Patents Assigned to GM
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Patent number: 11152814Abstract: Presented are mobile charging stations for recharging electrified vehicles, methods for making/using such mobile charging stations, and parking facilities equipped with such mobile charging stations. A mobile charging station includes a frame with multiple drive wheels and a prime mover operable to drive the wheels to propel the charging station. A hydrogen storage container and fuel cell are mounted to the frame. The fuel cell oxidizes hydrogen received from the storage container to generate electrical current. An electrical coupling mechanism connects the fuel cell to a traction battery pack of an electric-drive vehicle. A resident or remote controller is programmed to receive charge requests to recharge vehicles, and responsively determines path plan data for the mobile charging station. The controller commands the prime mover to propel the mobile charging station from the charger's origin to a charger destination, and enables the fuel cell to transmit electrical current to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Alan B. Martin, Matthew C. Kirklin, Charles E. Freese, V, Margarita M. Mann, William H. Pettit
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Patent number: 11148646Abstract: An automotive vehicle includes a body having a passenger compartment and a pedal assembly disposed within the passenger compartment. The pedal assembly includes a brake pedal emulator housing and at least one pedal interface coupled to the housing. The vehicle also includes an actuator operably coupled to the brake pedal emulator housing. The actuator is configured to selectively move the housing and the pedal interface between a first position and a second position with respect to the passenger compartment. The vehicle further includes at least one controller in communication with the actuator. The controller is configured to, in response to satisfaction of a first operating condition, control the actuator to move the housing and the pedal interface to the first position, and, in response to satisfaction of a second operating condition, control the actuator to move the housing and the pedal interface to the second position.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Ali Ghaffari, Steven J. Weber, Tomasz R. Warzecha
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Patent number: 11148636Abstract: A system for detecting seatbelt routing includes: a state module configured to, based on a series of images over a period of time from a camera of a vehicle facing a seat, determine and output a routing state of a seatbelt of the seat; and a remediation module configured to, based on the routing state of the seatbelt of the seat, selectively perform at least one remedial action.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Scott D. Thomas, Michael Baltaxe, Kobi Nistel, Ruben Mergui
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Patent number: 11148720Abstract: A barrier assembly for an energy storage system includes a panel and an energy storage pack. The panel includes an outer surface and an inner surface opposing the outer surface. The energy storage pack is spaced from the panel relative to the inner surface of the panel. The barrier assembly further includes an intermediate structure disposed between the inner surface of the panel and the energy storage pack. The intermediate structure is configured to absorb energy when a load is applied to the outer surface of the panel and configured to redistribute the load along a plurality of load paths through the intermediate structure as the load is applied to the panel. A vehicle includes the barrier assembly discussed above. The vehicle includes a support structure and the barrier assembly is coupled to the support structure. The inner surface of the panel faces toward the support structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Travis W. Walker, Robert N. Saje, Eric A. Mathieson, Michael T. Chaney, Warren J. Parsons
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Patent number: 11148643Abstract: A windshield wiper assembly for an automobile, comprising a wiper arm, a wiper blade, a plurality of double claw fixtures pivotally mounted onto the wiper arm and adapted to support the wiper blade on the wiper arm, and an actuator adapted to selectively induce rotation of the wiper blade along a longitudinal axis of the wiper blade relative to the wiper arm, each of the double claw fixtures adapted to rotatably support the wiper blade.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Thomas W. Jozwiak, Thomas W. Cox, Marek L. Wilmanowicz
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Patent number: 11148718Abstract: A structural arrangement for a vehicle includes a body structure defining a longitudinal vehicle body axis and a lateral vehicle axis orthogonal to the longitudinal vehicle body axis. The body structure includes a lattice shear structure having a first structural member extending laterally from one side to an opposite side of the vehicle and a second structural member parallel to and longitudinally spaced apart from the first structural member, an upper shear panel extending longitudinally and laterally across the vehicle and joined to the lattice shear structure, and a seat attachment structure having a first end and a second end opposite the second end. The seat attachment structure is oriented longitudinally and is joined to both of the first and second structural members.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Eric A. Mathieson, Michael T. Chaney, Robert N. Saje, Warren J. Parsons, Travis W. Walker
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Patent number: 11153994Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed. An example coolant system can be configured in an autonomous vehicle. The system can include a first coolant loop configured with a first series of coolant hoses to communicate a first volume of coolant fluid between a first reservoir, a first coolant pump, a three-way heat exchanger, and a computer system heat exchanger and a second coolant loop configured with a second series of coolant hoses to communicate a second volume of coolant fluid between a second reservoir, a second coolant pump, the three way heat exchanger, and the computer system heat exchanger. The system can further include a third coolant loop configured with a third series of coolant hoses to communicate third volume of coolant fluid between the three-way heat exchanger and an engine heat exchanger of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLCInventors: Roger Lo, Brian Schlotterbeck
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Patent number: 11148628Abstract: One general aspect includes a system of restraint deployment regulation, the system includes: a memory configured to include a plurality of executable instructions and a processor configured to execute the executable instructions, where the executable instructions enable the processor to: (a) determine, based on a seat occupation sensor output, whether a non-adult occupant is occupying a vehicle seat; (b) determine, based on an in-cabin sensor output, whether a child restraint seat is mounted on the vehicle seat; and (c) based on steps (a) and (b), enable or suppress a deployment of an airbag module that corresponds with the vehicle seat.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Scott D. Thomas
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Patent number: 11148611Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to an automotive camera unit. The automotive camera unit comprises a housing comprising an aperture, a lens positioned to receive an optical image through the aperture of the housing, and an image sensor board mounted within the housing, the image sensor board comprising an image sensor configured to convert the optical image into sensor data. The automotive camera unit further includes an image signal processor (ISP) board mounted within the housing and above the image sensor board, the image signal processor board comprising an image signal processor configured to covert the sensor data into image data for use by an automotive system.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLCInventors: Boyang Zhang, Shane McGuire, Ming-Hsuan Hsu
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Patent number: 11150644Abstract: Technologies for steering sensors in a payload carrier structure on an autonomous vehicle (AV) are described herein. An example method can include receiving, by a motor control system on the AV, instructions for controlling a motor on the motor control system to reposition the payload carrier structure from a first position to a second position; based on the instructions, sending, by a controller on the motor control system to a motor driver on the motor control system, a command instructing the motor driver to reposition the payload carrier structure from the first position to the second position; sending, by the motor driver to the motor, a control signal generated by the motor driver based on the command, the control signal controlling the motor to reposition the payload carrier structure to the second position; and moving, by the motor, the payload carrier structure and sensors to the second position.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLCInventors: Yung Change Ko, Shane McGuire, Radu Raduta, Brendan Hermalyn, Joseph Robbins, Mabel Lee, Nate Herse, Roger Lo
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Patent number: 11148632Abstract: An airbag assembly according to the present disclosure includes an airbag cushion and a first tether. The airbag cushion is configured to be stored in a roof of a vehicle when the airbag cushion is uninflated. The airbag cushion is configured to at least partially cover an opening in a sidewall of the vehicle when the airbag cushion is inflated. The first tether is coupled to a forward edge of the airbag cushion at a first location. The first tether is configured to be coupled to a body of the vehicle at a second location. A length of the first tether between the first and second locations is configured to vary as the airbag cushion is deployed.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Senthil Karuppaswamy, Naresh Kini, Pramod Joshi
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Patent number: 11148618Abstract: A vehicle seat wiring harness system includes a vehicle seat having a wiring bundle connected to at least an electrical motor energized to displace the vehicle seat and a first fixed point. A wire harness chain is positioned between the first fixed point and a second fixed point connected to a vehicle floor member. The wire harness chain includes multiple links individually including a first connecting wall oppositely positioned with respect to a second connecting wall. A longitudinal cavity is defined between the first connecting wall and the second connecting wall of successive ones of the multiple links. Multiple wires are loosely routed through the longitudinal cavity of the wire harness chain and connected to the wiring bundle.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Rami Z. Sayed
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Patent number: 11151808Abstract: A method of root cause diagnosis of fault data from a vehicle includes identifying a first vehicle fault and selecting from field repair data a vehicle feature corresponding to the identified first vehicle fault. The method also includes identifying from the field repair data an effective repair of the identified first vehicle fault. The method additionally includes training and testing via a machine learning algorithm, a labor code classifier using the identified effective repair of the first vehicle fault and the selected vehicle feature corresponding to the identified first vehicle fault. The method also includes identifying and classifying, using the trained classifier, indistinguishable labor codes. Furthermore, the method includes communicating the identified and classified indistinguishable labor codes for diagnosing a root cause of real time first vehicle fault data.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Shengbing Jiang, Chaitanya Sankavaram, David A. Frank, Brian L. Buck, Janelle Kane Rolando
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Publication number: 20210316996Abstract: Systems, methods and compositions to produce fine powders are described. These include forming a hypereutectic melt including a target material, a sacrificial-matrix material, and an impurity, rapidly cooling the hypereutectic melt to form a hypereutectic alloy having a first phase and a second phase, annealing the hypereutectic alloy to alter a morphology of the target material to thereby produce target particles, and removing the sacrificial matrix to thereby produce a fine powder of the target particles. The first phase is defined by the target material and the second phase is defined by the sacrificial-matrix material. The sacrificial-matrix material forms a sacrificial matrix having the target material dispersed therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Mahmoud Abd Elhamid, Andrew C. Bobel, Anil K. Sachdev, Mark W. Verbrugge, Nicholas P. Pieczonka, James R. Salvador
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Patent number: 11144303Abstract: There is disclosed herein examples of systems and procedures for performing software updates for vehicles. The vehicles may be scheduled for the software updates based on information related to the vehicles. Update systems may determine when the vehicles have entered service ranges of the update systems for the scheduled software updates and may initiate the software updates in response to determining that the vehicles have entered the service ranges. Progress of the software updates may be monitored and displayed on a dashboard system overseeing the software updates of the vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Nadav Ullman, Thomas Bachant, Paul Garcia, Jake McCloskey, Joseph Thibeault, Jose Arturo Covarrubias Reynoso, Armin Mahmoudi, John Logan Anderson, Liam O'Shea Staskawicz, Vineel Chand Adusumilli
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Patent number: 11145890Abstract: A lithium ion battery including an electrolyte and a lithium titanate negative electrode is provided. The lithium titanate negative electrode includes structures of a lithium titanate core and a conformal layer surrounding each lithium titanate core. The conformal layer either includes titanium oxide with substantially no lithium or has a concentration of lithium ranging from a lower concentration at a surface portion of the layer to a higher concentration at an interior portion of the layer adjacent to the lithium titanate core. A method of preparing the lithium titanate structures and a method of preparing an electrode for a lithium ion battery, wherein the electrode includes lithium titanate structures, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Zhongyi Liu, Zhiqiang Yu
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Patent number: 11146783Abstract: Systems and methods provide for adaptive real-time streaming of Autonomous Vehicle (AV) data. In some embodiments, the AV can receive a request from the remote computing system for real-time streaming of a first type of AV data and adaptively streaming a second type of AV data when one or more streaming conditions are satisfied. The first type of AV data and the second type of AV data can be captured as raw data by sensors, actuators, transducers, and other components of the AV. The AV can stream the first type of AV data to the remote computing system in real-time for a first time period. When the AV determines the streaming conditions are satisfied, the AV can automatically determine the second type of AV data to stream to the remote computing system in real-time for a second time period.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLCInventors: Zhizhong Yan, Adam Cadien
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Patent number: 11143516Abstract: The present technology pertains to a task management system for map labeling tasks. The system can determine when one task is dependent on completion of another task and schedule those tasks accordingly. Further the system can ensure that tasks are completed with a proper priority and can track completion of these tasks. The present technology ensures sufficient work is completed to speed up map release versions.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLCInventors: Chen Xie, Rohan Agrawal
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Patent number: 11145922Abstract: A solid-state battery cell having a capacitor interlayer is disclosed. The solid-state battery includes an anode, a cathode spaced from the anode, a solid-state electrolyte layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, and a capacitor assisted interlayer sandwiched between at least one of (i) the anode and solid-state electrolyte layer, and (ii) the cathode and the solid-state electrolyte layer. The capacitor assisted interlayer comprise at least one of a polymer-based material, an inorganic material, and a polymer-inorganic hybrid material; and a capacitor anode active material or a capacitor cathode active material. The polymer-based material includes at least one of a poly(ethylene glycol) methylether acrylate with Al2O3 and LiTFSI, a polyethylene oxide (PEO) with LiTFSI, and a poly(vinylidene fluoride) copolymer with hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-HFP)-based gel electrolyte. The inorganic material includes a 70% Li2S-29% P2S5-1% P2O5.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Zhe Li, Xiaochao Que, Haijing Liu, Qili Su, Yong Lu
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Patent number: D933266Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Jonghyuk Park, Byeong Hyeok Yun