Patents Issued in May 9, 2024
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Publication number: 20240149832Abstract: The vehicle may include a communicator configured to communicate with a mobile device; a camera; and an authentication apparatus configured to perform user authentication based on image information obtained by the camera, and provide a user with a vehicle control right, in response to the user authentication being successful. In response to receiving biometric information of the user stored in the mobile device through the communicator, the authentication apparatus may be configured to update pre-registered biometric information of the user based on the received biometric information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Hyunsang KIM, Yunsup ANN
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Publication number: 20240149833Abstract: A windshield wiper includes a support structure, a scrubbing wiper assembly, and a motor. The scrubbing wiper assembly is slidably attached to the support structure and has a central longitudinal axis extending in the elongate direction between a first end and a spaced apart second end. The scrubbing wiper assembly includes a slider element and a wiper blade rigidly secured to the slider element. The motor is mounted to the support structure and is engaged with the slider element to reciprocally move the scrubbing wiper blade along the central longitudinal axis. The reciprocation can impart a linear torque to the slider element. Methods of cleaning and polishing a windshield using a windshield wiper are also included.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventor: James Q. Nelson
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Publication number: 20240149834Abstract: An assembly includes a fluid reservoir having a fluid outlet. The assembly includes a piston slidably supported in the fluid reservoir. The assembly includes a spring urging the piston toward an end of the fluid reservoir. The piston and the fluid reservoir define a working chamber in fluid communication with the fluid outlet. The assembly includes a nozzle in fluid communication with the working chamber via the fluid outlet. The assembly includes a valve between the nozzle and the fluid outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Venkatesh Krishnan, Sivaprasad Karnati, T Hariharan, Raghuraman Surineedi, Ashwin Arunmozhi, Rashaun Phinisee, Kunal Singh
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Publication number: 20240149835Abstract: A wiper blade in particular for a motor vehicle. This comprises at least one distribution element comprising at least one supply channel for cleaning liquid, as well as a first spray bar for dispensing cleaning liquid, according to the invention the supply channel comprises a first supply section for the first spray bar and a second supply section for a second spray bar and at least one narrowing in the second supply section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Helmut Depondt, Kris Smets
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Publication number: 20240149836Abstract: A sensor cleaning device includes: a spray nozzle configured to spray washing water and air to a sensor; a first flow path having a venturi section that exerts a venturi effect in a midstream thereof and configured to guide air from an air supply source to the spray nozzle; a second flow path configured to provide fluid communication between a washing water supply source and the venturi section such that washing water is suctioned into the venturi section by the venturi effect and combines the washing water from the washing water supply source with a flow of air guided to the spray nozzle; a third flow path configured to communicate with the first flow path to bypass the venturi section; and a valve device configured to control a flow of fluid flowing along the first, second, and third flow paths to a blocking mode, a washing water supply mode, and an air supply mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Bosung Lee, Buyeol Ryu, Wonkyu Choi
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Publication number: 20240149837Abstract: A sensor cleaning apparatus for a vehicle includes: a sensor housing in which a driver and a sensor are mounted, a cover part configured to rotate and exposed to the outside of the sensor housing through an open region formed on a front surface of the sensor housing, and a blade part connected to the cover part. The blade is rotated as the driver is driven and provided to allow air generated by its rotation to flow toward a front surface and a rear surface of the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, DY AUTO CorporationInventors: Sang Heon Wang, Nak Kyoung Kong, Dong Eun Cha, Kyung Hwan Kim, Jung Kwan Choi
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Publication number: 20240149838Abstract: An open top wash system having separate wash mechanisms on opposite sides of a wash zone provides considerable flexibility and efficiency by allowing vehicles of several heights to be washed. The wash mechanisms are further configured to provide additional efficiency by allowing wash and/or rinse nozzles to be positioned in close proximity to the vehicle, thereby limiting amount of water need for washing operations. The wash system also has several sensors positioned and controlled to trace a vehicle in the wash zone, thus providing significant information for use in positioning both side wash spray nozzles and tracer wand spray nozzles during wash and rinse operations. Although the control system is capable of careful control of nozzles, mechanical breakaway systems are further included should physical contact with the vehicle occur, thus allowing an additional level of safety.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: AutoMap Vehicle Wash Systems, Inc.Inventors: Howard Victor Bureau, Tom Takemoto Bureau, Sam Takemoto Bureau
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Publication number: 20240149839Abstract: Rigid bars to be placed upstanding at the opposite sides of a windshield and a plurality of flexible strands connected between the bars in laterally spaced apart relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: SBCD Enterprises LLCInventor: David Svengalis
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Publication number: 20240149840Abstract: An apparatus includes a plurality of blocks arranged in columns and rows. The blocks include a body having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, a projection extending away from an upper surface of the body such that a first thickness between an end of the projection and a lower surface of the body is greater than a second thickness between the upper surface of the body and the lower surface of the body at the first end of the body and at the second end of the body, a first through-hole extending through the first end of the body in a direction transverse to a length direction of the body, and a second through-hole extending through the second end of the body in the direction transverse to the length direction of the body. A plurality of couplings extend through the blocks in adjacent columns.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventor: William J. ROBBINS
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Publication number: 20240149841Abstract: A collapsible snow paddle. The paddle includes an elongated handle, a rotatable coupling affixed to one end of the handle, and a generally planar snow remover, the rotatable coupling affixed to a rear surface of the remover so that the remover may be collapsed against the handle for storage and extended transverse to the handle for use. The snow remover may have a scraper edge inclined at an angle relative to the surface of the snow remover for scraping ice and a relatively soft capped edge for removing snow.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Stephen Patrick Wood, Lorraine Lee Wood
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Publication number: 20240149842Abstract: A production line for processing a work piece in successive steps comprises a plurality of stations and a plurality of trolleys, each of which comprises a first connector, said plurality of stations comprising at least one workstation adapted for carrying out therein an associated one of said steps and at least one charging station comprising a second connector for providing a commodity to one of said trolleys when connected to the first connector of said trolley. At least one of said trolleys comprises a second connector which communicates with the first connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventor: José Rodrigues
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Publication number: 20240149843Abstract: A method for controlling an activation state of a braking-torque assistance system for reducing intake of braking energy in the service-brake system of a vehicle includes capturing and evaluating of a plurality of demand indications for a startup of the braking-torque assistance system. The method further includes starting a capture of a plurality of operating conditions of the service-brake system and evaluation of the captured plurality of operating conditions over a monitoring period responsive to the evaluation of the captured plurality of demand indications reveals a demand for the startup of the braking-torque assistance system, activating the braking-torque assistance system and checking for temperature precursor parameters of the braking-torque assistance system, and deactivating the braking-torque assistance system responsive to the temperature precursor parameters indicating a trend toward an overheating of the service-brake system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Thomas Wilwers, Thomas Svensson, Eugen Weber, Lowell Kubik
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Publication number: 20240149844Abstract: Disclosed herein an electric parking brake (EPB) system including a motor actuator operated by an electric motor includes a motor driving circuit configured to drive the electric motor; a current sensor detecting a current flowing through the electric motor; a voltage sensor detecting a voltage input to the electric motor; and a controller configured to determine a total energy consumption based on the current and voltage of the electric motor during a parking operation, determine whether a target current of a parking operation mode needs to be changed in response to the determined total energy consumption, in response to determining that the target current needs to be changed, change the target current based on at least one of a period of use and the number of times of operation of the EPB system, and control the electric motor in response to the changed target current.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventor: Wookhyeon KIM
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Publication number: 20240149845Abstract: A brake system may include an actuating device, in particular a brake pedal; a first piston-cylinder unit having two pistons subjecting the brake circuits to a pressure medium via a valve device, wherein one of the pistons can be actuated by the actuation device; a second piston-cylinder unit having an electric motor drive, a transmission at least one piston to supply at least one of the brake circuits with a pressure medium via a valve device; and a motor pump unit with a valve device to supply the brake circuits with a pressure medium. The brake system may also include a hydraulic travel simulator with a pressure or working chamber which is connected to the first piston-cylinder unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Heinz LEIBER, Anton VAN ZANTEN, Thomas LEIBER
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Publication number: 20240149846Abstract: A brake device for a vehicle includes: a brake pedal having a pedal part and a lever part that rotates about a rotation shaft when the pedal part is operated; a housing that rotatably supports the lever part; a reaction force generator connected to the housing and the lever part to generate a reaction force against the lever part according to a stroke amount of the brake pedal; and a stopper configured to stop the lever part by being in contact with the lever part such that the lever part is restricted from rotating in a direction opposite to a rotation direction when the pedal part is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Daisuke HOKUTO, Etsugou YANAGIDA, Kunio NANBA
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Publication number: 20240149847Abstract: A braking system for a motor vehicle including a main braking circuit, an auxiliary electric braking circuit configured to perform parking braking, a first electronic control device which controls i) the main braking circuit to actuate a first braking member and a second braking member, and ii) in the auxiliary electric braking circuit, a first electric actuator of the first braking member, and a second electronic control device which controls, in the auxiliary electric braking circuit, a second electric actuator of the second braking member. A motor vehicle including such a braking system and to methods for controlling such a braking system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Samy AKOURTAM, Carlos Eduardo RAMIREZ HERNANDEZ, Dimitri DELMEIRE, Abdessamed RAMDANE
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Publication number: 20240149848Abstract: An actuation device for a hydraulic actuation system, e.g., a motor vehicle brake or an electrified clutch actuator, may include a connection for an actuation device; a pressure supply device, driven by an electromotor drive, in the form of a piston or double-stroke piston pump; a piston cylinder unit that may be actuated by means of the actuation device; and an electronic control unit. An axis of the piston cylinder unit and an axis of the pressure supply device may be arranged in parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Heinz LEIBER, Thomas LEIBER, Carsten HECKER
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Publication number: 20240149849Abstract: A method for controlling a braking system of a motor vehicle. The braking system includes hydraulically actuated wheel brakes as well as a linear actuator and a pump as electrohydraulic pressure-generating devices, according to which, during a braking operation of the motor vehicle, a parameter describing an actual behavior of the braking system of the motor vehicle is monitored and compared with a stored threshold value. In the event that the monitored parameter exhibits a defined deviation from the threshold value, the linear actuator and the pump are switched to synchronous operation by simultaneously operating the linear actuator and the pump and applying brake pressure to the hydraulically actuated wheel brakes via the linear actuator and the pump. A current volume consumption of the linear actuator is detected as a parameter describing the actual behavior of the braking system of the motor vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: AUDI AGInventor: Ulrich TREFFER
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Publication number: 20240149850Abstract: A valve housing for a control valve, particularly for a rail car pneumatic brake system, includes at least one fluid interface for enabling fluid communication with a valve assembly, such as a distributor valve and/or a relay valve assembly, to be mounted thereon for controlling a fluid flow through the housing and an electronics interface for connecting to an electronic module.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Istvan HEGEDÜS, Balazs LIKTOR, Jens-Erik PIEPER
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Publication number: 20240149851Abstract: A method for checking an actual-pressure sensor of a motor vehicle brake system includes establishing the duration of a reaction interval, establishing a threshold value, operating the motor vehicle brake system in an electronic braking mode where the brake system delivers a braking pressure for operation of a trailer brake of a trailer connected to the motor vehicle. The reaction interval starts at the beginning of the braking process and pneumatic actual braking pressure values are measured by means of an actual-pressure sensor, where a starting braking pressure is measured by the actual-pressure sensor at the beginning of a braking process carried out in the electronic braking mode for the trailer. Pneumatic reaction braking pressures are measured within the reaction interval and compared to a threshold value. Brake system operation is discontinued in the electronic operating mode if none of the measured reaction braking pressures exceeds the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: ZF CV Systems Global GmbHInventors: Mirko Brutt, Matthias Kemmerling, Tobias Hauschild, Ivo Laskawy
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Publication number: 20240149852Abstract: Proposed is a brake device for a vehicle including a housing, a cylinder installed within the housing, a motor coupled to the cylinder and providing a rotational force, a screw shaft installed within the cylinder and axially rotated by the rotational force of the motor, a nut coupled to the screw shaft through the medium of a ball member and reciprocating in the axial direction of the screw shaft depending on a rotation direction of the screw shaft, a piston coupled to the nut and moved by being interlocked with the nut, a guide provided within the cylinder and restricting the rotation of the nut and providing guidance to a rectilinear motion of the nut, and a cover coupled to the cylinder and covering the guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Si Yoon PARK
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Publication number: 20240149853Abstract: A brake system for motor vehicles may include an actuation device (e.g., brake pedal), a first piston-cylinder unit having at least one piston that separates two working chambers, a control device and a pressure supply unit driven by an electric motor and having a double-stroke piston delimiting working chambers. At least one brake circuit may have associated therewith at least one wheel brake, and each wheel brake may be connected to an associated hydraulic connecting line via a controllable switching valve. An outlet valve may be assigned to a single wheel brake or to a single wheel brake of each brake circuit in a hydraulic connection between the wheel brake and a pressure medium storage container.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Heinz LEIBER, Thomas LEIBER
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Publication number: 20240149854Abstract: An electromechanical brake pressure generator for a hydraulic braking system of a vehicle. The brake pressure generator includes at least one threaded drive system including a spindle and a spindle nut, which cooperate via a thread, and an electromotive drive using which the spindle and the spindle nut are rotatable relative to one another. The brake pressure generator includes a hydraulic piston accommodated in a hydraulic cylinder of a piston/cylinder unit. An anti-twist protection is formed by a recess which extends in the axial direction and forms a sliding surface, and by a sliding element protruding into the recess, so that the hydraulic piston is secured against twisting and is axially displaceable by a rotation of the spindle. The sliding surface and/or a contact surface of the sliding element cooperating with the sliding surface includes a microprofiling, whose profiling direction is orthogonal to the movement of the hydraulic piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Martin Uhlig, Sebastian mARTIN Reichert
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Publication number: 20240149855Abstract: A braking force generator for an actuation device of a brake system. The braking force generator includes a movably supported actuator element, an electric motor which is designed to move the actuator element, a controller for controlling the electric motor, a movably supported input rod which is coupled or can be coupled to a brake pedal, a displacement sensor which is assigned to the input rod and has a transmitter and a receiver, and a communication path which is electrically connected to the receiver at one end and to the controller at the other end. The displacement sensor is arranged so as to be covered by the controller and/or adjoin the controller in plan view of the braking force generator, the viewing direction in said plan view corresponding to the movement direction of the actuator element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Axel Kiersten, Eduard Maiterth, Martin Winkler, Stephan Roeger
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Publication number: 20240149856Abstract: A redundant governor apparatus is provided for a vehicle air brake charging system. The apparatus comprises a first governor and a second governor. The apparatus also comprises a number of components arranged to enable (i) the first governor to act as primary and the second governor to act as backup to the first governor when the first governor is unable to act as primary, and (ii) the second governor to act as primary and the first governor to act as backup to the second governor when the second governor is unable to act as primary.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Ryan S Hurley, Randy J Salvatora
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Publication number: 20240149857Abstract: To extend a power cylinder bore in a hydraulic block of a power brake system, a cylinder cover, which is in the form of a cylinder tube and is closed at one end, is fastened by means of a circumferential caulking in a fastening groove of the hydraulic block which encloses the power cylinder bore. An interference fit of a fastening flange of the cylinder cover in the fastening groove reliably seals the cylinder cover against the hydraulic block in a pressure-proof manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Andreas Weh, Florian Breyer, Martin Hagspiel, Matthias Mayr, Stefan Kaserer, Tobias Franke
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Publication number: 20240149858Abstract: A braking system for an air brake vehicle includes a source of working pressure and a source of vacuum pressure. The system includes at least one brake actuator having a first chamber for receiving the working pressure, a second chamber for receiving the vacuum pressure; and a push rod that moves linearly in response to pressure in the first chamber and second chamber. A brake assembly is mechanically connected to the push rod for applying friction to a wheel end of a vehicle in response to the linear movement of the push rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Ran Wei, Tandi Wijaya, Thomas J. Hayes, Michael D. Cremona
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Publication number: 20240149859Abstract: An electric vehicle drive system and an electric vehicle are provided. The electric vehicle drive system includes a first powertrain, a second powertrain, a first transmission system, a second transmission system, and a battery system. The first powertrain is connected to the first transmission system. The second powertrain is connected to the second transmission system. The first powertrain includes a generator and an engine, and the engine drives the generator to generate electric energy. The generator drives the first-side wheels by using the first transmission system. The second powertrain drives second-side wheels by using the second transmission system. The battery system is connected to the generator and the second powertrain, and is configured to receive the electric energy output by the generator, and output stored electric energy to at least one of the second powertrain or the generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Yang CHENG, Yi CAO, Jingzhou WEI, Wenwu MA, Hu ZHONG
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Publication number: 20240149860Abstract: A system and method for management of vehicle battery life is disclosed. The system is communicatively coupled to a vehicle and receives information associated with the vehicle. Based on the received information, the system determines a user of the vehicle as one of a lessee of the vehicle or an owner of the vehicle. The system sets a limit that is applicable on a consumption of charge cycles from a current cycle life of a battery unit of the vehicle. The limit is set based on the determination that the user is the owner of the vehicle. The system detects a connection of the vehicle with an electrical system of a built environment associated with the user and controls a transfer of electric power from the battery unit to the electrical system based on the detection and the set limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: JUNLEI ZHANG, ROBERT M. UYEKI
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Publication number: 20240149861Abstract: A method detects a vehicle overweight state for a vehicle equipped with a power unit including a traction battery. The method selects a number of vehicle acceleration phases. The method includes, for each selected acceleration phase: calculating a mean value of a differential force equal to a value of the traction loads of the unit from which there are subtracted the value of the acceleration resultant force and the value of the sum of the resistive loads experienced by the vehicle, calculating a statistical value based on the calculated mean values of the differential force, and comparing the statistical value against a vehicle overweight threshold value. The vehicle is in an overweight state if the statistical value is higher than the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: RENAULT S.A.SInventors: Abdelkrim MOUJIB, Frederic ROUDEAU
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METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE DRIVELINE COMPRISING A FIRST DRIVING MODE AND A SECOND DRIVING MODE
Publication number: 20240149862Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for controlling a vehicle driveline comprising a propulsion unit and a transmission. The method uses topographic data in order to provide predictive control of the vehicle driveline, where the driveline comprises a first driving mode and a second driving mode, where the vehicle is driving to a predetermined destination. The method includes receiving topographic data for the route to the predetermined destination, determining a number of predictive parameters for the route, where, in the first driving mode, the vehicle driveline is controlled in an eco-mode in order to provide the lowest possible energy consumption to the predetermined destination, and where, in the second driving mode, the vehicle driveline is controlled in order for the vehicle to arrive at the predetermined destination at a predetermined time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventor: Tobias HUSBERG -
Publication number: 20240149863Abstract: A method of controlling a towing mode of an eco-friendly vehicle, may easily charge a battery of a towed vehicle by selecting one of a charge mode during traveling, a regenerative braking charge mode, and a coasting charge mode for charging the battery of the towed vehicle when a towing vehicle tows the towed vehicle so that a motor of the towed vehicle is driven by a negative charge torque for charging the battery when the towing vehicle accelerates or decelerates, and furthermore, may easily perform the assist of the traveling driving force of the towing vehicle by selecting a discharge mode during traveling in a state in which the towed vehicle does not need to be charged to the amount of charge of the battery of the towed vehicle greater than or equal to a reference value so that the motor of the towed vehicle is driven by a positive driving torque by discharging the battery of the towed vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Dong Jun SHIN, Hyo Jun KAWK, Jin Cheol SHIN, Kyung Hun HWANG
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Publication number: 20240149864Abstract: A vehicle includes a chassis, an axle coupled to the chassis, a cab coupled to the chassis, a body coupled to the chassis rearward of the cab, a battery, a driveline, and a controller. The driveline is configured to facilitate providing an auxiliary braking function to the axle. The driveline includes a motor coupled to the axle. The motor is coupled to the battery. The motor is configured to receive stored energy from the battery to drive the axle and provide the auxiliary braking function to the axle through a regenerative braking operation to charge the battery. The controller is configured to monitor a state of charge of the battery and prevent charging the battery through the regenerative braking operation while maintaining the auxiliary braking function of the driveline when the state of charge of the battery is approaching, at, or above a state of charge threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Oshkosh CorporationInventor: Eric Linsmeier
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Publication number: 20240149865Abstract: The hybrid vehicle includes an engine coupled to a drive shaft, a first motor that rotates the engine a second motor coupled to the drive shaft, a transmission interposed between the engine and the first motor, and the second motor, and a control device configured to execute a decrease process and an increase process. The decrease process is a process for decreasing deceleration of the hybrid vehicle by restricting fuel cut in the engine. The increase process is a process for increasing a rotational speed of the engine to a target rotational speed by power running torque of the first motor during deceleration by downshift of the transmission. The target rotational speed in the increase process is set to a lower value during execution of the decrease process than during stop of the decrease process.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihisa UMEMURA, Suguru KUMAZAWA, Yasutaka TSUCHIDA
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Publication number: 20240149866Abstract: A system for context-oriented auto park assist includes sensor, communication, and vehicle control sub-systems. Each sub-systems has control modules having processors, memories, and input/output (I/O) ports. The I/O ports of the sensor and communication sub-systems are in communication with the vehicle control system. The control modules execute program code portions stored in the memory including a program code portions that generates occupant, environmental, time and location, and vehicle contexts, and a combined context by combining the occupant, environmental, location and time, and vehicle contexts. The system scans a parking area for candidate parking spots by applying the combined context vector as the vehicle is driven through the parking area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Arun Adiththan, Md Mhafuzul Islam, Prakash Mohan Peranandam, Sachin Raviram
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Publication number: 20240149867Abstract: A parking assistance device 1 assisting an operation to park an own vehicle in a parking spot PS, and/or an operation to exit the own vehicle from the parking spot PS, comprises a surrounding sensor 20 to acquire information about objects existing around the own vehicle and a processor capable of executing parking assistance control to assist driving operation by the driver, by setting a target position TP based on the information acquired by the surrounding sensor 20, further setting a target route TR to reach the target position, and controlling the own vehicle to automatically move along the target route TR and reach the target position TP. The processor is configured to set the target route as a route that can reach the target position without making contact with all the first objects, which are determined to obstruct the progress of the own vehicle, and all the second objects, which are determined to be unclear whether or not they obstruct the progress of the own vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya NAKAGAWA, Yohei SUZUKI, Yoshiki HAYAKAWA
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Publication number: 20240149868Abstract: A vehicle computing system may implement techniques to control a vehicle to avoid collisions between the vehicle and agents (e.g., dynamic objects) in an environment. The techniques may include generating a representation of a path of the vehicle through an environment as a polygon. The vehicle computing system may compare the two-dimensional path with a trajectory of an agent determined using sensor data to determine a collision zone between the vehicle and the agent. The vehicle computing system may determine a risk of collision based on predicted velocities and probable accelerations of the vehicle and the agent approaching and traveling through the collision zone. Based at least in part on the risk of collision, the vehicle computing system may cause the vehicle to perform an action.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Jefferson Bradfield Packer, William Anthony Silva, Zhenqi Huang
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Publication number: 20240149869Abstract: The control device according to the present disclosure is configured to execute, in a process of stopping a vehicle in an emergency, acquiring occupant information including information on at least one of a state or an attribute of an occupant of the vehicle, acquiring traveling environment information of the vehicle, calculating an in-vehicle risk indicating a risk of damage to the occupant when the vehicle is decelerated by the first braking control based on the occupant information, calculating an out-of-vehicle risk indicating a risk of damage caused by the vehicle based on the traveling environment information, braking the vehicle by the second braking control with less deceleration than the first braking control while the in-vehicle risk is higher than the out-of-vehicle risk, and braking the vehicle by the first braking control when the out-of-vehicle risk is higher than the in-vehicle risk.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sho HASHIMOTO, Noriaki Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20240149870Abstract: To effectively suppress collision with an oncoming vehicle while reducing a processing load of a processor, provided is a control device for a vehicle comprising an object detection unit configured to detect a object; and a processor. The the processor is configured to execute an estimation process for estimating whether an adjacent lane is an opposite lane, and a avoidance process which executes a steering control for avoiding a collision, when the object detected by the object detection unit satisfies a collision condition, wherein the estimation process, if it is estimated that the adjacent lane is the opposite lane, maintain an estimation result until a cancellation condition is satisfied, and wherein the avoidance process, when the collision condition is satisfied, if the adjacent lane is estimated to be the opposite lane, executes the steering control without causing the own vehicle to enter the adjacent lane.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yumi SHIMANAKA
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Publication number: 20240149871Abstract: A method for object avoidance by a motor vehicle includes: detecting objects located in the surroundings of the motor vehicle; acquiring data characterizing the position and/or dynamics of each object, then, if several objects have been detected; verifying whether at least one criterion of proximity between at least two of the detected objects is met and, if so; combining the two objects into one group; calculating the data characterizing the position and/or dynamics of the group; and activating a system for obstacle avoidance and/or determining an avoidance trajectory, according to the data characterizing the position and/or dynamics of the group.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: RENAULT S.A.SInventors: Geoffrey BRUNO, Anh-Lam DO, Marouane LEHIM
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Publication number: 20240149872Abstract: A collision damage reduction apparatus executes a collision damage reduction control to reduce damage due to a collision of an own vehicle with an object. The apparatus executes the collision damage reduction control when the object exists in a first area. The first area is an area in a moving direction of the own vehicle and has a first width set, based on a width of the own vehicle. The apparatus executes the collision damage reduction control when the object does not exist in the first area, but the object predictively exists in a second area after a predetermined period of time. The second area is an area in the moving direction of the own vehicle and has a width smaller than the first width.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Kento OOE, Kan MAYOSHI, Atsushi KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240149873Abstract: A method to control speed of a first vehicle is disclosed. The method may include obtaining a first input from a first detection unit. The first detection unit may be configured to monitor vehicles in a first vehicle blind-spot area. The method may further include determining presence of a second vehicle in a first vehicle blind-spot area based on the first input. The method may further include calculating a time spent by the second vehicle in the first vehicle blind-spot area. Furthermore, the method may include determining whether the time spent is greater than a predetermined threshold. Responsive to a determination that the time spent is greater than the predetermined threshold, the method may include comparing a first vehicle range and a run-off area, and updating a first vehicle speed based on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Shruti Gotadki, Animesh Sarkar, Anshuman Jagtap, Jared Kuhn, Nitendra Nath
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Publication number: 20240149874Abstract: A driving support apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain biometric information for at least one occupant on a vehicle; estimate emotion of the occupant based on the biological information; control acceleration of the vehicle based on the estimated emotion of the occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi OYAGI, Hirokazu ITO, Shinya SHIRATORI, Norimi ASAHARA
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Publication number: 20240149875Abstract: A vehicle control system controls a vehicle. A meter vehicle speed presented to a user of the vehicle is higher than an actual vehicle speed of the vehicle. The vehicle control system acquires, as a first vehicle speed, a vehicle speed designated by the user or a speed limit of a road on which the vehicle travels. The vehicle control system sets a set vehicle speed to be higher than the first vehicle speed, controls a speed of the vehicle such that the meter vehicle speed does not exceed the set vehicle speed. A difference between the set vehicle speed and the first vehicle speed is equal to or less than a difference between the meter vehicle speed and the actual vehicle speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihide NAKANE
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Publication number: 20240149876Abstract: A driver assistance apparatus including a camera configured to obtain image data with a forward field of view of a host vehicle; a radar configured to obtain radar data with a sensing field of view in the vicinity of the host vehicle; and a controller electrically connected to the camera and the radar, wherein the controller detects a preceding vehicle traveling in front of the host vehicle based on the image data and the radar data, performs adaptive cruise control (ACC) to maintain a target inter-vehicle distance between the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle, identifies a lateral deviation of the preceding vehicle relative to the host vehicle while performing ACC; and calibrates the target inter-vehicle distance between the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle based on the lateral deviation of the preceding vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: HL Klemove Corp.Inventor: Hoongi LEE
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Publication number: 20240149877Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises receiving, by a processor device of a computer system, from at least one data acquisition device of a prime vehicle, measurement data of each of at least two preceding vehicles preceding the prime vehicle; determining, by the processor device, a performance consistency of each of the at least two preceding vehicles based on the measurement data; selecting, by the processor device, a standard vehicle of the at least two preceding vehicles based on the performance consistency of each of the at least two preceding vehicles; and adapting, by the processor device, operation of the prime vehicle based on the standard vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Johan Bjernetun, Oscar Stjernberg, Martin Wilhelmson
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Publication number: 20240149878Abstract: To provide a vehicle control apparatus and a vehicle control method which can determine whether or not an ego vehicle can merge into a main lane from a merging lane based on an estimated behavior of the ego vehicle on the merging lane. A vehicle control apparatus determines whether or not an estimated speed of an ego vehicle reaches a target speed; determines whether or not the ego vehicle can stop emergently, based on whether or not a distance from a merging start possible position to an end of the merging lane is greater than or equal to an emergency stop necessary distance; determines whether or not the ego vehicle can merge, based on the determination result of the target speed reaching propriety, and the determination result of the emergency stop propriety, and controls a driving of the ego vehicle, based on a determination result of merging propriety.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuko OMAGARI, Yuki YOSHIDA, Mizuho WAKABAYASHI, Kenta TOMINAGA
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Publication number: 20240149879Abstract: A steering control device includes: a traveling scene determination unit which determines a traveling scene of a host vehicle; and a steering control unit which performs steering control of the host vehicle so that the host vehicle travels at a traveling position according to a traveling scene in an own lane on which the host vehicle is traveling.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Hino Motors, Ltd.Inventor: Shunsuke TSUKUDA
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Publication number: 20240149880Abstract: Electrified powertrain control techniques include, in response to a detected cold start request for an engine, controlling one or more electric motors to generate drive torque to physically power an engine for a period to increase a temperature within a primary combustion chamber of a cylinder of the engine, and after the period, starting the engine by combusting a primary charge of fuel/air within the primary combustion chamber using a turbulent jet ignition (TJI) system to combust a pre-charge of fuel/air in a respective pre-chamber of the cylinder using a respective first spark plug and expelling heat energy therefrom into the primary combustion chamber of the cylinder, thereby eliminating a need for a respective second park plug of the TJI system that is associated with the cylinder and configured to heat and promote combustion within the primary combustion chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventor: Ronald A. Reese, II
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Publication number: 20240149881Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure provide a computer-implemented system, comprising instructions for performing operations including: estimating locations in a region of a map where features associated with water, snow or ice are likely to be formed under certain adverse weather conditions; simulating one of the adverse weather conditions; generating the features associated with the simulated one of the adverse weather conditions at the locations; determining a response of a perception stack of an autonomous vehicle (AV) to the adverse weather conditions observed at the locations; determining a reaction of the AV to the features generated in the region, the reaction of the AV being a function of a configuration of the AV; in response to the reaction, updating the configuration; repeating the determining the reaction and the updating the configuration until a desired reaction is obtained; and exporting a final configuration corresponding to the desired reaction to a physical AV.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventor: Noel Villegas