Patents Examined by Andrew R Dyer
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Patent number: 12284944Abstract: A driver assistance system of an agricultural harvesting machine with a harvesting header designed as a draper is disclosed. The driver assistance system comprises a memory for storing data and a computing device for processing the data saved in the memory. The draper comprises a central belt and at least one transverse conveyor belt arranged on the left side and the right side of the central belt for conveying the harvested material to the central belt. The draper forms, together with the driver assistance system, an automatic draper. The computing device operates the automatic draper as a characteristic diagram controller using the saved characteristic diagrams, with the automatic draper optimizing operating parameters of the draper and specifying the optimized operating parameters for the draper. The characteristic diagrams describe the relationship between the operating parameters and quality parameters, and a control characteristic curve is assigned to the particular characteristic diagram.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Joachim Baumgarten, Andreas Wilken, Dennis Neitemeier, Bastian Bormann, Sebastian Spiekermann, Daniel Irmer
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Patent number: 12280777Abstract: In an embodiment an apparatus for controlling a speed of a vehicle includes a communication device configured to receive at least one of a starting point of a speed trap, an end point of the speed trap, a speed limit in the speed trap, an average speed of the vehicle, a traveling distance from the starting point of the speed trap of the vehicle, or a present speed of the vehicle, a target speed setting device configured to set a target point, set a starting point for a target speed, and calculate the target speed, a required acceleration calculating device configured to calculate a required acceleration, and a controller configured to control the vehicle, based on at least one of the calculated target speed or the calculated required acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Sung Yoon Yeo, Seung Geon Moon, Seo Hyeon Park, Young Min Han
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Patent number: 12280778Abstract: In an embodiment an apparatus includes a communication device configured to receive at least one of a starting point of a speed trap, an end point of the speed trap, a speed limit in the speed trap, an average speed of the vehicle, a traveling distance from the starting point of the speed trap of the vehicle, or a present speed of the vehicle, a target speed setting device configured to set a target point, to set a starting point for a target speed, and to calculate the target speed, a required acceleration calculating device configured to calculate a required acceleration, and a controller configured to control the vehicle based on at least one of the calculated target speed or the calculated required acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Sung Yoon Yeo, Seo Hyeon Park, Young Min Han, Seung Geon Moon
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Patent number: 12282329Abstract: A route determination system includes: an initial route line setting section that sets an initial route line including a plurality of split points between a starting point and a destination and connecting the first and second waypoints; and a movement route determination section that generates a candidate route line starting from the first waypoint and reaching the second waypoint by setting a predetermined number of control points at arbitrary positions within a specific range on the map, and that when all split points of the candidate route line are positioned within the passable area, determines, as a movement route for a mobile object, a route in a real space corresponding to the candidate route line, and when at least one of the split points of the candidate route line is positioned within an impassable area, increases the number of control points and performs the curving processing again.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Andrii Pydin
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Patent number: 12268112Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a traveling vehicle body, a detector to detect objects in an area surrounding the traveling vehicle body, a detection adjuster to adjust a detection direction of the detector, a position sensor to detect a position of the traveling vehicle body, and an information acquirer to acquire information relating to an entrance/exit of an agricultural field. The detection adjuster is operable to perform a first adjustment of orienting the detection direction toward an end point of the entrance/exit when the traveling vehicle body is traveling toward the entrance/exit and a distance from the position of the traveling vehicle body to the entrance/exit included in the information is a predetermined value or less, and a second adjustment of orienting the detection direction toward the end point of the entrance/exit or a space forward of the end point in a traveling direction when the traveling vehicle body is traveling on the entrance/exit.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Tamatani, Yuji Okuyama, Kazuo Sakaguchi, Yusuke Takahashi
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Patent number: 12264050Abstract: The invention relates to a cargo handling vehicle for handling cargo within narrow aisles. The cargo handling vehicle comprises means for autonomous navigation, a chassis having at least two pairs of ground engaging means, a lifting boom. The lifting boom having a first end and a second end wherein the first end is arranged to the chassis and the second end is provided with a lifting unit. The first end of the lifting boom is attached to the chassis enabling movement of the second end in a vertical and horizontal direction, and the lifting unit is arranged rotatably in a horizontal plane. Each of the ground engaging means are independently steerable and individually driven by a respective driving means. Further, the invention also relates to a method in a cargo handling vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: KALMAR SOLUTIONS ABInventors: Per-Erik Johansson, Hans Philip Zachau, Robert Bourghardt
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Patent number: 12263709Abstract: A controller executes full extension suppression control or full compression suppression control of adjusting a damping force to be large when a piston being displaced through sliding in an inner tube approaches a full extension position or a full compression position. Moreover, a stroke from a neutral position of the piston in the inner tube to a full compression control start position is set so as to be longer than a stroke from the neutral position of the piston to a full extension control start position. A portion between the full extension control start position to the full compression control start position is set to a dead zone in which none of the full extension suppression control and the full compression suppression control are executed.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventor: Ryusuke Hirao
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Patent number: 12221084Abstract: Monitoring the brake performance of a brake system of a machine (vehicle 11) by determining a brake delay between input of a request for a brake engagement of the brake system and brake system effectuating the brake engagement. The brake delay determination provides for capturing delay produced by communication of the input from a brake input, actuation of an input to brake system performance, processing of operation of the brake system, and operation of the brake/retardation components of the brake system with respect to the machine's wheels. For autonomous machines, brake delay may be measured periodically and used in monitoring brake system performance.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Andrew De Haseth, Shinya Sono, Ian Macdonald, Rodney Menold, Timothy Schwartz
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Patent number: 12223259Abstract: Techniques for managing access to sensitive data in transcriptions are described. A method for managing access to sensitive data in transcriptions may include receiving a request to generate a redacted transcript of content, obtaining a transcript of the content, sending at least a portion of the transcript to a model endpoint to identify sensitive entities in the transcript, receiving an inference response identifying one or more sensitive entities in the transcript, and generating the redacted transcript based at least one the transcript and the inference response.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Varun Sembium Varadarajan, Sravan Babu Bodapati, Deepthi Devaiah Devanira, Pu Paul Zhao, Katrin Kirchhoff, Yue Yang
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Agricultural support system including transport vehicle capable of transporting agricultural machine
Patent number: 12213394Abstract: An agricultural support system includes a first communication device located in or on a tractor to transmit information, and a second communication device located in or on a transport vehicle to acquire the information transmitted from the first communication device. The transport vehicle is capable of transporting the tractor. The agricultural support system further includes a position sensor in or on the working machine to detect a position of the working machine. The first communication device is operable to transmit the position detected by the position sensor to the second communication device as the information. The second communication device is operable to receive the position transmitted from the first communication device.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Tamatani, Yuji Okuyama, Kazuo Sakaguchi, Yusuke Takahashi -
Patent number: 12208786Abstract: A travel support control device: creates a travel support plan in which one of travel modes including a CD mode and a CS mode is assigned to each travel section based on look-ahead information generated for a travel route to allow a hybrid electric vehicle to travel and calculates a total distance of electric traveling on the travel route; creates a travel support plan for travel sections to a travel section immediately before an information non-acquirable area in which information required for creating the look-ahead information is not acquirable and calculates the total distance of electric traveling on the travel route, when the information non-acquirable area is included in the travel route; and stops switching of the travel mode based on travel support control and continuously calculates the total distance of electric traveling on the travel route, when the hybrid electric vehicle is traveling in the information non-acquirable area.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuki Ogawa
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Patent number: 12202527Abstract: A method for terminating an automated driving function of a vehicle involves deactivating the driving function by a steering intervention of a driver of the vehicle in a steering system, which includes a steering column and a steering wheel. In order to determine the steering intervention, a steering column torque at the steering column is measured and a steering wheel angle is measured. A manual torque acting on the steering wheel is estimated based on the measured steering column torque and the measured steering wheel angle. The estimation is based on a model equation of the steering system, which takes into consideration a moment of inertia of the steering wheel and a frictional torque in the steering system.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AGInventors: Ralph Streiter, Albin Remäng
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Patent number: 12205414Abstract: A vehicle setting system includes an occupant data acquisition processor, a server apparatus including a provisional generation processor, a provisional acquisition processor, and a setting processor. The occupant data acquisition processor acquires or estimates physical data regarding an occupant on board the vehicle, at least in a case with absence of a setting value for the occupant held in a vehicle memory of a vehicle. The provisional generation processor acquires the physical data regarding the occupant, and generates a provisional setting value for the relevant occupant. The provisional acquisition processor acquires the provisional setting value. The setting processor records, in a vehicle memory of the vehicle, the provisional setting value as the setting value for the occupant, and provides the vehicle with setting of the provisional setting value.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Ryota Nakamura
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Patent number: 12197225Abstract: A working vehicle includes a vehicle body to travel either by manual steering with a steering wheel or by automatic steering with the steering wheel, a reference registration controller configured or programmed to register a traveling reference line based on a position of the vehicle body caused to travel by the manual steering, a traveling line setter configured or programmed to set, based on the traveling reference line, scheduled traveling lines for traveling using the automatic steering, and an automatic steering controller to control the automatic steering based on the scheduled traveling lines. The traveling line setter is configured or programmed to change an adjacency width between the scheduled traveling lines adjoining each other among the plurality of scheduled traveling lines.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Misako Kikumoto, Kunihiko Nishino, Yasuaki Morioka, Hideaki Ezaki, Shunsuke Miyashita, Toru Tambo
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Patent number: 12187167Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power seat integrated control method. One embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a signal input step of receiving a power seat operation signal input that a user inputs through an interface of a vehicle; a determination step of determining an operating condition for operating a motor module that is built into the power seat and moves a specific area of the power seat; and an information transmission step of transmitting driving information for controlling the motor module in accordance with a type of the operation signal. The motor module includes a driving motor and a motor controller which controls the driving motor, and one LIN communication bus is provided between the integrated controller and each power seat. In the information transmission step, the integrated controller transmits the driving information to the motor controller through the LIN communication bus.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: DAS CO., LTD.Inventors: Lee Kwang Sin, Lim Jeong Hyun
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Patent number: 12157498Abstract: An approach for assisting users with disabilities in an emergency situation relating to a vehicle is disclosed. The approach determines the profile of the passenger in a vehicle by noting preferences and disabilities associated with the passenger. After a vehicle accident, the approach determines the condition of the vehicle and the condition of the passenger. Based on various information received, the approach creates an action list of solutions for the passenger, wherein the action list has assigned dynamic risk scores. The approach determines the best solution based on the risk scores and selects the best solution from the action list.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tanner Mark Preiss, Craig M. Trim, Jeremy R. Fox, Fang Lu
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Patent number: 12154395Abstract: An information processing apparatus compares a sense of use of a first vehicle with a sense of use of a second vehicle based on first information about one or more automobile components used by a user in the first vehicle that the user has used in the past in the first vehicle and second information about one or more automobile components used by the user in the second vehicle that is a vehicle candidate lent to the user. Then, the information processing apparatus notifies the user of result information related to a result of the comparing the sense of use of the first vehicle with the sense of use of the second vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Naoya Oka
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Patent number: 12154030Abstract: A method for training a generator, by a generator training system including a processor and memory, includes: extracting training statistical characteristics from a batch normalization layer of a pre-trained model, the training statistical characteristics including a training mean ? and a training variance ?2; initializing a generator configured with generator parameters; generating a batch of synthetic data using the generator; supplying the batch of synthetic data to the pre-trained model; measuring statistical characteristics of activations at the batch normalization layer and at the output of the pre-trained model in response to the batch of synthetic data, the statistical characteristics including a measured mean {circumflex over (?)}? and a measured variance {circumflex over (?)}?2; computing a training loss in accordance with a loss function L? based on ?, ?2, {circumflex over (?)}?, and {circumflex over (?)}?2; and iteratively updating the generator parameters in accordance with the training loss untiType: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoo Jin Choi, Mostafa El-Khamy, Jungwon Lee
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Patent number: 12135873Abstract: Systems and methods relating to a keyboard application on a mobile device are disclosed. The keyboard application generates a search query which it sends to a remote server. Data located based on the search query is received from the remote server. The data is associated with a record comprising a record identifier. The keyboard application associates a GUI element of the keyboard application with the record identifier. An input is received corresponding to selection of the GUI element. A unique tracking link is generated comprising a URI and an identifier associated with the selection of the GUI element. The URI is a deep link into an application that can execute on the mobile device. The unique tracking link is stored in a database in association with the record and user identifier and passed to the application to access content of the application.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Kindred Soul Ltd.Inventors: Michael Gadd, Aaron Simpson, Matthew Larter, Shems Eddine Boukhatem, Robyn Chin
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Patent number: 12136299Abstract: Aspects herein include filtration systems with multitiered data exchange capabilities. In an embodiment, a filtration system with multitiered data exchange capabilities is included. The system can include a first data communication tier including a filter element, the filter element storing data, and a first sensor. The system can include a second data communication tier including a reader device in communication with the first sensor. The system can include a third data communication tier including an engine control unit (ECU) in communication with the reader device, wherein the ECU stores data. The second data communication tier receives data from the first data communication tier and the third data communication tier. The second data communication tier executes operations on the received data to create a processed data set. Further, the second data communication tier sends the processed data set to the third data communication tier. Other embodiments are also included herein.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventors: Daniel E. Adamek, Brian R. Tucker, David W. Mulder, Matthew J. Anderson, Michael J. Lockert