Patents Examined by Jeffrey Boomer
  • Patent number: 8849536
    Abstract: A system and device and a method for controlling an electrohydraulic brake system of a motor vehicle especially adapted for brake by wire applications. The embodiments carryout position control of an actuator of an electronically activatable pressure supply unit based on the actuator position actual value and on and actuator position reference value which is determined on the basis of a pressure reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Jürgen Böhm, Tom Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 8843288
    Abstract: A system and method of operating a vehicle at a driver selected target speed. The system and method configured to identify a target speed based on a position of a gear shift selector and control engine torque and brake pressure to control the vehicle to operate at the target speed. The system and method is further provides manipulating the engine torque and brake pressure of the vehicle in response to a driver's throttle and brake commands to operate at a speed desired by the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Chrysler Group LLC
    Inventors: Zachary C Rogalski, Ivan Roman, Loren M Trotter, Jason Trombley
  • Patent number: 8838350
    Abstract: When gear shift to second gear shift stage is completed and frictional engagement element is judged to be in slip state by slip state judging unit in a state in which input torque is input torque upper limit value, a value obtained by subtracting first predetermined amount from the input torque upper limit value is set as a decrease side input torque upper limit value. When next gear shift to the second gear shift stage is completed with the decrease side input torque upper limit value set and the frictional engagement element is not judged to be in slip state by the slip state judging unit in a state in which the input torque is the decrease side input torque upper limit value, a value obtained by adding second predetermined amount to the decrease side input torque upper limit value is set as a new input torque upper limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignees: Jatco Ltd, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukiyoshi Inuta
  • Patent number: 8831798
    Abstract: Present novel and non-trivial systems and methods for positioning a heading-based image within a track-based image and for generating steering commands for a forward-looking image capture device of an enhanced vision system (“EVS”). The positioning system is comprised of a source of navigation data, a source of first image data representative of a track-based image, a source of second image data representative of a heading-based image, and an avionics system processor (“ASP”) configured to receive the navigation data, the first image data, and the second image data, determine image positioning data, and merge the first image data with the second image data as a function of the image positioning data. The steering commands generating system is comprised of a source of navigation data, the ASP configured to generate steering command data commensurate to a wind correction angle, and the EVS configured to receive the steering data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventor: Sarah Barber
  • Patent number: 8762042
    Abstract: A periphery vehicle determination apparatus disposed in a host vehicle includes a behavior obtaining section obtaining a behavior related information of an immediately adjacent object, a vehicle-to-vehicle communication device, an information obtaining section obtaining vehicle information sets from periphery vehicles, a specifying section specifying a vehicle information set from an immediately adjacent vehicle based on the behavior related information, a transceiving section transmits and receives an immediately adjacent information, and an anteroposterior relation determination section specifying an anteroposterior relation of the periphery vehicles in a one-dimensional direction by correlating the immediately adjacent informations transmitted from the periphery vehicles based on a repeated identification information included in at least two of the immediately adjacent informations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Junichiro Funabashi
  • Patent number: 8666629
    Abstract: A method for determining a driving strategy for a driver of a motor vehicle includes receiving local information about a plurality of other motor vehicles using a receiving device, wherein the plurality of other motor vehicles are ahead of the motor vehicle and are relevant to the traffic situation. The method further includes recording the local information using the receiving device and deriving driving information from the local information so as to provide a driving strategy in the form of at least one action recommendation for the driver, the at least one action recommendation including a recommended speed based on an average speed of the plurality of other motor vehicles and on a desired speed of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Technische Universitaet Braunschweig
    Inventors: Sandor Fekete, Christopher Tessars, Christiane Schmidt, Axel Wegener, Stefan Fischer, Horst Hellbrueck