Patents Issued in September 27, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180272804
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided with carcass layers and belt layers, which constitute tire components that extend in a tire circumferential direction, and at least one thread having a strength at break of 100 N or less that extends in the tire circumferential direction and is disposed at a step portion formed at width-directional end portions of the carcass layers and the belt layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenta Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20180272805
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire are defined: a first imaginary line VL1 passing through a ground contact surface in a meridian cross section of a tread portion, a second imaginary line VL2 passing through a bottom portion of a shoulder main groove and parallel to VL1, an intersection point between VL2 and a surface of a shoulder land portion outward of a ground contact edge T in a lateral direction, and an equatorial plane CL. Given A as a distance in the lateral direction between an intersection point P and CL, B as a groove depth of the shoulder main groove, and C as a distance in the lateral direction between T and CL, 0.80?(B+C)/A?1.15 is satisfied and, given E as a distance in the lateral direction between the bottom portion of the shoulder main groove and P, 2.0?E/B?5.0 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20180272806
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a first imaginary line passes through a ground contact surface in a meridian cross section of a tread portion and a second imaginary line passes through a bottom portion of a shoulder main groove and is parallel to the first imaginary line. Given A as a distance in the tire lateral direction between an intersection point of the first and second imaginary lines and a tire equatorial plane, B as a groove depth of the shoulder main groove, and C as a distance in the tire lateral direction between the ground contact edge and the tire equatorial plane, the condition 0.80?(B+C)/A?1.15 is satisfied and, given M as a distance in a tire radial direction between the bottom portion of the shoulder main groove and a belt layer, the condition 0.60?B/(B+M)?0.75 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Hideki Hamanaka
  • Publication number: 20180272807
    Abstract: A motorcycle tyre intended to be fitted to the rear wheel of a motorcycle. The motorcycle tyre has a tread pattern with a high void-to-rubber ratio that provides a suitable draining. The tread pattern has pairs of primary grooves to carry out the draining function of the tyre, and arranged substantially according to the stress lines of the tyres to reduce the probability of triggering uneven wear. Also included are secondary grooves having a reduced dimension, in terms of both extension and width, arranged between the primary grooves to increase the grip of the tyre to the ground. Orientation of the secondary grooves increases stabilizing features against drift forces acting on the tyre, particularly in low or very low friction conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Pierangelo MISANI, Mario MARIANI, Luca BRUSCHELLI, Aline RINGIS PIN
  • Publication number: 20180272808
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprising a plurality of circumferential main grooves, and a land portion defined by a pair of the plurality of circumferential main grooves. The land portion comprises a plurality of first lug grooves, a plurality of second lug grooves that are wider than the first lug grooves, and a plurality of notch portions formed on only the opening portions of the first lug grooves. A groove width Wg1 of the first lug grooves and a groove width Wg2 of the second lug grooves have the relationship 1.0 mm?Wg2?Wg1?4.0 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Tomohisa Nishino
  • Publication number: 20180272809
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion including a pair of first main grooves, a pair of second main grooves, a first land portion between the first main grooves and a pair of second land portions each sectioned adjacent one of the pair of first main grooves and one of the pair of second main grooves. The first main grooves extend in a trapezoidal wave manner including inner elements, outer elements and inclined connecting elements. One of the second land portions is provided with a second lateral groove opened at one of the outer elements. The first land portion is provided with a recess having an opening at the one of the outer elements. In a tire circumferential direction, a center of the opening of the recess is located at a position different from a position of an extension line of a centerline of the second lateral groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuo KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20180272810
    Abstract: Tire made of rubbery material comprising a tread (1) of width W that is delimited by at least one edge (3). The tread comprises a plurality of blocks (5), each block being delimited by at least one lateral wall (7) that extends mainly in an axial direction Y in the direction of the edge (3). The lateral wall (7) has a length L in this axial direction Y, where L is greater than 35% of the width W of the tread. The lateral wall also exhibits an inclination angle (a) with respect to a radial direction (Z), said inclination angle (a) evolving in the axial direction Y, this evolution being continuous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Daniel FABING, IIIyes BATNINI, Sébastien DUCHEMIN, Jeoffrey BUSA
  • Publication number: 20180272811
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises circumferential main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction and land portions defined by the circumferential main grooves. The land portions are each provided with a plurality of groove units which are sets including a first groove, a second groove, and a third groove. The first groove, the second groove, the third groove are disposed without meeting one another, and radially extend at intervals from each other ranging from 90 degrees to 150 degrees. Additionally, the first groove is a lug groove with the groove width ranging from 1.5 mm to 4.0 mm and has a semi-closed structure, opening to the circumferential main groove or the tire ground contact edge at a first end portion and terminating within the land portion at a second end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Koishikawa
  • Publication number: 20180272812
    Abstract: A winter tyre is described having a tread band wherein a plurality of blocks configured to obtain optimal performance both on snow-covered roads and on dry and wet roads in specific conditions of use (in particular during acceleration, braking or cornering with high power vehicles). Each of the aforementioned blocks has at least one sipe that defines two adjacent block portions in the respective block, each block portion having a respective surface facing the sipe. The surface has a radially outer portion having a profile which is substantially undulating, a radially inner portion also having a profile which is substantially undulating and an intermediate portion arranged between the radially outer portion and the radially inner portion and having a profile which is substantially rectilinear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Roberto BOLZONI, Gianfranco COLOMBO, Alberto ABONDIO
  • Publication number: 20180272813
    Abstract: A tire wear estimation system is provided. The system includes at least one tire that supports a vehicle. At least one sensor is affixed to the tire to generate a first predictor. A lookup table or a database stores data for a second predictor. One of the predictors includes at least one vehicle effect. A model receives the predictors and generates an estimated wear rate for the at least one tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Kanwar Bharat Singh
  • Publication number: 20180272814
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a plurality of protrusion portions extending along a tire side surface of a tire side portion in a direction that intersects a tire circumferential direction and a tire radial direction; the plurality of protrusion portions each including an intermediate portion in an extension direction that includes a highest position of projection height from the tire side surface, and tip portions on either side of the intermediate portion in the extension direction that include a lowest position of projection height from the tire side surface; and the plurality of protrusion portions including a radially outer protrusion portion with at least the intermediate portion disposed outward of a tire maximum width position in the tire radial direction, and a radially inner protrusion portion with at least the intermediate portion disposed inward of the tire maximum width position in the tire radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Yuji Kodama
  • Publication number: 20180272815
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire with reduced cavity noise including a porous sound-absorbing material adhered by an adhesive agent layer to an inside surface of an inner liner disposed in a tread layer in the tire. The sound-absorbing material is continuously extended in a circumferential direction in the tire. The sound-absorbing material has an open cell on a surface thereof, a volume of the sound-absorbing material is 14% to 26% with respect to a total volume of the tire, and a maximum width of the sound-absorbing material is 35% to 60% with respect to a width of the tire tread and a surface area of the sound-absorbing material is 10% to 50% with respect to a surface area of the rim of a wheel on the surface of the inner liner to which the sound-absorbing material is adhered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Byeong Ho SEO
  • Publication number: 20180272816
    Abstract: An electronic unit for measuring operating parameters of a tyre, the tyre being mounted on a rim, the mounted assembly forming a vehicle wheel able to rotate about an axis of rolling, the electronic unit includes a support designed to be mounted on the wheel, the support forming a printed circuit on which there is mounted a radial-acceleration sensor able to measure radial accelerations of the wheel, the radial-acceleration sensor being mounted inclined in an angular range from 30 to 60 degrees with respect to a plane tangential to the rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Stéphane BILLY, Jean-Christophe BOUTHINON
  • Publication number: 20180272817
    Abstract: A hitch comprising: a) a first member having a first top surface, an opposing first bottom surface, a first side, an opposing second side, a first end, a distal second end, and at least one channel proximate the first end and extending from the first side through to the second side. A second channel proximate the second end and extending from first top surface to the bottom surface; and b) a second member next to the second end and having a predetermined thickness, the second member having a third end, a fourth end, and a third channel next to the fourth end. The third channel extends through the predetermined thickness. A portion of the second member is rigidly affixed to a portion of the first member, so that the second bottom surface and the first top surface are at an acute angle Ø.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Randy Colbaugh, Bill Gentry
  • Publication number: 20180272818
    Abstract: A vehicle suspension assembly includes a mounting bracket adapted to couple to a vehicle frame assembly, a trailing arm having a first end pivotably coupled to the first mounting bracket, and a second end, an axle member coupled to the second end of the trailing arm, the axle member configured to support a tire, an actuator operably coupled to the trailing arm and operable between a first state configured to lift the tire away from a ground surface and a second state configured for the tire to contact the ground surface, and an actuator arrangement configured to move from a first position where the actuator arrangement couples the actuator to the trailing arm when the actuator is in the first state, and a second position where the actuator arrangement uncouples the actuator from the trailing arm when the actuator is in the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Marc R. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20180272819
    Abstract: A powered vehicle suspension assembly includes a mounting bracket configured to be attached to a powered vehicle frame rail, a trailing arm assembly including a substantially rigid trailing arm having a first end pivotably coupled with the mounting bracket and a second end, where the trailing arm assembly is configured to operably couple with a powered vehicle axle arrangement, a spring arrangement supported by the second end of the trailing arm, and a structural reinforcement cross-member configured to extend between and couple with a pair of powered vehicle frame rails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: SAF-HOLLAND, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Galla, Jason Heath, Jason Klein
  • Publication number: 20180272820
    Abstract: A vehicle axle suspension having a leaf spring unit suspending a rigid axle on a structural component or portion of the vehicle. The leaf spring unit arranged on the vehicle to extend parallel with a longitudinal axis of the vehicle. A first bearing unit, secured to the structure, and pivotably connects, at a first pivot axis, to a first end portion of the leaf spring unit. A second bearing unit is secured to the structure. A connection arm pivotably connects at one end, at a second pivot axis, to the second bearing unit. The other end of the connection arm pivotably connects, at a third pivot axis, to a second end portion of the leaf spring unit. The second bearing unit including at least one resilient spring element engaging the connection arm wherein the connection arm is supported on the resilient spring element from a pivoting about the second pivot axis a predetermined extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim
  • Publication number: 20180272821
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spring support for a coil spring (15), comprising an annular receiving element (5) having a top side and a bottom side, wherein the top side is provided to receive one end of the coil spring (15), and comprising an annular damping element (3), which is in contact with the bottom side of the receiving element (5), wherein the damping element (3) furthermore has on its inside a collar which extends from the bottom side of the receiving element (5) in the direction of the coil spring (15), and wherein the collar is formed by bending from a disk-shaped basic form of the damping element (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventor: Waldemar MEIER
  • Publication number: 20180272822
    Abstract: An elastomer coupling for an electromechanical actuator, having a drive part and a driven part, wherein either the drive part or the driven part has multiple radially outwardly extending webs arranged so as to be distributed about an axis of rotation, and the respective other part has radially inwardly extending webs arranged on the inner side of a tubular body, wherein a radially inwardly and a radially outwardly extending web engage into one another and form a pocket in which there is received an elastic molded body produced from an elastomer, wherein, in at least one pocket, there is received a spring element which generates a pretensioning force, which spring element is attached either to an inwardly extending or to an outwardly extending web and is spring-loaded against an adjacent web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Holzberger, Wilfried Breton, Ramon Jurjanz, Manuel Seubert, Sebastian Kruger
  • Publication number: 20180272823
    Abstract: A vehicle rear-suspension bracket includes a bracket having raised lateral portions. The bracket includes a bumper portion and a frame portion. The raised lateral portions create a lateral channel between the lateral portions that extends an entire length of the bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Rand BURZESE
  • Publication number: 20180272824
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method for detecting and controlling the height of a frame of a self-propelled agricultural product applicator above a ground surface utilize a trailing link suspension system including an angular position sensor and extensible air strut, for connecting ground engaging wheels of the applicator to the frame of the applicator. Height of the applicator above the ground surface is determined by measuring relative angular rotation of upper and lower suspension arms of the suspension system about a suspension pivot axis, using the angular position sensor. Height is controlled by regulating a flow of pressurized air to the air strut, to thereby control extension of the air strut in a manner that controls a frame to axle, ride-height, distance of the suspension system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Richard Kerner, Richard A. Moen, William A. Roach
  • Publication number: 20180272825
    Abstract: This invention relates to a chassis system for a vehicle comprising a frame configured to support a body of the vehicle. The frame comprises a pair of outer longitudinal members defining outer lateral sides of the chassis system. One or more suspension systems are connected between each of a plurality of wheel mounts and the frame, the wheel mounts configured such that the chassis system is supported on at least one pair of wheels. The outer longitudinal members are positioned on the outside of and adjacent to the wheels when the frame is in a ride position. The suspension systems are configured to selectively vary the height of the frame between the ride position and a raised position in which the outer longitudinal members are at a height above the top of the wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: John Eagleton
  • Publication number: 20180272826
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method for controlling the height of a frame of a self-propelled high ground clearance, agricultural product applicator above a ground surface utilize a trailing link suspension system including an extensible air strut, for connecting ground engaging wheels of the applicator to the frame of the applicator. The trailing arm suspension system includes an upper suspension arm attached to the frame, a lower suspension arm providing sole support of a ground engaging wheel attached to the lower arm, and the extensible air strut interconnected between the upper and lower arms. Height of the applicator above the ground surface is controlled by regulating a flow of pressurized air to the air strut, to thereby control extension of the air strut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Richard A. Moen
  • Publication number: 20180272827
    Abstract: The twist axle assembly includes a twist beam which is made of a single integral piece and extends along a length between opposite ends. The twist beam has a middle portion which extends in a first direction and a pair of end portions which extend at least partially in a second direction that is generally transverse to the first direction to reduce twisting stresses within the end portions during operation of the twist axle assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Kevin Richard Langworthy
  • Publication number: 20180272828
    Abstract: A stabilizer device includes a stabilizer extending in a width direction of a vehicle, and a bush unit. The bush unit includes a bracket formed of metal, and a rubber bush. The rubber bush is formed of a plurality of bush pieces, and is fixed to the stabilizer by an adhesion layer. The adhesion layer is constituted of an adhesion member including an adhesive applied to inner surfaces of the bush pieces. A bonding display portion formed of a part of the adhesion member is provided at a corner on an end face of the bush piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun UMENO, Yukihiro SEKI, Toru ITIHARA, Hiroshi MIZUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20180272829
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an active roll stabilizer. The active roll stabilizer includes a pair of stabilizer bars installed between left and right wheels of a vehicle and an actuator which connects the pair of stabilizer bars and transmits a rotational force to the pair of stabilizer bars, wherein the actuator includes a motor configured to generate the rotational force, a housing coupled to a portion between the pair of stabilizer bars and having the motor disposed inside the housing, a damping part disposed on an extension line of a rotational shaft of the motor inside the housing and configured to absorb vibrations generated at the motor and the pair of stabilizer bars, and a torque measurement sensing part configured to measure a torque transmitted by the rotational force inside the damping part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Gyung Hun SIM
  • Publication number: 20180272830
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heat pump system for a vehicle having a first heat source. The heat pump system includes: a first heat exchanger; a second heat exchanger; a primary loop through which coolant circulates, the primary loop passing through the first and second heat exchangers; and a secondary loop through which a refrigerant circulates. In particular, the primary loop includes a flow control device to control the direction and the flow rate of a coolant passing through the primary loop, and a bypassing line through which the coolant selectively bypasses the first heat source in the primary loop. The secondary loop is thermally coupled to the primary loop via the second heat exchanger, and the secondary loop further includes a compressor, an evaporator, and a condenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicants: KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Antonio Vespa
  • Publication number: 20180272831
    Abstract: A method is specified for determining information concerning a particle load of an airflow flowing into a vehicle interior. That method includes determining the initial mass of a filter at the start of a time interval, by means of strain gauges, passing an airflow through the filter for a time interval, determining the end mass of the filter at the end of the time interval, by means of strain gauges, ascertaining the mass difference between the end mass and the initial mass of the filter and outputting of information, based on the ascertained mass difference, concerning the particle load of the airflow. An apparatus for ascertaining information concerning a particle load of an airflow flowing into a vehicle interior is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Carsten Starke
  • Publication number: 20180272832
    Abstract: A vehicle air-handling system includes a heat exchanger, a blower in communication with the heat exchanger, and an operable duct having driver and passenger portions that are each in communication with the heat exchanger and the blower. When the blower is activated, the driver portion continuously delivers blower air and the passenger portion selectively delivers blower air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Fusco, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Manfred Koberstein, Jose A. Nava, Steven M. Kahrs
  • Publication number: 20180272833
    Abstract: A vehicle HVAC system may include a housing, a blower disposed in the housing to blow air, an evaporator core disposed in the housing to cool the air having passed through the blower, a heater core disposed in the housing to increase a temperature of the air having passed through the evaporator core, a temperature door assembly including a pair of slidable temperature door plates to control the air having passed through the blower, and a mode door assembly including a slidable mode door plate to control a vent outlet and a floor outlet such that one thereof is closed, or to control air to be discharged through the vent outlet and the floor outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Kyeong-Hyeon Lee, Yong-Chul Kim, Jun-Chul An
  • Publication number: 20180272834
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for cooling a battery in a vehicle by means of a coolant includes a first coolant circuit including a first heat exchanger for heat transfer between the coolant and the battery, a pumping device, and a collecting vessel for the coolant connected to one another by means of coolant lines. A condensate line connects the collecting vessel to an air conditioning system of the vehicle for the introduction of condensate. A related method for cooling a battery is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Marcus Hahn
  • Publication number: 20180272835
    Abstract: A vehicular air conditioning device includes a cabin air conditioning unit having a cabin side ventilator and a temperature adjusting unit, and a seat air conditioning unit having a seat side ventilator a ventilation duct that guides at least a portion of the air temperature adjusted by the temperature adjusting unit toward the seat side ventilator. A plurality of seat side blowout portions in a seat. The plurality of seat side blowout portions include a contact side blowout portion which is formed on a surface of a portion of the seat which come into contact with a passenger when the passenger sits in the seat, and a below knee side blowout portion which is formed on a portion of the seat that faces a below knee region of the passenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Kouji FUJII, Hiroshi NAKAJIMA, Takafumi MASUDA, Masanori MORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180272836
    Abstract: A temperature control system for a vehicle seat includes a finish trim layer, a thermally conductive panel in thermal contact with the finish trim layer, a thermal device generating a temperature gradient, and a heat transfer structure connecting the panel and the thermal device. The panel and the heat transfer structure are adapted to together thermally conduct the quantity of heat between the finish trim layer and the thermal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Lear Corporation
    Inventor: Mladen Humer
  • Publication number: 20180272837
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (10) having a temperature sensor (22) for a vehicle heating device (12), wherein the heat exchanger (10) comprises the temperature sensor (22), a heat input surface (14), an electrical heating element (16) arranged on the heat input surface (14), and a heat output surface (18), said temperature sensor (22) being arranged in a depression (20) on said heat output surface (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Stephan Buckl
  • Publication number: 20180272838
    Abstract: A temperature sensor for a vehicle that is designed to detect an interior temperature of the vehicle and can be arranged in the vehicle. In this context, it is provided that the temperature sensor comprises at least the following units: at least one processing unit for determining at least one temperature value by evaluating raw detected data from the temperature sensor, at least one modular interface unit for data exchange with a control device of the vehicle so that the at least one temperature value can be provided via the interface unit to the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thorsten Kaufmann, Sabrina Hübscher
  • Publication number: 20180272839
    Abstract: A vehicular heat management device includes a first heat source, a second heat source, a heater core, a first heat medium pathway, a second heat medium pathway, a heater core pathway, a switching portion, and a control unit. The first heat source is provided in the first heat medium pathway, and the second heat source is provided in the second heat medium pathway. The heater core is provided in the heater core pathway. The switching portion switches between flowing connection and flowing disconnection. The control unit performs at least one of a switching control and a second heat source control when a temperature of the heat medium of the heater core pathway is at or above a predetermined temperature. In the switching control, the switching portion connects the second heat medium pathway to the heater core pathway. In the second heat source control, the second heat source generates heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshiki KATO, Masayuki TAKEUCHI, Keigo SATO, Koji MIURA, Norihiko ENOMOTO, Kengo SUGIMURA, Ariel MARASIGAN, Ikuo OZAWA, Nobuharu KAKEHASHI, Yoshikazu SHINPO, Yoichi ONISHI, Toshio MURATA
  • Publication number: 20180272840
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted heat utilization device (10) includes: an engine fluid circuit (12) in which fluid circulates to cool an engine (18); a heater fluid circuit (14) that passes through an exhaust heat recovery apparatus (26) that recovers a heat of exhaust gas (28) and a vehicle-interior heat exchanger (24) for radiating a heat of the fluid into a vehicle interior; a cooling-heating fluid circuit (16) that passes through a radiating heat exchanger (34), the radiating heat exchanger being included in a refrigeration cycle (30) in which refrigerant is compressed by a compressor (32) and the compressed refrigerant is expanded; a first switching unit (52) that is configured to selectively switch a state of the engine fluid circuit (12) and the heater fluid circuit (14) between a connected and a disconnected state; a second switching unit (54) that is configured to selectively switch a state of the heater fluid circuit (14) and the cooling-heating fluid circuit (16) between a connected state and a disconnected stat
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi ONISHI, Yoshikazu SHIMPO, Toshio MURATA, Shinichi TANIGUCHI, Hideyuki KOMITSU, Ikuo OZAWA, Norihiko ENOMOTO, Kazunori SAIDA, Nobuharu KAKEHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180272841
    Abstract: A vehicle having a body including a roof supported between spaced roof rails. A plurality of roof bows extend between and are attached to the roof rails that reinforce the roof. The roof bows define an air distribution duct that includes an air inlet and at least one air vent. The air distribution duct defines a downwardly facing open channel that is closed by a headliner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Ari Garo CALISKAN, David Anthony WAGNER
  • Publication number: 20180272842
    Abstract: A retractable sun shade for a vehicle that rolls up into a housing at the base of the windshield. Magnets on the top edge of the shade latch with corresponding magnets mounted to the vehicle to hold the shade open when deployed. Vehicle magnets may for example be on a T-bar that is clamped to the rearview mirror arm. The housing may be held in position via tension bars on the left and right ends of the housing, which push outward against the sides of the vehicle to hold the housing in place. The system may be installed or removed without tools, adhesives, or fixtures. The system conforms to vehicles and windshields of different sizes and shapes. Deployment and retraction of the shade are rapid and simple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Yuen Hui MAO
  • Publication number: 20180272843
    Abstract: A window assembly includes a first polarizing windowpane, and a second polarizing windowpane. The first and second polarizing windowpanes are each independently moveable between a first position that blocks an opening to an interior of a vehicle, and a second position that does not block the opening. A window operating method includes moving first and second polarizing windowpanes of a window assembly from respective first positions that block an opening to an interior of a vehicle to respective second positions that do not block the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Bala Chander, Rick H. Wykoff, II, Kenneth Edward Nietering
  • Publication number: 20180272844
    Abstract: A door latch reinforcement assembly includes a base member including a main wall portion extending laterally from an inboard side of an associated vehicle door to an outboard side of the associated vehicle door and an outboard flange portion extending from an outboard end of the main wall portion along the outboard side of the associated vehicle door. The door latch reinforcement assembly can include a stiffener overlaid onto the main wall portion to reinforce the base member. The assembly can include at least one notch extending into the main wall portion from an inboard end of the main wall portion to define the main wall portion into at least two fingers having distal ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew W. Schmitt, Nathan D. Roy, Robert H. Bator, Kozo Kusumoto, Christopher J. Mampe
  • Publication number: 20180272845
    Abstract: A vehicular opening/closing body control device includes a braking control unit configured to apply a braking force to an opening/closing body by supplying driving power having a locked conduction phase to a motor, which is a drive source of the opening/closing body, wherein, when an execution time of phase-locked conduction control for locking the conduction phase and supplying the driving power reaches or exceeds a predetermined time, the braking control unit switches a conduction phase used for the phase-locked conduction control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Takenaka, Kohei Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20180272846
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tailgate of a motor vehicle having at least one side post to which a window is added, the post constituting a U-shaped profile member with an open cross-section, in which the opening is turned towards the window, the profile member including a base provided with a first side flank and a second side flank. The second flank includes a trim which curves, opposite the YO of the vehicle, towards the first flank so as to at least partially close the opening of the profile member, the trim being added to the second flank without reducing the rear field of vision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Philippe Coudron
  • Publication number: 20180272847
    Abstract: Sliding tarp systems employed on trailers are disclosed. Various systems and improvements are disclosed which allow for unobstructed access to the tarp storage area and more reliable operation of the sliding tarp system. Unobstructed access to the storage area is achieved by providing extensions to the sliding tarp system tracks which the sliding tarp system support elements can be slid onto, leaving the storage area completely uncovered. The sliding tarp system track extensions can be removed or reoriented when not in use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Ilir BESHIRI, Jacob KLASSEN, Johan NEUFELD
  • Publication number: 20180272848
    Abstract: A wind deflector assembly for a roof of a vehicle, with the vehicle roof including a sunroof that is openable and closable relative to an aperture in the vehicle roof, includes a wind deflector having a frame and a screen. A pair of tracks is disposed at an inner surface of the vehicle roof at or near the aperture. The wind deflector is movably and pivotally mounted at the tracks via a pair of mounting arms. The mounting arms are movable along the tracks and pivot to pivot the frame and the wind deflector between a retracted position, where the wind deflector is disposed at the inner surface of the vehicle roof and between the tracks, and an extended position, where the wind deflector is disposed partially at the opening and is pivoted upward so as to protrude above an outer surface of the vehicle roof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Daniel Biasi da Silva, Josemar de Melo Dornelas, Renato Ramos Jannuzzi
  • Publication number: 20180272849
    Abstract: A vehicle assembly includes a windshield having a fore edge and a body panel having an aft edge. The body panel includes an arm portion protruding from the aft edge and a tapered portion disposed at an interface between the aft edge and the arm portion. The arm portion has a distal end. The assembly further includes a sealing member with a first channel and a second channel. The fore edge is disposed in the first channel and the arm portion is disposed in the second channel. The second channel is defined by a first sidewall, a second sidewall, and an endwall. A protrusion extends from the second sidewall into the second channel and abuts the tapered portion. A band of material extends between the first sidewall and the second sidewall. The distal end abuts the band of material to secure the body panel between the band and the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Sorin RATIU, Michael D. RICHARDSON
  • Publication number: 20180272850
    Abstract: The invention provides a sunroof device with good overall appearance. The sunroof device having: a first panel, a second panel and a weather strip, which is located between the first panel and the opening and between the second panel and the opening, and mounted along an inner peripheral edge portion of the opening. The weather strip has a first weather strip portion disposed at a position corresponding to a part of the opening and a second weather strip portion disposed at a position corresponding to another part of the opening, wherein, a first protrusion amount that the first weather strip portion protrudes from the inner peripheral edge portion of the opening toward the first panel is smaller than a second protrusion amount that the second weather strip portion protrudes from the inner peripheral edge portion of the opening toward the second panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Aisin Wuxi Body Parts Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Iwashita KATSUYOSHI, Kazuki Sawada
  • Publication number: 20180272851
    Abstract: A vehicle including: a floor panel; a pair of left and right front seats which are disposed on the floor panel; and a high-voltage battery which is disposed between the front seats and which is held on a frame member, wherein a guide member which guides the frame member is provided between the front seats on the floor panel, and wherein the guide member has a pair of left and right guide rails and a positioning portion which controls a position of the frame member in relation to the guide member in at least a front-rear direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsubasa Ikeya, Tetsuya Takezawa
  • Publication number: 20180272852
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle lower portion structure including: a case main body portion, disposed at a vehicle lower side of a vehicle cabin floor and including a bottom wall and peripheral walls that extend toward a vehicle upper side from a peripheral edge portion of the bottom wall, and accommodating a battery at an interior thereof; a front portion extending portion formed integrally with the case main body portion at a vehicle front side of the case main body portion, at the peripheral wall that is at a vehicle front side of the case main body portion; and an impact absorbing portion, extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction and deforming due to input of collision load from a vehicle front side, a rear end portion of the impact absorbing portion being connected to a vehicle front side region of the front portion extending portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi AJISAKA
  • Publication number: 20180272853
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery pack protective frame and a battery pack. The battery pack protective frame comprises a plurality of frame components connected together. Each frame component comprises: a sealing portion extending in an up-down direction for sealing a plurality of battery assemblies to be mounted; a battery fixed portion protruding from a lower portion of the sealing portion toward an inner side in an inner-outer direction for fixing the plurality of battery assemblies to be mounted; and a protective portion protruding from the lower portion of the sealing portion toward an outer side in the inner-outer direction for connecting with a vehicle fixing member. The battery pack comprises a lower box body, a plurality of battery assemblies, a box cover, a gasket, a bottom plate and a protective plate. The lower box body comprises the battery pack protective frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Kangyu WANG, Yanhuo XIANG, Mu QIAN, Zongxiang LUO, Jiubiao LIN, Lei YANG