Patents Examined by Kyle J Kingsland
  • Patent number: 12130364
    Abstract: A measurement system for a construction machine, in particular a road construction machine including a temperature measuring device and an evaluation device. The temperature measuring device is configured to determine a first surface temperature for a first area of a measuring field as well as a second surface temperature for a second area of the measuring field, the temperature measuring device being directed to a reference surface, in relation to which the construction machine is moving, and the measuring field being shifted as a function of a movement of the construction machine along the reference surface. The evaluation device is configured to determine a movement parameter by means of a shift in a first temperature zone, defined for a first point in time by the first surface temperature within the first area, in relation to the first and/or second area(s) or in relation to the measuring field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MOBA Mobile Automation AG
    Inventors: Dominik Becher, Torsten Schönbach, Jaroslaw Jurasz, Andreas Wolff
  • Patent number: 12122346
    Abstract: A method of operating a brake redundancy device including a main braking controller and a backup braking controller, includes: confirming whether or not a command signal for deceleration of the vehicle has been received, by the backup braking controller; executing a front-wheel braking mode by the backup braking controller when the command signal has been received; determining whether or not an allowable condition for providing the hydraulic pressure to wheel cylinders of rear wheels has been satisfied; and executing a rear-wheel braking mode through a cooperative control of the main braking controller and the backup braking controller when the allowable condition has been satisfied, wherein in the executing of the rear-wheel braking mode, the hydraulic pressure is provided from the backup braking controller to a portion of the main braking controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yong Yeon Kim, Joo Beom Kim
  • Patent number: 12123720
    Abstract: Techniques for estimating vehicle poses are described herein. A pose may refer to the inertial pose or position of a vehicle. The pose of the vehicle may be used to determine a position of the vehicle in an environment, for determining a trajectory of the vehicle through the environment, or the like. In examples, a pose determination component of an autonomous vehicle can determine a pose at a frequency that is different from other systems on the vehicle and/or that is not synchronized with those systems. The techniques described herein allow for estimating poses at any measurement time, e.g., to determine a pose at a measurement time at which other data is measured, generated, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Carsten Bosse, Till Kroeger, Brice Rebsamen
  • Patent number: 12122247
    Abstract: A method of controlling stability of a motorized vehicle having an electric motor as a drive source includes determining a slope of a road ahead, when sensing a sudden slope change point as a result of determination, determining a correction section based on the sudden slope change point, and correcting stability control torque in the correction section to compensate for motion of the vehicle body due to a change in the slope of the road using a pitching motion of the vehicle body caused by the torque of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hui Un Son, Jea Mun Lee, Jae Young Park, Young Eun Kim, Sang Joon Kim, Sung Hoon Yu
  • Patent number: 12115864
    Abstract: A method and a device for checking the thermal state of an electric machine of a vehicle driven by at least two electric machines are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Karl, Martin Adam, Sebastian Heber, Franz Honkomp
  • Patent number: 12109883
    Abstract: An electric delivery truck control system is disclosed. Sensors detect hub motor parameters associated with the hub motors. An electric delivery truck control unit detects electric delivery truck control inputs associated with an operation of the electric delivery truck. The electric delivery truck control inputs are generated from an operation of the electric delivery truck. An operation parameter controller automatically adjusts a torque level applied by each hub motor of the electric delivery truck to be within a hub motor operation threshold based on the hub motor parameters thereby enabling each hub motor to operate at an operation torque level as requested from the operation of the electric delivery truck. The operation parameter controller maintains the torque level applied by each hub motor within a current limit allowed by a battery management unit of the electric delivery truck and a torque limit allowed by each hub motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Workhorse Group Inc.
    Inventor: Donald L. Wires
  • Patent number: 12105199
    Abstract: A system and method for measuring an image distance of power transmission lines with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The system includes: a UAV, a master console, and a plurality of cameras. The cameras are configured to collect 2D image data of a power transmission line corridor. The UAV includes a vehicle body, a lidar device, a rotor assembly, a power unit, a flight control processor, a state detection device, and a wireless communication module. The lidar device is configured to collect 3D point cloud data of the power transmission lines. The master console is configured to receive the 2D image data and the 3D point cloud data, and establish a mapping relationship between the 2D image data and the 3D point cloud data; recognize a target object, determine 3D point coordinates of the target object, and calculate a distance from the target object to the power transmission lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: State Grid Jiangsu Taizhou Power Supply Company, Allcorehatress (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongdong Dai, Jianguang Yao, Feng Mao, Maofei Wang, Wanjin Yu, Beibei Weng, Ling Ju, Zhongjun Jiang, Xinlian Bu, Weihao Fan, Ze Zhang, Xingchun Xu
  • Patent number: 12098028
    Abstract: A control device that performs control to manage the passage of article transport vehicles in a management zone can execute: basic processing for permitting a first article transport vehicle to enter the management zone if no article transport vehicle is present in the management zone, and prohibiting a second article transport vehicle from entering the management zone if the first article transport vehicle is present in the management zone; and first exception processing for permitting the second article transport vehicle to enter the management zone in a case where, even if the first article transport vehicle is present in the management zone, the first article transport vehicle is an article transport vehicle that stops at a station provided in the first path, and the second article transport vehicle passes through a second path and a third path but does not pass through the first path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihito Ueda, Sadato Matsugi, Akira Suzuki, Yoshitaka Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12091114
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a self-learning collaborative control method for active steering and yaw moment for a motor vehicle, including a first step of constructing fundamental formulas which are stored in a vehicle ECU, and a second step of calculating an active steering angle ?C and a yaw moment Mc on line by the vehicle ECU according to following sub-steps during a driving process of the motor vehicle, and controlling a driving state of the motor vehicle according to ?C and Mc. The second step includes a first sub-step of collecting raw real-time parameter values, a second sub-step of performing calculation by the identifier and the control target reference model, a third sub-step of calculating ?C and Mc. The present disclosure can realize the self-learning collaborative control of active steering and yaw moment without requiring a system control model and correct a driver's steering operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Zhengzhou University of Light Industry
    Inventors: Zhijun Fu, Yaohua Guo, Dengfeng Zhao, Jinquan Ding, Chaohui Liu, Wenbin He, Wenchao Yang, Lei Yao, Fang Zhou, Hui Wang, Wuyi Ming
  • Patent number: 12085957
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating and deploying fleets of autonomous in operational domains are described. A computing system may obtain data indicative of one or more capabilities of at least one autonomous vehicle, data indicative of vehicle service dynamics in an operational domain over a period of time, and determining a plurality of resource performance parameters respectively for a plurality of autonomous vehicle fleets associated with potential deployment in the operational domain. Each autonomous vehicle fleet can be associated with a different number of autonomous vehicles The resource performance parameter for each autonomous vehicle fleet can be based at least in part on the one or more capabilities of the at least one autonomous vehicle and the vehicle service dynamics in the operational domain. The computing system can initiate an action associated with the operational domain based at least in part on the plurality of resource performance parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Valerie Nina Chadha, Ye Yuan, Neil Stegall, Brent Justin Goldman, Kane Sweeney, Rei Chiang
  • Patent number: 12085028
    Abstract: A method for detecting a rotating stall includes: determining a level of variation of a static pressure in a combustion chamber of the turbojet engine around an average value of this static pressure; comparing the level of variation of the static pressure relative to a first threshold; comparing a temperature measured at the outlet of a turbine of the turbojet engine relative to a second threshold; and if the level of variation of the static pressure is greater than the first threshold and the temperature at the outlet of the turbine is greater than the second threshold, detecting a presence of a rotating stall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Soufiane Herda, Vincent Michel Cabret, Cedrik Djelassi
  • Patent number: 12077933
    Abstract: Provided is a hydraulic excavator including a controller that can control a work device by utilizing an excavation work control for causing a claw tip of a bucket to move along a predetermined target surface and a leveling work control for causing the bucket to move along the target surface while maintaining the posture of the bucket with respect to the target surface, in which: the controller, based on posture data and size data on a work device and position data on the target surface, calculates an arm tip difference Dva that is the distance from the tip of an arm to the target surface; and the controller executes the leveling work control in a case of the calculated arm tip difference being equal to or less than a predetermined threshold dv1, there being no input of a bucket operation to an operation lever, and there being an input of an arm operation to the operation lever, and otherwise executes the excavation work control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisami Nakano, Hiroaki Tanaka, Yusuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12071150
    Abstract: A driving assistance system includes a front camera module (FCM). The system, responsive to processing captured image data from the FCM, generates FCM control signals. The system includes a plurality of vehicle sensors capturing sensor data and an advanced driving-assistance system (ADAS) controller. The ADAS controller, responsive to processing the sensor data, generates ADAS control signals. The ADAS controller generates an ADAS status signal indicating a reliability of the generated ADAS control signals. With the ADAS status signal indicating the reliability of the generated ADAS control signals is at or above a threshold ADAS reliability level, the system controls the vehicle using the ADAS control signal and, responsive to determining that the ADAS status signal indicates that the reliability of the generated ADAS control signals is below the threshold, switches from controlling the vehicle based on the ADAS control signals to controlling the vehicle based on the FCM control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Alan M. Cordeiro, Tejas Murlidhar Varunjikar, Mayank Hitesh Desai, Chang Wang
  • Patent number: 12059960
    Abstract: A parking brake fail safety control system and method for a vehicle having an electric-axle, may enable safe parking braking on a level ground, a slope, etc. By controlling the torque from a first motor configured for a rear wheel-first electric-axle and the torque from a second motor configured for a rear wheel-second electric-axle to have the same magnitude in opposite directions and by increasing/decreasing the torque from the first motor and the torque from the second motor, depending on a change of wheel speed when a parking brake fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: June Oh
  • Patent number: 12030588
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a stimulus generator whose inputs are at least the mechanical torque (Tm) of the electric motor (M) measured by an estimator (TmE) of the mechanical torque (Tm) of the motor (M), and the velocity (V) measured by an estimator (VE) of the velocity (V) and whose outputs are a velocity control stimulus (VS) and a torque control stimulus (TS) towards the user (U). A vehicle includes a stimulus generator (SG) whose inputs are the power (Pu) measured by the estimator (PuE), and the velocity (V) measured by the estimator (VE) of the velocity (V) and whose output is a forced velocity control stimulus (VFS) that results in the velocity setpoint (V*) of the electric motor (M). Control procedures for these vehicles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: ZUMA INNOVATION S.L.
    Inventors: Mikel Zubieta Andueza, Jon Madariaga Landajo
  • Patent number: 12024241
    Abstract: A steering control device performs an assist control for generating an assist command that generates an assist torque based on a steering torque. The steering control device acquires a target value of physical quantity related to a steering. The steering control device performs a tracking control for generating a tracking command that generates an automatic steering torque for causing a detection value of physical quantity to track the target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Aoki, Motoaki Kataoka
  • Patent number: 12024026
    Abstract: A one pedal driving system for an electric vehicle including one or more electric motors includes a controller in wireless communication with one or more external vehicle networks. The controller executes instructions to receive, from the one or more external vehicle networks, an active zone notification that indicates the electric vehicle is traveling into a one pedal driving zone. The one pedal driving zone represents a section of roadway where the electric vehicle decelerates from an initial speed. The controller executes instructions to receive a pedal notification that a driver foot is removed from an accelerator pedal of the electric vehicle. In response to receiving the active zone notification and the pedal notification, the controller instructs the electric vehicle to decelerate from the initial speed by a regenerative braking torque that is created by the one or more electric motors to counteract a forward momentum of the electric vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Mohammad Naserian, Donald K. Grimm
  • Patent number: 12017666
    Abstract: In a driving assisted vehicle method for controlling a driving assisted vehicle, it is determined whether a failure has occurred in any one of a plurality of controllers. Upon determining that a failure has occurred in any one of the controllers, failure information is sent to a normal controller group other than a failed controller group to which the failed controller belongs via a network communication line. When the normal controller group receives the failure information via the network communication line, the controllers constituting the normal controller group executes a failure mode for backing up the operation function that is lost due to the failure until a driver returns to the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kouji Shionome
  • Patent number: 12012727
    Abstract: A method for estimating the weight of loads carried by implements may include controlling an implement subject to actual weighing conditions to lift a load and receiving an input indicative of a sensed force associated with lifting the load. The method may further include determining a correlation value indicative of a correlation between first and second force values for lifting a given load with the implement as a function of the actual weighing conditions and as a function of nominal weighing conditions, respectively, where at least one of the actual weighing conditions differs from at least one of the nominal weighing conditions. Furthermore, the method may include determining an adjusted force value for lifting the load based at least in part on the sensed force and the correlation value. Additionally, the method may include estimating the weight of the load based at least in part on the adjusted force value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Joshua D. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 11970988
    Abstract: Systems for efficiently starting an engine of a hybrid electric vehicle are provided. An example of a system comprises a first processor and a second processor. The second processor is configured to determine when to start an internal combustion engine, cause energy to be supplied from an energy storage device to a generator/motor to cause the generator/motor and crankshaft to rotate to at least a hold speed, transmit a first instruction to a first processor when determining that the internal combination engine should be started. The first processor does not supply fuel to at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine in response to the first instruction. The second processor is configured to transmit a second instruction to the first processor after a variable period of time has elapse after the generator/motor or crankshaft has reached at least the hold speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: BAE Systems Controls Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher C. Jones, Mark R. Stepper