Patents by Inventor James Barrette

James Barrette 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: 11878674
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an all-wheel-drive powertrain having an electric machine configured to power wheels. A controller is programmed to output a first calculated vehicle speed derived from integrating a measured longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle and output a second calculated vehicle speed based on the measured longitudinal acceleration and a speed of one of the wheels. The controller is further programmed to, responsive to a flag being present, command a speed to the electric machine that is based on the first vehicle speed to reduce wheel slip, and responsive to a flag not being present, command a speed to the electric machine that is based on the second vehicle speed to reduce wheel slip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jose Velazquez Alcantar, Joseph Jay Torres, Peter James Barrette, Richard David Bruns, Corwin Stout, Rajit Johri
  • Patent number: 11752865
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a primary axle drivably connected to the engine, and a secondary axle drivably connected to the engine by a clutch. A controller is programmed to, in response to map data indicating that the vehicle is off-road, enable an off-road transfer torque control mode in which temperatures of the clutch are compared to a lower threshold. The controller is further programmed to, in response to the temperature of the clutch exceeding the lower threshold, display a message to a driver indicative of rising temperatures of the clutch, and, in response to a temperature of the clutch exceeding an upper limit, enable a power limiting mode in which torque of the engine is limited to a predefined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Guopeng Hu, Ashok Eugene Rodrigues, Zhengyu Dai, Peter James Barrette
  • Publication number: 20230192064
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an all-wheel-drive powertrain having an electric machine configured to power wheels. A controller is programmed to output a first calculated vehicle speed derived from integrating a measured longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle and output a second calculated vehicle speed based on the measured longitudinal acceleration and a speed of one of the wheels. The controller is further programmed to, responsive to a flag being present, command a speed to the electric machine that is based on the first vehicle speed to reduce wheel slip, and responsive to a flag not being present, command a speed to the electric machine that is based on the second vehicle speed to reduce wheel slip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Jose VELAZQUEZ ALCANTAR, Joseph Jay TORRES, Peter James BARRETTE, Richard David BRUNS, Corwin STOUT, Rajit JOHRI
  • Patent number: 11584352
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an electric machine and a controller. The controller is programmed to responsive to a threshold difference, indicative of wheel slip, between average wheel speed and a vehicle speed that is based on a difference between wheel acceleration and measured vehicle acceleration, command a speed to the electric machine to reduce the wheel slip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jose Velazquez Alcantar, Joseph Jay Torres, Peter James Barrette, Richard David Bruns, Corwin Stout, Rajit Johri
  • Patent number: 11260742
    Abstract: One axle of a hybrid vehicle is powered by an electric motor while a second axle of the vehicle is powered by a powertrain that includes an internal combustion engine. The electrically driven axle can be controlled in a speed control mode or in a torque control mode based on a driver demanded torque. The speed control mode is used when slip is detected at the electrically driven axle. The torque control mode is used when the electrically driven axle has traction. During a transition between these modes, the rate of change of torque is controlled to a predetermined level to mitigate noise, vibration, and harshness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jose Velazquez Alcantar, Joe Jay Torres, Peter James Barrette, Richard David Bruns, Corwin Stout, Rajit Johri
  • Publication number: 20210367859
    Abstract: The disclosure reveals a system and approach for remote health monitoring and diagnostics of room controllers, networks and devices. A master room controller may be used to open a system health page or a diagnostic page for other controllers. A system health page may provide an overview of virtually all of the other room controllers. A tool of the present system may be used to trouble shoot issues remotely at another room controller in lieu of doing a visit to the respective room controller. A user may navigate from the system health page to virtually any place on the room controller to diagnose issues. The navigation may be done by hyper linking from the system health page. The healthy controllers may be hidden from the page so that the unhealthy systems can be viewed in one shot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ajay Nair, Upender Paravastu, Jijji Ramanathan, Mallikarjuna Nonayinakere Sugandharajappa, James Barrette, Liwen Yu, Christopher Martin, Wei Hua, Robert Klamka
  • Patent number: 10737680
    Abstract: An electrified axle system includes a pair of wheels, a super positioning torque vectoring differential coupled between the wheels, and a controller. The super positioning torque vectoring differential includes a traction motor and a vectoring motor. The controller operates the vectoring motor in speed control mode to reduce a speed difference between the wheels responsive to the difference exceeding a threshold, and operates the vectoring motor in torque control mode responsive to the difference falling within a target range and an accelerator pedal position achieving a value that depends on lateral acceleration associated with the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jose Velazquez Alcantar, Joseph Jay Torres, Peter James Barrette, Rajit Johri, Ming Lang Kuang, Corwin Stout, Jonathan Craig Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20200108816
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an electric machine and a controller. The controller is programmed to responsive to a threshold difference, indicative of wheel slip, between average wheel speed and a vehicle speed that is based on a difference between wheel acceleration and measured vehicle acceleration, command a speed to the electric machine to reduce the wheel slip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Jose VELAZQUEZ ALCANTAR, Joseph Jay TORRES, Peter James BARRETTE, Richard David BRUNS, Corwin STOUT, Rajit JOHRI
  • Publication number: 20200070809
    Abstract: One axle of a hybrid vehicle is powered by an electric motor while a second axle of the vehicle is powered by a powertrain that includes an internal combustion engine. The electrically driven axle can be controlled in a speed control mode or in a torque control mode based on a driver demanded torque. The speed control mode is used when slip is detected at the electrically driven axle. The torque control mode is used when the electrically driven axle has traction. During a transition between these modes, the rate of change of torque is controlled to a predetermined level to mitigate noise, vibration, and harshness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Jose Velazquez Alcantar, Joe Jay Torres, Peter James Barrette, Richard David Bruns, Corwin Stout, Rajit Johri
  • Patent number: 10514817
    Abstract: Intelligent gadgets to visualize critical environmental data in wet chemistry laboratories, and a healthcare and life science environment that are easy to configure, customize and deploy for web dashboard presentation. It may further reveal an intuitive dashboard framework for creating, managing and publishing a collection of visualization gadgets for critical environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Hua, Christopher Martin, Ajay Nair, Prabhat Ranjan, James Barrette, Liwen Yu, Upender Paravastu, Robert Klamka, Barnali Chetia, Naveen Kumar Dindukurthi Sivaprasad, Nilesh Mahadeorao Akode
  • Publication number: 20190338842
    Abstract: An electrified axle system includes a pair of wheels, a super positioning torque vectoring differential coupled between the wheels, and a controller. The super positioning torque vectoring differential includes a traction motor and a vectoring motor. The controller operates the vectoring motor in speed control mode to reduce a speed difference between the wheels responsive to the difference exceeding a threshold, and operates the vectoring motor in torque control mode responsive to the difference falling within a target range and an accelerator pedal position achieving a value that depends on lateral acceleration associated with the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Jose Velazquez Alcantar, Joseph Jay Torres, Peter James Barrette, Rajit Johri, Ming Lang Kuang, Corwin Stout, Jonathan Craig Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10332043
    Abstract: An approach for managing a job that may provide a logical model of one or more structures as a configuration for deployment to, for instance, one or more site controllers. A job may be newly created, an existing job, or a remote job. A portal may be established for connection to a relevant job station. A physical view and a network node may be established for showing the physical and network views. The relevant job station may incorporate configurations that support a workbench, a dashboard and gadgets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ajay Nair, Wei Hua, Liwen Yu, Christopher Martin, Upender Paravastu, James Barrette, Prabhat Ranjan, Robert Klamka
  • Patent number: 10228837
    Abstract: An intuitive dashboard framework for creating, managing and publishing a collection of visualization gadgets for critical environments. It may further reveal intelligent gadgets to visualize critical environmental data in wet chemistry laboratories, and a healthcare and life science environment that are easy to configure, customize and deploy for a web dashboard presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Hua, Christopher Martin, James Barrette, Liwen Yu, Ajay N. Nair, Prabhat Ranjan, Barnali Chetia, Upender Paravastu, Robert Klamka, Sreedharan Venkataraman
  • Publication number: 20160337203
    Abstract: The disclosure reveals a system and approach for remote health monitoring and diagnostics of room controllers, networks and devices. A master room controller may be used to open a system health page or a diagnostic page for other controllers. A system health page may provide an overview of virtually all of the other room controllers. A tool of the present system may be used to trouble shoot issues remotely at another room controller in lieu of doing a visit to the respective room controller. A user may navigate from the system health page to virtually any place on the room controller to diagnose issues. The navigation may be done by hyper linking from the system health page. The healthy controllers may be hidden from the page so that the unhealthy systems can be viewed in one shot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Ajay Nair, Upender Paravastu, Jijji Ramanathan, Mallikarjuna Nonayinakere Sugandharajappa, James Barrette, Liwen Yu, Christopher Martin, Wei Hua, Robert Klamka
  • Publication number: 20150212717
    Abstract: An approach for dashboard and point configuration. A dashboard may be provided for a particular environment and have user defined gadgets. The dashboard and gadgets may be mapped to a web dashboard. The dashboard may be modified and configured. The gadgets may be moved, reconfigured and resized on the dashboard. A user may have a single view where the control points may be viewed and identify to which an entity that they are mapped. There may be a customized view of where the points can be identified that have been associated to which dashboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ajay Nair, Liwen Yu, Wei Hua, Prabhat Ranjan, Upender Paravastu, Robert Klamka, Christopher Martin, Sreedharan Venkataraman, Jijji Ramanathan, James Barrette
  • Publication number: 20150212714
    Abstract: An intuitive dashboard framework for creating, managing and publishing a collection of visualization gadgets for critical environments. It may further reveal intelligent gadgets to visualize critical environmental data in wet chemistry laboratories, and a healthcare and life science environment that are easy to configure, customize and deploy for a web dashboard presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Hua, Christopher Martin, James Barrette, Liwen Yu, Ajay N. Nair, Prabhat Ranjan, Barnali Chetia, Upender Paravastu, Robert Klamka, Sreedharan Venkataraman
  • Publication number: 20150213379
    Abstract: An approach for managing a job that may provide a logical model of one or more structures as a configuration for deployment to, for instance, one or more site controllers. A job may be newly created, an existing job, or a remote job. A portal may be established for connection to a relevant job station. A physical view and a network node may be established for showing the physical and network views. The relevant job station may incorporate configurations that support a workbench, a dashboard and gadgets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ajay Nair, Wei Hua, Liwen Yu, Christopher Martin, Upender Paravastu, James Barrette, Prabhat Ranjan, Robert Klamka
  • Publication number: 20150168949
    Abstract: Intelligent gadgets to visualize critical environmental data in wet chemistry laboratories, and a healthcare and life science environment that are easy to configure, customize and deploy for web dashboard presentation. It may further reveal an intuitive dashboard framework for creating, managing and publishing a collection of visualization gadgets for critical environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Hua, Christopher Martin, Ajay Nair, Prabhat Ranjan, James Barrette, Liwen Yu, Upender Paravastu, Robert Klamka, Barnali Chetia, Naveen Kumar Dindukurthi Sivaprasad, Nilesh Mahadeorao Akode
  • Patent number: 7124850
    Abstract: A four wheel drive assembly 10 including a torque transfer assembly 60 which operates under the control of the controller 62 and which receives and selectively transfers a certain desired amount of torque to a front axles 14, 15 and to the rear axles 14 17. The amount of transferred torque varies depending upon the occurrence of a sensed slip condition the use of a pre-emptive slip control mode of operation in which the controller 62 determines that it is likely that a slip may occur. Particularly, controller 62 is allowed to enter the preemptive mode of operation only after an actual slip has occurred and the controller 62 exits this preemptive mode of operation upon the occurrence of a certain event or condition or upon the passage of a certain amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Syun Kyung Lee, Ashok Rodrigues, John Antoni Glab, Dana Joseph Katinas, Peter James Barrette
  • Publication number: 20030168274
    Abstract: A four wheel drive assembly 10 including a torque transfer assembly 60 which operates under the control of the controller 62 and which receives and selectively transfers a certain desired amount of torque to a front axles 14, 15 and to the rear axles 14 17. The amount of transferred torque varies depending upon the occurrence of a sensed slip condition the use of a pre-emptive slip control mode of operation in which the controller 62 determines that it is likely that a slip may occur. Particularly, controller 62 is allowed to enter the preemptive mode of operation only after an actual slip has occurred and the controller 62 exits this preemptive mode of operation upon the occurrence of a certain event or condition or upon the passage of a certain amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Syun Kyung Lee, Ashok Rodrigues, John Antoni Glab, Dana Joseph Katinas, Peter James Barrette