Patents Examined by Tan Q. Nguyen
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Patent number: 12151655Abstract: The disclosed invention makes use of a wheel speed signal to detect a wheel anomaly such as a loose wheel or a wheel with zero pressure. The wheel speed signal is used as a basis to determine a first and a second detection signal. A further basis for determining the first and second detection signals are a first and second reference signal, respectively. The anomaly of e.g. a loose wheel is detected, according to the teaching of the invention if at least one of the detection signals exceeds a threshold. In particular, the disclosure relates to methods, systems and computer program products to achieve the mentioned objective.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: NIRA DYNAMICS ABInventors: Andreas Hall, Robert Johansson, Martin Lilja, Gustav Lindmark, Peter Lindskog, Thomas Svantesson
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Patent number: 12145690Abstract: A continuously variable transmission on a bicycle may be automatically configured with little or no assistance from a user. Optical scanning devices, RFIDs, and other information capturing technology can communicate with a controller. The controller may then perform a portion or all of a configuration process. In operation, a controller may determine that calibration is needed. A calibration process may be initiated and performed with little or no user interaction. A calibration process may account for a load, a power source, or an environment.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: enviolo B.V.Inventors: Wayne Leroy Contello, Brian Benjamin Sweet, Richard Hilgart, Jeffrey A. Birchak, Kevin Alan Gust
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Patent number: 12145464Abstract: An ECU controls a vehicle including a power reception unit that can wirelessly receive electric power from a power feeding facility placed on a travel road. The ECU includes a memory in which a user-desired condition is stored, the user-desired condition being a condition under which a user of the vehicle desires on-road power reception, the on-road power reception being power reception from the power feeding facility placed on the travel road, and a processor connected to the memory. When a physical condition for power feeding from the power feeding facility to the vehicle is satisfied and when the user-desired condition stored in the memory is not satisfied, the processor controls the power reception unit to suppress on-road power reception.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiya Hashimoto, Kazuhisa Matsuda, Fumihiko Nakamura, Manabu Handa, Hiroya Chiba
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Patent number: 12147233Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment includes a reception unit that accepts designation of a tracking target, a setting unit that sets a virtual tracking target different from the tracking target, and a drive control unit that controls driving of a mobile body on the basis of the virtual tracking target.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Endo, Keisuke Maeda
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Patent number: 12140943Abstract: A remote traveling vehicle remotely operated by a remote operator receives remote control information of the remote operator from a server via a communication network. The remote traveling vehicle acquires driving environment information of the remote traveling vehicle, and acquires meandering state information including whether a meandering state of the remote traveling vehicle is detected, based on the driving environment information. When the remote-control information includes detection of the meandering condition of the remote traveling vehicle, the remote traveling vehicle adds a limit on the upper speed limit or limit steering angle of the remote traveling vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toshinobu Watanabe
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Patent number: 12140448Abstract: A generation device includes processing circuitry configured to receive a plurality of inputs of road map data including longitude/latitude data on a road shoulder line and longitude/latitude data on a lane marker, and refer to the road map data, set a region surrounded by the road shoulder line to be a non-road region, and generate a first polygon indicating a lane region using data on two adjacent non-road regions and on a plurality of lane markers positioned between the two non-road regions.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Isomura, Kazuhiro Miyahara, Ichibe Naito
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Patent number: 12140446Abstract: Among other things, we describe techniques for automatic annotation of environmental features in a map during navigation of a vehicle. The techniques include receiving, by the vehicle located within an environment, a map of the environment. Sensors of the vehicle receive sensor data and semantic data. The sensor data includes a plurality of features of the environment. A geometric model of a feature of the plurality of features is generated. The feature is associated with a drivable area within the environment. A drivable segment is extracted from the drivable area. The drivable segment is segregated into a plurality of geometric blocks, wherein each geometric block corresponds to a characteristic of the drivable area and the geometric model of the feature includes the plurality of geometric blocks. The geometric model is annotated using the semantic data. The annotated geometric model is embedded within the map.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Motional AD LLCInventor: Paul Stephen Rempola Averilla
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Patent number: 12140433Abstract: A route planning apparatus is provided for planning a navigation route of a ship. The route planning apparatus includes a display to display a chart on a screen; and an operation interface configured to designate a position in the screen. In addition, the route planning apparatus includes a storage configured to store one or more potential base points that may be a potential base point of a waypoint; a processing circuitry configured to: set a waypoint on the chart in response to a navigator's operation; extract the base points within a predetermined range of the set waypoint as a reference from the storage; and a determine the extracted potential base point to be the base point of the set waypoint.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Yamabayashi, Takatoshi Morita, Masato Okuda
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Patent number: 12134420Abstract: A working vehicle includes a steering handle, a vehicle body to travel with either manual steering by the steering handle or automatic steering of the steering handle based on a traveling reference line, and a display including a line orientation display portion to indicate an orientation of the traveling reference line, and a vehicle orientation display portion to indicate an orientation of the vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke Miyashita, Yasuaki Morioka, Kunihiko Nishino, Kumiko Kobayashi, Misako Kawai
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Patent number: 12128875Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a driveline of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, torque capacity of a driveline disconnect is coordinated with torque control of an electric machine immediately following engine starting. The electric machine and the driveline disconnect clutch may assist starting of an engine, or alternatively, the engine may be started via a starter motor.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Maruthi Ravichandran, Ravi Kumar Tumu, Kevin Ruybal, Justin Panhans, Fazal U. Syed, Mary Catherine Farmer
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Patent number: 12125394Abstract: A system for collecting information regarding a flight restriction region includes one or more processors and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to individually or collectively receive an input specifying a location of the flight restriction region from a user via a user input device, obtain information associated with the flight restriction region from one or more external data sources based on the location, and determine a space of the flight restriction region based on the information associated with the flight restriction region.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Weifeng Liu, Jian Zhao, Yulong Deng, Nanning Li
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Patent number: 12122376Abstract: A method for controlling vehicle propulsion may include identifying at least one route characteristic of a portion of a route being traversed by a vehicle and determining a profile for a target vehicle speed based on the at least one route characteristic and a vehicle energy consumption profile. The method may also include, in response to detecting a lead vehicle, determining a vehicle speed of the lead vehicle and determining whether to avoid triggering initiation of the vehicle follow mode by the vehicle propulsion controller based on (i) a distance between the vehicle and a triggering threshold and (ii) the vehicle speed of the vehicle. The method may also include, in response to not triggering vehicle follow mode, determining, based on the vehicle speed of the lead vehicle and the profile for the target vehicle speed, a traveling distance between the vehicle and a trigger threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Delphi Technologies IP LimitedInventors: Li Tang, Neeraj Rama, Peter Michael Olin
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Patent number: 12123438Abstract: A main controller generates a supplemented design face that passes through a junction or above the junction between a first design face and a second design face adjacent to each other, among a plurality of design faces, the supplemented design face having one end thereof positioned on the first design face and another end thereof positioned on the second design face, sets a curvature 1/R of the supplemented design face according to an arm operation amount of an operation lever device, and executes semi-automatic excavation control to control a boom cylinder with one of the faces included in the supplemented design face being set as the target face.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisami Nakano, Hiroaki Tanaka, Yusuke Suzuki, Akihiro Narazaki
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Patent number: 12118885Abstract: A server, a personal mobility communicating with the server and a vehicle are provided. The server includes a transceiver that communicates with vehicles and a plurality of personal mobility. A controller sets a geo-fence area based on a size information of the vehicles and a size information of the plurality of personal mobility during cluster driving. The controller determines driving positions of the vehicles as primary in the set geo-fence area based on the size information of the vehicles, determines driving positions of the plurality of personal mobility as secondary in the set geo-fence area based on the size information of the plurality of personal mobility and adjusts layout information for the driving positions determined as the primary and the secondary to be transmitted to the vehicles and the plurality of personal mobility.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Minjae Park, Seunghyun Woo
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Patent number: 12116255Abstract: A materials handling vehicle includes: a power unit including: a steered wheel, and a steering device for generating a steer control signal; a load handling assembly coupled to the power unit; a controller located on the power unit for receiving the steer control signal; and a sensing device on the power unit and coupled to the controller. The sensing device monitors areas in front of and next to the vehicle. Based on sensing device data, the controller may modify at least one of the following vehicle parameters: a maximum allowable turning angle or a steered-wheel-to-steering-device ratio.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Sebastian Theos, Andreas Simon, Juergen Buchmann, René Konzack, Christian Molnar, Alfonso Costas
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Patent number: 12110012Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is mounted in a subject vehicle provided with a running planning unit configured to calculate one or more candidate routes on which the subject vehicle is to travel. The vehicle control apparatus predicts an action of a prediction target moving body that includes the subject vehicle and at least one moving body present in a vicinity of the subject vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Maeda, Atsushi Baba
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Patent number: 12104918Abstract: A computer system can estimate preparation times associated with items offered by a plurality of entities to manage a service over a given geographic region. The computer system can receive, from a user device of a user, a request that indicates a user selection of a first set of one or more items to be provided by a first entity and a second set of one or more items to be provided by a second entity. The network system can determine a route of travel for a service provider to navigate in fulfilling the request. The route of navigation can be determined based at least in part on a first set of preparation timing information associated with the first set of one or more items and a second set of preparation timing information associated with the second set of one or more items.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jason Droege, Stephen Chau, Andrew Timothy Szybalski
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Patent number: 12105521Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile robot system for autonomously traveling in a travel area, and a method for generating boundary information of the mobile robot system, the mobile robot system being characterized by comprising: a transmitter for transmitting a transmission signal including location information; and a mobile robot which moves and rotates on the basis of the separation distance to the transmitter and the angle with respect to the transmitter, and generates boundary information on a travel area by using a movement path, wherein the transmitter moves along the periphery of the mobile robot and changes the separation distance and the angle to control the travel of the mobile robot.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sungyeon Park, Jeongwoo Ju
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Patent number: 12106674Abstract: A terrestrial acoustic sensor array for detecting and preventing airspace collision with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a plurality of ground-based acoustic sensor installations, each of the acoustic sensor installations including a sub-array of microphones. The terrestrial acoustic sensor array may further include a processor for detecting an aircraft based on sensor data collected from the microphones of at least one of the plurality of acoustic sensor installations and a network link for transmitting a signal based on the detection of the aircraft to a control system of the UAV.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.Inventors: Jay B. Cleckler, Jesse L. Klang, Sheida Danesh, Mark E. Walker, James A. Wes, Robert Francis Dircks
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Patent number: 12097874Abstract: A system in facility includes a plurality of electric mobility vehicles, and a server which stores information of the electric mobility vehicles. In this system in facility, a user operates one of the electric mobility vehicles to move the electric mobility vehicle, after the user finishes using the electric mobility vehicle, the electric mobility vehicle moves to a standby area by automatic driving, and usage information of the electric mobility vehicle by the user is stored in a management data in a server, and at least one of a seating sensor for a seat unit and a occupancy sensor for a luggage carrier of the electric mobility vehicle is provided in each of the electric mobility vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Whill, Inc.Inventors: Yusuke Takei, Kharisma Adi Perdana Nitiputra, Wei Shun Kao