US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on May 19 for "Onboard connection system and onboard system design method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,103, issued on May 19, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Onboard connection system and onboard system design method" was invented by Hiromu Tashiro (Susono, Japan) and You Yanagida (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zone ECU is disposed in each of a plurality of regions partitioned on a vehicle, and each zone ECU controls a first device disposed in the same region. Independent ECUs are disposed, and each of the independent ECUs controls a second device of a function group independent of the control performed by the zone ECU without relation to the partition of the regions. A central ECU for managing the zone ECU in e...