Patents by Inventor David Andrew Clare
David Andrew Clare 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).
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Patent number: 7349776Abstract: A vehicle control system has a plurality of subsystem controllers including an engine management system 28, a transmission controller 30, a steering controller 48, a brakes controller 62 and a suspension controller 82. These subsystem controllers are each operable in a plurality of subsystem modes, and are all connected to a vehicle mode controller 98 which controls the modes of operation of each of the subsystem controllers so as to provide a number of driving modes for the vehicle. Each of the modes corresponds to a particular driving condition or set of driving conditions, and in each mode each of the functions is set to the function in mode most appropriate to those conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2003Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Anthony Francis Spillane, William Burdock, David Andrew Clare, Derek Leslie Jones, John Anthony Kellett, Jan Pieter Prins, Keith Gary Reginald Parsons, Paul Malcolm Darnell
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Patent number: 7162346Abstract: A vehicle mode controller, a driving mode collecting means, and a plurality of subsystem controllers including an engine management system, a transmission controller, a steering controller, a brakes controller and a suspension controller, provide an improved system and method of operating a vehicle control system in a host vehicle in a manner suitable for a respective driving surface in a plurality of different off-road surfaces and terrains such as might be encountered when driving off-road. An improved method is provided for controlling a vehicle control system by avoiding unplanned combinations of subsystem configuration modes and minimizing the transition time when changing between subsystem configuration modes.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2004Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Adrian Berry, Tim Slaney, Adrie Breugelmans, Jan Prins, Derek Jones, Nick Moore, David Andrew Clare, David Armstrong, Richard Cook, Keith Gary Reginald Parsons, Sam Anker, David Inch, Scott Dicken, Phil Guest, Andrew Cotta
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Publication number: 20030200016Abstract: A vehicle control system comprises a plurality of subsystem controllers including an engine management system 28, a transmission controller 30, a steering controller 48, a brakes controller 62 and a suspension controller 82. These subsystem controllers are each operable in a plurality of subsystem modes, and are all connected to a vehicle mode controller 98 which controls the modes of operation of each of the subsystem controllers so as to provide a number of driving modes for the vehicle. Each of the modes corresponds to a particular driving condition or set of driving conditions, and in each mode each of the functions is set to the function mode most appropriate to those conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2003Publication date: October 23, 2003Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Anthony Francis Spillane, William Burdock, David Andrew Clare, Derek Leslie Jones, John Anthony Kellett, Jan Pieter Prins, Keith Gary Reginald Parsons, Paul Malcolm Darnell
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Patent number: 6419240Abstract: A vehicle roll control system is disclosed in which a pair of vertically spaced lateral accelerometers (28, 30) are used to measure lateral acceleration as well as vehicle body roll and to measure cornering acceleration by measuring the lateral acceleration not produced by body roll.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2001Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: Land RoverInventors: William Burdock, David Andrew Clare
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Patent number: 6282471Abstract: An active vehicle roll control system is disclosed in which a roll bar (22) has two halves (22a, 22b) which can be locked together to allow the system to operate passively. A sensing system based on a lateral accelerometer and vehicle speed sensor is arranged to detect when the vehicle is on a side slope and to put the roll control system into the passive mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2000Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Land Rover Group LimitedInventors: William Burdock, David Andrew Clare
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Patent number: 6179310Abstract: A vehicle roll stabilizing system uses front and rear stabilizer assemblies (23, 24) which each use a stabilizer bar (24) and a hydraulic ram (33, 35) to resist vehicle roll. Selector valves (43, 44) select pressure from a pump (36) or return hydraulic oil to a reservoir (37) according to 4 modes, two of which the selector valve is in an on and an off condition, respectively. A diverter valve (73) operates to control the pump pressure in proportion to lateral acceleration to provide an actuator effort which resists roll during vehicle cornering. This effort is provided up to a limit equivalent to a lateral acceleration of approximately 0.4 g after which roll is allowed to increase, either by keeping the pump pressure (and hence effort) constant or by increasing the pump pressure at a reduced rate.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1999Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: Rover Group LimitedInventors: David Andrew Clare, Phillip James Green, William Burdock, Mark Pask
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Patent number: 6015155Abstract: A motor vehicle suspension system includes rear suspension units to adjust ride height between sprung and unsprung parts of the vehicle, control means for monitoring and maintaining ride height at a particular setting and wheel speed monitoring means for monitoring wheel speeds. The control means provides a corrective up height change signal in the event of an unrequested height change and there existed before the unrequested height change a wheel speed signal indicative of vehicle movement. The corrective height change signal may be applied to each suspension unit or the control means may monitor abnormal vehicle activity and provide the corrective height change signal to the appropriate suspension unit. One example of abnormal vehicle activity is when the wheel speeds differ significantly, the control means responding to provide the corrective height change signal to the suspensions unit on the side of the vehicle with the highest wheel speed.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1997Date of Patent: January 18, 2000Assignee: Rover Group LimitedInventors: Graham Robert Brookes, David Andrew Clare, Phillip James Green, Richard John Smith, Richard Graham Woodhouse
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Patent number: RE46828Abstract: A vehicle control system has a plurality of subsystem controllers including an engine management system 28, a transmission controller 30, a steering controller 48, a brakes controller 62 and a suspension controller 82. These subsystem controllers are each operable in a plurality of subsystem modes, and are all connected to a vehicle mode controller 98 which controls the modes of operation of each of the subsystem controllers so as to provide a number of driving modes for the vehicle. Each of the modes corresponds to a particular driving condition or set of driving conditions, and in each mode each of the functions is set to the function in mode most appropriate to those conditions.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover LimitedInventors: Anthony Francis Spillane, William Burdock, David Andrew Clare, Derek Leslie Jones, John Anthony Kellett, Jan Pieter Prins, Keith Gary Reginald Parsons, Paul Malcolm Darnell
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Patent number: RE49258Abstract: A vehicle control system has a plurality of subsystem controllers including an engine management system 28, a transmission controller 30, a steering controller 48, a brakes controller 62 and a suspension controller 82. These subsystem controllers are each operable in a plurality of subsystem modes, and are all connected to a vehicle mode controller 98 which controls the modes of operation of each of the subsystem controllers so as to provide a number of driving modes for the vehicle. Each of the modes corresponds to a particular driving condition or set of driving conditions, and in each mode each of the functions is set to the function in mode most appropriate to those conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Inventors: Anthony Francis Spillane, William Burdock, David Andrew Clare, Derek Leslie Jones, John Anthony Kellett, Jan Pieter Prins, Keith Gary Reginald Parsons, Paul Malcolm Darnell