Patents Issued in July 14, 2020
  • Patent number: 10710522
    Abstract: A diagnostic method performed by a gateway in a vehicle network, wherein the gateway comprises a controller and a physical (PHY) layer which manages ports and is connected to the controller, may comprise receiving, by the controller, a diagnostic request message from an external diagnostic apparatus connected to a first port; receiving, by the controller, a security authentication request message from the external diagnostic apparatus when a security authentication is required for the diagnostic request message; verifying, by the controller, the security authentication request message; and activating, by the PHY layer, a port of the PHY layer connected to a target communication node to be diagnosed among the ports, under control of the controller, when verification of the security authentication request message is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Ok Kim, Kang Woon Seo, Jin Hwa Yun
  • Patent number: 10710523
    Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a seat, and a back panel with at least a part of the back panel located behind the seat. The back panel has a box portion that has an opening facing a cabin, and a lid covers the opening. An electrical component is housed in the box portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Ishibashi, Itsuo Takegami, Kazumasa Hisada
  • Patent number: 10710524
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for performing failure diagnoses more frequently even in a case where the failure diagnoses are performed while a relay is cut off. An in-vehicle control device according to the present invention cuts off a relay during the period in which an electromagnetic load is energized, and diagnoses the failure of the relay based on the voltage of a portion connected in series with the relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kentarou Jyumonji
  • Patent number: 10710525
    Abstract: A charge controller for a vehicle passive energy system employs an interface to a plurality of charge sources including intermittent sources, such as vehicle mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and the vehicle engine and alternator, and an interface to a plurality of charge loads, such as a comfort heating ventilation, refrigeration and air conditioning (HVAC) system and auxiliary vehicle loads. Charge logic computes which of the plurality of sources will supply the charge current and which of the plurality of loads will receive the charge current, and a switch responsive to the charge logic will direct the charge current from at least one of the plurality of sources to at least one of the loads, the plurality of charge sources mutually exclusive from simultaneously powering a common load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: eNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip R. Pierce, Robert Doane, Jeffrey C. Flath, Stephen Lasher
  • Patent number: 10710526
    Abstract: The present invention reduces the effort involved in an operation for cancelling a current cutoff device while inhibiting a capacity decline during parking. Provided is a battery device 20 that is to be mounted on a vehicle, and that is provided with: an assembled battery 30 that supplies electric power to loads 10 including an engine starting device 10A; a current cutoff device 45 that cuts off an electric current to the loads 10 from the assembled battery 30; and a control unit 70, wherein upon detecting a parked state of the vehicle, the control unit 70 operates the current breaker device 45 so as to execute a current cutoff process for cutting off the current flowing from the assembled battery 30 to the loads 10, and following the execution of the current cutoff process, if a prior action to be performed on the vehicle by a user before starting driving is detected, the control unit 70 cancels the cutoff of current by cancelling the operation of the current breaker device 45.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Kawauchi
  • Patent number: 10710527
    Abstract: A utility vehicle includes: a seat; a back panel having at least a part disposed behind the seat; and a battery disposed behind the back panel. The battery is disposed above a seating surface of the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Ishibashi, Itsuo Takegami, Kazumasa Hisada
  • Patent number: 10710528
    Abstract: A bracket intended to be fastened to a support, such as a chassis or an engine of a vehicle, preferably a motor vehicle, the bracket having at least a body including: a first end configured to be fastened to a support, a second end opposite to the first end, an intermediate portion arranged between the first end and the second end, the second end being bent so as to form a recess oriented toward the first end and facing the intermediate portion, wherein the bracket further includes an elastic insert arranged in the recess of the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: AKWEL SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Malin Pahisson, Jan Olofsson, Viktor Rosen
  • Patent number: 10710529
    Abstract: A pedestrian protection device for a motor vehicle, in particular for a front part of the motor vehicle, includes a bumper crossbeam and a deformation element arranged in front of the bumper crossbeam. The deformation element has a bending section, the end of which is in contact with a surface or which comes into contact with the surface in the event of a collision, in particular a front collision of the motor vehicle. The end of the bending section is designed such that it can move along the surface as a result of the collision, wherein the surface has an engaging device with which the end of the bending section can be, in particular, engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Oeztzan Akif, Gerhard Fichtinger, Wilhelm Riedl
  • Patent number: 10710530
    Abstract: An adjustable bracket for installation of a vehicle bumper on a body of a vehicle is provided. The bracket is configured to be connected to the body to support the bumper, characterized in that the bracket includes a fixed bracket and an adjusting bracket, wherein the bracket has a movable connection between the fixed bracket and the adjusting bracket, which allows the adjusting bracket to have a translational movement in the vertical direction of the vehicle with respect to the fixed bracket, and wherein the adjusting bracket is provided at its top with position-limiting means which can abut against a light of the vehicle, and wherein the fixed bracket and the adjusting bracket are both provided with a mounting structure fastened to the same body. The adjustable bracket enables the bumper to be vertically positioned by the adjusting bracket, which controls the matching clearance between the bumper and the light, thereby effectively reducing the risks of uneven match between the light and the bumper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: Compagnie Plastic Omnium, Yanfeng Plastic Omnium Automotive Exterior Systems
    Inventors: Hailong Du, Guojun Huang, Gonglang Hu
  • Patent number: 10710531
    Abstract: A shock absorber system includes a body, a component, and at least one primary attachment that secures the component on the body. A secondary attachment is configured to secure the component to the body upon breakage of the primary attachment. The secondary attachment includes a single-use shock absorber and a cable that is attached to the body and secured through the single-use shock absorber to the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yalla Abushawashi, Marwan Elbkaily, Tushar Kamble, Abdelrahim Khal
  • Patent number: 10710532
    Abstract: An energy absorption structure has a frame member of a vehicle body framework, an energy absorption member formed from fiber-reinforced resin and a load-receiving member. The energy absorption member is provided at an end of the frame member in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body. The load-receiving member is provided on the energy-absorbing member on a side opposite to the frame member. A tearing element is provided adjacent an end portion of the energy-absorbing member corresponding to at least one of the load-receiving member and the frame member. The tearing element tears the energy-absorbing member due to an impact load that is inputted from the load-receiving member toward the energy-absorbing member, thereby severing the reinforcing fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shohei Kurai, Yukihiro Hamada
  • Patent number: 10710533
    Abstract: A drawer assembly is provided for mounting beneath the bed of a truck and between the truck frame rails. The assembly includes a housing with an extendable and retractable drawer. The drawer is mounted to the rear bumper of the truck. The drawer can be opened manually, or alternatively, by remote control. The drawer assembly is hidden from view when closed and provides easy access for small objects when opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Inventors: Doug DeBerti, Brad DeBerti
  • Patent number: 10710534
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radar bracket mechanism arranged to accommodate a radar device behind a bumper skin of a vehicle. The radar bracket mechanism comprises a bracket arranged to accommodate the radar device, which bracket is flexibly mounted behind the bumper skin to allow the bumper skin to flex from a first position to a second position towards a body of the vehicle upon the bumper skin being subjected to a force exerting on an exterior of the bumper skin, and to allow the bumper skin to flex back to the first position when the exterior of the bumper skin no longer is being subjected to said force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Kristoffer Lund, Jan Johansson, Fredrik Roxvall
  • Patent number: 10710535
    Abstract: According to some aspects of the invention, a rear impact guard is configured to be coupled to a rear end of a vehicle. The rear impact guard includes first and second bumper support members configured to be coupled to first and second base rails of the vehicle. The first and second bumper support members are spaced from one another along a width of the vehicle. A horizontal bumper is mounted to lower ends of the first and second bumper support members. First and second angled support members are coupled at first ends to the first and second bumper support members, and coupled at second ends to the first and second base rails forwardly of the first and second bumper support members and forming a substantially hollow triangular member. First and second braces are positioned within the first and second base rails and coupled thereto. At least a portion of each of the first and second braces is located above the second ends of the first and second angled supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Wabash National, L.P.
    Inventor: Thomas J. Hitchcock
  • Patent number: 10710536
    Abstract: The present invention provides a function safety system for a vehicle malfunction display is disclosed. The function safety system comprises: an automotive system, a sensor, a display system, a control unit, and a graphics processing unit (GPU). The sensor is coupled to the automotive system, and utilized for detecting whether the automotive system has at least a malfunction. The control unit is coupled to the sensor and directly connected to the display system, and utilized for indicating the display system when the sensor detecting the automotive system has the at least a malfunction. The GPU is coupled to the display system, and utilized for performing information transmission for the display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Cheng-Chih Hsu
  • Patent number: 10710537
    Abstract: A method for collecting and storing vehicle sensor data of at least one sensing system of a vehicle in order to detect an incident, accident and/or scam, said method comprising the steps of: (1) continuously collecting and storing a first set of vehicle sensor data for a preceding first pre-definable time period at least when the vehicle is in motion and/or when a door or trunk of the vehicle is open, (2) collecting and storing a second set of vehicle sensor data for a coming second pre-definable time period when at least one of the following occurs: the vehicle is brought to standstill, the door or trunk of the vehicle is being closed, or the vehicle drives away from standstill after being parked. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a corresponding system, computer product and a computer-readable storage medium storing a program which causes a computer to execute the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Aloka Muddukrishna, Jesper Nolhage, Julia Nilsson, Magnus Wennberg, Mattias Brännström, Per Landfors, Thomas Lindgren
  • Patent number: 10710538
    Abstract: A seatbelt airbag for a vehicle is provided. The airbag is inflated in a seatbelt to restrain an occupant to reduce an injury to the occupant caused by the seatbelt. Particularly, since the airbag is locally inflated at occupant's shoulder and hip which are susceptible to injury by the seatbelt, an inflation speed is controlled, an impact is minimized, and the occupant may be restrained in the seat more rapidly and stably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Young Hwan Kim, Choong Sik Shin, Soo Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 10710539
    Abstract: A restraint system includes a seatback and an airbag. The airbag includes two lateral portions and a central chamber connecting the lateral portions. When the airbag is inflated, each lateral portion includes a plurality of lateral chambers arranged consecutively from the seatback to the central chamber, and the lateral portions and central chamber define a gap positioned directly above and directly in front of space for a head of a 50th-percentile dummy sitting against the seatback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jaeho Cho, Robert William McCoy, Srinivasan Sundararajan, James Chih Cheng
  • Patent number: 10710540
    Abstract: A vehicle seat that includes: an inflator that is disposed at a seat front end portion, inside a seat portion of a seat cushion, and that generates gas by operating; a first bag portion that is disposed inside the seat portion, that internally houses the inflator, and that, by being supplied with gas from the inflator, is inflated in a longitudinal direction, which is a seat front-rear direction; and a second bag portion that is disposed inside the seat portion on a seat rear side of the first bag portion and communicates with the first bag portion, that has a longitudinal direction extending in a seat width direction, and that has a length in the seat width direction which is longer than that of the first bag portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Shun Ito
  • Patent number: 10710541
    Abstract: An airbag includes a body, an insert opening and a flap member which covers the insert opening from inside of the airbag. A retainer is inside the airbag, and an inflator is inserted into a holding section of the retainer via the insert opening such that the root end protrudes from the insert opening. The flap member entirely covers the insert opening of the airbag body as unfolded and is joined to the airbag body, with a continuous seam, by the circumferential edge except the leading edge disposed towards the leading end of the inflator. The flap member thus covers the holding section. The retainer includes an open region which exposes an outer periphery of the inflator towards the flap member, and the leading edge of the flap member is positioned to be pressed against the outer periphery of the inflator via the open region at airbag deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Shigemura
  • Patent number: 10710542
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inflatable airbag (1) for protecting a person (5), comprising a flexible cover (10) which includes at least two finger-type extensions (11), wherein the flexible cover (10) delimits a closed gas expansion compartment (12) by the finger-type extensions (11). The invention excels by the fact that the finger-type extensions (11) are arranged relative to each other such that in an inflated state the airbag (1) takes a three-dimensional shape and in the inflated state the finger-type extensions (11) at least in portions delimit a clearance (13), wherein the cover (10) is deferrable for absorbing impact energy while deforming, especially reducing, the clearance (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TRW AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Daniele Aranzulla, Martin Burkhardtsmaier, Achim Hofmann
  • Patent number: 10710543
    Abstract: A vehicle occupant safety system helps protect front seat occupants of a vehicle in the event of a collision that results in oblique forward occupant movement. The safety system includes a frontal air bag inflatable between on instrument panel end the front seat vehicle occupant, and a central air bag inflatable adjacent and inboard of the frontal air bag. The frontal air bag can be configured and positioned to receive and cushion the vehicle occupant moving in an oblique direction in the vehicle as the result of a vehicle collision. The central air bag can be configured and positioned to support an inboard portion of the frontal airbag against flattening out in response to receiving the obliquely moving occupant, and to engage the obliquely moving occupant's head and resist rotation of the vehicle occupant's head resulting from moving obliquely into engagement with the frontal air bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TRW VEHICLE SAFETY SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Kurt F. Fischer, Douglas M. Gould, Alexandra E. Schroeder
  • Patent number: 10710544
    Abstract: An external airbag includes: a lower edge bag that is deployed to extend along a lower edge of a windshield of an automobile, on a front side of the windshield; lateral edge bags in a pair that are deployed to extend along both lateral edges of the windshield, on the front side of the windshield; and an upper edge bag that is deployed to extend along an upper edge of the windshield, on the front side of the windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suemune, Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Akihiro Onodera, Hiroshi Yoneyama, Daisuke Ototsuji, Isamu Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 10710545
    Abstract: A retainer apparatus including a first retainer portion, a second retainer portion, and a sensor comprising a motion detector and an alarm. The retainer apparatus includes the first retainer portion configured to be slidably attached to a first harness strap and a second retainer portion configured to be slidably attached to a second harness strap. The first retainer portion is removably attached to the second retainer portion. The motion detector is configured to detect movement of the retainer apparatus and activate the alarm to alert a user in a vehicle if movement of the retainer apparatus is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Friedman IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Mark J. Friedman
  • Patent number: 10710546
    Abstract: A seatbelt of a work vehicle includes: a first stay provided in correspondence with a first fixing portion of a vehicle body on either one of right/left sides of a seat; a belt reeling portion that reels and stores a belt main body and is attached to the first fixing portion via the first stay; a second stay provided in correspondence with a second fixing portion on the other one of the right/left sides of the seat; and a buckle portion that fixes an insertion fixture extending from the belt reeling portion and is attached to the second fixing portion via the second stay. A first cover member is mounted to the first stay and covers an outward exposed portion of the first stay. A second cover member is mounted to the second stay and covers an outward exposed portion of the second stay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Nakaji, Hiromi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10710547
    Abstract: A seat belt adjustment release mechanism includes a carrier and a guide piece that is vertically slidable on the carrier. The guide piece includes an aperture configured to receive a seat belt there through and a spring-loaded button anchored on a pivot. The spring-loaded button, when pressed, is rotatable about the pivot between a home position and a depressed position for actuating a seat belt guide release lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NYX, INC.
    Inventor: Yuriy Tsalenko
  • Patent number: 10710548
    Abstract: An assembly includes a seatbelt guide. The seatbelt guide includes a slot. A webbing extends through the slot. A releasable post is supported by the seatbelt guide and extends across the slot. The releasable post releases during a vehicle impact to allow the webbing to move along the slot to reduce chest deflection of an occupant during the vehicle impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S. M. Iskander Farooq
  • Patent number: 10710549
    Abstract: A seat belt pull through device for a car seat used in a vehicle. It allows an occupant, a child, to remain comfortably in a semi-erect or upright position while placed in a toddler or infant car safety seat. The device facilitates fast and easy installation of the car seat and connection of the car seat to the existing seat and shoulder belts already with the vehicle. It greatly simplifies the insertion of the vehicle belts through the car seat and removes the cumbersome and tiresome fishing of a limp belt through the tight, small openings in the car seat structure. The device includes an extended sheath with a hook and protector flaps to enable the vehicle belt to be inserted into a seat belt slot of the car seat, pushed through and removably connected to the seat belt system of the entire vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Inventor: Angela Finney
  • Patent number: 10710550
    Abstract: A vehicle alarm system includes motion sensors to detect motion outside the vehicle, cameras disposed on an interior of the vehicle capable of recording activity on an exterior perimeter of the vehicle, redundant control panels that control settings related to the vehicle alarm system and are distributed in and outside the vehicle, an alarm triggered by one of the redundant control panels in response to the motion sensors to provide a visual and an audible warning in a vicinity of the vehicle, an independent battery configured to power only the vehicle alarm system independent of an electrical power delivery of the vehicle, and a security box to record all vehicle alarm system activities, an access to the security box based on an access code matched to a registration of the vehicle. Wolf pack security for multiple vehicles, imprinting alpha and beta masters and voice recognition ‘call’ features are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Inventor: Mamadou Ouattara Siaka
  • Patent number: 10710551
    Abstract: An ignition device for a motor of an automotive vehicle is provided that the device includes a rotor configured to receive a key and mounted in rotation on a bracket, the rotor including a retainer configured to retain the rotor in translation relative to the bracket, and a first push back device configured to apply a linear force between the bracket and the rotor along an axis parallel to the axis of the rotation of the rotor. The bracket and the retainer are configured to cooperate so as to inhibit the rotation of the rotor in a predetermined direction from a predetermined angular position and to allow the rotation of the rotor beyond the predetermined angular position in the predetermined direction upon preliminarily applying a force on the rotor in an opposite direction to the direction of the linear force applied by the first push back device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: U-SHIN FRANCE
    Inventors: Philippe Demptos, Christophe Perrin
  • Patent number: 10710552
    Abstract: A smart keyless entry system having an on-vehicle apparatus installed in a vehicle and a portable device configured to communicate with the on-vehicle apparatus includes a location calculating unit configured to calculate a location of the portable device through communication between the on-vehicle apparatus and the portable device, and a vertical-position calculating unit configured to calculate a vertical position of the portable device, wherein the on-vehicle apparatus and the portable device communicate with each other under conditions adjusted in response to the calculated vertical position of the portable device, and wherein control is performed based on the calculated location of the portable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukimitsu Yamada, Daisuke Takai
  • Patent number: 10710553
    Abstract: In a vehicle control device, an authentication success information storage unit stores, when authentication of a user by a user authentication unit is successful, authentication success information in a memory. A vehicle use permission unit permits, in a situation, the use of a vehicle by the user on condition that the authentication success information is stored in the memory; the situation is such that after authentication of the user by the user authentication unit is successful, authentication of the user by the user authentication unit is impossible when second authentication information is obtained by a second authentication information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Mori, Atsuyuki Suzuki, Hiroyuki Adachi, Takahiro Komabayashi
  • Patent number: 10710554
    Abstract: A method operating a telematics device of a vehicle can include: requesting identity (ID) information of a driver from a driver terminal when the driver enters the vehicle; performing an authentication process using the ID information; preventing start-up of an engine of the vehicle when the driver is identified as a temporary user according to the authentication process; receiving navigation data including information relating to a destination from the driver terminal; acquiring information indicating an estimated insurance fee corresponding to each of one or more paths for navigating to the destination; transmitting the information indicating the estimated insurance fee to the driver terminal; and starting the engine when one of the one or more paths for navigating to the destination is selected by the driver terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Yarygina Anastasia, Jimin Han, Jung Mi Park, Jia Lee
  • Patent number: 10710555
    Abstract: A wiper blade extends in the longitudinal direction and includes blade rubber, a plate spring-like backing, and a rubber holder. The blade rubber wipes a surface to be wiped. The backing imparts rigidity and elasticity to the blade rubber. The rubber holder holds both the longitudinally intermediate section of the blade rubber and the longitudinally intermediate section of the backing. The rubber holder has a backing housing hole for housing and retaining the backing. The backing housing hole longitudinally extends through the rubber holder. A parting line is set at the longitudinal center of the backing housing hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Yoshimoto, Masahiro Oota
  • Patent number: 10710556
    Abstract: A wiper blade (10; 10a to 10c) with, attached to a wiper arm (1), a wiper arm side adapter (11) to which the wiper blade (10; 10a to 10c) can be interchangeably attached, with, arranged on a wiper blade (10; 10a to 10c), a wiper blade side adapter (12) which interacts with the wiper arm side adapter (11), whereby the wiper blade side adapter (12) comprises a wiper blade side adapter section (24) and, swivel -mounted on a wiper blade side adapter section (24), a wiper arm side adapter section (23; 23c) which interacts with the wiper arm side section (11), with nozzle openings arranged on the wiper blade (10; 10a to 10c) and with, arranged on the wiper arm side adapter section (23; 23c), a hydraulic plug-type connection (20; 60; 70).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Valeo Wischersysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schaeuble, Bruno Egner-Walter
  • Patent number: 10710557
    Abstract: A dryer assembly for a vehicle wash system includes a plastic translucent housing having an exterior surface and a generally hollow interior. The housing includes an inlet opening with a motor unit in communication with the inlet opening for drawing air through the inlet opening into the hollow interior. The housing includes a plurality of nozzle portions in communication with the inlet opening and configured to emit high velocity air therefrom to remove water from an exterior surface of a vehicle while disposed in a vehicle treatment area. The housing includes a light source associated therewith for emitting light through the housing for viewing by the vehicle disposed in the vehicle treatment area. The housing includes lettering formed on the exterior surface of the housing with the lettering configured such that light emitted from the light source will not pass therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Belanger, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Belanger, Jerry A. Kotrych, David L. Tognetti
  • Patent number: 10710558
    Abstract: A cleaning device for cleaning and/or polishing a surface having an aperture, such as a wheel rim contact surface of a motor vehicle or the like, comprises a housing, which has a rear rotary portion for rotating the housing about a rotational axis and a front fastening portion for releasably fastening a cleaning body; the cleaning body comprising a stabilising plate which faces the housing and has a centring pin that faces away from the housing and projects centrically towards the outside, and a cleaning means that covers the surface of the stabilising plate that faces away from the housing; and the fastening portion and the stabilising plate each having a corresponding connecting means for rotationally stable connection to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Mueller
  • Patent number: 10710559
    Abstract: A vehicle wash system includes a vehicle treatment area and an overhead frame portion supporting a pair of side brushes. The side brushes are configured to treat the lateral sides of the vehicle and may also treat the front and back of the vehicle. The side brushes are configured to pivot between a vertical position and an outwardly angled position, in which the side brushes are generally aligned with the side glass of the vehicle windows. The side brushes may travel along the side of the vehicle in both the vertical and pivoted orientations. The side brushes may make multiple passes along the side of the vehicle, and the side brushes may change orientation during or between passes to treat different segments of the vehicle. The side brushes may be pivoted at a side mirror location of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: WASHME PROPERTIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Belanger, Barry S. Turner, Michael S. Sayyae, Curtis S. Prater
  • Patent number: 10710560
    Abstract: Systems and methods enable a failsafe for a trailer brake controller (TBC), by using a camera to detect braking of the towing vehicle. The methods can include using a vehicle-facing camera mounted to a trailer to detecting light emitted from rear brake lights at the towing vehicle. Then, the methods can determine whether the brakes of the towing vehicle are being engaged, based on the light detected by the vehicle-facing camera. Also, a TBC failure can be determined, and as a result, a trailer brake activation signal can be communicated at the trailer side, as a failsafe to activate the brakes of the trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Varun J. Prabhakar
  • Patent number: 10710561
    Abstract: Systems and methods for aircraft braking are disclosed. The systems and methods may comprise a control mode executive configured to receive a pedal input and calculate a gear deceleration command comprising a desired deceleration rate based on the pedal input; a pedal deceleration controller in electronic communication with the control mode executive configured to receive the gear deceleration command from the control mode executive and calculate a gear pedal command based on at least one of the gear deceleration command and a deceleration feedback; and a pedal executive in electronic communication with the pedal deceleration controller configured to receive the gear pedal command, and generate a pedal braking command based on the gear pedal command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Marc Georgin
  • Patent number: 10710562
    Abstract: A brake integrated control section generates, as target values, a target braking force and a target wheel speed equivalent value of each electric brake device, and transmits the target braking force and the target wheel speed equivalent value to a target value transmitter. An electric brake control device of each electric brake device includes a braking force controller that controls an electric motor in accordance with the target braking force, a wheel speed controller that controls the electric motor in accordance with the target wheel speed equivalent value, and a control switcher. The control switcher switches between use of the braking force controller and use of the wheel speed controller in accordance with a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yui Masuda
  • Patent number: 10710563
    Abstract: A pump attenuator bypass valve (40/100/200) is located at an outlet of a pump (30) in a vehicle braking system (10) between the pump (30) and an attenuator (34). The attenuator bypass valve (40/100/200) includes a bypass valve housing (41), a first fluid flow path (74, 57/179/220, 208), and a second fluid flow path (80/183). The first fluid flow path (74, 57/179/220, 208) is defined in the housing (41) and is configured to allow continuous flow of fluid when the pump (30) operates at a first pump flow rate. The second fluid flow path (80/183) is defined in the housing (41) and is configured to bypass the first fluid flow path (74, 57/179/220, 208) and to allow continuous flow of fluid when the pump (30) operates at a second pump flow rate higher than the first pump flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: ZF Active Safety US Inc.
    Inventors: Blaise J. Ganzel, William P. Caldwell, Joseph F. Zeoli
  • Patent number: 10710564
    Abstract: A method for adjusting the brake pedal counter force in a vehicle with a hydraulic vehicle brake and an electromechanical brake device includes modulating the brake pressure during the simultaneous operation of the hydraulic vehicle brake and the electromechanical brake device such that the brake pedal counter force follows a predetermined target profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Blattert, Helmut Wolff
  • Patent number: 10710565
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to controlling braking behaviors a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode in the event of a hydraulic system failure. For instance, the vehicle may be controlled in the autonomous driving mode according to a first braking control behavior based on a first relationship between position of a brake pedal of the vehicle and amount of deceleration for the vehicle. While controlling the vehicle, a failure of a hydraulic system may be determined. Based on the determination, the vehicle may be controlled in the autonomous driving mode according to a second braking control behavior by moving the brake pedal until the vehicle reaches a deceleration target defined by the second braking control behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Trawick Egnor, Nolan McPeek-Bechtold, James Harris, Andrew Barton-Sweeney, Ruslan Kurdyumov, Spencer Alexander
  • Patent number: 10710566
    Abstract: A powered vehicle includes a spring-applied hydraulic release (SAHR) vehicle brake comprising first and second mutually engageable brake elements. The first brake element is secured to or forms part of a rotatable element of the drive train of the vehicle and the second is non-rotatably moveably mounted on the vehicle such that the first and second elements are mutually engageable with and separable from one another. Mutual engagement of the brake elements causes braking of rotation of the rotatable element. The SAHR vehicle brake includes (i) a resiliently deformable member acting on the second brake element so as to urge the first and second brake elements into mutual engagement and (ii) a hydraulic control circuit for applying hydraulic pressure to the second brake element so as to oppose the action of the resiliently deformable member and thereby normally maintain the first and second brake elements separated from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Greco Lucchino, Gianni Passalacqua, Pier Paolo Prandini
  • Patent number: 10710567
    Abstract: A cable-pulling actuation system for a parking brake having a body that houses a motor, a tie rod, suitable to actuate along an actuation direction, in correspondence of a first end, an actuating member of a drum brake, and a transmission that operatively connects the motor to a second end of the tie rod. The second end of the tie rod is integral in translation with a first screw, having a first thread with a first pitch. The first screw is engaged, through the first thread, in a second screw. The second screw comprises a second thread with a second pitch, through which is in turn engaged in a nut screw integral with the body, the second thread being opposite to the first thread. The second screw being actuated in rotation by the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Freni Brembo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Nicolo Mazzarini, Simone Berra, Italo Pirovano, Tomasz Woloszyn
  • Patent number: 10710568
    Abstract: An apparatus is described that receives a brake control signal from the brake controller of a tow vehicle, and displays characteristics of that brake control signal including commanded brake force. The apparatus includes a data processor, brake simulation circuitry, brake integration circuitry, and display circuitry. The brake simulation circuitry sequentially applies several parallel resistors to the brake control signal in response to commands received from the data processor. These parallel resistors cause the load current on the brake controller to ramp up, mimicking the electrical signature of electric trailer brakes. At the same time, the brake integration circuitry integrates the brake control signal. Lastly, the display circuitry displays an indication of a value of the integrated brake control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Inventors: Ian R. Vinci, Peter Vinci
  • Patent number: 10710569
    Abstract: A method for bleeding at least one part of a hydraulic brake system of a vehicle, wherein the brake system includes a brake circuit whose pressure can be selectively increased by a pump. The increased pressure is applied by the pump to the part of the brake system to be bled for a specified period of time without opening bleed valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kim Stephen Jones, Clive John Barton, Ludwig Fein
  • Patent number: 10710570
    Abstract: There is a control system for a hybrid vehicle including an internal combustion engine including a throttle valve on an intake air passage, and a generator coupled to an output shaft of the engine. The control system includes a controller. The controller is configured to detect shaft torque of the output shaft of the engine by the generator, calculate an actual value of a throttle flow rate based on the shaft torque, the flow rate being an amount of air that flows through the throttle valve, and learn flow rate characteristics indicating a relationship between a throttle opening being a degree of opening of the throttle valve and the throttle flow rate, based on an actual value of the throttle opening and the actual value of the throttle flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto Kato, Tomoya Ota, Keisuke Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10710571
    Abstract: A method for controlling a response to driving load of a hybrid vehicle includes: estimating an optimum speed for a current driving situation, estimating a target driving load based on the optimum speed, determining an eco-level corresponding to the target driving load from among a plurality of eco-levels, and changing at least some of an eco-gauge according to the determined eco-level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Joon Kim, Young Chul Kim, Lee Hyoung Cho, Dong Ho Yang