Patents Examined by Sean Patrick Reidy
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Patent number: 12091006Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for identifying a transmitter of a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) message. In some embodiments, a method for an ego vehicle includes modifying an operation of a communication unit of the ego vehicle to receive a V2X message that includes identification data of a transmitter of the V2X message. The method includes executing a proactive vehicle control operation on the ego vehicle to modify a distance between the ego vehicle and a preceding vehicle ahead of the ego vehicle so that the distance satisfies a distance threshold. The method includes determining whether the preceding vehicle is the transmitter based on the identification data so that a reliable determination is achieved to improve a driving safety of the ego vehicle responsive to the distance satisfying the distance threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Inventors: Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Kyungtae Han
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Patent number: 12065803Abstract: A work machine includes a controller that executes a semi-automatic control to correct an operation amount indicated by an instruction given by operation devices. The controller is configured to make a compaction determination to determine whether or not a bottom surface of a bucket is being pressed against a ground; and to further correct an operation amount having been corrected by the semi-automatic control, such that a force that the bucket applies to the ground increases if the bottom surface of the bucket is determined as being pressed against the ground.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Tanaka, Hisami Nakano, Takaaki Chiba, Yuusuke Suzuki, Hiroshi Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11987140Abstract: The present solution provides a digital first responder cut loop. The present solution can include a system comprising a control unit executing instructions and configured to generate a signal through a harness of an electric vehicle. The signal can be indicative of a state of a cut loop of the electric vehicle. The control unit can be electrically connected to restraint control module and a battery pack associated with the electric vehicle. The controller can be configured to detect an event associated with the vehicle or a change in the signal above a threshold level. The controller can be configured to, responsive to the detection of one of the event or the change in the signal, facilitate electrical disconnection of the restraint control module of the electric vehicle or the battery pack of the electric vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Rahul Rajesh Tiwari, Simon David Asher, Martin Brian Majkut, Nicholas Paul Tokarz
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Patent number: 11905898Abstract: A method of automated timing of engine startup for an aircraft is provided. The method comprises receiving data inputs regarding a number of factors influencing a time to departure for the aircraft and receiving data inputs regarding a number of factors influencing time to start and set takeoff power for a number of engines on the aircraft. An engine startup countdown is calculated based on a comparison of a nominal time to departure with a nominal minimum time to start and set takeoff power for the engines, wherein the nominal time to departure is based on the first data inputs and the nominal minimum time to start and set takeoff power is based on the second data inputs. Upon completion of the countdown an engine start signal is sent.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Jeffrey S. Siegmeth, David William Foutch, Bruce Van Deventer
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Patent number: 11873671Abstract: A method of controlling the movements of at least one controllable door of a motor vehicle and a motor vehicle component. A control device and a sensor arrangement are assigned to the door, and the door has a controllable motion influencing device. A motion of a door wing of the door can be controlled and influenced by way of the motion influencing device in between a closed position and an open position. The sensor arrangement includes a distance sensor in the movable door wing that captures distance data during the motion, and obtains from the distance data captured with the distance sensor in different angular positions, the position of at least one object in the surrounding area of the door wing, by way of triangulation.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: INVENTUS Engineering GmbHInventor: Stefan Battlogg
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Patent number: 11807214Abstract: A travel control device is mounted on a vehicle including an electric motor and an internal combustion engine that are power sources and a storage battery that stores energy for driving the electric motor and regenerative energy recovered by regenerative braking of the electric motor. The travel control device includes an electronic control device configured to create a speed profile in which a speed of the vehicle is predicted, estimate a predicted amount of the regenerative energy to be recovered, based on the speed profile, and decide the power source to be used for traveling, based on the predicted amount of the regenerative energy and thermal information indicating a demand related to heat of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takaaki Tokura, Katsumi Kono, Takeshi Yasuda
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Patent number: 11808006Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body, a work implement including an attachment, an operating device and a controller. The operating device can be operated to a dump side and a tilt side to cause the attachment to dump and tilt. The controller executes an automatic drive control in which the attachment is caused to dump as far as a predetermined dumping position when the operating device is operated by a first dump operation amount or greater to the dump side, or to tilt as far as a predetermined tilt position when the operating device is operated by a first tilt operation amount or greater to the tilt side. The controller disables the automatic drive control when a switching time period required for the operating device to be switched between the tilt and dump sides is at least a predetermined disabling time period.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Takahisa Oasa, Kiyotaka Ninomiya
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Patent number: 11760200Abstract: An electric powered vehicle may include a maximum speed limiting device. In the first mode, in a case where the distance is shorter than a first reference value, the maximum speed is limited to a value lower than the maximum speed applied when the distance is longer than the first reference value. In the second mode, in a case where the distance is shorter than a second reference value, the maximum speed is limited to a value lower than the maximum speed applied when the distance is longer than the second reference value. In a case where the distance changes from a value shorter than the first and second reference values to a value longer the first and second reference values, the maximum speed limiting device increases the maximum speed at an earlier timing in the second mode than in the first mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiyuki Senba
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Patent number: 11753111Abstract: A system includes a support arm. The system includes an engine supported by the support arm. The system includes an armature supported by the support arm. The system includes a coupling device disposed around the armature and slidable between a first position in which the coupling device couples the engine to the armature, and a second position in which the coupling device is uncoupled from the engine.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Larry Dean Elie, Allan Roy Gale, David Allen Janson, Wayne Paul Woodside
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Patent number: 11708781Abstract: A portable device receives power from a battery of a vehicle when connected to the vehicle via a connector in the vehicle. The portable device determines whether an engine of the vehicle is running and a speed of the vehicle if the engine is running. The portable device clears fault codes of ECUs if the engine is not running. The portable device resets parameters of an ECU controlling an exhaust system of the vehicle to default values if the portable device remains connected to the vehicle for a predetermined time period after sending clearing the fault codes. If the engine is running and that the speed of the vehicle is zero, the portable device initiates a forced regeneration of a diesel particulate filter of the exhaust system.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2019Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: OTR Performance, Inc.Inventor: Jason Chise
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Patent number: 11697477Abstract: A sensor apparatus for a sail includes a unique sail identifier and an in-use sensor, the in-use sensor determining whether the sail is in an in-use condition or a dormant condition. The in-use sensor includes a light sensor for measuring light falling on the sail and one or more accelerometers for measuring orientation and vibration of the apparatus, wherein an in-use condition is determined from reviewing whether measurements from the light sensor and one or more accelerometers exceed threshold values.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Inventor: Rachael Tamara Tapp
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Patent number: 11648850Abstract: A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle capable of achieving a charging target in response to environmental change via a charging control method. The charging control method includes: setting reserved charging using external power based on a departure time and a target state of charge (SOC) of a battery; monitoring whether change in charging environment has occurred, determining whether the target SOC of the battery is capable of being achieved at a currently set departure time, when the charging environment has been changed; and performing series charging using an engine and a motor upon determining that the target SOC of the battery is incapable of being achieved.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Hui Un Son, Sung Bae Jeon, Jin Kyeom Cho
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Patent number: 11643029Abstract: An autonomous driving device module mounting structure includes: a floor panel that constitutes a part of a vehicle body and extends in a front to rear direction of a vehicle and a width direction of the vehicle; a rear seat that is disposed on a vehicle upper side of the floor panel such that a gap is formed with respect to the floor panel; and an autonomous driving device module that is equipped with a plurality of devices and is disposed on the vehicle upper side of the floor panel and a vehicle lower side of the rear seat.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenta Takei
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Patent number: 11635764Abstract: Systems, methods, tangible non-transitory computer-readable media, and devices associated with the motion prediction and operation of a device including a vehicle are provided. For example, a vehicle computing system can access state data including information associated with locations and characteristics of objects over a plurality of time intervals. Trajectories of the objects at subsequent time intervals following the plurality of time intervals can be determined based on the state data and a machine-learned tracking and kinematics model. The trajectories of the objects can include predicted locations of the objects at subsequent time intervals that follow the plurality of time intervals. Further, the predicted locations of the objects can be based on physical constraints of the objects. Furthermore, indications, which can include visual indications, can be generated based on the predicted locations of the objects at the subsequent time intervals.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: UATC, LLC.Inventors: Nemanja Djuric, Henggang Cui, Thi Duong Nguyen, Fang-Chieh Chou, Tsung-Han Lin, Jeff Schneider, David McAllister Bradley
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Patent number: 11618293Abstract: Included are an electromagnetic actuator which includes an electric motor configured to generate drive forces for a damping operation and a telescopic operation; an information acquirer which acquires a stroke velocity of the electromagnetic actuator; a drive force arithmetic part which includes a damping force calculator configured to calculate a target damping force and a telescopic force calculator configured to calculate a target telescopic force, and which obtains a target drive force based on the target damping force and the target telescopic force; and a drive controller which controls drive of the electric motor using the target drive force. The drive force arithmetic part includes an adjuster which performs an adjustment to reduce a telescopic control amount for the target telescopic force based on the stroke velocity acquired by the information acquirer.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Ohno, Takafumi Kato, Tomoya Toyohira, Atsuhiko Yoneda
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Patent number: 11613872Abstract: In a state where a slewing stop operation is input, in a first state where a slewing command value is equal to or greater than an actual slewing speed, a drive unit stops outputting a torque command value, and a free-run state occurs. In the first state, a command value calculation unit decreases the slewing command value at a first inclination. Meanwhile, in the state where the slewing stop operation is input, in a second state where the slewing command value is less than the actual slewing speed, the command value calculation unit decreases the slewing command value at a second inclination that is gentler than the first inclination.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Takayuki Doi
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Patent number: 11613220Abstract: An electrical assembly includes a support assembly and/or a track assembly. The support assembly may include a first controller and/or a plurality of safety devices. The electrical assembly may include a track assembly and/or a second controller. The first controller and/or the second controller may be configured to control the plurality of safety devices via a conductor of the track assembly. The plurality of safety devices may include a first safety device, a second safety device, and/or a third safety device. The first safety device may include an airbag and/or may be configured to be activated by pyrotechnics. The first safety device may be configured to be activated by a first deployment current pulse. The support assembly may include a first portion that may include a first contact. The track assembly may include a first track that may include the conductor.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Raúl Ricart, Antoni Ferré Fàbregas
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Patent number: 11607960Abstract: Method and apparatus for power mode control for electric propulsion vehicles are provided that include a sensor to detect a vehicle door cycle, a processor to establish an occurrence of a vehicle motion, a processor operative to initiate a timer having a default time duration in response to the occurrence of the vehicle motion and the vehicle door cycle and to generate a user prompt to extend the default time duration, the processor being further operative to transition an operating mode to a shutdown mode in response to an expiration of the time, and to extend to the default time duration in response to the user input, and a display operative to display a user interface in response to the user prompt and to receive a user input indicative of a request to extend the default time duration of the timer and to couple the user input to the processor.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: David T. Proefke, Kurt L. Fischer, Aaron P. Creguer
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Patent number: 11591768Abstract: A control method of a work machine includes: calculating a maximum flow rate of hydraulic oil discharged from a hydraulic pump; calculating a first target speed of working equipment including a bucket based on an operation amount of an operation device operated for driving a plurality of hydraulic actuators to which the hydraulic oil discharged from the hydraulic pump is supplied to drive the working equipment and a distance between the bucket and a target excavation landform; calculating a second target speed of the working equipment based on the maximum flow rate, and the operation amount of the operation device and the distance between the bucket and the target excavation landform; and outputting a control signal for controlling the hydraulic actuators based on a smaller one of the first target speed and the second target speed.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Toru Matsuyama, Hikaru Suzuki, Jin Kitajima
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Patent number: 11549235Abstract: A system to control operation of a machine having a ground-engaging work implement for moving material about a worksite include a controller configured to determine a feasible target profile for the work implement to engage material. The feasible target profile may include a preload segment, a cut segment, and a loading segment. The controller determines a feasible prospective cut segment from a plurality of prospective cut segments. The controller generates a prospective preloading segment and a prospective loading segment associated with the feasible prospective cut profile. Position points associated with the loading segment are extracted and the controller determines if the ground-engaging work implement will align with the plurality of position points. The controller may also determine whether the load volume for the prospective cut segment is efficient.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining LLCInventor: Mo Wei