Patents Issued in December 20, 2018
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Publication number: 20180361999Abstract: Petrol station 100 for supplying fuel to vehicles (200), comprising a device (103) for transporting vehicles (200) in a queue within a refuelling area while refuelling a vehicle in said refuelling area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventor: Gerardus Johannes Loogman
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Publication number: 20180362000Abstract: A vehicle brake mechanism that includes a pedal, a piston attached to the pedal, a spring associated with the piston and exerting a longitudinal force on the piston in a direction opposite the braking direction in order to bring the pedal to a resting position, and an autonomous brake module. A manual braking force on the pedal causes a longitudinal movement of the piston and displaces a transmitter element integrally joined to the piston. The autonomous brake module causes a movement of an intermediate plate that displaces the transmitter element and the piston, exerting a longitudinal force on the piston in the braking direction. The brake mechanism determines the force in the direction opposite the braking direction using a sensor situated on or in the intermediate plate and/or the transmitter element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Christian Jammes, Esteve Cortes Guasch
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Publication number: 20180362001Abstract: A traveling control apparatus acquires a shape of a road on which an own vehicle is to travel, and, in the case where the shape of the road changes from a straight road to a curved road, the apparatus calculates an upper limit speed, which prevents the own vehicle from skidding off outside the curved road when the own vehicle travels on the curved road, as a target speed. The traveling control apparatus decelerates the own vehicle from a deceleration start position so that the own vehicle enters the curved road at a constant speed at a time point when the own vehicle enters the curved road. The traveling control apparatus sets the target speed after acceleration has finished when the own vehicle exits the curved road and reaches an acceleration start position, and accelerates the own vehicle from the acceleration start position to an acceleration completion position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Hiroshi INOU, Teppei MIYAKE, Tomoyuki HORI
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Publication number: 20180362002Abstract: A method is provided to adjust an activating braking pressure threshold value of an automatic vehicle brake holding system of a vehicle. If a braking pressure that is generated through actuation of a vehicle brake of the vehicle exceeds an activating braking pressure threshold value while the vehicle is at a standstill, a brake holding state of the vehicle brake holding system is activated and a procedure for ascertaining time is started. A vehicle movement is ascertained during an activated brake holding state within a monitoring procedure period of time since starting the procedure to ascertain time. If a movement occurs within the monitoring procedure period of time, a value of a number of ascertained movements is increased. If this value exceeds a movement threshold value, the activating braking pressure threshold value is increased and the value of the number of ascertained movements is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Christoph HENEL, Tom RAMAKERS, Tadeusz BULARZ
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Publication number: 20180362003Abstract: Provided is a vehicle body behavior control device and a method of controlling behavior of a vehicle body which can reduce unstable behavior of the vehicle body. A vehicle body behavior control device incorporated into a vehicle body having a plurality of wheels includes: a brake mechanism which controls behavior of the wheels; and a control part which controls an interlocking brake operation in which a braking force is applied to the plurality of wheels using the brake mechanism when an operation for applying braking to any one of the wheels is performed based on a gradient value ? of a road surface on which the vehicle body travels.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Shunsaku Ono, Yuki Oshida
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Publication number: 20180362004Abstract: The invention obtains a hydraulic brake system, installability of which in a bicycle is improved. The invention also obtains a bicycle that includes such a hydraulic brake system. The invention further obtains a method for controlling such a hydraulic brake system. A hydraulic brake system 100 includes a hydraulic pressure controller 100 and a power supply unit 150 of the hydraulic pressure controller 100, the hydraulic pressure controller 100 including: a base section that is formed with a channel, through which a brake fluid flows, therein; a valve that is attached to the base section and opens and closes the channel; and a control section that governs an opening/closing operation of the valve and controlling hydraulic pressure of the brake fluid that is supplied to a wheel braking section of the bicycle. The power supply unit 150 includes a generator 151 that generates electric power by traveling of a bicycle 200.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Hiroaki Atsushi, Shigeki Ikeda
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Publication number: 20180362005Abstract: Disclosed is a solenoid valve for a brake system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventor: SUNG HO KWAK
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Publication number: 20180362006Abstract: A pedal travel simulator for a hydraulic vehicle power braking system with a cup-shaped cylinder cover in which a piston spring is accommodated, which is held by an orifice disk as a stop for a piston of the pedal travel simulator in the cylinder cover. Recesses are provided in an outer edge of the orifice disk, through which the piston is able to displace brake fluid on its rear side out of a cylinder of the pedal travel simulator through a circumferential groove into a return.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Andreas Weh, Harald Guggenmos, Matthias Mayr, Stefan Kaserer
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Publication number: 20180362007Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster for a hydraulic motor-vehicle brake system, including a booster housing, having a front and a rear housing shell, and at least one connecting pin, which is arranged in the booster housing such that the at least one connecting pin extends axially parallel to the center axis and which supports the booster housing from the inside by two supporting formations and which protrudes through the booster housing from the inside to the outside on at least one side by an end segment. In order to ensure simple intermediate handling of the brake booster before and during the assembly of the brake system and to improve the durability and corrosion resistance, the housing shells are arranged in such a way that the housing shells are each connected to the connecting pin such that the housing shells are secured against being axially moved apart from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Jürgen Faller, Oliver Herke, Rene Peter Eberhart
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Publication number: 20180362008Abstract: A brake arrangement including hybrid brake actuators includes pneumatic and electric brake actuators, and is designed to overcome pneumatic failures by electrical brake actuators. The pneumatic can thus be lightened and less energy consuming. In particular, only one compressed air tank can be used for all the axles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2015Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Lionel FARRES, Christophe Long
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Publication number: 20180362009Abstract: Disclosed is an electromechanical actuator for a motor vehicle brake caliper, including a casing having a planar face for fixing to a caliper body, this casing enclosing an electric motor and a mechanical reduction gear which are coupled to one another and include components rotating about axes of orientation normal to the planar fixing face. The reduction gear and the motor, as well as the casing all three extend wholly on one and the same side of the planar fixing face.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Philippe BOURLON, Thierry PASQUET, Cyril CUBIZOLLES
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Publication number: 20180362010Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED The present invention provides a vehicle motion detecting apparatus that can satisfy a required detection accuracy with a simple architecture and at a low cost, and also maintain reliability of an applied external apparatus. SOLUTION A vehicle motion detecting apparatus 100 of the present invention has a motion detecting section 10 that detects a motion of a vehicle and a malfunction detecting section 20 that detects a malfunction of the motion detecting section 10, and is characterized in that the motion detecting section 10 is a 6-axis inertial sensor as the first multi-axis inertial sensor that is capable of detecting accelerations in directions of three axes and angular velocities about three axes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2015Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Fevzi Yildirim, Katrin Jost
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Publication number: 20180362011Abstract: The invention relates to a driving assistance device for a motor vehicle comprising: a camera (9) capable of generating a first map of the environment of the motor vehicle (8); a transit time sensor (12) capable of generating a second map of the vehicle environment (8); a driving assistance module comprising: a fusion unit capable of generating a precise map of the frontal environment of the vehicle, the precise map being generated by the fusion unit as a function of the first map and the second map; a movement computation unit capable of generating an acceleration setpoint of the vehicle as a function of the precise map of the vehicle environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: VALEO Schalter und Sensoren GmbHInventors: Vanessa Picron, Benazouz Bradai, Thomas Heitzmann, Damien Fournigault, Didier Taccoen, Pascal Maurel, Frédéric Cousin, Roland Randriazanamparany, Lucian Vatamanu
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Publication number: 20180362012Abstract: The invention has a purpose of improving applicability of a controller and a control method to a vehicle, the controller and the control method executing brake control in which primary information is selectively supplemented by secondary information that is information on an assumed state related to connection and disconnection of a clutch. A determination section 5A1 and a brake control section 5A4 are provided, the determination section 5A1 determining whether an actual state related to the connection and the disconnection of the clutch matches the assumed state in accordance with a relationship between the secondary information and travel state information indicative of a travel state of the vehicle, and the brake control section 5A4 executing the brake control by using the primary information but not the secondary information in the case where the determination section 5A1 determines that the actual state does not match the assumed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Nobuho NEMOTO, Takuya WATANABE
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Publication number: 20180362013Abstract: A driver assistance system has an emergency stop function for a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has an electric parking brake. A parking-brake operating element is used to activate the electric parking brake. The driver assistance system is designed to activate an emergency stop function in accordance with the actuation of the parking-brake operating element and, as part of the emergency stop function, to perform an autonomous emergency stop driving maneuver for the emergency stopping of the vehicle. The driver assistance system is characterized in that the driver assistance system is designed to activate the emergency stop function only in response to an end of the actuation of the parking-brake operating element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventor: Soeren UNGERMANN
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Publication number: 20180362014Abstract: An electric car draws lots of power that needs to be on board the moving vehicle. An adaptive power supply can combine a variety of sources of electrical energy—which may include an internal combustion engine—and use those different sources to efficiently produce the electrical power required. An adaptive power supply provides optimal performance by sensing changing conditions, often hundreds of times per second, and then adapting itself to those conditions in order to optimize efficiency at each particular instant during a car's operation. Those conditions may include changes in user inputs, machine operating conditions, and machine operating parameters. Having multiple sources of electrical power allows effective control of more independent power parameters, enabling greater freedom to adapt to optimize efficiency. That gives adaptive power supplies that are cheaper, smaller, lighter, more powerful, and more efficient than conventional designs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Edward Gordon Durney, Kevin Durney
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Publication number: 20180362015Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes: an internal combustion engine; a first rotating electric machine generating electricity by a power of the internal combustion engine; an electric capacitor; a second rotating electric machine connected to a drive wheel and driven by power supply from at least one of the electric capacitor and the first rotating electric machine; a geographical information acquisition unit acquiring geographical information; and a control unit controlling a charging operation for charging the electric capacitor with power generated during a regenerative operation of the second rotating electric machine or an electricity waste operation for consuming the power by the hybrid vehicle. The control unit starts the electricity waste operation when the remaining capacity of the electric capacitor becomes equal to or greater than a threshold value during the regenerative operation of the second rotating electric machine and sets the threshold value based on the geographical information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki YUI, Tomohiro SHIBATA
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Publication number: 20180362016Abstract: A vehicle includes a first electric machine configured to generate low-voltage power. The vehicle includes a second electric machine configured to generate high-voltage power. The vehicle includes a power converter configured to convert high-voltage power generated by a second electric machine to low-voltage power. The vehicle includes a controller programmed to, responsive to a low-voltage power demand exceeding a limit of the power converter, operate the first electric machine and the power converter to satisfy the demand, and otherwise, responsive to the power converter being operational, operate only the power converter to satisfy the demand.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Hosam ATALA, Mark J. FERREL
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Publication number: 20180362017Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a driveline of a hybrid vehicle that includes an internal combustion engine, an electric machine, and a transmission are described. In one example, values of an engine spark to engine torque relationship are adjusted to improve engine torque control. The engine is subsequently operated responsive to adjusted values of the engine spark to engine torque relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Jason Meyer, Walter Joseph Ortmann, Jeffrey Allen Doering, Kevin Ray Ruybal
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Publication number: 20180362018Abstract: Described herein is a method for reducing noise in a driveline of a motor vehicle, the method including detecting a condition initiating a noise event of the driveline by using one or more sensors on board the vehicle; and controlling, as a function of the detected condition and of a signal of said one or more sensors, an actuation of one or more actuators that govern corresponding devices that can be connected to the driveline and configured for generating a torsional pre-load condition in the driveline itself.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Giancarlo OSELLA, Francesco CIMMINO, Enrico GALVAGNO, Constantinos VAFIDIS, Mauro VELARDOCCHIA, Alessandro VIGLIANI, Antonio TOTA
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Publication number: 20180362019Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a control apparatus (1) for automatically activating a vehicle propulsion apparatus (4). The control apparatus (1) includes a controller (6) comprising an electronic processor (7) having an electrical input for receiving at least a first control signal generated in dependence on driver operation of a transmission controller (12) or a primary vehicle control (15, 16, 17). An electronic memory device (8) is electrically coupled to the electronic processor (7) and has instructions stored therein. The electronic processor (7) is configured to access the memory device (8) and execute the instructions stored therein such that it is operable to receive the first control signal from the first vehicle control (10); and, in dependence on said first control signal, output at least a first activation signal (SIGEG) for automatically activating the vehicle propulsion apparatus (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventor: Harpreet SINGH
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Publication number: 20180362020Abstract: A drive system for a hybrid vehicle and a method of operation of the drive system are provided. The drive system includes an internal combustion engine having a shaft, a vehicle transmission having a transmission input shaft and an output shaft, a transmission clutch between the transmission input and output shafts, an inertia-mass drive unit arranged between the internal combustion engine shaft and the transmission input shaft, a first clutch between the internal combustion engine shaft and inertia-mass drive unit and a second clutch between the inertia-mass drive unit and the transmission input shaft; and an electrical machine torque-transmittingly connected to the transmission input shaft. The inertia-mass drive unit may include rotational oscillation reduction device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Sebastian KOBLER, Thomas JUNG, Bernhard HOESS
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Publication number: 20180362021Abstract: A method of controlling a driving force of a four-wheel drive vehicle includes causing a control unit to acquire a vehicle speed, a lateral acceleration, a driving force of a wheel, a road surface friction coefficient, and a ground contact load of the wheel when the vehicle is traveling, determine whether a road surface is rough based on the acquired road surface condition, correct, when the road surface is determined to be rough, the load of the wheel, by applying thereto a load change rate set according to the roughness, predict a slip occurrence of the wheel by comparing a product of the corrected load and the road surface friction coefficient to a total force of the driving force and a lateral force caused by a lateral acceleration in cornering, and reduce, when the slip occurrence is predicted, the driving force so as to prevent the slip occurrence.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Yasumasa Imamura, Yasushi Yagi, Daisuke Kofu, Akihiro Tatara, Naoki Nobutani
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Publication number: 20180362022Abstract: A method and system for controlling a vehicle to improve vehicle dynamics are provided. The method includes receiving data from a plurality of sensors which monitor vehicle dynamics by monitoring at least wheel and steering movements associated with a vehicle system used in controlling vehicle dynamics by control outputs from a holistic vehicle control system. Then, estimating states of the vehicle from computations of longitudinal and latitudinal velocities, tire slip ratios, clutch torque, axle torque, brake torque, and slip angles derived from the data sensed by the sensors from the wheel and steering movements. Finally, formulating a model of vehicle dynamics by using estimations of vehicle states with a target function to provide analytical data to enable the model of vehicle dynamics to be optimized and for using the data associated with the model which has been optimized to change control outputs to improve in real-time the vehicle dynamics.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: SEYEDALIREZA KASAIEZADEH MAHABADI, SHIH-KEN CHEN, BAKHTIAR B. LITKOUHI, NIKOLAI K. MOSHCHUK, PATRICK J. MONSERE, EDWARD T. HEIL
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Publication number: 20180362023Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a smart parking assist system and a control method thereof, and display the ratios of the progress distance and the remaining distance of the vehicle based on the distance by which the vehicle must move in the path set for each period in which automatic parking control is performed by a smart parking assist system, thereby allowing the driver to easily recognize the automatic parking control state of the vehicle and the distance by which the vehicle must move. Accordingly, the present embodiments may provide the driver with information on the automatic parking control state for each period of the automatic parking control, and may enable the driver to drive the vehicle to an accurate control position without exceeding the same in the period in which the vehicle is moved straight by the manual operation of the driver during the automatic parking control period.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: MANDO CORPORATIONInventors: Jae Suk KIM, Tak Gen KIM
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Publication number: 20180362024Abstract: The invention relates to a method for assisting a maneuvering procedure of a motor vehicle in a parking garage, wherein the motor vehicle moves within the parking garage during the maneuvering procedure from a drop-off site in the parking garage to a predetermined position in the parking garage, wherein the maneuvering procedure of the motor vehicle is monitored by at least one sensor of the motor vehicle, comprising the steps: establishing a communication link between a controller of the motor vehicle and a vehicle-external unit of the parking garage; transmitting climate-specific measured data that are acquired by at least one measuring point in the parking garage from the at least one measuring point to the vehicle-external unit, and calibrating the at least one sensor of the motor vehicle depending on the climate-specific measured data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Tilo Ernesti, Thorben Günzel, Daniel Mossau
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Publication number: 20180362025Abstract: A method includes determining a first trajectory of the motor vehicle during a driver-controlled movement of the motor vehicle; determining a second trajectory on the basis of the first trajectory; and storing the second trajectory for the subsequent driver-independent guidance of the motor vehicle on the second trajectory. In this case, the second trajectory includes an optimization of the first trajectory.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Lukas Oppolzer, Thomas Brettschneider
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Publication number: 20180362026Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a parking assistance apparatus (1) of a motor vehicle (2) having an attached trailer (3), involving: a) a first image of surroundings (6) of the motor vehicle (2) on which the trailer (3) is portrayed being produced by a first camera unit (4), arranged on the motor vehicle (2), of the parking assistance apparatus (1); b) a second image of surroundings (6) of the trailer (3) being produced by a second camera unit (5), arranged on the trailer (3), of the parking assistance apparatus (1); c) a combined view (16) of the surroundings (6) being produced from the first and second images, wherein an image area (17) of the first image that is occupied by the trailer (3) has at least areas overlaid with a piece of image information from the second image, so that the trailer (3) in the combined view (16) has at least areas depicted transparently in front of the surroundings (6) portrayed in the second image, by a computation unit (7) of the parking assistance apparatus (1)Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: VALEO Schalter und Sensoren GmbHInventors: Markus Heimberger, Manuel Beck
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Publication number: 20180362027Abstract: An arrangement for controlling a park area access system comprises a button (34) and a first control circuit (30) connected to the button (34) and suited to trigger the operation of the park area access system upon actuation of the button (34). The arrangement also comprises a receiver circuit (46); a controllable switch (44) connected in parallel to the button (34); and a second control circuit (42) suited to toggle the controllable switch (44) when the receiver circuit (46) receives a wireless instruction. A process for controlling a park area access system using such an arrangement is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCEInventors: Stephane Schuler, Joel Motz
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Publication number: 20180362028Abstract: A device and method for mitigating a vehicle collision are disclosed. The device and method include monitoring for an object within a vehicle travel path that includes a heightened travel hazard level. Upon detecting the object within the vehicle travel path, a closing distance rate, relative to the object, is compared with a closing threshold. When the closing distance rate compares unfavorably with the closing threshold, a secondary vehicle travel path based on the closing distance rate is determined, producing a determined secondary vehicle travel path. A command data output is generated for transmission to autonomously engage the determined secondary vehicle travel path.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventor: Danil V. Prokhorov
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Publication number: 20180362029Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for actuating a clutch of a manual transmission of a vehicle comprising. An automatic emergency braking (AEB) system is configured to automatically initiate an AEB event and a brake controller is configured to automatically actuate a braking system of the vehicle. A powertrain controller in is configured to monitor vehicle parameters and determine when an engine of the vehicle is nearing stall. A clutch control module is configured to actuate a clutch hydraulic master cylinder and actuate the clutch. A vehicle sensor network is configured to detect objects surrounding the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: MICHAEL G. CARPENTER, CHAD T. ZAGORSKI
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Publication number: 20180362030Abstract: A method for determining, dependent on safety levels, spatial regions that are impassable by a vehicle includes; capturing sensor signals and evaluating the captured signals with respect to the spatial position of an obstacle and the effect of the obstacle on the passability of the area surrounding the obstacle; and providing at least two grid structures assigned to different safety levels, each having spatial regions of substantially constant size. The size of the spatial regions is dependent on the safety level of the respective grid structure. The obstacles are entered in the spatial regions of the at least two grid structures. A safety level matching the current state of the vehicle is selected. A grid structure belonging to the selected safety level is selected. All spatial regions of the selected grid structure having an entry exceeding a minimum value are marked as regions impassable by the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventor: Sebastian OHL
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Publication number: 20180362031Abstract: Among other things, sensor signals are received using a vehicle comprising an autonomous driving capability. A risk associated with operating the vehicle is identified based on the sensor signals. The autonomous driving capability is modified in response to the risk. The operation of the vehicle is updated based on the modifying of the autonomous capability.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: nuTonomy Inc.Inventors: Hsun-Hsien Chang, Noam Weinstein, Eric Wolff, Philipp Robbel, Jacob C. Cheuvront, Karl Iagnemma, Katarzyna Anna Marczuk
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Publication number: 20180362032Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a self-driving method and an apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a first vehicle, lane change request information and first real-time information to a network device; receiving, by the first vehicle, lane change indication information sent by the network device, where the lane change indication information is determined by the network device according to the first real-time information and second real-time information that is sent by a second vehicle, and the lane change indication information indicates that the first vehicle is allowed to perform lane change; and changing, by the first vehicle, from the first lane to the second lane according to the lane change indication information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Zhihua YANG, Hui LI
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Publication number: 20180362033Abstract: A system and method to avoid collisions on highways, and to minimize the fatalities, injury, and damage when a collision is unavoidable. The system includes sensor means to detect other vehicles, and computing means to evaluate when a collision is imminent and to determine whether the collision is avoidable. If the collision is avoidable by a sequence of controlled accelerations and decelerations and steering, the system implements that sequence of actions automatically. If the collision is unavoidable, a different sequence is implemented to minimize the overall harm of the unavoidable collision. The system further includes indirect mitigation steps such as flashing the brake lights automatically. An optional post-collision strategy is implemented to prevent secondary collisions, particularly if the driver is incapacitated. Adjustment means enable the driver to set the type and timing of automatic interventions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
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Publication number: 20180362034Abstract: A crossing detection unit (21) detects a pedestrian who is about to cross a roadway on which a vehicle (100) travels. A behavior detection unit (22) detects a behavior of a nearby vehicle traveling around the vehicle (100). A stop determination unit (23) determines whether or not to stop the vehicle (100) in view of the detection of the pedestrian who is about to cross the roadway by the crossing detection unit (21) and the behavior of the nearby vehicle detected by the behavior detection unit (22). A vehicle control unit (24) stops the vehicle (100) before the pedestrian when the stop determination unit (23) determines to stop the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Akira HIRATA, Takehiko HANADA, Masahiro ABUKAWA
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Publication number: 20180362035Abstract: Methods, devices and apparatuses pertaining to U-turn assistance. The method may include receiving, by a computing device, vehicle information associated with a vehicle from a plurality of sensors that are placed on a plurality of locations of the vehicle and obtaining a length and a width of the vehicle based on the received vehicle information. The computing device may calculate a turning radius of the vehicle, and provide a recommendation for routing the vehicle based at least in part on the turning radius.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2015Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Victoria Leigh SCHEIN
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Publication number: 20180362036Abstract: Disclosed are methods and an apparatuses for signaling turn safety. One or more sensor readings can be received. The one or more sensor readings can be compared to one or more thresholds. A signal can be provided to one or more visual indicators based on whether the one or more sensor readings satisfy the one or more thresholds.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventor: Karina Liles
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Publication number: 20180362037Abstract: A blind spot identification unit (21) identifies a plurality of obstacles causing a blind spot in an area around a vehicle. An individual calculation part (231) calculates, as an individual probability, a probability of occurrence of a traffic accident at a target position with respect to the position of a target object which is each of the obstacles identified by the blind spot identification unit (21). A combined calculation part (232) calculates, as a combined probability, a probability of occurrence of a traffic accident at the target position with respect to each of the plurality of obstacles from the individual probability calculated by the individual calculation part (231).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yosuke ISHIWATARI, Takehiko HANADA
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Publication number: 20180362038Abstract: A device for lateral guidance assistance for a vehicle includes a programmable electronic control unit and a plurality of distance sensors configured to capture obstacles to a side of and/or behind the vehicle within one or more defined warning regions. The device also includes an optical sensor device configured to capture a lane width of a current lane and/or a lane width of a neighboring lane. The programmable electronic control unit is configured such that at least one of the defined warning regions is defined in a temporally and/or spatially variable manner based on the lane width of the current lane and/or the neighboring lane.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Tobias Rothmund, Tom Kasseckert, Matthias Beck
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Publication number: 20180362039Abstract: A method for adaptively controlling a vehicle speed in a vehicle includes establishing a reference speed; and activating an engine and/or brakes and/or a transmission of the vehicle by a speed-control system as a function of a set vehicle speed and/or a set vehicle retardation for fuel-saving adaptation of the currently existing vehicle speed to the reference speed. The set vehicle speed and/or the set vehicle retardation for a current driving-dynamics situation of the vehicle defined by driving-dynamics vehicle parameters is/are determined as a function of at least one computation coefficient. The at least one computation coefficient is provided by an external arithmetic unit outside the vehicle as a function of the currently existing driving-dynamics vehicle parameters and also as a function of currently existing route information for a route segment situated ahead. The route segment situated ahead is established on the basis of the currently existing driving-dynamics vehicle parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Karsten Breuer, Ahmed Ragab
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Publication number: 20180362040Abstract: A system and method for minimizing shift cycling for low speed engine operation with a vehicle cruise control. A vehicle control system operating in a cruise control mode determines a deficiency in vehicle speed between a measured vehicle speed and a cruise set speed. The deficiency is determined by comparing the vehicle speed to the cruise set speed, and includes using the compared value to find a cruise speed margin, which is continuously updated. While the cruise control system is active, the control system logic determines the time at which a transmission upshift occurs based on the cruise speed margin. The vehicle speed, at which the upshift is made, is determined as a function of the updated cruise speed margin. An upshift is not made, if a likely drop in vehicle speed would result in the event a downshift would occur once the upshift is made.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventor: Stephen West
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Publication number: 20180362041Abstract: A vehicle warning system includes a warning tripod and a portable electronic device able to communicate with the warning tripod. Based on a location of a stationary vehicle or other road obstacle, the portable electronic device controls the warning tripod to automatically move to a position to warn other vehicles, and after the warning function is carried out, the portable electronic device controls the warning tripod to automatically move back to the stationary vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: LING-CHIEH TAI, PO-CHENG CHEN, KUANG-YU LIU
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Publication number: 20180362042Abstract: A vehicle which includes an energy storage device, a rotating electric machine, a recognition unit for recognizing an other vehicle in front, a support unit, and a control unit configured to controlling charge and discharge of the rotating electric machine and the energy storage device according to support control of the support unit. When travelling is performed in accordance with support control, and the support unit predicts or detects that the other vehicle is in a near space closer to the vehicle than a space which satisfies the predetermined positional relationship ahead in a travelling direction of the vehicle based on recognized contents of the recognition unit, the control unit sets a regeneration preparation state where an allowable charging electricity amount, by which the energy storage device can be charged by regenerative electric power generated by the rotating electric machine operating as a generator, is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Hisashi ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20180362043Abstract: A method for controlling a manual driving mode includes manual mode detecting step detecting whether a vehicle switched from autonomous to manual mode; first step controlling angle of tire and steering angle of a steering wheel using travel route information when switching to manual mode is detected; delay time determination step determining a delay time of change of the angle of the tire with change of the steering angle of the steering wheel by the change in the angle of the tire with the change in the steering angle of the steering wheel for predetermined time; delay time comparison step comparing the determined delay time with predetermined time period; second step controlling only the steering angle of the steering wheel using travel route information when delay time is within the predetermined time period; and third step controlling angle of the tire by steering angle of the steering wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corp.Inventors: Sang Woo Hwang, Hyeon Seok Cho, Byung Rim Lee, Young Dae Park, Min Jun Kim
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Publication number: 20180362044Abstract: In a vehicle control device for stopping an internal combustion engine when a vehicle is traveling at a predetermined speed or higher and a stop condition of the internal combustion engine is satisfied, fuel is injected to the engine even when the stop condition is satisfied, when an EGR rate of the internal combustion engine is equal to or higher than a set value. Alternatively, when the EGR rate is equal to or higher than the set value, an EGR valve attached to an EGR pipe of the engine is controlled in a valve closing direction when the stop condition is satisfied. Alternatively, when the EGR rate is equal to or higher than the set value, clutch engagement is maintained for a clutch control device that disconnects torque transmission between an output shaft of the internal combustion engine and a vehicle drive shaft, even when the stop condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yoichi IIHOSHI, Toshio HORI, Kazuhiro ORYOJI
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Publication number: 20180362045Abstract: Vehicles, systems, and methods for shifting a manual transmission into neutral during autonomous braking are provided. An exemplary system for shifting a vehicle into neutral during autonomous braking includes a manual transmission for transferring power from an engine to a differential using gears manually selected by a gear selector. Also, the system includes an actuator mounted to the vehicle and to the gear selector. Further, the system includes a controller coupled to the actuator and configured to direct the actuator to force the gear selector into neutral during an autonomous braking event.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: CHAD T. ZAGORSKI, MICHAEL G. CARPENTER
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Publication number: 20180362046Abstract: The invention relates to a method for improved gear shifting of a vehicle having an Otto-engine and a vehicle transmission with a manually actuated clutch of the vehicle transmission, comprising the steps of: determining a first set of condition parameter values, said parameters comprising clutch position, requested engine torque and engine speed; determining if the first set of condition parameter values meet first predetermined conditions; if the first predetermined conditions of said first set of condition parameter values are met, activating a function for interrupting fuel provision of the engine before disengaging the vehicle transmission during gear shifting. The invention also relates also to system and a computer program product for implementing the method and a motor vehicle equipped with the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Scania CV ABInventors: Erik SUNNEGÅRDH, Magnus JOHANSSON
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Publication number: 20180362047Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that can predict a hazard caused by a peripheral mobile body more precisely. The information processing device acquires sensing information obtained by performing sensing in the periphery of a first mobile body, detects, using the sensing information, a body that is in the periphery of the first mobile body and is in a specific state, detects, using the sensing information, a second mobile body that is in the periphery of the first mobile body and the course of which is affected by the detected body, estimates a behavior of the detected second mobile body, based on a specific state, generates at least one item of output information from among information used for movement control of the first mobile body and information provided to mobile bodies in the periphery of the first mobile body, based on the estimated behavior, and outputs the output information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: REIKO HAGAWA, YASUNORI ISHII
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Publication number: 20180362048Abstract: A detection device is a detection device mounted on a moving object that moves on a road surface. The detection device includes a detection unit, an image detector, and a controller. The detection unit detects a shock on the moving object. The image detector captures an image of the road surface behind in a direction in which the moving object moves. The controller controls an operation of the image detector. On the basis of a detection result obtained by the detection unit, the controller causes the image detector to capture an image of the road surface on which the vehicle has passed when a shock on the vehicle has been detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventor: Masaru JUNO