Patents by Inventor Eric W. Day

Eric W. Day 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).

  • Patent number: 7604272
    Abstract: A cargo cover assembly for covering a cargo area of a vehicle including: a housing; a panel portion secured to the housing, wherein the panel portion is configured to roll and unroll within the housing, a flexible rod associated with the panel portion and moveable with respect to the housing, and wherein when the cargo cover assembly is in an unretracted position, the panel portion is unrolled from the housing and the flexible rod flexes outwardly to substantially match a posterior portion of the cargo area so that the cargo cover assembly substantially conceals the cargo area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric W. Day
  • Publication number: 20090174225
    Abstract: A cargo cover assembly for covering a cargo area of a vehicle including: a housing; a panel portion secured to the housing, wherein the panel portion is configured to roll and unroll within the housing, a flexible rod associated with the panel portion and moveable with respect to the housing, and wherein when the cargo cover assembly is in an unretracted position, the panel portion is unrolled from the housing and the flexible rod flexes outwardly to substantially match a posterior portion of the cargo area so that the cargo cover assembly substantially conceals the cargo area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric W. Day
  • Patent number: 5184134
    Abstract: A phase difference autofocus method that only requires one FFT for estimating a phase error in the entire synthetic array radar data. The phase difference autofocus method of the present invention automatically and efficiently estimates phase errors from radar signals, allowing a well focused SAR image to be produced. The present method comprises the following steps. First, each range bin is divided into two subarrays. Next, the two subarrays are complex-conjugate multiplied together to produce a cross spectrum of the two submaps produced by the subarrays. Then, the phases of each cross spectrum are aligned with an accumulated sum of the cross spectrums from previous processed range bins. The phase aligned cross spectrum is then added to the accumulated cross spectrum sum. All range bins are processed to get a final cross spectrum sum. Next, a single FFT is performed on the final cross spectrum sum to produce the cross correlation function. Then, the cross correlation function is magnitude-detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: Yoji G. Niho, Eric W. Day, Tammy L. Flanders