Patents Examined by Jerrod Irvin Davis
  • Patent number: 11975712
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to identify a first scenario in which a vehicle is operating from a plurality of scenarios, prompt an operator to activate an adaptive cruise control of the vehicle in response to a preference score for the first scenario being above a threshold, refrain from prompting the operator to activate the adaptive cruise control in response to the preference score for the first scenario being below the threshold, and activate the adaptive cruise control in response to receiving an input to activate the adaptive cruise control from the operator. The scenarios indicate at least one characteristic of a road on which the vehicle is traveling. The preference score indicates a preference of the operator for activating the adaptive cruise control in the first scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fling Finn Tseng, Himanshu Verma, Aed M. Dudar
  • Patent number: 11965308
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for evenly distributing the loading of material in a loading container of a transport vehicle (e.g., articulated dump truck) by a work machine (e.g., excavator). At least one sensor mounted on the work machine generates data corresponding to at least a portion of the loading container. The captured data is processed to determine a current profile of material loaded in the loading container, wherein output signals are generated corresponding to a difference between the current profile and a predetermined target profile for the material loaded in the loading container. In certain embodiments, the output signals are used to assist an operator of the work machine with manual loading via an onboard display unit and superposed images associated with the current and/or target profiles. In other embodiments, the output signals automatically control at least part of the loading process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Jon C. Gilbeck, Jonathan Spendlove, Zimin Vilar
  • Patent number: 11958528
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory communicably coupled to the processor. The processor sets a target steering angle every predetermined cycle, on the basis of a curvature radius of a first arc passing through a current position of a vehicle, and controls a steering angle on the basis of the target steering angle. The processor sets the target steering angle by obtaining a second arc passing through the current position and tangent to a traveling direction of the vehicle, on the basis of a sum of minimum distances to the first arc from respective target points on a target path. The processor sets the target steering angle in a second cycle following a first cycle, before the vehicle reaches a position corresponding to the farthest one of the target points used for setting of the target steering angle in the first cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Takebayashi, Takeshi Yoneda
  • Patent number: 11951983
    Abstract: An autonomous controller for lateral motion includes a vehicle positioning module that calculates a lateral departure degree from the center of a virtual line after a line is lost using position information of a vehicle. The position information is derived by data obtained from the vehicle which is traveling. The controller also includes a driving route determination module that determines the virtual line connecting waypoints previously generated on a map for a section where the line is lost to connect an old line with a new line. A lateral control module then performs lateral autonomous control of the vehicle in a direction where the lateral departure degree is minimized to cause the vehicle to follow a driving route connecting waypoints set on the virtual line to travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Hyun Su Kim
  • Patent number: 11938999
    Abstract: A lane keeping control apparatus, a vehicle system including the same, and a method thereof may include a processor configured to determine a target turning radius to reach a center portion of a lane, to determine a required steering angle based on the target turning radius, and to correct the required steering angle by use of a difference between an actual yaw rate and a target yaw rate during lane keeping control; and a storage configured to store data and algorithms driven by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seung Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11938965
    Abstract: Vehicle allocation system includes an information provision apparatus, a first apparatus: control apparatus, and a user's second apparatus: user terminal apparatus. Processor of the information provision apparatus calculates a first driving plan for a vehicle in response to request information. When a second driving plan different from the first driving plan is calculated based on detection information acquired from the vehicle, the processor determines the cause of a change in the driving plan on the basis of the detection information. The processor transmits cause information including the cause to the user terminal apparatus. The user terminal apparatus presents the cause information on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayasu Suzuki, Masahide Nakamura, Masaki Watanabe, Daisuke Saito
  • Patent number: 11935338
    Abstract: Generally, the current threshold value is set as a fixed value. Therefore, even in a case where an abnormality occurs in the load and the resistance value is small, when the power supply voltage applied to the load is low, the current value is also low, and falls below the threshold value, and there is a possibility that the overcurrent is not detected. In the present invention, by providing a second detection means that detects a load abnormality by calculating the resistance value of the load from information of the power supply voltage applied to the load, in addition to a first detection means that detects an overcurrent state that indicates the load abnormality using only current value information, it is possible to detect an overcurrent indicating an abnormality of the load even when the power supply voltage applied to the load is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kanno, Hiroshi Usami, Masataka Ota
  • Patent number: 11919567
    Abstract: An automatic steering control apparatus includes a lane line detector, a shape data detector, a traveling processor, and a steering angle processor. The lane line detector is configured to detect right and left lane lines. The shape data detector is configured to detect shape data. The traveling processor is configured to, in a case where both the lane lines are detected, execute a first lane-line control that is an automatic steering control to be executed on the basis of both the lane lines, and configured to, in a case where only one of the lane lines is detected as a detected lane line, execute a determining process that compares data on the detected lane line and the shape data and that determines whether to execute a second lane-line control that is the automatic steering control to be executed on the basis of only the one of the lane lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takehara, Hidenori Yakuwa, Keisuke Motegi
  • Patent number: 11914386
    Abstract: A mobile object control device includes a first controller that recognizes a surrounding situation of a mobile object based on an output of a detection device having a space around the mobile object as a detection range and generates a first movement plan for the mobile object in a first period based on the recognized surrounding situation of the mobile object, and a second controller that generates a second movement plan for the mobile object in a second period shorter than the first period, and when the second controller generates label data in which label information indicating different values depending on at least the presence or absence of a moving object is imparted to each of division elements obtained by dividing the space around the mobile object into a finite number, and generates the second movement plan based on the label data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Gakuyo Fujimoto, Misako Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11912335
    Abstract: A lane keeping control apparatus, a vehicle system including the same, and a method thereof, may include a processor that generates a target path based on line information, upon lane keeping control of the vehicle, determines whether the vehicle arrives adjacent to the target path, determines a feedback compensation distance in a direction opposite to a current steering direction of the vehicle based on a yaw rate of the vehicle, when the vehicle arrives adjacent to the target path, and performs steering control of the vehicle based on the feedback compensation distance and a storage storing data and an algorithm run by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Seung Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11891118
    Abstract: Provided are a vehicle control device, a vehicle control method, and non-transitory storage medium. The vehicle control device includes: an acquisition part, acquiring a positional relationship between a vehicle and a lane; a control part, performing in-lane travel control that causes an actuator included in a steering device of the vehicle to output a force for causing the vehicle to travel in the lane within a range not exceeding an upper limit based on the positional relationship; and an upper limit adjustment part, adjusting the upper limit in a predetermined case, in which the upper limit adjustment part switches a change rate of the upper limit in response to a change of state of an operator that accepts a steering operation performed by an occupant of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Oniwa
  • Patent number: 11878752
    Abstract: A method for operating a steering system includes providing an electromechanical steering assistance having several redundant control paths. Each control path includes a control unit, a power unit and a winding circuit of a servomotor. A correcting-variable unit is provided in each control unit in order to make a correcting variable available, depending on input variables. The correcting variables of all of the correcting-variable units are averaged. A set correcting variable is made available by each control unit, depending on the averaged correcting variable. A device for operating a steering system and a steering system for steering wheels of a motor vehicle, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lars Stoltze, Yevgen Sklyarenko, Constantin Matthes, Hendrik Fricke
  • Patent number: 11866037
    Abstract: Vehicle alerts can be presented to the driver of a vehicle based on behaviors. It can be determined whether the driver will avoid an identified risk at a current location of the vehicle. Such a determination can be based on the past driving behavior of the driver and/or a general driving behavior of one or more other drivers. It can be determined whether to present an alert about the identified risk based on whether the driver will avoid the identified risk. In response to determining to that an alert about the identified risk should be presented, an intensity level for the alert can be determined. The alert can be caused to be presented to the driver at the determined intensity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan M. Wiesenberg, Emily S. Lerner
  • Patent number: 11859990
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for routing an autonomous vehicle. For example, a system may access temporal data comprising a first temporal data item. The first temporal data item may describe a first roadway condition, a first time, and a first location. The system may also access a routing graph that comprises a plurality of route components and determine that a first route component of the routing graph corresponds to the first location. The system may generate a constrained routing graph at least in part by modifying the first route component based at least in part on the first roadway condition. The system may additionally generate a route for an autonomous vehicle using the constrained routing graph; and cause the autonomous vehicle to begin traversing the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Voznesensky, Brent Goldman, Mark Yen
  • Patent number: 11840276
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a method for detecting faults related to wheels of a motor vehicle in a driving situation, comprising: —a step (S1) of automatically determining a first series of corrective steering wheel angles applied successively to force the vehicle to follow a path parallel to a first rectilinear portion of a traffic lane; —a step (S2) of automatically detecting, from the corrective steering wheel angles of the first series, the presence of a fault affecting a pair of steering wheels of the vehicle; and, optionally: —a step (S3) of estimating a type of fault associated with the detected fault, a step (S4) of identifying the steering wheel of the pair of wheels affected by the fault; and —a step (S5) of generating a warning message for the attention of the driver of the motor vehicle, the message including the estimated type of fault and the wheel identified as having the fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH
    Inventors: Rachid Benmokhtar, Salma Moujtahid
  • Patent number: 11827270
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an offset unit configured to execute offset processing for offsetting the target lateral position such that the target lateral position is separated from the first lane, when a relationship between the first vehicle and the vehicle satisfies an offset condition. The offset unit is configured not to execute the offset processing even if the relationship between the first vehicle and the vehicle satisfies the predetermined offset condition, when a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between the second vehicle and the vehicle is equal to or less than a predetermined distance or when a value obtained by dividing the vehicle-to-vehicle distance between the second vehicle and the vehicle by a relative speed between the second vehicle and the vehicle is equal to or less than a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoyuki Muramatsu, Yushi Shibaike, Naoki Nagakura
  • Patent number: 11821742
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing operations comprising: establishing a plurality of geofences each associated with a respective point of interest; determining a current location of a user and a current time; applying a trained machine learning model to the current location and the current time to predict a given geofence of the plurality of geofences that will be traversed by the user at a future time, the machine learning model being trained to establish a relationship between travel times and paths of the user and a set of geofences of the plurality of geofences that is traversed by the paths during the travel times; retrieving the point of interest associated with the predicted given geofence; and automatically generating a notification relating to the retrieved point of interest for presentation to the user before the user traverses the given geofence associated with the retrieved point of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Kay Brown
  • Patent number: 11814098
    Abstract: In various embodiments, methods, systems, and vehicle apparatuses are provided. A method for adaptive control of electronic power steering (EPS) including sending, a torque control to an EPS that is based on input control signals from a vehicle trajectory control unit and a steering assistive control unit when the vehicle is coupled to a trailer engaging in a trailering action; configuring the steering assistive control unit, to generate a control signal based on an algorithm using an adaptive factor that models steering dynamics impacted by the trailer while engaging in the trailering action and modeling by the steering assistive control unit, an adaptive damping factor modeled on a tongue weight of a trailer coupled to a hitch of the vehicle wherein the hitch reduces a force applied to a vehicle front axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mohammadali Shahriari, Amir Takhmar, Reza Zarringhalam, Klaus Trangbaek
  • Patent number: 11807322
    Abstract: A present steering position of a manually actuatable steering unit of the motor vehicle is determined based on sensor data. A steering command is generated based on the present steering position of the steering unit. Then, based on sensor-detected present vehicle dynamics data, it is determined whether the motor vehicle is in a straight-ahead running situation during driving operation. It is determined whether, during the straight-ahead running situation of the motor vehicle, the present steering position of the steering unit deviates from a straight-ahead running position of the steering unit for at least one of a specified time period and a specified traveling distance of the motor vehicle. A compensation steering command is generated based on the determined deviation of the present steering position of the steering unit from the straight-ahead running position. A corrected steering command is generated based on combining the compensation steering command with the steering command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jan Bremkens, Daniel F. Slavin, Simon Nolden, Tomas Mawyin, Alex Gidley
  • Patent number: 11801889
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an MDPS may include: a filtering unit configured to filter a specific frequency from a first current steering angle provided from a steering angle sensor; a command steering angle control unit configured to remove noise of a first command steering angle inputted from an autonomous driving system, and output a second command steering angle; a steering angle position control unit configured to compensate for a first steering angle error corresponding to the difference between the second command steering angle and the first current steering angle filtered by the filtering unit, and output a first command current; and a responsiveness improvement unit configured to compensate for a second steering angle error corresponding to the difference between the second command steering angle and a second current steering angle provided from a motor, and apply the compensation result value to the steering angle position control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tae Hong Kim