Patents Issued in September 1, 2020
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Patent number: 10759270Abstract: A construction machine in which an electrical unit can be reliably cooled at low cost by effectively utilizing an intake pipe connected to an intake port of an engine. This construction machine includes: an engine; and a hood covering the engine, wherein a space inside the hood has a placement space in which an electrical unit is placed and which communicates with outside air, and a distal-end opening of an intake pipe connected to an inlet port of the engine is disposed in the placement space to cause outside air sucked into the intake pipe due to a suction pressure occurred in the intake pipe to pass through the placement space to form a cooling air path in the placement space.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Okazaki, Umpei Nonaka, Takeshi Takaira
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Patent number: 10759271Abstract: A closing member includes a pair of flap members, and an urging device urging each flap member to be positioned at a closed position closing a near-side pass-through opening for a fuel filling nozzle. Each flap member includes a turning assembly portion which becomes a center of turning, and an abutment portion relative to the other of the flap members. A far-side pass-through opening for the fuel filling nozzle, and a guide slope face for the fuel filling nozzle, which is a slope face having an opening edge of the far-side pass-through opening as a slope lower end and a vicinity of the near-side pass-through opening as a slope upper end and formed on both sides of a directly underneath position including the directly underneath position of the abutment portion of the flap member located at the closed position, are formed on a far side of the closing member.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventors: Takatsugu Hirose, Kensuke Ogose
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Patent number: 10759272Abstract: A closure of a tank of a motor vehicle for closing a filler neck gas- and fluid-tight, having a closure fastened to a flap, the flap being fastened to a vehicle body of the motor vehicle such that it is movable into an open or closed position, the closure including a seal, which causes the closure to close against the filler neck. The tank closure should be easy for a user to handle and have a relatively simple design and be economical to manufacture. This is achieved in that the seal is electromechanically or pneumatically adjustable with the aid of an actuator.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Olaf Husberg, Henning Irle, Ingo Niemeyer
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Patent number: 10759273Abstract: A structure of a fuel filler door for a vehicle includes a door hinge having one end portion hinged with a vehicle body, a support unit coupled to an opposite end portion of the door hinge, and a cover plate coupled onto the support unit. A fixing mount is provided to protrude from an inner surface of the support unit and includes a coupling hole formed through the fixing mount, a hook member is provided to protrude from an inner surface of the cover plate and includes a bending part slidably inserted into the coupling hole.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Sinjin Plastics Co., LtdInventors: Jaehun Kim, Byungsang Kim
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Patent number: 10759274Abstract: An integrated pinion/bearing/coupling (PBC) assembly for use with a hypoid gearset in power transfer assemblies of motor vehicles having mounting features and venting features. The integrated PBC assembly includes a hollow pinion unit made of steel and including a pinion shaft segment and a pinion gear segment, and a coupling unit having a hub segment made of aluminum. A brazing sleeve is used to braze the aluminum hub segment of the coupling unit to the steel pinion shaft segment of the pinion unit. The PBC assembly can further include a constant velocity joint (CVJ) unit connected to, or formed as part of, the coupling unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: MAGNA POWERTRAIN OF AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Bradley Ketchel, Wade Smith, Ralph Larson, Ryan Strand
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Patent number: 10759275Abstract: A vehicle drive apparatus, including: an electric motor rotating about an axial line in a vertical direction, a first planetary gear mechanism of a single pinion type and a second planetary gear mechanism of a double pinion type arranged inside the electric motor, a torque transmission mechanism transmitting a torque output from the second planetary gear mechanism to a pair of drive shafts. The torque transmission mechanism includes a first torque transmission unit transmitting a torque output from a sun gear of the second planetary gear mechanism to one of the pair of drive shafts, and a second torque transmission unit transmitting a torque output from a carrier of the second planetary gear mechanism to the other of the pair of drive shafts.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenta Uchida, Andrii Pydin
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Patent number: 10759276Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes a magneto-resistive element, a Hall element, and a detection circuit that receives a signal from the magneto-resistive element and a signal from the Hall element input thereto. The detection circuit includes an output terminal and an interrupt generation unit. The output terminal outputs, to the outside as an output signal, a signal obtained by performing to the signal input from the magneto-resistive element, at least one processing selected from amplification, analog-to-digital conversion, offset correction, and temperature-characteristics correction. The interrupt generation unit outputs an interrupt signal when the signal input from the Hall element is larger than a predetermined threshold. The magnetic sensor is high accurate and highly reliable.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Onaka, Shigehiro Yoshiuchi, Noritaka Ichinomiya, Kiyotaka Yamada
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Patent number: 10759277Abstract: A clutch control method is provided for a four-wheel-drive vehicle in which the main drive wheels are connected to a drive source, and the auxiliary drive wheels are connected via a friction clutch to the drive source. When the vehicle starts off due to an accelerator depressing operation, the friction clutch is engaged to distribute, a drive torque from the drive source to the main drive wheels and the auxiliary drive wheels. In this clutch control method, when the vehicle switches from a traveling state to a stopped state while maintaining in a travel shift position, a control is preformed to apply initial torque as an engagement torque control of the friction clutch while the vehicle is stopped. A magnitude of the initial torque is set to a magnitude that maintains a drive-system torsion state by transmitting torque to an auxiliary-drive-wheel drive system before the vehicle is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koutarou Tanaka, Yuusuke Hirahata, Keishirou Nakamura, Kouki Saitou
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Patent number: 10759278Abstract: A vehicle computer system controls downhill speed of a vehicle having a cruise control and an engine retarder. The system receives a request to increase engine retarder demand. In response, the system increases an engine retarder demand setting and, if cruise control is active, decreases a downhill speed control (DSC) cruise control offset. The engine retarder system may automatically activate to reduce the vehicle speed to a cruise control set speed plus the DSC cruise control offset. In an embodiment, the request to increase engine retarder demand is generated in response to operator input via an engine retarder demand input device (e.g., a steering-column-mounted control stalk). The system may also receive a request to decrease engine retarder demand in the engine retarder of the vehicle. In response, the system decreases the engine retarder demand setting and, if cruise control is active, increases the DSC cruise control offset.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: PACCAR INCInventors: Jason Speer, Joseph Wray Virden
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Patent number: 10759279Abstract: A vehicle includes a driver's seat and a passenger's seat, an interior member, and an instrument panel. The instrument panel has a meter cluster portion and an information display portion. The interior member has, on a front side of the vehicle, a extending portion extending around a back side of the information display portion so as to be spaced from the information display portion, and the information display portion has a panel capable of displaying at least either one information of images or characters, and at least when the information is not displayed, enters a light transmission state so as to allow a driver to visually recognize the extending portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Norihito Iwao, Seiji Sekine, Daiki Hamanaga, Jun Maruyama
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Patent number: 10759280Abstract: A hybrid power drive system for an aircraft that comprises a rotor and a first power drive sub-system. The first power drive sub-system includes at least one engine in connection with the rotor and provides a first power to the rotor. The hybrid power drive system also includes a second power drive sub-system connected in parallel to the first power drive sub-system, which supplements with a second power the first power delivered to the rotor during operation of the aircraft. In addition, an electric power source provides a third power to the second power drive sub-system.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft CorporationInventor: Peter James Waltner
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Patent number: 10759281Abstract: A method for balancing electrical grid production with electrical grid demand according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, controlling an electrified vehicle prior to and during an inductive roadway event to either conserve a state of charge of a battery pack in response to a first grid condition of an electrical grid or deplete the state of charge of the battery pack in response to a second grid condition of the electrical grid.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Kenneth James Miller, Douglas Raymond Martin, Jimmy Kapadia
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Patent number: 10759282Abstract: Provided is a vehicle turning control device that can stabilize a vehicle by performing yaw moment control considering a tire grip limit and gives no uncomfortable feeling to a driver even if the control is switched from the yaw moment control to control for stabilizing the attitude of the vehicle. The vehicle turning control device includes a target yaw rate calculation module (25), a yaw moment calculation module (27), a yaw rate deviation calculation module (29), a road surface frictional coefficient calculation module (24), and a control gain calculation module (26). The control gain calculation module (26) causes a yaw response characteristic used in the target yaw rate calculation module (25) to approach a reference yaw response characteristic from a predetermined yaw response characteristic as a calculated yaw rate deviation increases or as an estimated road surface frictional coefficient decreases.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: NTN CORPORATIONInventor: Yuta Suzuki
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Patent number: 10759283Abstract: Disclosed is a battery pack, which includes a battery module having at least one battery cell, a pack case made of a metal material and configured to package the battery module, and a fire extinguishing liquid guide cover configured to cover one side of the pack case, the fire extinguishing liquid guide cover being melted over a predetermined temperature to form an opening so that a fire extinguishing liquid is guided into the pack case, the fire extinguishing liquid guide cover having a noise shielding member for shielding an electromagnetic noise not to enter the pack case.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Kang-Gu Lee, Sung-Dae Kim, Young-Hoo Oh, Jae-Hun Yang
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Patent number: 10759284Abstract: A battery module for a traction battery having a housing, battery cells arranged inside the housing, a power electronics circuit board which is adjacent to the battery cells, a support face, facing away from the power electronics circuit board, for a cooling plate of the traction battery, and a heat-conducting element which bears over a surface on the power electronics circuit board and runs between the battery cells in the direction of or along the support face. Also described is a corresponding method for manufacturing a battery module, a corresponding traction battery and a corresponding electric car.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Malte Jaensch, Patrick Leidig, Stefan Götz
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Patent number: 10759285Abstract: A power supply system includes a battery, a charger that converts a voltage of power input from an external power supply through a charging port into a voltage required for charge of the battery and an intra-system power supply device that is connected between the charging port and the charger. The power supply device is provided with a voltage converter that converts a voltage of output power of the power supply device into a voltage corresponding to the voltage of the external power supply.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Tanaka, Motoharu Nishio
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Patent number: 10759286Abstract: A method for transporting a person or a parcel from a first location to a second location involves mounting a pod having a rechargeable battery and a compartment to a first vehicle, moving the first vehicle with the pod mounted to a loading position at or near the first location, loading a person or a parcel into the pod, moving the first transporter vehicle from the loading position to a first exchange point, exchanging the passenger pod from the first transporter vehicle to a second transporter vehicle at the first exchange point by de-mounting the pod from the first transporter vehicle and mounting the pod to the second transporter vehicle by a compatible physical interface between the pod and the second transporter vehicle, and transporting the second transporter vehicle with the pod to the second location.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Inventor: Michael Steward Evans
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Patent number: 10759287Abstract: A battery charger capable of receiving AC power and delivering both AC and DC power to an electric power storage battery in accordance to different embodiments disclosed herein using a rectifier circuit supplying the DC load and absorbing power as a five-level active rectifier with low harmonics on the AC input. In one aspect, the battery charger may have a bidirectional rectifier/inverter converter providing power conversion between a DC source and AC enabling the user to not only charge an electrical vehicle (“EV”) but also convert the energy charged in the EV/battery or solar panel to AC for use.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: OSSIACO INC.Inventors: Hani Vahedi, Marc-André Forget, Peter Ibrahim
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Patent number: 10759288Abstract: A charging device for inductively charging an electrical energy store of a motor vehicle provided with a primary coil, which is designed to induce a voltage in a secondary coil of the motor vehicle for charging the electrical energy store, and with a lifting mechanism, which is designed to move the primary coil between a stored position and a charging position. The charging device is provided with a control device, which is adapted for operating the lifting mechanism in a deicing mode in which the lifting mechanism is moved according to a predeterminable movement cycle between the stored position and the charging position.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Björn Elias, Reinhard Peer
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Patent number: 10759289Abstract: This disclosure relates to a wireless charging road and a wireless charging vehicle. The wireless charging road includes a road basement, a road surface layer located on the road basement, and a magnetic field generator. The magnetic field generator generates magnetic force lines above the road surface layer. The wireless charging vehicle includes a vehicle body, and a charging device located on the vehicle body. The charging device includes an induction wire and a rechargeable battery. Two ends of the induction wire are respectively connected to the positive pole and the negative pole of the rechargeable battery. The induction wire cuts the magnetic force lines to produce an electric potential and charges the rechargeable battery when the wireless charging vehicle drives on the wireless charging road.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Tai-Ming Gou
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Patent number: 10759290Abstract: Fuel charging or electricity charging port lid lock includes an elevating shaft provided with an elevating thread on an exterior wall thereof. The port lid lock also includes a worm gear configured to drive the elevating shaft. The worm gear is sleeved outside of the elevating shaft. The port lid lock also includes a worm configured to drive the worm gear. The elevating shaft is configured to be capable of moving up and moving down along an axial direction of the elevating shaft and rotating about the axial direction of the elevating shaft when driven by the worm. A head portion of the elevating shaft is used to drive a fuel charging or electricity charging port lid so as to control the opening and closing of the fuel charging or electricity charging port lid.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Wenquan Sha
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Patent number: 10759291Abstract: A system for unlocking a charging plug inserted in a charging socket of a vehicle, a sensor device, which, when the charging plug is inserted in the charging socket of the vehicle, is designed to detect a person's hand when gripping a handle of the charging plug; a control device designed to check whether the vehicle is unlocked and/or the person is authorized to enter the vehicle, when the hand is detected, and unlock the charging plug inserted into the charging socket, if at least one of the two conditions has been successfully checked. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for unlocking a charging plug inserted in a charging socket of a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: AUDI AGInventor: Carsten Doege
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Patent number: 10759292Abstract: A current stabilization method performed by a vehicle charging apparatus, which includes a power factor corrector for correcting a power factor of an alternating current (AC) power source, vehicle charging apparatus converting an AC voltage of the AC power source into a direct current (DC) voltage to charge a vehicle battery, may include downwardly-adjusting a current control bandwidth of the power factor corrector when the adjusting of the current control bandwidth of the power factor corrector is requested.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Hui Sung Jang, Gyu Tae Choi, Gi Bong Son, Hyun Wook Seong
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Patent number: 10759293Abstract: A galvanic isolation in the power electronics system of an electricity charging station having the following features: a rectifier (11) for connection of the charging station (10) to a public low-voltage network and a galvanically isolating DC voltage converter (12) having a high clock frequency and connected to the rectifier (11) and a corresponding electricity charging station.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignees: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft, ads-tec GmbHInventors: Raoul Heyne, Florian Joslowski, Michael Kiefer, Thomas Speidel, Ali Natour
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Patent number: 10759294Abstract: A power source system may include a main power source, a power converter including a capacitor, a relay configured to switch between connection and disconnection between the power converter and the main power source, an auxiliary power source, a boost converter having a low voltage terminal thereof connected to the auxiliary power source, and having a high voltage terminal thereof connected to the power converter without interposing the relay, and a controller configured to pre-charge the capacitor prior to placing the relay in a connected state when a main switch of a vehicle is turned on. The controller may be configured to store a peak value of a current of the auxiliary power source in a memory of the controller, and start to pre-charge the capacitor when a current of the auxiliary power source falls from the peak value by more than a predetermined current difference.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashi Nozawa
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Patent number: 10759295Abstract: A proximity detection circuit suitable for use with an on-board vehicle charger, such as but not limited to the type of chargers used within hybrid and electric vehicles, to facilitate current conservation during period of time when it is unnecessary or otherwise undesirable. The on-board charger can test for connection of a cordset or other electrical connection used to connect the on-board charger to a charging station or other current source. The on-board charger can be used to detect two different cordsets or vehicles using different charging circuitries.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Eladi Homedes Pedret, Jordi Escoda Valldeperez, Jordi Tost Bartolome, Antoni Ferre Fabregas
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Patent number: 10759296Abstract: A charging apparatus for electric vehicle may comprise a charging apparatus and an electric vehicle. The charging apparatus has a rectifier and a mobile connector, and the connector covered by a plastic cover has a primary coil electrically connected to the rectifier. The cover comprises a vertical first plane, and a plurality of first engaging portions formed at an outer periphery of the cover. The electric vehicle has a converter, a battery pack and a charge port, and the charge port covered by a plastic shell comprises a secondary coil electrically connected to the converter. The charge port has a vertical second plane and at least a second engaging portion. When the first plane of the connector is coupled to the second plane of the charge port, the primary coil and the secondary coil are spaced apart by a fixed distance, thereby achieving the effect of safe charging.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Inventors: Chih-Yuan Chang, Tsair-Rong Chen, Po-Hsuan Chen, Bing-Yuan Lai
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Patent number: 10759297Abstract: A charging station for charging an electric energy storage means of an electric vehicle using alternating charging current, having a fault-current protective device and having a charging controller. The fault-current protective device is divided into its functional units, a differential-current monitoring unit forming an integral structural unit in the form of a charging-current controller and monitoring device in conjunction with the charging controller according to the invention. Alternatively, the fault-current protective device forms an integral structural unit in the form of a charging-current controller and protective device in conjunction with charging controller.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Frank Mehling, Sven Schaefer
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Patent number: 10759298Abstract: Presented are intelligent vehicle systems and control logic for predictive charge planning and powertrain control of electric-drive vehicles, methods for manufacturing/operating such systems, and electric-drive vehicles with smart charge planning and powertrain control capabilities. Systems and methods of AI-based predictive charge planning for smart electric vehicles use machine-learning (ML) driver models that draws on available traffic, location, and roadway map information to estimate vehicle speed and propulsion torque requirements to derive a total energy consumption for a given trip. Systems and methods of AI-based predictive powertrain control for smart hybrid vehicles use ML driver models with deep learning techniques to derive a drive cycle profile defined by a preview route with available traffic, geopositional, geospatial, and map data.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Yue-Yun Wang, Junfeng Zhao, Suresh Gopalakrishnan, Yiran Hu, Norman K. Bucknor
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Patent number: 10759299Abstract: A management device is a management device that: manages batteries; receives a first battery; and supplies a second battery. The management device includes an obtaining portion that obtains, from the first battery, first identification information stored in the first battery. The management device includes an authenticating portion that authenticates a user of the first battery by using the first identification information the obtaining portion has obtained. The management device includes a writing portion that, if the authenticating portion authenticates the user, writes the first identification information to the second battery that is to be supplied to the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takumi Shiiyama, Ryo Oshima, Ryuichi Kimata
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Patent number: 10759300Abstract: A vehicle may include an auxiliary battery to prevent full discharge of a main power source while remotely controlling electronic devices of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle may include a communication device configured to receive a control signal indicating a control command from a mobile device; a controller configured to control a target of control based on the control signal; and a power management device including an auxiliary battery and configured to supply power to the controller using the auxiliary battery when the communication device receives the control signal while an ignition of the vehicle is turned off.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Kichang Yi, Hyoung Shin, Youngwook Song
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Patent number: 10759301Abstract: A method for charging a battery includes detecting, with an electronic processor, a presence of the battery coupled to a charging interface. The method includes receiving, with the electronic processor, a command, the command including a charge mode. The method includes, in response to receiving the command, controlling a charging circuit coupled to the charging interface to charge the battery to a predetermined level based on the charge mode. The method includes, when the battery reaches the predetermined charge level, sending a battery control command, based on the charge mode, to control an active limiting circuit of the battery via a single wire data line coupled to the charging interface.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Thean Song Ooi, Amy T. Herrmann, Michael D. Geren, Kow Chee Chong, Roger L. Boyer, Muhamad Ridzuan Azizan, Scott J. Arendell, John E. Herrmann, Macwien Krishnamurthi, Roy L. Kerfoot, Jr., William B. Kiger
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Patent number: 10759302Abstract: An electric vehicle includes: a rotary electric machine configured to generate a driving force for driving driving wheels; a driving battery storing power to drive the rotary electric machine; a converter connected to the driving battery; an auxiliary battery connected to the driving battery via the converter; and a cooling box connected to the auxiliary battery. When the driving battery has an SOC reduced to be smaller than a prescribed threshold value, the converter is stopped and power remaining in the auxiliary battery is used to drive the cooling box.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Zekai Qiu, Hironobu Kitaoka, Naoki Yamamuro, Kozo Kosho, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Makoto Ikegami
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Patent number: 10759303Abstract: An autonomous vehicle includes an electric powertrain having an electric machine and a traction battery. A vehicle controller is programmed to command power to the electric machine to propel the vehicle along a segment of a route according to a predetermined speed profile that is derived from a predicted heat generation of the battery for the segment such that actual temperatures of the battery remain below a temperature threshold for the segment.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Xiaohong Nina Duan, Yanan Zhao, Mark Steven Yamazaki
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Patent number: 10759304Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a leg member, attached to a lower end portion of a seat main body movable between use and stowed positions and movable along with a seat main body, and a leg holding member, elastically deformable to hold a holding target portion of the leg member. The leg holding member includes separated first and second portions which are configured to hold the holding target portion having passed through an introduction opening of the leg holding member formed between the first and second portions with the holding target portion interposed between the first and second portions when the leg member moves along with the seat main body moving toward the use position. A deformation amount restriction portion restricts deformation generated when the leg holding member is elastically deformed so that the first and second portions are separated when the holding target portion passes through the introduction opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignees: TS Tech Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Izumida, Yuji Ueno, Koki Sato, Masahiro Imamura
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Patent number: 10759305Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly includes an actuation carriage coupled to an underside thereof, a plurality of anchors extending from the actuation carriage, each of the anchors being rotatable about a fixed vertical axis, and a plurality of rollers rotatably coupled to each of the anchors by an axle.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Alan George Dry, Daniel Ferretti, Johnathan Andrew Line
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Patent number: 10759306Abstract: A seat adjustment device includes: an authentication unit that is configured to identify plural occupants of a vehicle; an acquisition unit that is configured to acquire information relating to each one of the plural vehicle occupants identified by the authentication unit; a determination unit that is configured to determine relationships between the plural vehicle occupants based on information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit that is configured to control at least one of a position or an orientation of seats mounted in the vehicle based on determination results from the determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yukito Ohmura
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Patent number: 10759307Abstract: A seat assembly includes a seat frame, a sub frame, an electric motor, a transmission, and a flexible drive shaft. The seat frame includes a front support portion and supports a bottom cushion. The sub frame has a top plate and a base plate. The top plate supports a front cushion and rotatably supports a screw gear. The electric motor includes a first output member and is fixedly mounted to the front support portion of the seat frame. The transmission includes an input member and a second output member. The transmission is fixedly mounted to the base plate of the sub frame. The second output member of the transmission is drivingly connected to the screw gear of the sub frame. The flexible drive shaft is drivingly connecting the first output member of the electric motor to the input member of the transmission.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Edeena A. Reader
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Patent number: 10759308Abstract: A support assembly includes a support member, a side member, and a resilient member. The support member may be configured to engage a track. The resilient member may be connected to the support member, and/or the support member may be connected to the side member. The resilient member may be configured to compensate for different orientations of the side member. The resilient member may be configured to maintain a position of the side member relative to the track. The resilient member may be configured to compensate for different lateral positions of the side member relative to the track. The resilient member may be connected to a lateral side of the support member. The resilient member may be disposed proximate a first end of the support member, and/or a second resilient member may be disposed proximate a second end of the support member.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Thibaud Condamin, Nordine Hamtache, Antoine Moulin
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Patent number: 10759309Abstract: A longitudinal adjuster (10), for a vehicle seat (1), includes at least one pair of rails (12), formed from a lower seat rail (14a) and an upper seat rail (14b). The seat rails mutually engage around each other and are movable relative to each other in a longitudinal direction (x) and are lockable to each other by a locking device (16). The locking device has at least one latching plate (18), which is movable in the vertical direction (z). The latching plate has a guide pin (20) protruding in the vertical direction. The upper seat rail has an opening (22) aligned with the guide pin. A guide sleeve (24) extends into a cavity between the seat rails and is accommodated in the opening. The guide pin is guided by the guide sleeve. The upper seat rail and the guide sleeve are connectable by a bayonet catch.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Adient Luxembourg Holding S.á r.l.Inventors: Joachim Flick, Erik Sprenger
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Patent number: 10759310Abstract: A vehicle seat is configured to adjust a position of a seat cushion by a multi-bar link provided at each of both sides of the seat cushion, where the multi-bar link includes one seat cushion frame of a plurality of seat cushion frames forming both side frames of the seat cushion, and front and rear links pivotably connected to the respective front and rear of the one seat cushion frame. The vehicle seat includes a drive device configured to rotate the multi-bar link such that an end of the front link connected to the one seat cushion frame is lifted up and an end of the rear link connected to the one seat cushion frame is simultaneously moved down.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Das Co., LTDInventors: Ju-Yeol Kong, Gil-Ju Kim, Jung-Sang You, Byeong-Seon Son, Seon-Chae Na, Chan-Ho Jung, Dong-Hyun Kim, Jun-Sik Hwang, Hyoung-Jun Ham
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Patent number: 10759311Abstract: A rail for vehicle seat that has first and second sliding rail members driven by a motorized drive mechanism. The rail further includes a mechanical latch actuated when crash conditions are detected.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: FAURECIA SIEGES D'AUTOMOBILEInventors: Fabrice Petit, Vincent Nardin, Ludovic Ferre
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Patent number: 10759312Abstract: A vehicle trim assembly comprises a foam bun, an electrically insulative top finish layer above the foam bun, a thermal gradient assembly under the finish trim layer, and a thermal enhancement layer between the thermal gradient assembly and the finish trim layer. The thermal gradient assembly is adapted to generate a thermal gradient when receiving an electric current and has an electrically conductive top layer, an electrically conductive bottom layer, and a semiconductor layer having first and second semiconductor regions between the top and bottom layers. The thermal enhancement layer has a thermal conductivity adapted to direct thermal energy transfer between the thermal gradient assembly and the finish trim layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Ashford Allen Galbreath, Arjun Yetukuri, Paul Olivier, Colin Andrew Paton-Phillips, David Gallagher
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Patent number: 10759313Abstract: A trim cover for a seat includes: a high extensible skin material; and a low extensible skin material. A joint part of the edge portion of the high extensible skin material and the edge portion of the low extensible skin material has a plurality of highly extensible protrusions and a plurality of low extensible protrusions, the plurality of highly extensible protrusions and the plurality of low extensible protrusions are each formed in a sharp tapered shape and are arranged alternately in an extending direction of the joint part, and at least a part of a boundary line between the highly extensible protrusion and the low extensible protrusion, which are adjacent in the extending direction of the joint part, is deviated from a line segment formed by connecting respective tips of the highly extensible protrusion and the low extensible protrusion to the low extensible protrusion side.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Ishii, Masayuki Taguchi
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Patent number: 10759314Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat pad; a backboard disposed on a back side of the seat pad; and a seat cover covering the seat pad and the backboard. The seat cover includes a pair of covering pieces adjacent to each other on the backboard-side, and a slide fastener that connects the covering pieces. When the slide fastener is closed with use of a slider, an end portion of the slide fastener is projected from an edge end of the seat cover in a state where the slider is disposed in the end portion of the slide fastener. The backboard is provided with an insertion portion. When the end portion of the closed slide fastener is disposed on a reverse side of the seat cover, the end portion of the slide fastener and the slider are inserted in and locked to the insertion portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mayu Takahashi, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Atsushi Koizumi, Keisuke Tagami
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Patent number: 10759315Abstract: A vehicle seat is provided which includes a protruding corner formed by joining a first surface and a second surface. The protruding corner includes a pad, a surface cover covering a surface of the pad, and a contour defining plate that is provided on a back side of the surface cover at a position corresponding to the second surface of the protruding corner, the contour defining plate defining the contour of the protruding corner. The contour defining plate has a first edge arranged along a top portion of the protruding corner and a second edge different from the first edge, the contour defining plate not being fixed to the surface cover at the first edge, but fixed to the surface cover at the second edge.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Tachi-S Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hitoshi Abe
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Patent number: 10759316Abstract: A dynamic adjustable armrest includes a bracket supporting the armrest, a rod guide having a plurality of detents, the rod guide in slidable communication with the bracket, a locking rod engageable with the rod guide and the bracket. The locking rod is movable between at least a first position and a second position, and the armrest is movable between at least an up position and a down position.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Vinay C. Bhairagond, Kiran Kumar Siddegowda, Pramod Lockhande, Navinkumar J. Singh, John Bosilkovski, Helio M. Queiroz, Alan Denys Aldrete Meza, Eliseo Arturo Flores Diaz
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Patent number: 10759317Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion, a seatback, and a headrest. At least one of the seat cushion, the seatback, and the headrest includes a fixed part and a movable part. The fixed part and the movable part that is mounted so as to be movable relative to the fixed part are provided adjacent to each other. A border between the movable part and the fixed part is exposed to an outside of the seat. A movable-side edge of the movable part and a fixed-side edge of the fixed part are disposed adjacent to each other along a direction of movement of the movable part so as to form at least a part of the border exposed to the outside of the seat. The movable part moves relative to the fixed part while keeping a constant clearance between the movable-side edge and the fixed-side edge.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Iwao Matsushima
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Patent number: 10759318Abstract: A head restraint for a seat being adjustable in a vertical direction, and angularly adjustable with regard to lateral portions of the head restraint. A mechanism providing this adjustability is a linear and rotational locking mechanism with a shaft and a slide. The slide is selectively slidably and rotatably mounted on the shaft. The slide has a locked state which linearly and rotationally fixes the slide on, and with respect to, the shaft. The slide has a release state where the slide is linearly and rotatably movable on the shaft. The slide is fixable in a plurality of linear and rotational positions on the shaft in the locked state. The number of linear and rotational positions on the shaft is considered infinite since for all practical purposes, the slide is not restricted to individual discrete positions, but is continuously adjustable to practically any linear and rotational position.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Adient Luxembourg Holding S.á r.l.Inventors: Michael Kapusky, Eric Michalak, Nathan Caruss, Jennifer Carlson, Brent Burton, Matthew McClelland
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Patent number: 10759319Abstract: A collapsible seat assembly includes one or more pneumatic bladder members providing, in an inflated state, at least a base portion and a seatback portion of the collapsible seat assembly, and a plurality of internal rigid frame members disposed at least partially within the one or more pneumatic bladder members. At least a portion of the one or more pneumatic bladder members can attach to at least a portion of the plurality of internal rigid frame members to provide a support for the one or more pneumatic bladder members.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yimeng Li