Patents Issued in July 6, 2021
  • Patent number: 11052841
    Abstract: Heat radiation base body 23 that is adjacent to electric motor unit EM and extends in direction of rotation shaft of electric motor is provided close to rotation shaft of electric motor. Board 24 of one electronic control unit of redundant system is fixed to heat radiation base body along direction in which heat radiation base body 23 extends with thermal conduction to heat radiation base body 23 allowed. Board 26 of the other electronic control unit of redundant system is fixed to heat radiation base body so as to face to board 24 of one electronic control unit of redundant system, with thermal conduction to heat radiation base body 23 allowed. Rotation position detection circuit board 22 to which neutral terminals 31 of electric motor for each phase are connected is provided between heat radiation base body 23 and motor housing 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masao Fujimoto, Keiji Hamada, Tomio Sakashita
  • Patent number: 11052842
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: first and second power supplies, and a control unit controlling to, when a remaining capacity difference between the first power supply and the second power supply is large, to reduce a first operating range, in which the connection state with the electrical load is controlled to be series connection state of the power supplies, and increase a second operating range, in which the connection state with the electrical load is controlled to be the parallel connection state of the power supplies or the single connection state of one of the power supplies having a larger remaining capacity, as compared with a case where the remaining capacity difference is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Niimi, Naoyoshi Takamatsu, Shunya Kobayashi, Satoru Ito, Takuya Sakamoto, Hirotsugu Ohata, Shigeaki Goto, Shuji Tomura, Naoki Yanagizawa
  • Patent number: 11052843
    Abstract: A battery arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a first electrical energy store, a second electrical energy store, a charging connection, and a supply connection. The arrangement further includes first through seventh switches. The battery arrangement is switchable into four operating states via respective opening and closing of the first through seventh switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Doersam, Andreas Eichinger, Rainer Falsett, Heiko Hachtel, Frieder Herb, Oliver Lehmann, Christian Ohms
  • Patent number: 11052844
    Abstract: A bumper arrangement of a passenger car has an upper and a lower load path. A spring element is provided on the transverse support of the lower load path, which, in the event of a collision of a pedestrian with the passenger car, exerts an additional force on the lower leg of the pedestrian, so as to support the movement of the pedestrian in the direction of the front hood of the passenger car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Fichtinger, Martin Gross, Mazdak Novine, Tim Rudolph
  • Patent number: 11052845
    Abstract: A bumper system including a bumper beam being cast from metal having a front panel and a back panel, extending between a first bumper beam end and a second bumper beam end. A plurality of reinforcing ribs integrally cast with the bumper beam extends between the front panel and the back panel defining a non-uniform cross-sectional profile along a portion of the bumper beam. The front panel includes a front center portion disposed between a pair of front side portions. The back panel includes a back center portion disposed between a pair of back side portions. The front center portion has a front center portion thickness greater than a back center portion thickness. Each of the front side portions has a front side portion thickness being less than a back side portion thickness of adjacent one of the back side portions. Method of manufacturing the bumper system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MAGNA INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Edward Karl Steinebach, Jeremiah John Brady, Jeffrey Jay Mellis, Richard Lee Winfree, Mark Justin Jones, Darren Andrew Womack
  • Patent number: 11052846
    Abstract: A vehicle bumper may include a bumper absorber having a tube receiving groove that extends in a vehicle width direction, and an elastically deformable airtight pressure tube received in the tube receiving groove formed on the bumper absorber and in communication with a pressure sensor. The bumper absorber includes a beam-shaped absorber body portion extending in the vehicle width direction, and an elongated projecting portion extending in the vehicle width direction at a front end periphery of an upper surface of the absorber body portion. The tube receiving groove is configured to extend in the vehicle width direction on the upper surface of the absorber body portion while penetrating into a rear end portion of the elongated projecting portion, and is configured to open backward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Myoungjun Kim
  • Patent number: 11052847
    Abstract: An exemplary impact beam for a vehicle includes a body defining a longitudinal axis of the impact beam. The body has a first longitudinal surface laterally separated from a second longitudinal surface, a first end including a first extension and a second extension such that the first and second extensions form a “T”-shape with the first and second longitudinal surfaces of the body, and a second end opposite the first end, the second end including a first extended portion and a second extended portion connected to the first extended portion by a connecting surface. The first extended portion is configured to extend into a first crush space defined by a fascia of the vehicle and the second extended portion is configured to extend into a second crush space defined by the fascia of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Luke A. Reini, Julie A. Bryce, Laura L. Tanton
  • Patent number: 11052848
    Abstract: An energy absorbing device includes a deformable elongate member that is arranged such that the device, in use, deforms in a controlled manner upon the absorption of impact energy. The invention also provides a chassis and a vehicle incorporating the energy absorbing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Jian Lu, Yuan Gao, Tao Tang, Lu Yao
  • Patent number: 11052849
    Abstract: A vehicle member comprises a wooden member and a resin cover member integrally covering the wooden member. The vehicle member absorbs or transmits a received load. The cover member integrally includes a load acting portion and an attaching portion. The wooden member is positioned in the vehicle member so that a shaft center direction of annual rings is aligned with an input direction of the load. The attaching portion is attachable to an attached member of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihisa Miura, Kazunari Kojio
  • Patent number: 11052850
    Abstract: Vertical brackets extend downwardly from a trailer or semi-trailer frame to a transverse tubular bar to form an underride guard. The transverse tubular bar includes a top, a bottom, a rear impact side and a forward side and extends beyond the vertical brackets to define two end portions. The top and bottom have slits therethrough on the outer half of the end portions extending from inwardly of the rear impact side toward the forward side at an angle toward the vertical brackets. The slits extend toward the vertical brackets at an angle at least 45° through a portion of their length and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle through a second portion. The forward side includes two converging surfaces from the top and bottom. The slits extend from the top and bottom no more than half way to the convergence of the two surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey J. Bennett
  • Patent number: 11052851
    Abstract: Developing intelligent systems which take into consideration the economical, environmental, and safety factors of the modern society, is one of the main challenges of this century. Progress in the fields of mobile robots, control architectures, artificial intelligence, advanced technologies, and computer vision allows us to now envisage a smart environment future. The rise of the connected objects known as the “Internet of Things” (IoT) will rival past technological marvels. This application discloses a time synchronous communication IoT network and IoT ranging device to monitor a smart environment. IoT ranging device uses a time of day (TOD), an absolute time, and a time slot assigned to it by IoT network for ranging in the smart environment in order to avoid interference and collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Kiomars Anvari
  • Patent number: 11052852
    Abstract: An impact detection system is disclosed for detecting and identifying an object colliding with a vehicle. The impact detection system comprises a sensor arrangement arranged to measure a characteristic of an impact of the object against the vehicle, a trigger determiner associated with the sensor arrangement for determining whether the characteristic of the 5 impact is greater than a predefined threshold value, and an image capturing device arranged to capture an image of the object. The system is arranged to automatically make the captured image available for inspection in response to the trigger determiner determining that the characteristic of the impact is greater than the predefined threshold value so that the object in the image can be identified substantially in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Technological Resources Pty. Limited
    Inventors: Ilidio Gouveia Da Costa, Anthony Michael Godber, David Wallis, Matthew Shurmer, Paul Nicholson, Gareth Topham, Richard Pearman, Peter Knight
  • Patent number: 11052853
    Abstract: A passenger protection system for a vehicle includes: a seat which slides forwards and backwards and rotates laterally, where the seat has a seat belt equipped with a belt airbag, and a side airbag provided on a side of a seatback of the seat; a front airbag provided in a front structure located in front of the seat of the vehicle to be deployed towards the seat; a curtain airbag provided in a pillar trim on an upper end of a vehicle door to be deployed downwards; and a controller to selectively deploy the belt airbag, the side airbag, the front airbag and the curtain airbag, depending on a sliding position and a rotating direction of the seat and a detection or a predicted direction of a vehicle collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jae Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 11052854
    Abstract: A temperature sensing child safety seat for preventing hyperthermia and hypothermia includes a safety seat that is configured to secure a child in a vehicle. The safety seat comprises a base that defines an interior space. A power module, a microprocessor, and a communications module are coupled to the base and positioned in the interior space. A plurality of sensors is coupled to the safety seat. The microprocessor is operationally coupled to the power module, the communications module, and the sensors. The sensors are configured to measure a temperature and to communicate a temperature reading to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is positioned, in an event the temperature reading deviates from a prespecified range, to compel the communications module to alert emergency personnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Franklin Killebrew
  • Patent number: 11052855
    Abstract: A restraint system for a vehicle includes an instrument panel and an airbag supported by the instrument panel. The restraint system includes a right deflector supported by the instrument panel adjacent the airbag. The right deflector is deployable between a retracted position and a deployed position. The restraint system includes a left deflector supported by the instrument panel adjacent the airbag opposite the right deflector in a cross-vehicle direction. The left deflector is deployable between a retracted position and a deployed position. The restraint system includes a first pyrotechnic device coupled to the right deflector and a second pyrotechnic device coupled to the left deflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Srinivas Reddy Malapati, Mangesh Kadam
  • Patent number: 11052856
    Abstract: A foldable brake pedal apparatus for an autonomous driving vehicle is provided. A brake pedal is exposed to the interior of the vehicle allowing a driver to manipulate the brake pedal in a manual driving mode and the brake pedal is prevented from being exposed to the interior of the vehicle to prevent the driver from manipulating the vehicle in an autonomous driving situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Kyung Chang Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Sik Kim, Hyeon Uk Kim, Sung Il Byun
  • Patent number: 11052857
    Abstract: An assembly includes a belt and one of a buckle or a clip. The belt has a first inflatable portion inflatable to an inflated position, a second inflatable portion inflatable to an inflated position, and an intermediate portion between the first inflatable portion and the second inflatable portion. The intermediate portion includes a fluid channel connecting the first inflatable portion to the second inflatable portion. One of the buckle or the clip is slidably attached to the intermediate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, S. M. Iskander Farooq
  • Patent number: 11052858
    Abstract: A behavior control airbag apparatus including: a floating cushion disposed in a seating part of a seat, and configured to push up a passenger on the seating part while deployed by gas injected by an inflator; and a behavior cushion disposed eccentrically on an outboard side of the floating cushion, and configured to push up the outboard side of the passenger according to the injection of the gas, such that the passenger is inclined to an inboard side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Min Lee, Ji Woon Song, Byung Ho Min, Sang Won Hwangbo, Do Hyoung Kim, Hae Kwon Park, Rae Ick Jang, Kyu Sang Lee
  • Patent number: 11052859
    Abstract: A roof airbag apparatus including: a first cushion disposed on one side of a panoramic sunroof in a width direction of the panoramic sunroof and connected to an inflator; a second cushion disposed on the other side of the panoramic sunroof in the width direction and connected to the inflator; a first wire connected to the second cushion and connected to the first cushion to pull the second cushion toward the first cushion when the first cushion is deployed; a second wire connected to the first cushion and connected to the second cushion to pull the first cushion toward the second cushion when the second cushion is deployed; and guide anchors on which the first wire and the second wire are movably supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: You Hoe Koo
  • Patent number: 11052860
    Abstract: A gas distribution system for airbag inflation in a vehicle can include: a passenger airbag including a plurality of inflatable chambers; an airbag inflation device configured to produce a gas when a collision involving the vehicle is sensed and to supply the gas to the passenger airbag, causing deployment of the passenger airbag; and an inflation gas distributor disposed at least partially between the airbag inflation device and the passenger airbag, the inflation gas distributor including a rotatable distributor belt, the inflation gas distributor configured to allow passage of the gas from the airbag inflation device to a first subset of the plurality of chambers, and to impede passage of the gas from the airbag inflation device to a second subset of the plurality of chambers, by rotating the distributor belt to a gas distribution position selected among a plurality of predetermined gas distribution positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Samuel Zeng
  • Patent number: 11052861
    Abstract: An airbag apparatus for a vehicle may include: a surrounding airbag installed in a seat on which a passenger is seated, and deployed toward the passenger so as to cover an upper part and side parts of the passenger; a front airbag connected to the surrounding airbag, and laterally deployed to cover a front part of the passenger; and a behavior constraint tether extended from the front airbag to an upper portion of the surrounding airbag so as to constrain the surrounding airbag and the front airbag, and configured to constrain a forward behavior of the passenger through a tensile force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hae Kwon Park, Ga Ram Jeong, Do Hyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11052862
    Abstract: Provided is an air bag base cloth constituted by a composite material obtained by coating fabric made of synthetic fibers with a synthetic resin. The average value of the 100% modulus in the warp direction of the fabric texture included in the composite material and the 100% modulus in the weft direction of the fabric texture included in the composite material is 50 N/cm or less. The 100% elongation recovery rate is 95% or more. The 100% elongation load air permeability is 0.1 L/cm2·min or less both before and after thermal treatment at 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SEIREN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Houraiya
  • Patent number: 11052863
    Abstract: In one example, an apparatus for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle includes an inflatable vehicle occupant protection device having a deflated condition and an inflated condition. The protection device includes a first panel having a centerline and first and second openings. A second panel is secured to the first panel to define an inflatable volume. First and second self-adaptive vents are secured to the first panel over the first and second openings on opposite sides of the centerline for selectively releasing inflation fluid from the inflatable volume in response to penetration of the occupant into the protection device. A first reinforcing stitching extends through the first panel and around a portion of the first self-adaptive vent. A second reinforcing stitching extends through the first panel and around a portion of the second self-adaptive vent. Each of the first and second reinforcing stitchings is spaced entirely from the respective first and second self-adaptive vents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TRW VEHICLE SAFETY SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Douglas M. Gould, Michael White
  • Patent number: 11052864
    Abstract: A pressure vessel formed by either by: a) mating a first end or closure to a second end or closure or b) mating a first end to an intermediate body member and mating the intermediate body member to a second end; the first end comprising a hollowed thin walled dome (14) having an exterior surface (15a) and an interior surface (15b) and the dome terminating in an edge surface (14a), the dome (14) having an axis Y extending through its geometric center of the exterior surface, the dome supporting at least one thin hollow walled projection (16, 18, 20) having an exterior (19a) and interior surface (19b), the at least one projection extending outwardly from the dome outer surface (15a), and terminating in a top surface (16a, 23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Key Safety Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent Norman, III, William F. McLeod, Markell Seitzman
  • Patent number: 11052865
    Abstract: A gas generator includes a housing and a gastight container which accommodates a gas generating agent. The gastight container includes a cup body and a cover body. The cover body includes a bottom portion and a fold-over portion which covers an opening end of the cup body. The cover body is fixed to the cup body by providing, in the fold-over portion in a portion covering an outer circumferential surface of the opening end of the cup body, a first swaging portion in a portion of the fold-over portion which corresponds to a sidewall portion of the cup body and defines a gas generating agent accommodation chamber at a position adjacent to the bottom portion and a second swaging portion in a portion opposed to a portion of the fold-over portion which covers an inner circumferential surface of the opening end of the cup body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaki Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 11052866
    Abstract: A safety belt device for a vehicle, having a belt force limiting unit and a safety belt buckle that interacts therewith, through which buckle a wire cable loop is passed that transitions into wire cable segments that are passed out of the safety belt buckle and extend to a cable deflection element at which they are deflected about at least one deflection axis in the direction toward the belt force limiting unit, wherein the safety belt buckle is rotated about a safety belt buckle axis such that the wire cable loop passed through the safety belt buckle is oriented with its loop opening open in the axial direction with respect to the deflection axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Carsten Moeker
  • Patent number: 11052867
    Abstract: An emergency secondary release system is provided. The seatbelt's lap belt section is split into a lower belt section and an upper belt section. A release latch upper section terminates the lower belt section. A release latch lower section terminates the upper belt section. A connection mechanism in the form of a connection pin, cotter pin, hitch pin or clevis pin releasably connects the release latch upper section to said release latch lower section. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventors: James Desch, Carol Desch
  • Patent number: 11052868
    Abstract: A seat belt retractor with a belt shaft rotatably supported in a frame for winding up a seat belt. A blocking device blocks the belt shaft in the winding off direction. A control disk (1) is spring-loaded in the direction of winding up and with a cogging (2). A sensor device (3) inertia mass (4) and a blocking lever (5) can be deflected by the inertia mass (4), which blocks the control disk (1) by deflecting the inertia mass (4) and an engagement of the blocking lever (5) into the cogging (2) of the control disk (1). A counter gear unit (6) driven by the rotary movement of the belt shaft, and a first switching device (7) is activated by the counter gear unit (6) and blocks the control disk (1) after a first belt webbing withdrawal (A) and frees it again after a second belt webbing intake (B). A second switching device (8) is activated by the counter gear unit (6) and fixes the blocking lever (5) after a belt webbing intake (C) in a non-engagement position into the cogging (2) of the control disk (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB
    Inventors: Tjark Brosowski, Markus Hueg, Aniruddha Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11052869
    Abstract: A seatbelt ignition interlock system. The system includes a plurality of sensor devices each including a housing, a latch configured to removably engage the latch receiver of a vehicle seatbelt system, a latch receiver configured to receive and removably engage the latch of the vehicle seatbelt system, a latch sensor, a temperature sensor, and a power source. Each sensor device is in electrical communication with a vehicle ignition interlock circuit, and the vehicle ignition interlock circuit is in electrical communication with an ignition of a vehicle. The vehicle ignition interlock circuit is configured to prevent the vehicle ignition from being started when a combination of temperature sensors and latch sensors determine that occupied seats have unfastened seatbelts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Issac Gladden
  • Patent number: 11052870
    Abstract: A switch assembly for a vehicle seat belt buckle comprising a switch housing defining an interior and a pocket, a cable extending into the interior and including hook-shaped ends extending around posts in the interior of the switch housing. In one embodiment, the interior of the switch housing includes first and second posts positioned in a co-linear and spaced apart relationship and the hook-shaped ends face each other and extend around the first posts and abut against the second posts. In one embodiment, the Hall Effect sensor is positioned in the pocket of the switch housing in an inclined relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Gregory Bunin
  • Patent number: 11052871
    Abstract: Disclosed is a burglar sensor arrangement structure for arranging, with respect to a vehicle interior member (10), a burglar sensor configured to detect an intrusion into a vehicle interior. The burglar sensor arrangement structure comprises an ultrasonic wave generation unit (2) for generating an ultrasonic wave, and a throat portion (18) for radiating the ultrasonic wave generated in the ultrasonic wave generation unit, from a outside opening (18a) thereof into the vehicle interior, wherein the vehicle interior member is formed with a groove (20), and the outside opening of the throat portion is opened at a bottom surface of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Hirosue, Yasuhiro Ohi, Masaaki Sakiyama, Kazufumi Adachi, Yukinori Monden, Masahiro Iriguchi
  • Patent number: 11052872
    Abstract: A control system for a vehicle includes a controller configured to send a mobile application part protocol (MAPP) message to the server requesting that further commands be sent via the MAPP. The control system may send the MAPP message responsive to receiving a message containing a wakeup command from a server and being unable to establish a packet switched connection with the server. The control system may start the vehicle responsive to receiving a MAPP message from the server containing a command to start the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Lei, Allen R. Murray
  • Patent number: 11052873
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an anti-theft system of a motor vehicle, comprising a communication system for near field communication and a storage device within a transmission and reception zone of the communication system. The mobile terminal is deposited in a control area in the interior compartment of the motor vehicle, the control area being located outside the transmission and reception zone. The deposited mobile terminal is connected to the communication system by a connecting device, which may, e.g., take the form of a cable, and a wired data communication connection is established. A control unit detects whether the data communication connection has been established with the mobile terminal by the connecting device and detects whether the mobile terminal is authorised to operate the anti-theft system, and depending on whether the authorisation has been detected, activates and/or deactivates a function of the anti-theft system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Claus-Peter Brückner
  • Patent number: 11052874
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for authenticating a vehicle user. In the method, movement data of a sensor identification circuit are detected by sensors. The detected movement data are supplied to a self-learning system. The self-learning system ascertains a movement profile based on the supplied movement data and assigns this to a vehicle user. Upon approach of the vehicle by a vehicle user, it is checked whether movement data detected at the point in time of the approach corresponds to a movement profile, which is assigned to a vehicle user authorized to use the vehicle. In the event of a match, the vehicle user approaching the vehicle is authorized to use the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Bernd Ette
  • Patent number: 11052875
    Abstract: A unitary defroster system for a motor vehicle windshield comprises an instrument panel substrate, an HVAC supply source, and an air supply plenum in fluid communication with the HVAC supply source and terminating in a plurality of individually configured defroster nozzle ducts conjoined with the instrument panel substrate and aligned in a substantially linear row parallel to and proximate an interior surface of the windshield. The unitary defroster system is formed by an additive manufacturing process and at least two of the ducts are configured and arranged to deliver a different air flow to the interior surface of the windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gary D. Mullen, Nicholas A. Mazzocchi, Mitali Chakrabarti, Anthony Ligi, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11052876
    Abstract: A wiper arm includes a spring for applying a biasing force to the rotation of an arm main body with respect to an arm head and enables the thickness of the wiper arm to be thinner while ensuring the suitable biasing force. The wiper arm also includes a coil spring and a spring plate. The arm main body includes a hinge block rotatably connected to the arm head through a hinge pin and a shaft section extending from the hinge block. The spring plate includes a front end wall including an insertion hole into which the shaft section is inserted and leg sections rotatably attached to the arm head through a roller pin. The coil spring is disposed to be coaxial with the shaft section and is held to be sandwiched between the front end surface of the hinge block and the front end wall of the spring plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO WIPER SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Aoki
  • Patent number: 11052877
    Abstract: A cleaner using a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) module is provided. The cleaner connects a ventilation fan for the HVAC module and a suction fan for vacuum cleaning to a single motor to independently drive the ventilation fan when the HVAC module is operated and to independently drive the suction fan when vacuum cleaning is performed. Accordingly, the number of components and production cost are reduced and, simultaneously, package assembly capability is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Jae Woo Lee, Yong Chul Kim, Jeung Sik Shin
  • Patent number: 11052878
    Abstract: A stabilizing system includes a plurality of jacks, each operated by a corresponding hydraulic actuator. A hydraulic fluid transfer pump supplies hydraulic fluid to and receives hydraulic fluid from one or more pressure chambers of the actuator. A pilot-operated check or directional valve may be provided in fluid communication with one or more of the pressure chambers and configured to regulate the flow of hydraulic fluid to and from the pressure chamber. A directional control valve may connect the pump output with the jacks via respective pilot-operated directional valves. The directional control valve may include a plurality of switch positions respectively connecting the pump output with pairs of the jacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Lippert Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Kinder, Robert L. Tiedge, Nicholas Cornett
  • Patent number: 11052879
    Abstract: Power dollies can be used for moving moveable objects such as trailers. A power dolly could include a frame, a mount and a plurality of wheel sets. The mount could couple the power dolly to a moveable object. One or more of the plurality of wheels sets could be powered. The plurality of wheels sets could be separated into a primary wheel set and one or more support wheel sets. The wheels of the primary wheel set could extend farther from the frame that the wheels of the support wheel sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Parkit360 Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Houle
  • Patent number: 11052880
    Abstract: A parking lock arrangement for a drive train of a motor vehicle includes a controllable locking mechanism and an unlocking mechanism. The controllable locking mechanism includes a spindle drive with a spindle shaft rotationally drivable about a spindle axis, an actuator for rotating the spindle shaft and a positioning element movable by rotating the spindle shaft for actuating a blocking element. The blocking element acts at least indirectly on a drive element in a blocking or releasing manner. The unlocking mechanism includes an unlocking element and a manually operable control element. The unlocking element is movable via the control element from a normal position, in which the unlocking element is spaced apart from the spindle shaft, into an engagement position, in which the unlocking element is coupled in torque-transmitting manner to the spindle shaft for forced releasing of the locking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: GKN Automotive Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Schmidt, Simon Broicher
  • Patent number: 11052881
    Abstract: A work machine includes an electric drive system. The work machine includes a prime mover, a machine controller, and a hydraulic control system. The hydraulic control system includes a pump, a control valve and a retarding control valve. The pump is configured to supply pressurized fluid to the hydraulic control system via a supply line. The control valve is fluidly coupled to the pump via the supply line, and includes a pressure relief valve. The retarding control valve is fluidly connected to the pump and the control valve. The retarding control valve includes a solenoid valve, an orifice and a check valve. The solenoid valve is coupled to the machine controller, the orifice restricts a flow of the pressurized fluid through the supply line, and the check valve is coupled to a discharge line, which branches from a point along the supply line between the solenoid valve and the orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: Dayao Chen, William F. Erdman, Edward W. Mate
  • Patent number: 11052882
    Abstract: A lever assembly may have a control lever having at least one lever coupling portion delimiting a lever rotation seat. The assembly may also have a lever support having at least one support tooth with a tooth seat. An articulation pin may be received in the tooth seat and in the lever rotation seat. The lever assembly may have at least one cover connected to the lever support at least partially closing one of the tooth seat and rotation seat to prevent the pin from exiting said seats, thus rotatably constraining the lever to the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Freni Brembo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Roberto Lavezzi, Alessandro Esposito, Ivan Maggioni
  • Patent number: 11052883
    Abstract: Driving support ECU transmits a communication connection request to a help net center HNC when a driver of a vehicle has been determined to be in an abnormal state where the driver loses an ability to drive the vehicle, and when the communication connection to the help net center HNC has been established, the driving support ECU transmits the help signal (the positional information of the vehicle) and decelerates the vehicle at a constant deceleration to make the vehicle stop. On the other hand, when the communication connection to the help net center HNC has not been established, the driving support ECU makes the vehicle travel at a constant speed. Accordingly, it is possible to make the vehicle stop under a situation where the help net center HNC recognizes the vehicle position inside which the driver who has been determined to be in the abnormal state is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirotada Otake
  • Patent number: 11052884
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for controlling a braking device of a rail vehicle, wherein a pressure characteristic curve of the braking device is changed by means of characteristic curve change device as a function of a frictional characteristic of a type of brake lining used in the braking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FÜR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventor: Marc-Oliver Herden
  • Patent number: 11052885
    Abstract: A system and a method for estimating the coefficient of friction of a hydraulic brake system with axle-individual pressure buildup of a motor vehicle. In addition, a system and to a method for setting the target braking torque of a hydraulic braking system with axle-individual buildup of a motor vehicle in order to obtain a desired actual braking torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Matthias Geuß
  • Patent number: 11052886
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake system is disclosed which may include a supply pump pressurizing a brake control system via a brake control supply line; a pressure-released brake connected to the brake control system via a brake line; a pressure relief valve with an inlet connected to the brake control supply line and an outlet connected to a relief valve discharge line; a make-up line connecting the brake line and the relief valve discharge line; and a check valve on the make-up line allowing one-way flow from the relief valve discharge line to the brake line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon J. Schwoerer, Lance M. Cowper
  • Patent number: 11052887
    Abstract: An electric component assembly includes a housing with which an electric component is fitted, and the electric component and the housing are fixed to one surface of a base body. The electric component includes a connection terminal press-fitted to a through-hole (201a) of a board provided in the housing, and an insertion direction of the connection terminal into the through-hole is a fitting direction of the electric component with the housing. The electric component assembly includes a rib which is protrudingly provided on either one of an outer surface of the electric component intersecting the fitting direction and an inner surface of the housing facing the outer surface, and a groove portion which is provided as a recess on another one of the surfaces and the rib is inserted into; and a protrusion that abuts onto the rib is provided on an inner surface of the groove portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignees: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd., Veoneer Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Chiba, Takaaki Komaba
  • Patent number: 11052888
    Abstract: A cuboid hydraulic block for a slip-controlled hydraulic power vehicle braking system and provides applying ports for wheel brakes along a transverse side or along a longitudinal side in a large side of the hydraulic block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Mayr, Andreas Weh, Juergen Tandler
  • Patent number: 11052889
    Abstract: A method for automatic electronic control of a brake system in a vehicle includes reading a request signal for automatic electronic control of actuators in the vehicle. At least one of the actuators has an influence on actual longitudinal vehicle dynamics of the vehicle, and requests that are to be implemented by the actuators for realizing automatically requested target longitudinal vehicle dynamics are transmitted via the request signal. The method further includes plausibility-checking the request signal to establish whether the requests are, or can be, implemented completely or without error by the actuators, taking into account a tolerance, and determining a correction deceleration and/or a correction velocity if the implementation of at least one of the requests has not taken place, or cannot take place, completely or without error, taking into account the tolerance, in order to specify corrective braking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BV
    Inventor: Oliver Wulf
  • Patent number: 11052890
    Abstract: An integrated power brake unit (20) includes an input rod (30) operable to receive a driver braking input force, a booster operable to boost the driver braking input force, a master cylinder, a pump operable to provide pressurized fluid for braking, in lieu of the master cylinder, in response to the driver braking input force, and a fluid reservoir (36) defining a main chamber. The fluid reservoir (36) has first and second outlet ports (P1, P2) in fluid communication to supply the master cylinder, and a third outlet port (P3) in fluid communication to supply the pump, each of the first, second, and third outlet ports (P1, P2, P3) being provided in a bottom wall (48) of the fluid reservoir (36). The fluid reservoir (36) includes a sub-chamber (42) within the main chamber, the sub-chamber (42) covering the third outlet port (P3), and defining an opening (56) to the main chamber at a forward-most end of the sub-chamber (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Scott Spencer, David Black