Patents by Inventor William Joseph Chundrlik, Jr.

William Joseph Chundrlik, Jr. 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).

  • Adaptive cruise control system
    Patent number: 6622810
    Abstract: An adaptive cruise control system that provides a smooth following by limiting the headway to keep it lower than a predetermined maximum. The present invention accomplishes this objective through systematically limiting the headway. In particular, the present invention reduces a time related speed multiplier used in calculating the desired headway, to maintain a headway that is less than an effective maximum sensor range for the adaptive cruise control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Pamela Irene Labuhn, William Joseph Chundrlik, Jr., Edward Harold Schmidt
  • Cut-in management for an adaptive cruise control system
    Patent number: 6223117
    Abstract: A vehicle having an adaptive cruise control system with active deceleration control responds to capture of new in-path vehicles which violate a predetermined inter-vehicle spacing to attenuate unnecessarily aggressive deceleration responses. New in-path vehicles may be identified by inordinate changes in inter-vehicle spacing. Deceleration response of the system to controlled vehicle closing rate and new in-path vehicle deceleration preferably remain unattenuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Pamela Irene Labuhn, William Joseph Chundrlik, Jr., Scott Anthony Rush
  • Active vehicle deceleration in an adaptive cruise control system
    Patent number: 6009368
    Abstract: A vehicle adaptive cruise control system having active deceleration control provides for appropriate decelerations consistent with the objectives of preventing the vehicle from violating a desired minimum distance from a preceding vehicle and efficient utilization of road space through minimization of inter-vehicle spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Pamela Irene Labuhn, William Joseph Chundrlik, Jr.