Patents Examined by Navid Ziaeianmehdizadeh
  • Precision traffic indication
    Patent number: 10068469
    Abstract: Precision traffic flow indication may involve receiving device data over a period of time representing a plurality traffic flow readings associated with a road involving a plurality of subsections. Calculating traffic flows and determining road subsections having similar traffic flows may also be involved. Also, indicating a different traffic flow level for a first subsection and a second subsection of road may be involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Corinne Bradley, James Adeyemi Fowe, Kyle Jackson, Gavril Giurgiu, Mitchell McCuiston, Leon Oliver Stenneth
  • Helicopter hoist systems, devices, and methodologies
    Patent number: 10059462
    Abstract: A helicopter-hoist system is described. The system may include: hoist equipment, illumination systems, range-measuring equipment, camera(s), communication systems, display devices, processing/control systems including image-processing systems, and power-management systems. The system may also include a smart-hook for measuring a load on the hook. Based on the measured load on the cable, the lighting may be illuminated in different manners. In another aspect, the system may communicate with display devices, which render images of a mission to helicopter crew members or other observers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Breeze-Eastern LLC
    Inventors: Brad Repp, Brad Pedersen, Ezra Johnson, Chad Cariano, Chad Dize
  • System and method to enhance lean blowout monitoring
    Patent number: 10047679
    Abstract: A monitoring system for a gas turbine includes a processor configured to receive an operating signal indicating an operating parameter of the gas turbine. The processor is configured to predict an occurrence of a lean blowout (LBO) event based on the operating parameter and an entropy ratio of combustion dynamics associated with a combustor of the gas turbine, wherein the LBO event corresponds to when the combustor stops firing. The processor is configured to send an alarm signal indicating the predicted LBO event to an electronic device prior to the occurrence of the LBO event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Xiaomo Jiang, Ilan Leibu, Lijie Yu, Devang Jagdish Gandhi, Karen Warren Miller, Matthew Everett Moore, Ketan Kalele
  • Transporter vehicle, dump truck, and transporter vehicle control method
    Patent number: 10049574
    Abstract: Provided is a transporter vehicle including: a vehicle; an object detection device that detects an object at a front side of the vehicle; a collision determination unit that determines a possibility of a collision with the object based on a detection result of the object detection device; a process system that performs a process for reducing damage caused by the collision; a control unit that outputs a signal for reducing the damage caused by the collision to the process system based on a determination result of the collision determination unit; a time point data acquisition unit that acquires time point data in which the signal is output from the control unit; and an output unit that outputs process history data indicating at least a state of the process system. The output unit outputs the time point data and the process history data in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Ohsugi, Shinji Mitsuta, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Hirofumi Minato, Tetsuya Fujita
  • Helicopter hoist systems, devices, and methodologies
    Patent number: 10023312
    Abstract: A helicopter-hoist system is described. The system may include: hoist equipment, illumination systems, range-measuring equipment, camera(s), communication systems, display devices, processing/control systems including image-processing systems, and power-management systems. The system may also include a smart-hook for measuring a load on the hook. Based on the measured load on the cable, the lighting may be illuminated in different manners. In another aspect, the system may communicate with display devices, which render images of a mission to helicopter crew members or other observers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Breeze-Eastern LLC
    Inventors: Brad Repp, Brad Pedersen, Ezra Johnson, Chad Cariano, Chad Dize
  • Vehicle information processing system and method
    Patent number: 10013823
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing system performed by using an external apparatus and method are provided. The vehicle information processing method performed by using an external apparatus connected to a vehicle includes identifying a control authority of an external apparatus, which is connected to the vehicle, for communication between the external apparatus and the vehicle, transmitting service information that may be used according to the identified control authority, and executing a service, according to the transmitted service information, that is selected by the external apparatus, by using a processor which is included in the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hun Lim
  • Displaceable steering wheel safety systems and related methods
    Patent number: 9994178
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and systems for repositioning a steering wheel and/or airbag cushion prior to and/or during deployment of the airbag cushion resulting from an impact event. Some embodiments may comprise a steering wheel configured to be positioned between a first, operational configuration and a second, deployed configuration, wherein in the second configuration the steering wheel is positioned laterally relative to the first configuration, and wherein the steering wheel is configured to be repositioned between the first configuration and the second configuration. A steering wheel actuator may be configured to move the steering wheel laterally from the first configuration to the second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: AUTOLIV ASP, INC.
    Inventors: Donald James Paxton, Dino Anthony Forton, Chandrakanth Siddharthan, David Keyser, Dion Karl-Axel Kruse
  • Converging path detection
    Patent number: 9990852
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in traversing a vehicle transportation network may include receiving a remote vehicle message including remote vehicle information indicating remote vehicle geospatial state information and remote vehicle kinematic state information, identifying host vehicle information including host vehicle geospatial state information and host vehicle kinematic state information, determining convergence information indicating whether a remote vehicle expected path for the remote vehicle and a host vehicle expected path for the host vehicle are convergent based on the host vehicle information and the remote vehicle information, and traversing a portion of the vehicle transportation network in response to the convergence information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Andrew Christensen, Jeremy Chambers
  • Vehicle electronic control device and system with off-board diagnostic function
    Patent number: 9978188
    Abstract: An electronic control device (ECU) refrains from a transmission of a requested diagnosis data while IGSW is turned ON in case that an external device is connected to a dedicated connector. After turning OFF of IGSW, regardless of the connection of the external device to the connector, the transmission of the requested diagnosis data to the center is performed. As a result, a delay of an off-board diagnosis process in the ECU due to the transmission of the diagnosis data is prevented. Further, the data required for performing a remote diagnosis service is regularly transmitted to a management center. Therefore, the remote diagnosis service is performable when a commercially-available external device is connected to the dedicated connector by a user of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Oda, Hiroyuki Enomoto
  • Vehicle circumference monitoring apparatus
    Patent number: 9973734
    Abstract: A vehicle circumference monitoring apparatus includes: an image acquisition section that acquires captured image data output from an imaging section that is provided in a vehicle and images a circumference of the vehicle; a state acquisition section that acquires vehicle state data output from a vehicle state detection section that is provided in the vehicle and detects at least a roll state of the vehicle; a setting section that sets a center of rotation to rotate a display image depending on the roll state if the display image is displayed on a display device based on the captured image data; an image adjustment section that rotates a display state of the display image about the center of rotation that is set depending on the roll state; and an output section that outputs the display image to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Tetsuya Maruoka, Itsuko Ohashi
  • Collision avoidance using auditory data augmented with map data
    Patent number: 9937922
    Abstract: A controller for an autonomous vehicle receives audio signals from one or more microphones and identifies sounds. The controller further identifies an estimated location of the sound origin and the type of sound, i.e. whether the sound is a vehicle and/or the type of vehicle. The controller analyzes map data and attempts to identify a landmark within a tolerance from the estimated location. If a landmark is found corresponding to the estimated location and type of the sound origin, then the certainty is increased that the source of the sound is at that location and is that type of sound source. Collision avoidance is then performed with respect to the location of the sound origin and its type with the certainty as augmented using the map data. Collision avoidance may include automatically actuating brake, steering, and accelerator actuators in order to avoid the location of the sound origin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Brielle Reiff, Madeline Jane Schrier, Nithika Sivashankar
  • Enroute distance measuring tool
    Patent number: 9939271
    Abstract: Electronic map display information is generated. A map display comprising mapping data for a geographic region is generated. The mapping data is rendered on a map display. A plurality of concentric rings are overlaid on the map display. Each of the rings are indicative of a scaling factor for the mapping data. The scaling factor is adjusted based in a context of the map display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Susan A. Foster, Jeffrey J. Buhl, Jeffrey L. Williams, Aaron D. Pilcher
  • Portable trailer guidance system
    Patent number: 9926009
    Abstract: Trailer guidance systems require sensors for detecting the hitch angle and the turning radius and output means for displaying the intended trailer destination. However, most vehicles do not have integral turning sensors and most trailers and/or hitches do not have integral hitch angle sensors. The present invention is a system for guiding a trailer while backing that can easily be installed or removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Inventor: Daniel Robert Shepard
  • Route-based vehicle selection
    Patent number: 9922469
    Abstract: A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The computing device also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data representative of one or more travel parameters for one or more vehicles. The data for each of the one or more travel parameters being represented with distribution ranges. For each of the one or more vehicles, operations include calculating one or more metric values based on the one or more travel parameter data distributions. Operations also include assigning a score to each of the one or more vehicles based on the calculated one or more metric values, and, presenting a ranking of the one or more vehicles based on the assigned scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: XL Hybrids
    Inventors: Justin Ashton, Neal Ennis Brenner
  • Driving force controller for electric vehicle
    Patent number: 9919605
    Abstract: A driving force controller for an electric vehicle includes a feed-forward compensator for computing a second target driving force so as to suppress overshooting of an actual driving force that is actually outputted, with respect to a first target driving force requested by a driver, the feed-forward compensator includes a first transfer function expressing a characteristic that the actual driving force becomes a predetermined response with respect to the first target driving force; and an inverse of a second transfer function approximately expressing a transmission characteristic between a input target driving force and the actual driving force in a control system except the feed-forward compensator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke Osamura, Mitsuo Hirata
  • Navigation system with route correction mechanism and method of operation thereof
    Patent number: 9915546
    Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating a route for navigating to a destination; determining a travel deviation based on a current location and the route; determining an error prone scenario based on the current location, the travel deviation, and the route; and updating an error-prone-scenario switch based on the error prone scenario for displaying on a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventor: Hongzhu Lin
  • Low power environment management for an automobile
    Patent number: 9915091
    Abstract: For low power environment management for an automobile, a method is disclosed that includes sensing an environmental condition at an automobile, comparing a level of the environmental condition to a selected threshold value, and adjusting the opening of one or more windows of the automobile based on the sensed environmental condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Russell Stuart Gantman, Jason Grimme, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Apparatus and method for learning engine friction torque of hybrid vehicle
    Patent number: 9914450
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technology of determining an engine friction torque even when idling of an engine is not performed, by providing a certain engine Revolutions per Minute (RPM) in stop state of the engine using Hybrid Starter & Generator (HSG) connected to an engine pulley. The present disclosure provides a technology of determining an accurate engine friction torque using a torque provided from the outside of an engine instead of a torque generated the engine itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Mo Ahn, Yun Chan Heo, In Tak Kim, Doo Il Won, Hae Seung Lee, Yeong Jin Nam
  • Method and system for operating a vehicle system to reduce wheel and track wear
    Patent number: 9908545
    Abstract: A method includes determining a location of a vehicle system traveling on a track during a first trip relative to a curve in the track. The method also includes monitoring a temperature profile at a contact interface between a wheel of the vehicle system and a rail of the track that contacts the wheel as the vehicle system traverses the curve in the track. The temperature profile is based, at least in part, on a first speed profile of the vehicle system during the first trip. The method further includes analyzing the temperature profile to detect a flanging event between the wheel and the rail as the vehicle system traverses along the curve in response to the temperature profile indicating that a flange of the wheel engages a side of the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: David Michael Peltz
  • Method for guiding a device for inserting elements into the ground for the building of a structure; insertion device and associated vehicle
    Patent number: 9909263
    Abstract: A method includes: taking a topographical survey of a plurality of geographical points near a structure to be built, the position of each point being determined in an absolute frame of reference XYZ; installing a plurality of reflectors, each reflector being placed at a geographical point of the topographical survey; measuring distances between reflectors and optical devices, using at least three optical devices fixed on a moving arm of an insertion device that bears an element to be inserted; computing, by trilateration, the absolute position of the arm of the insertion device from the measured distances and from the known position of each optical reflector; and moving the arm of the insertion device based on the computed absolute position, so as to bring the element to be inserted into a predetermined implantation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Alstom Transport Technologies
    Inventor: Nicolas Rada