Patents Examined by Fadey Jabr
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Patent number: 10005568Abstract: Energy efficient satellite maneuvering is described herein. One disclosed example method includes maneuvering a satellite that is in an orbit around a space body so that a principle sensitive axis of the satellite is oriented to an orbit frame plane to reduce gravity gradient torques acting upon the satellite. The orbit frame plane is based on an orbit frame vector.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Timothy S. Lui, Kangsik Lee
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Patent number: 9909888Abstract: A method for notifying a mobile body that the mobile body is approaching a particular area comprising calculating a plurality of areas where the mobile body may arrive on the basis of dynamic map information; calculating, for each event occurring in the plurality of areas, an arriving probability of arriving at a region affected by the event; extracting an avoidance position for enabling the mobile body to avoid arriving at the region affected by the event; calculating an encountering probability of meeting the region affected by the event on the basis of a reliability of the event, the arriving probability, and the avoidance position, and notifying the mobile body of the encountering probability.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Eisuke Kanzaki, Hiroya Ogihara
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Patent number: 9874879Abstract: A method controls an operation of a spacecraft according to a model of the spacecraft. The method determines control inputs for controlling concurrently thrusters of the spacecraft and momentum exchange devices of the spacecraft using an optimization of a cost function over a receding horizon subject to constraints on a pose of the spacecraft and constraints on inputs to the thrusters. The cost function includes components for controlling the pose of the spacecraft and a momentum stored by the momentum exchange devices. The method generates a command to control concurrently the thrusters and the momentum exchange devices according to at least a portion of the control inputs.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Avishai Weiss, Stefano Di Cairano, Uros Kalabic
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Patent number: 9841884Abstract: A system and method for providing a single-action multi-mode interface are provided. The system includes a touch detector to detect an input to a touch device; a mode detector to detect a mode associated with the input; a displacement detector to detect a displacement associated with the detected touch and mode, wherein the displacement is defined by a first and second parameter; and a command initiator to transmit an action to a first system based on the first parameter and a second system based on the second parameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Wes A. Nagara, Royce D. Channey, Michael D. Tschirhart
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Patent number: 9836077Abstract: An output signal device and method that provides the operator force feedback similar to a pilot control joystick. These force feedback regions include free play, dead-band start of modulation, modulation, fore-warning bumper and hold near max angle. This output signal device may also vary the fore-warning feel and hold positions to be at any angle. This output signal device uses force sensing as the signal and has force slope changes used as auto-calibration of the output signal. This improves signal accuracy and provides a service prognostic signal. The prognostic signal may be used to activate redundant sensor. The variable force feedback may improve operation on rough terrain. The force feedback, may allow more productive operating positions to be learned. This enables productivity and other important job site criteria such as fuel usage to be optimized by interactive communication with this output signal device.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Prince Industries, Inc.Inventors: David Paul Smith, Chun Feng Xia, Lukasz Grzegorz Osikowicz
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Patent number: 9827951Abstract: A semiconductor device including an abnormality detection section that detects an abnormality occurring in a moving body that moves along a specific path on a surface of a specific object; a position detection section that detects a position of the moving body as an abnormality occurrence position, in a case in which the abnormality detection section has detected an abnormality, and that stores abnormality occurrence position information expressing the abnormality occurrence position in a storage section; and a moving body controller that controls an adjusting section to adjust at least one of a force with which the moving body presses against the specific object, or a position of the moving body in a direction intersecting the surface of the specific object, based on a detection result detected by the abnormality detection section and the abnormality occurrence position information.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kentaro Toda
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Patent number: 9824508Abstract: The present invention is generally related to monitoring and remotely accessing the environmental and operating parameters on a vehicle such as a bus, train, subway, taxi, ride share, airplane, ferry, hyper loop, or other transit vehicle, although applications are not so limited. Embodiments of the present invention including mounting sensors, that communicate data over a network, on the inside and externally to vehicles such that the sensor data can be: monitored and viewed remotely; monitored or viewed by transit patrons using the vehicle; and monitored and viewed by the driver on a driver control unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Cubic CorporationInventors: Thomas Busch-Sorensen, Rasheed Behrooznia
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Patent number: 9801329Abstract: An on-the-go monitor and control means and method for an agriculture machines includes on-the-go soil sensors that can be used to control tillage and seeding depth. On seeder implements, the sensors provide information that affects uniform plant emergence.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Ag Leader TechnologyInventor: Roger R. Zielke
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Patent number: 9805592Abstract: This presentation provides methods to track pedestrians heading angle using smart phone data. Tracking heading angle especially at or from stationary position is key for pedestrian safety, e.g., for smart cross system and pedestrian collision mitigation system. It provides pedestrian-to-vehicle (P2V) platform. It deploys smart phones or mobile devices, equipped with DSRC (Dedicated short range communication) support, to act as beacons for pedestrians: Phone can alert driver to pedestrian presence in path; Pedestrian Basic Safety Message (BSM) can aid awareness for vehicles; It can be used for bicycles, as well. It also provides pedestrian-to-infrastructure (P2I) platform. Smart phone, through DSRC/cellular, transmits pedestrian presence to crosswalks/signals: It enables advanced crosswalk lighting/warning scheme; It enables bundling of pedestrian presence to vehicles. In this presentation, we provide various examples and variations on these.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Savari, Inc.Inventors: Faroog Ibrahim, Navin Chandra Rao Katta
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Patent number: 9792613Abstract: Systems and methods for UAV safety are provided. An authentication system may be used to confirm UAV and/or user identity and provide secured communications between users and UAVs. The UAVs may operate in accordance with a set of flight regulations. The set of flight regulations may be associated with a geo-fencing device in the vicinity of the UAV.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Ming Gong, Jin Dai, Hao Cui, Xiaodong Wang, Han Huang, Jun Wu, Wei Fan, Ning Ma, Xinhua Rong, Xingsen Lin
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Patent number: 9787092Abstract: An aircraft power management system includes an electrical power supply input configured to be coupled to an electrical power supply, a first power supply bus bar coupled to the power supply input, at least one primary electrical equipment including a primary load coupled in parallel to the first power supply bus bar, a bus bar switch configured to selectively deactivate the first power supply bus bar downstream of the at least one primary electrical equipment, a load monitoring device configured to monitor the power demand of the primary load and to output a deactivation signal to the bus bar switch for selectively deactivating the first power supply bus bar, if the monitored power demand of the primary load exceeds a primary threshold, and at least one tertiary electrical equipment including a tertiary load coupled to the first power supply bus bar downstream of the at least one primary electrical equipment.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Sebastian Scheffler, Frank Leuenberger
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Patent number: 9771148Abstract: An airport terminal gate traffic management system is provided that maximizes efficiency and safety of passenger transfer and aircraft servicing and minimizes aircraft time parked at a terminal. Aircraft are driven forward into and out of gates by controllable landing gear wheel non-engine drive means and parked in a parallel or perpendicular orientation relative to the terminal that facilitates passenger transfer through a maximum number of aircraft doors. Passenger transfer and aircraft servicing may begin upon aircraft arrival using all available accessible aircraft doors. Departing aircraft may be turned by an unassisted pilot and driven forward with the controllable non-engine drive means to a takeoff runway. Airport terminal aircraft gate traffic is most effectively and efficiently managed when a significant number of aircraft using an airport are equipped with non-engine drive means controllable to move them into and out of a parking orientation optimal for passenger transfer.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Borealis Technical LimitedInventors: Joseph J. Cox, Isaiah W. Cox
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Patent number: 9759572Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of predicting whether a vehicle can reach a desired facility or point by traveling on a retrieved route to the destination. A navigation apparatus includes an information storage that stores map information, a current position detector that detects a current position of the vehicle, an instruction receiver that receives a setting of a destination, and a vehicle information receiver that receives information on a remaining amount of the electricity charged. The navigation apparatus further includes a processing circuitry that retrieves a route to the destination from the map information and calculates a first travelable range in which the vehicle is allowed to travel from the current position through at least a part of the route to cause the first travelable range to be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Tomo Okada
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Patent number: 9758154Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an engine, a first motor, a planetary gear, a second motor, a battery and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute control such that a reverse travel is made while higher power than power before the positive electrode potential becomes at most equal to a second specified potential is output from the engine when the positive electrode potential becomes at most equal to the second specified potential during the reverse travel, and in which the second specified potential is higher than a first specified potential.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takanori Aoki
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Patent number: 9752878Abstract: Control handover planning for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is provided that includes determining, by a planning system, a current location of a mobile control system and a current location of the UAV. A target location is identified. A control handover zone is determined based on a communication range constraint between the mobile control system and the UAV. The control handover zone is located between the current location of the mobile control system, the current location of the UAV, and the target location. A mobile control system path plan and a UAV path plan are created that each includes a control handover waypoint in the control handover zone at the same time. The control handover waypoint defines a planned location to place the mobile control system in control of the UAV.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: James S. Magson, Gary Howland, Cherry Cwalina
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Patent number: 9751521Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling and operating a hybrid vehicle having a high degree of hybridization are disclosed. A power flow control system predicts vehicle power demand to drive the hybrid vehicle based on changing conditions during operation of the hybrid vehicle. The power flow control system controls the power flow so as to provide power to drive the hybrid vehicle based on the predicted vehicle power demand, wherein the predicted vehicle power demand is greater than a maximum.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATEDInventors: David E. Schwartz, Sean Garner, Bhaskar Saha, Simon Barber
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Patent number: 9731718Abstract: Disclosed is a route evaluation device that enables traveling along a route in consideration of an operation of the driver of another vehicle, and can realize a safer traffic environment. A route evaluation device includes a route candidate generation section that generates route candidates of a host-vehicle, a route prediction section that predicts routes of another vehicle, a classification section that classifies the interference states of the route candidates of the host-vehicle and the predicted routes of another vehicle into a plurality of interference forms, and a route evaluation section that evaluates the routes of the host-vehicle on the basis of the interference forms classified by the classification section.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiro Sakai, Hiromitsu Urano, Kazuaki Aso, Masahiro Harada, Toshiki Kindo
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Patent number: 9725079Abstract: For traction control, different filters, i.e., a hydraulic-pressure-increase filter and a hydraulic-pressure-decrease filter, are provided for increasing and decreasing target pressure, respectively. The inhibiting effect that the hydraulic-pressure-increase filter exhibits with respect to target pressure changes is made less than the inhibiting effect that the hydraulic-pressure-decrease filter exhibits with respect to changes in the target pressure, and so the target pressure is increased quickly but decreased slowly. As such, even if the wheel-cylinder pressure decreases subsequent to the actual wheel-cylinder pressure having increased to follow the target pressure, the wheel-cylinder pressure decreases only gradually, reducing the amount of pressure increase needed to reach the target pressure when the wheel-cylinder pressure is next increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhito Ishida, Yusuke Nakagawa, Ken Kudo
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Patent number: 9725882Abstract: A flow control apparatus and a flow control method for a construction machine are disclosed, which can perform ground leveling work for smoothing the ground by the self weight of a boom without supplying hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic pump to a hydraulic cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2013Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT ABInventor: Chun-Han Lee
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Patent number: 9718544Abstract: Embodiments described herein may relate to systems and methods for navigating to a supply request. An alert device may be controlled to issue alerts to draw the attention of bystanders to associated supplies for a situation. An illustrative method involves (a) receiving, by a computing system, a transmission indicating a situation at a designated location; (b) the computing system determining an approximate target area associated with the designated location; (c) the computing system making a determination that an alert device is located within the approximate target area; and (d) in response to the determination that the alert device is located within the approximate target area, the computing system executing instructions to activate at least one alert on the alert device indicating the situation and the designated location of the situation.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: X Development LLCInventor: Mathias Samuel Fleck