Patents Issued in April 20, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170106778
    Abstract: The weight distributing trailer hitch installation and storage dolly is designed to store and transport to and from a tow receiver all, but not limited to, the common weight distributing trailer hitch components listed here—the hitch-head assembly, comprised of the shank and the hitch-head with connecting balls installed, the spring bars, the sway control brake(s), and the spring tension adjusting tool. At the to receiver the weight distributing trailer hitch installation and storage dolly enables the operator to raise or lower the hitch-head assembly with spring bars attached and adjust the horizontal and vertical angles to match those of the hitch receiver of the tow receiver. The shank of the hitch-head assembly can then be inserted and secured into the hitch receiver of the tow receiver. The weight distributing trailer hitch installation and storage dolly can then be released and rolled out of the way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: James Patrick McConn, Barbara Jean McConn
  • Publication number: 20170106779
    Abstract: A wheel chock is constructed from metallic material has an elongate primary body construction. The primary body construction has a ?-shaped transverse cross-section formed by an upper C-shaped channel construction and a lower planar basal construction. The basal construction has U-shape that extends orthogonally relative to the C-shape of the channel construction. The ?-shaped transverse cross-section bears and distributes stress imposed on the primary body construction. The C-shaped channel construction preferably includes a series of apertures for reducing weight and controlling elastic response of the primary body construction. Among these apertures are edge-based apertures, arm-based stress relief slots, and aligned apertures having sequentially decreasing diameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Andrew J. Morin
  • Publication number: 20170106780
    Abstract: Disclosed is a utility truck bed comprising one or more of the following elements: (i) two worker stations located behind the cabin of the truck, each of which comprises a passenger well with a floor that is horizontally positioned below the bottom plane of the rest of the bed; (ii) a safety gate on the outside of the bed that slides horizontally to provide access to the well; (iii) a safety harness for connecting the worker to a fixed portion of the assembly; (iv) a sliding safety gate adjacent the passenger well on the inside of the bed; and (v) storage compartments positioned on the back of the truck bed, each extending longitudinally away from each worker station and positioned to provide sufficient space between each compartment to place working materials that do not fit in the storage compartments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Edward J. Tovornik
  • Publication number: 20170106781
    Abstract: A cargo net anchor guard mountable to an aircraft's cargo hold wall adjacent to an anchor clip assemblies. The cargo net anchor guard is configured to block cargo from impacting at least the anchor clip assembly. The cargo net anchor guard has a ramped deflection surface that can deflect moving cargo inwardly away from the wall and into the cargo net substantially without impacting the anchor clip assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: William L. Boyer, JR.
  • Publication number: 20170106782
    Abstract: A screw-driving bidirectional adjustment mechanism for adjusting the relative position of the high and low beam shapes of an automobile lamp, comprising an open box-shaped sliding groove fixedly connected with a low beam assembly unit and a high beam assembly unit which is rotationally fitted with the low beam assembly unit, has one end capable of being moved through a shift lever, and is connected to a sliding block assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: SHANGHAI KOITO AUTOMOTIVE LAMP CO., LTD
    Inventor: Jie Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170106783
    Abstract: An adaptive cornering light system for a motor vehicle includes an exterior mirror head, housing at least one lighting module that having a plurality of LEDs arranged in sectors to provide different lighting functionalities. One LED or light sector is provided for adaptively illuminating a cornering area that extends along the side of the vehicle toward the front of the exterior mirror head. This “cornering LED” is adaptively activated if the speed of the vehicle is below a threshold speed, or in response to additional optional parameters such as steering angle, turn-signal blinker activation, and running lights activation. Another LED or light sector may be used as a security light to illuminate or display a message on the ground in the door area adjacent the side of the vehicle. Interior lights are also disclosed. User input may also control options for illumination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: SMR Patents S.à.r.l.
    Inventors: Daniel Fritz, Andreas Herrmann
  • Publication number: 20170106784
    Abstract: A vehicle spot or floodlight system includes a vehicle rear-mounted light source such as a backup light array configured to emit light at a first intensity and at another intensity that is different from the first intensity. Emission of light at the another intensity is caused by an actuator operatively associated with the rear-mounted light source. A controller selectively allows the actuator to cause the emission at the another intensity. The controller allows the actuator to cause the emission of light at the another intensity only on receiving a signal indicating that the vehicle transmission is in a park or on receiving a signal indicating that the vehicle ignition is set on run, accessory, or off. The controller resets the actuator to off after a predefined time period when the ignition system is set on accessory or off, or when the transmission is placed in drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Srihari Prasad Gondhi, Sleiman N. Abdelnour, Udayakumar Ramasami, Stephen Kenneth Helwig, Li Yan
  • Publication number: 20170106785
    Abstract: A vehicular display apparatus can be provided on a vehicular instrument panel and the apparatus provides a display for a vehicular crew. The apparatus can include; a half mirror located at a back side of the vehicle with respect to the liquid crystal display, the half mirror configured to transmit an image from the liquid crystal display to the back of the vehicle, and to reflect light from a direction intersecting with a front-back direction of the vehicle to the back of the vehicle, a first decorative member located at a side of the intersecting direction, and a light emitting member configured to irradiate light at least one of from and towards the first decorative member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Harutoshi NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170106786
    Abstract: A vehicle information presenting device used for an automated driving vehicle that automatically performs traveling control of the vehicle based on a traveling state of the vehicle and information on an outside of the vehicle includes: a steering wheel; a light-emitting unit that is disposed in the steering wheel and emits light; and a light-emitting control unit that causes the light-emitting unit to emit light, wherein the light-emitting control unit changes a light-emitting state of the light-emitting unit to induce a driver to switch from automated driving to manual driving in accordance with a system state of the automated driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiko Ebina
  • Publication number: 20170106787
    Abstract: An enclosure expansion type virtual engine sound system is provided. The system includes an enclosure case having a case enclosure accommodating a speaker to which a virtual engine sound is output and an enclosure back beam with an internal space divided into a speaker enclosure and a expanded enclosure as an extended space of the case enclosure for low band amplification of the engine sound and a space in which the engine sound is output in three directions. Accordingly, the enclosure back beam implements a low band amplification function in addition to a crash absorbing function. The engine sound is output in three directions through an internal space of the enclosure back beam, thereby solving a space restriction of a narrow engine room while satisfying regulations of the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Young Kim
  • Publication number: 20170106788
    Abstract: A collapsible, illuminated roadside hazard warning device for illuminated roadside hazard warning includes a base that has a housing. A power module is coupled to and positioned in the housing. A crossbar is pivotally coupled to a front of the housing. Each of a pair of sidebars has a first end and a second end, the first ends being pivotally coupled to a respective one of opposing ends of the crossbar. The second ends of the pair of sidebars are reversibly couplable to one another. A plurality of lights is arrayed in and coupled to the crossbar and the pair of sidebars. The lights are operationally coupled to the power module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Roger Garcia
  • Publication number: 20170106789
    Abstract: An alert assembly includes a base unit that may be coupled to a seatbelt in a vehicle such that the base unit is positioned against a child seated in the vehicle. Thus, the base unit detects sounds made by the child. A remote unit is provided that may be carried and the remote unit is in communication with the base unit. The remote unit emits the sounds made by the child such that a user is reminded that the child is in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Catherine Holdbrook-Smith
  • Publication number: 20170106790
    Abstract: A number of illustrative variations may include a method of using sequential logic and vehicle sensors to produce a notification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Fred W. Huntzicker, WILLIAM A. BIONDO, JULIE A. KLEINERT
  • Publication number: 20170106791
    Abstract: The invention discloses a failure alert method for a vehicle, the method including: if a failure detection device of the present vehicle detects failure information of the present vehicle, then sending the failure information of the present vehicle to an alert device and a wireless communication device; sending, by the wireless communication device, the failure information to the outside; and generating, by the alert device, an alert signal according to the received failure information. The invention further disclose a failure alert device for a vehicle, the device including: a failure detection device; a wireless communication device communicatively connected with the failure detection device, configured to send failure information wirelessly to the outside; and an alert device communicatively connected with the failure detection device and the wireless communication device. The invention alleviates in effect a traffic accident from occurring due to the failure of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Wenrui LI, Kunsheng CHEN, Yong XU, Wei LIN, Peng LIU, Dan LI, Yu ZOU
  • Publication number: 20170106792
    Abstract: A method for providing an alert for a distance travelled by a vehicle including the steps: enabling an alert system; setting a target distance to be travelled by the vehicle; moving the vehicle; comparing the distance travelled by the vehicle and the target distance; and providing an alert based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited
    Inventors: Michael McKee, Adeyosola Sodeinde, Matt Cook
  • Publication number: 20170106793
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting system is provided herein. The vehicle lighting system includes an electronic adaptive drive beam system having a light source, a projection lens, and a digital micromirror device attached to a substrate. The lighting system further includes a camera. A controller is configured to determine a target parking space and initiate the electronic adaptive drive beam to continually outline the boundary thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Arun Kumar, Richard Joseph Michaels, III, Donald Paul Bilger, Edward R. Golden
  • Publication number: 20170106794
    Abstract: This invention provides for a system of wireless sensor devices, portable or detachable from a vehicle, wirelessly connectable to a mobile electronic appliance and is particularly constructed as a reversing assistant for indicating the proximity between a vehicle and rearward obstacle objects. The sensor devices provided on the vehicle detect the proximity of an obstacle object to the rear of the vehicle and through a transmitter in the sensor devices provides a wireless signal to a receiver, in the mobile electronic appliance located with the driver of the vehicle. The wireless signal is processed by the electronic appliance and provides an indication of the distance between the vehicle and the object. The sensor devices are portable and detachable enabling them to be moved to and from different vehicles and by providing a mobile electronic appliance with wireless features, the reversing system can used by any vehicle eliminating the need to for a fixed wiring of proximity sensors on the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: DANIELLE CONSTANTINE
  • Publication number: 20170106795
    Abstract: A light assembly for a school bus. The light assembly includes a housing having a front side and a rear side, wherein the rear side is mountable to a school bus. The front side of the housing includes a perimeter light, a stop light, and a platform light, wherein the lights can alert vehicles approaching a stopping school bus. The perimeter light is disposed around a perimeter of the housing and can produce an amber color. The stop light includes the word ‘stop’ in a non-colored transparent material and the platform light, disposed between the perimeter light and the stop light, can produce a red color. In one embodiment, the light assembly is operably connected to a control, speedometer, and door assembly of a school bus, allowing the light assembly to automatically activate when the school bus stops and automatically deactivate when the school bus door closes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Richard Stevens
  • Publication number: 20170106796
    Abstract: A system for estimating hitch angle offset is provided herein. A sensor system is configured to measure hitch angles between a vehicle and a trailer attached thereto. A controller is configured to calculate hitch angle offsets for a plurality of measured hitch angles, and extrapolate additional hitch angle offsets based on the calculated hitch angle offsets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Erick Michael Lavoie, Donald Jacob Mattern, Joseph M. Raad, Tyler Daavettila, Robert Bell
  • Publication number: 20170106797
    Abstract: The electronic mirror device has a display unit and a control unit. The display unit, which is disposed on the mounting position of the rearview mirror in the vehicle interior of the own vehicle, displays an image of an area behind the own vehicle captured by a camera. The control unit displays the image captured by the camera on the display unit. Further, upon detection of an approach of the subsequent vehicle based on the images captured by the camera, the control unit lights up an outer periphery region of the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: TAKASHI OKOHIRA, JUN NAKAI
  • Publication number: 20170106798
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for detecting a pedestrian by a vehicle during night driving are provided, in which the apparatus includes: a first camera configured to take a first image including color information of a vicinity of the vehicle during night driving; a second camera configured to take a second image including thermal distribution information of the vicinity of the vehicle; a pedestrian detector configured to detect a non-pedestrian area by using the color information from the first image and detect a pedestrian area by excluding the non-pedestrian area from the second image; and a display configured to match and display the pedestrian area on the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Young Chul Oh, Myung Seon Heo, Wan Jae Lee, Byung Yong You
  • Publication number: 20170106799
    Abstract: A pivot mechanism for a vehicle external rear view mirror assembly is disclosed. The mechanism includes: a base frame portion and a case frame portion mounted to the base frame portion for rotation about a pivot axis. A detent is operable between the base frame portion and the case frame portion. A spring mechanism clamps the case frame portion to the base frame portion and includes a compression spring disposed around the axis and a spring tie. The spring has first and second tie ends spaced apart from each other and connected by a tie shaft. The tie shaft passes through the spring. The spring tie shaft includes a spring tie reaction feature, whereby in a deployed position, a torque applied to the case frame portion about an axis orthogonal to the axis by an external force is resisted by the spring tie reaction feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: SMR Patents S.à.r.l.
    Inventors: Nathan Di Gusto, Simon Orme, Simon Belcher, Daniel Joseph Flynn
  • Publication number: 20170106800
    Abstract: A tonneau cover assembly for a vehicle cargo area includes a tonneau retractor assembly and an actuator disposed to urge the tonneau retractor assembly against a vehicle seatback. A flexible tonneau panel deploys from and retracts into the tonneau retractor assembly. The actuator includes a bracket arrangement including a pair of opposed brackets each slidingly receiving a tonneau retractor pivot rod end therein. The actuator further includes a biasing element configured to urge each bracket towards the vehicle seatback. A support member carries the bracket arrangement. Each bracket slidingly translates over a fixed pivot point. The biasing element is operatively connected at a first end to a bracket and at a second, opposed end to the fixed pivot point to urge the tonneau retractor assembly against a vehicle seatback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Leonard Gus Prezecki, II
  • Publication number: 20170106801
    Abstract: A retractable cargo cover system is provided for a motor vehicle having three rows of seating. That retractable cargo cover system includes a first receiver carried on a second row seat, a second receiver carried on a third row seat and a retractable cargo cover assembly. The retractable cargo cover assembly may be selectively mounted in the first receiver or the second receiver as desired by the vehicle operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Gian Carlo Morlet Ugalde, Miguel David Ferreira Orta
  • Publication number: 20170106802
    Abstract: Protection device for a vehicle luggage compartment including an accommodation structure, and a winding shaft on which a flexible planar structure is held. The planar structure has a pull-out profile on an end region, and on each of its opposite face sides is connected to a respective entrainer guided for linear movement in a guiding section extending in the longitudinal direction of the luggage compartment of a guiding track fixed to the luggage compartment. The accommodation structure is displaceable in the vertical direction of the luggage compartment, and each guiding track includes a deflection portion and a displacement section extending in the vertical direction of the luggage compartment, along which the entrainer is deflectable and movable in the vertical direction. The accommodation structure includes a coupling device, by which the accommodation structure is displaceable in height together with the entrainer in response to a position of the entrainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Matthias MAIER
  • Publication number: 20170106803
    Abstract: An automobile floor mat with increased added value is provided by making an insect repellent member, an odorizing member, or a deodorizing member continuously replaceable. The automobile floor mat includes a mat body that is laid on a floor of an automobile and a storage portion that is fixedly attached to the mat body and stores at least one member selected from the group consisting of an insect repellent member, a deodorizing member, and an odorizing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Kenji YOSHIDA, Masaru HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170106804
    Abstract: An article attachment assembly includes a connector, and an insert to be connected to and rotate about the connector. The insert includes first and second walls connected to each other with an angle positioned there-between. The first wall defines thereupon a first attachment receptor, and the second wall defines thereupon a second attachment receptor different from the first attachment receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Shen Jinyun, Jin Xuezhi, Fu Shibao, Xu Wei
  • Publication number: 20170106805
    Abstract: UberSafe Partitions are transparent portable removable vehicle partitions with cup holders & LCD monitors manufacture from a clear polycarbonate. The partition acts as a barrier between the driver and passenger unobtrusively ensuring a comfortable environment for both the driver and passengers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Richard Wayne Davis
  • Publication number: 20170106806
    Abstract: A vehicular display apparatus is provided on a vehicular instrument panel and provides a display for a vehicular crew. The apparatus includes: a half mirror that transmits light from a front of a vehicle to a back of the vehicle and reflects light from a direction intersecting with a front-back direction of the vehicle to the back of the vehicle, a decorative member provided to one side of a side of the front of the vehicle and a side of the intersecting direction, a light emitting member that irradiates the decorative member with light, and a liquid crystal display that is provided to the other side and projects an image toward the half mirror. The decorative member is arranged so as to provide a display superposed on the image projected by the liquid crystal display when visually recognized from a front side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Harutoshi NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170106807
    Abstract: Various examples of an apparatus for mounting a camera on a vehicle are disclosed. An apparatus comprises a first portion of a first material with a first end configured for attaching to a camera and a second end configured for mounting to a vehicle. The apparatus is configured to maintain the camera in a substantially calibrated position. A second portion of a second material is coupled to the first portion, wherein the second material is capable of deforming upon an impact to the apparatus and returning the apparatus to the calibrated position upon exposure to an energy source. In another example, the apparatus is constructed entirely of the second material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: BENDIX COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Andreas U. Kuehnle, Marton G. Gyori, Hans M. Molin, Thomas S. Legeza
  • Publication number: 20170106808
    Abstract: A camera unit for a vehicle includes a camera and a closure element, which are moveable by a drive unit between a first position, in which the closure element covers the field of vision of the camera and a second position, in which a region of the surroundings of the vehicle to be monitored lies in the field of vision of the camera. A first movement direction of the camera from the first position into the second position and a second movement direction of the closure element from the first position into the second position define an angle and a surface normal of the outer skin of the vehicle at the place of installation of the camera unit lies within the angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Michael FUCHS, Friedrich HEIN
  • Publication number: 20170106809
    Abstract: A magnetic fastener clip includes a cup having at least one hole, an overmold is attached to the cup and a magnet. The overmold has: a cup cover is injection molded on an outside portion of the cup, and an inner ring is injection molded on at least part of an inside portion of the cup. The inner ring is attached to the cup cover via the at least one hole. The magnet operably attaches into the inner ring. According to one embodiment, a turn coupler attaches to the cup cover. The magnetic fastener clip is operative for blind attachment into a structure, such as a vehicle chassis i.e. a pillar, door frame, chassis or roof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Termax Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Tirrell, Daniel James Dickinson, John Clasen
  • Publication number: 20170106810
    Abstract: A metallic decorative part for a vehicle display device includes a substrate body molded from a synthetic resin, a metal thin film that is formed of metal and deposited on a surface of the substrate body, and a plurality of grooves deposited on a surface of the metal thin film in accordance with a shape of the surface of the substrate body. The grooves are formed so that a width is larger than 0 and equal to or smaller than 3.0 ?m, and a height is larger than 0 and equal to or smaller than 1.0 ?m. Accordingly, the metallic decorative part for a vehicle display device can properly secure a metallic texture recognized by a viewer with a configuration in which the metal thin film is deposited on the surface of the substrate body made of resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Tatsuya HATTORI, Sunao FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20170106811
    Abstract: A reversible trim piece bracket includes a body including a first attachment edge and a second attachment edge that is differently configured from the first attachment edge. The first attachment edge and second attachment edge are configured to engage a cooperating surface on a vehicle, which may be associated with a vehicle structure such as a B-pillar. The first attachment edge may include one or more catches defining a first length for engaging the cooperating surface. The second attachment edge may include one or more catches defining a second length that is different from the first length for engaging the cooperating surface. An orienting structure may be provided for properly orienting the bracket body, which may be one or more notches defined in the bracket body for engaging one or more cooperating tabs associated with the vehicle trim piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Fabrizio Dublan, Maria Fernanda Villanueva Ochoa
  • Publication number: 20170106812
    Abstract: A trim assembly includes a first trim portion spaced apart from an opposed second trim portion, a first surface on the first trim portion, a first magnet connected to the first trim portion so as to be hidden when the user views the first surface and a second surface on the first trim portion, a second magnet connected to the second trim portion so as to be hidden when the user views the second surface. When the working subassembly is configured to span between the first trim portion and the second trim portion, the working subassembly magnetically connectable through the first and second surfaces to the respective first and second magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Eric J. Connell
  • Publication number: 20170106813
    Abstract: A metallic decorative part for a vehicle display device includes: a substrate body molded from synthetic resin; a metal thin film formed of metal and deposited on a surface of the substrate body; and a mirror surface formed on a surface of the metal thin film in accordance with a surface shape of the substrate body. The mirror surface is formed such that, in a waviness curve obtained from the surface shape with a cutoff value defined as 250 ?m, and in terms of a ratio between an amplitude as an average height of a waviness waveform and a wavelength as an average length of the waviness waveform, the ratio of the wavelength to the amplitude of 1 is equal to or greater than 600 and equal to or smaller than 6000, and mirror surface roughness is greater than 0 and equal to or smaller than 0.35 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Tatsuya HATTORI, Sunao FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20170106814
    Abstract: The License Plate Protectors purpose is to protect the License Plate from all sorts of debri, snow, ice, mud build-up and unwanted pictures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Darrell Allen
  • Publication number: 20170106815
    Abstract: Control electronics for an agricultural or forestry vehicle or machine having power connections at least for a first supply network and a second supply network and having at least one network connection, the control electronics comprising a communication circuit configured to transmit data via the network connection and supplied via the first supply network; a logic circuit coupled to the communication circuit, the logic circuit having at least one control output for controlling an electrical load supplied via the second supply network, the logic circuit being connected to the second supply network via an internal supply line and an internal ground line and configured to be supplied via the second supply network, and an isolating switch arranged in the internal supply line or the internal ground line of the logic circuit and configured to interrupt the logic circuit if the second supply network is interrupted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Peter Csabai, Christian Fleischer
  • Publication number: 20170106816
    Abstract: A band clip includes a binding band portion and a clip portion. The clip portion has a flange portion, a column portion, four inclined pieces inclined relative to the column portion, and a connecting piece connecting the column portion and each inclined piece. The clip portion is constituted of a shape memory resin and acquires a memorized shape such that a connecting distance between the column portion and each inclined piece becomes shorter than at normal temperature. When fitting the clip portion to a through hole, a second end portion near a vehicle body panel bends so that the inclined piece is locked to an edge of the through hole. When removing the clip portion from the through hole, a distance between a lower end portion of the inclined piece and a central axis of the column portion reaches a size that can pass through the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka WAKABAYASHI, Minoru FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20170106817
    Abstract: A grommet includes a bellows portion and a movable-member-side fitting portion connected with an end of the bellows portion. The movable-member-side fitting portion has an outer surface connected with the bellows portion and an inner surface formed on the opposite side of the outer surface. On the outer surface, the bellows portion is connected to the movable-member-side fitting portion with unequal distances from an axial center of the bellows portion to the outer edge of the movable-member-side fitting portion. Furthermore, on the outer surface, a first outer rib is formed that extends along a direction having a maximum distance from the axial center to the outer edge with an outer peripheral surface of the bellows portion serving as its base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicants: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michihito SUZUKI, Naoto KUZUTANI, Mikiya MATSUOKA, Hirotaka TAKASU, Kazuhiro KUSUYAMA, Hiroki SHUKURI
  • Publication number: 20170106818
    Abstract: A system for transmitting a piece of information to a subunit, including at least one connection position and at least one subunit, the at least one connection position being configured for accommodating a subunit, and the at least one connection position including at least one coding lug which is configured for engaging into a corresponding recess on a subunit, the arrangement of the at least one coding lug coding the piece of information to be transmitted, and the at least one subunit having at least one recess which is configured for contactlessly detecting the presence of a coding lug in a recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Hans-Joerg Mathony, Burkhard Iske, Albrecht Irion, Maik Hansen, Marcus Schneider, Michael Schumann
  • Publication number: 20170106819
    Abstract: An electrical system for a motor vehicle is provided. The electrical system includes one or more vehicle batteries configured to provide electric power to one or more vehicle systems, a terminal configured to allow third party loads and/or third party batteries to be electrically coupled to the electrical system at the terminal, a relay configured to selectively couple the terminal to the vehicle batteries, and a controller configured to control the operation of the relay. A method of controlling the operation of an electrical system for a motor vehicle is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Anthony RICHARDSON, Yucel AYBAR
  • Publication number: 20170106820
    Abstract: When an anomaly is determined in the transition of ECUs to a power saving state, a power supply control system sequentially turns on current supply switches while keeping a bypass switch on. A monitoring controller determines an anomaly in the transition of the ECUs to a power saving state on the basis of whether the dark current in the ECUs calculated from the amount of change at that time in the current in the power supply line is greater than an ordinary dark current. Further, in the startup state of the ECUs, power from a power supply can be supplied to the ECUs via the power supply line and individual supply lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori MARUYAMA, Shuuji SATAKE, Satoshi MORITA, Yoshinori IKUTA, Yoshihide NAKAMURA, Yasuyuki SHIGEZANE
  • Publication number: 20170106821
    Abstract: A vehicle frame component for limiting the movement of the wheel of the vehicle toward the cab of a cab on frame vehicle including a base member welded to openings in the frame side rail and extending outwardly and located proximal the wheel structure. In one embodiment the vehicle frame component is located forward of the wheel and includes a tire puncture device to deflate the tire during an offset front impact and in a second embodiment the vehicle frame component is located rearward of the wheel. The vehicle frame component has particular utility during an offset front impact where the offset is less than approximately twenty-five percent (25%) of the width of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ajay Kumar Gupta, Narayana Venugopal, John Charles Caris, Mark Wlotkowski, Charles Ko, Leonard Anthony Shaner
  • Publication number: 20170106822
    Abstract: A bumper beam system is provided that includes a bumper beam that is cast from metal and has at least a first portion comprised of a first alloy and a second portion comprised of a second alloy that is different than the first alloy. Furthermore, a crash box is provided that comprises a first portion comprised of a first alloy and a second portion comprised of a second alloy that is different than the first alloy. Additionally, a bumper beam system is provided that has a bumper beam and a crash box. The bumper beam includes at least a first bumper beam portion that is comprised of a first bumper beam alloy, and the crash box includes at least a first crash box portion that is comprised of a first crash box alloy. Methods of manufacturing the bumper beam system and crash boxes are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Edward K. Steinebach, Jeffrey Jay Mellis, Jeremiah John Brady, Richard Lee Winfree
  • Publication number: 20170106823
    Abstract: A bumper device for a motor vehicle is described. A cross member assembly includes a cross member running transverse to a traveling direction and a side element extending from an end of the cross member. A side member assembly has a first end configured to be fixed to a vehicle structure and a second end fixed to the cross member. A support member extends from the side member assembly towards an end of the side element opposite the cross member. The support member is configured to absorb and transfer an oblique load acting on the side element to the side member assembly, and to defect without substantial resistance to the longitudinal load acting on the cross member in the traveling direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Wolfram LIEVEN, Michael WEIL
  • Publication number: 20170106824
    Abstract: The invention relates to a crash box having a plurality of hollow chambers which extend over the longitudinal extent of the crash box, a first hollow chamber being arranged offset in terms of height with respect to a second hollow chamber and a third hollow chamber in the mounted position. Here, the first hollow chamber is separated by means of a dividing wall from the second and third hollow chambers which are preferably arranged next to one another above or below the first hollow chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas SCHILLER, Christian Handing
  • Publication number: 20170106825
    Abstract: A method for disconnecting at least one ignition output stage for a squib of a pyrotechnic protection device for a vehicle. The method includes a step of setting an activation signal at an activation level when an amperage of the trigger current for the ignition output stage exceeds a predefined current threshold value, a step of determining a period of time during which the activation signal is set at the activation level, and also a step of supplying a switch signal for disconnecting the ignition output stage, as a function of a comparison of the period of time with a predefined minimum current flow duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Alain Jousse, Hartmut Schumacher, Ruediger Karner, Steffen Walker
  • Publication number: 20170106826
    Abstract: A sensor arrangement, as e.g. a seat occupancy sensor, comprises at least two terminals for connecting said sensor assembly to a control unit, and a first switching group of at least two switching units, said at least two switching units of said first switching group being connected together in such a way as to implement a first logical AND gate. According to the invention the sensor arrangement further comprises at least one second group of at least two switching units, wherein said at least two switching units of said second switching group are connected together in such a way as to implement a second logical AND gate and wherein said first switching group and said at least one second switching group are connected together in such a way as to implement a logical OR gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Christophe KEISER, Wade QI
  • Publication number: 20170106827
    Abstract: Systems for providing for an external vehicle airbag to mitigate the negative effects of vehicle rollover are described. In an exemplary implementation, one or more airbags are disposed inside the roof rails attached to a vehicle roof. In the event of a vehicle rollover, the airbags will deploy and extend downward along the sides of the vehicle. The airbags may be held in desirable deployed position by one or more elastic tethers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Saeed David Barbat, Mohammed Omar Faruque, Iskander Farooq, Dean M. Jaradi