Patents Issued in October 6, 2016
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Publication number: 20160288760Abstract: A head protecting airbag device includes: an airbag configured to cover a window of a vehicle; a winding band wound around a folded body which is formed by folding the airbag, the winding band including: an attachment portion being pressed and locked to an attachment target portion; a band body wound around the folded body; an engaging claw portion formed at one end of the band body; and an engaging target portion disposed at the other end of the band body; and a pressing portion, having a pressing operation surface configured to press-fit the engaging claw portion into an engaging concave portion, disposed at a claw-side end of the band body, wherein the attachment portion is disposed at a concave-side end of the band body so that the press-fit direction to the attachment target portion at the time of locking is substantially perpendicular to the pressing operation surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Ryosuke JINNAI, Naoki HOTTA
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Publication number: 20160288761Abstract: A vehicle includes an instrument panel, a front airbag, a first side curtain airbag, and a second side curtain airbag and two front seats. The front seats are disposed between the first side curtain airbag and the second side curtain airbag. The vehicle includes a roof, and the front airbag is supported by the roof. The front airbag extends from the first side curtain airbag to the second side curtain airbag between the instrument panel and the front seats to absorb energy from occupants during an impact event to reduce the likelihood of head injury and to urge the occupants to remain seated in an upright position to reduce chest loading by seat belts. The front airbag may protect an unbelted occupant ejecting out of the vehicle through a windshield in a crash event.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Mangala A. Jayasuriya, Robert William McCoy, James Chih Cheng
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Publication number: 20160288762Abstract: A side curtain airbag that has a rear chamber, a front chamber and a secondary chamber affixed to said front chamber. The side curtain air bag has tear stitching and permanent stitching connecting the secondary chamber to an inboard panel of the air curtain such that, in a deployed state, the secondary chamber occupies a gap between a driver airbag and the curtain airbag.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Zhibing Deng, Luis Enrique Castillo jaime, Srinivas Reddy Malapati, Nial James Wykes
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Publication number: 20160288763Abstract: The present invention provides an airbag module (1) in particular for a front passenger (21, 23) of a vehicle, comprising an inflatable bag (3) having at least a first outer panel (33) and a second outer panel (35) arranged substantially symmetrically to each other with regard to a vertical middle plane (M) of the inflated bag. The airbag is characterised in that the inflatable bag (3) comprises a strap structure (5) substantially located between the first and second outer panels (33, 35), wherein the strap structure (5) is designed such that the bag is extendable from a first state having a first size to a second state having a second size depending on the size of the respective passenger and/or the kind of impact.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Francisco Miron, Alfonso Bustos Garcia
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Publication number: 20160288764Abstract: An external airbag includes an airbag body and an urging portion. The airbag body is deployed to extend in front of a front pillar and upward along the front pillar from a lower end of the front pillar. The front pillar is disposed along a lateral edge of a windshield of an automobile. The urging portion urges downward a vicinity of a leading end of the airbag body deployed upward along the front pillar such that the leading end is moved back downward along the front pillar, and that forms a space between an intermediate portion of the airbag body and the front pillar.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: Mototsugu SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20160288765Abstract: A pole-mounted individual safety restraint system that incorporates a self-retracting lanyard, suitable for installation and use in vehicles so as to allow exercise or other activity on the vehicle while the vehicle is in motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Eric L. Brodie, Seema M. Brodie
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Publication number: 20160288766Abstract: A seatbelt payout measuring device with a rewind spring having a first end connected to a center spool and a second end connected to a rewind spring housing. A dielectric material layered immediately adjacent to the rewind spring forming a first layer and an electrolytic coil with dielectric material layered on both sides forming a second layer, isolating the rewind spring from the electrolytic coil. A capacitive measuring device having a first lead connected to the first end of the rewind spring and a second lead connected to a first end of the electrolytic coil. The capacitive measuring device measuring capacitance with belt pullout.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mangala A. Jayasuriya, Mark A. Cuddihy, Mark Allan Lippman, Manoharprasad K. Rao
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Publication number: 20160288767Abstract: A locking retractor includes a frame, a spool shaft rotatably mounted thereto, an outer surface of a base of a housing mounted to the frame with one end of the spool shaft extending into an opening defined through the base, one or more locking components arranged on an inner surface of the housing and configured to cooperate with the spool shaft to selectively block rotation of the spool relative to the frame, a sealing member configured to extend about and engage a periphery of the first opening and to extend about and engage a periphery of the spool shaft to form a seal between the base of the housing and the spool shaft to block ingress of moisture and particles, and a cover hermetically attached to the housing with the locking components sealed between the cover and the base of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Chris P. Jessup, Guy R. Dingman, Grant Bryant
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Publication number: 20160288768Abstract: To provide a seat belt retractor and a seat belt device capable of shortening time taken to restrict rotation of a spool. A seat belt retractor according to the present invention includes a spool 2, a base frame 3, a spring unit 4, a vehicle sensor 5, a locking mechanism 6, and a pretensioner 7. The locking mechanism 6 includes a lock gear 61 and a retainer 62. The lock gear 61 includes an outer circumferential wall 61a that is disposed at an end portion of the spool 2 and engageable with the vehicle sensor 5. The retainer 62 includes an inner circumferential wall 62a disposed on the inner side of the outer circumferential wall 61a and a side wall 62e that defines a space accommodating the lock gear 61. The lock gear 61 becomes engaged with the inner circumferential wall 62a or the side wall 62e of the retainer 62 when the lock gear 61 becomes eccentric relative to the retainer 62.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: TAKATA CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichiro HODATSU, Miguel PRUNEDA
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Publication number: 20160288769Abstract: A belt tensioner for a seat belt system comprises a pinion (10) pivoted about an axis of rotation A which is adapted to be coupled to a best reel of a belt retractor, a drive unit a force transmission element (12) and a guide means. By activating the drive unit the force transmission element (12) is moved along the guide means so that it engages in the pinion (10). The guide means Includes a portion (16) which is deformable in a direction x perpendicular to the axis of rotation A of the pinion (10) and to the direction of movement y of the force transmission element (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Adrian Landbeck, Alexander Waidmann, Bernd Hofmann
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Publication number: 20160288770Abstract: A remote sensing device is utilized to activate boundary alert sensors in a vehicle to reduce current loading during a key-off condition. Communication between the remote sensing device and the vehicle is via a radio-frequency interface that is part of a remote keyless entry system. The remote sensing device transmits a signal to the vehicle when an object is detected within a predetermined range of the remote sensing device. In response to the signal, the vehicle activates one or more boundary alert sensors. The boundary alert sensors may include a camera, a radar, and an ultrasonic sensor. The remote sensing device can be configured to extend a range of the radio-frequency interface by repeating messages that it receives.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Thomas Joseph Hermann, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Patrick Kevin Holub
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Publication number: 20160288771Abstract: A pneumatic system for operating a drive for a windshield wiper for a rail vehicle, wherein the windshield wiper drive has a piston guide device that has a first connection and a second connection opposite the first connection. At least one piston in the piston guide device carries out linear movements in opposite directions along the main direction of extension of the piston guide device to bring about an alternating rotational movement of the wiper shaft. The pneumatic system has a supply connection for a compressed air supply, wherein the supply connection is connected to the first connection via a first normal operation connection line and a first emergency operation connection line arranged parallel thereto and to the second connection via a second normal operation connection line and a second emergency operation connection line arranged parallel thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2013Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Gerhardus DE VRIES, Gerd NOLL, Wolfgang MAGLOT
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Publication number: 20160288772Abstract: An adaptable short term repair jacket 2 for temporary continued operation of a damaged or failed windshield wiper frame assembly and/or wiper blade of a powered windshield wiper system of a motor vehicle. Disclosed here an elongated generally tubular plastic casing 4 including an upper centrally open guide gap 12. Each linear side includes a flexible convex upper sidewall 6. Each sidewall 6 transitions into a linear concave lower sidewall 8 respectively. Sidewalls 8,8 converge respectively to the linear underside of jacket 2 forming a linear fold crease 10. An elongated rubber core 32 is adjoined to the linear outer side of crease 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: David Allen Stewart
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Publication number: 20160288773Abstract: The invention relates to a windshield wiper device (100) for a vehicle having a fastening element (52), in particular a motor vehicle. The windshield wiper device (100) comprises a mounting element (40), which is designed to be mounted on the fastening element (52), and a wiper blade (2) having an elongated upper part (10) and an elongated lower part (12), which parts are at least partially flexible. Furthermore, a plurality of connection elements (18) for connecting the upper part (10) and the lower part (12) are provided, wherein the connection elements (18) are spaced apart from one another along a longitudinal extension (8) of the wiper blade (2). The connection elements (18) are configured to allow a movement of the upper part (10) and the lower part (12) relative to one another with a motion component along a longitudinal extension (8) of the wiper blade (2). The wiper blade (2) further comprises a fastening part (20) on the wiper-blade side.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Viktor HACKL, Peter DEAK, Michael WEILER
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Publication number: 20160288774Abstract: The invention relates to a windscreen wiper device (2; 28, 30; 78;) for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle. Said windscreen wiper device (2; 28, 30; 78;) comprises an extended upper part (10) which is designed such that it can be at least partially flexible. Said windscreen wiper device also comprises an extended lower part (12) which is designed such that it can be at least partially flexible. Also, a plurality of connection elements (18) for connecting the upper part (10) and the lower part (12) are provided, said connection elements (18) being disposed at a distance from each other along a longitudinal extension (8) of the windscreen wiper device (2; 28, 30; 78) and are (18) secured to the lower part (12) by means of joints (20; 122) and/or can be elastically deformed. A coating (50) is applied to at least one of the elements from the group consisting of: an upper part (10), a lower part (12), a connecting element (18) and a joint (20; 122).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Florian Hauser, Michael Weiler
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Publication number: 20160288775Abstract: A wiper module assembly for a vehicle lift gate having an inner panel with a spoiler formed as a one-piece part of an outer panel. The outer panel of the lift gate is connected to the inner panel to form an exterior surface of the lift gate. A cavity is formed in part of the spoiler and receives a carrier forming a removable module connected to the cavity of the vehicle lift gate. The carrier includes a wiper, motor and drive assembly for operating a wiper for a window on the lift gate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Magna International Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Crane, Brian Christopher Sansoterra, Norman Guschewski
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Publication number: 20160288776Abstract: A frame mounted vehicle lift system and method of use are described. The system and method of use are designed to provide a simple, reliable, and safe means for persons operating a motor vehicle to elevate one or more of the vehicle's wheels from the ground for a variety of purposes, such as changing a flat tire, for example. The system comprises one or more frame-mounted vehicle jacks and an automatic spare tire dispenser. Components of the invention are driven by actuators powered by the vehicle's battery and activated by a dashboard or other switch on the vehicle, or remotely by a FOB.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Carlos Dominguez, Eduardo Dominguez
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Publication number: 20160288777Abstract: A speed limited wheel includes a wheel main body defining a cavity, a urethane wheel outer overmolded to the cavity, a brake hub and a plurality of brake elements. The brake hub is disposed in the cavity and includes a cylindrical flange. The wheel main body is rotatable relative to the brake hub about a wheel rotational axis. The plurality of brake elements is disposed in the cavity and is circumferentially surrounded by the cylindrical flange of the brake hub. Each brake element is pivotally mounted to the wheel main body for pivoting between a first position spaced apart from a cylindrical flange of the brake hub and a second position engaging the cylindrical flange of the brake hub for generating friction to reduce a rotational speed of the wheel. The speed limited wheel may be a caster.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: Brad GROENWOLD
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Publication number: 20160288778Abstract: An electric brake device includes an electric motor; a braking force application mechanism configured to apply a braking force on a vehicle wheel; a lock mechanism configured to assume one of a locked condition; a temperature sensor configured to measure an ambient temperature of a vehicle; and a freezing preventive power supply unit configured to initiate supply of an electric power to the electric motor or a drive source of the lock mechanism. The freezing preventive power supply unit interrupts the supply of the electric power to the electric motor or the drive source of the lock mechanism when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor exceeds a second preset temperature T2 that is higher than a first preset temperature T1.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto MURAMATSU, Yuuki SAOYAMA, Tatsuya YAMASAKI, Masaaki EGUCHI, Yui MASUDA
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Publication number: 20160288779Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a drive axle, a multi-mode transmission selectively coupled to the engine and the drive axle, and a controller coupled to the multi-mode transmission and configured to selectively configure the multi-mode transmission into an active neutral startup mode of operation in response to an engine start request. The multi-mode transmission includes a first gear set having a first planetary gear carrier and a second gear set having a second planetary gear carrier, a first motor/generator coupled to the first gear set, and a second motor/generator electrically coupled to the first motor/generator with a bus, coupled to the second gear set, and selectively coupled to the engine. The first gear set is coupled to the engine, and the first planetary gear carrier and the second planetary gear carrier are rotatably coupled.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Oshkosh CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Kotloski, Deepak Shukla
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Publication number: 20160288780Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a drive axle, a multi-mode transmission, and a controller coupled to the multi-mode transmission. The multi-mode transmission includes a first gear set having a first planetary gear carrier and a second gear set having a second planetary gear carrier, the first planetary gear carrier and the second planetary gear carrier being rotatably coupled, a first motor/generator coupled to the first gear set, a second motor/generator coupled to the second gear set and selectively coupled to the engine, a brake positioned to selectively limit a rotational movement of a ring gear of the second gear set when engaged, a first clutch, and a second clutch. The controller is configured to selectively transition the multi-mode transmission between a mid range mode of operation and a high range mode of operation via an intermediate shift mode of operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: OSHKOSH CORPORATIONInventors: Deepak Shukla, Andrew J. Kotloski
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Publication number: 20160288781Abstract: A motor speed control method and system for improving the performance of a running resistance evaluation of a hybrid electric vehicle are provided. The method includes determining whether a vehicle satisfies a running resistance evaluation start condition. When the vehicle satisfies the running resistance evaluation start condition, the speed of a motor is adjusted, which adjusts an input speed of a transmission to be equal to an output speed of the transmission. A speed adjustment of the motor is then completed using the speed of the motor and the output speed of the transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Jae-Yun Shim, Tae-Young Chung, Chun-Hyuk Lee, Yong-Hoon Lee, Kyung-Taek Lee, Jang-Hyo Lee, Dong-Su Ha, Young-Kwan Ko, Keum-Jin Park, Byung-Hoon Yang
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Publication number: 20160288782Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling an engine stop of a hybrid electric vehicle provides an efficient torque in the operation of a hybrid starter generator, by applying a torque of a high efficiency point of the hybrid starter generator according to a drop of engine RPM when the engine is stopped, so as to improve fuel efficiency of a vehicle and damping vibration of the vehicle when the engine is stopped, by generating a negative torque on the hybrid starter generator side in accordance with the drop of the engine RPM when the engine is stopped, and by applying a torque of the point that gives the maximum charging power of the battery through the generated negative torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Sang Joon Kim, Jong Bum Oh, Sung Deok Kim, Il Kwon Park, Seong Ik Park
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Publication number: 20160288783Abstract: The invention relates to a method for synchronising the common speed (? p) of two concentric primary shafts (1, 6) of a hybrid transmission in a hybrid operating mode wherein said two shafts are rotatably connected by a first coupling means (5), with the speed (? s) of a secondary transmission shaft (10) comprising at least one idler pinion for allowing the coupling of one of said pinions (11, 12) to the shaft (10) thereof by closing a second coupling means (13) that does not have mechanical synchronisation bodies, the torque (Te) of the electric machine being temporarily reduced during the synchronisation phase in order to meet the conditions of a perfect coupling when the value thereof caps at an upper limit value (Temax) or a lower limit value (Temin).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: RENAULT s.a.sInventor: Abdelmalek MALOUM
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Publication number: 20160288784Abstract: The hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, an electric motor, an electrical storage device and a controller. The controller is configured to control an output from the electrical storage device on the basis of a state of the electrical storage device such that the output from the electrical storage device at the time when start-up of the internal combustion engine is required in a predetermined condition in a state where the operation characteristic is set to the second characteristic is higher than the output from the electrical storage device, which is set on the basis of the state of the electrical storage device at the time when start-up of the internal combustion engine is required. The predetermined condition is a condition in which startability of the internal combustion engine deteriorates.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuta TERAYA, Toshikazu KATO, Yoshikazu ASAMI
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Publication number: 20160288785Abstract: A driving support system for a vehicle that causes the vehicle to travel following a target travel route through steering and deceleration control includes: a target steering angle calculation unit that calculates a target steering angle at the time of passing through a curved section of the target travel route; a target deceleration calculation unit that calculates a target deceleration in the curved section; a deceleration correction value calculation unit that calculates, on the basis of the target steering angle and an actual steering angle, a corrected vehicle speed for correcting a target vehicle speed determined by the target deceleration; and a deceleration correction unit that corrects the target deceleration such that the target vehicle speed becomes the corrected vehicle speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: Shiro EZOE
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Publication number: 20160288786Abstract: A backup assist system for a vehicle reversing a trailer includes a brake module and a throttle module. The system further includes a controller having a vehicle speed detector and coupled with the brake module and the throttle module for implementing a backup mode including detecting an adverse operating condition and then adjusting at least one of the brake module and the throttle module and terminating the backup mode upon detecting the adverse operating condition for a time interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Erick Michael Lavoie, Roger Arnold Trombley, Thomas Edward Pilutti, Nathaniel Abram Rolfes, Michael Hafner
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Publication number: 20160288787Abstract: A method for predicting the expected travel path of a moving vehicle by numerical integration of a dynamic vehicle model using at least one rotational travel state and at least one longitudinal travel state is disclosed. To provide a prediction of the expected travel path, which does not depend on map information and provides the maximum possible accuracy even for non-steady-state travel states of a vehicle, time-related function rules for the rotational travel state ?Pre(t) and/or for the longitudinal travel state vPre(t) are determined, and values for the travel state concerned ?Pre, vPre are predicted at specific points in time by integration using said function rule ?Pre(t), vPre(t). In this process, the time-related function rule of the travel state concerned is determined by obtaining respective (rotational or longitudinal) input variables for at least two time-derivatives of the travel state concerned from measured values.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: VALEO Schalter und Sensoren GmbHInventor: Martin Kraehling
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Publication number: 20160288788Abstract: An automated driving system and methods are disclosed. The automated driving system includes a perception system associated with an autonomous vehicle. Sensors in communication with the perception system can detect an object of interest. Based on information specific to the environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle, the automated driving system can determine a vehicle path proximate to the object of interest. Based on properties of the object of interest, the automated driving system can determine a preferred gap between the vehicle path and the object of interest. The automated driving system can also determine an actual gap between the vehicle path and the object of interest. Based on the difference between the preferred gap and the actual gap, the automated driving system can determine a speed profile for the autonomous vehicle along the vehicle path and control the autonomous vehicle to follow the vehicle path according to the speed profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Naoki Nagasaka, Bunyo Okumura
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Publication number: 20160288789Abstract: Systems and processes are provided for adaptive cruise control. The process includes receiving information about a distance between vehicle and a traffic signal, receiving information about a state of the traffic signal, and determining whether to adjust the speed of the vehicle based upon the distance between the vehicle and the traffic signal and the state of the traffic signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: WILLIAM F. DURGIN, CODY D. BERMAN, JUSTIN K. FRANCISCO, BRUNNO L. MORETTI
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Publication number: 20160288790Abstract: A trajectory tracking control unit carries out a trajectory tracking control in the event that a predetermined condition is satisfied. On the other hand, in the case that a preceding vehicle recognizing unit detects that a preceding vehicle has moved in a vehicle transverse direction, the trajectory tracking control unit predicts that the preceding vehicle will depart from a lane in which it is traveling. Therefore, even if the predetermined condition is satisfied after the preceding vehicle recognizing unit has detected that the preceding vehicle has moved in the vehicle transverse direction, the trajectory tracking control unit does not cause the driver's own vehicle to follow the trajectory of the preceding vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Tomoyoshi AOKI, Sachio KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20160288791Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic driving system for a vehicle, and more specifically, to an automatic driving system for a vehicle which controls a vehicle to be automatically driven to a destination in consideration of traffic signals and peripheral vehicles or objects, when a driver sets the destination in a navigation device. To this end, the system according to the present invention comprises: a mapping module for setting a driving lane by receiving route information set in a navigation device installed in a vehicle and then, converting a distance, direction, and rotation angle to actual measurement data; and a driving control module for having a vehicle be driven along the driving lane set by the mapping module.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Young-II PARK, Su-Min PARK
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Publication number: 20160288792Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a vehicle drive system that can improve drive efficiency while maintaining vehicle stability. The drive state switching unit (64) comprises: a step (S3, S105) in which a switch is made from 2WB to AWD on the basis of a cumulative slip point; a step (S12, S303) in which a switch is made from 2WD to AWD on the basis of a calculated lateral G; a step (S13, S109, S111) in which a switch is made from AWD to 2WD after the step (S3or S105) under a first switching condition; and a step (S13, S306, S308) in which a switch is made from AWD to 2WD after the step (S12 or S303) under a second switching condition. The first switching condition and the second switching condition are made to differ from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi ANDO, Masayuki KIKUCHI, Masatoshi NOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20160288793Abstract: Clutch protection systems and methods include calculating a slip of a clutch of a manual transmission based on an input rotational velocity of a flywheel coupled to a torque generating system. The calculated slip is used to calculate an energy into the clutch. In one implementation, an accumulated energy into the clutch is calculated based on a rate of the calculated energy and a torque request for the torque generating system is limited based on the accumulated energy. In one implementation, an energy capacity remaining in the clutch until a threshold indicative of damage occurring is calculated based on the calculated energy and a limited torque request for the torque generating system is generated. The limited torque request corresponds to an amount of allowable torque before full cutch engagement occurs, where this time is calculable based on a rate at which the clutch slip is decreasing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Ryan Masters, Brace Bade, Craig B Ashmore
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Publication number: 20160288794Abstract: A travel controller carries out acceleration suppression control of suppressing acceleration of a vehicle depending on an accelerator manipulation amount based on a parking frame existing ahead in a driven direction of the vehicle. Then, the travel controller is configured to gradually release the acceleration suppression control when detecting that the vehicle is in a stop state while carrying out the acceleration suppression control. In addition, the travel controller is configured to hold a release state of the acceleration suppression control at the time of detection of the travel state, when the travel state detector detects that the vehicle is in a travel state while releasing the acceleration suppression control.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Takuya INOUE, Takeshi SUGANO, Toshimichi GOKAN
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Publication number: 20160288795Abstract: After a speed change operation mechanism has changed gear position during a shift in a vehicle, a controller operates an actuator to put a clutch into a partial clutch engagement state, thereby reducing difference rotation Nd of the clutch, and temporarily lowers an output of an engine below a normal-time output. After the difference rotation of the clutch is reduced, the controller returns the engine output to the normal-time output, and operates the actuator to bring the clutch into a full capacity state. The standard difference rotational speed Nds is variable according to the throttle position Th detected by the engine load detection means.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Junya ONO, Yoshiaki NEDACHI, Tatsuya RYUZAKI
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Publication number: 20160288796Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to hierarchical based computer implemented methods and systems for controlling predetermined vehicle operations upon receiving requests from vehicle occupants. The methods and systems include identifying vehicle occupants regardless of their location within the vehicle, and matching an identified vehicle occupant who has entered a request with one profile of a hierarchy of stored profiles. Each profile can correspond to at least one of the occupants who has been identified, and provides authorization to control certain of the predetermined operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: Alvin YUAN
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Publication number: 20160288797Abstract: A driving diagnosis method and driving diagnosis apparatus enable drivers to recognize where their own driving diagnosis result is located in the driving behavior distribution of a safe driver group and the driving behavior distribution of a dangerous driver group. The degree of a driver's dangerous driving behavior is set as a horizontal axis, the number of drivers according to the dangerous driving behavior degree is set as a vertical axis, and screen information including distributions of a safe driver group and a dangerous driver group as determined by using travel history information about the drivers stored in a storage unit, and a diagnosis result of the dangerous driving behavior of a diagnosis target driver is generated and output.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Toshimitsu TAKAHASHI, Noboru KIYAMA, Tsuneo SOBUE, Tatsuaki OSAFUNE
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Publication number: 20160288798Abstract: In a method for evaluating the behavior of the driver in a vehicle, sensor data are ascertained and the driver behavior is evaluated on the basis of the sensor data. A distinction is made among various behavior categories and the sensor data are allocated to each behavior category with a probability. The behavior category is detected as applicable if the probability exceeds a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Thomas Michalke, Claudius Glaeser, Lutz Buerkle
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Publication number: 20160288799Abstract: A sensor abnormality detection device includes a first sensor that detects a situation of a first region at a periphery of an own vehicle; a second sensor that detects a situation of a second region, which is a region different from the first region and includes an overlapping region that overlaps a part of the first region; a sensor abnormality determination means that determines abnormality of the first sensor and the second sensor; and a collision detection means that detects collision of the own vehicle to an object; wherein the sensor abnormality determination means determines that at least one of the first sensor and the second sensor has abnormality when the first region and the second region do not overlap in the overlapping region after the collision is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Quy Hung NGUYEN VAN
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Publication number: 20160288800Abstract: A fuel saving driving diagnostic device includes an ECU that diagnoses fuel saving driving from a viewpoint of accelerator operation based on a relation between a parameter related to a vehicle speed and a parameter related to an accelerator operation amount and diagnoses fuel saving driving from a viewpoint of shift operation based on a relation between a parameter related to a vehicle speed and a parameter related to an engine speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kan SAITO
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Publication number: 20160288801Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a vehicle control method, including receiving, by a driving system, a first signal from an application system, determining, by the driving system, a type of a running program in the application system according to the first signal, and if the running program is a program of an unsafe type, and a current driving mode is a manual driving mode, switching, by the driving system, from the current driving mode to an automatic driving mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: Shanxi Chen
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Publication number: 20160288802Abstract: First travel rail pair provided along a first path has a first discontinuous section. And second travel rail pair provided along a second path has a second discontinuous section. First guide members allow movement of guided members along a travel direction and restrict vertical movement of one or more of the guided member when the article transport vehicle travels through a crossing portion along the first path. Second guide members allow movement of the guided members along the travel direction and restrict vertical movement of one or more of the guided members when the article transport vehicle travels through a crossing portion along the second path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Tomotaka Kinugawa, Daisuke Ogawa
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Publication number: 20160288803Abstract: A railroad well car includes a spaced trucks grouped in pairs, and a railcar body supported on a pair of the trucks, the body comprising a pair of spaced end structures, each end structure supported on one truck, and a well structure extending between the end structures. The well structure comprises a pair of top chord members extending between the end structures; a pair of side sills extending between the end structures. The rail car includes safety platform and handbrake wherein operator walkway platforms are included with co-planer end walkways and running boards, wherein the running boards are above the top chords of the sidewalls of the well car; and a handbrake operated with a hand wheel is mounted on one side of the railroad well car, which hand wheel extends below the top chords of the side walls of the well car whereby the hand wheel is accessible from the side of the railcar via an operator on the ground.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Jeff Boring, Dave Lohr, Greg P. Josephson, Christopher S. Wissinger
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Publication number: 20160288804Abstract: A bellows of a gangway between two articulately connected vehicles, of a canopy roof of an air passenger stair or a bridge or of a gangway into a building, comprises several successively arranged frames and all the frames are divided, preferably in a plane, on two opposite sides, thus forming several bellows parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Andre Goebels, Volker Jünke
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Publication number: 20160288805Abstract: A side window for a passenger compartment in a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, includes a single-pane glass and reflector slats that are embedded in the single-pane glass, where the distance between adjacent reflector slats as well as an angle of inclination between each reflector slat and the plane of the single-pane glass are predefined.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: Thomas BACHMAYER
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Publication number: 20160288806Abstract: A railcar coupler may include a coupler head comprising a shank and a head portion, the head portion defining a cavity for receiving a knuckle, a thrower, and a lock. The cavity can include a top pulling lug, a bottom pulling lug, and a thrower retaining lug. The top pulling lug can be configured to engage an upper knuckle pulling lug, and the bottom pulling lug being can be configured to engage a lower knuckle pulling lug. During operation of the railcar coupler, the ratio of the stress between the top pulling lug and the bottom pulling lug can be configured to be better balanced to help extend the life of the railcar coupler assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Roshan N. Manibharathi, Jerry R. Smerecky, F. Andrew Nibouar, Corey M. Hudson
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Publication number: 20160288807Abstract: An automatic parking brake for a truck mounted brake cylinder. The automatic parking brake includes rod that is interconnected to a piston of the brake cylinder and can prevent the piston from returning to the brakes releases position. The rod is controlled by locking nut that will rotate if the rod moves axially through the locking nut and a locking sleeve that is moveable between a locked position, where the locking sleeve engages the locking nut and prevents from the nut from rotating, and a released position, where the locking sleeve is disengages from the locking nut and the locking nut is free to rotate. A spring provides a force biasing the locking nut into the locked position, and brake pipe pressure biases the locking sleeve into the released position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: NEW YORK AIR BRAKE, LLCInventors: Howard Huber, JR., Keith Parnapy, Robert Neulieb
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Publication number: 20160288808Abstract: A suspension-type travelling vehicle that travels through a gap in an intersection where tracks cross includes intersection rollers attached in front and rear of a travelling wheel along a travelling direction, and in positions different from a position of the travelling wheel along a direction orthogonal to the travelling direction within a horizontal plane. Inter-axial distances between the intersection rollers and the travelling wheel within the horizontal plane are both longer than a width of a gap along the travelling direction. The rail or the travelling vehicle is constructed such that the intersection rollers are supported by the rail in the intersection, and retreat from the rail in places other than the intersection. During passage of the travelling wheel through the gap, the weight of the travelling vehicle is supported by the intersection rollers by making both the front and rear intersection rollers contact the rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Murata Machinery, Ltd.Inventor: Takanori IZUMI
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Publication number: 20160288809Abstract: The invention relates to a device for changing the direction of travel of a rail-bound vehicle, comprising a feeding rail section, a removing rail section, and a connecting rail section, which can be moved from a first position, in which the connecting rail section is arranged in relation to the feeding rail section in such a way that the rail-bound vehicle can drive onto the connecting rail section, to a second position, in which the connecting rail section is arranged in relation to the removing rail section in such a way that the vehicle can drive onto the removing rail section, by means of a motion comprising at least one rotational motion about an axis of the rotational motion. The invention further relates to a rail-bound ride having such a device, and to a method for operating such a device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: MACK RIDES GMBH & CO.KGInventors: Frank SORNIK, Dennis GORDT