Patents Issued in March 12, 2024
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Patent number: 11926288Abstract: Embodiments of active cargo carrier mounting system secure a cargo carrier to a top surface of a vehicle using an outer seal secured to the rooftop of a vehicle, at least one vacuum pump controllably coupled to a microcontroller, a vacuum line fluidly coupled to the at least one vacuum pump, and a plurality of vacuum cups configured to secure the active cargo carrier mounting system to the rooftop of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventor: Neil Thomas Buttermore
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Patent number: 11926289Abstract: Equipment such as bicycle racks are often delivered to the end user in a partially assembled state. The component subassemblies may be heavy or unwieldy in size, making it difficult for the end user to hold the subassemblies in the correct positions with respect to each other while attaching the fasteners that hold the subassemblies together while the equipment is in use. An equipment rack is described having features that hold the subassemblies in an assembled configuration while the operational fasteners are added or engaged to hold the equipment rack in its final, assembled configuration. These features may be surface features that the end user is able to engage with each other to provide support to subassemblies and hold them in the proper orientation and position while the operational fasteners are aligned, inserted, tightened, or otherwise affixed to the assembled parts.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventors: Luke Kuschmeader, Jonathan Graif
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Patent number: 11926290Abstract: The fluid dispensing system (100) comprises at least one fluid source (110), at least one pump (130-1, 130-2, 130-3, . . . , 130-N), at least one telescopic fluid dispenser (140?-1?, 140?-2?, 140?-3?, . . . , 140?-M?); a control unit (160) to operate the pump (130-1, 130-2, 130-3, . . . , 130-N) for supplying fluid (120) according to a received command of washing at least one target object (150-1, 150-2, 150-3, . . . , 150-O), a manifold (180), and at least one control valve assembly (V-1, V-2, . . . , V?-P?) comprising a fluid inlet for receiving fluid from the at least one fluid source (110), a first fluid outlet for discharging fluid into the at least one telescopic fluid dispenser (140?-1, 140?-2, 140?-3, . . . , 140?-M?), and a second fluid outlet for allowing fluid to flow back away from the telescopic fluid dispensers (140?-1, 140?-2?, 140?-3?, . . . , 140?-M?) when retracting from the extended position to the rest position.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: FICO TRANSPAR, S.A.Inventors: Olallo Alcaide Hernández, Jose luis Villarrubia Guarino
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Patent number: 11926291Abstract: A cleaning system is disclosed for cleaning concrete residue from a concrete mixer truck. The cleaning system may include a water delivery system having one or more conduits configured to deliver pressurized water to one or more spray headers positioned at various back-end portions of the truck. The cleaning system further includes one or more valves configured to control the flow of pressurized water through the one or more conduits to the one or more spray headers. In various embodiments, the one or more valves are manually operable to control the release of water to the spray headers. In other embodiments, the one or more valves are controlled by a computing device through an electrical coupling such as a communication bus. The cleaning system may be configured to clean different portions of the truck using different sets of spray headers at different times as part of a washing protocol.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Beck Manufacturing International, Inc.Inventors: James Frank Beck, III, James Frank Beck, II, Thomas Christopher Beck
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Patent number: 11926292Abstract: A motorized landing gear for a tractor trailer is located near the manual operation crank of the landing gear. The drive motor is powered by a plug in mechanical communication with a power source and actuated by a switch which may be double-pole/double-throw toggle switch secured adjacent the crank. The motorized landing gear may be provided with a protective all-weather covering.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventor: Ricky Strogen
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Patent number: 11926293Abstract: A mounting mechanism (100), to enable hitching a tool (101) with the frame of a utility vehicle, comprises front hooks (102), a locking mechanism (104), a lifting cradle assembly (106), and a frame attachment mechanism (108). The front hooks (102) and the locking mechanism is configured to detachably engage the front and the rear portion of the tool (101) respectively. The cradle assembly (106) is configured to be operatively engaged with the front hooks (102) and the locking mechanism (104). The frame attachment mechanism (108) is configured to be pivotally coupled to the lifting cradle assembly (106). The locking mechanism (104) is configured to be operated by lifting the cradle assembly (106) via pivotal motion between the cradle and the frame attachment mechanism (108) under force generated by the vehicle (1000) to hitch and lock the tool (101) with the frame of the vehicle (1000).Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Mahindra and Mahindra LimitedInventors: Sundararajan Rangarajan, Samu Sandberg, Juho Ryyppö, Hannu Rantala
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Patent number: 11926294Abstract: A relay valve module for an electronically controllable pneumatic brake system for actuating wheel brakes of a utility vehicle includes: a reservoir connection for receiving a reservoir pressure; a brake control pressure connection for receiving a brake control pressure; at least one first service brake connection for outputting a service brake pressure; a relay valve with a relay valve reservoir connection, which is connected to the reservoir connection, a relay valve working connection, which is connected to the first service brake connection, a relay valve ventilation connection, and a relay valve control connection; an electropneumatic pilot control unit, which is connected to the reservoir connection, the electropneumatic pilot control unit providing a pilot control pressure; and a shuttle valve with a first shuttle valve inlet, a second shuttle valve inlet, and a shuttle valve outlet. The first shuttle valve inlet is connected to the brake control pressure connection.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BVInventors: Thomas Mueller, Robert Otremba, Julian Van Thiel, Gerd Roters
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Patent number: 11926295Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electric hydraulic brake device, which includes a main brake unit, which provides a braking fluid to a plurality of wheel cylinder units by driving a motor, a storage unit connected to the main brake unit and configured to store the braking fluid, and an auxiliary brake unit which is connected to the main brake unit and the storage unit and provides the braking fluid to some of the plurality of wheel cylinder units when an operation error of the main brake unit occurs and in which a hydraulic circuit is physically distinguished.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Sung Ki Ahn
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Patent number: 11926296Abstract: An electric brake comprises a brake mechanism that transmits a thrust generated by driving an electric motor to a piston that moves brake pads pressed against a disc rotor; a thrust sensor that detects the thrust applied to the piston; a rotation angle sensor that detects a rotational position of the electric motor; and a rear electric brake ECU that controls the driving of the electric motor on the basis of a braking command. The rear electric brake ECU detects an abnormality in the brake mechanism from a detected value of the thrust sensor and a detected value of the rotation angle sensor in response to the braking command which are obtained when the electric motor is driven.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Wataru Yokoyama, Daisuke Goto, Kenichiro Matsubara
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Patent number: 11926297Abstract: A system for predicting a negative pressure of a brake booster of a vehicle includes: a driving information detector configured to detect driving information according to driving of the vehicle; and a controller configured to calculate a negative pressure of an intake manifold based on a pressure of the intake manifold and an atmospheric pressure that is the driving information and including a booster negative pressure predictor configured to predict the negative pressure of the brake booster by integrating over time a change rate according to a charging rate and a discharging rate of the negative pressure calculated using a previous negative pressure of the brake booster calculated in a previous cycle according to a logic for predicting the negative pressure of the brake booster and the negative pressure of the intake manifold and a brake pedal force of a current cycle.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, HYUNDAI KEFICO CORPORATIONInventors: Tae Hun Jung, Young-Jin Kim
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Patent number: 11926298Abstract: A brake device includes a brake pedal, an input rod, a master cylinder, a guide rail, a slider, and a coupling arm. The brake pedal is rotatable using an arm rotary shaft disposed on one end of a pedal arm used as a fulcrum. A pedal force input to the brake pedal is transmitted to the input rod as a thrust. The master cylinder is configured to generate a brake hydraulic pressure responsive to the thrust input to the input rod. The guide rail is disposed on the pedal arm and extends along a longitudinal direction of the pedal arm. The slider is coupled to the pedal arm via the guide rail and is movable on the guide rail. The coupling arm has a first end rotatably coupled to the slider and a second end rotatably coupled to the input rod. The second end is different from the first end.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Yujiro Kondo, Tomonori Imaizumi
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Patent number: 11926299Abstract: Described are systems and methods for predicting road collisions between a host vehicle and one or more objects in the surroundings of the vehicle. In aspects, range rate and heading information is acquired regarding a moving object in the surroundings of the vehicle; possible vehicle trajectories of the vehicle are calculated; possible object trajectories are calculated from the range rate of the object, the heading of the object, and a possible turn and acceleration of the object; and a collision calculation is performed.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Aptiv Technologies LimitedInventor: Viktor Svensson
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Patent number: 11926300Abstract: An adaptive brake control system for use in Ground Support Equipment (GSE) including a speed control system. The adaptive brake control system includes a distance sensor adapted to measure a distance from an edge of the GSE to an external object and a speed senor adapted to measure a ground speed of the GSE. An actuator, such as a brake actuator, is adapted to cause the speed control system of the GSE to slow or stop the GSE. A controller is functionally associated with the distance sensor, the speed sensor, and the actuator. The controller is adapted to receive inputs from the distance sensor and the speed sensor, and, based on the received inputs, to trigger the actuator to affect slowing or stopping of the GSE.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: ZIV AV ENGINEERING LTD., TRI-LOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES LTDInventors: Dvir Brand, Gavriel Hai Yaniv
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Patent number: 11926301Abstract: A vehicle weight sensing system particularly useful for trailers. An axle tube is mounted to the vehicle or trailer through its suspension members that may be leaf springs. A mounting block is affixed to the axle tube for mounting a strain gauge. The mounting block is fixed to the axle tube between the suspension members connected to the axle tube. The mounting block has a mounting surface opposite to the mating surface and a notch extends from the mating surface toward the mounting surface. The notch terminates between the mating surface and the mounting surface. The notch separates rigidified sections of the mounting block and the rigidified sections straddle the notch. The stain gauge measures strain in the axle and thereby generates a signal proportional to the weight on the trailer. The signal can be used to properly proportion a brake system on the trailer.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Dexter Axle Company LLCInventor: Samuel N. Lievore
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Patent number: 11926302Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronically controlled pneumatic brake system for a utility vehicle, including a front-axle brake circuit with a single-channel front-axle modulator for the control of first and second front-axle service brake actuators, wherein first and second front-axle ABS valves are provided; a rear-axle brake circuit with a single-channel rear-axle modulator for the control of first and second rear-axle service brake actuators, wherein first and second rear-axle ABS valves are provided; a braking-value sensor which has an electrical terminal for the provision of an electronic brake demand signal; and a central electronic control unit which receives the electronic brake demand signal and controls the front-axle and rear-axle modulators. Here, it is provided that the central electronic control unit is formed as a structural unit with the rear-axle modulator and/or the front-axle modulator.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: ZF CV Systems Hannover GmbHInventor: Arne Michaelsen
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Patent number: 11926303Abstract: A non-return valve for a vehicle hydraulic-power brake system. The non-return valve has a valve-seat part in the form of an apertured disk, onto which is pressed a valve cage in which a valve ball is disposed as shut-off member and a helical compression spring is disposed as valve spring. A bowl-shaped filter is secured in a depression in the valve-seat part opposite the valve cage.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Tobias Franke, Andreas Weh, Martin Hagspiel
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Patent number: 11926304Abstract: A vehicle control system for controlling braking in a vehicle may include a braking system operably coupled to one or more wheels of the vehicle to provide brake inputs to the one or more wheels responsive to a torque request generated based on pedal position. The system may further include a pedal position sensor operably coupled to a brake pedal to determine the pedal position responsive to actuation of the brake pedal by a driver of the vehicle, a pedal feel simulator operably coupled to the brake pedal to provide tactile feedback to the driver via a pedal force applied to the brake pedal, an accelerometer for determining a rate of velocity reduction of the vehicle during the actuation of the brake pedal, and a feedback augmenter operably coupled to the pedal feel simulator to provide a pedal force offset to increase the pedal force provided to the brake pedal based on the rate of velocity reduction.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventors: David S. Patterson, Thomas Svensson, Rob Eaton
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Patent number: 11926305Abstract: A method for automatic electronic control of a brake system in a vehicle includes reading a brake signal for the automatic electronic control of brakes in the vehicle, wherein requests to be implemented by the brakes are transmitted via the brake signal to bring about automatically requested target vehicle longitudinal dynamics. The method further includes determining a brake pressure distribution indicating a ratio of a front axle brake pressure of a front axle to a rear axle brake pressure of a rear axle, and providing at least a first brake pressure signal of the first electronic control unit to at least a first electropneumatic control device, taking into account the braking request signal and the brake pressure distribution for controlling the front axle brake pressure and the rear axle brake pressure, and receiving the brake pressure distribution at a second electronic control unit and storing the detected brake pressure distribution.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BVInventors: Klaus Plaehn, Julian Van Thiel
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Patent number: 11926306Abstract: An electronically slip-controllable power braking system for a motor vehicle, in which a controllably drivable pressure generator supplies multiple brake circuits connected in parallel to one another with pressure medium under brake pressure. Each of the brake circuits are separable through existing first control valves from the pressure generator and include second control valves that are connected downstream from the first control valves to control the brake pressure in the wheel brakes, which are connected with the brake circuits. An electronic control unit in the brake circuits has three devices, the third device puts the first control valve of a brake circuit into a passage position if a leakage is established downstream from the second control valve in this brake circuit and if it is established that the pressure generated by the pressure generator has at least approximately reached or exceeded a pressure limit of the first control valve.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Dirk Foerch, Verena Barske, Andreas Krautter, Michael Bunk, Peter Ziegler, Ulrike Schaefer
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Patent number: 11926307Abstract: A method for defining at least one characteristic curve which, in a pressure-actuated brake system of a vehicle, represents a relationship between a brake pressure and a brake demand), and for operating a pressure-actuated brake system of a vehicle, in which at least one brake cylinder can be supplied with a pressurized medium under a brake pressure, and in which the brake pressure is formed based on at least one such characteristic curve, and to a pressure-actuated brake system of a vehicle in which at least one brake cylinder can be supplied with a pressurized medium under a brake pressure.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBHInventors: Jonas Leibbrand, Oliver Jundt, Soeren Muennig
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Patent number: 11926308Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an internal combustion engine that is coupled to a power split transmission are described. In one example, the internal combustion engine is operated in a speed control mode or a torque control mode in response to a braking torque and a transmission shift command. Operating the engine in the torque control mode may allow the engine to charge a battery while a neutral transmission state is selected.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stephen Shen, William David Treharne, Carol Louise Okubo
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Patent number: 11926309Abstract: A motor control device which is an example of the present disclosure includes a hardware processor configured to: calculate damper torque on a basis of a difference between a crank angle and a motor angle; calculate, on a basis of the damper torque, reversed phase torque in reverse phase to the damper torque; calculate a correction amount for a phase of the reversed phase torque on a basis of a difference between a first value corresponding to a torsion angle between an input inertial member and an output inertial member and a second value corresponding to a torsion angle between an intermediate inertial member and the output inertial member; and output a motor torque command to be provided to a motor generator on a basis of the reversed phase torque a phase of which has been corrected in accordance with the correction amount.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotaka Mizuguchi, Satoshi Kokubo, Masahiko Kobayashi, Tomoki Inagaki, Masaaki Tominaga
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Patent number: 11926310Abstract: Controlling a speed limit includes determining a virtual vehicle speed as being a lower one of a vehicle speed and a target limit speed, determining a virtual APS value as being a larger one of a first APS value and a second APS value, transitioning to a second mode at a point in time at which an actual APS value and the second APS value become different, when it is expected to transition to the second mode, among a first mode for sustaining a SOC of a battery at the target limit speed and the second mode for depleting the SOC, and determining a transmission gear position by applying the determined virtual vehicle speed and the determined virtual APS value to one of a first shifting pattern and a second shifting pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Hui Un Son, Sang Joon Kim, Kyu Hwan Jo, Sung Bae Jeon, Sung Hoon Yu, Joo Young Kim, Jin Kyeom Cho
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Patent number: 11926311Abstract: A hybrid driving system and a hybrid electric vehicle. The hybrid driving system includes an engine, an input element (20), an output element (23), a box body (24), a first motor (13), a second motor (14), a first planet row, a second planet row, a third planet row, a first clutch (15) and a first brake (16). According to the hybrid driving system of the present disclosure, a basic three-planet-row planet gear configuration is provided through the planet row mechanical structure and the reasonable layout of multiple operating elements (the clutches and the brakes), which can realize at least two E-CVT working modes to obtain higher transmission efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Changning Tai, Xuewu Liu, Xiaoming Ling, Fenfen Ma, You Zhou, Anwei Zhang, Dongwei Liang, Jiajing Guan
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Patent number: 11926312Abstract: In a case where a predetermined switching operation to a state in which a traveling position is selected from a state in which another shift position of a mechanical transmission device is selected is performed by a driver, a quick engagement command to quickly engage a predetermined engagement device is performed in a state in which output of a predetermined torque is stopped, and then a rapid garage control of increasing a rotation speed of an electric motor at a rotation speed equal to or higher than a predetermined rotation speed is executed. The rapid garage control is executed in a case where a predetermined start condition is established.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshio Hasegawa, Tomohiro Chimbe, Shogo Kawai
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Patent number: 11926313Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes: an empty stall determiner that determines, based on sensing of surroundings by a sensor section provided in a vehicle, whether or not a parking stall present in surroundings of the vehicle is an empty stall; an empty stall storing section that stores information regarding a location of the empty stall determined by the empty stall determiner in association with a passing route of the vehicle; and an automatic travel controller that generates a travel route from a current location to the empty stall based on the sensing of the surroundings by the sensor section, the automatic travel controller performing control to cause the vehicle to travel along the travel route and be parked in the empty stall in a head-in manner.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuki Matsushita
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Patent number: 11926314Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus sets a target speed of a vehicle such that a maximum value of the target speed is a first speed during a parking assist control. The vehicle control apparatus executes the parking assist control with maintaining a speed of the vehicle at a speed equal to or slower than a predetermined speed limit value slower than the first speed when a predetermined condition that the vehicle moves along a downward slope, is satisfied when a first electric power source device is in a normal state during the parking assist control. At least one of a braking apparatus and a shift change apparatus executes a stopping control of stopping the vehicle when a malfunction occurs in the first electric power source device during the parking assist control.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kota Inoue
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Patent number: 11926315Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus for detecting risk factors around a vehicle. The present electronic apparatus comprises a communicator, a memory storing at least one computer-executable instruction, and a processor for executing the at least one computer-executable instruction, wherein the processor receives, through the communicator, an image obtained from a camera located to capture the outside of the vehicle, calculates a rollover index of an external vehicle on the basis of an image of the external vehicle included in the obtained image, and performs a preset operation according to the calculated rollover index.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dongwoo Park, Heejun Choi
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Patent number: 11926316Abstract: A driving assist ECU determines that a current situation is a specific situation where it is predicted that there is no object that is about to enter an adjacent lane from an area outside of a host vehicle road on which a host vehicle is traveling, when a road-side object is detected at a part around an edge of the adjacent lane, and/or when a white line painted to define the adjacent lane is detected at the part around the edge of the adjacent lane and no object near the detected white line is detected. The driving assist ECU does not perform a steering control for avoiding a collision, the steering control for letting the vehicle enter the adjacent lane, when it is not determined that the current situation is the specific situation.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuhei Miyamoto, Kohei Morotomi
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Patent number: 11926317Abstract: Embodiments provide a vehicle computer coupled to a vehicle. The vehicle computer may be configured to compute (e.g., generate) an automated lane change maneuver moving the vehicle from a first lane into a second, adjacent lane. The lane change maneuver may have commenced while the maneuver was safe to conduct, but a threat vehicle (or another threat object) may be subsequently detected moving into the same target lane. The option to immediately abort the maneuver and return to the original lane may not be appropriate after some time into the lane change maneuver. The vehicle computer may control the vehicle in a lateral position hold along the lane demarcation line for a predetermined amount of time before moving into the second lane when the threat vehicle clears the second lane or returning to the first lane when the threat vehicle does not clear the second lane.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PlusAI, Inc.Inventors: Robert Joseph Dingli, Lichun Yang, Mohammadhussein Rafieisakhaei
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Patent number: 11926318Abstract: In some implementations, a device may receive video data associated with video frames that depict an environment of a vehicle. The device may identify an object depicted in the video frames, wherein an object detection model indicates bounding boxes associated with the object. The device may determine, based on the bounding boxes, a configuration of the bounding boxes within the video frames. The device may determine, based on the configuration of the bounding boxes, that the object is a vulnerable road user (VRU) that is in the environment. The device may determine a trajectory of the VRU based on a change in the configuration between video frames of a set of the video frames. The device may determine, based on the trajectory, a probability of a collision between the VRU and the vehicle. The device may perform, based on the probability, an action associated with the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Verizon Connect Development LimitedInventors: Luca Bravi, Luca Kubin, Leonardo Sarti, Leonardo Taccari, Francesco Sambo
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Patent number: 11926319Abstract: A driving monitoring device (100) decides an applicable collision pattern that applies to a collision pattern of a case where a vehicle (200) collides with a mobile object, based on a velocity vector of the vehicle, a velocity vector of the mobile object, and so on. Subsequently, the driving monitoring device calculates a time until collision, which is a time taken until the vehicle collides with the mobile object, in the applicable collision pattern. Then, the driving monitoring device calculates a danger level of an accident in which the vehicle collides with the mobile object, based on the applicable collision pattern and the time until collision.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Haruo Nakata, Masahiko Tanimoto, Yosuke Ishiwatari, Masahiro Abukawa
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Patent number: 11926320Abstract: An autonomous speed control function for autonomously controlling a traveling speed of the vehicle and an autonomous steering control function for autonomously controlling steering of the vehicle include executing first autonomous control where, when an external situation of the vehicle is recognizable from a captured image by a camera on the vehicle, the vehicle is autonomously controlled using information recognized from the captured image; executing second autonomous control in which information indicating the external situation of the vehicle is acquired from stored map information provided in the vehicle and the vehicle is autonomously controlled using the acquired information; specifying an unrecognizable area in which the external situation of the vehicle is unrecognizable from the captured image; and when the unrecognizable area is present on a travel route of the vehicle, switching from the first autonomous control to the second autonomous control before the vehicle enters the unrecognizable area.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yohei Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11926321Abstract: The present invention relates to method and system for controlling speed of vehicle by using GPS location, real-time traffic light status and machine learning techniques to recommend cruising speed to vehicle without stopping at the traffic lights. The method includes determining status of traffic lights located on route of traffic junctions and associated time period for status of traffic lights based on data received from sensors. The method includes broadcasting status of traffic lights and associated time period. The method includes calculating in real-time a recommended cruising speed of the vehicle based on GPS location associated with vehicle, status of traffic lights and associated time period, and a time period required by vehicle to arrive at the traffic lights using machine learning techniques. The method includes providing in real-time the recommended cruising speed to vehicle. The method includes adaptively controlling in real-time speed of vehicle to recommended cruising speed.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventor: Leigh M. Rothschild
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Patent number: 11926322Abstract: A hybrid deterministic override to cloud based probabilistic advanced driver assistance systems. Under default driving conditions, an ego vehicle is controlled by a probabilistic controller in a cloud. An overall gap between the ego vehicle and a leading vehicle is divided into an emergency collision gap and a driver specified gap. The vehicle sensors monitor the overall gap. When the gap between the ego vehicle and the leading vehicle is less than or equal to the emergency collision gap, a deterministic controller of the ego vehicle overrides the cloud based probabilistic controller to control the braking and acceleration of the ego vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Rohit Gupta, Yanbing Wang, Ziran Wang, Kyungtae Han, Prashant Tiwari
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Patent number: 11926323Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: an engine controller configured to perform an IS control upon satisfaction of a predetermined stop condition and an engine restart control upon satisfaction of a predetermined restart condition; an HDC controller configured to perform, when the vehicle is traveling on a downhill road and a deceleration request according to an HDC control occurs, a target vehicle speed-based deceleration irrespective of brake operations by the driver; and an information acquisition part configured to acquire progress status information related to the engine restart control and including information on initiation and completion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahito Yoshida, Yoshinari Sugita, Rei Okubo, Hidetoshi Kobori, Shumpei Tahara, Shun Igarashi, Takuya Sato, Takayuki Matsuyoshi
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Patent number: 11926324Abstract: A method for controlling connection of a driveline within a vehicle includes detecting a deceleration and/or a brake demand while the vehicle is operating in a coasting mode and the vehicle speed is above a threshold speed, determining whether the driveline can be reconnected within a threshold time, and controlling the driveline so that the driveline is not reconnected if the driveline cannot be reconnected within the threshold time.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITEDInventors: Jonathan Herring, Thomas Valero
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Patent number: 11926325Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a processor. Before the vehicle passes through an inflection point of a curvature of a target trajectory, the processor sets a first reference point before the inflection point. After the vehicle passes through the inflection point, the processor sets a second reference point at a position where a second distance from a current position of the vehicle after the vehicle passes through the inflection point to the second reference point is longer than a first distance from a current position of the vehicle before the vehicle passes through the inflection point to the first reference point when compared under travel conditions identical in a vehicle speed, an acceleration rate, a deceleration rate, or a steering angle. The processor sets a target steering angle based on the curvature of an arc passing through the current position and the first reference point or the second reference point.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke Takebayashi, Takeshi Yoneda
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Patent number: 11926326Abstract: A system and to a method executed in a vehicle control unit for controlling wheel slip of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle comprises at least two wheels driven by at least primary actuator via an open differential. The primary actuator is controlled to rotate at a speed resulting in a slip ?em of the primary actuator. A signed wheel slip limit ?lim is determined by adding a configurable value to the slip ?em of the primary actuator, such that ?lim>?em. The at least two wheels are controlled to rotate at wheel speeds resulting in respective wheel slips ?l, ?r below the signed wheel slip limit ?lim, wherein each one of ?l, ?r and ?em are signed numerical values.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventors: Adithya Arikere, Leo Laine, Leon Henderson, Sidhant Ray
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Patent number: 11926327Abstract: A drive system driving front wheels and rear wheels of a vehicle includes a powertrain comprising an output shaft, a rear driveshaft coupled to the rear wheels, a drive mechanism coupling the output shaft to the rear wheels, a front driveshaft shaft coupled to the front wheels and a prop shaft coupling the rear driveshaft and to the front driveshaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.Inventors: Jason R Fields, Jeffrey M. Goulet
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Patent number: 11926328Abstract: There is disclosed a method, for determining a suitable tire for use on a vehicle, wherein the vehicle comprises an electronic device capable of collecting driving data relating to the driving of the vehicle. The method comprises obtaining driving data (18), from the electronic device, relating to the driving of the vehicle, and determining, from the driving data, an amount of driving performed on at least one of a plurality of different road types (20). The method further comprises forming a road type driving profile (22) comprising one or more road types and the associated determined amount of driving performed thereon and selecting, from a plurality of different tires, a suitable tire (24) for the vehicle based on at least the road type driving profile.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventors: Paul Roeland Verheijen, Valerio Bortolotto, Roberto Benedetti, Federico Tecca, Jeroen Lust, Jonathan Alcantarilla Calderon
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Patent number: 11926329Abstract: An evaluation of the speed of movement of a rear wheel of a motor vehicle on the ground, in particular on the inside of a bend, is made exclusively according to the speeds of the front wheels, in situations in which a direct measurement is not possible or in order to accurately evaluate occurrences of wheel lock-up or wheel slip. The invention can be applied to improving the braking setpoints when cornering.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: FOUNDATION BRAKES FRANCEInventors: Lennart Witte, Alex Patrão Carqueijò
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Patent number: 11926330Abstract: A device for determining an accident of personal mobility in real time, a system for rapidly identifying and coping with the accident, and a method for determining the accident of the personal mobility are provided. The device includes a sensor device that obtains at least one of an angle between the personal mobility and a ground, an amount of impact on the personal mobility, or a speed of the personal mobility, and a determination device that determines whether the accident of the personal mobility has occurred based on the at least one of the angle, the amount of impact, or the speed.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: So Jeong Kim
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Patent number: 11926331Abstract: An apparatus includes a position circuit structured to monitor a position of an accelerator of a vehicle and a speed circuit structured to monitor a speed of the vehicle. The position corresponds with an associated response of a prime mover of the vehicle. The associated response includes at least one of a torque output and a power output of the prime mover. The apparatus further includes a response management circuit structured to receive an indication regarding the position of the accelerator and the speed of the vehicle; determine that the indication satisfies a remapping condition, the remapping condition including at least one of a creep condition, an obstacle condition, a deceleration condition, and a reverse condition; and dynamically remap the associated response of the prime mover of the vehicle based on the position of the accelerator in response to the indication satisfying the remapping condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Cummins Inc.Inventors: Martin T. Books, Vivek Anand Sujan
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Patent number: 11926332Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for controlling an autonomous vehicle. For instance, a first probability distribution may be generated for the vehicle at a first future point in time using a generative model for predicting expected behaviors of objects and a set of characteristics for the vehicle at an initial time expected to be perceived by an observer. Planning system software of the vehicle may be used to generate a trajectory for the vehicle to follow. A second probability distribution may be generated for a second future point in time using the generative model based on the trajectory and a set of characteristics for the vehicle at the first future point expected to be perceived by the observer. A surprise assessment may be generated by comparing the first probability distribution to the second probability distribution. The vehicle may be controlled based on the surprise assessment.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Johan Engstrom, Jared Russell
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Patent number: 11926333Abstract: As a farming machine travels through a field of plants, the farming machine operates in a normal operational state to perform one or more farming operations. The farming machine detects an operational failure of a component of the farming machine using measurements obtained from one or more sensors coupled to and monitoring the farming machine. The operational failure of the component impacts performance of a first farming operation of the farming operations. The farming machine configures the farming machine to operate in a remedial operational state. In the remedial operational state, the farming machine diagnoses the operational failure of the component using the obtained measurements. In the remedial operational state, the farming machine selects a solution operation to address the operational failure of the component based on the diagnosis. The farming machine performs the determined solution operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: BLUE RIVER TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: John William Peake, James Patrick Ostrowski, Erik Ehn, Kent Michael Anderson, Benjamin Ray Chostner
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Patent number: 11926334Abstract: Described is a system for human-machine teaching for vehicle operation. The system determines currently enabled status reporting modes on a vehicle interface of a vehicle. The currently enabled status reporting modes are compared to a set of preferred status reporting modes of previous users. Based on the comparison, a status reporting mode is selected. A current operational status of the vehicle is reported to a current user, via the vehicle interface, using the selected status reporting mode. The system then determines preferred solutions of previous users to address the current operational status of the vehicle. Suggestions to address the current operational status of the vehicle based on the preferred solutions are reported to the user via the vehicle interface. A vehicle action corresponding to a solution selected by the current user is implemented via a vehicle component.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLCInventors: Tiffany Hwu, David J. Huber, Steven W. Skorheim, Jaehoon Choe
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Patent number: 11926335Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media are configured to perform operations comprising determining a symmetric scenario for a scenario; training a first machine learning model for the scenario based on first training data generated from second training data for the symmetric scenario; and generating a prediction for the scenario based on the first machine learning model.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PlusAI, Inc.Inventors: Yu Wang, Yongzuan Wu
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Patent number: 11926336Abstract: An electric suspension control, in a vehicle including an electric suspension apparatus driven with a motor, short-circuits the motor and limits a vehicle speed to a predetermined speed or less, in a case where an abnormality occurs in the electric suspension apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Ohno, Takafumi Kato, Tomoya Toyohira
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Patent number: 11926337Abstract: Systems and methods for determining object intentions through visual attributes are provided. A method can include determining, by a computing system, one or more regions of interest. The regions of interest can be associated with surrounding environment of a first vehicle. The method can include determining, by a computing system, spatial features and temporal features associated with the regions of interest. The spatial features can be indicative of a vehicle orientation associated with a vehicle of interest. The temporal features can be indicative of a semantic state associated with signal lights of the vehicle of interest. The method can include determining, by the computing system, a vehicle intention. The vehicle intention can be based on the spatial and temporal features. The method can include initiating, by the computing system, an action. The action can be based on the vehicle intention.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: UATC, LLCInventors: Davi Eugenio Nascimento Frossard, Eric Randall Kee, Raquel Urtasun