Abstract: A wireless device receives DRX configuration parameters comprising a first parameter indicating a first value of a downlink DRX retransmission timer. In response to receiving a first TB, the wireless device may start the downlink DRX retransmission timer with the first value. The wireless device may switch a downlink control channel monitoring periodicity from a first monitoring periodicity to a second monitoring periodicity based on receiving first control information. In response to receiving a second TB and based on the switching the downlink control channel monitoring periodicity, the wireless device may start the downlink DRX retransmission timer with a second value. The wireless device may receive, while the downlink DRX retransmission timer is running, a downlink control information comprising a downlink assignment for retransmission of the second TB.
Abstract: A method of controlling a heating element in thermal communication with a rear window of a vehicle comprises: with a vehicle being in an external environment and comprising a rear window and a heating element in thermal communication with the rear window, a controller in communication with the heating element, the controller including a Pre-established Predictive Activation Model setting forth rules governing activation of the heating element as a function of data relating to Certain Identifiable Conditions, and a user interface configured to allow the heating element to be manually activated or deactivated; collecting data relating to the Certain Identifiable Conditions; determining, by comparing the collected data to the rules of the Pre-established Predictive Activation Model, whether the collected data satisfies the rules of the Pre-established Predictive Activation Model so as to initially automatically activate the heating element; and automatically activating the heating element.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2019
Date of Patent:
September 6, 2022
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Inventors:
David Ostrowski, Elizabeth Anne Manwell, William G. Herbert, Victoria Leigh Schein, Mohan John, Lawrence C. Karas
Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01078759. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01078759. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01078759 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01078759 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
Abstract: A device for providing a 1D line of an image is disclosed. The device is based on a thin slab waveguide coupled to a beam redirecting device such as a tiltable mirror MEMS scanner, a waveguide-based phased array, or a waveguide-based optical switch switching image light between waveguides of a waveguide array coupled to a collimating element formed in the low-mode slab waveguide. The image may be formed by scanning a collimated beam propagating in the slab waveguide, or by forming the 1D singular distribution of brightness at a same time. The device may be used in a near-eye display for forming a 2D image in angular domain.
Abstract: An image data set is generated for output by an infotainment system of a motor vehicle. Input data sets associated with respective functions of the infotainment system are clustered according to at least one predetermined criterion. The clustered input data sets are evaluated to determine at least one parameter of a circular representation for the image data set, which is generated using the at least one determined parameter.
Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a pulley insert. In one example, a pulley insert for a FEAD pulley comprises a first member insertable into a pulley such that the first member is rotatable within the pulley, the first member comprising a cavity for receipt of a second member; and a second member insertable into the cavity of the first member such that, when the first member is inserted into a pulley and the second member is inserted into the cavity of the first member, the second member prevents rotation of the first member relative to the pulley.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 11, 2019
Date of Patent:
September 6, 2022
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Inventors:
Robert Andrew Wade, Ada Kwok, Thomas Fisk, Jason Moores
Abstract: A vehicle window assembly is disclosed that includes a screen assembly mountable within an opening and a motor operable to move a movable window to engage the screen assembly and hold the screen assembly within the opening. A controller is provided that is configured to operate the motor to apply a desired force against the screen assembly with the movable window to hold the screen assembly within the opening.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 14, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 6, 2022
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Inventors:
Stuart C. Salter, Chester Stanislaus Walawender, John Walawender, Hussein Berry, Paul Kenneth Dellock, David Brian Glickman
Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV416823. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV416823, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV416823 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV416823 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV416823.
Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) displaying one or more images to a user via a display comprising multiple display regions, (2) switching each of the display regions to a blocking state in which a view of the user's real-world environment in a corresponding region of the user's field of view is blocked from the user, (3) detecting a pass-through triggering event involving one or more objects in the user's real-world environment, (4) identifying one or more display regions corresponding to a region of the user's field of view occupied by the object, and (5) switching each of the one or more display regions to a pass-through state in which the view of the user's real-world environment in the corresponding region of the user's field of view is passed through to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
Abstract: A retractable storage system for a handheld electronic device includes a protective housing member operative shaped and sized to bound the handheld electronic device and enable wrapping around the handheld electronic device. At least one accessory station structured is on the housing member, and has an aperture to arrest and dispense an accessory item. At least one storage chamber is structured on the housing member to store the accessory item. The protective housing member has a first housing part and a second housing part which combine to form one protective housing member.
Abstract: An electric machine includes a plurality of planar laminations stacked to form an electrical steel rotor having openings defining magnet pockets and adjacent inner side pockets. The adjacent inner side pockets define a center bridge therebetween and have blasted surface portions such that compressive stress layers are induced along edges of the center bridge to strengthen the center bridge.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 23, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 6, 2022
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Inventors:
Leyi Zhu, Edward Chan-Jiun Jih, Feng Liang, Michael W. Degner
Abstract: A vehicle includes a powerplant, a front axle having first and second wheels and a differential operably coupled to the powerplant. A power-takeoff unit (PTU) is connected to the differential. A rear axle has third and fourth wheels and a gearbox connected to the PTU without a center differential. The gearbox has a first clutch configured to selectively couple the third wheel to the PTU and a second clutch configured to selectively couple the fourth wheel to the PTU. A controller is programmed to determine, during a turn, which of the third and fourth wheels is an outer rear wheel, determine whether there is a positive or negative torque on the outer rear wheel, and disengage, or keep disengaged, the one of the first and second clutches that is associated with the outer rear wheel in response to a negative torque on the outer rear wheel.
Abstract: Thermal sensor for a battery. In an exemplary embodiment of a battery docking connector of the present disclosure, the connector comprises exposed battery contacts, and a circuit sensor electrically coupled to the exposed battery contacts for sensing the temperature at the exposed battery contacts, wherein the circuit sensor is configured to switch off an electrical load coupled thereto once a threshold temperature has been reached, to prevent overheating of a battery providing power to the electrical load.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 8, 2019
Date of Patent:
September 6, 2022
Assignee:
Green Cubes Technology, LLC
Inventors:
Mohammed Alobaidi, Vijayendra Jannu, Vasanth Mithilacody
Abstract: A photonic integrated circuit assembly generates light for use in a display system or a depth sensing system. The photonic integrated circuit assembly includes optical conditioning elements integrated into a photonic integrated circuit. The photonic integrated circuit includes one or more light sources on the photonic integrated circuit. The photonic integrated circuit includes a waveguide and one or more gratings located in a core of the photonic integrated circuit. The gratings may collimate and/or collocate light emitted by the light source. The photonic integrated circuit may include a beam shaping element integrated into the photonic integrated circuit. A MEMS scanner may use the collocated and/or collimated light emitted by the photonic integrated circuit to generate a display for a user or to generate a structured light pattern for use in a depth sensing system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 9, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 6, 2022
Assignee:
Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventors:
Zihe Gao, Zhaoming Zhu, Michael Hall, Guohua Wei
Abstract: A trailer detection system for a vehicle includes a trailer sensor, an imaging system, and a controller. The controller implements a trailer angle indication process including receiving and processing image data to identify a rotation point of a trailer coupled with the vehicle about a fifth-wheel hitch, left and right lateral edges of the trailer, and a distance between a rear portion of a cab of the vehicle and a front face of the trailer. Trailer yaw rate data is received and processed to determine an angle of the trailer about the rotation point, and an expected position of the front face of the trailer and at least one of the left and right lateral edges of the trailer with respect to the cab of the vehicle is calculated.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 29, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 6, 2022
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Inventors:
Luke Niewiadomski, Phillip Curtiss Couture, Li Xu, Alexander Lee Hunton
Abstract: A radiating element comprises a radiator, a feed stalk and a parasitic element. The radiator is fed by the feed stalk, and the parasitic element includes an electrically conductive structure that includes a meandered electrically conductive path. A coupling capacitor is formed between the electrically conductive structure and the radiator, and a center frequency of an operating frequency band of the radiator is higher than a center frequency of a first operating frequency band of the parasitic element.
Abstract: A vehicle computer or vehicle associated computer may determine an upcoming vehicle occupancy change event for an object vehicle. The computer may also determine a suitability-for-use of one or more vehicle doors based on a traffic prediction, responsive to determining the occupancy change event. Further, the computer may alert at least one vehicle occupant as to the suitability-for-use of each door for which the suitability determination was made.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 26, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 6, 2022
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Inventors:
Brendan F. Diamond, Seth Loveall, Jonathan Hair
Abstract: A liquid diverter assembly for a vehicle door includes, among other things, a funnel adjacent a vertically lower end portion of a glass run within a vehicle door, and a conduit that communicates liquid from the funnel around an electrically powered component of the vehicle door. A method of diverting liquid within a vehicle door includes, among other things, collecting liquid from a glass run of a vehicle door within a funnel, communicating liquid from the funnel to a conduit, and communicating liquid through the conduit such that the liquid moves around an electric component of the vehicle door.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 11, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 6, 2022
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Inventors:
Stuart C. Salter, Chester Stanislaus Walawender, Hussein H. Berry, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Nizam Khan, David Brian Glickman
Abstract: A testing system for evaluating the performance of an electrical/electronic UUT under dynamic operating conditions. The testing system includes a dynamic testing component (e.g., a centrifuge) for applying a stimulus to the UUT, and an iDAQ system configured to perform in situ data acquisition and real-time data analysis. The iDAQ system may also be subject to the stimulus. The iDAQ system includes a processor (e.g., an SoC) component, a power supply, a CR/I component, an IR component, and a single enclosure. The processor component may control the dynamic testing component, including varying in real-time the stimulus applied to the UUT. The processor component may include multiple input channels, and a high current/voltage subcomponent of the power supply may be configured to supply up to five hundred volts.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 3, 2019
Date of Patent:
September 6, 2022
Assignee:
HONEYWELL FEDERAL MANUFACTURINGS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Inventors:
Mohammad K. Benyhesan, Richard W. Spengemann, II