Abstract: An aftermarket vehicle head unit integration cartridge for use with an aftermarket head unit is provided. The aftermarket head unit preferably includes a dedicated slot for insertion of the cartridge. The cartridge preferably supports communication between a plurality of electronic components in the aftermarket head unit and a plurality of electronic components in the vehicle. The plurality of electronic components in the aftermarket head unit may include, for example, an audio processing system, a video processing system, an analog I/O and/or a digital I/O. and/or a plurality of electronic components. The plurality of electronic components in the vehicle may include an audio system, an analog I/O, a digital I/O/databus, and/or a steering wheel control unit. The cartridge may include a flashable memory for use in reconfiguring the cartridge. The cartridge may be configured to capture and condition the signals from at least one of the plurality of the vehicle-based electronic components.

Abstract: A vehicle trim structure includes a flange provided at a vehicle trim and configured to contact a counterpart member, wherein an end portion of the flange that is configured to contact the counterpart member is formed from a soft material, and a contact face of the end portion is configured with a circular arc-shaped cross-section profile.

Abstract: An upper reinforcement for a door trim panel includes a reinforcement channel, and a rib extending across the reinforcement channel. More particularly, the rib includes a first end section that engages a first wall of the channel, a second end section that engages a third wall of the channel and an intermediate section that extends across a window in the second wall of the channel.

Abstract: A passive vehicle cabin insulation method with constant temperature and ultra-low energy consumption. It accomplishes this through the implementation of several special features in different parts of the vehicle. These features include a layer of efficient heat insulation material, an airtight casing, windows insulated with multiple layers of vacuum, energy-saving, laminated glass, an anti-UV heat insulation coating, an efficient fresh air circulation and heat recovery system, a “broken bridge” structural design, and an anti-fog and hazy air purification system. The method insulates the vehicle sufficiently to deal with the heat of summer and the cold of winter. It also makes full use of passive renewable energy, and maintains a healthy and comfortable driving environment within the vehicle. Specifically, it maintains a constant temperature, constant humidity, constant oxygen levels, constant levels of air purity, and low noise, all while consuming a minimal amount of energy.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle controller that can suppress increase in startup time due to increase in the number of function portions related to communication. The invention includes a power supply unit 3 that is capable of supplying or shutting off operating power to a microcomputer 2 that communicates with other electronic control units through CAN channels (CAN1, CAN2), and communication controllers 4 and 6 that are respectively provided in the multiple CAN channels (CAN 1, CAN 2) used for communication of the microcomputer 2.

Abstract: An anti-theft bracket according to the present invention is an anti-theft bracket provided near a parking driver. The parking driver is connected to a parking actuator via a harness with a connector of the harness inserted in the parking driver. The anti-theft bracket includes a connector detachment restricting part covering the connector.

Abstract: A vehicle control system for a vehicle, the vehicle control system comprising a controller, wherein the controller has an activatable secondary parked mode in which the controller automatically controls a plurality of components of the vehicle, each component also being controllable by a corresponding user control, and activation of the secondary parked mode changes the state of each component from an in-use state to a parked state when the vehicle attends a delivery or collection.

Abstract: A power supply apparatus for vehicles includes a first power supply circuit that converts a voltage applied to a first conductive path and applies the resulting voltage to a second conductive path, and second power supply circuits that convert a voltage applied to the first conductive path and apply the resulting voltage to third conductive paths, and switch portions are provided respectively between the second conductive path and the third conductive paths. Control units switch switch portions off when at least one of the first power supply circuit and the second conductive path is not in the predetermined abnormal state, and switch the switch portions on in the predetermined abnormal state.

Abstract: A vehicle body front structure includes a front bumper face positioned in front of a front bumper beam, wherein the front bumper face includes an upper face member provided with a license plate mounting portion, and a lower face member provided with an external air introduction opening. The vehicle body front structure further includes a front panel positioned above the upper face member.

Abstract: A vehicle-body structure comprises a pair of right-and-left crash cans provided at an end portion of a vehicle body, being spaced apart from each other in a vehicle width direction, a bumper reinforcement extending in the vehicle width direction and connecting respective tip portions of the crash cans, set plates interposed between each of the crash cans and a vehicle-body side frame, wherein each of the crash cans is fixed to the vehicle-body side frame via the set plates, and a brace extending obliquely, in a plan view, from an inward side, in the vehicle width direction, of the crash can or the set plate to the bumper reinforcement such that a space is formed, in the vehicle with direction, between the brace and the crash can. The brace is fixedly joined to a lower face of the bumper reinforcement.

Abstract: The present invention discloses seat occupation, vital signs and safety belt lock sensor for rear seats, which do not have power supply. The proposed system contains mm-wave radar sensor to be used for rear seat detection of seat occupancy and for vital sign detection, being placed on the vehicle ceiling or being integrated in the front seats, having radiation in the direction of the rear seat and detection if the human being is on the rear seat. The proposed system further contains hardware functionality being integrated in the safety belt environment. This functionality is communicating status if the safety belt is locked or not, in the case when the remote mm-wave sensor detected the human being on the rear seat, using arbitrary wireless communication means, and embedded arbitrary means for conserving energy, like battery. The proposed system is additionally detecting vital signs of the person using rear seats.

Abstract: A vehicle occupant monitoring device for a vehicle is configured to monitor an occupant sitting on a seat provided in a vehicle and includes a light projector, an imaging device, and a processor. The light projector is configured to project light toward the occupant sitting on the seat. The imaging device is configured to capture an image of the occupant sitting on the seat. The processor is configured to control the light projector and the imaging device to capture the image of the occupant sitting on the seat. In a case where a collision of the vehicle is predicted, the processor causes the light projector to radiate intense light toward a head of the occupant to be imaged by the imaging device.

Abstract: An occupant monitoring device for a vehicle is configured to monitor an occupant sitting on a seat provided in the vehicle and includes a light projector, an imaging device, and a processor. The light projector is configured to project light toward the occupant sitting on the seat. The imaging device is configured to capture an image of the occupant sitting on the seat. The processor is configured to control the light projector and the imaging device to capture the image of the occupant sitting on the seat. In a case where a collision of the vehicle is neither predicted nor detected, the processor causes the imaging device to capture an image of behavior of the occupant corresponding to either one of travel control and behavior of the vehicle so as to change occupant protection control.

Abstract: A vehicle occupant protection structure includes a seat body including a seatback configured to support a back of an occupant, and a shell section including a portion configured to face a side of the occupant whose back is supported by the seatback and the portion configured to restrict movement of the occupant in a seat width direction in a case of a vehicle collision.

Abstract: An airbag includes a bag body that includes a first panel and a second panel which are opposed to each other, a partitioning tether that is disposed in such a manner as to partition an interior of the bag body, a communication hole that is formed in the tether for providing gas communication in the interior of the bag body, and first and second joints that respectively join first and second edges of the tether to the first and second panels of the bag body. The communication hole has a generally rectangular contour which has two corners in a vicinity of each of the first and second edges of the tether. In both of the first and second edges of the tether, the corners of the communication hole are disposed closer to the first or second edge of the partitioning tether than a corresponding one of the joints.

Abstract: An assembly includes a track and a base movable along the track. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the base. The assembly includes a pyrotechnic device designed to move the base along the track.

Abstract: An airbag assembly includes an airbag inflatable to an inflated position and reinforcements fixed to the airbags. The reinforcements are rigid relative to the airbag and are moveable with the airbag to the inflated position.

Abstract: An airbag having an exhaust hole and an opening/closing control device configured to control opening and closing of the exhaust hole are provided. The airbag includes a bag body, and a discharge portion having the exhaust hole, the discharge portion is configured to maintain a blocked state of the exhaust hole by being drawn into the bag body at the time of inflation of the bag body in a state where connection between a connection member and the opening/closing control device is maintained, and to be inflated by protruding from the bag body at the time of inflation of the bag body in a state where the connection between the connection member and the opening/closing control device is released to open the exhaust hole. A dummy inflation portion inflated to partially protrude from the bag body is formed at a position approximately symmetrical to the discharge portion.

Abstract: A side airbag apparatus includes a side airbag housed in a seat back of a seat of a vehicle. The side airbag includes a lower protection portion configured to protect a portion below a head portion of the occupant, and an upper protection portion configured to protect the head portion. The side airbag is folded in a state in which the upper protection portion is folded toward a lower side so as to be positioned on an outer side in a width direction of the vehicle with respect to the lower protection portion, and a portion, that protrudes toward the front side with respect to the lower protection portion, of the upper protection portion folded toward the lower side, is folded toward a rear side so as to be positioned on an inner side in the width direction with respect to the lower protection portion.

Abstract: An apparatus for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle includes an airbag configured to be mounted to a support structure of the vehicle. The airbag is inflatable to deploy from a stored condition away from the support structure toward a vehicle seat in which the occupant is seated to one of a first deployed condition in which the airbag is configured for a non-reclined condition of the vehicle seat, and a second deployed condition in which the airbag is configured for a reclined condition of the vehicle seat. The airbag is configured to deploy to the first deployed condition in response to determining a non-reclined condition of the vehicle seat and to the second deployed condition in response to determining a reclined condition of the vehicle seat.

Abstract: An airbag for a vehicle, such as a side airbag, may be mounted to or proximate to a seat assembly on which a passenger may sit. The side airbag may include a chamber and an inflator configured to cause the chamber to expand toward the passenger to slow an acceleration of the passenger upon impact of the vehicle with another object or surface. Upon deployment of the chamber, the side airbag may cause a portion of the seat assembly (a seat tub, seat pan, and/or cushion coupled thereto) to deform toward the passenger seated thereon while remaining occluded from the passenger by the assembly. In some examples, the chamber may be stored in an unfolded position to allow for a more rapid deployment.

Abstract: A vehicle safety system is mounted on a far-side vehicle seat for protecting a far-side occupant in a near-side impact crash event. The vehicle safety system includes an occupant restraint mounted on an inboard side of a seat back of the far-side vehicle seat. The restraint includes a support frame rotatable from a stowed condition where the support frame is aligned with the seat back and a deployed condition where the support frame is forward of the seat back. The support frame includes a rear arm and a forward arm each rotatably connected to the seat back at separate mounting points with the mounting point of the rear arm located above the mounting point of the forward arm. In a near-side impact crash event the restraint is rotated into the deployed condition inboard of the far-side vehicle seat to restrain the far-side occupant against lateral movement within the vehicle.

Abstract: This invention concerns a tubular element for a gas pressure vessel of an airbag module, in particular of a vehicle, wherein the tubular element (1) consists of high-strength steel, has a first and a second end (17, 18) and from the first end (17) to the second end (18) the tubular element (1) has an undeformed section (11), a transition section (12) and a tapering section (13) and on the tapering section (13) at least one radially outwardly extending collar (14) is formed, characterized in that the collar (14) is separated from the transition section (12) by a first length section (130) having an outer diameter (A1) smaller than the outer diameter (A2) of the collar (14) and the wall thickness of the collar (14) is greater than the wall thickness of the first length section (130). Furthermore, the invention concerns a gas pressure vessel and a process for manufacturing a tubular element according to the invention (1).

Abstract: In this webbing take-up device, a first bend portion, a second bend portion, and a third bend portion are formed in a wire. In an initial state of the wire, the wire is supported by a second squeezing portion by being abutted against the second squeezing portion on a base end side in the longitudinal direction thereof from the second bend portion, and is supported by a third squeezing portion by being abutted against the third squeezing portion on a base end side in the longitudinal direction thereof from the third bend portion. As a result, the timings when the wire starts to be squeezed by each one of a first squeezing portion, the second squeezing portion, and the third squeezing portion can each be mutually offset.

Abstract: A belt retractor comprises a frame (10), a belt reel (12) rotatably arranged in the frame (10) and having a first end (16) and an opposite second end (17) as well as comprising a blocking mechanism (18) arranged at an end face of the belt reel (12) by which the belt reel (12) can be blocked within the frame (10). The belt retractor further comprises an axially extending first load limiter which is releasably coupled to the belt reel (12) by means of a disconnecting clutch (24), a second load limiter which is coupled to be rotationally fixed to the first load limiter or a hub, and a third load limiter which can be coupled to be rotationally fixed to the belt reel (12) by means of a connecting clutch (38). Moreover, a method for controlling such belt retractor is provided.

Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraint device includes a three point seatbelt device that includes shoulder webbing running from one seat width direction end side of an upper section a seatback toward a buckle at another seat width direction end side of a lower section of the seatback, a shoulder webbing anchor that is provided on the one seat width direction end side of the upper section of the seatback, and through which the shoulder webbing is inserted, and a mover device that moves the shoulder webbing anchor toward a seat width direction outer side of the seatback when the seatback, which is configured so as to be capable of reclining from an upright state, has been reclined by at least a predetermined angle or greater with respect to a vertical direction.

Abstract: Access and/or starting device for a vehicle An access and/or starting apparatus (ZSV) for a vehicle (FZ) has the following features. It comprises a biometric sensor device (BS; BS1-BS4, BSI) for detecting a biometric feature (GE) of a user; a position determining device (ZGS) for determining the position of an identification transmitter (IDG1, IDG2) assigned to the user (BU); a control device (STG) for enabling a vehicle function if the biometric feature of the user that is detected by the biometric sensor device (BS; BS1-BS4, BSI) corresponds to a predetermined feature and, the position determining device (ZGS) detects the identification transmitter in a predetermined region (ANB) around or in the vehicle (FZ). The security of the access and/or starting apparatus is increased in this way.

Abstract: A vehicular alert system includes a door locking control disposed at a vehicle and operable to lock a plurality of doors of the vehicle responsive to a door lock signal received from a remote transmitter carried by a user. The remote transmitter is operable to transmit a triggering signal to the door locking control. Responsive to the transmitted triggering signal, the door locking control locks the doors of the vehicle. Responsive to the transmitted triggering signal, the vehicular alert system determines whether at least one door of the vehicle is not fully closed. Responsive to determination that at least one door of the vehicle is not fully closed, the vehicular alert system generates an alert to alert the user that at least one door of the vehicle is not fully closed.

Abstract: A control system for a vehicle used by a plurality of users determines, in response to a request for unlocking vehicle doors, whether to permit vehicle door unlocking depending on whether or not another booked usage time range is registered after one booked usage time range in which a usage end procedure has been performed, or whether vehicle door unlocking that does not use an electronic key for the one booked usage time range was performed during the time from the end of the usage end procedure to the current time.

Abstract: An authentication apparatus configured to identify a user comprises a scanning apparatus configured to capture identifying information of the user and a feedback apparatus configured to communicate alignment information for the scanning apparatus to a user. A controller is in communication with the scanning apparatus and the alignment apparatus. The controller is configured to activate the feedback apparatus to reveal the alignment information identifying an alignment with the scanning apparatus. The controller is further configured to capture the identifying information of the user and identify the user in response to the identifying information.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave utilizing system includes an electromagnetic wave apparatus configured to perform transmitting and/or receiving of an electromagnetic wave, and a heater that heats a passage member. The heater includes a heating element and a holder. The heating element and the holder are transparent to allow the electromagnetic wave to transmit therethrough. The electromagnetic wave apparatus transmits and/or receives the electromagnetic wave while rotating on a horizontal plane. The heater is configured to rotate together with the electromagnetic wave apparatus or to surround the electromagnetic wave apparatus 360 degrees in a horizontal direction.

Abstract: A sensor and a system using the sensor are described. The sensor may comprise: a cover; and a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) shroud located at a periphery of the cover. The system may include one or more such sensors in a passage of a housing. The system further may comprise a blower that moves air through the passage and across at least a portion of the sensor(s).

Abstract: A sensor having a positive temperature coefficient shroud is described, as well as a computing system to control actuation of the positive temperature coefficient shroud. According to one example, the computing system executes a method that actuates the positive temperature coefficient shroud of the sensor based on a transmittance parameter of the sensor.

Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to detect an occlusion on a surface in a vehicle sensor optical path based on a segmentation of sensor image data, and to select a cleaning plan for the surface based on the detected occlusion, map data, and vehicle route data.

Abstract: An occluded area on a vehicle sensor is identified by localizing the vehicle in space. A discrepancy between historic image data and real-time image data from the sensor is determined, and a cleaning actuator is actuated based on the determined discrepancy.

Abstract: The disclosure provides for a wiper system for cleaning a surface of a sensor housing, such as a sensor housing positioned on top of a vehicle. The wiper system includes a plurality of windows spaced around a sensor housing, and a plurality of wipers positioned around the sensor housing, each of the wipers includes a wiper blade configured to clean a corresponding window of the plurality of windows. The wiper system further includes a drive system including a movable part coupled to a motor. The motor is configured to drive the drive system to simultaneously rotate the plurality of wipers around the sensor housing such that the plurality of wipers remove debris from the plurality of windows.

Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly (5, 8) formed of an end-piece (8) and a wiper rubber (5) which constitute a wiper blade (1), the wiper rubber (5) comprising at least one heel (5a) and a friction zone (5g), the friction zone (5g) being capable of coming into contact with a surface to be wiped, the end-piece (8) comprising a first receiver (21) which is configured to receive a first end (31) of a flexible support (6) of the wiper blade (1), and a second receiver (22) into which the heel (5a) of the wiper rubber (5) extends, the two receivers (21, 22) being superposed in a plane passing through the heel (5a) and through the friction zone (5g), the end-piece (8) comprising a means of attachment (19) to the wiper rubber (5) integrally formed with the end-piece (8).

Abstract: A snow and ice melting device includes a vehicle exterior component and an infrared irradiation portion. The vehicle exterior component is configured to be arranged in front of a light emission portion, which emits light to the outside of a vehicle, in the light emission direction. The vehicle exterior component permits light including infrared light to pass therethrough. The infrared irradiation portion is arranged inward of the vehicle exterior component and capable of irradiating infrared light to snow and ice collected on the outer surface of the vehicle exterior component.

Abstract: Disclosed is a refinishing kit for automobile paint systems including at least two markers, a reservoir with an opening, a valve which can close and open the reservoir, and a marker tip, where the reservoir includes a coating material. The valve can be reversibly opened by exerting pressure, so that the coating material can be discharged from the reservoir. The marker tip and the valve are connected, such that a pressure exerted on the marker tip is transmitted to the valve and coating material can be conveyed by way of the opening of the valve into the marker tip. Material conveyed into the marker tip can pass through the tip and can be transferred onto an area requiring refinish. One of the markers includes a coating material providing a color and/or a special effect, and the second marker includes a UV-curable clearcoat material.

Abstract: A trailer stabilizing device for stabilizing a parked freight trailer comprising a frame having mounted thereto at least a right side wheel and a left side wheel, the frame also including a hitch, a fifth wheel, and at least one of a repositionable wheel chock and a repositionable hook, the trailer stabilizing device further including a repositioning device in order to reposition at least one of the repositionable wheel chock and the repositionable hook.

Abstract: A parking lock device for a vehicle includes a parking gear, a locking pawl, and a cam mechanism. The parking gear includes a parking lock gear that includes outer teeth that engage with a locking lug and rotates about a rotation axis, and a parking lock gear base fixed to an output shaft and allowed to rotate relative to the parking lock gear about the rotation axis. A space is provided between the parking lock gear and the parking lock gear base, such that the space expands and contracts in a circumferential direction according to relative rotation of the parking lock gear and the parking lock gear base, and an elastic body is provided in the space in a pre-compressed state.

Abstract: A motor vehicle having: running gear having a chassis and wheel suspensions, which include longitudinal and transverse links for attaching wheels to the chassis; a body having an underfloor and/or an underfloor paneling, the underfloor and/or the underfloor paneling exposing the links; paneling for the links having a recess for air to cool a brake; and a flow guide upstream of a respective paneling. The flow guide is connected to the underfloor or to underfloor paneling and which, together with the respective paneling, divides up the air flow into: a first air flow, which can be fed, upstream of the recess, via a first flow channel of the respective paneling to a first region of the brake, and into a second air flow, which can be fed via the recess of the respective paneling and a second flow channel of the respective paneling to a second region of the brake.

Abstract: A method and a system for verifying installation of a pedal assembly in a vehicle is provided. The method includes coupling a testing device against the pedal assembly being tested, verifying a position of the testing device relative to the pedal assembly; and positioning a first portion of the testing device against a first side of a pin installed in the pedal assembly. The method also includes verifying the installation of the pin, positioning a second portion of the testing device against a second side of the pin, and verifying the proper installation of the pin.

Abstract: Vehicles according to at least some embodiments of the disclosure include a sensor, and a computing device comprising at least one hardware processing unit. The computing device is programmed to perform operations comprising capturing an image with the sensor, identifying an object in the image, and in response to an accuracy of the identification meeting a first criterion, pre-loading a braking system of the autonomous vehicle. In some aspects, the computing device may predict that an object not currently within a path of the vehicle has a probability of entering the path of the vehicle that meets a second criterion. When the probability of entering the path meets the second criterion, some of the disclosed embodiments may pre-load the braking system.

Abstract: A method for controlling a force representative of a parking braking of a vehicle, having the steps of: determining, by a data processing unit, a target value of a force representative of a parking braking of the vehicle to be applied, by a first brake caliper, on a first brake disc on the basis of a value of the gradient of the road on which the vehicle is located; determining, by the data processing unit, a value of a first force contribution representative of a service braking of the vehicle applied by a first hydraulic actuator on the first brake disc; determining, by the data processing unit, a value of a second force contribution representative of the parking braking of the vehicle to be applied, by a second electromechanical actuator, on the first brake disc on the basis of a target value of a force representative of a parking braking of the vehicle which can be applied by the first brake caliper on the first brake disc, and of the determined value of the first force contribution representative of a se

Abstract: A method for an emergency response in the event of a loss of tire pressure of a transportation vehicle including detecting a tire pressure at a wheel of the transportation vehicle and detecting an angle of inclination on an axle of the transportation vehicle associated with the wheel, A transportation vehicle for autonomous driving.

Abstract: A turning behavior control apparatus that is applied to a vehicle includes front wheel suspensions and rear wheel suspensions having anti-dive and anti-lift geometries, respectively, and left and right front wheels are steered wheels. The turning behavior control apparatus includes a control unit for controlling the braking device, and the control unit is configured to control the braking device to apply a braking force to a turning inner driving wheel when a deviation between a standard yaw rate of the vehicle and an actual yaw rate exceeds a deviation reference value and a time change rate of the deviation exceeds a start reference value in a situation where the vehicle is turning without braking.

Abstract: A brake ECU sets target slippage degrees of three wheels other than the front outer wheel to the slippage degree of the front outer wheel and feedback-controls the braking forces of the three wheels such that the actual slippage degrees of the three wheels approach the target slippage degrees. The brake ECU computes a correction amount for the slip ratio deviation of the front inner wheel such that the slip ratio deviation becomes zero. The brake ECU multiplies the correction amount for the slip ratio deviation by a load ratio and uses the resultant value as a correction amount for the slip ratio deviation of the rear inner wheel. The brake ECU corrects the slip ratio deviation by using the computed correction amount.

Abstract: A method for electronically setting the brake force distribution of a desired total braking force in partial braking forces to the axle of a motor vehicle in dependence on the differential slip is provided. The differential slip is detected as the difference of the slip values of a variable representing the slip at the respective axle and is assigned to a relevant pair of axles. One of the axles is selected as a reference axle and the respective differential slip of a pair of axles is determined as the difference of the slip value at the reference axle and of the respective slip value of one of the further axles.

Abstract: A hydraulic block of a slip control system of a hydraulic vehicle brake system includes receptacles for the hydraulic accumulator and receptacles for outlet valves arranged on opposite sides of each other in the hydraulic block. The sides of the hydraulic block, which comprise the receptacles for the outlet valves and the hydraulic accumulators, are connected to one another by bores perpendicular thereto.