Patent ID: 11866031
Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  A  G | IPC A  B  G  H

Claim 9:
10. An improved discretionary current input circuit comprising:
an off-road vehicle with a circuit having a plurality of open body switches connected to at least one normally off power transistor; the switches movable between open and closed states based on operating characteristics of the off-road vehicle; the switches drawing a nominal current except during prescribed time intervals that are shorter than the time for drawing the nominal current; and
a microcontroller operably connected to the power transistor and to the switches; the microcontroller turning the power transistor on at prescribed time intervals to provide a current to the switches higher than the nominal current and sensing the switch state only during those time intervals; and disabling a function of the off-road vehicle if at least one switch is detected in the open state during those time intervals;
the time intervals being set by the microcontroller to be shorter than a minimum task interval of the microcontroller.