Patents by Inventor Hakan Westerblad

Hakan Westerblad 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: 8742910
    Abstract: An impact alert system and method for reducing personal injury at vehicle impact, include at least one sensor arrangement adapted to monitor the surroundings of a vehicle, and to generate surrounding signals dependent thereon, a control unit adapted to receive the surrounding signals, and to evaluate the signals in order to predict an impact situation depending on the signals: The control unit is further adapted to, provided that an impact situation is predicted, determine the impact situation depending on the signals, and to determine an optimal muscle activation for an occupant for the impact situation, whereby the system is adapted to make an occupant in vehicle start achieve the optimal muscle activation before the impact situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: Teknikkonsult Eriksson-Viotti Handelsbolag, Handelsbolaget Westerblad Utbildningskonsult
    Inventors: Hakan Westerblad, Anders Eriksson
  • Publication number: 20120050026
    Abstract: An impact alert system and method for reducing personal injury at vehicle impact, include at least one sensor arrangement adapted to monitor the surroundings of a vehicle, and to generate surrounding signals dependent thereon, a control unit adapted to receive the surrounding signals, and to evaluate the signals in order to predict an impact situation depending on the signals: The control unit is further adapted to, provided that an impact situation is predicted, determine the impact situation depending on the signals, and to determine an optimal muscle activation for an occupant for the impact situation, whereby the system is adapted to make an occupant in vehicle start achieve the optimal muscle activation before the impact situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: Hakan Westerblad, Anders Eriksson
  • Publication number: 20040092456
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for identifying agents modulating store-operated Ca2+ entry and thereby modulating glucose uptake in mammalian cells. Such compounds may be useful for the treatment of diseases connected with reduced glucose uptake, such as type 2 diabetes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Abram Katz, Hakan Westerblad