Patents Issued in November 21, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190351818
    Abstract: A method for the open-loop or closed-loop control of the front light distribution of a vehicle having headlamps that can be changed with respect to the light distribution involves producing a different light distribution during an at least partially autonomous driving operation of the vehicle than during operation with a person driving the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventor: Klaus ROEHM
  • Publication number: 20190351819
    Abstract: A vehicle front headlight device includes a light source, a rotating mirror that is configured by disposing a first minor body and a second mirror body around a circumferential direction of a shaft, that is rotationally driven about the shaft and rotates while reflecting light emitted by the light source, a lens that transmits light reflected by the rotating mirror so as to illuminate the light forward, and a controller for controlling rotational drive of the rotating mirror. A first illuminated region of light that is reflected by the first mirror body and that is radiated forward through the lens, and a second illuminated region of light that is reflected by the second mirror body and that is radiated forward through the lens, are offset from each other in a vehicle width direction or in a vehicle vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihiko MOURI, Takahiko Honda
  • Publication number: 20190351820
    Abstract: An image projection apparatus that can be attached to a vehicle and can be effectively utilized for acquisition of road surface condition information, detection of a hidden vehicle, and the like is provided. The image projection apparatus that projects an image includes: an acquisition unit that acquires information related to a vehicle; an image projection unit that projects an image based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit; and imaging means that acquires an image outside the vehicle, the image projection unit projects light in a wavelength band centered on a wavelength of 1.4 ?m, and the imaging means provides the information related to the vehicle by imaging an image projected based on the light in the wavelength band centered on the wavelength of 1.4 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko KUNII, Toshinori SUGIYAMA, Takuya SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20190351821
    Abstract: A vehicle part includes a main body and a lighting system, the lighting system comprising a chamber defining a cavity having an opening which opens out onto an outside of the main body, and a light source arranged in the cavity and configured to emit light towards the opening, the vehicle part further includes a skin covering the opening and at least one area of the main body adjacent to the opening, wherein the skin is configured to let light emitted by the light source pass through when the light source is switched on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE
    Inventors: Aurelien BADOIL, Carole FAVART, Alexandre GENTNER
  • Publication number: 20190351822
    Abstract: A light module comprises a light source, an optical mixing element or chamber and a spectral converting diffuser for tuning the wavelength and spatially homogenising the intensity of the ouptut light from the light source. Also disclosed is a method of improving Colour Rendering Index (CRI) of a lighting device. The disclosed lighting module is coupled with the lighting device. Use of the disclosed lighting module in conjunction with a lighting device is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Nano-Lit Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Sarah MORGAN
  • Publication number: 20190351823
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a system for alerting a driver of a driver cabin of a motor vehicle, said system comprising: a plurality of light sources arranged in array to project a signal light against the windshield and/or side window, provided in the driver cabin along a horizontal contour of windshield and side windows, outside a line of sight of the driver, and arranged to show a mirror image of the light source in the windshield or side window, visible to the driver; a tracking controller, arranged to identify one or more objects to be tracked in the perimeter of the motor vehicle; a control system, coupled to the tracking controller for activating a number of light sources of the plurality of light sources, arranged to project a signal light indicative of said tracked object substantially centered along a virtual line of sight from the driver towards the identified object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: DAF Trucks N.V.
    Inventor: Floris VAN DER MEIJS
  • Publication number: 20190351824
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing an around view comprises: first and second cameras for acquiring first and second image information; and a processor. The processor can generate an around view image including a first area including a subject overlapping area and a second area excluding the subject overlapping area, on the basis of first and second images. The subject overlapping area is disposed between first and second boundary lines in the first and second images. The first boundary line is located in the first area, and the second boundary line adjoins the second area. If it is predicted that a first object will pass through the second boundary line due to the first object approaching within a predetermined distance thereto, the processor can generate an around view image in which the second area is changed so that the second area includes the subject overlapping area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Dong Gyun KIM, Sung Hyun LIM
  • Publication number: 20190351825
    Abstract: A stay packing (12) includes a plate-shaped packing main body (31) formed to correspond to a stay attachment surface (22), and a lip part (35) formed in an annular shape along an outer peripheral portion of the packing main body (31) and formed to protrude from the packing main body (31) toward an outer panel, in which the lip part (35) includes two flexion parts (54a) and (54b) between a base, which is a portion connected to the packing main body (31), and a distal end thereof, and the flexion parts (54a) and (54b) are formed over the entire circumference of the lip part (35).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Yukinori Suto
  • Publication number: 20190351826
    Abstract: A single arm telescoping mirror apparatus comprising a mirror base and mirror head. In one embodiment, a mirror base having a wear plate secured to a single support arm which frictionally engages a single telescoping tube of the mirror head. Furthermore, a mirror base having a roller assembly which frictionally engage the inner wall of a single telescoping tube of the mirror head. Frictional forces created minimize the telescopic or vibrational movement of the mirror head during use of a vehicle. In another aspect, a wear plate is secured to a single telescoping tube while, roller assemblies are attached to a support arm which frictionally engage ridges of the telescoping tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Gary Sinelli, Paul Henion
  • Publication number: 20190351827
    Abstract: A rearview mirror with a dimming function includes: a transparent cover substrate covering substantially the full screen of the rearview mirror, an absorptive polarization layer disposed below the transparent cover substrate with a substantially uniform size, where when non-polarized ambient light passes through the absorptive polarization layer, the layer absorbs light of a polarization parallel to its absorption axis while transmits light of a polarization perpendicular to its absorption axis, a liquid crystal light-controlling layer disposed below the absorptive polarization layer with a substantially uniform size, and a reflective polarization layer disposed below the liquid crystal light-controlling layer with a substantially uniform size, which reflects the light of a polarization parallel to its reflective axis while transmits the light of a polarization perpendicular to its reflective axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Smart Liquid Crystal Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiuzhi Xue, Chenhui Wang
  • Publication number: 20190351828
    Abstract: An electrically variable reflectance mirror reflective element includes front and rear glass substrates with an electrochromic medium disposed therebetween and bounded by a perimeter seal. A perimeter layer is disposed at a second surface of the front substrate proximate a perimeter edge of the front substrate. The perimeter layer conceals the perimeter seal from view by a driver of a vehicle. No part of the rear substrate extends beyond any part of the front substrate. At least a portion of the mirror reflector disposed at at least a portion of the third surface of the rear substrate extends from under the perimeter seal outward towards at least a portion of the perimeter edge of the rear substrate. The mirror reflector includes a stack of thin films that includes at least a first metal thin film and a second metal thin film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Ian A. McCabe, Desaraju V. Varaprasad, Hamid Habibi, Niall R. Lynam
  • Publication number: 20190351829
    Abstract: A display system includes a display device disposed in a housing to generate an image on a projection surface. A mirror element cooperates with the display device. The mirror element includes a rotator cell disposed proximate to the display device and at least one reflective polarizer cooperating with the rotator cell. An active polarizing cell cooperates with the rotator cell. A first optical bonding layer is positioned between and cooperating with the rotator cell and the active polarizing cell that maintains a planar relationship between the rotator cell and the active polarizing cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf, Qais Sharif, Abhilash Marthi Somashankar, Doug Sadrack
  • Publication number: 20190351830
    Abstract: An edge-lit rearview assembly comprising a housing; a mirror element having a perimeter and disposed within the housing; a bezel extending around at least a portion of the perimeter of the mirror element; at least one circuit board; at least one light source in electrical communication with the circuit board; wherein the at least one light source is in optical communication with at least a portion of the bezel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradley A. Bosma, Michael F. Lisowski
  • Publication number: 20190351831
    Abstract: A mirror reflective element sub-assembly for use in an exterior rearview mirror assembly of a vehicle includes a mirror reflective element, a mirror reflector and a mirror back plate disposed at the rear side of the mirror reflective element. A heater pad is disposed between the mirror reflective element and the mirror back plate and has a light transmitting portion that is aligned with an aperture of the mirror back plate. A blind spot indicator module includes a body portion and a connector portion extending laterally from the body portion. Light emitted by at least one light emitting diode passes through the light transmitting portion of the heater pad and through a light-transmitting portion of the mirror reflector and exits the mirror reflective element to provide a visual icon visible to a driver of the vehicle who is driving the vehicle and who is viewing said mirror reflective element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Keith D. Foote, Niall R. Lynam
  • Publication number: 20190351832
    Abstract: A stair assembly may include a plurality of steps, a main stringer pivotably connected to a corresponding lateral end of each of the plurality of steps, and a support stringer pivotably connected to a corresponding lateral end of each of the plurality of steps, wherein the main stringer and the support stringer are movably connected to the plurality of steps such that the rise and the run of the plurality of steps remains consistent when the main stringer and the support stringer are moved relative to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Nathaniel Fuller, Barry Ousley, Scott C. McKinnon
  • Publication number: 20190351833
    Abstract: The application provides a folding mechanism. The folding mechanism comprises a fixing rod, a connecting seat and a U-shaped clamping piece which fixes the fixing rod and the connecting seat, wherein a pull rod which realizes rebound by a spring is arranged in the fixing rod, the pull rod penetrates through the fixing rod and is fixed with a handle, opposite strip pin holes and horizontal pin holes are arranged on the fixing rod and the U-shaped clamping piece, vertical pin holes are arranged on the U-shaped clamping piece at the same time as the horizontal pin holes, and arc-shaped through grooves are connected between the horizontal pin holes and the vertical pin holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Weixiang TONG
  • Publication number: 20190351834
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a swing-in-place vehicle article carrier system for supporting articles above an outer body surface of a vehicle. The system has a front pair and rear pairs of support structures fixedly secured to the outer body surface. A first modular cross bar assembly is included which has a central portion, a latching module assembly secured at a first end of the central portion, and a pivot module secured at a second end of the central portion. The pivot module is coupled to one of the front pair of support structures for enabling pivoting motion of the first cross bar assembly between operative and stowed positions. In the operative position, the first modular cross bar assembly spans widthwise across the outer body surface. In the stowed position the cross bar assembly is secured to a second one of the rear pair of support structures to form a continuous span between the second ones of the pairs of front and rear support structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Gerald J. GOMES, Conde M. GONZALEZ, Gordon MICHIE, Brendan J. HATHAWAY
  • Publication number: 20190351835
    Abstract: An example truck bed on-board storage system includes a bed panel configured to fit into a floor of a truck bed of a truck between the wheel wells of the truck bed. Front wings are hinged to the front sides of the bed panel, the front wings pivoting on the hinge to lay flat in the truck bed in front of the wheel wells. Rear wings are hinged to the rear side of the bed panel, the rear wings pivoting on the hinge to lay flat in the truck bed behind the wheel wells. A plurality of braces apply pressure between the bed rail of the truck bed and the bed panel to secure the bed panel against the floor of the truck bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Jeff A. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20190351836
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a trunk for an all-terrain vehicle comprising a hollow base defining a storage space, one removable lid partially connectable to the hollow base and movable between a closed position in which the storage space is covered, and an opened position for providing access to the storage space, the removable lid being removably connected to the hollow base via a dismantlable hinge comprising a hinge pin selectively connecting a portion of the removable lid with a portion of the hollow base, the dismantlable hinge being dismantlable when said the removable lid is in its opened position, the trunk further comprising a blocking device preventing dismantling of the dismantlable hinge when the removable lid is in its closed position. The disclosure also concerns a method for removing a removable lid covering a storage space defined by a hollow base of a trunk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Benoit Chapdelaine, Pierre-Alain Michaud
  • Publication number: 20190351837
    Abstract: A receiver to be received in a tubular hitch with leaf springs mounted cantileverly to the inside thereof to bias locking buttons out through locking bores to releasably lock to the hitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Alan Murray
  • Publication number: 20190351838
    Abstract: A vehicular display system includes a movable body displaceable between an erect position and a tilted position, a first moving body disposed on the vehicle upper side of the movable body in the erect position, a second moving body disposed on the vehicle lower side of the movable body in the erect position, a drive device that displaces the movable body between the erect position and the tilted position, a guide device that guides the second moving body along the displacement operation of the movable body between the erect position and the tilted position, a display device that allows a user to view vehicle interior display information as if the information were displayed in an information display area of the movable body, and an elastic member that applies an elastic force between the movable body and the drive device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yuusuke Aono, Tomohiro Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20190351839
    Abstract: The vehicular display control device which controls an image that is projected on a windshield of a vehicle, includes: a detection section which detects an object near the vehicle; and a display control section which displays, when a first object is detected in front of the vehicle, a first image for attracting attention to the first object, at a predetermined position in a first region on the windshield, and displays, when a second object is detected on a lateral side relative to, or behind, the vehicle, a second image for attracting attention to the second object, at a predetermined position in the first region. When determining that a display position of the second image overlaps, in the first region, with a display position of the first image, the display control section moves the second image from the first region to a second region on the windshield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki TSURUTA
  • Publication number: 20190351840
    Abstract: Vehicle camera assemblies comprising novel mounting interfaces. In some embodiments, the assembly may comprise a camera housing configured for being mounted to a vehicle having a plurality of protruding coupling members extending therefrom. Each of the plurality of protruding coupling members may comprise a curved surface that may, for example, define curves in two planes perpendicular to one another. The assembly may further comprise a bracket configured for being coupled with the camera housing. The bracket may comprise a plurality of clips configured to releasably receive the plurality of protruding coupling members to releasably couple the camera housing to the bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Nagender Reddy Kasarla, Suresh Boddi, Gustav Alm, Karl Munsin
  • Publication number: 20190351841
    Abstract: A camera module, which is mounted on an inside of a front windshield of a vehicle and configured to image an external environment of the vehicle, includes multiple lens units on which an optical image of the external environment is incident, individually, and an imaging system to generate an outside image of the external environment by imaging through each of the lens units, individually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuki FURUTAKE, Kazuyoshi AKIBA
  • Publication number: 20190351842
    Abstract: An in-vehicle camera is provide which has a case and a lens, and which is attached in a vehicle interior so that the lens is exposed at a top face of the case and the top face is opposed to a windshield or another window. The top face has an angular shape bent at a ridge line passing through the top face. The lens is positioned in the vicinity of the ridge line. The in-vehicle camera includes a hood attached to a front portion of the case, the front portion being positioned at a front side of the case with respect to the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Syo OKUDA, Toshikazu MURAO, Kentarou SHIOTA, Naoki SUGIYAMA, Takayuki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190351843
    Abstract: A skin attachment assembly comprises a skin that comprises a seam line and a retaining structure for locating and retaining the skin. The retaining structure comprises a bracket structure configured to locate the seam line of the skin to the substrate and a substrate defining a groove and comprising an attachment member positioned within a center portion of the groove. The bracket structure comprises a flange and a locating member. The flange is configured to be fixed to the seam line of the skin. The locating member of the bracket structure is configured to attach to the attachment member within the groove of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Brian Bober
  • Publication number: 20190351844
    Abstract: An ECU compares a plurality of pieces of data that include the same identification information if they are received within a preset time range. If it is determined, as a result of the comparison, that there are one or more data groups each consisting of data having the same content, and the number of largest data groups with the largest number of pieces of data among the one or more data groups is one, the ECU selects data included in the largest data group as proper data. In the ECU, if it is determined that, as a result of comparison, that there is no data group, or the number of largest data groups is greater than one, the contents of the plurality of pieces of data received within the time range are ignored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Masayuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20190351845
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a cable that includes electric wires and a sheath covering the electric wires and is arranged so that the electric wires are exposed from an end portion of the sheath, a housing that accommodates the electric wires exposed from the end portion of the sheath, wire seal members arranged inside the housing to seal between the electric wires and the housing, a holder that includes an elastic body, a cylindrical sheath-side cylinder portion including an inner circumferential surface in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the sheath, and a cylindrical housing-side cylinder portion in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the housing, the sheath-side cylinder portion and the housing-side cylinder portion being integrally formed, and a first pressing member that presses the housing-side cylinder portion toward the housing and thereby fixes the housing-side cylinder portion to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Naoya TOYOSHIMA, Hajime MAEJO, Takahiro FUTATSUMORI
  • Publication number: 20190351846
    Abstract: A wire protection member includes a pipe and a protector that define a routing pathway of a wire. The protector has a body part and a cover part that are connected to each other in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the pipe and cover an end part of the pipe. A protector-side locking part is provided at at least one of the body part or the cover part. At the pipe, a pipe-side locking part is provided that (i) when the body part and the cover part are connected, fits together with the protector-side locking part from the direction intersecting the axial direction and (ii) restricts positional deviation of the protector in a circumferential direction of the pipe and in the axial direction of the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUYAMA, Yuji TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190351847
    Abstract: A cable harness that has water-sealing properties includes a sheath that accommodates an ABS sensor cable and a parking brake cable. The ABS sensor cable and the parking brake cable branch apart at an end portion of the sheath. An integrally molded member includes, in an integrated manner, a water-sealing portion that seals the end portion of the sheath from water, and a bracket attachment portion that is attached to the bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Moriyuki Shimizu, Gen Nishino, Toshinari Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190351848
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle system, in particular a motor vehicle latching system encompassing a locking mechanism with a catch and a pawl, where the motor vehicle system encompasses a cable duct 1 for the conducting of a cable 4, 5 through a sheet metal aperture, whereby the cable duct 1 is formed of a single component and has a first exit aperture 2 for a first cable 4 and a second exit aperture 3 for a second cable 5, which are designed in such a way that the first cable 4 and the second cable 5 cannot come into contact with one another when exiting the cable duct 1. Undesired noise formation can thus be counteracted in an improved manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Octavian Cimpean, Michael Uhrin, John Kachnowski, Brad Edgar
  • Publication number: 20190351849
    Abstract: A grommet is provided with a small-diameter tubular portion that is fixated to an outer circumferential surface of a wire harness, a large-diameter tubular portion that is fixated to a through-hole of a fixed member, and an increasing-diameter tubular portion that connects the small-diameter tubular portion and the large-diameter tubular portion. The increasing-diameter tubular portion includes a small-diameter tubular portion-side end portion provided isolated from the small-diameter tubular portion on the outer circumference side of the small-diameter tubular portion, and a flexible connecting portion connecting an inner circumferential surface of the increasing-diameter tubular portion to the small-diameter tubular portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SUENAGA, Gousei KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190351850
    Abstract: A grommet that has a tubular shape capable of enveloping a wire harness and is arranged at a middle in a length direction of the wire harness, the grommet including: a main body whose one end in an axial direction is connected to an end of one external member configured to envelope the wire harness and another end is connected to an end of another external member that is different from the one external member; and a housing that is provided in the main body and is capable of housing a magnetic core between the end of the one external member and the end of the other external member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu NAKAI
  • Publication number: 20190351851
    Abstract: In an onboard control device, a power source failure detection unit detects a predetermined failure state of power supply from a first power source unit. A processing speed determination unit sets a processing speed to a suppressed speed when the failure state is detected by the power source failure detection unit, and sets the processing speed to a speed higher than the suppressed speed when a trigger signal is externally generated while the processing speed is set to the suppressed speed. A control unit operates at a processing speed determined by the processing speed determination unit, and performs feedback control by calculating a duty ratio of a PWM signal to be given to a voltage conversion unit based on a preset target value and an output value from the voltage conversion unit, and outputting a PWM signal set to the calculated duty ratio to the voltage conversion unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Takeshi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20190351852
    Abstract: The vehicle can have an engine and a moveable lift gate, a power unit driving the movement of the lift gate, the power unit including an electric motor and a capacitor pack, the capacitor pack being connected for powering the electrical motor, and being connectable to a DC alternator source of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Feng WANG
  • Publication number: 20190351853
    Abstract: A back beam for a vehicle having a charge and discharge function utilizing carbon fiber used as a reinforcing material in a back beam of a vehicle, may include a reinforced negative electrode portion formed of carbon fiber and formed to extend in the width direction of the vehicle, a positive electrode portion disposed opposite to at least a portion of the reinforced negative electrode portion, a solid electrolyte portion disposed between the reinforced negative electrode portion and the positive electrode portion to be in contact with the reinforced negative electrode portion and the positive electrode portion, and a molding portion formed of resin and surrounding the reinforced negative electrode portion, the positive electrode portion and the solid electrolyte portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Won Ki Song
  • Publication number: 20190351854
    Abstract: A bumper assembly is provided. The bumper assembly includes a back beam that is disposed within a bumper to absorb an external impact and a collision box that has a hollow tube shape. A first end portion of the collision box is coupled to the back surface of the back beam to receive an impact applied to the back beam and a plate is coupled to a second end portion of the collision box. In particular, the collision box is bonded with the back beam and the plate by an electro magnetic pulse technology method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Chul-Hong Bae
  • Publication number: 20190351855
    Abstract: A bumper system including a bumper beam being cast from metal having a front panel and a back panel, extending between a first bumper beam end and a second bumper beam end. A plurality of reinforcing ribs integrally cast with the bumper beam extends between the front panel and the back panel defining a non-uniform cross-sectional profile along a portion of the bumper beam. The front panel includes a front center portion disposed between a pair of front side portions. The back panel includes a back center portion disposed between a pair of back side portions. The front center portion has a front center portion thickness greater than a back center portion thickness. Each of the front side portions has a front side portion thickness being less than a back side portion thickness of adjacent one of the back side portions. Method of manufacturing the bumper system is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Edward Karl Steinebach, Jeremiah John Brady, Jeffrey Jay Mellis, Richard Lee Winfree, Mark Justin Jones, Darren Andrew Womack
  • Publication number: 20190351856
    Abstract: A payload perimeter protecting bumper and method of stopping an approaching vehicle from coming too close to a parked vehicle which includes a male receiver insert structure, which is configured to be inserted into and coupled to a hitch receiver on a truck, an intermediate portion disposed between male receiver insert structure and bumper member, which provides for the pivoting ability. The bumper member has an elongated pivotable structural member. The system is configured so that if you were to be trapped, you could unlock the pivot limiting pin and pivot upward the elongated pivotable structural member, thereby creating more space to move to exit the parking spot. In some embodiments, the elongated pivotable structural member could have a remote controlled linear actuator, with a length that could be automated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Douglas D. Krutzfeldt
  • Publication number: 20190351857
    Abstract: The mounting position or the mounting angle of an external environment detection device relative to a vehicle body is prevented from changing even after experiencing a light collision, and a favorable external appearance of the vehicle body in a mounting part of the external environment detection device is ensured. A mounting structure includes a bumper side garnish (42) having an opening (44) facing a prescribed detecting direction of a laser radar device (38), and a device side garnish (46) extending from an outer periphery of the detection device, and including a lip (50) that overlaps with an opening edge (44) of the bumper side garnish (42) located on a periphery (44A) of the opening (44).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Shinichi KISHI
  • Publication number: 20190351858
    Abstract: An airbag apparatus includes an inflator, which generates inflation gas, and an airbag, which is supplied with the inflation gas from the inflator. The airbag is arranged in the seat back of a front seat. The airbag includes a lower inflation portion and an upper inflation portion. The lower inflation portion is inflated by the inflation gas only inside the lower part of the seat back. The upper inflation portion is arranged inside the seat back and above the lower inflation portion. The upper inflation portion is inflated above the lower inflation portion by the inflation gas, breaks the covering, which constitutes the outer shell of the seat back, and is inflated outside the seat back through the broken part of the covering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Ning ZHANG, Shiro OHARA, Aviral SHRIVATRI, Atsushi KASHIO, Michael RHODES
  • Publication number: 20190351859
    Abstract: An airbag cover includes a base panel portion, a side panel portion formed, and a cover panel portion. The cover panel portion is moveable relative to the base panel portion between a closed position and an open position. A latch is configured to releasably secure the cover panel portion to the side panel portion in the closed position. The latch is releasable upon the inflation of the cushion, such that the latch functions as a “tear seam” in the airbag cover. The entire airbag cover, including the base panel portion, the side panel portion, and the cover panel portion may be extruded as a single piece of plastic. The latch may provide a snap fit connection between the cover panel portion and the side panel portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Rhodes, Sara Anne Schumer, Roy P. Deutschmann
  • Publication number: 20190351860
    Abstract: A cover body of an air-bag device for covering an air bag includes a cover body part and an emblem attached to the front side of the cover body part. The emblem includes a planar light source, a light-transmissive panel covering the planar light source and a decoration component fixed to the cover body part to retain an outer circumferential part of the panel. The panel includes a panel part and an engagement part which is provided on the outer circumferential part of the panel part and engaged with the decoration component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Takuya OHKI, Yohei KIUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190351861
    Abstract: An airbag assembly includes an airbag cover having a first panel portion. The first panel portion has first lower edge and a plurality of clips formed at the first lower edge. The clips each have a thickness greater than the first panel portion. A case has a plurality of openings configured to receive the clips of the airbag cover. The openings in the case may each be an elongated slot including a wide portion and a contiguous narrow portion that is narrower than the thickness of the clip. Each slot is configured such that the clip can be inserted through the wide portion and then slid to the narrow portion to retain the airbag cover to the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Rhodes, Sara Anne Schumer, Peter L. Vigeant, Bradley S. Honermann
  • Publication number: 20190351862
    Abstract: A frontal airbag for vehicle occupants comprises a contact panel (26) facing the vehicle occupant in the inflated state and including upper and lower edges (146, 148) as well as two lateral edges (150). In the interior of the airbag, tension means (30) that withhold portions of the contact panel (26) in the inflated state are arranged at the contact panel (26) so that the contact panel has plural indentations. The contact panel (26) is composed of plural interconnected cut parts (42, 44).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Daniele ARANZULLA, Martin BURKHARDTSMAIER
  • Publication number: 20190351863
    Abstract: The invention relates to a propellant cage (10) for a tubular inflator (100), especially for a tubular inflator (100) of an airbag module, for forming a propellant chamber (14) and a flow passage (15) of the tubular inflator (100). In accordance with the invention, the propellant cage (10) is in the form of a propellant cage spiral spring (11) having a gas inlet-side end (12) and a gas outlet-side end (13), the gas inlet-side end (12) having a smaller cross-section than the gas outlet-side end (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Manfred Ramp, Georg Tautschnig
  • Publication number: 20190351864
    Abstract: The invention relates to a propellant cage (10) for an inflator, especially for a tubular inflator of an airbag module, comprising a substantially tubular base (11) which forms, on the one hand, a gas inlet opening (12a) and, on the other hand, a gas outlet opening (12b) along its longitudinal axis (L), wherein at least one lateral gas flow opening (13) is configured in a circumferential wall (12) of the base (11), wherein the base (11) includes a radially outwardly extending collar (11c) having at least one frontal gas flow opening (14) in the area of the gas flow opening (12c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Hillmann, Christian Jung, Lorenz Seidl, Georg Tautschnig, Wolfgang Tengler
  • Publication number: 20190351865
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an infant seat belt device. The infant seat belt device includes: a waist belt configured to completely surround the waist of an infant in a single circle; a first seat belt unit configured to be selectively coupled to and separated from one side of the waist belt in the state of having been fastened to a seat on which the infant sits; and a second seat belt unit configured to be selectively coupled to and separated from the other side of the waist belt in the state of having been fastened to the seat on which the infant sits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Chae Hwan KIM
  • Publication number: 20190351866
    Abstract: A force limiting device (10) for a seat belt comprises a fitting (14), a tension transfer means (36) and a deformation member (12) directly abutting on the fitting (14), wherein the fitting (14, 114) comprises a deflection unit (20, 120) in the form of a deflection pulley for the tension transfer means (36, 136).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Hans-Peter Betz
  • Publication number: 20190351867
    Abstract: A vehicle seat belt buckle attachment system includes an anchor bracket fixed to a vehicle, a pivot fixed to the anchor bracket, a buckle bracket defining a curved slot that receives the pivot, and a buckle connected to the buckle bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Kevin J. Storck, Mohan Bhogineni