Patents by Inventor Roger Amold Trombley

Roger Amold Trombley 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).

  • Detection of and counter-measures for jackknife enabling conditions during trailer backup assist
    Patent number: 8825328
    Abstract: A vehicle comprises a trailer angle detection apparatus and a trailer backup control system coupled to the trailer angle detection apparatus. The trailer angle detection apparatus is configured for outputting a signal generated as a function of an angle between the vehicle and a trailer towably attached to the vehicle. The trailer backup control system includes a jackknife enabling condition detector and a jackknife counter-measures controller. The jackknife counter-measures controller alters a setting of at least one vehicle operating parameter for alleviating an adverse jackknife condition during backing of the trailer by the vehicle when the jackknife enabling condition detector determines that a jackknife enabling condition has been attained at a particular point in time during backing of the trailer by the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, The Regents of The University of Michigan
    Inventors: Matt Y. Rupp, Taehyun Shim, David Dean Smit, Erick Michael Lavoie, Roger Amold Trombley, Thomas Edward Pilutti
  • DETECTION OF AND COUNTER-MEASURES FOR JACKKNIFE ENABLING CONDITIONS DURING TRAILER BACKUP ASSIST
    Publication number: 20120271512
    Abstract: A vehicle comprises a trailer angle detection apparatus and a trailer backup control system coupled to the trailer angle detection apparatus. The trailer angle detection apparatus is configured for outputting a signal generated as a function of an angle between the vehicle and a trailer towably attached to the vehicle. The trailer backup control system includes a jackknife enabling condition detector and a jackknife counter-measures controller. The jackknife counter-measures controller alters a setting of at least one vehicle operating parameter for alleviating an adverse jackknife condition during backing of the trailer by the vehicle when the jackknife enabling condition detector determines that a jackknife enabling condition has been attained at a particular point in time during backing of the trailer by the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Matt Y. Rupp, Taehyun Shim, David Dean Smit, Erick Michael Lavoie, Roger Amold Trombley, Thomas Edward Pilutti