Patents Examined by Brian E Yang
  • Patent number: 10882518
    Abstract: An avoidance route calculation part calculates an avoidance route for avoiding a collision between an own vehicle and an obstacle through a collision avoidance assist control (an automatic brake control and an automatic steering control). A post-avoidance route calculation part calculates a post-avoidance route. A post-avoidance route collision determination part determinates whether a secondary obstacle is present on the post-avoidance route. When the secondary obstacle is determined to be present, the automatic steering control is prohibited from being performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kotaro Saiki
  • Patent number: 10870448
    Abstract: A driving support control system includes a steering device and a control device. The control device performs a target value calculating process of calculating a target value; a first steering angle calculating process of calculating, as a first steering angle, a steering angle for causing a vehicle motion parameter to coincide with the target value; an actual value calculating process of calculating an actual value of the vehicle motion parameter; a second steering angle calculating process of calculating, as a second steering angle, a steering angle for cancelling out an external force based on a difference value between the actual value and the target value; a target steering angle calculating process of calculating, as a target steering angle, a summed value of the first and second steering angles; and a control process of controlling the steering device so that the steering angle coincides with the target steering angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoji Kunihiro, Masateru Amano
  • Patent number: 10836258
    Abstract: A control device controls a preconditioning of at least one energy consumer in a motor vehicle and an energy store incorporated in the motor vehicle. The control device is designed to control the energy take-up of the energy consumer and the energy take-up of a charging device incorporated in the motor vehicle such that a difference is generated between the energy take-up of the energy consumer and the energy take-up of the charging device, which is compensated by an energy take-up of the energy store or by a release of energy from the energy store, with the result that the energy store is warmed by the power loss associated with the energy take-up or with the release of energy from the energy store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Benno Schweiger, Bernhard Kreppold, Andreas Maerkl
  • Patent number: 10809088
    Abstract: A method for predicting a construction-related driving-route change of a driving route for a vehicle includes at least a step of reading in and a step of detecting. In the step of reading in, at least one image signal is read in, which represents an image, recorded by the vehicle, of a construction-site parameter in the environment of the driving route. In the step of detecting, the impending driving-route change is detected using the image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ali Alawieh, Carsten Hasberg, Danny Hiendriana, Fabian Dominik Reister, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Muhammad Sheraz Khan, Philipp Rasp, Valentin Frommherz
  • Patent number: 10793258
    Abstract: A landing control method includes detecting whether a landing indication signal is received, and controlling an aircraft to automatically land in a pre-set landing mode if the landing indication signal is received. A takeoff control method comprises detecting whether a takeoff indication signal is received, and controlling an aircraft to automatically take off in a pre-set takeoff mode if the takeoff indication signal is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Canlong Lin
  • Patent number: 10793155
    Abstract: A method for digging out a motor vehicle at a standstill, in which the driver predefines a startup direction for the motor vehicle with the aid of an operating element; in which a reciprocating motion of the motor vehicle is generated with the aid of chronologically consecutive drive force pulses which are independent of the driver and have a first intensity; in which the spatial amplitude of the reciprocating motion is ascertained and compared to a predefined threshold value; and when the spatial amplitude of the reciprocating motion of the motor vehicle exceeds the threshold value, a startup movement of the motor vehicle is subsequently generated in the predefined startup direction using at least one drive force pulse which is directed in the predefined startup direction and which has a second intensity, which is greater than the first intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Marcus Endres
  • Patent number: 10759548
    Abstract: A controller arrangement includes a controller, an actuator, and a measuring element. The measuring element captures a control variable with a predetermined sampling rate in consecutive sampling cycles and transmits it to the controller. The controller compares the control variable with a predetermined reference variable and determines how the control variable differs from the reference variable. The controller, in a first cycle, starts with a predetermined regulating variable and outputs it to the actuator, and subsequently determines how the control variable differs from the reference variable; in a second cycle, the controller varies the regulating variable based on the difference of the control variable from the reference variable in the first cycle, and outputs it to the actuator, and subsequently determines how the control variable differs from the reference variable; in a third cycle, the controller varies the regulating variable and outputs it to the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Karl Georg Friederich
  • Patent number: 10627827
    Abstract: A method of controlling a vehicle includes sensing a first boundary lane indicator and a second boundary lane indicator of an adjacent traffic lane, which is laterally offset from a current traffic lane of the vehicle. The first boundary lane indicator, the second boundary lane indicator, and/or a centerline of the adjacent traffic lane, may be transposed onto the current traffic lane of the vehicle, and used to maneuver the vehicle in order to maintain a position of the vehicle within the current traffic lane, when a left boundary lane indicator and/or a right boundary lane indicator of the current traffic lane is determined to be an unsatisfactory delineator of the current traffic lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Adam, Donovan J. Wisner, Assaad Krichene
  • Patent number: 10625744
    Abstract: A control system of a wheel of a vehicle includes: a wheel speed sensor configured to measure a wheel speed of wheels of the vehicle; a data storage configured to store data relating to a plurality of abnormal patterns based on a slip state or a lock state of each wheel; and a controller configured to extract wheel speed pattern data using wheel speeds measured from the wheel speed sensor, to compare the extracted wheel speed pattern data with the stored data relating to the plurality of abnormal patterns, to determine an abnormal pattern among the plurality of abnormal patterns most similar to the extracted wheel speed pattern data according to the comparison, and to detect an abnormal wheel among the wheels of the vehicle based on the determined abnormal pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Jang Hyun Jung