Patents Examined by Joseph J Dallo
  • Patent number: 12291289
    Abstract: The steering control method and steering control device may reduce memory usage by calculating virtual end stop torque without using a lookup table and address the noise issue at a discontinuous point. Further, it is possible to determine whether the end stop start angle needs to be adjusted because the wheel touches the curb, and adjust the end stop start angle to protect the steering wheel and the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jaewoo Lee, Donghoon Shin
  • Patent number: 12281630
    Abstract: An injection pump having a pump body provided with an inlet conduit supplying an inlet chamber, and a compression chamber downstream from the inlet chamber under which a piston reciprocates to distribute liquid fluid from the compression chamber to an outlet pipe in communication with a common rail circuitry. The injection pump has a valve provided with a resilient cup, located between the inlet chamber and the compression chamber and actuated by an electromagnetic actuator through a pushing rod wherein operation of the valve allows the piston to suck liquid fluid from the inlet chamber into the compression chamber and feed the common rail circuitry or to push back liquid fluid in said inlet chamber and said inlet conduit, in which the pump comprises a filter provided around the pushing rod and located between the valve and the electromagnetic actuator in the inlet chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: PHINIA DELPHI LUXEMBOURG SARL
    Inventor: Xavier Lale
  • Patent number: 12275620
    Abstract: A method for determining a degraded guide rail condition in an elevator system, a computer program product, and an elevator system are disclosed. The method includes obtaining first data including information about movement of an elevator component relative to a guide rail, and obtaining second data including information about movement of an elevator component. The method further includes comparing the first data and the second data to each other, and detecting, based on the comparison, a deviation fulfilling a deviation criterion. Still further, the method includes creating a signal indicating the degraded, such as misaligned, guide rail condition, such as of the first or the second guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mikko Viljanen, Henri Wenlin
  • Patent number: 12276245
    Abstract: A control device for a power unit connected to a motor that starts an internal combustion engine, the power unit having a plurality of batteries connected in parallel with each other and which are configured to supply electrical power from the plurality of batteries to an electrical load other than the motor, wherein the control device comprises a detection unit that detects a residual mount of electrical power of each of the plurality of batteries, a comparison unit that compares the residual amount of electrical power of the plurality of batteries, and a starting control unit which, at a time when the internal combustion engine is started, controls the power unit, and thereby starts supplying the electrical power from the plurality of batteries to the motor in a descending order of the residual amount of electrical power of the batteries being larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12270353
    Abstract: A closed-loop control device, for closed-loop control of a power assembly including an internal combustion engine and a generator having an operative drive connection to the internal combustion engine, includes: the closed-loop control device which is configured for: detecting a generator power (PG) of the generator as a controlled variable; determining a control deviation (eP) as a difference between the generator power (PG) which is detected and a target generator power (Psoll); determining a target speed (nsoll) as a manipulated variable for controlling the internal combustion engine as a function of the control deviation (eP); using a control rule for determining the target speed (nsoll); and being operatively connected to an open-loop control device of the internal combustion engine in such a way that the target speed (nsoll) can be transmitted by the closed-loop control device to the open-loop control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Solutions GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Dölker
  • Patent number: 12269541
    Abstract: The embodiment relates to a steering control device and method and includes a steering control device for controlling a first motor generating steering feedback torque in response to rotation of a steering wheel and a second motor generating rack driving torque for moving a rack, comprising a calculation unit calculating allowed rack speed information regarding a rack speed allowed when driving the rack using the second motor, based on rack force information and preset second motor performance information and calculating catch-up prevention torque information for preventing catch-up in the steering wheel, based on the allowed rack speed information and command rack speed information generated to drive the rack at a speed in response to rotation of the steering wheel and a controller performing catch-up prevention control on the first motor based on the catch-up prevention torque information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: SeungGyu Hong
  • Patent number: 12258919
    Abstract: A marine propulsion device includes a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to suppress an engine rotation speed. The controller is configured or programmed to perform an initial misfire control to determine whether or not a cylinder of the engine is caused to misfire in order to suppress the engine rotation speed when it is determined that an initial sudden increase in the engine rotation speed that causes over-revving has occurred based on a detection result from a rev-up detector, and perform a subsequent misfire control to determine whether or not the cylinder is caused to misfire in order to suppress the engine rotation speed when it is determined that a subsequent sudden increase in the engine rotation speed that causes the over-revving has occurred following the initial sudden increase in the engine rotation speed based on the detection result from the rev-up detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryutaro Iwaki, Junsei Suzuki, Taichiro Nannichi, Tomoyuki Kashiwayama
  • Patent number: 12258918
    Abstract: An engine control apparatus has: a first acquiring section that acquires an estimated torque of an engine according to a current rotation speed of the engine, and an instruction value representing an injection amount of a fuel injected to a cylinder of the engine; a second acquiring section that acquires an actual torque according to an amount of generated power generated by an electric power generator coupled to an output shaft of the engine when the amount of the fuel according to the instruction value is injected to the cylinder of the engine; and a correcting section that corrects at least any one of combustion timing at which the fuel is combusted in the cylinder and the instruction value on a basis of a first torque difference between the estimated torque acquired by the first acquiring section and the actual torque acquired by the second acquiring section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventor: Takeshi Yokoi
  • Patent number: 12253039
    Abstract: A controller for a hydrogen engine that includes an in-cylinder pressure sensor and an air-fuel ratio sensor includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to execute a process that calculates a fluctuation amount of a combustion pressure based on an output of the in-cylinder pressure sensor and a process that calculates a correction amount based on the fluctuation amount. The correction amount is used to correct a rich deviation of an output of the air-fuel ratio sensor due to unburned hydrogen in exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Okada, Makoto Yamazaki, Toshiki Mikami
  • Patent number: 12253041
    Abstract: Operating an engine system includes cold starting an engine, closing spill valves to pressurize fuel in a plurality of plunger cavities, opening injection valves in some of a plurality of fuel injectors to inject fuel into firing cylinders in an engine cycle, and opening spill valves in some of the plurality of fuel injectors while injection valves therein remain closed to bleed fuel to a lower pressure space in the engine cycle. The pressurization of fuel in the fuel injectors remaining closed parasitically loads the engine to increase a fuel burned amount hastening warm up and limiting misfire. Related apparatus and control logic is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew O. Marrack, Lifeng Wang, Satya Naga Deepak Pillarisetti
  • Patent number: 12253036
    Abstract: A method for controlling a dual fuel engine system includes determining a gas flow target for an internal combustion engine of the dual fuel engine system, where the gas flow target is based on a gas power target of the internal combustion engine, a thermal efficiency estimate of the internal combustion engine, and a lower heating value (LHV) within the internal combustion engine. The method also includes adjusting the gas flow target based on at least one of a measured gas temperature or a measured gas injector pressure and determining at least one base gas injector command based on the adjusted gas flow target, a gas substitution rate estimate, and a gas substitution rate target. The method further includes determining, based on the at least one base gas injector command, a gas injector command for at least one engine bank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Cummins Power Generation Inc.
    Inventors: Travis Alva Anderson, Axel O. zur Loye, Mark A. Rosswurm, Paul Daniel Borisuk, Shashank Bishnoi, Matthew W. Isaacs, Jason A. Gore, Atin Tandon, Jamie Robert John Sleigh
  • Patent number: 12250237
    Abstract: An anomaly detection device includes: an obtainer that obtains vehicle information related to the status of a vehicle and including location data indicating the location of the vehicle; a model storage that stores, for each of a plurality of cells of a grid imposed on a map, an evaluation model for evaluating the vehicle information of the vehicle located at the cell; and a determiner that calculates, based on the vehicle information and evaluation models each being the evaluation model and corresponding to evaluation cells including a first cell including the location of the vehicle indicated in the location data and one or more second cells each having a predetermined positional relationship with the first cell, an anomaly level indicating a degree of anomaly of the vehicle information, determines, based on the anomaly level, whether the vehicle information is anomalous, and outputs a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hajime Tasaki, Takamitsu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12239433
    Abstract: The learning system includes a data generation unit configured to generate learning data based on rehabilitation data and a learning unit configured to perform machine learning using the learning data. A sensor is provided to detect a plurality of motion amounts in a walking motion of a trainee, and it is evaluated that, when one of the motion amounts matches one of abnormal walking criteria, that the walking motion is an abnormal walking pattern that meets the matched abnormal walking criterion. The data generation unit generates each of the pieces of rehabilitation data before and after a change in the results of evaluation of the abnormal walking pattern as learning data. The learning unit sequentially inputs each of the pieces of rehabilitation data as one data set, thereby performing machine learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Otsuki, Issei Nakashima, Manabu Yamamoto, Hodaka Kito
  • Patent number: 12240426
    Abstract: An electropneumatic device for a pneumatic braking system, including a compressed air reservoir for providing a reservoir pressure; a brake pressure modulator which receives reservoir pressure and outputs a brake pressure at a brake pressure connection in a manner dependent on electronic braking request signals; a protective valve unit with a protective valve inlet, a first protective outlet and a second protective outlet; the protective valve inlet receiving the brake pressure which it can provide at the first and second protective outlets; a first and a second pressure line; and, a brake actuator that is connected to the pressure lines. The protective valve unit is configured to throttle the brake pressure output at the first protective outlet in the event of leakage of the first pressure line and to throttle the brake pressure output at the second protective outlet in the event of leakage of the second pressure line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: ZF CV Systems Global GmbH
    Inventor: Julian van Thiel
  • Patent number: 12235232
    Abstract: A gas sensor includes a gas detecting element that includes a first electrode, a metal oxide layer, and a second electrode; and a first insulating film that has an opening allowing the second electrode to be partially exposed therethrough and covers the first electrode, the metal oxide layer, and another part of the second electrode. The metal oxide layer has a characteristic where its resistance value changes as the second electrode makes contact with gas molecules including hydrogen atoms. A first step is provided at a portion lying on an interface between the metal oxide layer and the second electrode and located within the opening as viewed in plan view. A local region is provided in the metal oxide layer and near the first step. A degree of oxygen deficiency of the local region is greater than a degree of oxygen deficiency of other regions in the metal oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN
    Inventors: Satoru Ito, Kazunari Homma, Koichi Kawashima, Koji Katayama, Shinichi Yoneda
  • Patent number: 12235146
    Abstract: A method and a device for ascertaining a fluid injection quantity of an injection system. The injection system includes a high-pressure pump, a high-pressure region that adjoins the high-pressure pump, a pressure sensor, and an injector that is fed from the high-pressure region. The method includes detecting a measurement signal using the pressure sensor and segmenting a first pressure profile from the measurement signal. The first pressure profile characterizes the pressure profile prior to a fluid injection using the injector. The method also includes segmenting a second pressure profile from the measurement signal. The second pressure profile characterizes the pressure profile after the fluid injection using the injector. The method also includes performing a kernel density estimation using the first pressure profile and the second pressure profile, ascertaining a pressure difference, and ascertaining the fluid injection quantity using the pressure difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Anselm Wieland
  • Patent number: 12234785
    Abstract: Method for identifying cylinders of an internal combustion engine which are subjected to misfire during operation, comprising a step of determining whether the engine is subjected to a misfire condition; a step of measuring vibrations generated upon operating the engine; and a step of identifying at least one cylinder subjected to a misfire in dependence on the measured vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Caterpillar Energy Solutions GmbH
    Inventor: Darshit Shah
  • Patent number: 12228087
    Abstract: A system for controlling an electronic throttle body includes an engine speed setting device having a first terminal coupled to a source for a reference voltage, a second terminal coupled to a first end of a conductor and means for varying a level of resistance between the first and second terminals. The level of resistance is indicative of a desired engine speed. The second terminal outputs an analog engine speed signal indicative of the desired engine speed on the conductor. An electronic control module includes an engine speed signal processing circuit including a resistor coupled between a node located between the first and second ends of the conductor and one of a voltage supply and a voltage return. A controller coupled to the second end of the conductor is configured to generate a control signal for the electronic throttle body responsive to the engine speed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Walbro LLC
    Inventors: Andreas D. Dixon, Bradley J. Roche
  • Patent number: 12228090
    Abstract: An engine control system includes one or more oxygen (O2) sensors disposed proximate to a three-way catalytic converter (TWC) in an exhaust system of the vehicle, the one or more O2 sensors each configured to measure an O2 level of exhaust gas produced by the engine. A controller is in signal communication with the one or more O2 sensors and programmed to detect a fuel shut-off (FSO) event where the engine ceases providing fuel to the engine, determine an accumulated gas flow through the TWC during the FSO event, determine the FSO event has ended, initiate an open loop fuel enrichment mode where the engine is supplied with a first fuel enrichment level having a first rich fuel/air ratio, and subsequently initiate a closed loop fuel enrichment mode where the engine is supplied with a second fuel enrichment level having a second rich fuel/air ratio, to thereby reduce NOx emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Mark E Ives, Kevin L Mason, Justin Neufeld, Simon O Omekanda, Muhammad Rizwan S Khan
  • Patent number: 12221182
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling a vehicle comprising an Electric Power Steering System (EPS). In an embodiment, a method includes determining, by the processor, a lateral acceleration reference based on reference path data and vehicle dynamics data; determining, by the processor, coefficient data based on at least one of measured lateral acceleration data and measured steering angle data, and measured torque data; determining, by the processor, a torque command based on the coefficient and the reference lateral acceleration data; and generating, by the processor, a steering command to the EPS based on the torque command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Tushita Arun Sikder, Jackson Barry McGrory, Jimmy Lu, Mohammadali Shahriari