Patents Issued in March 19, 2019
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Patent number: 10232706Abstract: An automobile automatic transmission axle assembly: A power input shaft extends into a transmission compartment; the power input shaft in the transmission compartment is provided with a transmission mechanism; the transmission mechanism comprises a transmission sliding sleeve assembly, modified isolators, gear-position sun gears, planet gears, a planet carrier and gear rings; the gear-position sun gears, planet gears and gear rings constitute a mechanism having a fixed transmission ratio; the transmission sliding sleeve assembly fits the modified isolators. The automobile automatic transmission axle assembly realizes an integrated automatic transmission axle for electric vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Inventor: Peisheng Liu
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Patent number: 10232707Abstract: A power transfer unit for an all-wheel drive drivetrain that includes an engine, a transmission having a pump for circulating hydraulic fluid from a sump, and a driveshaft. The power transfer unit includes an input for receiving driving power from the transmission, an output for delivering driving power to the driveshaft, a first clutch, a first fluid supply path for delivering the hydraulic fluid from the pump to the first clutch, and a fluid return path for returning the hydraulic fluid from the power transfer unit to the sump of the transmission.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventor: Larry A. Pritchard
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Patent number: 10232708Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a control system configured to control a driveline of a motor vehicle to operate in a selected one of a plurality of configurations, the system comprising at least one sensor for sensing an environment ahead of the vehicle and generating a sensor signal in dependence on the environment, the system being configured to cause the driveline to operate in a configuration selected in dependence at least in part on the sensor signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITEDInventors: Sam Burt, Richard Clarke, Christopher Harries, David Sanchez
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Patent number: 10232709Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards providing a dynamic application environment where separate components of an application can execute on separate processing hardware at any given point in time. A host device monitors current operating characteristics associated with a computing device, such a head unit of an automobile, and based on those characteristics selects which components of one or more applications to execute on the computing device and which components to execute on the host device, if any. The host device provides the selected components to the computing device for execution by the computing device and the host device executes any other components that are not executed by the computing device. The host device monitors the current operating characteristics associated with the computing device, and modifies the selection of which components are executing on which device based on changes in current operating characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Xevo Inc.Inventor: Ira Snyder
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Patent number: 10232710Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for wireless data sharing between a mobile client device and a three-dimensional heads-up display unit. A system may include a three-dimensional heads-up display unit (“3D HUD”) installed in a vehicle. The system may include a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: establish a peer-to-peer video stream between a mobile client device and the vehicle; generate live video data for providing a video stream for causing a screen of the mobile client device to display visual content of the 3D HUD that includes substantially live images depicting what the driver of the vehicle sees when looking at the 3D HUD; and stream the live video data to the mobile client device to cause the screen of the mobile client device to display the video stream that depicts what the driver of the vehicle sees when looking at the 3D HUD.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Inventor: Emrah Akin Sisbot
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Patent number: 10232711Abstract: Arrangements described herein can display a set speed deviation for a vehicle using spatiotemporal patterns. A set speed and an actual speed for a vehicle can be acquired. A deviation between the set speed and the actual speed of the vehicle can be determined. Responsive to determining the deviation between the predetermined set speed and the actual speed, a spatiotemporal pattern can be displayed within the vehicle. The spatiotemporal pattern can indicate to a user the deviation between the set speed and the actual speed via the spatiotemporal pattern. In one or more arrangements, the spatiotemporal pattern can be a repeating wave pattern.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: John-Michael McNew
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Patent number: 10232712Abstract: A display device is provided with a fuel gauge (40) that displays the amount of fuel remaining in a fuel tank (24) (remaining amount) of a hybrid vehicle (10) provided with an engine (13) that consumes fuel supplied from the fuel tank (24) and generates power by driving wheels (15) or rotating a motor (11). The hybrid vehicle is provided with a non-traveling/non-power generating mode, or in other words, a fuel consumption mode or an engine maintenance mode in which the engine (13) is forced to run and consume fuel for purposes other than traveling or generating power. Of the fuel (41a) displayed in the fuel gauge (40), the region (41aa) corresponding to the amount of fuel consumed in the non-traveling/non-power generating mode is displayed so as to be distinguishable by color from another region (41ab).Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norifumi Iwaya, Kenichi Kunii
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Patent number: 10232713Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle includes a lamp module configured to project an image to a road surface, at least one controller, and a computer-readable medium coupled to the at least one controller having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by the at least one controller, cause the at least one controller to perform operations. The operations include receiving vehicle driving information, and controlling the lamp module to project at least one of a state indicator or an operation indicator based on the vehicle driving information. The state indicator includes a projection image corresponding to first information that conveys a state related to the vehicle to an occupant of the vehicle, and the operation indicator includes a projection image corresponding to a user action to be performed by the occupant of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Ana Kim
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Patent number: 10232714Abstract: An actuating element, actuator device, and a control device are included in an operating device for a motor vehicle. The actuating element detects a user actuation and is movably mounted. The actuator device has an electromagnet and a permanent magnet. The control device applies a first electrical current to the electromagnet, by which the electromagnet applies a first magnetic force to the permanent magnet, which deflects the actuating element out of a rest position. The deflection of the actuating element can be felt as a brief jolt without reverberation. An elastically deformable restoring device presses or pulls the actuating element with a restoring force toward the rest position against a mechanical stop element.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: AUDI AGInventor: Michael Wachinger
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Patent number: 10232715Abstract: A vehicle control device is provided for hybrid vehicles with which it is possible to improve the detection accuracy of an electric leakage. The vehicle control device determines an occurrence of an electric leakage of a strong current system that is routed from a high power battery to a motor. The vehicle control device includes an integrated controller that executes a process that prohibits a mode switch between an HEV mode for traveling by the drive force of the engine and the motor, and an EV mode for traveling by the drive force of only the motor during an electric leakage detection.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Kawashima, Mitsuru Uehara, Jun Nakanowatari
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Patent number: 10232716Abstract: A power supply device that converts inputted direct-current power to direct-current power with a predetermined voltage to supply the power to the outside includes a voltage conversion circuit that converts the voltage of the inputted direct-current power, a voltage measurement circuit that measures a voltage value indicating a voltage potential difference between a ground voltage potential in the power supply device and a ground point provided outside the power supply device and connected to the ground voltage potential via a ground strap cable, a current measurement circuit that measures a current value of a load current flowing when de direct-current power is supplied from the power supply device, and an arithmetic circuit that calculates a resistance value corresponding ground connection of the power supply device, based on the voltage value measured by the voltage measurement circuit and the current value measured by the current measurement circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiro Higuchi, Toshio Hiraishi, Kenji Kubo
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Patent number: 10232717Abstract: A power supply system (2) for vehicles, comprising an electric machine (6), a DC-AC converter (8) having a DC connection and an AC connection, and an energy storage element (4) wherein the energy storage element (4) can be connected to the DC connection and the electric machine (6) can be connected to the AC connection, wherein the electric machine (6) can be operated using the energy stored in the energy storage element (4), characterised in that a DC-DC converter (14) is arranged between the energy storage element (4) and the converter (8) and an external power supply (12) can be coupled into the DC-DC converter (14) for charging the energy storage element (4) wherein the DC-DC converter (14) can be uncoupled from the converter (8) in the event of power supply.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Andreas Voegele
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Patent number: 10232718Abstract: The invention relates to an on-board electrical system supply system (1), having a DC/DC converter (11) with at least one semiconductor rectifier element (4), having two supply connections (9a, 9b) for an on-board electrical system, which supply connections are connected at the output end to the DC/DC converter (11), having an isolating switch (5) which is coupled between one of the supply connections (9a, 9b) and the DC/DC converter (11), and having an on-board electrical system isolating circuit (10) which is designed to determine a reverse voltage (U, Ua, Ub) across at least one of the semiconductor rectifier elements (4), and to actuate the isolating switch (5), in order to decouple the on-board electrical system from the DC/DC converter (11), depending on a value of the determined reverse voltage (U, Ua, Ub).Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Martin Trunk, Marcus Rosenberger
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Patent number: 10232719Abstract: Provided are an electric vehicle and a vehicle power feeding method capable of charging, at an ultra-high speed, an electricity storage device of the electric vehicle that travels on a trackless road. A control device of the electric vehicle executes a first charging control for controlling a voltage converter to limit the input current from a power feeding portion to an electricity storage device or the variation of the input current per unit time and allowing the voltage converter to charge the electricity storage device; and a second charging control for, for example, slopping the transforming operation of the voltage converter and allowing the voltage converter to charge the electricity storage device. Both charging controls are executed while moving the contact point between an electrical connection portion and the power feeding portion, and the execution time of the second charging control is longer than that of the first charging control.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Takamitsu Tajima
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Patent number: 10232720Abstract: Provided is a vehicle in which an electric power storage device is mounted and which is configured to execute external charging. The vehicle includes an inlet connected to a charging connector, a cable lock mechanism disposed near the inlet and switching between a lock state and an unlock state, and a control device selecting a first mode in which the electric power storage device is allowed to be charged at a first current value in a case where the cable lock mechanism is in the lock state with the charging connector and the inlet connected to each other and selecting a second mode in which the electric power storage device is allowed to be charged at a second current value in a case where the cable lock mechanism is in the unlock state with the charging connector and the inlet connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeki Kinomura
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Patent number: 10232721Abstract: A circuit arrangement for detecting a zero crossing of an alternating current is provided. The circuit arrangement includes a load through which the alternating current can flow, and an evaluation unit connected to the load and configured to evaluate an electrical voltage formed at the load, and to determining zero currents. The load comprises a capacitor through which the alternating current or a current to be measured derived therefrom can flow, and the evaluation unit is configured to account for a phase shift caused by the capacitor for determining the zero currents.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Manuel Blum, Thomas Komma, Mirjam Mantel, Monika Poebl
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Patent number: 10232722Abstract: A system includes energy modules that output power to an energy management bus based on load demands. An energy module includes energy cells enclosed within a module housing that provide power to the energy management bus and rotation assemblies attached on opposite ends of the module housing that provide rotational movement for the energy module. The energy module includes a local controller that controls power output from the energy cells to the energy management bus, engages a self-driving mode in response to receiving a disconnection signal from a central controller, and controls movement of the energy module in the self-driving mode to a predetermined location via the first rotation assembly and the second rotation assembly. The central controller receives a current module status from the energy modules and controls a configuration of the energy modules providing power to the energy management bus based on the current module status.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Masanori Ishigaki
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Patent number: 10232723Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the transferring energy by induction, for a vehicle, between at least one emitter coil and at least one receiver coil of the vehicle, said at least one receiver coil being arranged at a distance from said at least one emitter coil, a field concentrator being arranged between the at least one emitter coil and the at least one receiver coil.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Philipp Schumann, Achim Henkel, Bernhard Mader
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Patent number: 10232724Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods for charging a vehicle. A vehicle and charging station can be designed such that an electric or hybrid vehicle can operate in a fashion similar to a conventional vehicle by being opportunity charged throughout a known route.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Proterra Inc.Inventors: Donald Morris, Dale Hill, John Horth, Reuben Sarkar, Teresa J. Abbott, William Joseph Lord Reeves, Ryan Thomas Wiens
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Patent number: 10232725Abstract: An electric power supply system program causes a control apparatus capable of controlling an electric power supply system to realize: a pairing information generating function to generate, when receiving an electric power supply request, specific pairing information that is pairing information; a pairing information transmitting function to transmit the specific pairing information to an object that has output the electric power supply request; a pairing information receiving function to receive the pairing information from the object by communication with the object located in the electric power supply space; and an electric power supply function to supply electric power to the object located in the electric power supply space when the received pairing information coincides with the specific pairing information.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Yuji Takatsu, Sho Hashizume, Susumu Tokura, Akio Ueda, Kei Akune, Tooru Hayashi
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Patent number: 10232726Abstract: A control pilot (CP) signal detection method for a vehicle charger includes: counting CP signals based on signal levels of the CP signals during a set period of time, when an input of the CP signals is detected while an ignition of a vehicle is turned off; determining whether a count of high-level CP signals among the CP signals is within a reference range, when the set period of time elapses; and outputting state information of the CP signals based on the determination of whether the count of high-level CP signals is within the reference range.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jae Won Lee, Jung Hwan Na, Tae Hwan Chung
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Patent number: 10232727Abstract: The invention relates to a battery system (1), in particular for an electrically driven motor vehicle, having at least one battery sub-unit (2) and at least one high-power line (3), wherein the battery sub-unit (2) has at least one galvanic element (4), at least one power switching transistor (5), which is connected in series with the galvanic element (4) and via which the galvanic element (4) can be electrically conductively connected to the high-power line (3), at least one power bypass transistor (6), which is connected in parallel with the power switching transistor (5) and the galvanic element (4), and at least one electronic device (7), which is configured to acquire at least one operating parameter of the battery sub-unit (2) and has a communication link with the power switching transistor (5) and/or the power bypass transistor (6), wherein the electronic device (7) is configured to generate a data signal assigned to the operating parameter, in that the electronic device (7) activates the power switchiType: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Jens Strobel, Fabian Henrici
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Patent number: 10232728Abstract: The invention relates to an electrochemical composite storage system and to an electrical circuit comprising an electrochemical composite storage system of this type. The circuit and system comprise branches (ST1, ST2, ST3, ST4, ST5, ST6), which are connected in parallel, of electrochemical storage modules (10), said storage modules (10) having first connection terminals and each module having an electrical circuit. The composite storage system is designed to operate the branches (ST1, ST2, ST3, ST4, ST5, ST6) inside the composite storage system optionally as a current source or a voltage source, by means of the electrical circuits.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Stefan Butzmann
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Patent number: 10232729Abstract: A battery charging control apparatus of an electric vehicle includes an air conditioning control device that controls an operation of an air conditioning device, a control device that receives global positioning system (GPS) information of a user terminal, which approaches a vehicle, and to generate charging control information based on a distance that is determined based on the GPS information of the user terminal and location information of the vehicle, and a battery charging device that controls an amount of current to be supplied to a battery and the air conditioning control device, based on the charging control information.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Young Tak Jeon
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Patent number: 10232730Abstract: The invention relates to an open-loop and/or closed loop control system (1) for a secondary battery (3). Each cell electronics unit (4) is configured to detect a respective state of the battery cell (2), to generate a state parameter assigned to the respectively detected state, to weight, with the respective state parameter, a value of a probability of the battery cell (2) being switched on and to control the state of the battery cell (2) as a function of the respective control signal and the value, weighted with the respective state parameter, of the probability of the battery cell (2) being switched on. A control signal contains at least one information item according to which the values, stored in the cell electronics units (4), of the probability of the respective battery cell (2) being switched on are retained, incrementally increased, incrementally reduced or reset to a predefined output value.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Marco Friedrich, Stefan Butzmann
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Patent number: 10232731Abstract: A system is provided that selectively heats the battery or battery module with the lowest voltage when the battery pack is at a low charge level, thereby decreasing the internal resistance and mitigating the magnitude of the voltage drop of the affected battery/battery module. As a result, termination of the battery pack's discharge cycle is delayed and the driving range of the vehicle is increased, thereby giving the driver a little more time and driving range to reach a charging station.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: ATIEVA, INC.Inventor: Jong Yon Kim
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Patent number: 10232732Abstract: A method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, monitoring a root mean square (RMS) current of a component for a time window, and adjusting a flow of current relative to a battery such that a slope of the RMS current gradually approaches zero as the RMS current approaches an RMS current limit for the time window.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: William Paul Perkins
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Patent number: 10232733Abstract: A power system of an electric vehicle, an electric vehicle including the same, and a method for heating a battery group of the electric vehicle are provided. The power system includes: a battery group; a battery heater connected with the battery group; a battery management device, configured to control the battery heater to heat the battery group when a temperature of the battery group is lower than a first heating threshold and a residual electric quantity of the battery group is larger than a running electric quantity threshold, to obtain a current throttle depth change rate of an electric vehicle in real time, and to control the battery heater to stop heating the battery group when the current throttle depth change rate reaches a preset throttle depth change rate threshold; an electric distribution box; a motor; a motor controller; and an isolation inductor.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Xingchi Wu, Hongjun Wang, Shibin Xie
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Patent number: 10232734Abstract: Provided is a linear motor motion stage having a passive reaction force compensation function. The linear motor motion stage includes: a base; a magnet track moving on the base; a mover which is moved on a surface of the magnet track by an electromagnetic force generated in a gap with the magnet track; first and second horizontal springs arranged between one side and the other side, respectively, of the magnet track and the base and configured to attenuate a reaction force applied to the base by movement of the mover; and a cross spring arranged between a lower side of the magnet track and the base and configured to attenuate the reaction force. Herein, the linear motor motion stage controls reaction force compensation applied to the linear motor motion stage by controlling the stiffness of the cross spring.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATIONInventor: Hyeong Joon Ahn
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Patent number: 10232735Abstract: A control device for a power supply system includes a pre-charge unit, the power supply system having a main electric storage device, a smooth capacitor, a step-up circuit, an open-close switch, a voltage source and a regulation element. The regulation element regulates a current flowing from the smooth capacitor toward the open-close switch. The voltage source is connected to a connection portion between the open-close switch and the step-up circuit, and outputs an output voltage higher than a voltage of the main electric storage device before the open-close switch is shifted from a disconnection state to a connection state. The pre-charge unit executes a pre-charge of the smooth capacitor by supplying electric power from the voltage source to the smooth capacitor before the open-close switch is shifted from the disconnection state to the connection state.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kaoru Koketsu, Yuichi Handa, Seiji Iyasu, Takashi Nozawa
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Patent number: 10232736Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an electric motor in a motor-assisted, pedaled or hand-cranked vehicle includes a processor adapted to calculate a value for the net opposing force acting on the vehicle; a vehicle speed sensor, an accelerometer to measure a component of vehicle acceleration in a direction of travel of the vehicle, an air pressure sensor measuring air pressure in the direction of travel, a sensor that measures the power output of the electric motor, and a power assist processor that calculates an amount of power to be supplied by an electric motor according to measured values for speed, acceleration, air pressure, and power provided by a person riding the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Velocomp LLCInventor: John R. Hamann
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Patent number: 10232737Abstract: The present invention provides a steering wheel including a main body and a vehicle speed control module positioned on the main body. The vehicle speed control module includes a stator, a rotor coaxial to the stator and rotatable relative to the stator, and a first contact lever positioned on the rotor. The rotor includes a Hall element configured to detect a rotational position of the rotor, and generate a Hall signal according to the rotational position of the rotor. When the first contact lever is rotated in a counterclockwise direction relative to a first initial position, the rotor is driven by the first contact lever to rotate, the Hall element outputs a first Hall signal to a controller of a motor vehicle, and the controller controls the motor vehicle to move forward. The present invention further provides a motor vehicle having the steering wheel.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: OPTIMUM BATTERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Yongshuai Zeng, Shijie Xie, Yabing Luo
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Patent number: 10232738Abstract: A fastening device for a conductor rail and a contact line system having fastening devices to which the conductor rail is fastened. The fastening device is in the form of a plastic component. The plastic component has sliding jaws which enclose the conductor rail laterally and can be fixed in a position in which they enclose the fastening piece of the conductor rail from both sides. The fastening device can be produced inexpensively by methods known from plastic processing, for example injection molding methods. Further advantages arise from the fact that plastic material is an electrical insulator. In addition, the plastic material allows the conductor rail to be adjusted in a sliding manner in the fastening device before it is fastened.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Rail Power Systems GmbHInventor: Andreas John
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Patent number: 10232739Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat back and a seat cushion supported on a frame. The seat cushion is removable from the frame to allow access to an area beneath the seat. The seat cushion includes a cushion member forming a seating surface. A handle is formed on the cushion member to facilitate grasping the seat cushion to allow the seat cushion to be removed from the frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joseph H. Korte, Jacob O. Borth, Robert T. Wilson, III, Erik Dunshee
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Patent number: 10232740Abstract: A method of correcting a seatback recline angle is provided. The method includes a vehicle seat having a seat portion and a seatback portion, wherein the seatback portion is configured to recline to a plurality of reclined positions. The method further includes the steps of (a) measuring a recline angle of a seatback; (b) comparing the recline angle of the seatback to a predetermined recline angle threshold; (c) determining if the recline angle exceeds the recline angle threshold; (d) providing a warning to a seat occupant when the recline angle exceeds the recline angle threshold, wherein the warning is configured to prompt a corrective action from the seat occupant; and (e) moving the seatback to a corrected position when the corrective action from the seat occupant is not received after a predetermined period of time.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Michael James Andrus, S. M Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque
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Patent number: 10232741Abstract: A seat drive device, wherein one of first and second operation restricting portions corresponding to one of first and second transmission members is movable within one of first and second notches corresponding to another of the first and second transmission members when the one of the first and second transmission members is rotated from an initial state where both of the first and second transmission members are not rotated, and the first and second operation restricting portions are arranged to interfere with each other when both of the first and second transmission members are simultaneously rotated.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoichi Takada, Yuji Arakawa
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Patent number: 10232742Abstract: A vehicle seat (1) has an adjusting device (40) for adjusting a relative position between a first component (24) and a second component (30) of the vehicle seat (1). The adjusting device (40) has a locking device (50) for locking the adjusting device (40) by a friction fit between a brake ring (60) and at least one brake element (70) of the adjusting device (40). The brake ring (60) is directly connected to the first component (24) or directly connected to the second component (30).Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: ADIENT LUXEMBOURG HOLDING S.À.R.L.Inventors: Juergen Stemmer, Susanne Nuding
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Patent number: 10232743Abstract: An occupant support adapted for use in a vehicle includes a seat bottom coupled to a floor of the vehicle and a seat back configured to pivot about a seat-back pivot axis relative to the seat bottom. The occupant support further includes a recliner configured to control movement of the seat back relative to the seat bottom and a recliner actuator configured to lock and unlock the recliner.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Faurecia Automotive Seating, LLCInventors: Cedric Ketels, Jeffery T. Bonk, Tristan J. Vanfossen
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Patent number: 10232744Abstract: A passenger seat is configured to adjust between an upright seating position and a lie-flat sleeping position, which includes one or more intermediate reclined seating positions, via independent rollers attached to the seat pan, or seat bottom, and to the backrest. As the passenger seat transitions between the upright seating position and the lie-flat sleeping position, guide channels set into the left and right frame rails direct the movement of the independent rollers through the guide channels and thereby control the angles of the seat pan and the backrest throughout the transition.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Peter C. Meister, Perci Oliveira, John Iossifidis
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Patent number: 10232745Abstract: A module for a vehicle seat comprises a drive cable, an actuator, and a transmission assembly. The actuator is coupled to the transmission assembly to drive the transmission assembly. The drive cable is coupled to the transmission assembly and moves as a result of the actuator being activated.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Faurecia Automotive Seating, LLCInventor: Ludovic Ferre
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Patent number: 10232746Abstract: Provided is a vehicle seat capable of resisting a large load in a forward or rearward direction while reducing increase in size and weight. The vehicle seat comprises a cushion frame, a back frame, a tilting member arranged on a pivot axis of the back frame and configured to transmit to the back frame a pivoting force to pivot the back frame, an engagement member coupled to the back frame and displaceable between an engaged position in which engagement with the tilting member is made and an unengaged position in which the engagement is released, a locking member displaceable between a locking position to retain the engagement member in the engaged position and a non-locking position, and a stopper fixed to the back frame and capable of receiving, through the engagement member, an external force that acts on the engagement member located in the engaged position.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shun Fujishiro, Shinya Isobe
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Patent number: 10232747Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly includes a seat operably coupled with a seatback. The seatback includes an adjustable headrest. A back panel is disposed on a rearward side of the seatback. The back panel includes engagement features removably coupled with a workstation. The workstation includes a plurality of connection features. The connection features includes a mechanical connector, a data connector, and a power connector. An upper support abuts a rear surface of the headrest. An open receptacle is disposed proximate the headrest. An intermediate compartment is disposed adjacent the open receptacle and concealed by first and second opposing doors. A lower compartment is concealed by a bottom door.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Johnathan Andrew Line, Marcos Silva Kondrad, Kevin Wayne Preuss, Keith Allen Godin, David Frederick Lyons
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Patent number: 10232748Abstract: There is provided a vehicle seat including: a seat main body having a major surface facing a user seated; a first air passage extending from an air conditioning device of a vehicle toward the seat main body so as to guide air from the air conditioning device to the seat main body; an outlet provided to a side portion of the seat main body and opened so that air from the first air passage is blown out along the side portion of the seat main body; a second air passage having an inlet opened toward the major surface so that air blown out from the outlet is sucked from the major surface; and a blower configured to suck air in the second air passage.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumitoshi Akaike, Seiya Nishimura
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Patent number: 10232749Abstract: A seat hooking structure (10) which supports by hooking a changeable cover (7) so as to be detachably attached to a seat member provided with a base trim cover (6), the seat hooking structure (10) comprising: an open-type fastening member (5) which is not sewn to the base trim cover (6), the fastening member (5) including a fastener part constituted by one fastener half (511) and another fastener half (512), and a slider part that slides along the fastener part so as to open and close the one fastener half (511) and the other fastener half (512); and an anchoring member (18) which anchors the one fastener half (511) to the seat member in a groove for hooking (11). The other fastener half (512) and the changeable cover (7) are secured to each other by a securing part (74).Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignees: Tachi-S Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Fujikake, Tomoyo Futakawame, Tomoyuki Uemura, Taku Nagasawa, Shinobu Sasaki
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Patent number: 10232750Abstract: A seat for a vehicle is equipped with a seat frame comprising general steel pipes, cushioning bodies suspended by the seat frame, and a skin covering the cushioning bodies. The seat frame has on an outer side a frame member in which a side portion provided vertically and an upper portion provided horizontally on an upper side are bent into L-shape at a corner portion, and the corner portion is provided with a lock member to be locked to a vehicle body of said vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Adient Luxembourg Holding S.A.R.L.Inventors: Yoshihisa Hamano, Kunihiko Matano
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Patent number: 10232751Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing a support structure for the backrest of a motor vehicle seat. At least one extruded profile, which is elongated in a longitudinal direction, is prepared and separated transversely to the longitudinal direction into a plurality of extruded profile supports. At least two extruded profile supports are spaced apart in the longitudinal direction with respect to one another and connected to one another by at least one strut extending in the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Christian Kuhley, Juergen Maier
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Patent number: 10232752Abstract: A cushion pan for a vehicle seating assembly includes a body portion having at least one pocket including a module retention aperture disposed therein. First and second suspension assembly retainers are disposed in the body portion. A peripheral flange extends substantially orthogonal to the planar extent of the body portion and includes a plurality of trim tabs. A plurality of support ribs extend through a midportion of the body portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Fod Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Michael Medoro, Majid Arefi, Khaled Ayyash, Johnathan Andrew Line, Michael Kolich, James Patrick Creighton, Robert J. Sack
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Patent number: 10232753Abstract: A travel comfort device designed to be used when the traveler is at rest or asleep in a seated position in a transportation vehicle, such as an airplane, motor vehicle, train, and the like. The travel comfort device may comprise a seatback mounting component, an arm support component, and a head support component, which are releasably attached to each other and/or the seat.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Inventor: Lorena Aviles-Galberth
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Patent number: 10232754Abstract: The present application relates to a vehicle seat (1) comprising a seat surface (2) and at least one rest part (3.1, 3.2) at an angle to the seat surface (2). The angle between the seat surface (2) and the at least one rest part (3.1, 3.2) is movable via an adjusting device (6, 13) between a first position, in which the at least one rest part (3.1, 3.2) is substantially at right angles to the seat surface (2), and a second position, in which the seat surface (2) and the at least one rest part (3.1, 3.2) form a substantially flat surface. A second end (10.1, 10.2) of the at least one rest part (3.1, 3.2) comprises at least one pneumatic cushion (4) which is fluidically connected to a pump (7), wherein a control device is configured such that the pneumatic cushion (4) is substantially completely emptied when the at least one rest part (3.1, 3.2) moves from the first position into the second position.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Lantal Textiles AGInventors: Roland Von Ballmoos, Andreas Guehmann, Oliver Rohrbach
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Patent number: 10232755Abstract: A seat assembly is provided with a seat bottom having a seat frame. An air bladder is mounted to the frame. A seat cushion is spaced vertically from the seat frame by the air bladder at height-adjustment distance being variable. The cushion defines a seating surface. A height-adjustment distance between the frame and the seating surface is increased as the air bladder is inflated, thereby adjusting a height of the seating surface without adjusting the frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Eric Brines, William Webster