Patents by Inventor Klas Kuntzel

Klas Kuntzel 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: 9129508
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system to avoid traffic accident by waking up, without false alarm, a sleeping or completely inactive motor vehicle driver. The method and the system utilizes simultaneously at least four different specified detections with so arranged thresholds for wake-up alarm, that the driver after waking up without false alarm has the possibility to avoid an impending traffic accident by evasive maneuver and other vehicle control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: SVENSKA UTVECKLINGS ENTREPRENOREN SUSEN AB
    Inventor: Klas Kuntzel
  • Patent number: 8810412
    Abstract: An arrangement to awaken a sleeping driver or operator of a vehicle, a vessel, an aeroplane or any other system that is controlled by a person, includes a detection part that is arranged to measure movements of a control element that belongs to the vehicle with which control element the driver has hand contact, a calculation circuit arranged to compare movements of the control element over time, and an alarm part arranged to produce vibrations in the control element. The calculation circuit is arranged to activate the alarm part when no movement of the control element has occurred during a pre-determined period, which pre-determined period indicates that the driver has fallen asleep, and in that all the parts are mounted on or are integrated with the control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Svenska Utvecklings Entreprenoren Susen AB
    Inventor: Klas Küntzel
  • Publication number: 20130032002
    Abstract: A vibration arrangement for a vehicle steering wheel includes at least one steering wheel vibrator assembly at or in the ring of the steering wheel, the steering wheel ring having a metallic part that is mechanically coupled to a steering wheel hub and where the at least one vibrator assembly is arranged to produce a frequency of vibration. The vibrator assembly includes a vibrator coupled to an elongate ring-shaped vibration body, arranged to lie around at least a majority of the steering wheel ring without being in contact with the metallic part of the steering wheel ring. The vibration body is arranged to be positioned close to an external surface cover of the steering wheel, which a driver grips while controlling the vehicle. The vibrator assembly can produce a vibration to alert the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT
    Inventor: Klas Küntzel
  • Publication number: 20120154156
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system to avoid traffic accident by waking up, without false alarm, a sleeping or completely inactive motor vehicle driver. The method and the system utilizes simultaneously at least four different specified detections with so arranged thresholds for wake-up alarm, that the driver after waking up without false alarm has the possibility to avoid an impending traffic accident by evasive maneuver and other vehicle control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: VENSKA UTVECKLINGS ENTREPRENOREN SUSEN AB
    Inventor: Klas Kuntzel
  • Patent number: 7961085
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and an arrangement for ensuring through active monitoring an attentive manual control of a dynamic system. The method and the arrangement use the tactile ability of the human hand to receive, particularly when the muscles are relaxed, certain types of vibrations through two sets of sensitive corpuscle in the human skin, known as the Meissner corpuscles and the Pacinian corpuscles, and the ability of the brain to provide an immediate response to these signals in the same interface to the object that the two sets of sensitive corpuscle are touching during the control and with immediate feedback from the control device of the dynamical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: AUTOLIV Development AB
    Inventors: Sven Almqvist, Klas Küntzel
  • Publication number: 20100188233
    Abstract: An arrangement to awaken a sleeping driver or operator of a vehicle, a vessel, an aeroplane or any other system that is controlled by a person, includes a detection part that is arranged to measure movements of a control element that belongs to the vehicle with which control element the driver has hand contact, a calculation circuit arranged to compare movements of the control element over time, and an alarm part arranged to produce vibrations in the control element. The calculation circuit is arranged to activate the alarm part when no movement of the control element has occurred during a pre-determined period, which pre-determined period indicates that the driver has fallen asleep, and in that all the parts are mounted on or are integrated with the control element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: SVENSKA UTVECKLINGS ENTREPRENOREN SUSEN AB
    Inventor: Klas Kuntzel
  • Publication number: 20090273458
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and an arrangement for ensuring through active monitoring an attentive manual control of a dynamic system. The method and the arrangement use the tactile ability of the human hand to receive, particularly when the muscles are relaxed, certain types of vibrations through two sets of sensitive corpuscle in the human skin, known as the Meissner corpuscles and the Pacinian corpuscles, and the ability of the brain to provide an immediate response to these signals in the same interface to the object that the two sets of sensitive corpuscle are touching during the control and with immediate feedback from the control device of the dynamical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Sven Almqvist, Klas Küntzel