Patents by Inventor Greg Swadling
Greg Swadling has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10576941Abstract: A pump system includes a pneumatic pump, a hose, a nozzle that can attach to a tire of a vehicle, and a processing device. The processing device receives a target tire pressure for the tire, receives a current tire pressure of the tire, and controls the operation of the pneumatic pump according to the target tire pressure and the current tire pressure. A method includes receiving a target tire pressure for a tire of a vehicle, receiving a current tire pressure of the tire, and controlling operation of a pneumatic pump according to the target tire pressure and the current tire pressure.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Steven Yellin Schondorf, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Robert Bruce Kleve, Greg Swadling, Dilip B. Patel
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Publication number: 20180354470Abstract: A pump system includes a pneumatic pump, a hose, a nozzle that can attach to a tire of a vehicle, and a processing device. The processing device receives a target tire pressure for the tire, receives a current tire pressure of the tire, and controls the operation of the pneumatic pump according to the target tire pressure and the current tire pressure. A method includes receiving a target tire pressure for a tire of a vehicle, receiving a current tire pressure of the tire, and controlling operation of a pneumatic pump according to the target tire pressure and the current tire pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Steven Yellin Schondorf, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Robert Bruce Kleve, Greg Swadling, Dilip B. Patel
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Patent number: 10086803Abstract: A pump system includes a pneumatic pump, a hose, a nozzle that can attach to a tire of a vehicle, and a processing device. The processing device receives a target tire pressure for the tire, receives a current tire pressure of the tire, and controls the operation of the pneumatic pump according to the target tire pressure and the current tire pressure. A method includes receiving a target tire pressure for a tire of a vehicle, receiving a current tire pressure of the tire, and controlling operation of a pneumatic pump according to the target tire pressure and the current tire pressure.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Steven Yellin Schondorf, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Robert Bruce Kleve, Greg Swadling, Dilip B. Patel
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Publication number: 20180257440Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for managing tire pressure for a trailer. A controller may be configured to manage communications between a vehicle and a trailer. A tire pressure management system module to be mounted on the trailer may be operatively connected to the controller by a tow connector. The tire pressure management system module may be configured to receive tire pressure information from at least one sensor operatively associated with at least one tire of the trailer, and transmit messages to the controller based on the tire pressure information, wherein the controller triggers a notification when at least one of the messages indicates a tire pressure that fails to meet a criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Dilip B. PATEL, Christopher HENDERSON, Eric L. REED, Dante K. CROCKETT, Greg SWADLING, James Edwin BLATCHFORD, Stavros DIONYSSOPOULOS, Nimish H. PATEL
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Patent number: 9902217Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for managing tire pressure for a trailer. A controller may be configured to manage communications between a vehicle and a trailer. A tire pressure management system module to be mounted on the trailer may be operatively connected to the controller by a tow connector. The tire pressure management system module may be configured to receive tire pressure information from at least one sensor operatively associated with at least one tire of the trailer, and transmit messages to the controller based on the tire pressure information, wherein the controller triggers a notification when at least one of the messages indicates a tire pressure that fails to meet a criteria.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Dilip B. Patel, Christopher Henderson, Eric L. Reed, Dante K. Crockett, Greg Swadling, James Edwin Blatchford, Stavros Dionyssopoulos, Nimish H. Patel
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Publication number: 20170028796Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for managing tire pressure for a trailer. A controller may be configured to manage communications between a vehicle and a trailer. A tire pressure management system module to be mounted on the trailer may be operatively connected to the controller by a tow connector. The tire pressure management system module may be configured to receive tire pressure information from at least one sensor operatively associated with at least one tire of the trailer, and transmit messages to the controller based on the tire pressure information, wherein the controller triggers a notification when at least one of the messages indicates a tire pressure that fails to meet a criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2015Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Dilip B. PATEL, Christopher HENDERSON, Eric L. REED, Dante K. CROCKETT, Greg SWADLING, James Edwin BLATCHFORD, Stavros DIONYSSOPOULOS, Nimish H. PATEL
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Publication number: 20150059918Abstract: A pump system includes a pneumatic pump, a hose, a nozzle that can attach to a tire of a vehicle, and a processing device. The processing device receives a target tire pressure for the tire, receives a current tire pressure of the tire, and controls the operation of the pneumatic pump according to the target tire pressure and the current tire pressure. A method includes receiving a target tire pressure for a tire of a vehicle, receiving a current tire pressure of the tire, and controlling operation of a pneumatic pump according to the target tire pressure and the current tire pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Steven Yellin Schondorf, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Robert Bruce Kleve, Greg Swadling, Dilip B. Patel
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Patent number: 8878663Abstract: Frames of data are received. Each frame includes at least a sensor identifier and a changeable data field and is sent from one of a plurality of sensors. Each of the plurality of sensors is associated with a respective one of a plurality of sensor identifiers. The changeable data field includes, in some of the frames, data representing a sensed condition and, in others of the frames, counter data. The counter data is analyzed to determine whether any of the sensor identifiers can be associated with one of a plurality of sensor locations.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mohsen Katiba, Dilip B. Patel, Greg Swadling
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Patent number: 8854200Abstract: A method and system for managing tire pressure in a vehicle are disclosed. The system is a tire pressure monitoring system associated with the tire pressure sensors. The method includes the general steps of informing the operator that air pressure in a tire is below a desired level, causing the sensor to undertake a rapid sampling of pressure of the tire during an interim state while the vehicle is being driven, advising the operator to manually add pressure to the tire in discrete increments of, for example, between 5 and 10 seconds, causing the sensor to undertake a rapid sampling of tire pressure while air is being manually added to the tire, and causing the sensor to transmit tire air pressure data until the operator stops adding air. The method may also include the step of providing the operator with feedback when a predetermined tire air pressure is reached.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dilip B. Patel, Steven Yellin Schondorf, Greg Swadling, Mohsen Katiba, Thomas Michael McQuade
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Publication number: 20140210606Abstract: Frames of data are received. Each frame includes at least a sensor identifier and a changeable data field and is sent from one of a plurality of sensors. Each of the plurality of sensors is associated with a respective one of a plurality of sensor identifiers. The changeable data field includes, in some of the frames, data representing a sensed condition and, in others of the frames, counter data. The counter data is analyzed to determine whether any of the sensor identifiers can be associated with one of a plurality of sensor locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mohsen Katiba, Dilip B. Patel, Greg Swadling
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Publication number: 20130293371Abstract: A method and system for managing tire pressure in a vehicle is disclosed. The system is a tire pressure monitoring system associated with the tire pressure sensors. The method includes the general steps of informing the operator that air pressure in a tire is below a desired level, causing the sensor to undertake a rapid sampling of pressure of the tire during an interim state while the vehicle is being driven, advising the operator to manually add pressure to the tire in discrete increments of, for example, between 5 and 10 seconds, causing the sensor to undertake a rapid sampling of tire pressure while air is being manually added to the tire, and causing the sensor to transmit tire air pressure data until the operator stops adding air. The method may also include the step of providing the operator with feedback when a predetermined tire air pressure is reached.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2012Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Dilip B. Patel, Steven Yellin Schondorf, Greg Swadling, Mohsen Katiba, Thomas Michael McQuade
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Patent number: 8514062Abstract: A method for setting a warm placard tire pressure threshold for a motor vehicle tire pressure monitoring system that initiates a learn mode in the tire pressure monitoring system, starts a timer upon determining a vehicle speed is greater than a predetermined speed threshold, stops the timer upon determining the vehicle speed is less than or equal to the predetermined speed threshold or a predetermined period of time has expired, detects a plurality of tire pressures for a tire location while the timer is timing, stores the plurality of tire pressures, averages the plurality of tire pressures to determine a warm placard tire pressure threshold upon the predetermined period of time expiring, and sets the warm placard tire pressure threshold in the tire pressure monitoring system.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Ford Global TechnologiesInventors: Dilip B. Patel, Greg Swadling, Thomas Michael McQuade, Jim Michael Weinfurther
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Patent number: 8380460Abstract: A method for identifying tire positions of a dual rear tire vehicle having front tires and a pair of dual rear tires. The dual rear tires include an inner rear tire and an outer rear tire. The method includes providing a set of tire monitoring modules attached to each of the tires, and a processing module operatively attached to the tire monitoring modules. Further, the method includes receiving tire information, including tire pressure signals and rotational direction, from the set of monitoring modules of each of the tires. The method then involves identifying the dual rear tires and the front tires, and the dual rear tires located on right side and left side of the vehicle based on the received tire information. The inner rear tire and the outer rear tire of each of the dual rear tires are also identified based on the received tire information.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2010Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Lee Miller, Greg Swadling
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Patent number: 8115613Abstract: A method of operating a tire pressure monitoring system on a vehicle comprising tracking number of burst transmissions sent by a sensor, building a pareto of potential sensor identifications based on the greatest number of burst transmissions received from the sensor associating a potential sensor identification to a respective tire location on the vehicle and storing the associated sensor identification in memory.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Ford Global TechnologiesInventors: Dilip B. Patel, Thomas Michael McQuade, Mohsen Katiba, Greg Swadling
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Publication number: 20120022801Abstract: A method for identifying tire positions of a dual rear tire vehicle having front tires and a pair of dual rear tires. The dual rear tires include an inner rear tire and an outer rear tire. The method includes providing a set of tire monitoring modules attached to each of the tires, and a processing module operatively attached to the tire monitoring modules. Further, the method includes receiving tire information, including tire pressure signals and rotational direction, from the set of monitoring modules of each of the tires. The method then involves identifying the dual rear tires and the front tires, and the dual rear tires located on right side and left side of the vehicle based on the received tire information. The inner rear tire and the outer rear tire of each of the dual rear tires are also identified based on the received tire information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: THOMAS LEE MILLER, GREG SWADLING
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Publication number: 20120007729Abstract: A method for setting a warm placard tire pressure threshold for a motor vehicle tire pressure monitoring system that initiates a learn mode in the tire pressure monitoring system, starts a timer upon determining a vehicle speed is greater than a predetermined speed threshold, stops the timer upon determining the vehicle speed is less than or equal to the predetermined speed threshold or a predetermined period of time has expired, detects a plurality of tire pressures for a tire location while the timer is timing, stores the plurality of tire pressures, averages the plurality of tire pressures to determine a warm placard tire pressure threshold upon the predetermined period of time expiring, and sets the warm placard tire pressure threshold in the tire pressure monitoring system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2010Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: Dilip B. Patel, Greg Swadling, Thomas Michael McQuade, Jim Michael Weinfurther
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Publication number: 20110175715Abstract: A system and method of manually associating, in a predetermined order, each sensor in a plurality of sensors used by a tire pressure monitoring system with a corresponding wheel location on a vehicle comprising, activating an indicator at a first location, associating a first sensor for the first location in the tire pressure monitoring system, activating an indicator at a subsequent location, associating a subsequent sensor for the subsequent location in the tire pressure monitoring system, and repeating the steps of activating and associating for each sensor in the plurality of sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Steven Schondorf, Dilip Patel, Brian Bennie, Greg Swadling, Fred Gaynier
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Publication number: 20100013618Abstract: A method of operating a tire pressure monitoring system on a vehicle comprising tracking number of burst transmissions sent by a sensor, building a pareto of potential sensor indentifications based on the greatest number of burst transmissions received from the sensor associating a potential sensor identification to a respective tire location on the vehicle and storing the associated sensor identification in memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Dilip B. Patel, Thomas Michael McQuade, Moshen Katiba, Greg Swadling
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Patent number: 7570157Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring system (12) for a vehicle (10) has a pressure sensor circuit (16A) that includes an ECU (95), a transmitter/receiver (90), and pressure sensor (94). A method of operating a tire pressure monitoring system includes calibrating a tire pressure sensor circuit in a first range and a second range and generating a first calibration data for the first range and second calibration data for the second range. The first calibration data and the second calibration data are stored in a memory of the tire pressure sensing circuit (16A). A data signal corresponding to the pressure is generated. The first or second calibration data is generated in response to the range of the data signal to form a selected calibration. The data signal is calibrated with the selected calibration to form a pressure indicative signal. The pressure indicative signal is transmitted to a receiver (28) within the vehicle (10) with a range status corresponding to the selected calibration.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2005Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Miller, Thomas McQuade, Greg Swadling, Karl Wojcik
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Publication number: 20070090935Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring system (12) for a vehicle (10) has a pressure sensor circuit (16A) that includes an ECU (95), a transmitter/receiver (90), and pressure sensor (94). A method of operating a tire pressure monitoring system includes calibrating a tire pressure sensor circuit in a first range and a second range and generating a first calibration data for the first range and second calibration data for the second range. The first calibration data and the second calibration data are stored in a memory of the tire pressure sensing circuit (16A). A data signal corresponding to the pressure is generated. The first or second calibration data is generated in response to the range of the data signal to form a selected calibration. The data signal is calibrated with the selected calibration to form a pressure indicative signal. The pressure indicative signal is transmitted to a receiver (28) within the vehicle (10) with a range status corresponding to the selected calibration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2005Publication date: April 26, 2007Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Thomas Miller, Thomas McQuade, Greg Swadling, Karl Wojcik