Patents Examined by John D Bailey
  • Patent number: 12655852
    Abstract: A ceiling fan or similar air-moving device can include a motor for rotating one or more blades to drive a volume of air about a space. A connector can be used to connect the blade to a blade iron to mount the blade to the motor. The connector can include a set of receptacles configured to insert into openings on the blade, with the set of receptacles connected by a set of arms. A set of mount posts on the blade iron can seat within the receptacles to mount the blade to the blade iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Charles William Botkin, Douglas Troy Mason, Bobby Neal Norwood, Matthew McPherson
  • Patent number: 12649483
    Abstract: A system for setting a limit that effects an actuator of a vehicle can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a communications module, a scenario identification module, a limits catalog retrieval module, and a limits setting module. The communications module can receive, from an external source and before starting a trajectory of the vehicle, a first limits catalog, that effects the actuator, cross-indexed by scenarios likely along the trajectory and risks associated with the scenarios. The first limits catalog can be produced from information from a plurality of vehicles. The scenario identification module can identify a current scenario. The limits catalog retrieval module can retrieve, based on the current scenario, a second limits catalog that effects the actuator. The limits setting module can set, based on the current scenario, the first limits catalog, and the second limits catalog, the limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Divya Garikapati, Yiting Liu, Zhaoyuan Huo
  • Patent number: 12649344
    Abstract: A control system (300) for controlling an actuator arrangement (104) of a vehicle (100), the actuator arrangement being capable of modifying a camber angle of at least one wheel of the vehicle, the control system comprising one or more controller (301), wherein the control system is configured to: receive (1004) surface information indicative of a low-traction surface over which the vehicle is travelling; and independence on receiving the surface information, control (1012) the actuator arrangement of the vehicle such that a wheel-to-surface contact patch of the at least one wheel is laterally moved relative to the vehicle as a result of camber modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED
    Inventors: Syed Asad Ali, Luke Birch, Dennis Lausecker, Sam Brown, Anesh Mistry, William Burdock, James Kelly
  • Patent number: 12642156
    Abstract: Embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for optimizing the productivity and improving the stability of electric vehicles by sensing field size and soil condition and automatically assisting the vehicle to turn by rotating inner wheels faster as compared to outer wheels of the vehicle and rotating front wheels of the vehicle faster as compared to rear wheels of the vehicle, and selectively braking respective wheel during headland operations. Embodiments herein enable operators to attain tight headland turns with lower head land space. Embodiments herein can detect a plurality of parameters such as, field conditions, soil condition, implements(s) connected to the vehicle, and so on, and control the turning radius of the vehicle as per requirement in at least one mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Mahindra & Mahindra Limited
    Inventors: Natarajan Saravanan, Arumugham Sivakumar, Ayyasamy Gokila, Singh Pramod, Abbaas Mohd Ali, Sundaram Pavithra
  • Patent number: 12636926
    Abstract: A control device includes: an external environment recognition unit configured to acquire recognition data of an external environment of a moving body; a reception unit configured to receive selection of a target position from a user of the moving body; a movement control unit configured to execute movement control for moving the moving body to the target position based on the recognition data; and a height control unit configured to execute height control of the moving body in accordance with progress of the movement control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Sagara, Yuki Hara
  • Patent number: 12583432
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle platform configured to receive an instruction from an autonomous driving kit. The vehicle platform includes a steering wheel to be operated by a driver of the vehicle, a steering motor configured to generate torque for varying an angle of a front wheel of the vehicle, and a first control device configured to control the steering motor. The vehicle platform is configured to receive a front wheel steering angle instruction value requested by the autonomous driving kit during autonomous driving of the vehicle. The first control device is configured to classify driver intervention to the steering wheel into one of a plurality of categories, and control torque of the steering motor in consideration of the steering intention of the driver when a driver operation on the steering wheel is caused, during autonomous driving of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuma Suzuki, Haruki Oguri
  • Patent number: 12559085
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is an effect in that a braking control unit controls a braking actuator of a vehicle and biased-brakes the vehicle in order to satisfy a target biased braking torque by receiving a target biased braking torque value calculated by an integrated control unit, and when biased braking power is generated in a vehicle by the braking control unit, a suspension control unit receives a signal from the integrated control unit to control a height of a suspension to be increased in order to reduce a yaw motion of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Youngeun Cho
  • Patent number: 12552213
    Abstract: A system for vehicle load management including a processor and a memory in communication with the processor and including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive a first indicator signal from a first sensor. The instructions further cause the processor to, based at least in part to the first indicator signal, determine a vehicle load intervention. The instructions further cause the processor to, based, on the vehicle load intervention, transmit one or more adjustment signals to cause one or more vehicle load adjustments to occur, the one or more vehicle load adjustments including at least one of at least one lire being inflated, the at least one tire being deflated, a liftable axle being raised, and the liftable axle being lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: AKTV 8 LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Coombs, Jake Dunda, Bradley J. Kubiak
  • Patent number: 12545303
    Abstract: A method for controlling vehicle parking, includes: obtaining, by a processor, a current vehicle speed and a current vehicle control level of a vehicle; obtaining, by the processor, a target vehicle speed of the vehicle, and obtaining a target vehicle control level of the vehicle according to the current vehicle control level; obtaining, by the processor, a first vehicle control level according to the current vehicle speed, the target vehicle speed, the current vehicle control level, and the target vehicle control level; and controlling, by the processor, the vehicle to run according to the first vehicle control level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: BYD Company Limited
    Inventors: Qiang Wan, Lu Wang, Zhicheng Tan
  • Patent number: 12545070
    Abstract: A suspension system includes: a variable damper configured to use a damping force variable actuator to adjust communication of working fluid generated in a passage by a relative movement between a vehicle body and a wheel, to thereby adjust a damping force over a range of a soft characteristic to a hard characteristic; and a controller configured to control the damping force variable actuator. The variable damper further includes a frequency response unit configured to reduce the damping force for vibration at a specific frequency. The controller is configured to increase a change rate from a soft side to a hard side at a time of controlling the damping force to reach a target damping force when a frequency of the relative movement between the vehicle body and the wheel is lower than a first frequency set to the frequency response unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Mikio Yamashita
  • Patent number: 12539834
    Abstract: Provided is an anti-lock braking system for a vehicle. The anti-lock braking system includes a hub having a hollow cavity which is configured to accommodate an axle, a device having a first part which is substantially static relative to the hub and a second part which may rotate relative to the hub when the first part and the second part are disengaged, and an actuator which is configured to control a transmission of a braking force from a frame of the vehicle to the hub by actuating the device, wherein one of the first part and the second part is configured to extend helically around the axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: Hochschule Fur Angewandte Wissenschaften Munchen
    Inventor: Peter Wolfsteiner
  • Patent number: 12523182
    Abstract: A dual fuel system includes a fuel injector having a fuel pressurization plunger, and a fueling control unit structured to determine a fuel bulk modulus term based upon a volume change value (dV) and a pressure change value (dP) for a fuel pressurized in the fuel injector. The fueling control unit is further structured to determine fuel injector control commands by way of map lookups on fueling maps selected on the basis of the fuel bulk modulus term. Related apparatus and methodology are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell B. Juchems, Andrew O. Marrack
  • Patent number: 12523170
    Abstract: A misfire detecting device for an internal combustion engine, having a plurality of cylinders is provided with: a pulsation component acquiring unit for performing a frequency analysis of operating parameter data indicating a change over time in an operating parameter correlated with an overall operating state of the plurality of cylinders, and for acquiring a pulsation component spectrum, which is a frequency spectrum of pulsations of the internal combustion engine; a difference parameter acquiring unit for acquiring a difference parameter correlated with a degree of difference between the operations of each of the plurality of cylinders; and all-cylinder misfire determining unit for determining that an all-cylinder misfire has occurred in the internal combustion engine if the pulsation component spectrum acquired by the pulsation component acquiring unit falls below a first threshold and the difference parameter acquired by the difference parameter acquiring unit 12 falls below a second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER. LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Sase, Ko Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 12491858
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle platform configured to receive an instruction from an autonomous driving kit. The vehicle platform includes a steering wheel to be operated by a driver of the vehicle, a steering motor configured to generate torque for varying an angle of a front wheel of the vehicle, and a first control device configured to control the steering motor. The vehicle platform is configured to receive a front wheel steering angle instruction value requested by the autonomous driving kit during autonomous driving of the vehicle. The first control device is configured to classify driver intervention to the steering wheel into one of a plurality of categories, and control torque of the steering motor in consideration of the steering intention of the driver when a driver operation on the steering wheel is caused, during autonomous driving of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuma Suzuki, Haruki Oguri
  • Patent number: 12454893
    Abstract: A method of assembly includes locating a plurality of vanes about an inner circumference of a ring, the ring has a plurality of axially-extending projections circumferentially-spaced around the ring, each of the vanes has a radially outer platform, a flange that projects radially outwardly from the radially outer platform, and a notch that extends axially through the flange such that the notch opens at forward and aft flange faces of the flange, aligning the notch of each of the vanes with a corresponding one of the axially-extending projections on the ring, and inserting the projection into the notch to thereby prevent the vanes from rotating relative to the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Raymond Surace, Robert A. White, III
  • Patent number: 12448044
    Abstract: An electric power steering device and an assisting method thereof are provided. A lane recognition unit recognizes lane information of a lane on which a vehicle is travelling. A steering information sensing unit senses steering information. An assisting control unit controls the electric power steering device to execute a steering assisting operation according to a steering assisting amount composed of the lane information and the steering information, and controls the electric power steering to execute the steering assisting operation according to a learned steering assisting amount composed of the steering assisting amount during a learning period when the lane information cannot be recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2025
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kasuya, Shuichi Okada, Naoaki Ikemoto
  • Patent number: 12434674
    Abstract: A park brake controller and method are provided for control verification handling of an external park brake request. In one embodiment, a park brake controller comprises one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions. The program instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: receive a request to park a vehicle, wherein the request is associated with a control level; receive information about a speed of the vehicle; and determine an action to take in response to the request based on the control level of the request and the speed of the vehicle. Other embodiments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC
    Inventors: Thomas J. Hayes, Jeswanth Samayamantula
  • Patent number: 12427825
    Abstract: A control system (300) for controlling an active suspension system (104) of a vehicle (100), the control system comprising one or more controller (301), wherein the control system is configured to: detect (1004) a ramp (202) approached by an overhang of the vehicle; and in dependence on detecting the ramp, control (1020) the active suspension system to modify a relative ride height between a leading ride height at a set of leading wheels (FL, FR) of the vehicle and a trailing ride height at a set of trailing wheels (RL, RR) of the vehicle, to increase a ramp angle (?, ?) of the vehicle relative to the ramp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED
    Inventors: Syed Asad Ali, Luke Birch, Dennis Lausecker, Sam Brown, Anesh Mistry, William Burdock, James Kelly
  • Patent number: 12427824
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes: a body 1; a plurality of travel wheels 2 at front and back portions of the body 1 on each of left and right sides; a plurality of holder mechanisms A held by the body 1 and holding the respective travel wheels 2 in such a manner as to be capable of moving the travel wheels 2 independently of one another relative to the body 1; a detector B configured to detect a state of a travel surface; and a controller C configured to, based on the state that the detector B has detected, control the holder mechanisms A to move the travel wheels 2 relative to the body 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Ida, Minoru Hiraoka, Junichi Ishikawa, Shunya Takase
  • Patent number: 12397858
    Abstract: An electric power steering device and an assisting method thereof are provided. A lane recognition unit recognizes lane information of a lane on which a vehicle is travelling. A steering information sensing unit senses steering information. An assisting control unit controls the electric power steering device to execute a steering assisting operation according to a steering assisting amount composed of the lane information and the steering information, and controls the electric power steering to execute the steering assisting operation according to a learned steering assisting amount composed of the steering assisting amount during a learning period when the lane information cannot be recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kasuya, Shuichi Okada, Naoaki Ikemoto