, and transitions the gateway device having no need to relay the sensor information to a low power state in which a processing capacity is lowered.

A communication system includes a host control device and a vicarious inputting and outputting unit that controls an electric device by communicating with the host control device. The vicarious inputting and outputting unit includes a standard board provided with a first control circuit which controls the electric device and at least one of an input circuit and an output circuit for a standard electric device. The first control circuit has an extension terminal for connection to an extension board provided with at least one of an input circuit and an output circuit for an extended electric device and is provided so as to be able to operate in response to respective specifications of plural kinds of extension terminals, and a specification of the extension terminal is set through communication with the host control device.

A system for controlling power distribution within a vehicular communication network, including a power source equipment comprising a first port in communication with a network node module of a device, and a Power over Ethernet (POE) management module. The POE management module is configured to enable POE to the device via the first port, monitor a current draw of the device, determine whether the current draw of the device exceeds a threshold, and disable POE to the device, responsive to determining that the current draw exceeds the threshold.

A system, automobile, and method for implementing an electronic control function of an automobile. The system includes a first vehicle integration unit (VIU), an automobile control unit, and a plurality of automobile parts. The automobile control unit includes a first domain controller (DC) or a central computing platform (CCP). The automobile control unit is configured to send first control information to the first VIU. The first VIU is configured to control the plurality of automobile parts based on the first control information. In embodiments of this application, the first VIU controls the plurality of automobile parts.

A system for determining the servicing needs of a vehicle. In various embodiments, the system includes a remote server and a vehicle control module of the vehicle. The vehicle control module includes a first communication interface to enable communications with at least one vehicle device via a network fabric of the vehicle. The vehicle control module is configured to receive status data, from the vehicle device, relating to a performance status or operational status of the vehicle. The vehicle control module further includes a second communication interface that enables wireless communications with the remote server. The wireless communications include sending status data to the remote server. The remote server is configured to receive and interpret the status data to determine if the vehicle requires service, and send a response to the vehicle. When service is required, the response may cause the vehicle to provide a service indication.

A method designing computerized systems for a vehicle by a computing device comprising a processor and a memory device, and corresponding apparatus and computer program product, the method comprising: receiving indications to computerized components to be installed in a vehicle; displaying over a display device a three dimensional manipulatable model of the vehicle; receiving indications to locations within the car where the computerized components are to be installed, the indications provided as locations over the illustration; receiving indications to applications to be executed by a car computer, wherein the applications receive input from at least one of the computerized components; automatically determining the required computing resources and required utility components for supporting the computerized components and provisioning the applications; providing specific alternatives conforming with the computerized components; and receiving selections of specific computerized components from the specific alternatives.

An off-road vehicle includes a vehicle body, a power system, electrical devices, an electricity storage bank, a generator, and an electric power regulator. The electric power regulator is used to regulate the voltage output from the generator to the electricity storage bank and corresponds to the electricity storage bank. The electric power regulator includes a voltage regulating chip, a switch circuit and voltage stabilizing circuit. The electric power regulator is capable of regulating the voltage output from the generator to the electricity storage bank according to the nominal voltage of the electricity storage bank, and the output voltage of the electric power regulator is greater than the bank voltage.

A fail-safe signal injection system includes a fail-safe system controller that receives a control command and initiates to bypass a first system to inject a control signal into a second system responsive to the control command. The fail-safe signal injection system also includes a signal injection circuit implemented to inject the control signal into the second system responsive to power applied to the signal injection circuit, the signal injection circuit further implemented to fail-safe without the power applied, and thus operates to pass a control input from the first system through to the second system. The signal injection circuit includes a fail-safe isolation circuit designed to pass the control input from the first system through to the second system when driven for fail-safe pass through, and bypass the first system to inject the control signal into the second system when driven to isolate the first system from the second system.

The present disclosure relates to an electrical connection arrangement for connecting freely configurable electrical components in a vehicle. The electrical connection arrangement includes a plurality of electrical plug connectors which are connected to each other by a plurality of electrical connection lines of an electrical wiring harness according to a first adjacency criterion, wherein a configuration code according to a second adjacency criterion is assigned to each of the plurality of connectors, where the configuration codes of the connectors indicate a specific configuration of the freely configurable electrical components of the vehicle; and where the plurality of electrical connectors is divided into a plurality of production modules based on a combination of the first adjacency criterion and the second adjacency criterion.