Patents Examined by Mario C Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11995990
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, from connected vehicles, first locations of a first set of vehicles in an initial vehicle configuration; receiving, from a roadside unit, second locations of a second set of vehicles in the initial vehicle configuration; determining locations of connected vehicles and non-connected vehicles in the initial vehicle configuration based on the first locations and the second locations; determining an optimal vehicle configuration comprising desired locations of the connected vehicles and the non-connected vehicles based on the locations of the connected vehicles and the non-connected vehicles in the initial vehicle configuration, and predetermined optimization criteria; determining driving maneuvers to be performed by the connected vehicles to achieve the optimal vehicle configuration; and transmitting the determined driving maneuvers to the connected vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Sergei S. Avedisov, Ahmed Hamdi Sakr
  • Patent number: 11972689
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, a traffic control entity, a method, a computer program, and an apparatus for determining a minimum inter-vehicular distance for a platoon. The method for determining a minimum inter-vehicular distance for a platoon of transportation vehicles obtains information related to a predicted quality of service (pQoS) of communication links between the transportation vehicles of the platoon; a speed of the transportation vehicles of the platoon; and one or more maximum decelerations of the transportation vehicles of the platoon. The method also uses a functional relationship between the pQoS, the speed, the one or more maximum decelerations, and an inter-vehicular distance to determine the minimum inter-vehicular distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Pfadler, Guillaume Jornod
  • Patent number: 11947363
    Abstract: An aircraft includes a fuselage, a main wing, and a flight controller. The main wing is attached to the fuselage and configured to generate lift that acts on the aircraft. The flight controller includes an electric field direction estimator, an attitude calculator, and an attitude controller. The electric field direction estimator is configured to estimate a direction of an electric field around the aircraft. The attitude calculator is configured to calculate a target airframe attitude that reduces a possibility of occurrence of lightning strike on the aircraft, on the basis of the direction of the electric field estimated by the electric field direction estimator. The attitude controller is configured to control an attitude of an airframe of the aircraft to cause the attitude of the airframe to be the target airframe attitude calculated by the attitude calculator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tsubata
  • Patent number: 11465648
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding environment of a vehicle, and a driving controller that performs speed control and steering control of the vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognizer. When moving the vehicle to a parking area after detecting that an occupant gets off the vehicle at a stop position, the driving controller adjusts a start timing for starting the vehicle based on the number of vehicles stopped at the stop position recognized by the recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara
  • Patent number: 11364880
    Abstract: A vehicle which contributes to safe autonomous driving by washing the sensor provided in the vehicle by efficiently using a limited capacity washing solution, and a control method thereof. The vehicle includes: a first sensor; a second sensor; a driving device including at least one motor and configured to operate to clean the first sensor and the second sensor; and a controller configured to control the driving device to first wash the first sensor prior to the second sensor based on predetermined rank information when is the controller determines that at least one of the first sensor and the second sensor is contaminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suhak Gwon, June Soo Park, Byung Seob Yu, Ill Soo Kim, Jae Hong Choi