Patents Issued in February 25, 2016
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Publication number: 20160052487Abstract: A seatbelt assembly includes an adjuster having a guide slidable in a first direction. The assembly also includes a cover defining upper and lower edges and coupled with the guide and first and second extension plates slidably disposed relative to the cover in the first direction so as to be extendable respectively from the upper and lower edges thereof and to be retractable behind the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: William Bauer, John Andrew Stakoe, Mahesh Bhattacharyya, Paul Tuomisto, Christopher Donald Schop
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Publication number: 20160052488Abstract: In a through anchor (10), a guide piece (24) is molded in an area around a through hole (16) in an anchor plate (12), webbing (30) is inserted through an insertion hole (26) in the guide piece (24) in such a way that the webbing is movable along a lengthwise direction, and the webbing (30) is slidably supported on a sliding surface (28) of the guide piece (24). Here, the guide piece (24) is placed only on the whole circumference of the through hole (16) in the anchor plate (12) and allows an entire outer peripheral end surface (12C) of the anchor plate (12) to be exposed. For this reason, the use amount of molding resin of the guide piece (24), which is molded from a relatively high-grade resin, and the cost of the through anchor (10) can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventor: Tadao ITO
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Publication number: 20160052489Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a steering lock device that can prevent improper access to a cylinder lock due to the deformation of a mounting hole formed in a cut-out shape. The steering lock device comprises: a frame (4) that is provided with a cylindrical section (1) open at one end, and that houses a lock body (3) which moves in and out of a steering column as a result of the manipulation of a cylinder lock (2) secured in the cylindrical section (1); and a mounted member (6) that is mounted in a mounting hole (5), one end of which opens to the open end of the cylindrical section (1) and is formed in a cut-out shape. At both side ends of the mounting hole (5), to-be-locked sections (9) are provided that regulate the widthwise deformation of the mounting hole (5) by locking circumferentially with locking sections (8) of an inserted member (7) which is inserted into the cylindrical section (1) within the frame (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Toshikazu KISO, Takashi YOSHIZAWA, Yoshio WATANUKI
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Publication number: 20160052490Abstract: A system for extending a vehicular alarm system includes a base unit and a remote unit. The system is configured to extend the vehicular alarm system to an accessory or equipment secured to, carried by (e.g., outside or inside) or in proximity to an automobile and/or to equipment secured to the accessory. The base unit is configured to be carried by the automobile and to communicate with the vehicular alarm system. The base unit may be configured to mimic activation of a sensor of the vehicular alarm system in a manner that can activate the vehicular alarm system. The remote unit is configured to be carried by the accessory, and may sense removal of the accessory from the automobile, opening of the accessory and/or removal of equipment from the accessory. Methods for extending a vehicular alarm system to operate with one or more accessories are also disclosed, as are methods for detecting and providing an alarm when an accessory or equipment secured by the accessory is undesirably disturbed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: James L. Hardy, Joseph M. Graham
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Publication number: 20160052491Abstract: A windscreen wiper device (1) of the flat blade type includes an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade (2) of a flexible material, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped, which wiper blade (2) includes at least one longitudinal groove (3) on its longitudinal sides, in which groove (3) a longitudinal strip (4) of the carrier element is disposed, which windscreen wiper device comprises a connecting device (7) for an oscillating arm (8). A wall of the groove (3) facing towards the strip (4) and/or a longitudinal side of the strip (4) facing towards the wall is/are provided with a noise dampening profile along at least a part of its/their length.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2013Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventor: THOMAS FRISCIONI
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Publication number: 20160052492Abstract: A wiper blade assembly for a windshield wiper. In one embodiment, the wiper blade assembly includes a connector mounted on a blade support element. The connector has a receiving portion shaped to receive a first part of the end portion of a wiper arm and further has a securing portion shaped to secure a second part of the end portion of the wiper arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: Valeo Wischersysteme GmbHInventors: Andreas FINK, Wolfgang Scholl, Gerhard Schremmer
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Publication number: 20160052493Abstract: A vehicle braking arrangement includes a braking plate connected to a vehicle by a link arrangement. The braking plate is movable from a rest position to a braking position where contact is made with the ground, and includes a sealing rim arranged to at least partially contact the ground such that an at least partly enclosed volume is formed. The vehicle braking arrangement includes a low pressure container connected to the volume via a valve assembly. Air pressure in the low pressure container is below the air pressure of ambient air in the rest position of the braking plate. The valve assembly is arranged to be opened when the braking plate is in the braking position such that the pressure is lowered in the volume and the braking plate is pressed against the ground by a conferred pressure difference between air outside the volume and air in the volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2013Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventors: Erik RYDSMO, Yngve HÄLAND, Christian SVENSSON, Dan BRÅSE
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Publication number: 20160052494Abstract: A brake, system includes a hydraulic brake that supplies a hydraulic pressure to a cylinder provided correspondingly to each wheel mounted on a vehicle, thereby pressing friction members against the wheels and applying a hydraulic braking force; an electric brake that is mounted on at least one wheel from among the wheels and applies a braking force to the wheel by drive of an electric actuator; and a controller that executes control of supply of hydraulic pressure to each wheel cylinder by the hydraulic brake and operation control of the electric brake, regardless of a braking request by a driver, and causes a transition from hydraulic braking force control of all of the wheels to hydraulic braking force control of the wheel on which the electric brake has been mounted, when a speed of the vehicle satisfies a condition during the hydraulic braking force control of all of the wheels.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Shinsuke YAMAMOTO, Hiroshi OMINE
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Publication number: 20160052495Abstract: A braking apparatus 1 of a vehicle includes: a hydraulic brake device 4 that brakes the vehicle via friction in response to operation of a brake pedal; a regenerative brake device 5 that performs regenerative braking using, as an electricity generator, a motor 3 for running the vehicle; and a collision avoidance device 20 that performs automatic braking of the vehicle by controlling operation of the hydraulic brake device 4 in accordance with obstacle detection information detected by an obstacle detection device 21, to avoid collision of the vehicle with an obstacle, wherein an electric servo brake controller 10 of the collision avoidance device 20 terminates activation of the regenerative braking, if activated, before the automatic braking is started by the collision avoidance device 20.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki NAKASO, Kazufumi HAYASHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20160052496Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a brake system that can generate appropriate braking force without influence of temperature. A brake system includes: a piston that presses pressing members; a motor that moves the piston; a current detection unit that detects current flowing in the motor; a storage unit that stores a correspondence relation between idle running current and motor stopping current; a motor stopping current setting unit that sets the motor stopping current using the storage unit and the idle running current; and a control unit that stops to supply the current to the motor when the current flowing in the motor reaches the motor stopping current. The correspondence relation is set so that the rate of change of the motor stopping current relative to the idle running current becomes smaller when the idle running current is small than that when it is large.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Shinji SETO, Tatsuro KOBUNE, Takayasu SAKASHITA
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Publication number: 20160052497Abstract: A hydraulic fluid container for a hydraulic brake system, includes a hydraulic interface for connecting the hydraulic fluid container to another component. The hydraulic fluid container has a container housing, and the interface includes at least one connector arranged on the container housing, the connector received in a receiving seat of the other component. The connector has a channel which ensures a hydraulic connection between an interior of the container housing and the other component. A blocking device for blocking the hydraulic connection is provided, wherein the blocking device is opened when the connector is received in the receiving seat, the blocking device having a movable valve piston and a sealing element. The aim of the invention is to improve the blocking device and reduce the space requirement and assembly complexity. This is achieved in that the sealing element is designed to secure the position of the valve piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Werner Krebs, Stephan Schlicht, David Sibr
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Publication number: 20160052498Abstract: A brake-hydraulic-pressure control device includes: a regulator including a movable member which is driven by input hydraulic pressure as hydraulic pressure in an input chamber, the regulator being capable of controlling output hydraulic pressure using movement of the movable member; and an input-hydraulic-pressure control device capable of controlling the input hydraulic pressure to control hydraulic pressure in a plurality of brake cylinders. The plurality of brake cylinders include at least one brake cylinder as a first brake cylinder connected to the input chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroshi ISONO
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Publication number: 20160052499Abstract: The invention relates to a control device for an electrically-driven vacuum pump. The control device stops operation of an electrically-driven vacuum pump for generating negative pressure in a negative pressure chamber of a brake booster when the vacuum pump is operated and a gradient of increasing of a booster negative pressure representing a magnitude of a difference between pressure in the negative pressure chamber and the atmospheric pressure is smaller than or equal to a predetermined stop gradient threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Yoshihide SEKIYA, Shoji OZAKI
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Publication number: 20160052500Abstract: For ascertaining at least one variable regarding a state of a brake fluid in a brake system of a vehicle, an evaluation unit is configured to determine the at least one variable by taking into account at least one pair of values of a provided or ascertained volume flow variable regarding a volume flow of at least a portion of the brake fluid through a flow resistance in the brake system and a provided or ascertained associated pressure drop variable regarding a pressure drop at the flow resistance through which the volume flow flows. For the at least one pair of values taken into account, a volume flow variable lies within a first specified limited value range and the pressure drop variable lies within a second specified limited value range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Bertram FOITZIK, Dagobert MASUR
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Publication number: 20160052501Abstract: A method and device for ascertaining at least one variable regarding a state of a brake fluid in a brake system of a vehicle includes a device determining a volume flow variable regarding a volume flow, which flows via a simulator separation valve into a simulator by taking into account at least one displacement speed variable regarding a displacement speed of a brake pedal/rod piston; determining a simulator internal pressure variable regarding a simulator internal pressure by taking into account at least one pedal travel variable regarding a pedal travel; determining a pressure difference variable regarding a pressure difference at the simulator separation valve by taking into account the simulator internal pressure variable and an admission pressure variable regarding an admission pressure; and determining at least one variable by taking into account the at least one determined volume flow variable and the at least one determined pressure difference variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Wadim DARSCHT, Benjamin ARDOUIN, Daniel FRANK, Cedric PINARD
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Publication number: 20160052502Abstract: Methods for testing the operation of an aircraft braking system utilize the steps of applying a predetermined electrical energy level to an electromechanical actuator attached to a brake assembly, followed by discontinuing electrical energy to the electromechanical actuator. In some test methods, an actuation level of the electromechanical actuator is determined and used to evaluate braking performance. In other tests, a voltage generated by an electric motor in an actuator is measured and used to evaluate braking performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: GOODRICH CORPORATIONInventors: Eric Cahill, Marc Georgin
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Publication number: 20160052503Abstract: An apparatus is to be operated relative to a working surface; the apparatus includes a user-platform assembly configured to support a user in response to the user positioned on the user-platform assembly; an air-thrusting assembly operatively coupled to the user-platform assembly, and the air-thrusting assembly configured to thrust air along: a first direction relative to the working surface in such a way that the air-thrusting assembly urges the user-platform assembly to vertically hover, at least in part, over the working surface; and a second direction relative to the working surface in such a way that the user-platform assembly travels, at least in part, horizontally along the working surface while the air-thrusting assembly urges the user-platform assembly to vertically hover, at least in part, over the working surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Cameron HOWELL, Paul OSTLUND, Anuj SARASWAT
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Publication number: 20160052504Abstract: A travel control device includes: an engine; an automatic transmission including a plurality of engagement elements and a rotary element, the automatic transmission being configured to block power transmission between the engine and a drive wheel of a vehicle and set a transmission gear ratio in accordance with an engagement element to be engaged out of the plurality of engagement elements; and a controller configured to perform free-running by blocking power transmission between the engine and the drive wheel while traveling at a predetermined transmission gear ratio and stopping the engine. The controller is configured to increase speed of a rotary element inside the automatic transmission during the free-running, and start the engine at a time speed of the engine becomes higher than a predetermined speed at a time of returning from the free-running.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masami KONDO, Takahiro YOKOKAWA, Youhei HAREYAMA
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Publication number: 20160052505Abstract: A vehicle propulsion system includes a plurality of power sources coupled to a final drive of the vehicle propulsion system. A controller is programmed to determine a desired power demand from the power sources and operate a number of the power sources to produce the desired power demand. The controller identifies a least efficient power source of the power sources and controls the least efficient power source to produce power at an optimum operating point of the least efficient power source. The controller also identifies a power output of the least efficient power source corresponding to the optimum operating point, compares the power output of the least efficient power source to the desired power demand, identifies a remaining power demand from the comparison, and controls another power source to produce the remaining power demand.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventor: Zhi Zhou
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Publication number: 20160052506Abstract: A method for determining a control parameter of a power or torque distribution regulator for a hybrid drive of a work machine having the steps of automatically determining a work cycle that has just been performed by the work machine, and selecting of the control parameter as a function of the work cycle determined in the previous step.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: PHILIPP MUENCH, FLORIAN REINMUTH, THOMAS FLOERCHINGER, BARBARA BOEHM
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Publication number: 20160052507Abstract: A method of determining an equivalence energy factor representing weighting applied between an infeed of energy of thermal origin and an infeed of energy of electrical origin, to minimize on an operating point overall energy consumption of a hybrid motor propulsion plant for an automotive vehicle including a heat engine and at least one electric motor powered by a battery. This factor is controlled in a discrete manner as a function of an instantaneous state of energy of the battery, and of an energy target, and as a function of the vehicle running conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2013Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: RENAULT S.A.S.Inventors: Maxime DEBERT, Yann CHAMAILLARD, Guillaume COLIN
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Publication number: 20160052508Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an engine; a motor, a catalyst used to purify exhaust gas of the engine, and an ECU configured to control the engine and the motor according to an output request of the hybrid vehicle, execute a target engine output keeping control for controlling an engine output such that the, target engine output keeps at a predetermined value during warm-up of the catalyst, and set an engine speed to a first engine speed when the target engine output keeping control is executed, the first engine speed being lower than a lower limit engine speed at which the engine is operated without executing the target engine output keeping control.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuta TERAYA, Daigo ANDO, Hidekazu NAWATA, Tatsuya FUJII
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Publication number: 20160052509Abstract: Systems and methods for improving launching of a stopped hybrid vehicle are presented. The systems and methods adjust speed of a motor to reduce the possibility of noticeable impact between driveline gears during vehicle launch. In one example, motor speed is adjusted to a pump pressurization speed where driveline components may be moved to reduce impact between driveline gears during vehicle launch.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Mark Steven Yamazaki, Wei Liang, Xiaoyong Wang, Rajit Johri, Jeffrey Allen Doering, Ming Lang Kuang, Chen Zhang, Scott James Thompson
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Publication number: 20160052510Abstract: A method of controlling a vehicle with a hybrid powertrain with an engine and a motor/generator includes monitoring net axle torque on the drive axle, monitoring vehicle deceleration rate, monitoring vehicle speed, and controlling the motor/generator to stop rotation of the engine crankshaft when the vehicle speed is non-zero and below a predetermined vehicle speed auto-stop enable threshold if torque percentage braking torque is greater than a predetermined percentage braking torque and the vehicle deceleration rate is greater than a predetermined threshold vehicle deceleration rate. A hybrid vehicle has a controller with a processor that executes a stored algorithm to carry out the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: William L. Aldrich, III, Paul S. Lombardo, Jeffrey R. Aldrich
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Publication number: 20160052511Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle includes a push-start mode and a motor start mode. The push-start mode transmits a driving force from driving wheels to the engine via a first transmission route at a speed detected by a speed detection means equal to or more than a predetermined speed to start the engine. The motor start mode starts the engine using a driving force of the motor at a speed equal to or less than the predetermined speed as well as in a stopped state. At a speed outside a speed range that either mode is executable when a start command of the engine occurs in driving only using the electric motor as the driving source, a control means performs the driving force reduction control for reducing a driving force transmitted from the electric motor to the driving wheels of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro TAKEUCHI, Atsushi IZUMIURA, Masanori MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20160052512Abstract: A method for controlling a hybrid vehicle having an internal combustion engine and an electric machine includes the following steps: (a) sending data indicative of a current location of the hybrid vehicle to a command center after the hybrid vehicle experiences the loss of propulsion; (b) sending data indicative of a desired destination to the command center; (c) receiving a remedial action command from the command center, wherein the remedial action command is based, at least in part, on vehicle operating parameters, the current location of the hybrid vehicle, and the desired destination; and (d) commanding the hybrid vehicle to perform a remedial action corresponding to the remedial action command, wherein the remedial action allows the hybrid vehicle to travel from the current location to a predetermined location after the hybrid vehicle has experienced the loss of propulsion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventor: Keith D. Buford
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Publication number: 20160052513Abstract: A travel assistance apparatus includes aerodynamic devices that execute a travel assistance for stabilizing a behavior of a vehicle and a calculation apparatus for controlling the aerodynamic devices in response to a disturbance to the behavior of the vehicle caused by an airflow around the vehicle, the calculation apparatus controls the aerodynamic devices in response to the disturbance in an unsteady state in which the disturbance is unsteady between two steady states in which the disturbances caused by the airflow are steady.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2013Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masatsugu ISHIBA
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Publication number: 20160052514Abstract: Systems and methods use cameras to provide autonomous navigation features. In one implementation, a driver assist navigation system for a primary vehicle may include at least one image capture device configured to acquire a plurality of images of an area in a vicinity of the primary vehicle; a data interface; and at least one processing device. The at least processing device may be configured to: receive the plurality of images via the data interface; identify a target object within the plurality of images; monitor, via the plurality of images, a motion of the target object and a distance between the primary vehicle and the target object; determine an indicator of an intercept time between the primary vehicle and the target object based on the monitored motion and the distance between the primary vehicle and the target object; and cause a response in the primary vehicle based on a comparison of the intercept time to a plurality of predetermined intercept thresholds.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: MOBILEYE VISION TECHNOLOGIES LTD.Inventors: Anna Clarke, Eyal Bagon
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Publication number: 20160052515Abstract: A method and an apparatus for predicting a collision are provided. The method includes calculating, by a controller, a driving trajectory of the subject vehicle based on a yaw rate using driving information of the subject vehicle. In addition, the controller is configured to calculate a driving trajectory of a target vehicle for a predetermined period of time that uses driving information of the target vehicle that includes information from an imaging device, configured to obtain a front image, and radar sensors installed on a plurality of locations. Further, the method also includes predicting classified collision types by analyzing a collision possibility between the subject vehicle and the target vehicle based on the driving trajectory of the subject vehicle and the driving trajectory of the target vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Jae Woong Choi, Kwang Jin Park
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Publication number: 20160052516Abstract: The present inventive concept relates to a method and apparatus for detecting quickly and consistently a poor driving pattern for the change status of a lateral position of a vehicle and effectively warning a poor driving situation by applying a lane departure warning system assisting a driver of a vehicle by recognizing and tracking a lane.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Jin Kwon KIM, Sam Yong KIM, Ho Choul JUNG, Byoung Joon LEE
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Publication number: 20160052517Abstract: Systems and methods for improving launching of a stopped hybrid vehicle are presented. The systems and methods adjust speed of a motor to reduce lag between an increase in driver demand torque and torque being produced at vehicle wheels. In one example, motor torque is adjusted to a maximum motor torque to improve vehicle launch during select conditions where driver demand torque is not a maximum level.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Francis Thomas Connolly, Daniel Colvin, Xiaoyong Wang, Jeffrey Edwin Knutson
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Publication number: 20160052518Abstract: A torque converter for coupling an engine to a manual transmission and a method of controlling the same are provided. The torque converter includes a housing rotating with the engine, a cover abutting the housing, a stator, a pump circulating fluid within the torque converter, and a turbine driven by the circulating fluid. An integrated disconnect clutch controls pump speed and a torsional damper attenuates vibrations transmitted through the housing. A first output shaft is coupled with the turbine and drives a first forward gear of the manual transmission while permitting slip. A second output shaft is coupled with the torsional damper, the integrated disconnect clutch, and the pump and drives at least one other forward gear of the manual transmission without slip. An output connection member rotatably couples the pump with the torsional damper, the integrated disconnect clutch, and the second output shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventor: Hamid VAHABZADEH
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Publication number: 20160052519Abstract: An example method of controlling an electrified vehicle includes activating a coast switch to a place an electrified vehicle in a coast mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Douglas Raymond Martin, Kenneth James Miller, William Perkins, Derek Hartl
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Publication number: 20160052520Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a controller configured to allow cranking of an engine by increasing clutch torque at a time a deceleration request is detected during free running in which a vehicle is allowed to run in a state in which a clutch is disengaged and the engine is stopped, and make an increasing rate of the clutch torque larger at a time a negative pressure of a brake booster is small than at a time the negative pressure of the brake booster is large.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro YOKOKAWA, Masami KONDOU, Youhei HAREYAMA
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Publication number: 20160052521Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for distributing a braking force to braking units upon braking of an eco-friendly vehicle equipped with a motor. The distribution of a braking force of a vehicle includes a creep torque to calculate a total braking force and distribute the total braking force to each braking unit to provide a more uniform braking force based on a vehicle speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Woo Cheol Cho, Deok Keun Shin
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Publication number: 20160052522Abstract: Vehicle control system and method provided to change speed ratio smoothly when switching a power transmission route from a route including a geared transmission to a route including a continuously variable transmission. Vehicle control system applied to a vehicle comprising: continuously variable transmission for changing speed ratio continuously is disposed between input shaft and output shaft; geared transmission is disposed parallel to the continuously variable transmission, and is adapted to establish speed ratio that cannot be established by continuously variable transmission; and friction clutch is brought into engagement to switch torque transmission route from a route including the geared transmission to a route including the continuously variable transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2013Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji MATSUO, Yusuke OHGATA, Daisuke INOUE, Atsushi AYABE, Motonori KIMURA, Shuhei ISHIKAWA, Akira HINO, Hiroki KONDO
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Publication number: 20160052523Abstract: A portable apparatus for the receipt and analysis of a breath-carried component, such as alcohol, includes a sensor module for receiving breath samples of a subject and detecting the presence of the component to be monitored; a module for monitoring and determining the location of the apparatus; a module for the acquisition of characteristics of the subject providing the sample and processing them into a form that allows comparison to a database of individuals and their characteristics; a control module coupling and controlling the other modules of the apparatus into a operable system; and a power supply. A wireless communication module is provided to transmit data associated with a sample, the subject providing the sample, and the location of the apparatus to a remote receiver for further analysis, processing and/or storage. The apparatus may be used in a vehicle for driver breath monitoring or may be carried by an individual to allow sampling to be performed at various locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: John Ruocco, Ronald A. Koppel
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Publication number: 20160052524Abstract: A system and method for alerting drowsy driving are provided. The system includes a d controller configured to analyze a driving pattern of a vehicle to detect a dangerous driving pattern. In addition, the controller is configured to analyze a face image of a driver to detect an eye pattern maintained for a predetermined period of time or longer. Further, the controller is configured to determine that the driver is driving while drowsy when the eye closing for the predetermined period of time or longer and the dangerous driving pattern are simultaneously detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Jin Kwon Kim, Sam Yong Kim, Ho Choul Jung, Byoung Joon Lee
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Publication number: 20160052525Abstract: An operator assistance system for an agricultural machine which has at least one variable operating parameter which influences a plurality of different result parameters of the working result of the machine is equipped with an input device, a processor and a display device. The processor is programmed to receive, via the input device an input of a selectable result parameter, to be optimized, of the working result for an operation to be carried out, to calculate an optimized operating parameter on the basis of the input, and to output, on the display device, an expected value, associated with the optimized operating parameter, for the working result of the machine for the operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: ZEYNEP TUNCER, GEORG KORMANN, PATRICK E. PINKSTON
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Publication number: 20160052526Abstract: A vehicle configured to be moved along a rail includes rollers which in use engage the rail such that each roller has a contact area with which the roller is in contact with the rail. The contact areas of the rollers are positioned to define a beam with a longitudinal beam axis, a rectangular form in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal beam axis and a first beam side, a second beam side, a third beam side and a fourth beam side, in which the first and third beam side extend perpendicular to the second and fourth beam side, at least two rollers define the first beam side, two rollers define the second beam side, one roller defines the third beam side, and one roller defines the fourth beam side. An assembly includes the vehicle and a rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventor: Oscar Slurink
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Publication number: 20160052527Abstract: A vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, includes a gas-suctioning device for suctioning gas located in the vehicle. At least one section of a suctioning line of the gas-suctioning device is routed through a luggage rack element attached in the interior of the vehicle, is held on the luggage rack element or formed by the luggage rack element. An assembly having a gas-suctioning device and a method for operating a gas-suctioning device are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventor: ANDREAS DENKER
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Publication number: 20160052528Abstract: A device, proposed for conveying material during track laying, includes material-conveying silo units which can be moved on a track and receive material between side walls which define the silo chamber on a bottom conveyor belt for conveying the material along the bottom. A material-conveying silo includes a plurality of material silo units which are coupled to one another and, in the region of their end faces which face one another, include devices for transferring the material from one material-conveying silo unit to the next material-conveying silo unit. In order to increase the useful volume of the material-conveying silo, the material-conveying silo is of articulated configuration, where the frames of two material-conveying silo units which adjoin one another are supported in an articulated manner on a common running gear, and the silo chamber is of continuous configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventor: Bernhard Lichtberger
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Publication number: 20160052529Abstract: Provided is a guide device for a guide rail-type vehicle which travels while being guided along a travel track. The guide device is provided with: guide wheels which include main guide wheels and branched guide wheels, the main and branched guide wheels being in contact with and roll on guide rails arranged on both sides of the travel track; steering arms which steer the vehicle; and elastic support members which each includes one end affixed to each of the steering arms and which each includes the other end including guide wheels rotatably supported thereon, the elastic support members absorbing an impact load by deflecting about the one end thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaru TACHIBANA, Akihiro NIIZEKI, Junji KAMATANI, Akira KOMOTO
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Publication number: 20160052530Abstract: A railcar draft gear assembly specifically designed to consistently and repeatedly withstand up to about 110,000 ft-lbs of energy imparted thereto while not exceeding a force level of 900,000 lbs. and while having a wedge member of the draft gear assembly travel in an inward axial direction of less than about 4.5 inches relative to an open end of the draft gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: MINER ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Donald E. WILT, Robert J. POKORSKI, Keith A. Salis, Erich A. SCHOEDL
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Publication number: 20160052531Abstract: The invention relates to a device for communicating and monitoring railway tracks, noteworthy in that it comprises a plurality of communicating and monitoring terminals (100) arranged along the tracks, each terminal (100) comprising: an image-capturing module (200); a wireless communicating module (500) allowing the terminals to communicate with each other and with trains; a module (300) for storing electrical power, continuously supplying the image-capturing module (200) and the communicating module (500) with power; and a module (400) for supplying the storing module (300) with power, comprising at least one means for recovering energy from the air displaced by trains (T) running over the railway track, with the aim of enabling permanent monitoring via the image capture and of making permanent wireless connections available to the trains. The invention also relates to a method of operating said device. Application: communication and monitoring for railway tracks.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventor: Morou BOUKARI
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Publication number: 20160052532Abstract: A washout detector apparatus includes a detector member movably disposed in at least a portion of a detector housing, the detector housing is configured to be secured to a structure. A biasing device is disposed in and positioned to bias the detector member in a direction out from the portion of the detector housing towards a surface perpendicular to the structure. An indicator is coupled to the detector member to provide a condition of the surface based on movement of the detector member with respect to the surface. A method for making a washout detector apparatus is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventor: Mark E. Combs
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Publication number: 20160052533Abstract: A supporting bracket is suitable for standing on a working platform and adapted to hold an electronic device having a screen and provide illumination. The supporting bracket includes a base, a supporting arm apparatus, and a lighting device. The base is suitable for being fixed to the working platform. The supporting arm apparatus has a first segment and a second segment. One end portion of the first segment is connected to the base. The first segment is able to rotate relative to the base. One end portion of the second segment is connected to the other end portion of the first segment. The other end portion of the second segment serves to hold the electronic device. The second segment is able to rotate relative to the first segment. The lighting device is fixed to the supporting arm apparatus to provide illumination.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Fang-Chi Wu, Yu-Min Cho, Jian-Yuan Lai
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Publication number: 20160052534Abstract: A transformative hand cart with a cart body, a first and second handle member translatably coupled to a first and second respective ends of the cart body, a left and right support rail translatably coupled to a left and right respective sides of the cart body, a first and second end support member translatably coupled to a first and second respective ends of the cart body, and a plurality of wheels coupled to the cart body, wherein the first and second handle members, the left and right support rails, and the first and second end support members are at least partially recessed into the upper surface of the cart body in a storing position and are operable to independently open in various positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventor: Elvis Henao
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Publication number: 20160052535Abstract: Disclosed herein is a design for start-assist pedal assembly typically used for a cart or dolly that includes a pedal mounted to a support arm. An arched foot arm is pivotally attached to the support arm and a roller is supported by the arched foot arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Ross Groat, Wade Panton, Judy Simpson, Bradley Simpson
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Publication number: 20160052536Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a steering shaft bearing unit for supporting a steering shaft of a motor vehicle fed through the steering shaft bearing unit such that the steering shaft can be rotated about a longitudinal axis, wherein the steering shaft bearing unit has a first jacket part and at least one second jacket part and the second jacket part, guided in at least one slide bearing of the first jacket part, is supported in the first jacket part such that the second jacket part can be moved along the longitudinal axis, wherein the slide bearing has at least two slide bearing parts and during the assembly of the steering shaft bearing unit the second jacket part is inserted between the slide bearing parts in a first step, then the slide bearing parts are pressed against the second jacket part in a relative motion toward each other in a second step, and thereafter the slide bearing parts are fixed in the position in the first jacket part achieved by means of the relative motion in a thirdType: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AGInventors: Matthias NICOLUSSI, Hieronymus SCHNITZER, Odisseas GOGOS, Benjamin PLESCHKE, Hannes KURZ