Patents Assigned to NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
  • Patent number: 11288944
    Abstract: A key localization system for finding a vehicle key. The system includes a key unit, a first communication unit, at least one second communication unit, and a processing circuitry operatively connected to the first communication unit and configured to cause the key localization system to send, via the first communication unit, a detect key signal and receive, via the first communication unit, in response to that the key unit has received the detect key signal, a found key signal from at least one of the key unit and the second communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Magnus Nilsson, Erik Lindberg Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11248664
    Abstract: A synchronizing ring for a synchronizer having an inner ring. The synchronizing ring is designed to be arranged outside of and to abut against the inner ring for achieving friction between an outer surface of the inner ring and an inner surface of the synchronizing ring during synchronization. The synchronizing ring has a plurality of through holes extending from the inner surface to an outer surface of the synchronizing ring for evacuation of oil from the interface between the inner ring and the synchronizing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Eva Barrientos Blanco, Henrique Budacs
  • Patent number: 11230222
    Abstract: A device for suspension of a lamp in a vehicle. The device includes a guiding means for guiding a lamp to move relative to a vehicle from a first position to a second position in case of an impact between the lamp and an object. The device further includes at least one energy absorber for counteracting movement of the lamp from the first position to the second position. The guiding means is arranged for guiding the lamp to move downwardly in a movement direction having a movement direction component in parallel with the Z-axis while the movement of the lamp being counteracted by said energy absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventor: Jan Hellberg
  • Patent number: 11230181
    Abstract: A transmission for a vehicle includes a clutch unit connectable to an input shaft of the transmission and an electric motor connected to the clutch unit for transferring torque from the electric motor to the input shaft through the clutch unit. The transmission has a first gear component driven by the electric motor and a second gear component rotationally locked to the clutch unit by an engagement means. The first and second gear components are engaged with each other for transferring torque from the electric motor to the clutch unit. The transmission further has at least one bearing arranged for journaling the second gear component and carrying radial load caused by the electric motor when torque is transferred from the electric motor to the clutch unit. The engagement means is designed to allow a radial run out of the clutch unit relative to the second gear component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Shabbir Adil, Johannes Larsson
  • Patent number: 11231075
    Abstract: A transmission device includes a first rotating member and a ring for synchronizing the first rotating member and a second rotating member relative to each other. The first rotating member is provided with a plurality of first recesses for receiving a plurality of protrusions provided on the synchronizing ring. The first rotating member has one said first recess for each of said protrusions. The first rotating member is provided with one or more second recesses making the total number of first and second recesses exceeding the number of said protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Adil Shabbir, Eva Barrientos Blanco
  • Patent number: 11230182
    Abstract: A vehicle powertrain includes a power source, a clutch arrangement and a housing, the clutch arrangement arranged between the power source and a transmission. The clutch arrangement includes: a first clutch arranged to couple the power source to a first input shaft of the transmission and a second clutch arranged to couple the power source to a second input shaft of the transmission; and a torque transmission member having an extension in a radial direction and adapted to transmit torque from the power source to one of the first or second input shafts. The torque transmission member includes clutch lamellae carriers for the first and second clutches. The torque transmission member is journaled at a radially inner portion against the housing via one or more first bearings, and an output rotor shaft of the power source is journaled against the housing via one or more second bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Markus Kifeldt, Pär Bergström, Johannes Larsson
  • Patent number: 11232900
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for a wireless power transfer system. The device comprises a housing and a coil arranged inside the housing. The coil comprises a first conductor wire forming a first sub coil having a plurality of windings and a second conductor wire forming a second sub coil having a plurality of windings. The housing comprises a first holder for accommodating and holding the first sub coil and a second holder for accommodating and holding the second sub coil. The first holder and the second holder are attached to each other such that the first sub coil and the second sub coil together form the coil being arranged between the first holder and the second holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventor: Gabriel Samuelsson
  • Patent number: 11214194
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a door, an inside door handle, and a door opening warning system having an object sensor that detects an object outside the vehicle in a door collision risk zone, a touchless sensor that detects if a part of a user is positioned in an opening zone at the inside door handle and a touch sensor that detects if the user touches the inside door handle, and a control unit. The control unit triggers a first alarm if the object sensor detects an object in the risk zone and the touchless sensor detects a part of the user in the opening zone at the inside door handle, and triggers a second alarm if the object sensor detects an object in the risk zone and the touch sensor detects that the user is touching the inside door handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Mats Thorngren, Max Olle Cavallin
  • Patent number: 11214128
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air nozzle device for a vehicle comprising a housing defining an interior volume and having an air inlet at one side, an air discharge opening at a second side and an air flow channel through the housing for transporting a flow of air between the air inlet and the air discharge opening, the device further comprising an air flow regulator mechanism comprising a rod member comprising a rack, at least one flap member comprising a pinion, and an assembly guide mechanism arranged to be moveable between an assembly position and a non-assembly position, wherein the rack and pinion is arranged to, in an assembled state, interact to rotate the at least one flap member about an axis between an open and a closed position to regulate the flow of air in the air flow channel, the assembly guide mechanism is, in the assembly position, arranged to interact with the at least one flap member and the rod member to assemble the rack and pinion, and the assembly guide mechanism is, in the non-a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Tony Jonsson, Oskar Adamsson, Veronica Berviand, Marcus Hansson
  • Patent number: 11217387
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for a wireless power transfer system for a vehicle. The device comprises a coil formed by at least a first conductor wire forming a first sub coil with a plurality of windings and a second conductor wire forming a second sub coil with a plurality of windings. The coil has a first loop and a second loop positioned next to each other. The first and second loop have a central portion of the coil in common where said at least first and second conductor wires extend from the first loop to the second loop and vice versa. The first and second conductor wires are arranged next to each other in the central portion. The first and second conductor wires are arranged above each other in an outer portion of the first loop and in an outer portion of the second loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Johan Ekbäck, Gabriel Samuelsson
  • Patent number: 11207951
    Abstract: A front header structure of a vehicle body has an elongated shape in a lateral direction of the vehicle body and is attached to side structures of the vehicle body. In a longitudinal direction, the front header structure is arranged between a front section of a sunroof opening and an upper section of a windshield opening. The front header structure includes an upper part attached to an lower part and a rear part, where the rear part forms a front frame section of a sunroof frame encompassing the sunroof opening. The lower, upper and rear parts each have a rear lower section, a front upper section and an intermediate step section arranged between the rear lower section and the front upper section. The front header structure includes a first compartment formed between the lower and upper parts and a second compartment formed between the upper and rear parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventor: Biquan Wu
  • Patent number: 11207942
    Abstract: A user-actuated control mechanism that controls airflow to an air nozzle device in a vehicle includes a push button, an actuating mechanism, and a flow control valve. The button, in a first actuating sequence, translates from an initial position to an end position and back to the initial position, so that the mechanical actuating mechanism displaces the control valve from an open position to a closed position. In a second actuating sequence, the button translates from the initial position to the end position and back to the initial position, so that the mechanical actuating mechanism displaces the flow control valve from the closed position to the open position. The valve is displaced in both sequences when the button is translated from the initial position to the end position, or is displaced in both sequences when the button is translated from the end position to the initial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventor: Lionel Belzons
  • Patent number: 11186138
    Abstract: A vehicle thermal management system includes a refrigerant system, a first valve, a second valve, a third valve, a first thermally managed assembly, a second thermally managed assembly, a chiller, and a radiator, where the chiller is connected to the refrigerant system, and the chiller and the radiator respectively are arranged for cooling and/or heating the first and/or the second thermally managed assembly. In a connected mode for cooling or heating the first thermally managed assembly and the second thermally managed assembly, the first thermally managed assembly and the second thermally managed assembly are connected to each other via the first valve, the second valve, and the third valve, where the first thermally managed assembly and the second thermally managed assembly are connectable to the chiller and/or the radiator in a connected thermal control loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventor: Emil Frykberg
  • Patent number: 11148642
    Abstract: A method and security system for preventing misuse of sensitive information entered by an authorized person, including an input interface; a camera a memory configured to store information; a processing circuitry connected to the input interface, the camera and the memory configured to cause security system to activate a first input session wherein the input interface is adapted to receive input of sensitive information by a first person in an operational vicinity of the input interface; detect, by the camera unit, a second face of a second person at a second distance from the input interface; and store a first security association data comprising information regarding the first input session and information about the second person in the memory for preventing misuse of sensitive information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Linus Hallberg, Alexander Berggren
  • Patent number: 11077785
    Abstract: A device for suspension of a lamp in a vehicle. The device includes a guiding means for guiding the lamp to move relative to the vehicle from a first position to a second position in case of an impact between the lamp and an object. The device further includes at least one energy absorber for counteracting movement of the lamp from the first position to the second position. The guiding means is arranged for guiding the lamp to move inwardly in a movement direction having a movement direction component in parallel with the X-axis while the movement of the lamp being counteracted by one said energy absorber, and to pivot about an axis being transverse relative to the X-axis and the Z-axis, while the pivot motion being counteracted by one said energy absorber, giving the lamp a different orientation in the second position in comparison to the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventor: Anahita Pakiman
  • Patent number: 11065951
    Abstract: A passive shutter mechanism (10; 20) for a cooling pack (2) in a vehicle (1) adapted to selectively close at least part of an airflow path into the cooling pack (2), wherein the shutter mechanism comprises at least one blocking member (11; 21) adapted to be displaced between an open position, wherein air may flow into the cooling pack (2), and a closed position, wherein air is prevented from flowing into at least part of the cooling pack (2), depending on the movement of the vehicle (1). A vehicle (1) comprising such a passive shutter mechanism, as well as a method of operating such a passive shutter mechanism is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventor: Robert Moestam
  • Patent number: 11007851
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air nozzle device (10) for a vehicle (1) comprising a housing (11) defining an interior volume and having an air inlet (12) at one side, an air discharge opening (14) at a second side and an air flow channel (18) through the housing (11) for transporting a flow of air between the air inlet and the air discharge opening, the device (10) further comprising a user-actuated manual mechanism (32), a vertical air flow directing arrangement (22) pivotably connected to said housing and configured to adjust the vertical direction of the air flow and a transverse air flow directing arrangement (24) having a first transverse air flow module (26) and a second transverse air flow module (27), said first transverse air flow module (26) and said second transverse air flow module (27) being arranged spaced apart, as seen in a transverse direction (Y), and independently pivotably connected to said housing and configured to adjust the transverse direction of the air flow, wherein the device
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Richard Stark, Christian Cyrulewski
  • Patent number: 10956636
    Abstract: A method for optimizing construction of a car body includes selecting body element(s) and obtaining first deformation values therefor from a fully-trimmed model of a first car body construction based on measured dynamic values or simulated dynamic data in a dynamic load simulation during a time period; determining force(s) to be applied to a reduced model of the first car body construction in an equivalent static load simulation model to achieve second deformation values of the element(s) for the reduced model, the second values correspond to the first values for the same element(s); applying in the equivalent static load simulation model, the determined force(s) to a reduced model of an alternative car body construction to achieve third deformation values of the element(s) for the reduced model of the second car body construction; determining if the third values are within a predetermined deformation range for the second car body construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Reza Khansari, Yassine Wardi, Markus Fritzell, Viktor Jönsson, Jens Weber
  • Patent number: 10895228
    Abstract: A fuel ejector assembly for a vehicle. A second fluid passage extends into a first fluid passage so that a nozzle opening is arranged inside the first fluid passage facing an outlet flow port such that a first flow of fuel in the first fluid passage flows around the nozzle opening. A flow shape unit is disposed within the first fluid passage in connection to the nozzle opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Robert Moestam, Erik Fredholm
  • Patent number: D910516
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO.
    Inventor: Jon Rådbrink