Patents Assigned to Faurecia
  • Patent number: 11945346
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat crash securing device (1) used for a vehicle seat of a motorized vehicle. The vehicle seat crash securing device (1) comprises a locking device for locking a height of a seat cushion frame. An actuator (3) is actuated in the case of a crash for tightening a belt rope (5). A blocking element in a blocking position holds a locking element of the locking device in an unlocked position. In a releasing position, the blocking element releases the locking element. The locking element is biased by a spring element into the locked position. The blocking element can be moved by a friction force generated by the actuator (3) from the blocking position into the releasing position. Preferably, the friction force is generated by a follower (8) (e.g. a friction wheel (9)), the follower (8) being pressed against the belt rope (5). The movement of the follower (8) is coupled to the movement of the blocking element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Autositze GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Junk, Dimitri Unrau, Dominik Seitzer, Jörg Meyer
  • Patent number: 11941317
    Abstract: A display detects a movement operation that is a touch operation that has been set in advance on a first screen, and, upon detection of the movement operation, evaluates which, a left small display region, among left left small display regions through, set in a second screen, has been selected, and displays, in the display region that was evaluated as selected, a display image that has been displayed in the first screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuma Shioguchi
  • Patent number: 11938447
    Abstract: An injector is provided to inject an aqueous urea solution into an exhaust line. The injector comprises a single fluid inlet, an injection passage, fluidly connecting the inlet to the injection port, and a shut-off device for the injection port. The shut-off device further comprises an actuator that is configured to selectively move a shutter between open and closed positions. A cooling passage is fluidly connected to the injection passage and is configured to cool the actuator. A fluid pressure regulator is interposed in the cooling passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FAURECIA SYSTEMES D'ECHAPPEMENT
    Inventor: Bruno Sertier
  • Patent number: 11938850
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat bottom and a seat back extending upwardly from the seat bottom. A cushion is included in each of the seat bottom and seat back. A stream of air is provided to at least one of the seat bottom and the seat back to provide a ventilated vehicle seat for a passenger seated on the vehicle seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Automotive Seating, LLC
    Inventors: Robert C. Fitzpatrick, Jeffery T. Bonk
  • Patent number: 11940870
    Abstract: A method and a device for automatically detecting potential failures in mobile applications implemented on an operating system for mobile devices, a mobile application being executable on the operating system installed on a hosting device by executing code instructions stored in an associated executable file. Provided an executable file associated to a mobile application, the device implements a module for decompiling the executable file to obtain at least one descriptive file of the mobile application containing descriptive code formatted with a markup language, a module for providing a plurality of predetermined string patterns related to potential failures, and a module for searching for the presence of at least one of the string patterns in the at least one descriptive file, and in case of presence, outputting an indication of presence of a potential failure associated to the detected string pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FAURECIA APTOIDE AUTOMOTIVE, LDA
    Inventor: Adriano Batista
  • Patent number: 11942011
    Abstract: A display control device includes a display region setting unit, a priority setting unit, and a display control unit. When a positional relationship between a plurality of display objects on a plurality of display regions changes in size or the plurality of display regions and display objects are within a predetermined distance, the display control unit, when the priority of the plurality of display objects is different from each other, changes the attribute information relating to the display objects from visible to invisible in accordance with the priority, and hides the display objects changed to be invisible as the attribute information, and when the priority of the plurality of display objects displayed on the plurality of display regions is not different from each other, does not change the attribute information relating to the display objects from visible to invisible, and cancels change in size of the plurality of display regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jitsu Ezaki
  • Patent number: 11932085
    Abstract: A vehicle interior panel includes a diffuser spanning an air discharge opening. The diffuser has a spiral slot formed therethrough such that changing an axial distance between opposite ends of the slot changes an air flow capacity of the diffuser. The diffuser has an elegant and simplified design and can be made as one piece from a sheet material. Air is discharged from the diffuser radially and substantially equally in all radial directions. The diffuser can also function to provide ambient light from a light source and/or to deliver an air freshening agent to the passenger cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Interior Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin Louis
  • Patent number: 11932103
    Abstract: A device fastens a tank for pressurized gas, such as hydrogen, to a frame. The tank comprises a base including a cylindrical seat. The device comprises a fastener able to clamp the cylindrical seat of the base, where the device also comprises at least one mechanical fuse that is able to break in case of impact experienced by the frame, so that the device releases the base from the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FAURECIA SYSTEMES D'ECHAPPEMENT
    Inventor: Yannick Godard
  • Patent number: 11933455
    Abstract: A pressurized gas tank comprises at least two cylinders and a rail capable of fluidly connecting the at least two cylinders. At least one cylinder includes a base for connection to the rail. The rail includes at least one reception area of a shape substantially complementary to a shape of the base. The base has a shape substantially revolutionary about a first axis and comprises a number at least equal to n of angularly equidistant tapped holes. The at least one reception area comprises a number equal to n of ports, in the form of an arc of a circle, angularly equidistant, of width substantially equal, by greater value, to a diameter of a tapped hole and of angular extent substantially equal to 360°/n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FAURECIA SYSTEMES D'ECHAPPEMENT
    Inventor: Sullivan Icard
  • Patent number: 11932193
    Abstract: A vehicle interior panel for use over a deployable airbag includes an outer substrate portion having a top side, a bottom side, a tear seam, and a structural rib extending from the bottom side of the outer substrate portion. The panel includes an inner substrate portion having a top side, a bottom side, and a deflector extending from the top side of the inner substrate portion. The deflector is configured to contact the structural rib and the tear seam during deployment of the airbag. A method of manufacturing the panel includes injecting the outer substrate portion with the inner substrate portion and folding the inner substrate portion at a hinge region toward the outer substrate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Interior Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos Gerardo Lopez Martinez
  • Patent number: 11926313
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes: an empty stall determiner that determines, based on sensing of surroundings by a sensor section provided in a vehicle, whether or not a parking stall present in surroundings of the vehicle is an empty stall; an empty stall storing section that stores information regarding a location of the empty stall determined by the empty stall determiner in association with a passing route of the vehicle; and an automatic travel controller that generates a travel route from a current location to the empty stall based on the sensing of the surroundings by the sensor section, the automatic travel controller performing control to cause the vehicle to travel along the travel route and be parked in the empty stall in a head-in manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11926248
    Abstract: An occupant support for a vehicle includes a seat bottom arranged to overlie a floor of the vehicle, a seat back coupled to the seat bottom and arranged to extend upwardly away from the floor. The occupant support further includes a seat mode-change system that allows the occupant support to adjust the seat bottom and the seat back to provide a storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Automotive Seating, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffery T. Bonk, Robert C. Fitzpatrick
  • Publication number: 20240080646
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communicating method for vehicle users, a communicating system for vehicle users, and a computer-readable storage medium. The communicating method includes following steps: establishing a communicating area with respect to the vehicle, and defining a coordinate range of the communicating area; connecting at least one user terminal, and acquiring a personal coordinate from each of the user terminals; and responding to the personal coordinates of user terminals being located in the coordinate range of the communicating area at the same time, to establish information correlation for each user terminal located in the communicating area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fubin ZHU, Hengqiang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240075874
    Abstract: A data processing device for performing suitable feedback with regard to a pointing gesture of a vehicle occupant is provided. The occupant state recognition unit recognizes motion of an occupant of the vehicle pointing to outside the vehicle. The peripheral conditions acquisition unit acquires the peripheral circumstances around the vehicle. The target recognition unit recognizes a target pointed at by the occupant based on recognition results obtained by the occupant state recognition unit and recognition results obtained by the peripheral conditions acquisition unit. The light emitting unit has a long shape and is installed above or below a windshield of the vehicle over a vehicle body width direction. The light emission control unit controls, in two stages, a luminescence mode for a portion of the light emitting unit corresponding to a direction pointed at by the occupant and/or a direction in which the target is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro UEMURA, Tatsuya OMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA, Keiichiro YOSHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20240075853
    Abstract: An apparatus of tilting a seat cushion of a vehicle, includes a tilting motor, a pinion gear, a sector gear, and a tilting link which perform the tilting operation of the seat cushion and exert a binding force in a tilted state of the seat cushion and are provided to be connected to both of one side and the other side of a seat cushion frame, and has two sector gears positioned on left and right sides and connected to each other by a connection bar so that, by strengthening a binding force of the front portion of the seat cushion, it is possible to secure the safety of passengers in the event of a collision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, DAS CO., LTD, Faurecia Korea, Ltd., Hyundai Transys Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Soo LEE, Mu Young KIM, Sang Hark LEE, Ho Suk JUNG, Sang Do PARK, Chan Ho JUNG, Dong Hoon LEE, Hea Yoon KANG, Deok Soo LIM, Seung Pil JANG, Seon Ho KIM, Jong Seok YUN, Hyo Jin KIM, Dong Gyu SHIN, Jin Ho SEO, Young Jun KIM, Taek Jun NAM
  • Patent number: 11921974
    Abstract: An icon display controlling device includes an area displaying unit for causing a display to display a first display area within which an icon can be placed; a deleting mode switching unit for switching to a deleting mode that enables deletion of a second icon that has already been placed in the first display area, in response to performance of a predetermined operation for placing a first icon in the first display area; and an icon positioning unit for placing the first icon in the first display area upon deletion of the second icon in the deleting mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsushita, Azusa Shiina, Jun Sakura
  • Patent number: 11922918
    Abstract: A noise controlling method includes generating a reference signal representing a primary noise, generating a secondary noise in response to a control signal for cancelling the primary noise, generating an error signal representing a superposition of the primary and secondary noises at a position, generating an additional reference signal, secondary noise, or additional error signal, and generating the control signal for generating the secondary noise using adaptive subband filtering based on the reference and error signals, the generating the control signal including decomposing the reference signal and the error signal into a subband reference and error signal for each subband, updating subband adaptive filters for a subband based on the subband reference signal and the subband error signal, updating a fullband adaptive filter based on the updated subband adaptive filter, and generating the control signal by filtering the reference signal by the updated fullband adaptive filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Creo AB
    Inventors: Nicolas Jean Pignier Delafontaine, Christophe Mattei, Robert Risberg
  • Patent number: 11915495
    Abstract: A sitting height estimation ECU is mounted on a vehicle and includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a driver sitting in a driver's seat; a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a landmark on a face of the driver from the image; a crown estimation unit configured to estimate a position of a crown of the driver on the basis of the position of the landmark; and a sitting height estimation unit configured to estimate a sitting height of the driver on the basis of an estimation result obtained by the crown estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Tetsuro Murakami, Naoto Sakata
  • Patent number: 11913369
    Abstract: This application relates to a mixer and an exhaust system. Wherein, the mixer comprises a pipe, comprising a side wall that comprises an opening; a doser mounting base provided on the opening of the side wall of the pipe, connecting the pipe through the opening, defining a first space, and comprising an injection inlet; and an attachment, comprising a chamber portion and a deflector portion, wherein the chamber portion comprises a chamber portion inlet corresponding to the injection inlet, and a chamber portion outlet corresponding to the opening of the side wall of the pipe; and the deflector portion extends from a side wall of the chamber portion and makes the pipe, the side wall of the chamber portion and the chamber portion inlet fluidly connected, and the attachment constitutes a swirling structure that forms a swirling movement of exhaust at the chamber portion inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Emission Control Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Fabien Sudries, Vikas Jukanti, Vijaykumar Madegowda, Haneesh Penubolu, Rajeev Naik
  • Patent number: 11912170
    Abstract: A hinge comprising a first and a second plate intended to be connected respectively to a first and to a second vehicle seat element, the first plate comprising a base toothed portion with N teeth, a plurality of sets of rolling elements, each radially movable between at least one locking position, in which the rolling element is at least partially engaged in a space between two teeth, and an unlocking position in which the rolling element is disengaged from the space, a plurality of movable cams, each cooperating with the rolling elements of a different set, so as to cause the rolling elements to transition from their unlocking position to a locking position, and vice versa, and a control hub, able to move the cams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FAURECIA Sièges d'Automobile
    Inventor: Michel Timon