Patents Issued in December 17, 2019
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Patent number: 10507773Abstract: A tractor including: a condenser frame disposed ahead of an engine body; a support plate fixed to the condenser frame; and an engine controller supported by the support plate with vibration-isolating rubber members interposed therebetween. The engine controller is disposed ahead of and above the engine body in a hood. The engine controller declines forward. At least one of the plurality of vibration-isolating rubber members is oriented in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the engine controller, and at least one of the plurality of vibration-isolating rubber members is oriented in a direction parallel to the thickness direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventor: Daisuke Takii
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Patent number: 10507774Abstract: Techniques are described for component configuration based on sensor data. Sensor data is collected by sensors in, or proximal to, a system under diagnosis (e.g., a vehicle), the sensor data describing the use of component(s) of the system by individual(s). The sensor data is analyzed (e.g., in real time) to determine an updated configuration for component(s) (e.g., an adjustment to the seat back, lumbar support of a car seat, etc.). The updated configuration may be communicated to the individual as a recommended configuration. In some implementations, the updated configuration may be communicated directly to the component which, on receiving and processing the configuration update, sends signals to various actuators to move the subcomponents of the component into the updated configuration. In some implementations, the sensor data is used to train, through machine learning, a model that provides configuration update(s) for component(s) based on the input sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions LimitedInventors: Edy S. Liongosari, Alex M. Kass, Niclas Almquist
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Patent number: 10507775Abstract: Techniques are described for component design based on sensor data. Sensor data is collected by sensors in, or proximal to, a system under diagnosis (e.g., a vehicle), the sensor data describing use of one or more components of the system by one or more individuals. The sensor data from various instances of the component may be aggregated and analyzed to determine update(s) to the design of the component. For example, the aggregate sensor data may be analyzed to identify portions of the component frequently associated with movements by users (e.g., fidgeting, adjustments). The identified portion(s) can be presented graphically in a design view used to specify design modification(s) for the component. In some implementations, the aggregate sensor data is provided as input to a model that is trained, using machine learning, to output design modification(s) for the component based on the input aggregate sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions LimitedInventors: Edy S. Liongosari, Alex M. Kass, Niclas Almquist
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Patent number: 10507776Abstract: An energy-absorbing structure includes first and second components. The first component includes a polymer and a plurality of reinforcing fibers disposed therein. The first component includes first bumper and crush member portions respectively defined by first and second walls. The second wall projects from and is integrally formed with the second wall. At least some of the fibers continuously extend between the first and second walls. The second component includes the polymer and a plurality of reinforcing fibers. The second component includes second bumper and crush member portions respectively defined by third and fourth walls. The fourth wall projects from and is integrally formed with the third wall. At least some of the fibers continuously extend between the third and fourth walls. The first and second components are joined. The first and third walls cooperate to define a bumper. The second and fourth walls cooperate to define a crush member.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Bradley A. Newcomb, Hamid G. Kia
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Patent number: 10507777Abstract: A lift apparatus for a snowmobile and a kit for constructing same. The lift apparatus includes a rear bumper and first and second slides attachable to a tunnel of the snowmobile. The rear bumper includes a transverse bumper portion connected to first and second slide members. The first and second slide members are slidable along the first and second slides, respectively, to position the transverse bumper portion in a riding position or a deployed position. The transverse bumper portion is positioned farther from the snowmobile when the transverse bumper portion is in the deployed position than when it is in the riding position. The transverse bumper portion is configured to be gripped and lifted by a user when the transverse bumper portion is in the deployed position. The rear bumper is configured to lift a rear portion of the snowmobile when the transverse bumper portion is lifted.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventor: Randall Vincent Fraker
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Patent number: 10507778Abstract: The present invention relates to a coupling-releasing device for airbag actuator cable 1 for vehicles having two or more wheels, said airbag being contained in a wearable jacket or coat. The coupling-releasing device of an airbag actuator cable 1 according to the present invention comprises at least one coupling unit 2,2? adapted to be installed on board a vehicle and actuator means 4,4?,4? operatively connected to said at least one coupling unit 2,2? to operate said coupling unit 2,2? between a first closing configuration adapted to retain said end of said airbag actuator cable and a second opening configuration adapted to release said end of said airbag actuator cable.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2014Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Quadro Vehicles S.A.Inventors: Riccardo Marabese, Marco Moroni
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Patent number: 10507779Abstract: A method for recognizing a usability of a control device of a safety device in a vehicle includes: applying a voltage to the control device; acquiring a voltage curve or a current curve at the control device; and recognizing a usability of the control device as a function of the acquired voltage curve or of the acquired current curve. In particular, the correct polarity of an inductive actuator having a freewheeling diode is recognized, because in the case of incorrect polarity the inductive actuator is bridged by the freewheeling diode.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Rainer Zuschlag, Hartmut Schumacher
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Patent number: 10507780Abstract: A fixing clip fixes a member to a body panel and includes a bushing and a lock pin. The bushing includes a head and a leg. The lock pin includes a load receiving portion including a load receiving surface which receives a part of a reaction force of a drawing-out load loaded on the fixing clip from a body panel, when the drawing-out load acts on the fixing clip from the member. The bushing includes a pressure receiving surface for receiving the part of the reaction force of the drawing-out load which the lock pin has received. The drawing-out load thus can be received by both the bushing and the lock pin. As a result, an endurability of the fixing clip against the drawing-out load is improved by an amount of the load which the lock pin shares, so that the drawing-out load can be increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhito Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10507781Abstract: An airbag includes a driver side portion having an outer peripheral wall to receive a driver at the time of completion of inflation; and a steering wheel side portion. The steering wheel side portion is provided with an inflow opening to allow inflation gas to flow in, and an attaching seat which is disposed on a peripheral edge of the inflow opening and attached to the central portion of the steering wheel; a support inflation portion protruding from a front side of the attaching seat toward a front side of the steering wheel is arranged on the steering wheel side portion; and a support surface portion. The support surface portion is abutted to and supported by a front surface side of the steering wheel and is arranged on a region on a rear surface side of the support inflation portion from a base portion to a tip end portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Wataru Miura, Ryotaro Ishida, Naohiko Ishiguro
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Patent number: 10507782Abstract: An airbag apparatus includes a gas generator and an airbag. The gas generator includes a gas generator main body and at least one mounting protrusion. The airbag includes a first fabric portion, a second fabric portion, and a storage chamber located between the first fabric portion and the second fabric portion. Part of the storage chamber is constituted by the first fabric portion. The storage chamber includes as insertion port, which allows the gas generator to be inserted, and one or more mounting holes, which allow the at least one mounting protrusion to be passed. The rearmost one in the insertion direction of the one or more mounting holes is a rearmost mounting hole. The storage chamber further includes an opening promoting portion, which is located between the insertion port and the rearmost mounting hole and causes the insertion port to open.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Matsuo Nagata, Akihisa Tange
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Patent number: 10507783Abstract: In a vehicle having a display mounted forward of a passenger seat on a dashboard and angled toward a driver seat adjacent the passenger seat, the display is moveable from the angled position to a position flush with the dashboard, and an airbag system is configured to deploy an airbag cushion that displaces the display from the angled position to the position flush with the dashboard to ensure that the airbag cushion has an adequate backup or support surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: NIO USA, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey D. Rupp
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Patent number: 10507784Abstract: An airbag includes: an outer member configured to form an outer peripheral wall upon completing inflation, which includes a driver side portion configured to receive a driver, and a steering-wheel side portion supported by a steering wheel; and an inner member provided to expand inside the outer member. The inner member has a supply port for supplying inflation gas to the outer member and covers the inflow opening of the outer member to be arranged on an upstream side of flow of the inflation gas flowing from the inflow opening into the airbag such that a higher pressure can be maintained in the inner member than the outer member. The inner member includes a front support inflating portion configured to support a portion of the driver side portion of the outer member at least at a front side upon completing inflation of the airbag.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Naohiko Ishiguro, Ryotaro Ishida, Wataru Miura
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Patent number: 10507785Abstract: An airbag includes: a bag body forming the outer peripheral wall; and a regulating member disposed on an outer peripheral side of the bag body at a time of inflation completion of the bag body. The regulating member is configured so as to be able to regulate the bag body so that an area ranging from the vicinity of a joint portion for mutually joining the outer peripheral edge of the vehicle body side panel and the outer peripheral edge of the occupant side panel to a side of the gas inflow port at the time of inflation completion of the airbag is made smaller in external dimensions and reduced in size than an area at a time of free inflation state of the bag body.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Naohiko Ishiguro, Wataru Miura, Ryotaro Ishida, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Masami Shibata
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Patent number: 10507786Abstract: A gas pressure container for an airbag system of a motor vehicle is disclosed having a tube element with a high bursting resistance when internal pressure is being applied. The tube element includes a steel alloy and a first longitudinal portion of the tube element has a tensile strength Rm,11 higher than (>) 800 MPa, a transition temperature Tu,11 of at least ?40° C., and an outer circumference U1. The tube element also includes at least one second longitudinal portion and/or additional longitudinal portions, which extend axially from the first longitudinal portion. The second longitudinal portion or the additional longitudinal portions and the first longitudinal portion are formed from a seamless or welded single-piece tube made of a uniform material, and more specifically from a hot-rolled or cold-drawn tube.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: BENTELER STEEL/TUBE GMBHInventors: Dirk Tegethoff, Leonhard Rose, Darius Wrobel, Jozef Balun
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Patent number: 10507787Abstract: Provided herein is an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle fleet comprising a plurality of autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles for containing, securing, and delivering at least one of a first item and at least one of a second item after a customer places an order for a first item, operating autonomously or semi-autonomously, and a fleet management module for coordination of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle fleet.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Nuro, Inc.Inventors: David Ferguson, Jiajun Zhu, Pichayut Jirapinyo, Nan Ransohoff
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Patent number: 10507788Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag, straps, and strap covers. The airbag is stored in a cowl portion. The airbag configured to be deployed on the front surface side of windshield glass, and to cover the cowl portion and front pillars at least in part. A first end of each of the straps is attached to an upper portion of an outer surface of the airbag in the vehicle up-down direction and a second end of each of the straps is attached to the cowl portion. The straps pass between the airbag and the strap covers. The strap covers are sewn to the outer surface of the airbag and cover the straps.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taichi Minei, Kenichiro Yoshimoto, Akihiro Osanai, Yuta Iwai
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Patent number: 10507789Abstract: An increase in structural complexity is suppressed in a webbing take-up device provided with a force limiter load switching mechanism and a pre-tensioner mechanism. The webbing take-up device includes a spool that takes up a webbing, a pre-tensioner mechanism that takes up the webbing onto the spool by rotating the spool in the take-up direction in a vehicle emergency, and a lock mechanism that restricts pull-out direction rotation of the spool in a vehicle emergency. The webbing take-up device further includes a force limiter mechanism that permits pull-out direction rotation of the spool at a force limiter load or greater when the lock mechanism has restricted pull-out direction rotation of the spool, and a force limiter load switching mechanism that switches a force limiter load value by being input with a portion of an actuation force that actuates the pre-tensioner mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Wataru Yanagawa, Motoki Sugiyama
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Patent number: 10507790Abstract: A system for detecting usage of a seat belt and initiating a notification signal on detecting non-usage of the seat belt. Further, the system transmits the detected data to a plurality of computing units over a communication network. The system is integrated with the seat belt of a vehicle, wherein the seat belt comprises a female unit and male unit. The system comprises a first sensor unit, circuitry unit, second sensor unit, communication unit, and power unit. The first sensor unit and the circuitry unit are integrated with the female unit to detect an unbuckled position of the seat belt. The second sensor unit is integrated with the male unit to detect a buckled position of the seat belt on completing a circuitry when the male unit is secured into the female unit of the seat belt. The circuitry unit is electrically coupled to the first sensor unit to transmit a plurality of notification signals to computing units.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventor: Earnest L. Banks
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Patent number: 10507791Abstract: A motor vehicle steering lock includes a housing in which is disposed a lock cylinder including a selector shaft which can assume various rotational positions. An adjustment element of an ignition switch is movably coupled to the selector shaft and triggers a desired function of the motor vehicle depending upon the rotational position of the selector shaft. The selector shaft and the adjustment element are connected for a conjoint rotation via an intermediate compensating element that allows for a movement of the selector shaft in relation to the adjustment element in a first axis direction oriented radial to a longitudinal axis of the selector shaft and a movement of the adjustment element in relation to the selector shaft in a second axis direction perpendicular to the first axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Huf Huelsbeck & Fuerst GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Mario Heppner, Florian Schoeppe
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Patent number: 10507792Abstract: A vehicle locking boot includes a horizontal support arm and a first vertical support arm extending from the horizontal support arm. The first vertical support arm includes a front engagement protrusion. A receiving sleeve extends from the horizontal support arm at a base of the first vertical support arm. A horizontal extension portion is coupled to the horizontal support arm. A second vertical support arm extends from the horizontal extension portion. The second vertical support arm includes a rear engagement protrusion extending therefrom. The front engagement protrusion faces the rear engagement protrusion. A keypad is disposed on the first engagement portion to lock and unlock the horizontal extension portion. A lug nut blocking plate is coupled to the first vertical support arm. A global positioning system (GPS) housing is positioned at an upper portion of the first vertical support arm.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventor: Mike Gordon
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Patent number: 10507793Abstract: An alarm, safety device and device for expelling attackers for vehicles, to protect the vehicle and its occupants when stopped, parked or moving, containing a sound alarm, a lighting alarm, a surveillance camera inside the vehicle for face recognition of a non-authorized driver, a remote system for sending information to the police authority, having a smoke release system, surveillance cameras and sensors installed within boxes at external locations of the vehicle. The surveillance cameras monitor the external activity of the vehicle, the images as received by the cameras being analyzed in real time by an internal processing center, provided with an artificial intelligence processor, processing those images by a public domain algorithm, trained for recognizing violence-related objects, wherein the images are processed and transformed into data matrices which are submitted to a neural open code network, for recognizing the presence of violence-related objects in the hands of a person in or near the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventor: Felipe Boris De Moura Partika
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Patent number: 10507794Abstract: A system and method for a vehicle control are provided. The system provides a smartkey-free starting function of a vehicle and includes a communicating unit that has a radio frequency (RF) antenna and a low frequency (LF) antenna and connects wireless communication with a user terminal which is within a predetermine sensing distance through the RF antenna. A body controller executes a door unlock according to a remote control signal of the user terminal. A door sensor senses door open and door closed signals and a start stop button generates a start on signal based on a button input. A controller initiates a starting of the vehicle when vehicle start condition of a state in which the user terminal is connected through the LF antenna of the communicating unit forming a communication region in the vehicle is satisfied, when the start on signal is input.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Jeongtae Lee
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Patent number: 10507795Abstract: A vehicle computer includes a memory and a processor. The processor is programmed to execute instructions stored in the memory. The instructions include to obtain input of one or more values displayed on a vehicle instrument panel and generate a password by combining the one or more input values and a stored secret key.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: Jochen Schubert
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Patent number: 10507796Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to receive a valet-key request from a valet mobile device. The processor is also configured to request authentication of a key transfer, responsive to the request and transfer, from an owner mobile device to the valet mobile device, vehicle data, describing a vehicle, and key data, usable to access and activate the vehicle, responsive to authentication approval.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Desi Ujkashevic, Mohammed Samer Abbas, John P. Joyce, Darrel Alan Recker, Todd Allen Brown
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Patent number: 10507797Abstract: A radio key for an access system of a motor vehicle includes a receiver circuit with at least three LF receiver coils for reception of a low frequency signal. The receiver coils are oriented in different spatial directions. A central control circuit includes a microcontroller coupled to the receiver circuit. The control circuit with the microcontroller can assume an energy-reduced resting state and an active operating state. The receiver circuit is configured to awaken the control circuit from the resting state when a signal is received by the LF receiver coils. The central control circuit is configured to activate each of the LF receiver coils separately and to query a received signal strength. The central control circuit then selects the LF receiver coil with the highest signal strength for a subsequent signal reception.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Huf Huelsbeck & Fuerst GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Boris Ziller, Thomas Skaletz
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Patent number: 10507798Abstract: The automobile security system prevents the unauthorized operation of a vehicle. The automobile security system comprises an imaging device, an override device, and a management device. The imaging device captures an image of a person that is attempting to initiate the operation of the vehicle. The management device compares the captured image to images of people authorized to operate the vehicle. If a match if found, the automobile security system enables the operation of the vehicle. Further opportunities are then given to: 1) review a display of images of people who operated or attempted to operate the vehicle; and, 2) authorize an additional person to operate the vehicle. The override device is provided to enable temporary operation of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventor: Nick Sebastian
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Patent number: 10507799Abstract: A system and method of tracking a location of a vehicle while the vehicle is in a primary propulsion off state. The method includes: obtaining an initial vehicle location of the vehicle; detecting a vehicle trigger condition while the vehicle is in the primary propulsion off state; determining whether the vehicle has moved more than a first predetermined threshold distance from the initial vehicle location while the vehicle is in the primary propulsion off state; determining a vehicle activity factor and a vehicle location classification factor; and when it is determined that the vehicle has moved more than the first predetermined threshold distance from the initial vehicle location, carrying out a vehicle location tracking process while the vehicle is in the primary propulsion off state based on the vehicle activity factor and the vehicle location classification factor.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Matthew E. Gilbert-Eyres, Russell A. Patenaude, Eric T. Hosey
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Patent number: 10507800Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a sensor for a vehicle, which includes: a vehicle glass; a substrate disposed on the vehicle glass; a transparent sensing electrode disposed on the substrate; and a wire electrode connected to the sensing electrode, wherein the sensing electrode comprises a first sensing electrode and a second sensing electrode spaced apart from the first sensing electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.Inventor: Gyu Rin Lee
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Patent number: 10507801Abstract: The present invention relates to a windscreen wiping device (40, 50) for a vehicle having an attachment element, in particular a motor vehicle. The windscreen wiping device (40, 50) comprises a mounting unit (41, 60) which is designed to be mounted on the attachment element, wherein the mounting unit (41, 60) has a first engagement element (42, 61), and a wiper blade (2) having an elongate upper part (10) and an elongate lower part (12) that are designed to be flexible at least in part. Also provided are a plurality of connecting elements (18) for connecting the upper part (10) and the lower part (12), wherein the connecting elements (18) are spaced apart from one another along a longitudinal extension (8) of the wiper blade (2). The connecting elements (18) are designed to permit a movement of the upper part (10) and of the lower part (12) relative to one another with a movement component along a longitudinal extension (8) of the wiper blade (2).Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Florian Hauser, Michael Weiler
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Patent number: 10507802Abstract: A pipe for heating and transporting a washer fluid for a windscreen wiper blade with a first spray line and a second spray line is disclosed. The pipe includes an extruded sleeve with at least two washer fluid circulation channels, in which sleeve at least two electric wires that are provided with heating elements of said pipe are embedded within the mass of the sleeve. In the pipe, the at least two electric wires are parallel to the at least two washer fluid circulation channels, the first washer fluid circulation channel is connected to said first spray line of the wiper blade, and the second circulation channel for the washer fluid is connected to said second spray line of the wiper blade.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Valeo Systèmes d'EssuyageInventors: Johan Calluiere, Denis Thebault, Jean-François Cointereau, Jean-Michel Jarasson, Pierre-Emmanuel Negre
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Patent number: 10507803Abstract: A nozzle unit 34 which jets washer fluid toward a windshield is fixed to an arm piece 33 whose front end side is fitted to a hook fixing member 23e. As a result, the nozzle unit 34 can be fixed without using the fitting member adopted in the conventional case, and located closer to the hook fixing member 23e. This reduces a positional shift of the nozzle unit 34 relative to the wiper blade 20 to the minimum, thus stabilizing the injection-target locations of washer fluid on the windshield.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: Mitsuba Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Shimoyama, Masayuki Arima, Masaya Yonaga, Takeshi Sasaki, Tatsuya Ohmaru, Taisuke Goto
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Patent number: 10507804Abstract: A cleaner finger assembly for cleaning compactor teeth on a compactor wheel of a compactor machine includes a cleaner finger base having a tip engaging surface and a base longitudinal axis, a cleaner finger tip having a base engaging surface and a tip longitudinal axis, and a finger tip anchoring mechanism attaching the cleaner finger tip to the cleaner finger base with the base engaging surface facing and engaging the tip engaging surface. The finger tip anchoring mechanism fails and the cleaner finger tip detaches when the cleaner finger tip is engaged by debris with a force parallel to the tip longitudinal axis, or with a force perpendicular to the tip longitudinal axis, to cause a tip shear force greater than a tip anchor shear capacity of the finger tip anchoring mechanism or a tension force greater than a tip anchor tension capacity of the finger tip anchoring mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLCInventors: Brian J. Chandler, Marcus John Guethle, Yingzhou Liu, Bradley J. Miller, Mindong Pi, Jonathan Jennings, Amit Kashyap
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Patent number: 10507805Abstract: This washing machine for a railway vehicle includes a water texturing system, mixing water with particles able to produce textured water having super-hydrophoby properties making it possible to implement a lotus cleaning effect on the surface on which the textured water flows; a textured water spraying system, fed by the water texturing system and using at least one appropriate spraying device to spray the textured water on a surface of the railway vehicle to be cleaned.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Alstom Transport TechnologiesInventor: Jorge Pereira
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Patent number: 10507806Abstract: A modular, environmentally friendly mobile fuel distribution station includes a fuel tank, a support structure having a plurality of legs for supporting an operation platform in an elevated position a predetermined distance above ground, an alternative power generation device, the alternative power generation device being one of a solar power generator and a wind power generator for providing primary power to the mobile fuel distribution station and a central platform operatively connected to at least two of the legs, the at least two of the legs bearing the weight of the central platform, wherein the fuel tank and the alternative power generation device are disposed on the operation platform.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: CAPAT LLCInventors: Jose A. Cajiga, Arturo Cajiga Villar, Vicente Cajiga Villar
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Patent number: 10507807Abstract: A traffic light detection system for a vehicle is provided. The system may include at least one processing device programmed to receive, from at least one image capture device, a plurality of images representative of an area forward of the vehicle, the area including a traffic light fixture having at least one traffic light. The at least one processing device may also be programmed to analyze at least one of the plurality of images to determine a status of the at least one traffic light, and determine an estimated amount of time until the vehicle will reach an intersection associated with the traffic light fixture. The at least one processing device may further be programmed to cause a system response based on the status of at least one traffic light and the estimated amount of time until the vehicle will reach the intersection.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: MOBILEYE VISION TECHNOLOGIES LTD.Inventor: Itai Ben Shalom
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Patent number: 10507808Abstract: A overrun brake system includes a gas spring with a gas-tight cylinder and a piston with holes allowing gas to slip through so that the pressure is the same on both sides. Since the free end of the piston has a larger area than the side where the piston rod is located, the gas spring will act as a compression spring. To prevent the overrun brakes from being activated during reversing, the gas spring has a solenoid controlled valve receiving current from the reverse light circuit and closing the flow of gas through the piston when the towing unit's gear is set into reverse. When the gear is set into forward position the solenoid loses its current and a mechanical return spring opens the valve, so that the overrun brakes may act normally again.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: SVELA SOLUTIONS ASInventor: Sverre Egil Larsen
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Patent number: 10507809Abstract: A method of controlling the brake system of a vehicle. The method includes receiving one or more electrical signals each indicative of a value of a respective vehicle-related parameter. The method further includes detecting that the vehicle is traveling across a slope based on the value(s) of one or more of the vehicle-related parameters. The method still further includes automatically modifying the amount of brake torque being applied to at least certain of the wheels of the vehicle in response to the detection of the vehicle traveling across a slope by increasing the amount of brake torque being applied to one or more wheels on one side of the vehicle, and decreasing the amount of brake torque being applied to one or more wheels on the other side of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover LimitedInventors: Simon Owen, Karl Richards
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Patent number: 10507810Abstract: An electric brake device includes: an electric brake being configured such that a shaft is moved forward by diving of an electric motor, and the forward movement of the shaft brings the electric brake into an acting state in which brake friction members are pushed against a brake rotary body so as to suppress rotation of a wheel; and a motor controller being configured to control the electric motor, wherein through a rotation speed control on the electric motor, after the shaft reaches a set position before the electric brake comes into the acting state, the motor controller controls a forward speed of the shaft to be smaller than that before the shaft reaches the set position.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Seiji Yogo, Masayasu Ohkubo
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Patent number: 10507811Abstract: A hydraulic block for brake control of an automotive hydraulic braking system, including a main brake cylinder bore. A permanent magnet is connected to the main brake cylinder piston via a rod, so that the permanent magnet moves together with the main brake cylinder piston. A Hall sensor with which a position and/or a stroke of the main brake cylinder piston is measurable is situated in a signal range of the permanent magnet in a sensor bore in the hydraulic block transversely to the rod.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Juergen Tandler, Matthias Mayr, Andreas Weh
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Patent number: 10507812Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Andreas Weh, Harald Guggenmos, Matthias Mayr, Stefan Kaserer
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Patent number: 10507813Abstract: In one embodiment, it is determined that an ADV is about to decelerate based on perception of a driving environment surrounding the ADV. In addition, if there is another vehicle that is following the ADV, a distance between the ADV and the following vehicle, as well as the speed of the following vehicle, is determined. A deceleration rate that is required for the following vehicle to avoid a collision with the ADV is determined based on the distance between the ADV and the following vehicle and the speed of the following vehicle. If the deceleration rate is greater than a predetermined threshold, a brake light and an emergency light of the ADV are turned on to warn the following vehicle that the ADV is about to rapidly decelerate as it is treated as an emergency situation.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: BAIDU USA LLCInventors: Fan Zhu, Qi Kong, Qi Luo, Xiang Yu, Sen Hu, Guang Yang, Jingao Wang
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Patent number: 10507814Abstract: Braking control systems, such as for an aircraft, use a hydraulic failure isolation valve intermediate an accumulator power source and a dual valve assembly for mechanical operation when a hydraulic power source experiences a disruption.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATIONInventors: Brian Keith Zell, Marc Georgin, Paul R. Burte, Gregory Hickey, Efrem E. Ayichew, Clifton R. Boggs, Eric Meraz, Brian Ralph
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Patent number: 10507815Abstract: A brake system includes: brake cylinders; electromagnetic valve devices respectively corresponding to the brake cylinders and capable of individually controlling hydraulic pressures in the respective brake cylinders; pumps respectively connected to the brake cylinders; one pump motor driven in common with the pumps; and a brake-hydraulic-pressure controller that controls the electromagnetic valve devices and the one pump motor to control the hydraulic pressures in the respective brake cylinders.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Naoki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10507816Abstract: A vehicle with a fault tolerant electronic brake-by-wire (BBW) system includes a plurality of brake assemblies that control braking of a respective wheel of the vehicle. The brake assemblies include a first brake assembly and a second brake assembly. The first brake assembly is integrated with at least one enhanced brake actuator assembly including a first electronic actuator driver circuit in signal communication with a first electro-mechanical actuator. The first brake assembly is configured to adjust a brake force applied to a first wheel of the vehicle. The second brake assembly is integrated with at least one enhanced smart brake actuator assembly including a first actuator controller in signal communication with a second electronic actuator driver circuit. The second electronic actuator driver circuit is in signal communication with a second electro-mechanical actuator that is configured to adjust a brake force applied to a second wheel of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Paul A. Kilmurray, Eric E. Krueger, Brandon C. Pennala, Christopher C. Chappell, Alan J. Houtman, Kevin S. Kidston, Patrick J. Monsere, Michael C. Roberts, Steven J. Weber
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Patent number: 10507817Abstract: An electric motor (2) is controlled according to the stroke of an input rod (30) moved in response to an operation of a brake pedal. The rotation of the electric motor is transmitted through a belt transmission mechanism (45) to a ball-screw mechanism (38) to propel a primary piston (10), thereby generating a brake hydraulic pressure in a master cylinder (4). The belt transmission mechanism has pulleys (45A, 45B), one of which is secured to an output shaft of the electric motor. The output shaft and a nut member (39) of the ball-screw mechanism are held by bearings (42A, 42B and 42C) secured to a rear housing (3B) which is a single member. Thus, before an electric motor-driven booster (1) is assembled, the belt transmission mechanism can be subassembled to the rear housing. Therefore, a belt (46) can be adjusted for tension in the state of a subassembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Shigeta, Daichi Nomura
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Patent number: 10507818Abstract: A shift control apparatus and a method for a vehicle are provided. The shift control apparatus and the method for a vehicle that can control gear shifts by detecting a slope ahead based on road information are provided. The shift control apparatus for a vehicle may include: an engine; a transmission configured to receive power from the engine; and a controller configured to check an effective sloping point based on road information, to calculate a target gear ratio based on a first engine torque at a location of the vehicle and a gear ratio of the transmission when the effective sloping point is reached within a predetermined amount of time, to set a target gear position based on the target gear ratio, and to control the transmission based on the target gear position.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, KIA Motors CorporationInventors: Byeong Wook Jeon, Sangjun Park, Kwang Hee Park
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Patent number: 10507819Abstract: The control method for the hybrid vehicle includes a rotation speed control torque calculation step of, based on a rotation speed command value for the electric generator and a rotation speed detection value of the electric generator, calculating a torque command value for controlling the rotation speed of the electric generator, and an electric generator control step of controlling the electric generator according to the torque command value.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kengo Fujiwara, Ken Itou
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Patent number: 10507820Abstract: Systems and methods provide accurate determinations of relevant vehicle mass that can take into account any load being carried and/or towed by a vehicle, such as an electric vehicle or hybrid vehicle. Systems and methods also provide accurate road load measurements that can take into account road gradient(s) and the impact of gravity. Accordingly, the dynamic nature of relevant vehicle mass and road load can be captured. Efforts to optimize operation and/or take preemptive action to provide more efficient performance, enhance the drive experience, etc. can be better achieved through the more accurate determinations of relevant vehicle mass and road load achieved by these systems and methods.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Thomas S. Hawley, Shingo Eto
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Patent number: 10507821Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a power generation apparatus including an engine and an electric motor, an electricity storage device configured to supply electricity to the electric motor or to be supplied with electricity from the electric motor, a mode switch configured to permit a driver to perform switching between a CD mode and a CS mode, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control the power generation apparatus such that the engine is started up with a higher frequency when the driver switches the traveling mode from the CD mode to the CS mode while the state-of-charge is higher than the upper limit of the control center value, than when the driver switches the traveling mode from the CD mode to the CS while the state-of-charge is equal to or lower than the upper limit of the control center value.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuma Aoki
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Patent number: 10507822Abstract: A method of decreasing vibration during release of a stop gear of a vehicle can be applied to an eco-friendly vehicle for decreasing vibration generated when a driver releases a P step of a gear lever while torsion occurs in a drive shaft of the vehicle. Reaction force torque of a driving motor is controlled so as to output reaction force that has been generated in a parking sprag by a driving motor when torsion occurs in the drive shaft after entrance of the gear lever into the P step, so as to decrease vibration generated because torsion reaction force of the drive shaft vanishes at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Young Kwan Ko, Hyung Bin Ihm, Tae Young Chung