Patent ID: 11928064
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 3:
4. A sensor that is connected to a control apparatus via one of two communication buses formed in a moving body and is identified by a unique identifier, the sensor comprising:
a communication terminal that is connected to either one communication bus or another communication bus of the two communication buses, and communicates with the control apparatus;
a ground terminal connected to a ground line extended from a battery;
a plurality of identification terminals each having a connection state that is one of an open state in which the identification terminal is not connected to any potential and a grounded state in which the identification terminal is connected to a ground potential;
a pin-to-pin short-circuit line configured to cause at least one of the plurality of identification terminals and the ground terminal to be shorted; and
an identifier setting section comprising one or more processors that execute computer-executable instructions stored in a memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the computer-executable instructions to cause the identifier setting section to set the identifier of the sensor according to whether the connection states of the plurality of identification terminals are respectively open or grounded, wherein each of the plurality of identification terminals connected to the ground terminal via the pin-to-pin short-circuit line is regarded as being grounded, wherein:
the one or more processors execute the computer-executable instructions to cause the identifier setting section to set the identifier with a different pattern according to whether the communication bus to which the communication terminal is connected is the one communication bus or the other communication bus.