Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • Patent number: 12187309
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to assisting vehicles approaching a target vehicle that is stationary on a shoulder of a road. In one embodiment, a method includes determining one or more characteristics of the target vehicle that is a stationary vehicle on the shoulder of the road, predicting how much time the target vehicle will be on the shoulder based on at least the one or more characteristics of the target vehicle, and determining whether to generate a notification associated with the target vehicle based on at least a prediction of how much time the target vehicle will be on the shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: John-Michael McNew, Yu Liu, Brian A Mulrooney
  • Patent number: 12188671
    Abstract: A system and method controls a heat transfer system for palletized product. A controller and an array of sensors cooperate to control chillers and fans to efficiently change the temperature of product within the cases, while collecting and providing data regarding the efficacy and overall spatial profile of the freezing or other temperature-control operation. These data can be used to provide user feedback, optimize the temperature-control process, and ensure a desired performance of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Tippmann Engineering, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Tippmann, Robert T. Tippmann, III
  • Patent number: 12188198
    Abstract: A method for constructing a fixed monitoring pile for a mining area with a high phreatic water level includes: S1: prefabricating a pile foundation body, where the pile foundation body has a columnar structure, and a plurality of extension connection ports are provided at an outer side and a bottom of the pile foundation body; and S2: digging a foundation pit at a designated monitoring point; combining the pile foundation body with an extension body to form a fixed monitoring pile; placing the fixed monitoring pile into the foundation pit, such that a bottom extension body and a side extension body are inserted into the pit foundation; and backfilling and compacting. The method increases the affinity between the fixed monitoring pile and a loose layer and strengthens the fixed monitoring pile to prevent it from loosening, thereby improving measurement accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: PING AN COAL MINING ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD, HUAINAN MINING (GROUP) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hao Li, Shikai An, Biwu Han, Hongxing Guo, Yanfei Xu, Yunfei Yu, Qingfa Liao, Derong Zhao, Wei Miao
  • Patent number: 12190610
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining features in a vehicle. The interior of the vehicle can be scanned with a camera of a mobile device to locate one or more symbols or shapes within the interior. The one or more symbols or shapes can be processed using one or more machine learning models to obtain data associated with the one or more symbols or shapes. The data associated with the one or more symbols or shapes can be displayed to a driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Timothy Wang, Roger Akira Kyle, Bryan Else Yamasaki, Justin K Shen, Prince R Remegio, Jackson Zhu
  • Patent number: 12188473
    Abstract: A control system comprising: a liquid ring pump; a motor configured to drive the liquid ring pump; and a controller configured to: determine an electrical current within the motor; determine a speed of the motor; calculate a value of a function, the function being a function of the determined electrical current within the motor and the determined speed of the motor; and output one or more control signals based on the calculated value of the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited
    Inventors: Xin Dai, Xibo Liu, Andries Daniel Jozef De Bock
  • Patent number: 12187279
    Abstract: A method may include receiving training data comprising a time series of gaps between an ego vehicle and one or more lead vehicles at a plurality of time steps, embedding the training data into a fixed-length sequence, inputting the fixed-length sequence into a Transformer-RNN model comprising a Transformer component and an RNN component, wherein the transformer component applies attention to each data point of the fixed-length sequence based on a fixed number of previous inputs, and training the Transformer-RNN model, using the training data, to output a predicted gap at a future time step based on an input sequence of gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ziran Wang, Kyungtae Han, Rohit Gupta
  • Patent number: 12188745
    Abstract: A holster includes a system for providing an audio and/or a visual notification differentiating a lethal weapon from a less lethal weapon when one of these weapons is removed from its holster. The holster includes a sensor for detecting the presence of a weapon therein as well as removal of the weapon. Upon receiving a signal from the sensor indicating drawing of the weapon, a microcontroller actuates a speaker and/or a visual display to indicate the type of weapon which was drawn. Others are made aware of the type of weapon being drawn or which is currently deployed. The wearer of the holster is also made aware of a mistake if the incorrect type of weapon is drawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Zyno Engineering, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Salazar, Daniel J. Keys, Allison Davidoff
  • Patent number: 12191562
    Abstract: A radar device can be configured to provide an expanded detection field. The radar device can include a plurality of end-fire antennas. The plurality of end-fire antennas can be arranged in a fan-shaped array such that the plurality of end-fire antennas extending radially outward from a central region. Each end-fire antenna can have a transmission end oriented in a different direction than the other end-fire antennas. The plurality of end-fire antennas creating a collective detection field, which is larger than the detection field provided by any individual end-fire antenna. The radar device can be carried on a vehicle, such as an aircraft or a watercraft. For instance, the radar device can be used in connection with a helicopter, particularly when landing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Jae Seung Lee
  • Patent number: 12187177
    Abstract: A truck includes a passenger cabin and a truck bed located rearward of the passenger cabin in a vehicle longitudinal direction. The truck bed includes a bed deck and a pair of spaced apart sidewalls. A tailgate replacement extends across a rear opening to the truck bed and between the sidewalls. The tailgate replacement includes vertically-extending support rails and vertically spaced-apart, laterally-extending support rails that extend between the vertically-extending support rails. A slider is connected to the laterally-extending support rails. The slider includes a first connecting portion that slidably engages a first one of the laterally-extending support rails and a second connecting portion that slidably engages a second one of the laterally-extending support rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryan C. Harris, Scott L. Frederick
  • Patent number: 12187857
    Abstract: An on-orbit recycling method for a buffer foam of a cargo spacecraft includes the following steps: mechanically cutting a shaped PU foam into foam micro-blocks, and putting the foam micro-blocks into a packaging bag for packaging, where the packaging bag is filled with a foaming adhesive; the foaming adhesive includes a component A and a component B, which are independently packaged in a two-component packaging bag; and the component A and the component B are separated by a film; and squeezing the film between the component A and the component B, such that the two components are fully mixed, foamed and expanded to finally burst the two-component packaging bag, where after the packaging bag is burst, the foaming adhesive expands into gaps of the foam micro-blocks; and in a microgravity state of space, the foaming adhesive expands and fills uniformly in all directions and fully infiltrates the foam micro-blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Sichuan Institute of Space Systems Engineering
    Inventors: Hansheng Zheng, Yubin Yang, Yi Zuo, Lisheng Deng, Shuxin Duan, Yuehai Chen, Wei Zhao, Dan Li, Peng Li, Yiqian Cheng, Yu Luo
  • Patent number: 12188286
    Abstract: A method and an assembly for pivoting a movable component having a drive device with an electric drive motor in order to influence a pivoting of the component between a first setting and a second setting. A position sensor detects a position measure for a setting of the component and a speed parameter for a displacement speed of the component. During a displacement of the component with the speed parameter, an electrical setpoint current intensity for the electric drive motor is ascertained, and an associated setpoint voltage is set. The setpoint voltage is increased if a current intensity flowing through the drive motor is lower than the electrical setpoint current intensity, and the setpoint voltage is reduced if the current intensity flowing through the drive motor is higher than the electrical setpoint current intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Inventus Engineering GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Battlogg, Mathias Brandl
  • Patent number: 12188126
    Abstract: Provided is a substrate processing apparatus. The positions of a first electrode and a second electrode are adjusted in advance in consideration of differences in coefficients of thermal expansion so that a short circuit created by contact between the first electrode and the second electrode is prevented even in the case in which the first electrode and the second electrode are thermally expanded during processing. Even in the case in which the first electrode and the second electrode are thermally expanded due to an increase in temperature during processing, a short circuit between the first electrode and the second electrode can be prevented, and the uniformity of a thin film can be maintained in the substrate processing apparatus for processing a large substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: JUSUNG ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Wan Lee, Yong Hyun Kim, Yoon Jeong Kim, Yun Hoe Kim, Chang Kyun Park, Gu Hyun Jung, Ki Bum Kim, Seung Youb Sa, Chul Joo Hwang
  • Patent number: 12186556
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for electric stimulation are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: TECH INNOSPHERE ENGINEERING LTD.
    Inventors: Ehab Shakour, Yousef Badran, Gabriel Shakour, Rami Shacour
  • Patent number: 12193044
    Abstract: One example embodiment provides one or more of: measuring, via a user equipment (UE), sidelink received signal strength indicator (SL-RSSI) values and sidelink reference signal power received (SL-RSRP) values from a current window of a communication channel shared among a plurality of UEs, measuring, via the UE, the SL-RSRP values from a frequency-domain and a time-domain of a current window of a communication channel shared among the plurality of UEs, excluding a first subset of communication resources from a next window of the communication channel based on the RSSI values in the current window, excluding a first subset of communication resources from a next window of the communication channel based on the SL-RSRP values from a time-domain, excluding a second subset of communication resources from the next window of the communication channel based on the RSRP values, excluding a second subset of communication resources from the next window of the communication channel based on the SL-RSRP values from a freq
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Isfar Tariq, Takayuki Shimizu, Chang-Heng Wang, Hongsheng Lu, John Kenney
  • Patent number: 12187275
    Abstract: Vehicle systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to enhance the situational competency and/or the safe operation of a vehicle by automatically controlling the vehicle in response to executing measurable attribute data analysis that includes a comparison of the relative height of a detected road infrastructure element with a predetermined threshold height value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Geoffrey David Gaither, Allison McGowan, Nathan Westover
  • Patent number: 12187269
    Abstract: A real-time machine perception system and vehicles with real-time perception systems can be adapted for navigation in conflict zone environments and include an optical sensor and an optical processing component coupled to the optical sensor. The optical processing component can be configured to solve a non-linear control problem comprising solving a multi-vehicle merging or multi-vehicle synchronization problem. The optical processing component can perform optical processing on a signal from the optical sensor according to a deep learning algorithm having weights determined by solving the non-linear control problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ercan M. Dede, Paul D. Schmalenberg, Sean P. Rodrigues
  • Patent number: 12188874
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a chemiluminescence detector. The chemiluminescence detector includes a reagent storage device, configured to store a reagent; a reaction device, configured to support a plurality of support reaction containers and perform a sample adding operation, a reagent adding operation and an incubating operation, the reaction device including a reaction outer disc mechanism configured to support the reaction containers and perform the reagent adding operation and an uniform mixing operation and a reaction inner disc mechanism configured to support the reaction containers and perform the incubating operation; a reagent storage device, a separate injection device, a cleaning device and a measuring device are arranged around an outer periphery side of the reaction outer disc mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Shenzhen New Industries Biomedical Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Rao, Li Yin, Liang Zhu, Junhui Tang, Yi Hu
  • Patent number: 12189146
    Abstract: A five-layer thin film structure including a reflector, a high refractive index layer on or encapsulating the reflector, and a metallic iron absorber layer on or encapsulating the high refractive index layer. The reflector has a thickness from 10 nm to 5000 nm, the high refractive index layer has a thickness from 5 nm to 500 nm; and the metallic iron absorber layer has a thickness from greater than 0 nm to 50 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Debasish Banerjee, Songtao Wu, Hidetaka Asano
  • Patent number: 12187646
    Abstract: A synchronous single-liquid grouting slurry, its technology and application for large diameter shield engineering under water-rich, high-pressure and weak soil strata conditions, comprising raw materials: 1050-1200 parts of gold tailing, 420-480 parts of silicate cement clinker, 220-240 parts of fly ash, 45-120 parts of waste clay brick, 65-95 parts of slag, 25-45 parts of limestone tailing, 70-80 parts of steel slag, 30-45 parts of silica fume, 15-22 parts of desulfurized gypsum, and 9-15 parts of quick-setting and early-strength composite additive. The invention controls the d50, d85 and d95 of the material particles as 35-40, 42-48 and 50-55 ?m, respectively. Gold tailing with the particle size of 120-600 ?m being used as the fine aggregate, their volume fractions are 40-60%. The slurry production technique, comprising crushing-sieving-superfine ball milling-homogenization-particle size classification-variable speed mixing being developed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Ocean University of China, China Railway 14th Bureau Group Corporation Limited, China Railway 14th Bureau Group Shield Engineering Coporation Limited
    Inventors: Fei Sha, Jian Chen, Zhe Zhang, Peng Chen, Jianyong Zhang, Shutong Yang, Mingshuai Xi, Tao Liu, Yixiang Li, Gongbiao Yang, Qingsheng Meng, Qiguang Duan, Yuhong Diao, Jicheng Shu, Rui Fan, Lanying Zhang, Meng Bu, Naiyin Yang, Hao Kong
  • Patent number: D1056955
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Focusrite Audio Engineering Limited
    Inventors: Peter Phillips, Joshua Luke Wilkinson, Iain James Horrocks, Ryan Gray