Patents Assigned to Volvo Car Corporation
  • Handling of remotely triggered operation of a vehicle door
    Patent number: 11661785
    Abstract: A door assist system of a vehicle may handle a remotely triggered operation of a power door of the vehicle. The door assist system receives from an off-board system a door closure signal requesting the door assist system to activate closing of a power door of the vehicle. The door assist system further determines with input from one or more surroundings detecting sensors adapted to capture a surrounding proximate the vehicle, that an obstacle is in vicinity of the vehicle. Moreover, the door assist system refrains from activating closing of the power door when the obstacle is determined to interfere and/or potentially interfere with a projected closing path of the power door. A door assist system, and a vehicle comprising such a door assist system may perform the foregoing remotely triggered operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventor: Kostas Chatziioannou
  • Brake system
    Patent number: 11653420
    Abstract: A brake system comprising a brake disc, a wheel hub connected to the brake disc, and a bearing assembly mounted around the wheel hub, the brake system further comprising: a first electric circuit embedded inside the brake disc; a second electric circuit embedded inside the wheel hub and electrically connected with the first electric circuit; and a third electric circuit embedded inside the bearing assembly and electrically connected with the second electric circuit, wherein when an electric current flows to the first electric circuit through the second and third electric circuits, the first electric circuit generates heat for applying to the brake disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventor: Yongxing Jin
  • Subframe assembly for a vehicle
    Patent number: 11648983
    Abstract: A subframe assembly for a vehicle and a method for manufacturing the same is disclosed. The subframe assembly includes a crossmember, a straight arm, and a side bracket. The crossmember includes an end bracket disposed at an end thereof. The straight arm is received into and metallurgically bonded to the end bracket of the crossmember. The side bracket includes a base, and a rear bracket arm. The base is metallurgically bonded to a side of the straight arm adjacent to the end of the crossmember. The rear bracket arm extends from an end of the base and defines a hole adapted to receive a screw or pin for connecting a control arm of a wheel suspension to the subframe assembly. The rear bracket arm is at least partially received into and metallurgically bonded to the end bracket of the crossmember.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventor: Johan Eklund
  • Voice assistant system
    Patent number: 11648955
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter generally relates to a voice assistant system for a vehicle which can distinguish who is issuing voice commands, and thereby also which sub-system in the vehicle to control according to the voice command. This is obtained by allowing the voice assistant system to receive input signals from an image capturing system configured to detect the user issuing the voice command. The vehicle compartment may be divided into several zones each associated with at least one sub-system, and the input signals from the image capturing system provide information to the control unit of the voice assistant system regarding the present zone of the user issuing the voice commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Alborz Sedaghat, Mikael Gordh
  • Techniques for providing a sensor guard
    Patent number: 11643023
    Abstract: A sensor guard, for protecting a sensor of a vehicle. The sensor guard comprises a blade movable to sweep through a line-of-sight of the sensor when the sensor is arranged to be protected by the sensor guard, an extension of the blade in a direction parallel to the line-of-sight when the blade sweeps through the line-of sight being greater than an extension of the blade in a direction of movement of the blade when the blade sweeps through the line-of sight; and an actuator arranged and configured to move the blade to repeatedly sweep through the line-of-sight of the sensor when the sensor is arranged to be protected by the sensor guard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventor: Anders Sandberg
  • Dynamic anonymization for automotive subscriptions
    Patent number: 11645419
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method can comprise determining, by a device comprising a processor, personally identifying data elements of data, representative of a group of transactions, that comprise personally identifying information according to an anonymization criterion associated with personally identifying information being determined not to be satisfied by the data elements, and storing, by the device, non-identifying data elements of the data to a non-identifying data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas Robert Case, Bin Wang
  • Vehicle exterior lighting module
    Patent number: 11643007
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter generally relates to a lighting module integrable in a vehicle exterior which can provide sufficient or even improved lighting performance in a cost-efficient way. The proposed lighting module includes an array of light source units that are controllable to provide at least one of low beam light and high beam light, the array of light source units is adapted to extend along a transverse axis of the vehicle across a longitudinal center plane of the vehicle. Accordingly, the present disclosure provides a functional lighting module which can provide at least one of high beam light and low beam light that is arrangeable in the centre portion of the vehicle, between the common locations of the prior art headlamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Paul-Henri Matha, Jan-Erik Fritzon
  • Detecting latent faults within a cell of an energy storage system
    Patent number: 11635471
    Abstract: A method of detecting a latent fault of at least one cell among a plurality of cells in an energy storage system, and a control unit performing the method. The method comprises determining State of Health Cell Resistance, SoHCR, and State of Charge, SoC, of a selected cell, wherein the selected cell is indicated to have a latent fault if a determined value of the SoHCR is higher than a reference value and if a determined value of the SoC is higher than a reference value; or determining State of Health Cell Capacity, SoHCC, and State of Charge, SoC, of a selected cell, wherein the selected cell is indicated to have a latent fault if a determined value of the SoHCC is lower than a reference value and if a determined value of the SoC is higher than a reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Leopold Werberg, Annika Tidblad Ahlberg, Nicklas Leuchovius
  • Charging an electric vehicle
    Patent number: 11628738
    Abstract: In an aspect, upon a user connecting a charging cable connector of a charging station to a vehicle charging connector of her vehicle, the vehicle will via wireless communication acquire an identifier of the charging station operator, which is transmitted to a server of for instance a car manufacturer. The car manufacturer server can identify the charging station operator from the identifier and register charging session information such that a particular subscription associated with the vehicle or user is charged for the battery charging session and that the charging station operator is duly remunerated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventor: Rickard Arvidsson
  • Combined rear exterior lamp and cleaning system for cleaning a rear window of a vehicle
    Patent number: 11628811
    Abstract: A combined rear exterior lamp and cleaning system including: a lens for the rear exterior lamp of the vehicle, the lens has an inner surface and an outer surface, a cleaning arrangement for providing a cleaning fluid to an exterior surface of the rear window, an inlet connectable to a cleaning fluid hose for providing cleaning fluid to the cleaning arrangement. The cleaning arrangement includes a channel generally parallel with at least one of the lens inner surface or the lens outer surface, and an array of outlets in fluid communication with the channel. The channel is attached to the lens and is adapted to transport the cleaning fluid from the inlet to the array of outlets located on the outer side of the lens for providing the cleaning fluid to the rear window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventor: Samir Hasagic
  • System and method for providing vehicle safety distance and speed alerts under slippery road conditions
    Patent number: 11628844
    Abstract: Vehicle alert and control systems and methods taking into account a detected road friction at a following vehicle and a predicted road friction by the following vehicle. The detected road friction between the following vehicle tires and the road surface may be assessed using a variety of methodologies and is used to compute a critical safety distance between the following vehicle and the preceding vehicle and a critical safety speed of the following vehicle. The predicted road friction ahead of the following vehicle may also be assessed using a variety of methodologies (lidar, camera, and cloud-based examples are provided) and is used to compute a warning safety distance between the following vehicle and the preceding vehicle and a warning safety speed of the following vehicle. These functionalities may be applied to vehicle/stationary object warning and response scenarios as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Saurabh Gawande, Srikar Muppirisetty, Sohini Roy Chowdhury, Minming Zhao
  • Deformable rear crossmembers with special extrusion section design for bending down in crash loadcases
    Patent number: 11623692
    Abstract: A support extrusion for a subframe structure of a vehicle and methods of fabricating the same. In one example, a support extrusion can comprise a multicell structure that facilitates coupling the support extrusion with a rear crossmember of the subframe structure. The multicell structure can comprise a front cell column and a rear cell column that intervenes between the front cell column and the rear crossmember in a longitudinal direction of the subframe structure. The front cell column can comprise a trigger that facilitates plastically deforming the front cell column downward in a vertical direction of the subframe structure when subjected to impact forces of a frontal crash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Johan Eklund, Anders Sandahi, Jens Raine, Domenico Macri, Emil Claesson, Per Zachrison, Kaldon Kalasho, Robin Larsson, Martin Granlund, Patrik Ulf Daniel Ljungbäck
  • Entertainment system for a vehicle including a sound emitting module
    Patent number: 11622191
    Abstract: An entertainment system for a vehicle, the system including: a sound emitting module including multiple sound emitting units, wherein the sound emitting module is adapted to be arranged such that the multiple sound emitting units are distributed along the transverse extension of a windshield of the vehicle and to emit sound towards the windshield, and a display device arranged between the sound emitting module and an occupant seating position, wherein the display device is arranged to cover the sound emitting module as seen from the occupant seating position. The disclosed entertainment system provides the advantage of integrating a more advanced sound system in the form of a sound emitting module including multiple sound emitting units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Pierre Ahrnberg, Jonas Göthlin
  • Computing task coincidence reduction via prime scheduling
    Patent number: 11620161
    Abstract: Systems and techniques that facilitate computing task coincidence reduction via prime scheduling are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise an input component that can access a periodic computing task performed by a computer system. In various instances, the system can further comprise a prime component that can assign a time period to the periodic computing task. In various cases, a duration of the time period can be a product of a common tick and a prime number. In various embodiments, the system can comprise an execution component that can periodically execute the periodic computing task according to the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anders Bertil Antonsson, Lennart Casparsson
  • Taillight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D984925
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Anders Gunnarson
  • Vehicle interior door panel
    Patent number: D984940
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guglielmo Guiglia, Todd Levy
  • Vehicle center tunnel
    Patent number: D984955
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guglielmo Guiglia, Mats Utterberg, Axel Ernstsson
  • Taillight for a vehicle
    Patent number: D985160
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Anders Gunnarson
  • Center tunnel console
    Patent number: D985472
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Axel Ernstsson
  • Front air outlet
    Patent number: D986790
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mats Utterberg