Patents by Inventor Lowell Brown

Lowell Brown 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).

  • Method and system for stability control
    Patent number: 9120359
    Abstract: A method for stability control may include receiving vehicle characteristics of a vehicle of a vehicle-trailer system, trailer characteristics of a trailer of the vehicle-trailer system, or steering inputs for the vehicle. The method may include determining a prediction based on yaw rate deviation for the vehicle determined from the vehicle characteristics, trailer characteristics, or steering inputs or hitch rate oscillation of a hitch coupling the vehicle to the trailer determined from the vehicle characteristics, trailer characteristics, or steering inputs, where the prediction may be indicative of a likelihood of instability for the vehicle-trailer system. The method may include generating control actions based on the prediction and hitch rate feedback from the hitch of the vehicle-trailer system or lateral hitch force feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jimmy Chiu, Ambarish Goswami, James W. Post, II, Byung-Joo Kim, Lowell Brown
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STABILITY CONTROL
    Publication number: 20150165850
    Abstract: A method for stability control may include receiving vehicle characteristics of a vehicle of a vehicle-trailer system, trailer characteristics of a trailer of the vehicle-trailer system, or steering inputs for the vehicle. The method may include determining a prediction based on yaw rate deviation for the vehicle determined from the vehicle characteristics, trailer characteristics, or steering inputs or hitch rate oscillation of a hitch coupling the vehicle to the trailer determined from the vehicle characteristics, trailer characteristics, or steering inputs, where the prediction may be indicative of a likelihood of instability for the vehicle-trailer system. The method may include generating control actions based on the prediction and hitch rate feedback from the hitch of the vehicle-trailer system or lateral hitch force feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Jimmy Chiu, Ambarish Goswami, James W. Post, II, Byung-Joo Kim, Lowell Brown
  • Face guard attached chinstrap for an athletic helmet
    Patent number: 5799337
    Abstract: A protective helmet most useful in the sport of football includes a helmet shell for enclosing a head of the wearer and further includes a face guard attached to the helmet shell and extending in front of a face opening in the helmet. A chin cup is mounted by a pair of straps. One of the straps is fastened to the sides of the helmet. The other of the straps is fastened to the face guard at lateral positions so that forces directed to the face guard are transferred to the wearer's chin directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Inventor: Lowell Brown