TIME-SHARED MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM APPLIED TO MOTOR VEHICLES

Although motor vehicle electrical systems have been continuously increasing in complexity over the past 30 years or so, little attention has been paid to the wiring harness beyond changes to packaging and terminations. Sporadic efforts have been made to demonstrate the practicability of systems which, by virtue of the use of a power supply ring, have borne the somewhat misleading name of Ring Main Signalling systems. All have attempted to simplify the unwieldy conventional harness by replacing it with a number of signalling leads packaged with the power ring. This paper deals primarily with the application of a Time-shared Mutliplexing System to public service vehicles and postulates the advantages of such a system over others which have been proposed. /GMRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

  400 Commonwealth Drive
  Warrendale, PA  United States  15096
• Authors:
  • Nevett, L J
• Publication Date: 1976-2

Media Info

• Pagination: 11 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electrical equipment; Motor vehicles; Multiplexing; Wiring
• Old TRIS Terms: Harness
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00145204
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAE #760181
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 11 1977 12:00AM