Patents Issued in June 25, 2020
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Publication number: 20200198612Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electric brake system for an electric vehicle, which is more economical by simplifying a configuration of an electric vehicle that includes a main service brake and an electromagnetic brake, the electric brake system including an inductor, in a spherical shape, formed so that a drive axle penetrates through a center portion of the inductor; a plurality of springs inserted into holes defined in the inductor; an armature, in a disk shape, provided to contact the spring; and a friction disk mounted on a side of a motor, where a braking force is generated by operating the friction disk toward the armature.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: DOOSAN CORPORATIONInventor: Jun Il YI
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Publication number: 20200198613Abstract: An assembly may be provided that may include a valve body having a piston within a piston bore in the valve body, the piston bore including a valve chamber section and a brake pipe section such that a pressure differential between the valve chamber section and the brake pipe section moves the piston within the piston bore. The assembly may also include a slide valve seat coupled to the valve body. The slide valve seat may include a brake pipe port, an additional discharge channel pilot valve port, and at least one exhaust port, and a slide valve coupled to the piston and configured to move along the slide valve seat with the piston. The slide valve may be configured to move between at least a piloting position and an exhaust position to vary an exhaust rate of the brake pipe section and an exhaust rate of the valve chamber section during braking.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Jeffrey B. Skweres, Nicholas L. Bressler
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Publication number: 20200198614Abstract: A controller is adapted to output a predetermined input voltage signal across a Wheatstone bridge electrical circuit including a spring as a resistance in one leg of the Wheatstone bridge. The controller receives a response of a measured voltage across the Wheatstone bridge. The controller compares the predetermined input voltage with the measured voltage and determines a status of the spring based on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Joseph M. Macnamara
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Publication number: 20200198615Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for pumping or removing a fluid from a region within or on top of or in contact with a water or liquid body and applications for said systems and methods. Some embodiments may also relate to anti-fouling or reducing fouling structures like docks.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Ethan J. Novek
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Publication number: 20200198616Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle provided, with a step-variable transmission, includes: a feedback control portion; an input torque resetting control portion; a target input torque setting portion operated upon an increase of the accelerator pedal operation amount in the process of the shift-down action in a power-off state of the vehicle, to restrict an amount of increase of the input torque target value with respect to an amount of increase of an operator-required input torque value, so as to keep the target value not larger than an upper limit value until termination of the input torque resetting control; and an actual input torque increasing portion operated upon the increase of the accelerator pedal operation amount prior to initiation of the inertia phase, to implement an input torque increasing control to control the input torque so as to be larger than the target value, prior to the inertia phase initiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aisin AW CO., Ltd.Inventors: Kenta KUMAZAKI, Tooru MATSUBARA, Daisuke SUYAMA, Mitsuru MAEDA, Tomoyasu KIMURA
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Publication number: 20200198617Abstract: One embodiment relates to a hybrid vehicle drive system for a vehicle including a first prime mover, a first prime mover driven transmission, a rechargeable power source, and a PTO. The hybrid vehicle drive system can include a control system for reducing or eliminating regenerative braking during a traction control or anti-lock braking event.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Power Technology Holdings, LLCInventor: Joseph Thomas Dalum
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Publication number: 20200198618Abstract: A powertrain system includes an internal combustion engine, an electric motor, a battery and a control device. The control device is configured to: execute a control input determination processing to solve an optimization problem that minimizes a fuel consumption amount mf during the control time period while taking dynamics of a charging rate SOC as a constraint, and thereby calculate one or more control input values; and execute a system control processing. The control input determination processing includes: a co-state variable determination processing to update a co-state variable p for each time step while using, as an initial value thereof, a final value or an average value thereof during the last control time period; and a control input calculation processing to use the determined co-state variable p and search for and calculate, for each time step, the one or more control input values that minimize an Hamiltonian H.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Hiroi Nagasawa, Yushi Shibaike
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Publication number: 20200198619Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for automated parking of autonomous vehicles are provided herein. An example method includes receiving, by an automated driving system of an autonomous vehicle, a pull over request during a trip to a destination; initiating, by the automated driving system, a pull over sequence, the pull over sequence including determining if the autonomous vehicle is within a pre-determined distance from the destination; stopping the autonomous vehicle when the autonomous vehicle is within the pre-determined distance; and when the autonomous vehicle is not within the pre-determined distance, initiating a parking sequence to park the autonomous vehicle at a nearest available parking location.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Tyler Glenn, Shadi Jammoul, Levasseur Tellis, Gerald H. Engelman
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Publication number: 20200198620Abstract: The present invention makes it possible for an infrastructure facility to temporarily acquire control authority for the likes of moving of an automatic driving vehicle while suppressing security risks, and to realize simple operations when loading or unloading vehicles. This control device is for controlling a vehicle that moves autonomously, and comprises a function for controlling the movement of the vehicle in accordance with instructions from an external system. When the function for controlling the movement of the vehicle in accordance with instructions from the external system is activated, the control device recognizes the validity of the external system by communicating with the external system and the vehicle, recognizes that encrypted communication with the external system has been established, recognizes that the user of the vehicle is permitted by the external system to move the vehicle, and recognizes that the user is an authorized user of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Hiroaki NAKATA
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Publication number: 20200198621Abstract: A method for determining a maximum speed of a vehicle during a parking maneuver, in which at least one surroundings condition is detected with the aid of at least one sensor unit and supplied to a control unit as an input variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Andreas Englert, Lukas Oppolzer, Thomas Brettschneider, Tobias Putzer, Toni Frenzel
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Publication number: 20200198622Abstract: In an onboard processing device, a parking path when a vehicle, which is a target vehicle, enters a parking place and a parking map including the parking place are obtained by an information obtaining unit, a peripheral environment of the vehicle is detected by a periphery detection unit, a vehicle position on the parking map is estimated by a vehicle position estimation unit, and a drive-out path when the vehicle is driven out from the parking place is set based on the estimated vehicle position, the parking path, and the detected peripheral environment by a path setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya TAGAWA, Morihiko SAKANO, Katsumi IWANO
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Publication number: 20200198623Abstract: A method directed to at least partially automated control of a motor vehicle while entering or exiting a parking space, including determining a destination position for the motor vehicle following the automated entering or exiting of a parking space; determining a trajectory the motor vehicle to reach the destination position from a starting position of the motor vehicle; providing data representing ground-level obstacles along the trajectory. If ground-level obstacle is detected along the trajectory, determining at least one longitudinal control parameter of the motor vehicle for driving over the ground-level obstacle. At least partially automated movement of the motor vehicle from the starting position until reaching the destination position long the determined trajectory by the at least one longitudinal control of the motor vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Thorben Günzel
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Publication number: 20200198624Abstract: A vehicle travel assist device includes a control device that controls travel of a vehicle, and a memory device in which travel state information of the vehicle is stored. The control device executes vehicle guidance control that guides the vehicle to a target stop position based on the travel state information. During the vehicle guidance control, the control devices executes driving force increase control that increases a driving force such that a wheel of the vehicle climbs over a difference-in-level. The control device variably sets an increase rate of the driving force in the driving force increase control according to a remaining distance to the target stop position. The increase rate in a case where the remaining distance is a first distance is higher than the increase rate in a case where the remaining distance is a second distance shorter than the first distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kosuke AKATSUKA
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Publication number: 20200198625Abstract: A method for controlling deceleration applicable in one vehicle which is following another includes detecting whether there is a vehicle which is in front and whether the distance between the vehicles is within a predetermined distance range at predetermined time intervals. When determining that such a vehicle is in front, a first communication device on the trailing vehicle communicates with the front vehicle. Data as to the speed of the leading vehicle is acquired through the first communication device. If the front vehicle decelerates according to the acquired speed data, the trailing vehicle is itself controlled to decelerate to avoid any rear-end collision.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: JIA-YONG ZHOU
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Publication number: 20200198626Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a control unit. The control unit detects a target that moves in a direction to approach a vehicle from an image captured from the vehicle. Based on a detection result, the control unit determines whether the vehicle should evacuate in order to let the target pass by. When determining that the vehicle should evacuate, the control unit causes the vehicle to evacuate without waiting for an operation by a driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuro YANAGI, Maki Tamura, Mutsumi Matsuura, Toshihiko Inoue, Naoki Yamamuro, Takashi Hayashi, Takahiro Shiga
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Publication number: 20200198627Abstract: A driving support device executes a limit control to control a vehicle in such a manner that an actual acceleration of when the vehicle is being reversed does not exceed a limit acceleration during a time period from a time point that a start condition becomes satisfied (i.e., at a time point that the driver operates an accelerator erroneously while a shift position is being held at a reverse position) to a time point that an end condition becomes satisfied (i.e., at a time point that the driver ends operating the accelerator). The driving support device sets a state of itself to either one of a prohibiting state in which an execution of the limit control is prohibited or an allowing state in which the execution of the limit control is allowed. The driving support device sets the state of itself to the allowing state when a failure that the driving support device cannot detect/receive a request signal occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takaya YAMASHITA, Yoshikatsu ODA
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Publication number: 20200198628Abstract: A drive assistance system includes a primary target setter to designate an object determined based on a current movement locus of the own vehicle to be a primary target probably interfering with the own vehicle; a prediction locus estimation unit to estimate a prediction locus along which the own vehicle moves when primary avoidance control is executed in the own vehicle to avoid the interference with the primary target; and a secondary target setter to designate another object determined based on the prediction locus as a secondary target probably interfering with the own vehicle. The drive assistance system also includes a drive assistance controller to execute drive assistance control in the own vehicle based on a determination of whether the interference by the secondary target can be avoided by executing a secondary avoidance control in the own vehicle to avoid the interference by the secondary target.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Shogo MATSUNAGA, Takahiro Kuno
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Publication number: 20200198629Abstract: A system(s) and method(s) for enabling safety of a vehicle is disclosed. The method comprises identifying one or more secondary vehicles in the vicinity of a vehicle and transmitting one or more potential safety responses to the one or more secondary vehicles. Further, the method comprises receiving response data from the one or more secondary vehicles based on the one or more potential safety responses, wherein the response data comprises one of an OK response or a NOT OK response corresponding to each of the one or more potential safety responses. Furthermore, the method comprises identifying one or more optimal responses based on filtering of the one or more potential safety responses using the response data and executing the optimal responses if the event occurs, thereby enabling vehicle safety.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Morris Stanley Johnson
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Publication number: 20200198630Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a controller. The controller comprises an input means (22) for receiving a trajectory parameter signal comprising one or more parameters indicative of the trajectory (32, 38) of a vehicle (30). The controller further comprises a processing means arranged to set, in dependence on the one or more parameters, a distance from the trajectory for a boundary of an alert zone (40, 44), where the alert zone boundary is, in use, determinative of the minimum distance from the trajectory (32, 38) below which a detected object will trigger an alert.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Ilias AITIDIS
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Publication number: 20200198631Abstract: A behavior prediction system includes an information obtainer, a probability distribution model generator, a map generator, and a display. The information obtainer obtains information on a traveling direction of a moving object whose behavior is to be predicted. The probability distribution model generator generates a probability distribution model regarding a traveling direction of the moving object based on the information on an obtained traveling direction of the moving object. The map generator uses the probability distribution model to calculate probabilities that the moving object passes through respective areas into which a movable region of the moving object is divided and that generates a probability map in which the probabilities are assigned to the respective areas. The display displays the probability map.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Naoaki ITABASHI, Mitsuru KONO, Satoshi HOSHINO, Takeshi KATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20200198632Abstract: In a drive assistance device, a required space estimation unit estimates a required space which is a space required for a subject vehicle to complete a starting. A required time estimation unit calculates an estimated required time which is an estimate value of a time required to complete the starting at a time of starting the subject vehicle. A collision time estimation unit calculates an estimated collision time which is an estimate value of a time until when an obstacle reaches the required space. A start margin calculation unit calculates a start margin indicating a temporal margin for the subject vehicle to complete the starting until the obstacle reaches the required space based on the estimated required time and the estimated collision time. The notification processing unit notifies a driver of the subject vehicle of the start margin.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masahiro YATA, Takuya TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200198633Abstract: A vehicle control device has a first calculating unit calculating a first arrival time until a vehicle reaches a lane change position where a first lane along which the vehicle is traveling and a second lane merge, or the first lane and the second lane separates, a second calculating unit calculating a second arrival time until another vehicle traveling along the second lane reaches the lane change position, and a speed control unit controlling the speed of the vehicle such that the vehicle enables to make a lane change to the second lane ahead of the other vehicle when the first arrival time is shorter than the second arrival time, and controlling the speed of the vehicle such that the vehicle enables to make a lane change to the second lane behind the other vehicle when the first arrival time is equal to or greater than the second arrival time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Yuuta FUJIMAKI, Takahiro SATOU, Ryouta OKEYA
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Publication number: 20200198634Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes: a setting unit configured to set a distance in a horizontal direction that crosses a traveling direction of a vehicle to a target that may exist in surroundings of the vehicle; a detection unit configured to detect the target existing in the surroundings of the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling; and a control unit configured to execute offset control that moves the vehicle in the horizontal direction, based on comparison between a distance in the horizontal direction to the detected target, and the distance in the horizontal direction set to the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Katsuya YASHIRO
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Publication number: 20200198635Abstract: A braking control method for a braking system of a vehicle is provided according to an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure. The braking control method comprises: obtaining a total braking distance and a first speed of the vehicle; obtaining braking delay information related to the braking system, wherein the braking delay information includes first time information and second time information, the first time information reflects a delay time of a braking signal, and the second time information reflects a preparation time for performing a braking operation according to the braking signal by the braking system; obtaining deceleration information according to the total braking distance, the first speed and the braking delay information; generating the braking signal according to the deceleration information; and performing the braking operation according to the braking signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Liang-Yu Ke, Yu-Min Cheng
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Publication number: 20200198636Abstract: A disclosed vehicle braking system according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure includes a vehicle body having a first wheel and a second wheel, and a braking system having a first brake at the first wheel and a second brake at the second wheel. The braking system is configured to apply a brake torque to each of the first and second wheels. A drivetrain couples the first and second wheels and is configured to transfer torque between the first and second wheels. A controller is configured to detect a failure condition resulting in one of the first and second wheels becoming a non-braked wheel and command the drivetrain to transfer brake torque to the non-braked wheel. A method of braking a vehicle is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Naren Dhansri, Clinton Lee Schumann
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Publication number: 20200198637Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a vehicle state detecting device configured to obtain vehicle state information that includes a steering angle of a front wheel; a pitch moment computation unit configured to compute an applied pitch moment to be applied to a vehicle based on the vehicle state information; a deceleration force computation unit configured to compute an applied deceleration force to be generated in the vehicle based on the applied pitch moment; and a deceleration force distribution unit configured to compute a brake device deceleration force to be generated by a brake device and a power plant deceleration force to be generated by a power plant based on the applied deceleration force and state information of the brake device and the power plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Naoto OKUBO, Shigeru DOI, Mitsuo MURAOKA
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Publication number: 20200198638Abstract: A method for determining an idealized passing maneuver includes receiving first data values that represent a passing maneuver of a first vehicle to pass a second vehicle, requesting and receiving surroundings data values that represent instantaneous and/or future surroundings of the first vehicle and/or of the second vehicle, determining a surroundings model of the first vehicle based on the surroundings data values and on a digital map that represents the instantaneous and/or future surroundings of the first vehicle and/or of the second vehicle, determining an idealized passing maneuver for the first vehicle to carry out the passing maneuver base don the surroundings model, and providing the idealized passing maneuver in the form of second data values for receipt by the first vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Benjamin Voelz, Matthias Maier, Matthias Haug, Michael Gabb, Ruediger-Walter Henn
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Publication number: 20200198639Abstract: A shift range control device switches a shift range by controlling the drive of a motor. An angle calculation unit calculates a motor angle based on a motor rotation angle signal acquired from a motor rotation angle sensor detecting a rotational position of the motor. An acceleration calculation unit calculates a motor acceleration based on the motor angle. A moving average calculation unit calculates an acceleration moving average value as a moving average of at least one of a predetermined electrical angle cycle and a predetermined mechanical angle cycle of the motor acceleration. A drive control unit adopts the acceleration moving average value to control the drive of the motor such that the motor angle becomes a target motor angle value corresponding to a target shift range.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Shigeru KAMIO
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Publication number: 20200198640Abstract: A vehicle environment detection system (40) in an ego vehicle (1), including a sensor arrangement (4) and a main control unit (8) is arranged to detect and track at least one oncoming vehicle (9), and to determine whether the ego vehicle (1) has entered a curve (17). The main control unit (8) is arranged to determine a common curve (12) with a radius (R), along which common curve (12) the ego vehicle (1) is assumed to travel,determine a measured oncome direction (13, 13?) of the oncoming vehicle (9) on the common curve (16), corresponding to an outcome angle (?track), determine a difference angle (?) between the measured oncome direction (13, 13?) and an oncome direction (13) corresponding to if the oncoming vehicle (9) would be moving along the common curve (12), compare the difference angle (?) with a threshold angle (?max), and to determine that the oncoming vehicle (9) is crossing if the difference angle (?) exceeds the threshold angle (?max).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: VEONEER SWEDEN ABInventors: MICHAEL MAAS, ANDREAS SCHMID, CHRISTOPHER UNVERDORBEN
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Publication number: 20200198641Abstract: A method for road surface detection includes receiving ranging data including a plurality of ranging data points, extracting one or more ranging data points lying within a height range from the plurality of ranging data points, dividing the one or more ranging data points into one or more grid cells, setting a first horizontal position of a first cell point of a first grid cell of the one or more grid cells as being centered on the first grid cell, setting a first vertical position of the first cell point, and detecting the road surface based on the first vertical position and first horizontal position of the first cell point.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Charles Morcom, Zichen Li, David Doria
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Publication number: 20200198642Abstract: A method and a device for generating a signal which indicates the imminent formation of slipperiness on a roadway (2) before this arises on the roadway, wherein radiation reflected from the roadway, or from a point adjacent to the roadway, is evaluated, which radiation emanates from at least one reference surface (11) arranged in or on the roadway or the adjacent point, which reference surface is formed by a material different from the roadway covering material. The reference surface is selected from a material on which slipperiness is formed earlier than on the road surface material. The signal (13) is emitted when the evaluation shows that slipperiness has formed on the reference surface (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2017Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Thomas KRIESCHE, Michel DECREVEL
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Publication number: 20200198643Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more vehicles, and a server communicable with the one or more vehicles. The vehicle acquires an image obtained by imaging a road on which a host vehicle is located. The vehicle or the server determines a degree of difficulty in traveling on the road due to snow cover from the image. The server stores the degree of difficulty in traveling for each of one or more roads, and provides information to a client by using the stored degree of difficulty in traveling for each of one or more roads.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
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Publication number: 20200198644Abstract: This technology relates to dynamically detecting, managing and mitigating driver fatigue in autonomous systems. For instance, interactions of a driver in a vehicle may be monitored to determine a distance or time when primary tasks associated with operation of the vehicle or secondary tasks issued by the vehicle computing were last performed. If primary tasks or secondary tasks are not performed within given distance thresholds or time limits, then one or more secondary tasks are initiated by the computing device of the vehicle. In another instance, potential driver fatigue, driver distraction or overreliance on an automated driving system is detected based on gaze direction or pattern of a driver. For example, a detected gaze direction or pattern may be compared to an expected gaze direction or pattern given the surrounding environment in a vicinity of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Keith Hutchings, Julien Mercay, Philip Nemec, Hans-olav CaveLie, Saswat Panigrahi, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Johan Engstrom
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Publication number: 20200198645Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a onboard driver distraction determination system. The determination system includes a onboard sensing and computing system(s), which includes inertial sensor(s), internal sensor(s), and external sensor(s). The onboard system samples data from the sensor(s) during a driving session to determine steering activity metrics and driver behavior. A steering activity metric is a representation of the steering inputs by the driver during the driving session. Driver behavior is a representation of how distracted the driver is during the driving session. By performing the above mentioned steps, the system can provide an analysis of driver distraction and optionally, take control of the vehicle to avoid aberrant behavior.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Erwin R. Boer
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Publication number: 20200198646Abstract: A slip angle estimation device for a vehicle comprises an imaging device for capturing an image of at least one of the front and the rear of the vehicle and a control unit. The imaging device is a CCD camera including a lens and an imaging sensor. The control unit is configured to determine a plurality of tracking points for a plurality of captured objects, determine an optical flow for the plurality of tracking points based on two images captured at predetermined elapsed time intervals, determine a vanishing point based on intersections of the plurality of optical flows, and calculate a slip angle of the, vehicle based on a ratio of a horizontal distance between an image center and the vanishing point to a distance between a lens center of the CCD camera and an imaging sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Sasaki, Hisanori Mitsumoto
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Publication number: 20200198647Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle to vehicle aerodynamics system which communicates information among vehicles to determine aerodynamics of a vehicle and determine changes to the vehicles which may improve aerodynamics of the vehicle and/or overall aerodynamics of a group of vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Scott L. FREDERICK, Scott P. Robison, Paxton S. Williams
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Publication number: 20200198648Abstract: An automated driving control unit sets an automated driving state to a first automated driving state (step S3), in a case that an automated driving instruction unit has instructed the initiation of automated driving in a state in which a destination is set by a destination setting unit, sets the automated driving state to a second automated driving state (step S4), in a case that the automated driving instruction unit has instructed the initiation of automated driving in a state in which the destination is not set by the destination setting unit, and causes the automated driving state to transition from the first automated driving state to the second automated driving state (step S13), in a case that a current travel position lies outside of a travel route during the travel control in the first automated driving state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Atsushi ISHIOKA, Kanta TSUJI, Daiki NISHIDA, Shigehiro HONDA, Takafumi HIROSE
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Publication number: 20200198649Abstract: A driving assistance device executes processing relating to a behavior model of a vehicle. Detected information from the vehicle is input to a detected information inputter. An acquirer derives at least one of a travel difficulty level of a vehicle, a wakefulness level of a driver, and a driving proficiency level of the driver on the basis of the detected information that is input to the detected information inputter. A determiner determines whether or not to execute processing on the basis of at least one information item derived by the acquirer. If the determiner has made a determination to execute the processing, a processor executes the processing relating to the behavior model. It is assumed that the processor does not execute the processing relating to the behavior model if the determiner has made a determination to not execute the processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Koichi EMURA
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Publication number: 20200198650Abstract: A system and method of carrying out a remedial vehicle action in response to determining an error in a monitored vehicle sensor, the method include: determining a vehicle true velocity vector based on measurements from vehicle operations sensors; determining a monitored sensor velocity vector based on measurements from the monitored vehicle sensor; when it is determined that the vehicle true velocity vector is different than the monitored sensor velocity vector, then testing for a first component error, wherein the testing for the first component error includes calculating a first component error value based on a first component measured value and a first component corrected value; and when one or more measured vector components of the monitored sensor velocity vector are determined to be erroneous, then carrying out a remedial vehicle action.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: William B. RIBBENS
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Publication number: 20200198651Abstract: A system and method for detecting behavioral anomalies among a fleet including a plurality of connected vehicles. The method includes generating at least one fleet behavioral profile for the fleet using a first set of data, wherein creating each fleet behavioral profile includes training a machine learning model using at least a portion of the first set of data, wherein the at least a portion of the first set of data relates to communications with and among the plurality of connected vehicles; applying the at least one fleet behavioral profile to detect at least one anomaly in a second set of data for the fleet wherein the second set of data includes data related to communications with and among the plurality of connected vehicles; and performing at least one mitigation action when the at least one anomaly is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Upstream Security, Ltd.Inventors: Yoav LEVY, Yonatan APPEL, Amir VOLFOVICH
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Publication number: 20200198652Abstract: An adaptive warning system and method for adapting an alert to a vehicle operator based on noise in a vehicle interior compartment, includes a loudspeaker, a dashboard display, a noise level sensing device for providing a noise value, and an electronic processor having a memory. The electronic processor is configured to compare the noise value with a first threshold and when the noise value is not greater than the first threshold, provide an audio alert at regular sound level and providing a visual alert on a dashboard display at regular indicia size in a normal alert mode. The electronic processor is also configured to when the noise value is greater than the first threshold, provide the audio alert at an increased sound level and provide the visual alert on the dashboard display having an increased indicia size in a second enhanced alert mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Anup S. Deshpande
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Publication number: 20200198653Abstract: The invention obtains a processing unit and a processing method capable of improving a rider's safety. The invention also obtains an inter-vehicular distance warning system that includes the processing unit. The invention further obtains a motorcycle that includes the inter-vehicular distance warning system. A processing unit (20) includes: an acquisition section (21) that acquires environment information corresponding to output of an environment detector (11); a determination section (22) that determines sufficiency or insufficiency of an inter-vehicular distance on the basis of the environment information; and a control section (23) that makes a warning device (30) output a warning in the case where the determination section (22) determines that the inter-vehicular distance is insufficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Lars Pfau
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Publication number: 20200198654Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle operating system, wherein a navigation system provides map information, and a monitoring system monitors driver assistance information, which are displayed on a display device, wherein the navigation system, the monitoring system, the display device, and an operating device are coupled to a control device for data transfer, to display the map information and/or driver assistance information on the display, wherein an operating action is carried out by the operating device in order to change a display scale and/or a display angle in relation to a road surface between a first perspective and a second perspective, wherein the display scale and/or angle are adjusted continuously and/or discretely in at least two steps located within the two perspectives on a virtual visualization path, and wherein the first perspective is substantially perpendicular to the road surface and the second perspective is substantially parallel to the road surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Lutz ECKSTEIN, Jan BAVENDIEK, Jaqueline WEBER
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Publication number: 20200198655Abstract: A driving assist device includes a control unit configured to acquire event position information that is position information about a vehicle when it is detected that a driver of the vehicle is in a looking aside state in the vehicle, as an event, and configured to present attention information calling for attention, to a driver who is driving toward a position indicated by the event position information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuro Yanagi, Maki Tamura, Mutsumi Matsuura, Toshihiko Inoue, Naoki Yamamuro, Takashi Hayashi, Takahiro Shiga
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Publication number: 20200198656Abstract: An information device is provided for informing a driver about a driving state of a motor vehicle drivable in an automated manner, the information device including a first control device for controlling automated driving of the motor vehicle and a second control device for controlling the automated driving of the motor vehicle, a first human-machine interface unit for communicating a driving state of the automated driving of the motor vehicle to the driver and a second human-machine interface unit for communicating the driving state of the automated driving of the motor vehicle to the driver, the first control device being designed for transmitting the driving state of the automated driving to the first human-machine interface unit and the second control device being designed for transmitting the driving state of the automated driving to the second human-machine interface unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Achim Henkel, Andreas Hoertling, Guido Funcke, Hartmut Loos, Werner Poechmueller
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Publication number: 20200198657Abstract: A method for controlling an automated or autonomous locomotive device, including automatically ascertaining a deviation from a predefined trajectory, the deviation requiring a return of the locomotive device to the predefined trajectory; automatically calculating a jerk as an input variable, as a function of the deviation from the predefined trajectory; automatically calculating an unconstrained correcting variable for the return to the predefined trajectory, as a function of a weighted sum that includes a weighted summand of the input variable and a weighted summand of the state for the return path; automatically calculating a constrained correcting variable regarding the jerk; the unconstrained correcting variable being manipulated via a cascade that includes multiple stages having one saturation function per stage; integrating the constrained correcting variable, to obtain a constrained return trajectory to the predefined trajectory; automatically steering the locomotive device to the predefined trajectoryType: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Maximilian Manderla, Philip Holzwarth, Roktim Bruder, Steffen Joos, Thomas Specker, Stefan Grodde
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Publication number: 20200198658Abstract: A vehicle includes: a traveling driving system configured to execute traveling of an own vehicle; a non-traveling-application providing unit configured to provide a passenger with an application other than the traveling of the own vehicle; and a control unit. The control unit includes: inquiry means for inquiring a usage application of the own vehicle to the passenger when it is detected that the passenger gets into the own vehicle, the usage application including a traveling application and the application other than traveling of the own vehicle; non-traveling-application providing unit activating means for activating the non-traveling-application providing unit in a case where the application other than traveling is selected in response to the inquiry by the inquiry means; and traveling driving system activating means for activating the traveling driving system in a case where the traveling application is selected in response to the inquiry by the inquiry means.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2017Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Mico Latta Inc.Inventors: Masahiro SUZUKI, Mayumi SUZUKI, Yoichiro SAKO
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Publication number: 20200198659Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a road gradient acquisition unit configured to acquire a road gradient of a road on which a vehicle is currently traveling; a travel section determination unit configured to determine a forward travel section that is a travel section having a different road gradient from a current travel section in which the vehicle is currently traveling and that is ahead in a travel direction of the vehicle; and a horsepower limitation unit configured to limit an output horsepower of an engine based on a travel resistance of the vehicle, in which the horsepower limitation unit is configured to release the output horsepower limitation of the engine in a case where the travel resistance in the forward travel section is greater than the travel resistance of the vehicle in the current travel section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Tatsuya OOSHIMA, Junpei MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20200198660Abstract: A road vehicle including a transmitter of a real image of an exterior environment of the road vehicle, and a driving assistant including an assistance display, a driving automaton, and a mask able to evolve between a masking configuration and a non-masking configuration, the driving assistant toggling between a manual mode and an automatic mode of the driving automaton and being configured to implement a phase of reengagement of the manual mode, including a first time period, throughout all of which the mask is maintained in the masking configuration, the assistance display broadcasting a symbolic representation of the exterior environment, and a second time period throughout all of which the mask is maintained in the non-masking configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Thierry Bellet
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Publication number: 20200198661Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a suspension device of a monorail crane and a monorail crane. The suspension device the suspension device comprises a suspension box and at least one set of suspension wheels; the suspension box is provided with a receiving groove for receiving at least one set of the suspension wheels; the receiving groove is provided with a first suspension wheel and a second suspension wheel; a first gap is formed the first suspension wheel and the second suspension wheel; the monorail comprises at least a first track on which the first suspension wheel is placed and a second track on which the second suspension wheel is placed; a spacer is provided between the first track and the second track; the first gap can accommodate at least the spacer; the suspension devices each further comprises a braking mechanism fixed to the suspension box.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Ziming KOU, Junxia LI, Peng ZHANG, Haiqing WANG, Pengfei YIN, Qian WANG