Patents by Inventor Shichao You

Shichao You 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: 11472236
    Abstract: A method for determining a tread depth of a tread of a tire during operation of a vehicle having the tire, a control device for a vehicle for determining a tread depth of a tread of a tire of the vehicle, and a system for a vehicle having such a control device and at least one electronic wheel unit, are provided. Provision is made to determine the tread depth based on a determined instantaneous dynamic wheel radius of a wheel, having the tire, of the vehicle and a determined instantaneous dynamic inside radius of the tire. In addition, at least one further first operating parameter of the tire, selected from the group including an instantaneous roadway gradient, an instantaneous vehicle drive mode and an instantaneous tire material expansion, is determined and taken into consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Kretschmann, Shichao You
  • Patent number: 11124026
    Abstract: Thread depth ascertainment for vehicle tires involves a plurality of vehicles transmitting respective adaptation data to a central data processor. The data processing device forming optimization data on the basis thereof and transmitting the optimization data to the vehicles. The adaptation data are formed by the vehicles based on tire type, mileage and rotation speed of the tire and a velocity of the vehicle and at least one operating parameter of the tire, and the optimization data are used by each of the vehicles for ascertaining the tread depth of a relevant tire based on model of the ascertained tire type, wherein the model supplies the tread depth based on the rotation speed of the tire, the velocity of the vehicle and at least one operating parameter of the tire using at least one model parameter, which is determined based on the optimization data received from the central data processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Kretschmann, Shichao You
  • Publication number: 20210268851
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for detecting a faulty arrangement of a sensor module in a sensor module holder in a tire of a vehicle equipped with a tire monitoring system. The detection of a faulty arrangement of a sensor module may be performed by ascertaining on the basis of a comparison of the operating parameters determined by the sensor modules of the tire monitoring system that there is for this sensor module a discrepancy, dependent on a speed of the vehicle, between the operating parameter and an operating parameter to be expected for this sensor module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Parthiv Dharamshi, Matthias Kretschmann, Shichao You, Michael Löffler
  • Publication number: 20210008933
    Abstract: A method for determining a tread depth of a tread of a tire during operation of a vehicle having the tire, a control device for a vehicle for determining a tread depth of a tread of a tire of the vehicle, and a system for a vehicle having such a control device and at least one electronic wheel unit, are provided. Provision is made to determine the tread depth based on a determined instantaneous dynamic wheel radius of a wheel, having the tire, of the vehicle and a determined instantaneous dynamic inside radius of the tire. In addition, at least one further first operating parameter of the tire, selected from the group including an instantaneous roadway gradient, an instantaneous vehicle drive mode and an instantaneous tire material expansion, is determined and taken into consideration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: MATTHIAS KRETSCHMANN, SHICHAO YOU
  • Publication number: 20200189328
    Abstract: Thread depth ascertainment for vehicle tires involves a plurality of vehicles transmitting respective adaptation data to a central data processor. The data processing device forming optimization data on the basis thereof and transmitting the optimization data to the vehicles. The adaptation data are formed by the vehicles based on tire type, mileage and rotation speed of the tire and a velocity of the vehicle and at least one operating parameter of the tire, and the optimization data are used by each of the vehicles for ascertaining the tread depth of a relevant tire based on model of the ascertained tire type, wherein the model supplies the tread depth based on the rotation speed of the tire, the velocity of the vehicle and at least one operating parameter of the tire using at least one model parameter, which is determined based on the optimization data received from the central data processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Matthias Kretschmann, Shichao You