Patents Issued in December 17, 2019
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Patent number: 10507823Abstract: An exemplary powertrain assembly includes, an electric machine, an engine, and a controller. The electric machine selectively drives at least one wheel driveshaft when in an automatic drive mode. The engine, through the manual transmission, selectively drives at least one wheel driveshaft when in a manual drive mode. The controller is configured to initiate an alert that suggests a transition from the automatic drive mode to the manual drive mode. An exemplary vehicle control method includes initiating an alert to suggest a transition from an automatic drive mode to a manual drive mode. When in the automatic drive mode, the method drives at least one wheel driveshaft within a plurality of wheel driveshafts using torque from an electric machine that is not moved through a manual transmission. When in the manual drive mode, the method drives at least one wheel driveshaft within the plurality of wheel driveshafts with torque from an engine that is moved through a manual transmission.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Eric Paterno, Eric Bramson
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Patent number: 10507824Abstract: A fail-safe control method for a hybrid electric vehicle is carried out based on a power transmission system of an engine, which is used to control the speed of the engine. When one of a plurality of motor-generators of the power transmission system malfunctions, the vehicle is controlled to be driven in a limp-home mode, thereby ensuring vehicle driving reliability and preventing the vehicle from becoming inoperable.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Jin Kuk Cho
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Patent number: 10507825Abstract: A system for vehicle pitch control during braking includes a pitch component and a rebound component. The pitch component is configured to determine that a vehicle has a forward pitch during braking. The rebound component is configured to, in response to the vehicle achieving a substantially zero forward velocity, apply brake pressure to one or more non-driven wheels using one or more brakes and apply reverse torque to one or more driven wheels using a motor or engine.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Hans Gangwar, Zachary Konchan, Alexander Mccollough, Leonard Eber Carrier
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Patent number: 10507826Abstract: A method and system of detecting an impending tip over of a vehicle with the following steps and apparatus. Acquiring first measurement data, the first measurement data having strain data and at least one of attitude data and acceleration data. Acquiring second measurement data, the second measurement data having strain data and at least one of attitude data and acceleration data. Determining, based on the first measurement data and based on the second measurement data, if the second measurement data is indicative of an impending tip over of the vehicle. Only if it is determined that the second measurement data is indicative of an impending tip over of the vehicle, triggering an alarm signal, overriding a control command or overwriting a control command.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Dana Italia SrlInventors: Carlos Maximiliano Giorgio Bort, Claudio Maffei, Alessandro Massei, Giulio Ornella, Lorenzo Serrao
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Patent number: 10507827Abstract: A backup assistance system for a vehicle. The system includes a backup control module configured to restrict at least one of vehicle backup speed, acceleration, and jerk when a field of view of one or more backup sensors is restricted.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Matthew Gesch, Jin Kurumisawa, Takayuki Kimura, Miki Sato, Katsuhiko Akamatsu
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Patent number: 10507828Abstract: A setting unit of a safety-device activation timing controlling apparatus sets a first timing upon it being determined that a driver's collision avoidance operation in a longitudinal direction has been carried out. The first timing is later than a reference timing for activating the safety device. The setting unit sets a second timing upon it being determined that a driver's collision avoidance operation in the lateral direction has been carried out. The second timing is later than the reference timing. Upon it being determined that at least one of the driver's collision avoidance operation in the longitudinal direction of the own vehicle and the driver's collision avoidance operation in the lateral direction of the own vehicle has been carried out, an activation determining unit determines whether to activate the safety device in accordance with a corresponding at least one of the first timing and the second timing.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akitoshi Minemura, Yosuke Ito, Wataru Ike, Kazuki Nemoto
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Patent number: 10507829Abstract: A system and method to avoid collisions on highways, and to minimize the fatalities, injury, and damage when a collision is unavoidable. The system includes sensor means to detect other vehicles, and computing means to evaluate when a collision is imminent and to determine whether the collision is avoidable. If the collision is avoidable by a sequence of controlled accelerations and decelerations and steering, the system implements that sequence of actions automatically. If the collision is unavoidable, a different sequence is implemented to minimize the overall harm of the unavoidable collision. The system further includes indirect mitigation steps such as flashing the brake lights automatically. An optional post-collision strategy is implemented to prevent secondary collisions, particularly if the driver is incapacitated. Adjustment means enable the driver to set the type and timing of automatic interventions.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: AUTONOMOUS ROADWAY INTELLIGENCE, LLCInventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
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Patent number: 10507830Abstract: A speed control system for automatically controlling the speed of a vehicle. The system operates according to a method that includes: causing automatically a vehicle to travel at a predetermined speed value at least in part by controlling an amount of torque applied to one or more wheels of a vehicle; determining a recommended transmission gear ratio for a transmission of the powertrain at a given moment in time; providing an indication of the recommended transmission gear ratio to a user; and receiving a clutch actuation signal indicative of an actuation state of a clutch that is configured to connect the transmission to a torque drive source. The system is configured automatically to control a speed of the torque drive source to achieve a speed determined in dependence at least in part on at least one predetermined parameter when a predetermined one or more conditions are met.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover LimitedInventors: James Kelly, Andrew Fairgrieve
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Patent number: 10507831Abstract: A cruise control system controls fuel supplied to an engine of a motor vehicle based in part on whether the vehicle is travelling on a positive gradient, a negative gradient, or a level surface. The system includes a sensor for detecting a position of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle, an inclinometer for detecting a gradient of a surface over which the vehicle is traveling; and an electronic processor operative to set a fuel flow rate. The fuel flow rate is set as a function of the accelerator pedal position detected at an activation time of the cruise control system, and that fuel flow rate is maintained at a constant rate if the vehicle is travelling on a positive gradient or a level surface. The vehicle therefore slows down on the positive gradient rather than maintaining a target speed as with a conventional cruise control system.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Volker Haupts
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Patent number: 10507832Abstract: In a drive control device, a controller automatically stops an engine if an execution condition of an idling stop is satisfied, and an electric oil pump is driven during an automatic stop of the engine. A first friction engaging element establishes a starting gear position and a second friction engaging element is released when a vehicle starts. A second solenoid drains oil to be supplied to the second friction engaging element according to an indicator current. A drain degree becomes smaller by reducing the indicator current. The controller reduces the indicator current below a minimum value during the automatic stop of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinobu Kawamoto, Ruofeng Liu, Hideshi Wakayama
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Patent number: 10507833Abstract: A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle including an oil pump driven by a transmission of a rotation of the motor-generator; and a hydraulic pressure supply unit for supplying a hydraulic pressure to the continuously variable transmission. The hydraulic pressure is generated by regulating a pressure of an oil discharged from the oil pump. When a regenerative braking is performed by the motor-generator based on a deceleration request from a driver, the hydraulic pressure supply unit supplies a hydraulic pressure based on a first hydraulic pressure and a second hydraulic pressure to the continuously variable transmission. The first hydraulic pressure is a hydraulic pressure to transmit an input torque input to the continuously variable transmission during the regenerative braking. The second hydraulic pressure is a hydraulic pressure to shift the continuously variable transmission during the regenerative braking.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: JATCO LTDInventors: Hiroki Iwasa, Hironori Miyaishi, Tetsuya Izumi
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Patent number: 10507834Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an engine with deactivating and non-deactivating valves are presented. In one example, an actual total number of deactivated cylinders may be adjusted to control driveline braking. The driveline braking may be controlled in a towing mode, a hill descent mode, and during normal driving conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Chris Paul Glugla
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Patent number: 10507835Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for controlling cornering of a vehicle and a method thereof. The method of controlling cornering of a vehicle may include: determining whether a cornering control condition is satisfied based on a lateral acceleration; detecting a displacement of an accelerator pedal when the cornering control condition is satisfied; calculating a sport index based on the displacement of the accelerator pedal and a predetermined value; and setting operating modes of a power train and a suspension system based on at least one of the sport index or the lateral acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, KIA Motors CorporationInventors: Sangjun Park, Joseph D. Chang, Byeong Wook Jeon, Tae Hee Cho
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Patent number: 10507836Abstract: A method of drivingly engaging a first motor of a dual motor drive unit with an output shaft driven by a second motor of the dual motor drive unit includes actuating a clutching device for drivingly engaging the first motor with the output shaft. Next, a rotational speed of the first motor is synchronized with a rotational speed of the output shaft. When the rotational speed of the first motor and the rotational speed of the output shaft are synchronized, an output torque of the first motor is reduced. When the clutching device drivingly engages the first motor with the output shaft, the output torque of the first motor is increased. The invention further relates to a dual motor drive unit for carrying out the method.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Dana Italia SrlInventors: Luca Balboni, Giulio Ornella
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Patent number: 10507837Abstract: A control device that controls a vehicle drive transfer device in which a speed change device that includes a plurality of engagement devices and that selectively establishes one of a plurality of shift speeds with different speed ratios in accordance with a state of engagement of the plurality of engagement devices is provided in a power transfer path that connects between a drive force source and wheels.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Shoichi Ishida, Kohei Tsuda, Keiichirou Kusabe
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Patent number: 10507838Abstract: The system for limiting vehicle speed includes a sensor and computer system for controlling the speed of a vehicle under predetermined conditions. The system is designed and constructed to sense a plurality of conditions while the vehicle is in motion and to record these conditions for analysis, should an accident occur. One feature of the system is to control the vehicle's throttle to slow the vehicle upon sensing two conditions: (1) high vehicle speed; and, (2) lack of proper contact by the driver's hands with the steering wheel. The system can also sense a driver's heartbeat and record this and other data in the computer's memory. The computer also includes a real-time clock and the data recorded is timestamped and can be used for analysis, should an accident occur.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventor: Ahmad Abdullah M. J. Al-Qanaei
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Patent number: 10507839Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling a vehicle is proposed. Detection of a traffic light along the trajectory of a cruising vehicle and a determination of current and future traffic light statuses is performed. It is determined whether the vehicle can arrive at the traffic light during a passing status in accordance with an adaptation of the kinematic vehicle state. Signals are provided via a human 10 machine interface corresponding to various kinematic vehicle state adaptation scenarios in order to enable an arrival at the traffic light during a passing status. In response to the respective human machine interface signals, control of the vehicle can be performed accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Heiko Altmannshofer, Junya Takahashi
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Patent number: 10507840Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for control of a combustion engine in a vehicle. At least one future speed profile for an actual speed of the vehicle during a road section is simulated based on information about the road section, and that coasting will be applied during the road section. An applicability for coasting during the road section is evaluated. Subsequently, it is evaluated whether the combustion engine may be shut down during a coasting for at least a part of the road section. The evaluation of the shutdown of the combustion engine is based on whether one or several system conditions for engine shutdown have been met, on one or several properties for one or several brake systems in the vehicle, and on a shutdown period, when the combustion engine could be shut down. The combustion engine is then controlled based on this evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Scania CV ABInventors: Fredrik Roos, Mikael Ögren, Olof Larsson
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Patent number: 10507841Abstract: A method of controlling a ground vehicle includes providing the vehicle with a first sensor configured to detect a vehicle position, a second sensor configured to detect a driven path of the vehicle, and a controller. The method also includes obtaining, via the first sensor, a plurality of vehicle position coordinates during a time interval of a drive cycle, and calculating, via the controller, a first path curvature parameter based on the plurality of vehicle position coordinates. The method additionally includes obtaining, via the second sensor, a second path curvature parameter based on the driven path during the time interval. The method further includes comparing, via the controller, the first path curvature parameter to the second path curvature parameter, and in response to a difference between the second path curvature and the first path curvature exceeding a threshold, automatically operating the controller according to a diagnostic mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Gurhari Singh, Andrew M. Zettel, Crystal Nassouri, Henry R. Wright
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Patent number: 10507842Abstract: A method for monitoring a drive-by-wire system of a motor vehicle, including: temporally offset reading in of at least two input values of an input quantity of an operating element of the motor vehicle; ascertaining a change over time or rate of change over time of the input quantity from the at least two read-in input values; determination of a monitored quantity for the motor vehicle operation from the change over time or rate of change over time; selection of a monitoring function on the basis of the monitored quantity; monitoring of the monitored quantity for the ascertained motor vehicle operation by the monitoring function.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Andreas Grimm, Bernd Mueller, Evgeniya Ballmann, Isidro Corral Patino, Markus Reichert, Simon Hufnagel, Thomas Hartgen, Thomas Mauer
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Patent number: 10507843Abstract: A vehicle control system including: a driving controller configured to execute any one of automated driving for performing at least one of velocity control and steering control over a vehicle by executing any one of multiple driving modes having different automatic control levels, and manual driving for performing both of the velocity control and steering control over the vehicle based on operation on a main operator by an occupant of the vehicle; an armrest for an occupant sitting on a driver's seat of the vehicle to put his/her arm on; and an armrest relative position controller configured to control a drive unit so that a position of the armrest relative to the occupant sitting on the driver's seat varies between the automated driving and the manual driving executed by the driving controller.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Abe, Kunimichi Hatano, Masahiko Asakura, Naoto Sen
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Patent number: 10507844Abstract: A system includes an impairment sample module, impairment value calculator module, threshold comparison module, warning alert module, and intervention module. The impairment sample module may be configured to obtain a first impairment sample for an operator of a vehicle while the vehicle is running. The impairment value calculator module may be configured to calculate a first impairment value based on the first impairment sample. The threshold comparison module may be configured to compare the first impairment value to a first threshold value corresponding to a first range of impairment and a second threshold value corresponding to a second range of impairment. The warning alert module may be configured to generate a warning alert in response to determining that the first impairment value exceeds the first threshold value. The intervention module may be configured to execute driver intervention protocol if the first impairment value exceeds the second threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: William A. Biondo, David T. Proefke, Fred W. Huntzicker
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Patent number: 10507845Abstract: A remote user can define one or more zone based driver/vehicle behavior definitions. Current vehicle location is analyzed at the vehicle or remotely to determine if the vehicle is approaching or has arrived at a location for which a zone based driver/vehicle behavior has been defined. For zone based driver behavior definitions, a display in the vehicle automatically displays the zone based driver behavior definition to the driver. In some embodiments driver compliance is tracked and non-compliance is reported to the remote user. For zone based vehicle behavior definitions, a vehicle controller at the vehicle responsible for controlling the defined behavior is reprogrammed to impose the defined behavior (no regeneration at location, max speed at location, no idle over 2 minutes at location, etc.). Once the vehicle has left the zone, the controller programming reverts to its prior state, and/or zone based driver behavior definition is no longer displayed.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ZONAR SYSTEMS, INC.Inventor: Bryan Hunt
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Patent number: 10507846Abstract: An overhead transport system includes a suspended railway and a motorized carrier configured to travel along the suspended railway. The motorized carrier includes a motorized trolley configured to move the motorized carrier along the suspended railway, chassis/beam configured to carry an object below the motorized trolley, and a bumper and deflection system configured to prevent the object from contacting another object.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: EAGLERAIL CONTAINER LOGISTICS, LLCInventor: J. Michael Meissner
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Patent number: 10507847Abstract: A central traction device for a straddling monorail train includes a traction pin and a traction beam. A central sleeve is provided at the center of the traction beam, and the traction pin is mounted in the central sleeve. An inner cavity of the central sleeve has a corset-shaped structure having large diameters on an upper end and a lower end and a small diameter at a middle part, forming double tapered bevels, and a resilient rubber bush is provided between an inner wall of the central sleeve and the traction pin. The device has a simple and compact overall structure and facilitates connection and separation between the train body and the bogie; by providing the lift assembly, the traction device is fixedly connected to the frame, thus the traction device can be wholly lifted; and operation process and environment of raising and lowering the vehicle are improved.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: CRRC QINGDAO SIFANG CO., LTD.Inventors: Jinming Zhou, Yuejun Zhang, Huijie Zhang, Lijun Ma, Xiaojun Lv, Haiqin Zhao, Xiaojiang Zhou, Shuliang Song, Wei Zhao, Yujie Shi, Chaozhi Zhai
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Patent number: 10507848Abstract: A railway vehicle for passenger transport comprising a vehicle body, said vehicle body including a passenger entrance area and a vehicle boarding aid for facilitating passengers' access to the passenger entrance area, the vehicle boarding aid comprising a movable entry threshold arranged in an access position facilitating passengers' access to the passenger entrance area and a vertical position adjusting device for vertically adjusting the access position of the entry threshold as a function of a potential vertical gap between a station platform and the passenger entrance area, wherein said entry threshold is fixedly arranged in said access position in all operating states of the railway vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Alstom Transport TechnologiesInventors: Francis Demarquilly, Eric Combeau, Frédéric Le-Breton
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Patent number: 10507849Abstract: A bolster used in a railway car truck that has localized areas of increased strength and method of manufacturing the bolster. The bolster may comprise a center wall near each end of the bolster with a cross-section where the center wall has a tapered thickness with the top portion of the center wall being greater than the bottom portion of the center wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Nevis Industries LLCInventors: Erik L. Gotlund, Roshan N. Manibharathi
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Patent number: 10507850Abstract: A device for connecting a coupling shaft to a car body of a track-guided vehicle, wherein the device includes a linkage connected to the coupling shaft and a bearing block connectable to the car body to which the linkage is articulated by means of at least one pivot pin so as to be pivotable in a horizontal plane. At least one pivot pin is designed as a shock protector and thereto comprises a bearing disc having a concentrically arranged recess and a shearing element having a breaking or separating region. A bearing block-side region of the shearing element is accommodated in the recess of the bearing disc and a linkage-side region of the shearing element is accommodated in a pin seat of the linkage.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: VOITH PATENT GMBHInventors: Arthur Kontetzki, Eckart Jäde
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Patent number: 10507851Abstract: A system continuously monitors bearing temperature and wheel surface condition. The system may include a button contact sensor for sensing wheel bearing temperature and a measuring laser for detecting wheel breakage. The system may also include a vibration sensor, sound sensor, and a load sensor. Each sensor is in communication with a receiver/transmitter and may be mounted to the railcar by way of a friction lock magnetic mounting. Computer means may be used to store, analyze, and present the collected information for use in deciding whether, for example, the train should be slowed or stopped. A solar panel may provide power to the components.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventors: Leo Byford, Kenneth Zweiacher
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Patent number: 10507852Abstract: A coded track circuit of a signaling control equipment to be located at a wayside location of a railway track is provided. The coded track circuit comprises a first track circuit card coupled to rails of the railway track to detect an absence of a train on the railway track, inform signallers and control relevant signals via track codes. The coded track circuit further comprises a second track circuit card coupled to rails of the railway track, the second track circuit card is inactive but ready to provide a warm-standby or a hot-standby such that the second track circuit card to take over control from the first track circuit card should the first track circuit card fails.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: SIEMENS MOBILITY, INC.Inventors: Holger Schmidt, Brian Joseph Hogan
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Patent number: 10507853Abstract: A train-information management device mounted on a train, includes: an intra-block position calculator to convert information on a kilometrage that indicates a position of the train into information on a block number and an intra-block position of a plurality of blocks into which a route of the train is divided and that are used when a train position is specified by a train radio system; and an on-board router to communicate the information on the block number and the intra-block position to a ground side by using a system that is different from a system that is used for communication between the ground side and a train side via a radio base station in the train radio system.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Kaede, Takashi Miyauchi, Masahiro Chikamori, Shingo Hamada
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Patent number: 10507854Abstract: A railroad crossing indication device (250) includes a processing unit (350) for receiving and processing data provided by a constant warning time device (40) in communication with a railroad track (20), wherein the data relate to a train approaching the railroad crossing, and a screen unit (300, 400, 500) for displaying information of the train approaching the railroad crossing based upon the data provided by the constant warning time device (40). Furthermore, a railroad crossing indication system (200) and a method (600) for displaying information at railroad crossings are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: SIEMENS MOBILITY, INC.Inventors: Barton DeJarnatt, Travis Pless
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Patent number: 10507855Abstract: Hand trucks having a powered lifting assembly are disclosed. In certain aspects, hand trucks having a motor assembly and a battery pack mount arranged to removably receive a battery pack arranged for a portable tool are disclosed. Hand trucks having a pivoting rearward support are also disclosed, with particular arrangements advantageously pivoting the rearward support upwardly as it is configured into the retracted configuration so as to lift wheels of the rearward support above other wheels of the hand truck.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TM-Logic LLCInventor: Jerry Murphy
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Patent number: 10507856Abstract: A beach cart is formed from a frame that has a pair of wheel trucks depend downwardly from either end thereof. A handle is attached at one end of the frame, either to the frame or to the wheel truck thereat, to pull the cart. A pair of chairs is attached to the frame and each has a base, a back, and a leg rest with the back capable of reclining and the leg rest capable of rotating with respect to the base. A table is located on either end of the frame and each rotates between an upright folded position and a deployed horizontal position. The chair back and leg rest as well as the tables act as sidewall when items are being transported by the cart between two locations.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventors: Simon Malson, Tom Malson
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Patent number: 10507857Abstract: Consumer wagons are provided for carrying seated children and/or household cargo. In some embodiments, the wagons have a footwell for children carried in the wagon to place/rest their feet, and the footwell is repositionable between use position lowered relative to the wagon base and a collapsed/storage position closer to the wagon base. And in some embodiments, the wagons have a pull-handle that can be moved between different positions and that is lockable in multiple of the different positions.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: VEER GEAR LLCInventors: Andrew Bowman, Brady Schroeder
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Patent number: 10507858Abstract: Described is a shopping cart bagging station that is used in retail stores to dispense shopping bags while a customer of the retail store shops. The shopping cart bagging station holds and dispenses shopping bags. The shopping cart bagging station is coupled to a shopping cart so that the customer can load items they purchase into the shopping bags as they shop. The shopping cart bagging station includes a support bar, three top hooks coupled to the support bar, and three bottom hooks coupled to the support bar. The three top hooks couple the shopping cart bagging station to a shopping cart. The three bottom hooks hold shopping bags. By using the shopping cart bagging station, a customer does not have to visit a checkout station to have their purchased items bagged.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventor: Yurgis Mauro Bacallao
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Patent number: 10507859Abstract: Described is a shopping cart bagging station that is used in retail stores to dispense shopping bags while a customer of the retail store shops. The shopping cart bagging station holds and dispenses shopping bags. The shopping cart bagging station is coupled to a shopping cart so that the customer can load items they purchase into the shopping bags as they shop. The shopping cart bagging station includes a support channel and three hooks coupled to the support channel. The support channel couples to the shopping cart. The three hooks hold shopping bags. By using the shopping cart bagging station, a customer does not have to visit a checkout station to bag their purchased items.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventor: Yurgis Mauro Bacallao
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Patent number: 10507860Abstract: A steering wheel, in which a vibration device including a vibration motor is attached, the steering wheel includes: a ring portion including a core member and a thickness-reduced portion, reducing mass, provided with the core member. The vibration device is housed in the thickness-reduced portion and attached to the core member.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventor: Motoki Adachi
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Patent number: 10507861Abstract: The invention is directed to a lock for an adjustable steering column. The lock has a first member having at least one tooth disposed in a first direction. The lock has a second member having at least one tooth disposed in a second direction. A moveable locking device having a first recess disposed to engage at least one tooth on the first member and a second recess positioned to engage the at least one tooth on the second member. A releasable clamping device is positioned to be moved into and away from an engagement position with the first and second members. The first recess restricting movement in the first direction and the second recess restricting movement in the second direction when the moveable locking device is engaged with the first and second members.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH AUTOMOTIVE STEERING LLCInventors: Michael McFarland, Olivier Perichon
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Patent number: 10507862Abstract: A steering device includes a column pipe, an outer column A, a fixed bracket, a stopper bracket, and a tightening tool. The stopper bracket has a first suspended plate-like portion and a second suspended plate-like portion. A telescopic long hole and an impact absorbing long hole into which a bolt shaft can be inserted from the front side toward the rear side are formed in each of the first and second suspended plate-like portions. A first collapse portion that is bent by colliding with the bolt shaft is provided between the telescopic long hole and the impact absorbing long hole of either the first suspended plate-like portion or the second suspended plate-like portion. A second collapse portion is provided as an inclined side on either the top sides or the bottom sides of the impact absorbing long holes of the first and second suspended plate-like portions.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: YAMADA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Abe, Takuya Aiba
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Patent number: 10507863Abstract: The invention relates to a Drive unit as part of a vehicle steering comprising a housing, mechanically connectable to the vehicle through an anti-rotation system, a rotatory output element, an interface for interfacing the control unit, including powering coils and measuring feedback to external control unit, and a motor comprising an angular position sensor, a stator and a rotor, the stator being fixedly mounted in the housing, and the rotor being rotatably mounted in the housing, wherein the output element, the stator and the rotor are coaxially arranged, wherein the motor is mechanically coupled to the output element by a differential providing an angular speed for the output element which is different from the angular speed of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ARVUS TECNOLOGIA LTDA.Inventors: Adriano C. Naspolini, Jonatan Vieira, Daniel Fritzke Ferreira De Melo
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Patent number: 10507864Abstract: A gearbox assembly for an electric power assisted steering apparatus. The assembly comprises a gearbox housing which houses a worm shaft and a gear wheel, the worm shaft being supported relative to the housing by a main bearing assembly at an end closest to the motor and by a tail bearing assembly, at an end furthest from the motor, comprising an inner race and an outer race separated by bearing elements. The gearbox assembly further comprises a first guiding surface upon which the outer race is supported, the outer race being able to move by rolling along the guiding surface when a radial load is applied to the tail bearing assembly by the worm shaft, and a guide device which contacts both the outer bearing and a second guiding surface, the biasing spring acting upon the tail bearing assembly indirectly by acting upon the guide device which in turn acts upon the bearing assembly. The gear wheel i supported by an output shaft having at least one end that provides a take-off from the gearbox assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TRW LimitedInventor: Mark Anthony Wilkes
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Patent number: 10507865Abstract: A steering apparatus includes a steering shaft; a steered shaft; a ball screw mechanism; and a motor. A plurality of rolling elements includes large-diameter rolling elements and small-diameter rolling elements. A prescribed diameter difference is set such that when a magnitude of power transmitted between a first screw groove and a second screw groove is a prescribed value or less, only the large-diameter rolling elements transmit the power between the first screw groove and the second screw groove, and when the magnitude of the power transmitted between the first screw groove and the second screw groove exceeds the prescribed value, both the large-diameter rolling elements and the small-diameter rolling elements transmit the power.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Masayoshi Asakura, Kiyoshi Uchiyama, Hirotsune Suzuki, Shunji Inoue, Hirokazu Kondo
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Patent number: 10507866Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus may be employed to assist steering of a motor vehicle by conferring torque generated by an electric motor to a steering mechanism. The apparatus may include a steering controller that receives signals representative of vehicle velocity and torque applied to a steering wheel and a rotor position signal to derive a target motor torque, a motor controller that receives the target motor torque from the steering controller and transfers the target motor torque into target voltages expressed in a coordinate system fixed to a stator, and an inverter that transforms the target voltages into motor currents. The apparatus may further include a ripple compensation unit that compensates the target voltages for a (n?1)-th harmonic current by adding compensation voltages to the target voltages.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AGInventor: Dezsö Bakos
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Patent number: 10507867Abstract: A system and method for generating steering commands to cancel out unwanted steering moments is disclosed. The method includes determining, by a controller of a vehicle, an amount of suspension displacement that is caused as a result of driving the vehicle on an uneven road. The suspension displacement induces an unwanted steering moment. The method also includes determining a steering angle command based at least on the amount of suspension displacement. The method also includes performing the steering angle command. Performing the steering angle command cancels out the unwanted steering moment.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Scott A. Bronikowski, Joshua R. Auden
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Patent number: 10507868Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for tire pressure monitoring for vehicle park-assist. An example vehicle includes tires, pressure sensors, and a controller. The controller is to identify a target position within a parking spot for park-assist, determine a tire index based on tire pressure measurements, and identify whether the tire index is within a low range, a caution range, or a normal operating range. The controller also is to adjust, responsive to the tire index being within the caution range, the target position to facilitate access to one of the tires having low pressure.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Erick Michael Lavoie, John Robert Van Wiemeersch
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Patent number: 10507869Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a load transmission member, a first engagement portion, and a second engagement portion. The load transmission member is disposed at a position overlapping with the power unit in a vehicle front view. The first engagement portion is provided between the load transmission member and the power unit. The second engagement portion is provided between the suspension member and the power unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shin Inoue
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Patent number: 10507870Abstract: A vehicle frame having a calibrated frame stiffness gradient is provided by fixedly attaching a series of cladding plates to an external surface of a tubular member of the frame, with the series of cladding plates including at least one immediately preceding cladding plate and one successive cladding plate. The cladding plates have thicknesses and peripheral shapes that are cooperatively configured to provide the desired stiffness gradient in the frame member. A trailing raised bead extending from the last cladding plate in the series along the surface of the frame member provides a further means for achieving the desired stiffness gradient.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Richard A. Moen, Yong-chang Liu
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Patent number: 10507871Abstract: A vehicle rear portion structure includes a rear pillar, a framework member, a barrier wall and a side panel. The rear pillar extends in the vehicle vertical direction. The framework member is joined to an upper portion of the rear pillar and extends in the vehicle front-and-rear direction. The barrier wall is at the vehicle inner side of the rear pillar, and is joined to the rear pillar and the framework member to be watertight. The barrier wall divides the vehicle inner side from the vehicle outer side thereof. The side panel is provided at the vehicle outer side of the rear pillar, the framework member and the barrier wall. The side panel structures a design surface of a vehicle side portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Daisuke Tanabe
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Patent number: 10507872Abstract: A fender assembly for an agricultural tractor including a carrier bracket which supports a wheel fender adjacent to a vehicle wheel. A steering mechanism is provided as part of the fender assembly, such that the wheel fender can be rotated relative to the carrier bracket. Accordingly, the rotation of the wheel fender can be controlled based on a steering signal generated by the vehicle steering system, to ensure that the wheel fender accurately follows the movement of the adjacent tractor wheel.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: AGCO International GmbHInventors: Thomas Maier, Erich Freytag