Patents Issued in September 15, 2016
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Publication number: 20160264048Abstract: A system for indicating braking intensity to a main vehicle has an observational device monitoring positional and speed data of at least one vehicle proximate the main vehicle. A control unit is coupled to the observational device. The control unit processes the positional and speed data monitored by the observational device and generates graphical representations of the at least one vehicle proximate the main vehicle and graphical representations of a braking intensity level of the at least one vehicle proximate the main vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Karlin Bark, Cuong Tran, Timothy Michael Stutts
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Publication number: 20160264049Abstract: A dynamically adjusting surveillance system provides a monitor on one or both sides of a vehicle, each monitor including one or more cameras capturing an image that includes a key region. The monitors can display this key region to a driver of the vehicle. The key region can be updated based on the activities of the driver. For example, the key region can change to provide a desirable view for the driver before, during and after a turn is made. An angular sensor can be used to detect the position of the vehicle in the turn to dynamically update the key region displayed to the driver. The key region can be changed at a sufficient frequency so that a gradual and smooth view is provided to the driver during the turn.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: RAZMIK KARABED
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Publication number: 20160264050Abstract: A dynamically adjusting surveillance system provides a monitor on one or both sides of a vehicle, each monitor including one or more cameras capturing an image that includes a key region. The monitors can display this key region to a driver of the vehicle. The key region can be updated based on the activities of the driver. For example, the key region can change to provide a desirable view for the driver before, during and after a turn is made. An angular sensor, or a steering wheel position sensor and odometer, can be used to detect the position of the vehicle in the turn to dynamically update the key region displayed to the driver. The key region can be changed at a sufficient frequency so that a gradual and smooth view is provided to the driver during the turn. This view may be in a consistent direction throughout the turn.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: RAZMIK KARABED
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Publication number: 20160264051Abstract: A system and method is presented for the enhancement of a user's vision using a head-mounted device. The user is presented with an enhanced view of the scene in front of them. One system and method reduces the glare from lights or the sun. Another system and method provides increased contrast for the darkest parts of a scene.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Visionize Corp.Inventor: Frank Werblin
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Publication number: 20160264052Abstract: A tow hitching aid system for a vehicle having a hitching ball for connecting to a hitching receiver of a trailer includes a camera disposed at the vehicle and having a field of view that encompasses the hitching ball of the vehicle. The system also includes a plurality of distance measuring sensors disposed at the vehicle. A display screen is disposed in the vehicle and is viewable by a driver of the vehicle when the driver is normally operating the vehicle. A control receives input from the camera and input from the distance measuring sensors. During a tow hitching maneuver, the display screen displays video images captured by the camera, and at least one graphic overlay is superimposed over the displayed video images to assist the driver during the tow hitching maneuver to connect the hitching ball of the vehicle with the hitching receiver of the trailer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Niall R. Lynam, John O. Lindahl
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Publication number: 20160264053Abstract: A process for providing an interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes providing a mirror reflective element and forming a mirror backplate and a mounting base, with the mounting base formed separate from the mirror backplate. The mounting base is configured for attachment at an interior portion of a vehicle and includes a ball member. A socket element is formed separate from the mirror backplate and separate from the mounting base, and the socket element includes a socket member. The ball member of the mounting base is inserted into the socket member of the socket element to form a ball and socket joint whereby the mounting base pivotally attaches to the socket element. With the mirror backplate attached at the mirror reflective element, the socket element, with the mounting base pivotally attached thereto, is attached to the mirror backplate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: Ryan W. Watson
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Publication number: 20160264054Abstract: An exterior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a mirror head and an exterior mirror reflective element fixedly attached at the mirror head. An attachment portion is configured for attachment at an exterior portion of the vehicle. The mirror assembly includes a multi-axis adjustment mechanism having at least one electrically-operable actuator. The multi-axis adjustment mechanism is operable to move the mirror head, with the exterior mirror reflective element fixedly attached thereto, about multiple axes relative to the attachment portion. The exterior mirror reflective element moves in tandem with movement of the mirror head relative to the exterior portion of the body of the vehicle to adjust the rearward field of view of a driver of the vehicle who views the exterior mirror reflective element when operating the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: John T. Uken, Darryl P. De Wind, Keith D. Foote, Joseph M. Mambourg, Rodney K. Blank, Mark L. Larson, Niall R. Lynam
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Publication number: 20160264055Abstract: An adjustment device for an automotive wing mirror includes an adapter fixed to the wing mirror and having a virtual rotation center and first and second virtual axes perpendicularly intersecting with each other relative to the virtual rotation center, and an adapter driving module to drive the adapter. The adapter driving module includes a bowl-shaped lower shell, an upper shell covering on the lower shell, and two actuator mechanisms. Each actuator mechanism includes a driving motor, a reduction gear set, a clutch assembly meshing with the reduction gear set, and a ring gear meshing with the clutch assembly. The ring gears partially extend through the upper shell and are connected to the adapter on the first virtual axis and the second virtual axis. The adapter is operable of revolving relative to the virtual rotation center in two intersecting directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: Kyongchol Chong
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Publication number: 20160264056Abstract: A vehicle mirror and camera mounting system includes a camera mounting bracket that includes an injection molded bracket formed by injection molding a polymeric molding resin. A camera, when its camera module is attached at the camera mounting bracket at the vehicle windshield, has a field of view through the vehicle windshield. The camera mounting bracket includes a mirror attachment portion configured for attaching an interior rearview mirror assembly thereat. At least one cover element is attached at (i) the camera mounting bracket, (ii) the camera module and/or (iii) the mirror mount so that the camera module and the camera mounting bracket are not readily viewable to a person viewing the construction from inside the vehicle. The mirror mount includes an electrical connector for electrical connection to (i) a connector at the camera module or (ii) a wire harness of the vehicle, with the connection hidden from view.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: John T. Uken, Craig Kendall, Jeremy R. Shooks
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Publication number: 20160264057Abstract: A variable deflector apparatus for a side step of a vehicle may include a drive device, a side deflector operated by power transmitted from the drive device, the side deflector configured to be received in the side step when the side deflector is not deployed and to be perpendicularly drawn out downwards from the side step when the side deflector is deployed, thus improving aerodynamic performance of the vehicle, and a front deflector connecting a front end of the side step with a front end of the side deflector, the front deflector being kept folded when the side deflector is not deployed and configured to be unfolded to cover a lower portion of the front end of the side step when the side deflector is deployed, thus improving the aerodynamic performance of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Seung Mok Lee, Dong Eun CHA, Jin Young YOON, Hyun Gyung KIM
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Publication number: 20160264058Abstract: A package tray supporting structure includes: a first hinge portion; a second hinge portion provided separately above the first hinge portion; a first hinge receiving portion provided at a side surface on a vehicle front side of the package tray, and held between a first surface of the second hinge portion and an outer peripheral surface of the first hinge portion when the package tray is in a horizontal position; and a second hinge receiving portion provided at the side surface on the vehicle front side of the package tray separately from the first hinge receiving portion toward a vehicle rear side and contacts the second surface of the second hinge portion when the package tray is in the horizontal position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masami KISHIMOTO, Ayako Okano, Naoyuki Goto, Kohei Noshiro, Tetsuhiro Mifuchi
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Publication number: 20160264059Abstract: A winding shaft unit for receiving a roller blind sheet in a wound-up condition, wherein the winding shaft unit has a winding tube extending in the direction of a rotation axis and the winding shaft unit has at least one bearing bush inserted into the winding tube, the bush being a terminal closure of the winding tube, wherein the bearing bush has, on a circumferential exterior surface, a contact zone for resting on an interior surface of the winding tube and has, on a circumferential interior surface, a bearing zone for cooperation with a bearing pin. The bearing bush is made partially of a first material and partially of a second material differing from the first material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Guenter RENZ, Cristian WINKLER
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Publication number: 20160264060Abstract: Roof rack assemblies and securing mechanisms for roof rack assemblies are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a securing mechanism includes a track, the track including an upper lip, a lower lip, and at least one notch, a support portion that is configured to translate along the track, the support portion including a lower surface, a rib positioned on the lower surface, where the rib is configured to engage the at least one notch of the track, a release member, and a securing latch, where the securing latch is repositionable between a latched position, in which the securing latch is engaged with the upper lip of the track and the rib is engaged with the at least one notch, and a unlatched position, in which the securing latch is detached from the upper lip of the track and the rib is detached from the at least one notch.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Scott Cronin, Jason Schott
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Publication number: 20160264061Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of the display devices comprising a rectangular display screen, said display device compatible with an aeronautical standard for mechanical interfacing with an instrument panel, said standard being defined by fixing positions and fixing means at said positions. The display device according to the invention comprises: two identical removable mechanical bars of a length equal to the length of the screen, each bar being arranged under one of the long sides of the screen, each bar comprising: first fixing means at said defined fixing positions, said first fixing means arranged so as to fix said bar on the instrument panel; two fixing holes, each fixing hole arranged at one of the ends of said bar, second fixing means making it possible to fix the display device in the four fixing holes of the two bars.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Laurent MOZER, Daniel LARET, Jean-Marie GOY
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Publication number: 20160264062Abstract: An entertainment system for a luxury vehicle that is mounted in a partition that separates a driver from a back seat passenger. The partition provides privacy and the ability to encase large television screens or monitors. The mounted monitor can be lowered to allow for communication with a driver or let the passenger see out the windshield.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: Frank Hodges
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Publication number: 20160264063Abstract: A vision system of a vehicle includes a camera disposed at a vehicle windshield and viewing through the windshield and exterior of the vehicle. A light-absorbing hiding layer is established at the windshield at an area at which the camera is disposed and includes an portion established therethrough, with the portion aligned with the camera such that the camera views through the windshield via the portion. The portion comprises a wider central region and narrower upper and lower regions. The wider central region of the portion provides a wide angle field of view of the camera at a region ahead of the vehicle and the narrower lower region of the portion reduces the field of view at regions near to and sidewards from the front of the vehicle. An image processor is operable to process image data captured by the camera for a machine vision function or driver assistance system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Tom Toma, Alan M. Cordeiro, Ove J. Salomonsson, Garret F. Achenbach
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Publication number: 20160264064Abstract: A vision system of a vehicle includes a camera disposed at an exterior portion of a vehicle and having a field of view exterior of the vehicle. The camera has a camera housing and a lens. A cover element is removably disposed at the camera. The cover element includes a curved transparent portion and a mounting portion. The curved transparent portion of the cover element, when the cover element is disposed at the camera, protects the lens so that the lens is not exposed to the environment external the vehicle. The cover element may be configured to be fixedly mounted at the exterior portion of the vehicle, such that the camera is removably mounted at the vehicle by detachable attachment at the cover element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Steven V. Byrne, Yuesheng Lu, James R. Hough
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Publication number: 20160264065Abstract: A method of manufacturing a vehicle-mounted camera includes previously assuming a plurality of inclination angles as the inclination angles of the glass surface; previously assuming a plurality of positioning angles less than the number of the plurality of inclination angles; determining an inclination angle of the glass surface of the vehicle body on which the vehicle-mounted camera is to be mounted; selecting at least one positioning angle from the assumed plurality of positioning angles; preparing a positioner having the selected positioning angle; and fixing the camera main structure assembly and the selected positioner to the cover enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: Naoya TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20160264066Abstract: A process for providing a vehicular camera includes providing a front housing member and a rear housing member. The front housing member includes a lens member, an imaging element and a circuit board mounted thereat, with the circuit board having at least first and second front housing electrical connectors. The rear housing member includes at least first and second rear housing electrical connectors. The front and rear housing members are positioned so that the first front housing electrical connector aligns with the first rear housing electrical connector and the second front housing electrical connector aligns with the second rear housing electrical connector. The front and rear housing members are joined together to define a camera interior. When the front and rear housing members are joined together, the front housing electrical connectors mechanically contact and electrically connect within the camera interior with the rear housing electrical connectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Clarence P. McElroy, Matthew C. Sesti, Richard Rieden, Steven V. Byrne
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Publication number: 20160264067Abstract: A panel assembly includes at least one reinforcing assembly made of a high strength material having a low yield to tensile strength ratio for energy absorption and reduced weight and profile. The panel assembly may be light-weight with a low profile to minimize protrusion into an opening or compartment enclosed by the panel. The panel assembly may be a floor panel assembly for a vehicle floor. The reinforcing assembly may traverse the panel such that the reinforcing assembly extends laterally, e.g., cross-vehicle, relative to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle body. A method of making the panel assembly may include forming the reinforcing assembly by joining a plurality of metal channel members in a nested arrangement with a plurality of welds to provide a structural assembly with good bending resistance loads imposed on the panel assembly including knee loads. The channel members can be made of dual phase steel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Century Plastics, Inc.Inventors: Joseph W. Marchesano, Calvin A. Saur
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Publication number: 20160264068Abstract: A vehicle interior trim assembly includes a passenger compartment, a first trim assembly, a second trim assembly and a flexible seal member. The first trim assembly is fixedly installed within the passenger compartment and has a first surface. The second trim assembly is fixedly installed within the passenger compartment and has a second surface adjacent to the first surface of the first trim assembly. The first surface and the second surface are spaced apart from one another defining a gap therebetween. The flexible seal member is attached to the one of the first surface and the second surface. The flexible seal member extends along the gap between the first and second surfaces contacting both the first surface and the second surface thereby covering the gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Darin DALTON, Ashley TENNANT, Michael EBERLEIN
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Publication number: 20160264069Abstract: An interior trim element (1) for a motor vehicle, comprising a main part (2), more particularly a trough-shaped main part, that defines an interior space (5), and comprising at least one clip element (7a, 7b), wherein the at least one clip element (7a, 7b) is pivotally hinged to the main part (2) via at least one film hinge (8a, 8b), wherein the film hinge (8a, 8b) is formed on a shoulder (11) created on an edge portion (4a) of the main part (2) that partially delimits the interior space (5), the shoulder (11) being offset with respect to the free end of the edge portion (4a).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: EuWe Eugen Wexler Holding GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Burkhard LIEBAU
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Publication number: 20160264070Abstract: A vehicle operation system includes: a longitudinal member projected and extended from a steering column; an action detecting unit that is arranged at a distal end in a projecting direction of the longitudinal member, and detects an operation form of an operator in operating an onboard device at the distal end or in a sensing space with the distal end being a base point; and a controller that transmits a command to the onboard device based on an output signal from the action detecting unit in accordance with the operation form of the operator. The action detecting unit sets an operation direction along natural movement of a finger of the operator gripping a steering wheel, and allocates a function of the onboard device to the operation direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Shuhei Urakami, Takafumi Saito
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Publication number: 20160264071Abstract: A method for use in an in-vehicle network system is provided. The in-vehicle network system includes a plurality of electronic control units that communicate a data frame having a message authentication code (MAC) added thereto with one another via a bus in accordance with the Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol. The method includes detecting the state of a vehicle having the in-vehicle network system mounted therein and updating a MAC key used to generate the MAC under the condition that the detected state of the vehicle is a predetermined state.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: YOSHIHIRO UJIIE, HIDEKI MATSUSHIMA, TOMOYUKI HAGA, MANABU MAEDA, YUJI UNAGAMI, TAKESHI KISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20160264072Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (2) for transmitting electrical signals to and/or from a rotatable component of a motor vehicle, having a positionally fixed stator (4) which is intended to be installed in a positionally fixed manner in the motor vehicle, and having a rotor (3) which is rotatably mounted on the stator (4) and which is intended to be coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotatable component of the motor vehicle, wherein the stator (4) has a housing (5) in which a flat cable (14) for transmitting the electrical signals is arranged, wherein a connecting piece (6) which is electrically coupled to the flat cable (14) and is designed to be connected to a corresponding mating piece (15) of the rotatable component is arranged on the rotor (3), and wherein the rotor (3) has a viewing window (11) through which it is possible for a viewer looking from outside the housing (5) to identify a reference element (13) of the flat cable (14) in a neutral position of the rotor (3) with respect to thType: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: VALEO Schalter und Sensoren GmbHInventors: Sascha Staude, Rainer Lipfert, Viktoria Schwarz, Roland Gruener, Karl Simonis
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Publication number: 20160264073Abstract: A wire harness is routed from a luggage compartment of an automobile along a hinge arm and toward a luggage door. An extra wire length accommodation case is positioned between the hinge arm and a vehicle body panel of the luggage compartment in a vertical direction which is an operation direction of the hinge arm. The extra wire length accommodation case has a shape that includes an arced wire entrance having a wire harness outlet linked with an arced portion of the hinge arm, and an extra wire length bypass continuous with the arced wire entrance. The wire harness is passed into the extra wire length bypass of the extra wire length accommodation case, then is drawn out through the outlet of the arced wire entrance and routed along the arced portion of the hinge arm toward the luggage door.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Shinji KATOU, Yoshikazu SAKAKIBARA
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Publication number: 20160264074Abstract: A wire harness includes electrical wires and an outer covering member. The outer covering member includes tube portions different in cross-sectional shape and size and a guiding shape portion between adjacent tube portions. The guiding shape portion guides the electrical wires when inserted. A cap is provided to each one end of the electrical wires, and the electrical wires are passed through the guiding shape portion with the caps facing frontward. A wire harness and a method for inserting electric conductive paths through the wire harness can enhance workability related to the electrical conductive paths and an outer covering member while suiting the wire harness to the shapes and the usage environments.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Tatsuya OGA
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Publication number: 20160264075Abstract: A hollow-cylinder-shaped exterior member (20) to house an electric wire bundle (10) that is a bundle of plural electric wires has a bending portion that is bendable in a state that the electric wire bundle (10) is housed in the exterior member. The bending portion has an elliptical sectional shape having two parallel, confronting sides (L1, L2) and two arcs (A1, A2) that link ends of the two sides. The interval Ds between the inside edges of the two sides (L1, L2) and the interval Dl between the deepest points of the inside edges of the two arcs (A1, A2) satisfy equations representing prescribed relationships.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Naoto Kogure
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Publication number: 20160264076Abstract: One end side of a corrugated tube is urged forward or backward in a closing direction, among a circumference direction around a vertical direction passing through the one end of the corrugated tube, in which a slide structural body is closed with respect to a vehicle body so that the corrugated tube is bendable in a U-shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Naoto Kogure
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Publication number: 20160264077Abstract: A system for optimizing energy efficiency in an electrified vehicle includes an HVAC system configured to provide climate control for at least one of (i) a cabin of the electrified vehicle and (ii) a battery system of the electrified vehicle; a regenerative braking system configured to convert the electrified vehicle's kinetic energy into electrical energy; and a controller configured to, based on a vehicle torque request, control a distribution of the electrical energy generated by the regenerative braking system between (i) recharging a battery system of the electrified vehicle and (ii) powering the HVAC system. A method for controlling the HVAC system includes determining, at the controller of the electrified vehicle, the vehicle torque request, and based on the vehicle torque request, controlling, by the controller, the distribution of electrical energy generated by a regenerative braking system between (i) recharging the battery system and (ii) powering the HVAC system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Rami Abousleiman, Kamal Bouyoucef
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Publication number: 20160264078Abstract: Electronic circuitry for mounting on articles, such as vehicles, is concealed by embedding the circuitry using at least an overlying polymeric material within a concealed embedded circuitry structure. The concealed embedded circuitry is capable of ready and effective application to an article and is capable of being retrofitted to articles after their fabrication.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: ENTROTECH, INC.Inventors: James E. McGuire, JR., Andrew C. Strange
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Publication number: 20160264079Abstract: A car door opening detection system and a method thereof are provided. The car door opening detection system includes a transmitter, a sensor, and a control unit. The transmitter is electrically connected to a car circuit of a car. The car circuit is electrically connected to a power source of the car. When a car door of the car is opened, the car circuit is turned on to receive a power from the power source, and the transmitter is enabled to transmit an infrared (IR) signal. The sensor is disposed within the car and faces the transmitter. The sensor receives the IR signal and transmits a corresponding digital signal in response to the IR signal. The control unit is coupled to the sensor and receives the corresponding digital signal. When the corresponding digital signal is classified as a predetermined pattern, the control unit identifies that the car door is opened.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: Hsing-Hung Lu
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Publication number: 20160264080Abstract: Disclosed is a Battery Disconnect Unit that is good in assemblability and couplability because a middle cover accommodated in a lower case stably supports a relay terminal and a guide bar and a hood structure are applied to the middle cover. The BDU is disposed between a battery and an inverter to stably supply or break power of the battery to a power system of a vehicle. The BDU includes a lower case provided in a box shape with a top opened and a middle cover accommodated into and coupled to the lower case to press the relay terminal. A relay terminal hole into which a relay terminal is fitted is disposed on a bottom of the lower case, and an electric component is mounted on a top of the middle cover. A first fixing hook capable of being fastened to the lower case is provided in the middle cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: LSIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Kyoo Seok KIM
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Publication number: 20160264081Abstract: The invention relates to a bumper for a motor vehicle, in particular a front bumper, having at least two deformation bodies which are at a distance from one another and of which the center or longitudinal axes, in the mounted state, are oriented substantially parallel to the direction of travel of the motor vehicle, and having a plurality of crossmembers which have a closed profile and which are arranged one above the other and are connected to the deformation bodies. The crossmembers are formed from a group of at least three crossmembers, wherein the respective crossmember of the group has a cross-sectional profile which comprises at least five corners.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AGInventors: Martin KIBBEN, Rolf Peter RÖTTGER, Markus ZÖRNACK
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Publication number: 20160264082Abstract: A light-weight, high-strength energy absorption assembly is provided. Open cells of a reinforced composite web are filled with an energy absorbing material that defines energy absorbing cells within the web to provide a composite structure. A front component is disposed on a front side of the composite structure and a back component is disposed on a back side of the composite structure to provide an energy absorption assembly having a predetermined distribution profile. The light-weight, high-strength energy absorption assembly may be used in a variety of applications, including vehicle or automotive components, such as part of a bumper assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Elisabeth J. BERGER, Vinayshankar L. VIRUPAKSHA, Jeanne C. POLAN
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Publication number: 20160264083Abstract: An energy absorber includes a main body of a closed cross-sectional structure formed by injection-molding a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic and having a weld line formed thereon. The main body has openings defined in opposite ends thereof, each of the openings being of a polygonal shape. The weld line is formed on a side surface of the main body. A tilt angle of the weld line is set to a value in a range from ?35° to 35° with respect to a reference line interconnecting midpoints on opposite sides of the side surface that are located at the opposite ends of the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: Yuji ISHITSUKA
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Publication number: 20160264084Abstract: The invention concerns a bumper system for a motor vehicle with at least one crashbox, which is arranged by means of a bracket on a bumper cross member, wherein the bracket is provided with a first bracket plate and a second bracket plate, while the first bracket plate bears at least partly against a first limiting element and the second bracket plate against a second limiting element of the bumper cross member, wherein the bumper cross member is taken up in the bracket such that the first bracket plate and/or the second bracket plate extends in the direction of the vehicle longitudinal axis over at least ¾ preferably over 9/10 of the bumper cross member in the direction of a bumper cross member front wall, especially preferably entirely up to the bumper cross member front wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Christian HANDING, Mirko PAARE
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Publication number: 20160264085Abstract: A bumper absorber structure comprising a bumper reinforcement; a bumper cover that is equipped with an air intake opening; an air introduction path that is disposed on a rear side of the bumper cover and that introduces air from the air intake opening toward the vehicle rear side; a grille shutter that is disposed at the air introduction path and on a rear side of the bumper reinforcement and that opens and closes the air introduction path; and a bumper absorber that is attached to a front side of the bumper reinforcement, that is spaced apart from the bumper cover, that forms, together with the bumper reinforcement, a part of the air introduction path, and that has a front side surface on which is formed a raised portion that is in contact with or in close proximity to a back surface of the bumper cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Tomita
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Publication number: 20160264086Abstract: A vehicle air dam assembly is provided which includes a motor, a drive linkage and an active air dam which can be deployed or stowed on a vehicle. The motor is mounted to a vehicle bumper. The drive linkage is coupled to the motor and is affixed to the vehicle bumper. The drive linkage includes a drive member and a biasing means. The active air dam may be coupled to the drive linkage via a four bar linkage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: FLEX-N-GATE CORPORATIONInventors: Guido Benvenuto, Geoffrey Brooks, David Shaw, Wayne Doswell
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Publication number: 20160264087Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle movement control device including: a projection unit that causes a projecting member, that is capable of projecting to a lower side of a vehicle, to project to a position at which the projecting member touches a road surface; and a control unit that, in a case in which a collision of the vehicle is predicted by a prediction unit that predicts a collision of the vehicle, controls the projection unit such that the projecting member projects to the lower side of the vehicle and a predetermined vehicle attitude is adopted.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yukito OHMURA
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Publication number: 20160264088Abstract: A method is provided for controlling at least one protective element arranged in a vehicle seat for positioning a passenger sitting on the vehicle seat, wherein the at least one protective element is triggered by control of an actuator in the case of a detected imminent collision of the vehicle. After non-detection of an imminent collision of the vehicle and of a subsequently detected occurred collision of the vehicle, the at least one protective element is triggered by control of the irreversibly executed actuator at or after a collision time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Edgar BIHLER, Ralf BOGENRIEDER, Julien RICHERT
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Publication number: 20160264089Abstract: A side curtain airbag assembly includes an inflatable cushion and a sock for housing the cushion in a folded state. At least one of the cushion and sock includes a plurality of spaced markings arrayed along its respective longitudinal extent. Each marking is defined by at least two indicia including a first indicium and a second indicium.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: James Wesley Adams, Alec Peter Bacon
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Publication number: 20160264090Abstract: A safety device for use in a vehicle includes an air-bag inflatable by a gas source. At least part of the air-bag is woven and includes a plurality of generally parallel woven yarns. An elongate tether is attached to the air-bag by an attachment arrangement including a first portion in which part of the tether passes between two adjacent yarns of the air-bag from one side to another side of the air-bag and partly around at least two adjacent yarns on one side of the air-bag. The arrangement incorporates a second portion in which the tether is interwoven with a pre-determined number of single adjacent yarns of the air-bag. The arrangement incorporates a third portion in which the tether passes between two adjacent yarns of the air-bag from one side to another side of the air-bag and partly around at least two adjacent yarns on one side of the air-bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Gary WOOTTON, Hugh FINN
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Publication number: 20160264091Abstract: To contribute to stabilizing the restraining of a head portion. When an air bag inflates and expands in a side airbag device for a vehicle, a rear bag portion accommodating an inflator inflates and expands earlier than and at a higher pressure than a front bag portion. The front bag portion, that is low pressure and inflates and expands later, can be supported by the rear bag portion that is high pressure, and the front bag portion does not shake greatly. Moreover, the flow of gas from the rear bag portion that is high pressure to the front bag portion that is low pressure can be regulated by the upper and lower communication ports formed in a tether. Due to the above, the expansion behavior of the front bag portion can be stabilized, which can therefore contribute to the restraining of the head portion by the front bag portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yusuke FUJIWARA
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Publication number: 20160264092Abstract: The present invention provides a gas generator in which an outer container is formed by a pressurized gas bottle and a gas generation chamber housing, and a closing member closes therebetween, a gas inflow chamber formed with a gas discharge port is provided between a gas generation chamber and a pressurized gas chamber, a partition wall provided with a rupturing member separates the gas inflow chamber from the gas generation chamber. The partition wall has a communication hole that makes communication between the gas generation chamber and the gas inflow chamber, an outer circumferential edge surface of the partition wall abuts against an inner circumferential wall surface of the outer container so as to make the partition wall movable in an axial direction, and the partition wall faces directly the closing member at a distance therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: DAICEL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoharu KOBAYASHI, Masayuki YAMAZAKI, Kenji FUKUMOTO
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Publication number: 20160264093Abstract: An external airbag includes: lateral edge bags in a pair that are deployed to extend upward along respective front pillars from lower ends of the respective front pillars, in front of the respective front pillars, the respective front pillars being disposed on both widthwise sides of a windshield of an automobile; and a posture holding member that couples upper ends of the lateral edge bags in the pair to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Hiroshi SUEMUNE, Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Akihiro Onodera, Hiroshi Yoneyama, Daisuke Ototsuji, Isamu Nagasawa
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Publication number: 20160264094Abstract: An external airbag includes: a lower edge bag that is deployed to extend along a lower edge of a windshield of an automobile, on a front side of the windshield; lateral edge bags in a pair that are deployed to extend along both lateral edges of the windshield, on the front side of the windshield; and an upper edge bag that is deployed to extend along an upper edge of the windshield, on the front side of the windshield.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Hiroshi SUEMUNE, Yoshiyuki HASHIMOTO, Akihiro ONODERA, Hiroshi YONEYAMA, Daisuke OTOTSUJI, lsamu NAGASAWA
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Publication number: 20160264095Abstract: A seatbelt system for a vehicle having a vehicle structure and a seat operatively connected to the vehicle structure includes first and second anchors. Each of the first and second anchors is connected to the vehicle structure. The system also includes complementary first and second buckle elements. The first buckle element is configured to engage the second buckle element and fasten thereto. The system additionally includes a first belt connecting the first anchor to the first buckle element and a second belt connecting the second buckle element to the second anchor. The system additionally includes a buckle presenter connecting the second buckle element to the second anchor and having a form configured to present the second buckle element to a user of the seatbelt system. The form of the buckle presenter varies under an applied force and is recovered when the force is removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Richard L. Bruderick, Andre A. Saleh
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Publication number: 20160264096Abstract: A latched vehicle safety belt detection device detects a safety belt remaining latched within a vehicle and gives a warning signal when a driver of the vehicle moves outside a set proximity from the vehicle. The device includes a vehicle having a safety belt positionable to secure a child seat within the vehicle while the safety belt is in a latched position. A detector is coupled to the safety belt to detect when the safety belt is in the latched position. A remote is provided. A proximity sensor detects when the remote is within a set proximity of the proximity sensor. An indicator is actuated when the detector detects the safety belt is in the latched position and the remote is outside of the set proximity of the proximity sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: Dolores M. Barber
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Publication number: 20160264097Abstract: A system and method of selectively carrying out a vehicle passive door lock function. The method carried out by the system includes: (a) detecting a vehicle operator's exit from a vehicle having at least one lockable door for passenger entry and exit, wherein the vehicle is configured to automatically carry out a passive operator departure process following the operator's exit, (b) determining whether the vehicle is at a lock function exempt location; (c) automatically carrying out the passive operator departure process in a first mode when it is determined that the vehicle is not at the exempt location; and (d) automatically carrying out the passive operator departure process in a second mode when it is determined that the vehicle is at the exempt location, wherein the second mode comprises at least one less door lock function than is carried out in the first mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: Christopher L. Oesterling