Patents by Inventor Brace H Bade

Brace H Bade has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Rev-matching without gear or clutch position sensors
    Patent number: 9567920
    Abstract: Rev-matching techniques that do not require a gear position sensor or a clutch position sensor are provided for a manual transmission of a vehicle. The techniques include predicting an intent of a driver to shift gears of the manual transmission based on whether the vehicle is accelerating or decelerating; predicting a shift of the manual transmission from a current gear to a different target gear based on the predicted driver intent; and detecting a trigger condition indicative of the predicted shift of the manual transmission based on a position of a clutch pedal configured to control engagement/disengagement of a clutch of the manual transmission. In response to detecting the trigger condition, a torque request for the torque generating system is modified to obtain a modified torque request, and the torque generating system is controlled based on the modified torque request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Craig B Ashmore, Brace H Bade, Ryan Masters, Robert Stack
  • REV-MATCHING WITHOUT GEAR OR CLUTCH POSITION SENSORS
    Publication number: 20160290252
    Abstract: Rev-matching techniques that do not require a gear position sensor or a clutch position sensor are provided for a manual transmission of a vehicle. The techniques include predicting an intent of a driver to shift gears of the manual transmission based on whether the vehicle is accelerating or decelerating; predicting a shift of the manual transmission from a current gear to a different target gear based on the predicted driver intent; and detecting a trigger condition indicative of the predicted shift of the manual transmission based on a position of a clutch pedal configured to control engagement/disengagement of a clutch of the manual transmission. In response to detecting the trigger condition, a torque request for the torque generating system is modified to obtain a modified torque request, and the torque generating system is controlled based on the modified torque request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Craig B Ashmore, Brace H Bade, Ryan Masters, Robert Stack