Patents Assigned to International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
  • FAN ASSEMBLY AND GAP TOOL
    Publication number: 20130336769
    Abstract: This is a system and apparatus for precisely mounting a ring shroud to a motor vehicle cooling system and engine. A cooling fan subassembly is mounted to an engine and ring shroud subassembly containing fan braces that are mounted to the engine via mounting brackets. A mounting gap tool is inserted through apertures in the ring shroud to prescribe the radial and axial clearance between the ring shroud and the cooling fan subassembly. Once the ring shroud and cooling fan assembly are aligned to predetermined specifications for clearance, the installer secures all the fasteners in the mounting brackets and retrieves any or all the mounting gap tools.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Eugene McPeek, Brian J. Tarkowski, Sherman L. Brewer, Venkata Subba Reddy Atluri, Matthew Robert Espley
  • Hybrid vehicle prime movers communication control strategy
    Patent number: 8606453
    Abstract: Messaging in a controller area network is modified to hide thermal engine torque and angular velocity change requests originating with selected nodes with relatively low contention access priority from an engine controller and to route the messages instead through an intermediary controller which is an independent source of thermal engine torque and angular velocity change requests. More specifically, in a hybrid vehicle having a body controller with operational control over power take off equipment, a hybrid controller and a thermal engine controller, angular velocity and torque change requests to support power take off operation are embedded in auxiliary input/output messages. The hybrid controller operates on these auxiliary messages, conflating the embedded angular velocity and torque change requests with its own and rebroadcast in conventional form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jay E Bissontz
  • Operator Interface for Vehicles
    Publication number: 20130317681
    Abstract: A control interface for drivetrain braking provided by a regenerative brake and a non-regenerative brake is implemented using a combination of switches and graphic interface elements. The control interface comprises a control system for allocating drivetrain braking effort between the regenerative brake and the non-regenerative brake, a first operator actuated control for enabling operation of the drivetrain braking, and a second operator actuated control for selecting a target braking effort for drivetrain braking. A graphic display displays to an operator the selected target braking effort and can be used to further display actual braking effort achieved by drivetrain braking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jay E. Bissontz
  • Vehicle suspension system
    Patent number: 8573620
    Abstract: A suspension system suspends an axle from a vehicle undercarriage. A mounting mounts a trailing arm for pivotal motion about a horizontal axis passing through a proximal end of the trailing arm perpendicular to the direction of vehicle travel while the vehicle is being steered in a straight line. An air spring is disposed between the undercarriage and a distal end of the trailing arm. A fastening holds fast together the middle of a resiliently flexible locating strap, the middle of the trailing arm, and the axle. A front locating bracket and a rear locating bracket fastened to the undercarriage respectively locate the front end of the locating strap horizontally in a direction parallel to the horizontal axis about which the trailing arm pivots and the rear end of the locating strap horizontally in a direction parallel to the horizontal axis about which the trailing arm pivots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Batdorff
  • TAMPER RESISTANT BATTERY COMPARTMENT
    Publication number: 20130285410
    Abstract: Motor vehicles assembled using a cutaway truck chassis may contain one or more batteries. These batteries may be accessible presenting potential for harm. The tamper resistant compartment for a battery in a passenger vehicle reduces access and visual interest that some may have in the batteries, while simultaneously providing easy access to mechanics. The tamper resistant compartment encompasses a box that is securely mounted to the chassis. The batteries inside the box may be connected to a remote battery stud and a battery shut-off switch. A movable panel integrated to the vehicle body serves as a covering and a door integrated to the movable panel provides access to the remote battery stud and battery shut-off switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC.
    Inventors: Mitchell Edward Auerbach, Robert B. Riggs, Scott Suumeyer, Matthew Joseph Flaherty, Steven W. Imel
  • Taper door connector strategy
    Patent number: 8550535
    Abstract: A door support assembly for a motor vehicle is described. Generally speaking, the assembly includes a pin with a tapered section and being attached to the vehicle door, a passage with a mating surface for the tapered section fixed to the vehicle, and a latching mechanism configured to pull the vehicle door inward when engaged. When the latch mechanism is engaged, the assembly provides zero-gap with the door frame. The pin is tapered to a degree that it does not become wedged within the passage as the result of an explosive event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Brian Enck
  • BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR RESTRICTED IDLE VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20130249468
    Abstract: A vehicle electrical power system includes a generator which generates power for application to loads and to chassis and batteries for storage. A starter motor for an engine is energized primarily from the battery. A contactor between the batteries has a closed state in which power can flow between the batteries and an open state which interrupts power flow between the batteries and from the generator to the cranking battery. A controller enables periodic stopping and starting of the engine is responsive to a battery state of charge for at least one of the batteries for operating the engine to maintain a minimum battery state of charge. The contactor may have a limited closed state in which power flow between the batteries is surge limited. Power flow is surge limited through the connector responsive to a voltage difference between the batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Pranay Kumar Bajjuri, John Jacob
  • HYBRID TANDEM DRIVE AXLE OF A TRUCK VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20130240279
    Abstract: A tandem rear axle (28) suspended from a chassis frame (12) rearward of front steerable wheels (22, 24) has a first drive axle (30) with a driven wheel (32) on the right side and a driven wheel (34) on the left side and a second drive axle (36) rearward of the first drive axle and having a driven wheel (38) on the right side and a driven wheel (40) on the left side. A drivetrain couples a combustion engine (26) to the first drive axle for driving its driven wheels. A prime mover (52, 68, 70, 74) other than the combustion engine drives the driven wheels of the second drive axle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL TRUCK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Colin Jay Casey, Robert A. Weber
  • Temperature control device
    Patent number: 8534056
    Abstract: Temperature control devices have become common to cool the exhaust stream from a diesel particulate filter before release into the environment. To further cool the filtered exhaust stream, a temperature control device has plates that are approximately parallel and in a spaced apart relationship. A vent is located between the plates. The plates have apertures. A shield is also used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Batdorff
  • VOCATIONAL TRUCK VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20130199863
    Abstract: A vocational truck vehicle has a vocational body mounted on a chassis rearward of a cab and overlying at least one rear axle. A fuel storage module for storing fuel for use by an alternative-fueled combustion engine which propels the vehicle has a frame holding at least one fuel storage vessel and attached to the vocational body to locate the fuel storage module in confronting relation to a rearward-facing wall of the vocational body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
  • Control system for equipment on a vehicle with a hybrid-electric powertrain
    Patent number: 8489254
    Abstract: A vehicle equipped for power take off operation using direct application of power from a hybrid electric powertrain. A body computer connects to the controller area network to receive chassis input signals. A controller area network has an electronic control module, a transmission control module, and a hybrid control module. The electronic control module electrically connects to the transmission control module and the hybrid control module. A data link based remote power module is installed on the vehicle for generating body demand signals for initiating operation of the vehicle hybrid electric powertrain for a power take off operation. A plurality of PTO request switches are electrically connected to the controller area network. The body computer is programmable to accept a signal from at least one of the PTO request switches to change an operating state of the power take off operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jay E. Bissontz
  • STEERING COLUMN ADJUSTMENT
    Publication number: 20130174684
    Abstract: A steering column adjustment device that uses a positive locking system comprising in part of teethed locking cleats and teethed sawtooth locking plates. The steering column positive lock mechanism uses a lever to rotate a cross shaft which activates two cam-actuated locks. Once in the unlocked position, the telescopic and tilt adjustment of the steering column can occur at the same time. Once the vehicle driver has achieved the desired tilt and telescopic position for the steering wheel and the steering column, the driver uses the lever to reactivate positive locking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Francis Burns
  • Windshield wiper with vibration actuator
    Patent number: 8468640
    Abstract: A scrubber assembly (14) for a windshield wiper (10) having a wiper arm (12) includes a scrubber housing (22) attached to the wiper arm. The scrubber housing (22) has an interior volume (66) and at least one opening (58). A rod (68) is at least partially disposed in the interior volume (66) and is displaceable from a first position to a second position. A brush assembly (42) is attached to the rod (68) with at least one flexible connecting member (76) that extends through the at least one opening (58) to the brush assembly. When the rod (68) is in the first position, a first portion of the flexible connecting member (76) protrudes from the opening (58), and when the rod is displaced to the second position, a second portion of the flexible connecting member that is larger than the first portion protrudes from the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Chaise, Esther Chen, Robert Holop, Luke Xie
  • CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THE INTERIOR OF AN ELECTRIC DRIVE VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20130098577
    Abstract: A climate control system (26) for a cabin (22) of an electric vehicle (10) has at least one liquid-to-air heat exchanger (38) in heat exchange relation with air in the cabin and a set of control valves for selectively placing the climate control system in a cabin heating mode of operation in which hot liquid circulates through a hot liquid flow loop (42) and in a cabin cooling mode of operation in which cold liquid circulates through a cold liquid flow loop (44). An electric compressor motor (30M) is operated by electricity from a battery bank (16) for operating a refrigerant compressor (30C) to circulate refrigerant in a refrigerant loop that comprises a refrigerant-to-liquid hot side heat exchanger (32) that provides the hot liquid and a refrigerant-to-liquid cold side heat exchanger (36) that provides the cold liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Gerald L. Larson
  • Chassis frame of a vehicle
    Patent number: 8424913
    Abstract: A chassis frame has a right side rail and a left side rail running lengthwise of the frame opposite each other and joined together by at least one crossmember. A rectangular tube overlies, and has underlying support by, the top wall of the respective side rail. A right uniting member runs lengthwise of the frame for uniting the right rectangular tube and the right side rail in assembly, and a left uniting member runs lengthwise of the frame for uniting the left rectangular tube and the left side rail in assembly. Each uniting member has a horizontal flange overlying and joined to the respective rectangular tube, and a vertical flange extending downward from the respective horizontal flange and joined to the respective side rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Schunke, Chester Ciesielski, Isaac D. Branning
  • Mirror assembly
    Patent number: 8425095
    Abstract: A mirror assembly for illuminating an underhood area of a vehicle having an electrical system includes a mirror head outer shell defining a light reception opening. At least one work light is mounted to the mirror head outer shell within the light reception opening. The work light is constructed and positioned such that the light emitted from the work light is directed at the underhood area of the vehicle to illuminate the underhood area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Harting
  • MONITOR OF AMMONIA IN DOSING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130091827
    Abstract: An ammonia dosing system has a canister whose interior contains ammonia luminophores and a delivery apparatus for delivering ammonia from the canister interior into an exhaust after-treatment system to entrain with engine exhaust flowing toward an SCR catalyst for catalytic conversion of NOx in engine exhaust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: James C. Bradley, Anthony J. Cook, Lev A. Datskovskiy, Mark Christen Bach
  • Vehicle armor
    Patent number: 8413567
    Abstract: The disclosed vehicle armor includes a first layer forming an interior bottom surface of the cabin and comprised of a high-strength metal material, a second layer forming an exterior bottom surface of the cabin and comprised of a high-strength metal material, and, a middle layer sandwiched between the first and second layers and comprised of a polymer material. The underbelly device is configured having a plurality of high areas and low areas creating deflection faces and separation distances between an interior of the cabin and an exterior threat. A second, multi-layer composite structure, forming an interior floor of the cabin, may be incorporated as a fragmentation penetration barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Regis Luther, Walter John Budd, Louis Caballero, David M Gerst, Craig Alan Newman, Mike Kochman
  • Fog light for a vehicle
    Patent number: D693950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Isamu Ito, Glen Joel Durmisevich, John Song, Christian Michael Hardin, James C. Box
  • Fender of a truck vehicle
    Patent number: D695171
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Robert B. Riggs, Christian Michael Hardin, Robert Paul Scott