Patents Examined by James M McPherson
  • Patent number: 12291263
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to estimate a center-of-gravity position and inertia moment of a trailer and supply the center-of-gravity position and inertia moment for control of an articulated vehicle so as to enable further stabilization of a posture of the articulated vehicle during traveling. A vehicle control device of the present invention is a vehicle control device mounted on a tractor which pulls a trailer, and is provided with: a steering angle control unit that controls a steering angle of wheels of the tractor independently of steering by a driver; and a trailer characteristic estimation unit that estimates a characteristic of the trailer based on a behavior of the tractor during wheel steering by the steering angle control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Seto, Junya Takahashi, Tomoaki Fujibayashi, Hiroshi Nakano
  • Patent number: 12292744
    Abstract: An aircraft control system includes a target instruction value calculation unit configured to acquire a target instruction value to set an aircraft in a target state, a reference velocity calculation unit configured to input, to a reference model in which a reference velocity corresponding to a reference value of an aircraft velocity is set uniquely as an output value according to an input value, a value based on the target instruction value as the input value. A relative velocity calculation unit is configured to calculate a relative velocity of the aircraft to a target position. An estimated disturbance quantity calculation unit is configured to calculate an estimated disturbance quantity acting on the aircraft, based on a difference between the relative and reference velocities, and a correction target instruction value calculation unit is configured to correct the target instruction value, based on the estimated disturbance quantity calculated at a previous time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Kojima, Satoshi Mori
  • Patent number: 12291127
    Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, a motor, an automatic transmission, a friction brake system, and a controller which executes regeneration control and gear-shifting control during deceleration of the vehicle with a braking force to front and rear wheels. The controller increases an input torque of an input shaft according to a downshift so that an accompanying acceleration fluctuation equals a target acceleration fluctuation. When the controller determines an oversteered state during the regeneration control and during a downshift, the controller increases the input torque so that a regenerative braking torque decreases while maintaining a regeneration operation of the motor and, at the same time, the controller causes the automatic transmission to perform the downshift in a state where an amount of increase of the input torque in accordance with the downshift has been increased compared to during a non-determination of the oversteered state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Tooru Uematsu, Atsushi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 12285993
    Abstract: A vehicle system is directed to providing a driver with a utility mode, which is an indoor environment condition of a vehicle where it may be rested, and includes: a vehicle communication portion that is configured to receive a first request message requesting execution of the utility mode by communicating with a service terminal provided in the vehicle or a driver terminal possessed by the driver; and a vehicle controller that is configured to set electric components and controllers involved in driving of the vehicle to an off mode when an entry condition for the execution of the utility mode is satisfied and the vehicle's starting is in an on-state, and sets an air conditioning device controlling an indoor air condition of the vehicle and a stack generating power required in the utility mode to a driving mode to execute the utility mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Jaehyeok Choi
  • Patent number: 12288463
    Abstract: A method at a first computing device providing a local traffic service, the method including detecting a vehicle is transitioning to a region of control of a second local traffic service; and providing, to a second traffic management service, priority information for the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp, Claude Jean-Frederic Arzelier, Gordon Peter Young, Adrian Buckley, Jeffrey Scott Dever
  • Patent number: 12280628
    Abstract: A wheel action-based active suspension damping adjustment apparatus recognizes wheel actions through a steering apparatus, distance measuring apparatuses and force sensors and calculates an action damping magnitude according to damping parameters determined by different wheel actions, thereby achieving optimal adjustment under different actions. The changes in an inclination angle of a vehicle cabin floor and a vertical acceleration are monitored by using an inclination angle sensor and acceleration sensors, and meanwhile, an inclination angle damping and an acceleration damping are determined according to exceeding amplitudes, and a total damping of active suspensions is fed back and corrected, thereby further enhancing an adjustment and control effect of the active suspensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: YANSHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dingxuan Zhao, Haiwu Zheng, Hao Xiong, Ziqi Huang, Zhuangding Zhou, Zeping Li
  • Patent number: 12280662
    Abstract: A track for a track vehicle has sensor-receiving cavities disposed therein. Removeable sensors are placed in the sensor-receiving cavities for sensing characteristics of the track during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Martin Kremmer, Carroll C. Kellum
  • Patent number: 12275332
    Abstract: An embodiment method of controlling a brake lamp of a vehicle equipped with an electric motor as a power source includes determining a position of a following vehicle when decelerating through regenerative braking in a coasting situation and performing at least one of correction of an ON threshold according to deceleration or control of regenerative braking torque for deceleration variation in response to the determined position of the following vehicle being in one of a plurality of regions set according to a distance from a rear of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hui Un Son
  • Patent number: 12256851
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device configured to generate a route including a point of departure and a first destination determined based on order information, while the electronic device is moved along the route using a driver, in response to not receiving an order from the first destination on which seating information indicating at least one seated customer is identified, perform an operation of outputting information indicating a serving tray accommodating a basic item based on the electronic device reaching the first destination, and based on a drive along the route being completed, in response to not delivering, to the first destination, at least one item indicated in an order received from the first destination, exclude the first destination from the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiwon Park, Seungjoon Lee, Yeeun Choi, Hoon Han
  • Patent number: 12260757
    Abstract: A bidirectional interactive traffic-control management system includes a road and traffic network information subsystem, an urban traffic control subsystem and a road-users' route guidance subsystem. The first subsystem forms real-time traffic information of all road sections in the digital urban traffic-control road network. The second subsystem generates a real-time optimal signal timing plan for each intersection based on the real-time traffic information of its connecting road sections. The third subsystem generates a real-time optimal route plan based on the real-time travel information of all road-users, the real-time traffic information of all road sections, and the real-time optimal signal timing plan of each intersection of the road network. It then transmits the optimal route plan into a navigator in a mobile device of a road-user or in an on-board-unit of a moving vehicle or via a roadside unit for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: THI CONSULTANTS INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Hong Ho, Jun-Shian Lee, Hsin-Chia Lin, Chih-Che Su, Yi-Dar Lin, I-Ying Chen
  • Patent number: 12252868
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body including a pair of crawlers; an upper turning body; an image capturing device; an obtaining device that obtains information related to a situation around the shovel; a detecting part that detects a predetermined object around the shovel; and a display device that displays a peripheral image representing the situation around the shovel. A detection area of the detecting part includes the entirety of an area appearing in the peripheral image displayed on the display device. Areas located in a moving direction of the crawlers, in a state in which the orientation of the upper turning body does not coincide with the moving direction of the crawlers, are included in one or both of a detectable area in which the predetermined object is detectable by the detecting part and a displayable area that is displayable on the display device as the peripheral image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Tsuji, Takaaki Morimoto, Atsushi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 12252140
    Abstract: An abnormality of a component can be accurately detected. An on-vehicle device is an on-vehicle device that is mounted on a vehicle to communicate with a server. The on-vehicle device includes a first information generation unit that generates first information which is information on a state of a first component mounted on the vehicle by using an output of a sensor mounted on the vehicle, and an out-vehicle communication unit that transmits, to the server, the first information and second information which is information on a state of a second component which is a component different from the first component, and receives, from the server, a state signal indicating an abnormal state of the first component calculated by the server based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hoshino, Takaki Itaya
  • Patent number: 12246732
    Abstract: In some examples, a system receives data relating to an environment of a vehicle. Based on the received data, the system initiates a vehicle preparation action by actuating an adjustable component of the vehicle, the vehicle preparation action to ready the vehicle for a user prior to operation of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Aaron Humphrey Pesa
  • Patent number: 12246616
    Abstract: A computing system according to at least one embodiment disclosed herein includes an autonomous driving controller that controls autonomous driving of a vehicle, and an energy management unit that provides a service related to energy management of the vehicle. The autonomous driving controller may set an output of a driving system included in the vehicle. The energy management unit may determine a change in an internal resistance of a battery based on driving data of the vehicle and battery data of the battery included in the vehicle, and sets an output current of the battery for the set output based of the driving system based on the determined change in the internal resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Lee, Sung Soo Hong, Dong Myung Kim, Hyuk Sung Chung
  • Patent number: 12248324
    Abstract: A conveyance robot includes a main body at which a conveyed object can be placed; a driving wheel provided at the main body; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to control the driving wheel such that a progress direction of the conveyance robot is configured to match an extension direction of a running path guide portion, the running path guide portion extending along a running path that is along a wall face of a wall disposed in a building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazumi Serizawa, Hidekazu Sasaki, Daisuke Sato, Shunsuke Mogi
  • Patent number: 12242931
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing soft model assertions (SMA) system and techniques designed to monitor and improve Machine Learning (ML) model quality by to detecting errors within the one or more ML models. SMA techniques and systems are distinctly designed to leverage: 1) a user's ability to specify features over data; and 2) large, existing datasets of organizations, in a manner that can improve the accuracy and quality of predicting potential errors in Machine Learning (ML) models. A SMA system can include a controller device receiving predictions generated based on the ML models and output from the SMA system. The controller performs autonomous operations of the system in response to determining that the one or more detected errors within the one or more ML models yield a high certainty of errors in the predictions. The SMA system also includes a domain specific language and a severity score module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Kang, Nikos Arechiga Gonzalez, Sudeep Pillai
  • Patent number: 12242284
    Abstract: An unmanned system maneuver controller (USMC) includes an inertial navigation system (INS) for state estimation of the USMC in three-dimensional (3D) space, a communications device configured to communicate with an unmanned system, and a processor configured to receive, via the communications device, flight, maneuver, or dive data from the unmanned system, and generate flight, maneuver, or dive control instructions based at least on the flight, maneuver, or dive data and data received from the INS. The flight, maneuver, or dive control instructions are configured to pilot the unmanned system based on movement of the USMC in 3D space. A remote may selectively control an operation of the USMC. The USMC may be mounted to a weapon or observation device, such that movement of the weapon or observation device in 3D space controls a movement of the unmanned system. Additional systems and associated methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Knightwerx Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 12233887
    Abstract: An operation of an AV in a scene is simulated. The AV includes sensors detecting the scene and generating sensor data. The sensor data can be input into a control model that outputs control signals, in accordance with which the AV operates. A learning cost, i.e., a cost of training or applying the control model, is determined. A performance of the AV during the simulation is evaluated. A simulation cost, i.e., a cost of running the simulation is determined. The control model can be optimized based on the learning cost and the performance of the AV. Settings of the sensors can be optimized based on the simulation cost and the performance of the AV. The optimization of the control model or the settings of the sensors can be done through reinforcement learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Burkay Donderici
  • Patent number: 12233855
    Abstract: A motion manager configured to request motion of a vehicle according to a kinematic plan on driver assistance of the vehicle to at least one of a plurality of actuators provided in the vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to receive information indicating a plurality of kinematic plans and classify the information into predetermined items such that a realization method of achieving a purpose of each of the kinematic plans is selectable without specifying or distinguishing a setting source of each of the kinematic plans, arbitrate the kinematic plans, calculate a motion request to the vehicle based on a result of arbitrating the kinematic plans, and distribute the motion request to at least one of the actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Yamada, Kazuki Miyake, Wataru Kanda
  • Patent number: 12233967
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a steering system, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for adjusting an operation mode of a steering system according to the degree by which a steering wheel is stowed or the degree by which the steering wheel is folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taesik Kim, Taehyung Sun