Patents by Inventor Nathan Billy

Nathan Billy 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).

  • Publication number: 20220187250
    Abstract: A tire damage detection system for a vehicle includes: a tire; at least one sensor disposed in association with the tire to detect a noise signal when the tire rolls on a road surface to move the vehicle, the noise signal having a plurality of frequency peaks in a frequency spectrum of the noise signal; and a processor to monitor target frequency peaks of the frequency spectrum to detect damage of the tire, and to generate an alert signal in response to the detection of the damage of the tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Dong Y Lee, Aaron Neumann, Nathan Billy, Lin Kung
  • Publication number: 20220176750
    Abstract: A tire for a vehicle includes: a tread extending in a circumferential direction about a rotational axis of the tire; and wear indicators disposed in the tread and spaced apart from each other to be arranged in the circumferential direction. A harmonic noise signal caused by the tire when the tire rolls on a road surface to move the vehicle has neighboring first and second frequency peaks in a frequency spectrum of the harmonic noise signal, and the number of the wear indicators is in a range of 16 to 96 to generate, and when the tire rolls to move the vehicle at a speed in a target range, the wear indicators cause an additional frequency peak positioned between the first and second frequency peaks in the frequency spectrum when the tread is worn to reach a wear threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron Neumann, Nathan Billy, Dong Y. Lee, Lin Kung