Patents Examined by John D Bailey
  • Patent number: 12384215
    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: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED
    Inventors: Syed Asad Ali, Luke Birch, Dennis Lausecker, Sam Brown, Anesh Mistry, William Burdock, James Kelly
  • Patent number: 12377801
    Abstract: Techniques for automatic control of a vehicle are disclosed. The vehicle may include a removable input device having various modes of operation. For example, a coupled mode of operation may control the vehicle when an operator is in an operator area of the vehicle, while a remote mode of operation may enable vehicle control when the operator is outside of the operator area. The vehicle may include object sensors to detect a target such as the removable input device or an operator device. Accordingly, the vehicle may automatically follow the target. The vehicle may also identify obstacles, in response to which manual control of the vehicle may at least temporarily be provided to the operator, after which automatic control may resume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: POLARIS INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventors: Aidan B. Shaughnessy, Robert Be Puckette, Steven B. Elgee, Timothy P. Norstad, Carl A. Turner, Brenden D. Bungert, Jacob P. Horky
  • Patent number: 12366182
    Abstract: A valve for an internal combustion engine and a method for producing such a valve is disclosed. The valve includes a valve bottom and a valve stem projecting from the valve bottom. An interior of the valve delimits a hollow space, in which sodium for cooling is received. In the hollow space, a non-evaporable getter is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kroos, Alexander Mueller, Alexander Puck, Tobias Wege
  • Patent number: 12365574
    Abstract: A system is provided for use with an insulated boom section of a bucket truck. The system includes a source of high volume and pressure, dry air; one or more interior air diffusers connected to the source of high volume and pressure, dry air to direct the air into an interior of the insulated boom section. One or more exterior air diffusers connected to the source of high volume and pressure, dry air direct the air to along an exterior surface of the insulated boom section. A method is also provided for cleaning or drying both the interior and exterior surfaces simultaneously of an insulated boom section of the boom of a bucket truck. The boom of a bucket truck is further provided in another aspect that includes at least one insulated boom section, a source of high volume and pressure, dry air, one or more interior air diffusers and one or more exterior air diffusers. A pre-heating air heater may be removably mounted into the boom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Quanta Associates, L.P.
    Inventors: David Karl Wabnegger, Daniel Neil O'Connell, David James Ball, Robert Wayne Palmer, Jody Milton Greer, Raymond Henry Jodoin
  • Patent number: 12359647
    Abstract: A vehicle includes receives a remote start request from a user, responsive to the request, engage at least one vehicle sensor to determine whether at least an animal or person are within at least a predefined distance from an exhaust or external sounder of the vehicle. Additionally, the vehicle, responsive to determining that the animal or person are withing the predefined distance, delays execution of a remote start, requested by the request, for at least a predefined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Weston, John Robert Van Wiemeersch
  • Patent number: 12359633
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling fuel factions delivered to different cylinders are provided. In one example, a controller is configured to, during a single engine cycle and responsive to a first condition, deliver a lower fraction of a first fuel into a donor cylinder in comparison to a fraction of the first fuel being injected into a non-donor cylinder and deliver a higher fraction of a second fuel into the donor cylinder in comparison to a fraction of the second fuel being injected into the non-donor cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Adam Edgar Klingbeil
  • Patent number: 12345272
    Abstract: A ceiling fan and a structure thereof are provided. The structure includes a blade holder, a plurality of blades, and a plurality of positioning elements. The blade holder includes a holder body and a plurality of support platforms. The holder body has a plurality of first matching structures spaced apart from each other. Each of the support platforms includes a first positioning structure. Each of the blades has a second matching structure and a second positioning structure. The second matching structures can be guided by the first matching structures, so that each of the blades is disposed at an installation position on one of the support platforms along an oblique track. When each of the blades is located at the installation position, the first positioning structures and the second positioning structures abut against each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: HOTECK INC.
    Inventors: Wen-Hai Huang, Chia-Wei Chang, Min-Yuan Hsiao
  • Patent number: 12311941
    Abstract: Provided is a driving support apparatus including: a surrounding sensor configured to acquire surrounding information on another vehicle present in front of a vehicle and dividing lines extending in front of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to: execute adaptive cruise control (ACC) of, when a preceding vehicle is determined to be present based on the surrounding information, executing acceleration control and deceleration control such that an inter-vehicle distance to the preceding vehicle matches a predetermined target inter-vehicle distance which becomes longer as a vehicle speed increases; and lengthen, when the ACC is started or the ACC is being executed in a case in which a vehicle height is increased to be higher than the normal height by vehicle height adjustment, a target-inter-vehicle-distance-when-stopped, which is the target inter-vehicle distance of when the vehicle is stopped, as compared with a case in which the vehicle height is the normal height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12296797
    Abstract: Motor vehicles and methods for operating motor vehicles are disclosed herein. An example motor vehicle includes an electric drive, an electrical brake including one or more braking actuators, a drive controller communicatively coupled to the electric drive and the electrical brake, and a brake controller communicatively coupled to the electrical brake. The drive controller is to cause the one or more braking actuators to actuate in response to a signal indicating a failure of the brake controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lowell Kubik, Thomas Svensson, Chad Michael Korte, Kenneth Mchugh, Erik Wickop
  • Patent number: 12293611
    Abstract: A system (e.g., a maintenance system) includes a maintenance task input unit and one or more processors. The maintenance task input unit is configured to generate plural input data groups corresponding to a maintenance task. Each of the input data groups is in a corresponding one of plural formats. The one or more processors are coupled to the maintenance task input unit and configured to obtain the plural input data groups from the maintenance task input unit. The one or more processors are configured to identify a particular format of the formats for each input data group, and to prepare an intermediate representation of the input representation based on the particular format that is identified. Also the one or more processors are configured to modify the intermediate representation to provide a model input having a common format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Nathan Thomas North
  • Patent number: 12281629
    Abstract: A sealing ring gland receives a sealing ring. The sealing ring gland includes an inner wall surface which seals against an inner periphery of the sealing ring. An outer wall surface is radially offset from the inner wall surface and seals against an outer periphery of the sealing ring. The sealing ring is axially compressed between an upper wall surface and a lower wall surface of the sealing ring gland. At least one of the upper wall surface and the lower wall surface includes an expansion volume which provides space for the sealing ring to expand upon swelling of the sealing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: PHINIA JERSEY HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: Alejandro Moreno
  • Patent number: 12283136
    Abstract: The present disclosure generates a digital twin of the interior of a vehicle to initiate and track maintenance issues. In one aspect, the digital twin is formed using multiple captured images of the interior of the vehicle where multiple components in those images are identified using a machine learning (ML) model. The components identified by the ML model are then mapped to a model (e.g., a 3D model) of the components that lists their location in the vehicle and an identifier (e.g., a part number or serial number). In this manner, the digital twin can identify, using the identifiers, the various components in the images captured by a camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Browne, Andre Lutz, Hilna Sahle, Andreas Godehart, Mirza Maznikar
  • Patent number: 12277809
    Abstract: Apparatuses, machine-readable media, and methods related to vehicle diagnosis and repair are described. Receiving vehicle status information from a control panel and/or on board diagnostic (OBD) unit of a vehicle at a vehicle diagnosis and repair too can provide valuable information to an owner and/or user of a vehicle. Computing devices (e.g., mobile devices and/or modules having a computing device) can be configured to run an application (e.g., a vehicle diagnosis and repair tool) to determine whether a vehicle needs to be repaired or serviced according to examples of the present disclosure. The vehicle diagnosis and repair tool can receive vehicle status information, determine the repairs and/or service that the vehicle needs, and initiate the vehicle repairs and/or service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Diana C. Majerus, Raksha Gopal Kulkarni, Bhumika Chhabra, Bethany M. Grentz
  • Patent number: 12264644
    Abstract: A gas injector for injecting a gaseous fuel. The gas injector includes: a magnetic actuator having an armature, an inner pole and a coil; a closing element, having a valve needle, the closing element opening and closing a gas path at a sealing seat, the armature being connected to the closing element; a closed off lubricant chamber which is filled with a lubricant and in which the armature is arranged, the lubricant ensuring lubrication of the armature; a flexible sealing element sealing the lubricant chamber with respect to the gas path; a restoring element which resets the closing element to a closed starting position; and a first needle guide formed between a guide sleeve and the valve needle. The first needle guide is arranged in the lubricant chamber radially inside the flexible sealing element, and the restoring element is arranged in the lubricant chamber inside the flexible sealing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Mueller
  • Patent number: 12240589
    Abstract: A linear actuator for axially translating a control tube to change the pitch of rotor blades at a top portion of the control tube, the linear actuator including an outer sleeve fixed in a stationary position with the control tube extending through the outer sleeve, a screw nut connected by a threaded interface to the control tube, and an actuator motor coupled to the screw nut to rotate the screw nut and thereby translate the control tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Paul Haldeman, Robert Reynolds
  • Patent number: 12223777
    Abstract: A determination device may include an acquisition unit configured to acquire first degradation values that indicate respective degradation degrees of a plurality of components of a same type, and regard the respective first degradation values of the plurality of components as respective first usage values of a plurality of usage environments in which the plurality of components are used. The determination device may include a determination unit configured to determine, based on a target value that indicates a predetermined target degradation degree of the plurality of components, a first combination of the respective first degradation values of the plurality of components and the respective first usage values of the plurality of usage environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kodaira, Takahira Kawata
  • Patent number: 12223781
    Abstract: A refuse vehicle includes multiple systems, each system including a sensor. The refuse vehicle also includes an automated check system. The automated check system includes processing circuitry configured to obtain sensor data from the sensor of each of the multiple systems, determine which of the multiple systems require manual inspection based on the sensor data, and operate a display screen to prompt a technician to manually inspect one or more of the multiple systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Koga, Emily Davis, Jerrod Kappers, Vince Schad, Robert S. Messina, Christopher K. Yakes, Joshua D. Rocholl, Vincent Hoover, Clinton T. Weckwerth, Zachary L. Klein, John Beck, Brendan Chan, Skylar A. Wachter, Dale Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12214635
    Abstract: An all-terrain rover is provided in which the arrangement of flanges of one or more cylinders of first and second cylinder systems allow for forward and backwards motion, as well as turning and sideways motion of the roller. An all-terrain rover is further provided in which the flanges of the first cylinder system are oriented opposite to an orientation of the flanges of the second cylinder system such that, in counter-rotation, a forward or reverse motion results from contact between the flanges and a surface of travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: COPPERSTONE TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Michael G. Lipsett, Nicolas A. Olmedo, James D. Yuen
  • Patent number: 12180916
    Abstract: An apparatus may comprise a base member being defined by a rectangular aperture configured to receive and engage an automobile intake box, the base member being further defined by a perimeter surrounding the rectangular aperture and having at least one fastener or aperture configured to receive a fastener dimensioned to avoid disturbing the automobile intake box; a gooseneck member fixedly attached to the base member, the gooseneck member having a first end opening and a second end opening, the gooseneck member having an interior cavity configured to direct air into the automobile intake box from the second end opening to the first end opening through the interior cavity; and an interchangeable bell housing removably secured to the second end opening of the gooseneck member, the interchangeable bell housing having a frustoconical shaped cross section on at least one plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Velossa Tech Engineering Inc.
    Inventor: Dan Joseph Becker
  • Patent number: 12179852
    Abstract: A moving body having a steering device and a steering control device which controls the steering device to control steering of the moving body. The steering control device selectively performs a first steering control which controls the steering of the moving body based on a movement status of the moving body and a second steering control which limits the steering of the moving body. The steering control device performs the second steering control based on a steering state of the moving body by the first steering control before occurrence of a failure when the failure related to execution of the first steering control occurs in a state where the first steering control is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Imafuku, Yoshinori Izumi, Ryota Mose