Patents Examined by Roger L Pang
  • Patent number: 11193560
    Abstract: A drive assembly for a work vehicle includes a drive housing including a first housing element forming a reaction member; a drive shaft; a planetary gear set coupled to the drive shaft and configured to selectively rotate an output element in the first rotation direction and in the second rotation direction; a first clutch arrangement including a first clutch ring and a second clutch ring; and a second clutch arrangement to interface with the planetary gear set to selectively effect a second rotation speed of the output element in the first rotation direction and in the second rotation direction. The first clutch ring is configured to effect a first rotation speed of the output element in the second rotation direction and the second clutch ring is configured to effect the first rotation speed of the output element in the first rotation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Steven R. Fliearman, Clayton G. Janasek, Lisa R. Lloyd
  • Patent number: 11193561
    Abstract: A drive assembly for a motor vehicle includes a housing having a transmission housing chamber, a reservoir, and a clutch housing chamber. At least one of the transmission housing chamber or the clutch housing chamber are fluidically connected to the reservoir. A transmission is disposed in the transmission housing chamber. A clutch is disposed in the clutch housing chamber. The clutch is drivingly connected to the transmission. An actuator has an actuating element engaged with the clutch. The clutch is moveable by the actuating element between a disengaged position and an engaged position. A valve is operatively connected to the actuating element of the actuator to allow lubricant flow from the reservoir to at least one of the transmission housing chamber and the clutch housing chamber when the clutch is in the engaged position and to prevent lubricant flow from the reservoir when the clutch is in the disengaged position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: GKN Automotive Limited
    Inventors: Jan Haupt, Theodor Gassmann, Maximilian Werkhausen
  • Patent number: 11187303
    Abstract: A planetary gearbox including a first planetary gear assembly, a second planetary gear assembly, and a disconnect assembly. The first planetary gear assembly includes a first sun gear, a first carrier, at least one first planet gear mounted in the first carrier, and a ring gear. The second planetary gear assembly includes a second sun gear, a second carrier, at least one second planet gear mounted in the second carrier, and the ring gear. The disconnect assembly includes a disconnect member and a connecting member. The disconnect member is coupled to the second carrier of the second planetary gear assembly, and the connecting member is coupled to both the disconnect member and the movable second sun gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Fairfield Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Dean Elmore, Darren D. Arnold, Shuo Zhang, Matthew P. Richards
  • Patent number: 11181174
    Abstract: A powertrain for an electric vehicle includes: a planetary gear including a first rotating element, a second rotating element, and a third rotating element, where the first rotating element is connected to a first shaft, the second rotating element is connected to a second shaft, and the third rotating element is connected to a third shaft; a first motor selectively supplying power to the first shaft at two or more gear ratios; and a second motor selectively supplying power to the first shaft and the second shaft. The third shaft is fixedly disposed on a transmission housing, and any two shafts among the first, second and third shafts restrain each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Ho Kim, Jae Joon Lee, Jong Sool Park, Jin Young Hwang, Jong Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 11181192
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a vehicle and a method for controlling the vehicle. The vehicle includes: an engine; a transmission configured to transmit power from the engine to drive wheels; a deceleration factor detection device configured to detect a deceleration factor that is present ahead of the vehicle; and an electronic control unit configured to maintain a speed ratio of the transmission as a current speed ratio on condition that the deceleration factor is detected by the deceleration factor detection device, and change the speed ratio stepwise to a lower speed side than the current speed ratio and maintain the changed speed ratio, in response to a deceleration request from a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tadanao Okubo
  • Patent number: 11181188
    Abstract: A planetary carrier includes a first hub having an adjoining first sealing wall and a second hub having an adjoining second sealing wall. The first and second sealing walls are arranged opposite each other. The planetary carrier has a web for connecting the first sealing wall to the second sealing wall. A greatest material accumulation of the planetary carrier, at which a greatest Heuvers element of the planetary carrier is located, is radially outside in a region of a transition from the web to the first sealing wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Arno Klein-Hitpass, Kathrin Benoit, Markus Böggering
  • Patent number: 11173782
    Abstract: A method of controlling an axle assembly includes providing an axle assembly in a first state. A first controller is provided in electrical communication with the axle assembly. The first controller determines if a source of power has an available amount of electrical energy that is within a predetermined range and a predetermined period of time has elapsed. If the available amount of electrical energy is within the predetermined range and the predetermined period of time has elapsed, then electrical energy is transferred from the source of power to an electric motor generator and an axle disconnect clutch is engaged to provide the axle assembly in another state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC
    Inventors: Krishna Kumar, Vivian Valerian D'Souza
  • Patent number: 11168786
    Abstract: An ECU executes processing including a step of counting up a duration Ntime when a Ready-On state is brought, and a shift position is an N position, a step of counting up a duration Not_Ntime when the duration Ntime is equal to or greater than a threshold value A, the duration Ntime is greater than a threshold value C, and the shift position is other than the N position, a step of resetting the duration Ntime and the duration Not_Ntime to initial values in a case where the duration Not_Ntime is greater than a threshold value D, and a step of executing warning processing when the duration Ntime is greater than the threshold value A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Manabu Katoh
  • Patent number: 11161498
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes: drive wheels; an engine; a flywheel damper connected to the engine; at least one inertial body provided between the flywheel damper and the drive wheels; and a clutch for connecting and disconnecting between the flywheel damper and the at least one inertial body. In a process of reduction of a rotational speed of the engine for stopping the engine, the control apparatus keeps the clutch engaged until the rotational speed has passed through a first resonance speed range, and causes the clutch to be released before the rotational speed reaches a second resonance speed range. The first resonance speed range is a range of the rotational speed in which resonance is generated with the clutch being released. The second resonance speed range is a range of the rotational speed in which the resonance is generated with the clutch being engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Ishiwada, Masaya Yano
  • Patent number: 11161515
    Abstract: An anti-jerk control method for an electric vehicle incorporates an anti-jerk function that can be performed more accurately and effectively by utilizing a real-time weight change of an electric vehicle. The anti-jerk control method includes: estimating vehicle weight by a controller based on vehicle driving information collected from a vehicle; determining a required torque command of a driver by the controller based on the vehicle driving information collected from the vehicle; determining anti-jerk torque according to the vehicle weight based on calculated speed deviation and the estimated vehicle weight information; and controlling a drive motor according to a compensated motor torque command by compensating the required torque command with the anti-jerk torque in the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Tae Jun Kang
  • Patent number: 11156285
    Abstract: A gear train includes a first gear having teeth meshed with teeth of a second gear. Each tooth of the first gear includes a coast side and a drive side opposed to the coast side. The drive side has a pressure angle that is greater than that of the coast side. The gear train can be part of a powertrain system for a rotorcraft, and can replace a traditional gear train in a retrofit or new build. The first gear is a planet gear and the second gear is a ring gear wherein the planet gear and ring gear are in a planetary gear train configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Binney, Yuriy Gmirya, Joseph A. Mucci, Jonathan Frost, Adam Taylor
  • Patent number: 11156271
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power unit for a bionic robot, a robot joint and a robot. The power unit comprises: a shell, wherein a stator is embedded in the shell, a rotor is embedded in the stator, a rotor shaft is embedded in the rotor, bearings are disposed between the rotor shaft and the shell, a driving shaft is embedded in a central portion of the rotor shaft, a first driving wheel is disposed on the driving shaft, two transmission shafts are disposed in the rotor shaft, a first driven wheel and second driving wheels are disposed on each of the transmission shafts, the first driven wheel is engaged with the first driving wheel, a sun gear shaft is disposed in the rotor shaft, the sun gear shaft and the driving shaft are coaxially disposed, and a synchronizer and second driven wheels are disposed on the sun gear shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Qiang Huang, Xuxiao Fan, Richeng Huang, Zhangguo Yu, Qiang Chen, Chenglong Tang
  • Patent number: 11156287
    Abstract: A planet carrier for a speed-reducing unit with an epicyclic gear train for a turbine engine, said planet carrier comprising a cage defining an internal space for assembling a central sun gear having an axis of rotation and an annular row of planet gears disposed around the axis and meshed with said sun gear, said cage comprising two substantially parallel annular walls centered on said axis and a cylindrical wall connecting said annular walls to their outer periphery, a first one of said annular walls being connected to a substantially cylindrical body, wherein a second one of said annular walls is formed as a single part with a lubrication grove, channel or duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Jean-Charles Michel Pierre Di Giovanni, Alexis Claude Michel Dombek
  • Patent number: 11149825
    Abstract: An engine assembly includes a crankshaft, a control shaft, a drive gear fixed to the crankshaft, a carrier, a first planetary gear set, an actuator, and a second planetary gear set. The first planetary gear set includes a first sun gear fixed to ground, a first ring gear engaged with the drive gear, and a first planet gear rotatably mounted on the carrier and engaged with the first ring gear and the first sun gear. The second planetary gear set includes a second sun gear fixed to the actuator, a second ring gear coupled with the control shaft, and a second planet gear rotatably mounted on the carrier and engaged with the second ring gear and the second sun gear. The actuator is operable to rotate the second sun gear and thereby adjust a ratio of a rotational speed of the crankshaft to a rotational speed of the control shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Ryan M. Heinbuch, Dumitru Puiu, Justin E. Ketterer, Venu G. Ganti, Rodney E. Baker
  • Patent number: 11149626
    Abstract: A method of rapidly cooling a high temperature vehicle coolant is disclosed. The method includes determining a coolant temperature lowering entry condition by detecting information on the coolant temperature, an engine speed, and a gear state and determining whether the coolant temperature needs to be rapidly lowered on the basis of the detected information; and changing a number of gear stages by adjusting the number of gear stages of a transmission to be reduced to a specific number of gear stages when the coolant temperature needs to be rapidly lowered in the determining of the coolant temperature lowering entry condition, so that the cooling fan is driven by driving the fan belt through a crank damper pulley using the increased engine speed according to the reducing adjustment of the number of gear stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Hyundai Kefico Corporation
    Inventors: Se Hoon Son, Nam Hoon Kim, Tae Hyun An, John Ha Lee, Seo Yeon Cho
  • Patent number: 11143278
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a steering assistance device that has a single line of final output, thereby to achieve downsizing. The assistance device of the present application includes a speed reducer configured to decelerate a driving force from a motor and output the decelerated driving force, wherein the speed reducer is configured to receive an operation force produced by an operation of a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Nakamura, Masahiro Takahashi, Yuto Nakai
  • Patent number: 11137072
    Abstract: A transmission device and method for operating a transmission for a motor vehicle, which transmission device has an input shaft which is operatively connectable to a drive device of the motor vehicle, and has a first output shaft and a second output shaft, and has a spur gear differential transmission configured as a planetary transmission, whereby the input shaft and an intermediate shaft are coupled to the first output shaft and the second output shaft. An electric machine is coupled to the input shaft in a first shifting position of the shifting device and to the intermediate shaft in a second shifting position of the shifting device, and the electric machine is operated for applying a torque to the input shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Carsten Trautmann, Christian Meixner
  • Patent number: 11136020
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle and a method of calibrating a traveling direction of the hybrid vehicle are disclosed. The method of calibrating a traveling direction of a hybrid vehicle including a transmission not having a reverse gear includes: when an abnormality of a motor speed sensor is detected, calculating a difference between at least one of a first moving distance calculated based on sensor information during a predetermined time or a second moving distance calculated based on output torque and a third moving distance calculated based on a vehicle speed by a controller for controlling output torque; when an absolute value of the calculated difference is greater than a preset error reference, reversing the traveling direction recognized by the controller; and controlling a powertrain in response to a transmission lever state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Kyeom Cho, Seong Wook Moon, Sung Bae Jeon, Hui Un Son, Joon Young Park, Jea Mun Lee
  • Patent number: 11131380
    Abstract: A position controller includes: an oil temperature acquisition unit that acquires information on an oil temperature of a hydraulic actuator; a position acquisition unit that acquires an actual value of an operation position of an object; a position control unit that calculates an operation command value for a control valve of the hydraulic actuator by closed-loop control so as to reduce a deviation between a target value of the operation position of the object and the actual value; and a gain setting unit that changes at least one gain of the closed-loop control so that sensitivity of the closed-loop control increases as the oil temperature decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuma Kobayashi, Kippei Matsuda, Satoshi Ootsuki, Kenichi Nakashima, Hideyuki Imai, Akihito Abe
  • Patent number: 11131376
    Abstract: An electromechanical machine that uses electrical power to provide electromechanically-balanced motive torque to one or more mechanical loads, or that uses electromechanically-balanced mechanical power from one or more sources of motive torque to supply electrical power to one or more loads, while seamlessly reconciling the speed and torque differences between such loads-and-sources by use of speed-torque modules and a control means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Inventor: Brian K Ott