Steering Control Patents (Class 701/41)
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Patent number: 12232450Abstract: An autonomous agricultural vehicle including a wheel-set operably connected with a power source, a processing unit having a memory unit, and a controller operable to receive and transmit signals to the processing unit, wherein the controller is operable to control the wheel-set. The autonomous agricultural vehicle further including a wireless communication system electrically connected with the processing unit, a global positioning satellite receiver electrically connected with the processing unit, a first perception sensor electrically connected with the processing unit, wherein the first perception sensor is operable to detect environmental features, and a second perception sensor electrically connected with the processing unit, wherein the second perception sensor is operable to detect a feature of a tree.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Moog Inc.Inventors: Michael G. Fattey, Kevin M. Eschner, Joseph C. Baldi, Jason M. Majchrzak
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Patent number: 12233972Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes a plurality of control circuits configured to control a control object by starting in response to powering-on of a vehicle and to perform power latch control for continuing to be supplied with electric power in a predetermined period in response to powering-off of the vehicle. Each of the control circuits is configured to perform starting after all of the control circuits have recognized the powering-on of the vehicle in a case where the vehicle is powered on while the power latch control is being performed after the vehicle has been powered off.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yugo Nagashima, Yuji Fujita, Kazuma Hasegawa, Yuuta Kajisawa, Takashi Koudai, Masaharu Yamashita, Yosuke Yamashita, Shintaro Takayama, Kazuaki Iida, Hiroyuki Katayama, Hiroki Tomizawa, Nobuyori Nakajima
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Patent number: 12233678Abstract: A device for adjusting a foot point of a vehicle spring element includes a first wall element for connecting to a vehicle, a second wall element spaced from the first wall element and connecting to the spring element, and a chamber disposed between the first wall element and the second wall element for changing the distance between the first wall element and the second wall element by changing a volume of the chamber, the chamber having an incompressible fluid and the first and/or second wall element including a passage opening for the incompressible fluid to the chamber. In embodiments, the passage opening is fluidly connectable to a supply/discharge device for the incompressible fluid, and the chamber has a chamber wall with a third wall element extending from the first wall element to the second wall element, the mass of which is constant when the volume of the chamber is changed.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Vibracoustic SEInventor: Dieter Bulling
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Patent number: 12233936Abstract: A vehicle steering apparatus is configured to apply, to a steered wheel of a vehicle, a driving force for canceling a toe change amount caused by a road irregularity. The vehicle steering apparatus includes a road reaction force detector configured to detect a road reaction force received by a tire of the steered wheel, a toe adjustment actuator coupled to the steered wheel, and a controller configured to control a driving force of the toe adjustment actuator. The controller includes a toe change amount setter configured to set the toe change amount based on the road reaction force detected by the road reaction force detector, an operation amount calculator configured to calculate an actuator operation amount for canceling the toe change amount set by the toe change amount setter, and a driver configured to drive the toe adjustment actuator by the actuator operation amount calculated by the operation amount calculator.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Norio Oowada, Hiroomi Kobayashi, Taichi Murai, Yosuke Takebayashi, Takeshi Yoneda, Kaoru Sugano, Akihiro Nabeshima, Minoru Suyama, Tatsuya Takayanagi
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Patent number: 12233966Abstract: An electric power steering device 100 includes: an electric motor 110 configured to apply a driving force to steer a wheel in response to operation of a steering wheel; and a control device 10 configured to perform control of drive of the electric motor by estimating a degree of sloping in a transverse direction of a roadway on which a vehicle travels, determining, based on the estimated degree of sloping, a correction current for correcting a target current required for the electric motor to generate the driving force, and correcting the target current with the correction current.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventor: Kyoichi Tagami
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Patent number: 12227192Abstract: An apparatus and a method are configured to control a steering wheel of an autonomous driving vehicle. A state of a driver may be monitored during autonomous driving, and at least one of an upward/downward location, a leftward/rightward tilting angle, or an axial movement of the steering wheel of the autonomous driving vehicle may be controlled based on the state of the driver. As a result, danger information may be delivered to the driver through a dual system during autonomous driving.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Seo Hyung Cheon, Jin Su Jeong, Eun Young Choi, Min Sang Yu, Rosali Sun Pyun, Ki Seok Seong, Dong Il Yang, Woo Jin Kim
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Patent number: 12227240Abstract: An independent steering control apparatus may include: a processor configured to analyze whether wheels are abnormal, on the basis of turning angles of the respective wheels, and revise the turning angles of normal wheels except an abnormal wheel in which a fault occurred, according to the analysis result; and a wheel controller configured to control steering of the wheels according to the turning angles of the wheels, input from the processor.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Sung Bem Yoo
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Patent number: 12227194Abstract: This vehicle relative-position calculation device includes: a vehicle state information acquisition unit for acquiring state information of an own vehicle during traveling; a surrounding object information acquisition unit for acquiring information of a surrounding object around the own vehicle; a relative-position information conversion input unit to which relative-position information determined from the state information of the own vehicle and the information of the surrounding object, is inputted, and which converts the inputted relative-position information to relative-position information for which a specific position on the own vehicle is set as an origin; a position information storage unit which stores the relative-position information converted and a vehicle-fixed coordinate conversion unit to which the state information of the own vehicle acquired, is inputted, and which converts the relative-position information stored in the position information storage unit to present-time relative-position infoType: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Jumpei Kamiya, Masaya Endo
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Patent number: 12221177Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling a vehicle comprising an Electric Power Steering System (EPS). In an embodiment, a method includes learning, by a processor, a non-linearity of a boost factor associated with the EPS; determining, by the processor, a deboost factor based on an inverse relationship of the learned non-linearity of the boost factor associated with the EPS; and generating, by the processor, a steering command to the EPS based on the deboost factor.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Mohammadali Shahriari, Tushita Arun Sikder, Reza Zarringhalam, Ashraf Abualfellat, Emily Frances Wolfangel, Brian Porto
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Patent number: 12221184Abstract: An apparatus for four-wheel independent steering. The apparatus may include: a rear wheel angle computation unit configured to compute a rear wheel angle (?r) resulting by multiplying a front wheel angle (?f) by a predetermined front/rear wheel angle ratio (Kss) corresponding to a vehicle speed (V); a gain computation unit configured to compute a gain (A) corresponding to a steering angle acceleration and the vehicle speed and then to output a final rear wheel angle (?r) resulting by multiplying the rear wheel angle (?r) computed by the rear wheel angle computation unit by the computed gain (A); and a control unit configured to perform rear wheel steering control based on the front wheel angle (?f) and the final rear wheel angle (?r).Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Tae Hong Kim
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Patent number: 12223745Abstract: The present invention discloses a pavement element annotation method for point cloud data with fusion of height, which comprises the following steps: constructing all single-frame point clouds into a joint point cloud in a global coordinate system based on the pose of each frame of single-frame point cloud; removing dynamic objects in the joint point cloud to obtain a static joint point cloud; transforming the static joint point cloud into an overhead image; pre-annotating the pavement elements in an overhead image by using the pavement element pre-annotation model; modifying the pre-annotated result to obtain an overhead image annotation; based on a ball query algorithm and a ground point algorithm, establishing a transformational relation between the pixels of the overhead image and the points of the static joint point cloud; transforming the overhead image annotation into a static joint point cloud annotation based on the transformational relation.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2024Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Inventors: Qunshu Lin, Minghao Liu, Shigang Qi, Xinjun Wu, Yi Yang, Chao Zhang, Zijian Zhao, Qijun Shao
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Patent number: 12214766Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle collision prevention system and a collision prevention method by using the same, and may include a first light source positioned on a left side of a vehicle, a second light source positioned on a right side of the vehicle, a camera positioned at a center of the vehicle and providing a shape, which is displayed when rays emitted from the first light source and the second light source irradiate an object, as image data, an image processing device that generating braking information based on the image data, and a braking device that performing a braking operation of decreasing a speed of the vehicle or stopping the vehicle based on the braking information.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Myeong Je Kim
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Patent number: 12214784Abstract: A driving assistance control apparatus for a vehicle includes an acquiring unit and a control unit. The acquiring unit acquires a detected traveling environment of the vehicle. Using the acquired traveling environment, and in response to a preceding vehicle being present near a road edge and no obstacle being present between the road edge and the preceding vehicle, the control unit causes a driving assisting unit to perform driving assistance in which the preceding vehicle is tracked.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuta Komoguchi, Yohei Masui, Kenji Kato
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Patent number: 12214833Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, comprising: an operation member operable by a vehicle driver; an urging device configured to generate an urging force to urge the operation member; a steering device configured to steer a wheel; and a controller configured to control the urging device and the steering device. In a normal operation, the controller enables the wheel to be steered in accordance with an operation of the operation member and causes the urging force to function as an operation reaction force against the operation of the operation member. In an automatic steering operation in which the wheel is steered without depending on the operation of the operation member, the controller enables the operation member to be moved in accordance with steering of the wheel by the urging force and causes at least part of the urging force generated in the normal operation not to be generated.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke Akatsuka, Yoshio Kudo, Takahito Ishino, Kenji Yoshida, Koji Anraku
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Patent number: 12214767Abstract: A method for carrying out an autonomous brake application in a two-wheel motor vehicle. In the method, the need for a vehicle deceleration is detected with the aid of a surroundings sensor system; depending thereon, a driver-independent vehicle deceleration is initiated; once the vehicle deceleration has been initiated, a driver readiness variable characterizing the readiness of the driver to control the vehicle deceleration maneuver is ascertained; and the temporal progression of the vehicle deceleration is continued depending on the driver readiness variable.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Anja Wahl, Jan Schumacher, Markus Henzler, Matthias Klews
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Patent number: 12214725Abstract: A method for providing a panoramic view (152) of an environment behind a trailer (106) of a vehicle-trailer system (100). The method includes receiving a first image (133, 133b) from a rear trailer camera (132, 132b), a second image (133, 133c) from a right-side trailer camera (132, 132c), and a third image (133, 133d) from a left-side trailer camera (132, 132d). The method includes determining a panoramic view (152) based on the first image (133, 133b), the second image (133, 133c), and the third image (133, 133d). Additionally, the method includes determining a trailer angle (?) based on sensor system data (131) received from a sensor system (130). The method includes determining a viewing area (154) within the panoramic view (152) based on the trailer angle (?) and sending instructions (156) to a display (122) to display the viewing area (154).Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Continental Autonomous Mobility US, LLCInventor: Aranza Hinojosa Castro
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Patent number: 12208822Abstract: Four-wheel steering of a vehicle, e.g., in which leading wheels and trailing wheels are steered independently of each other, can provide improved maneuverability and stability. A first vehicle model may be used to determine trajectories for execution by a vehicle equipped with four-wheel steering. A second vehicle model may be used to control the vehicle relative to the determined trajectories. For instance, the second vehicle model can determine leading wheels steering angles for steering leading wheels of the vehicle and trailing wheels steering angles for steering trailing wheels of the vehicle, independently of the leading wheels.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Funke, David Evan Zlotnik
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Patent number: 12209386Abstract: A feedback control device determines a first target angular velocity that is a target angular velocity of an output angular velocity of the target device, using a first transfer function, determines a control input to the target device, based on a difference between the first target angular velocity and the output angular velocity, determines, based on the operation input, a second target angular velocity that is the target angular velocity requested by an operator, determines a degree of comfort of the operator, based on a difference between the output angular velocity and the second target angular velocity, sequentially accumulates the first target angular velocity, the degree of comfort, and a target degree of comfort in a database, and adjusts a first moment of inertia in such a way as to reduce a difference between the target degree of comfort and the degree of comfort, using data accumulated in the database.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignees: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Takuya Kinoshita, Toru Yamamoto
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Patent number: 12201058Abstract: A riding grass mower includes a driver seat 11 in a travel chassis 10, a mower deck 30 supported by the travel chassis 10, a rotary blade 20 in a glass-cutting space defined by side wall and a top plate 31 of the mower deck 30, a blade motor 4 configured to supply motive power to the rotary blade 20, and a blade motor control unit 55 configured to control the blade motor 4. The blade motor control unit 55 includes a main drive control unit 55a configured to rotate the rotary blade 20 forward, an auxiliary drive control unit 55b configured to rotate the rotary blade 20 backward, and a drive selection unit 55c configured to selectively operate the main drive control unit 55a and the auxiliary drive control unit 55b at a start of mowing with use of the rotary blade 20.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Hirokazu Ito, Kazuhiro Ochi
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Patent number: 12202486Abstract: This application discloses a method, an apparatus, and a storage medium for constructing a simulated vehicle lane change trajectory and control a vehicle based on it. One method includes: determining a target preceding vehicle according to a position of a lane change vehicle; determining target longitudinal traveling data; determining at least one lane change trajectory in a determination of at least one of following conditions: whether lane change condition is met; whether it is determined to continue to change lanes; and controlling the lance change vehicle based on the at least one lane change trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Haining Du
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Patent number: 12202554Abstract: A motor control device includes a torque controller to operate based on a steering torque and to give an input to a control target that is a motor, and a model following controller to generate a first correction torque based on an output from the control target. A model following controller includes a high-pass filter to remove a low frequency component from a first correction torque, a friction compensation calculator that is coupled in parallel to the high-pass filter to apply friction compensation to the first correction torque to calculate an estimated value of a mechanical friction torque, and an adder to add the estimated value of the friction torque to the first correction torque from which the low frequency component is removed by the high-pass filter to generate a second correction torque and feed back the second correction torque to an input to the control target.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Sohei Miyake
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Patent number: 12202475Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for assisting driving of a vehicle including a camera provided in the vehicle, a lidar sensor provided in the vehicle, and a controller configured to control the vehicle to prevent to deviate from a lane based on lane information obtained by the camera and the lidar sensor, wherein the controller excludes the lane information obtained by the camera and controls the vehicle to prevent to deviate from the lane based on the lane information obtained by the lidar sensor, when the vehicle enters a tunnel.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: HL Klemove Corp.Inventor: Bonill Koo
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Patent number: 12202553Abstract: A steering apparatus for a vehicle includes: a rack housing; a rack bar inserted into an inner portion of the rack housing and moving linearly in a lengthwise direction of the rack housing; a housing mounted on the rack housing; a first sensing section mounted on the housing to sense an amount of movement of the rack bar while being rotated in mesh with the rack bar as the rack bar moves linearly on the rack housing; and a second sensing section mounted on the rack housing to sense the amount of movement of the rack bar within an on-center section.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Suk Won Lee
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Patent number: 12195110Abstract: A method for operating a steering mechanism (12) of a motor vehicle, wherein a steering rod (27) can be held or displaced along its longitudinal axis (a) by an electric motor (22) so that the wheel steering angle (8, 9) of at least one wheel (5, 6) on at least one vehicle axle (1) can be maintained or changed. When a force (Fext) acts essentially axially on the steering rod (27), displacement of the steering rod (27) is at least inhibited by a detent torque (RM) of the electric motor (22) and/or by a self-induced torque (Msip) of the electric motor. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method and to a steering mechanism, which is preferably in the form of a steer-by-wire steering system. A control unit is provided for carrying out the method.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Hubertus Eilers, Caspar Lovell, Jochen Spiegelberg
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Patent number: 12194998Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus including a camera, a detector acquiring position information of a target based on reflected wave and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform estimating a position of the target, based on position information acquired by the camera and the detector, controlling an actuator based on the estimated position, and detecting a predetermined gradient state in which a gradient of a road surface in front of a subject vehicle is an upward gradient of a predetermined degree or more with respect to a road surface at a current position of the subject vehicle and is configured to perform the estimating including estimating the position of the target by lowering a reliability of position information acquired by the camera among position information of the target captured on the road surface in the predetermined gradient state when the predetermined gradient state is detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya Konishi, Yuya Kaneda, Kenta Ishii, Tomoyuki Yokoyama
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Patent number: 12195109Abstract: An active fault tolerance and fault mitigation system based on steer-by-wire dual motors and a mode switching control method thereof are provided. The system includes an acquisition unit, a steering wheel assembly, an ECU control module, a front wheel steering assembly, and a fault tolerance controller (18) which are sequentially connected. The acquisition unit transmits an acquired vehicle signal to the ECU control module, and then a corresponding compensation strategy is selected by means of a fault tolerance control strategy unit, a yaw rate calculation unit, a stability control unit, and a dual-motor compensation unit to act on a rack and pinion mechanism (15). The system and method can perform switching in an active fault tolerance and fault mitigation mode to achieve optimal control of the real-time performance of a vehicle, thereby ensuring the driving performance and higher performance of the vehicle in a field fault condition.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICSInventors: Wanzhong Zhao, An Wang, Xiaochuan Zhou, Chunyan Wang, Lijuan Chen
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Patent number: 12198449Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus configured to assist driving of a vehicle includes one or more processors and one or more memories communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute a process including determining whether the vehicle is in a situation in which the vehicle is obstructing passage of a following vehicle; that the vehicle is in the situation, determining whether a driver of the vehicle is aware of the situation; upon determining that the driver is aware of the situation, determining whether the driver is able to determine a driving operation for avoiding the situation; and, upon not determining that the driver is able to determine the driving operation, setting an assistance operation for avoiding the situation, based on consciousness of the driver and a width of a road on which the vehicle is traveling.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Mika Suzuki, Fumiya Sato, Tomohiro Abe, Hiroki Marumo
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Patent number: 12197222Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for avoiding collisions with obstacles by a vehicle, in particular an off-road vehicle. Objects are detected with sensors in a calculated projected path zone of the vehicle footprint based on a vehicle trajectory. Possible path zones on either side of the projected path zone where the vehicle could potentially go with a change in trajectory are determined. The vehicle is slowed down or stopped for objects in the projected path and is slowed less for objects within the possible path zones.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Trimble Inc.Inventors: Joshua Rands, Riley Kenyon, Justin Creaby
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Patent number: 12187291Abstract: A control device executes: a process of calculating a boundary line based on information on an environment around the vehicle such that the boundary line is set at a predetermined position distanced from a recognized object around the vehicle; a process of determining whether the vehicle is traveling in a direction to approach the boundary line, based on information on a running state of the vehicle; and a process of generating a reaction force to an operation on a steering device of the vehicle by a driver in the direction to approach the boundary line such that the reaction force corresponds to a relative position of the vehicle to the boundary line, the process being executed in a case where an affirmative determination is made in the process of determining.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshifusa Demizu, Shoichiroh Morioka
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Patent number: 12187275Abstract: Vehicle systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to enhance the situational competency and/or the safe operation of a vehicle by automatically controlling the vehicle in response to executing measurable attribute data analysis that includes a comparison of the relative height of a detected road infrastructure element with a predetermined threshold height value.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Geoffrey David Gaither, Allison McGowan, Nathan Westover
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Patent number: 12187121Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a steering operation element configured to receive a steering operation of a vehicle by a driver, a grip detector configured to detect a gripping state of the steering operation element by the driver of the vehicle, and a display processor configured to cause a display device to display a notification image indicating at least the gripping state. The notification image includes a first graphic deformable based on a circle within an entire image area. The display processor causes the display device to display the notification image including the first graphic deformed to expand a location corresponding to a part where the driver is gripping the steering operation element.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 12187366Abstract: A method of reversing a trailer along a defined path according to a disclosed exemplary embodiment includes, among other possible things, detecting a deviation from a predefined path of a trailer coupled to a tow vehicle with a sensor system disposed within the tow vehicle, determining a correction path required to move the trailer back to the predefined path, determining a dampening factor for limiting deviation from the predefined path, combining the determined correction path and the dampening factor to determine a desired curvature, wherein the desired curvature represents a path from a current position of the trailer to the predefined path, and determining a steering angle of the tow vehicle that provides the desired curvature.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Continental Autonomous Mobility US, LLCInventor: Andrew Phillip Bolduc
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Patent number: 12179764Abstract: A method of determining a traveling state of a vehicle, such as passing over a speed bump, occurrence of wheel slip, or traveling on a slope, is determined in real time to prevent degradations in wheel slip control performance and to avoid unnecessarily malfunctions in a traction control system without compromise of wheel slip control performance. The method includes steps of: determining a torque command of a drive unit to apply torque to a drive wheel in accordance with vehicle driving information collected during traveling of the vehicle; determining an acceleration error in accordance with the determined torque command and information regarding a measured longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle measured by a first sensor; determining an acceleration disturbance rate in accordance with the determined torque command; and determining a current traveling state of the vehicle in accordance with the determined acceleration error and the determined acceleration disturbance rate.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Ji Won Oh, Jeong Soo Eo
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Patent number: 12179837Abstract: A method to control a road vehicle driven by a driver and provided with at least a first drive wheel and a second driver wheel belonging to a same axle, each drive wheel being independently operated by a respective first and second electric motor; the control method comprises the step of controlling the torque delivered by each respective motor to the first drive wheel or to the second drive wheel as a function of a torque requested by the driver and independently of the difference in angular speed between the first and the second wheel.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: FERRARI S.P.A.Inventors: Alessandro Flumeri, Francesca Mincigrucci
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Patent number: 12179838Abstract: A control system for controlling generation of a steering wheel overlay signal to control positioning of a host vehicle is configured to determine a first boundary of a lane of travel and a target lane position for the host vehicle in relation to the first boundary, such as a predetermined distance from the first boundary. A steering wheel overlay signal is generated, the steering wheel overlay signal comprising an intra-lane steering signal for steering the host vehicle toward the target lane position. The control system is configured to remove the steering wheel overlay signal in dependence on a velocity of the host vehicle relative to the first boundary being less than a threshold velocity. Thus, the final alignment of the host vehicle achieves the perception of travelling parallel to the boundary, whilst reducing the total intervention time.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITEDInventors: Denis Fusconi, Robyn Caldwell
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Patent number: 12181869Abstract: A system includes a plurality of vehicles and at least one first processor in a first vehicle and at least one second processor in each other of the plurality of vehicles. The first vehicle wirelessly receives remote driving commands, from a remote computing system, instructing control of the first vehicle and executes the remote driving commands to control the first vehicle in accordance with the remote driving commands. The first vehicle wirelessly broadcasts the remote driving commands, including a location of the first vehicle where a given of the driving commands was executed. The second vehicle wirelessly receives the broadcast remote driving commands, stores the received remote driving commands in sequence, and executes the given of the driving commands when a location of the second vehicle corresponds to the location of the first vehicle where the given of the driving commands was executed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Oliver Lei, Somak Datta Gupta, Vladyslav Slyusar, Arpita Chand, Jayanthi Rao
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Patent number: 12179726Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus estimates a speed of a surrounding object of a vehicle using a relative speed of the surrounding object, and thus, it is possible to prevent malfunction of the ADAS function and collision of the vehicle with the surrounding object even when the speed of the surrounding object cannot be measured. The vehicle control apparatus controls the vehicle by distinguishing whether a position of the vehicle is a parking lot, and thus, it is possible to prevent the malfunction of the ADAS.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Junho Yang, Byeonghwa Kim
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Patent number: 12179853Abstract: A steering control device controls, as a target, a steering device including a steering actuator and a turning actuator that has a structure with a power transmission path cut off from the steering actuator. The steering control device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to execute; turning-side synchronization control when the absolute value of a deviation amount is a value within a first range; steering-side synchronization control when the absolute value of the deviation mount is a value within a second range that is a larger value than a value within the first range; and at least one of the turning-side synchronization control and the steering-side synchronization control when the absolute value of the deviation amount is a value within a third range that is a value between a value within the first range and a value within the second range.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Uchino, Isao Namikawa, Kenji Shibata, Takafumi Sato
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Patent number: 12179805Abstract: Techniques are described for transitioning control of a steering system from an autonomous mode in a vehicle to a driver-controlled mode where the driver can control the steering wheel of the steering system. A method includes receiving values that describe an amount of torque and a direction of torque in response to a torque applied to a steering wheel of a steering system operated in an autonomous mode, determining that the values are either greater than or equal to a threshold value or are less than or equal to a negative of the threshold value, determining that the values are measured over a period of time greater than or equal to a pre-determined amount of time, and transitioning the steering system from being operated in the autonomous mode to being operated in a driver-controlled mode in which the steering system is under manual control.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.Inventors: Kaixin Zheng, Xiaoling Han, Zehua Huang, Charles A. Price
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Patent number: 12172673Abstract: System and methods are provided for implementing friction circle safety controls in a vehicle, such as an autonomous vehicle. A system can apply a friction circle analysis during the vehicle's operation, in order to perform a safety-based evaluation of maneuvers that impact the dynamic relationship between a vehicle's tires and a road surface. The system also establishes a link between the vehicle's lateral controls (e.g., steering wheel) and the vehicle's longitudinal controls (e.g., brake and throttle pedals), such that a frictional force of the tires against the road's surface, does not does not exceed a traction limit (e.g., limit of a tire's grip on the road surface) for the particular vehicle. For example, friction circle safety controls can automatically provide feedback and/or automatic driving actions to adjust a relationship between the steering wheel and brake/throttle pedals of the vehicle to maintain operation of the vehicle within the friction circle.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Jaime Camhi
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Patent number: 12172522Abstract: A 3D animation of the response of a vehicle to forces imparted to the vehicle during conveyance thereof over a course. Sensor data are accepted by a processor that defines an instantaneous state of the vehicle. Forces imparted to the vehicle are computed from temporal changes in the state. Wheel slip is determined by the processor from the computed forces. A 3D graphical representation of the vehicle is rendered on a display as being in motion under influence of the wheel slip.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Varun J. Prabhakar
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Patent number: 12168488Abstract: A steering holding determination device configured to determine whether a driver holds a steering member, the steering holding determination device including: a predicted value calculation unit configured to sequentially calculate a predicted value of a state quantity with reference to a steering torque and an actual measured value of the state quantity, the state quantity being related to a turning angle of a wheel; and a steering holding determination unit configured to determine whether the driver holds the steering member with reference to the predicted value calculated by the predicted value calculation unit and an actual measured value corresponding to the predicted value.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu Fujimoto, Tatsuru Niihara, Yoshinori Kohno, Hiroki Sato, Shigeharu Shibahata, Daisuke Tsuga
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Patent number: 12168485Abstract: In a steering control device configured to control a steering system where a steering torque required for steering a steering wheel is changed using a motor torque, a processing circuit includes a first calculation situation where a calculational hysteresis component for adding a first hysteresis characteristic to a torque component is calculated and a second calculation situation where the calculational hysteresis component for adding a second hysteresis characteristic to the torque component is calculated. In the second calculation situation after change from the first calculation situation, the processing circuit calculates a value corresponding to an origin in the second hysteresis characteristic at a time when the calculational hysteresis component enabling a value of the calculational hysteresis component at a timing of the change from the first calculation situation to be maintained is calculated, and calculates the calculational hysteresis component using the calculated value as the origin.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Yoshida, Isao Namikawa, Terutaka Tamaizumi, Kosuke Akatsuka, Yoshio Kudo
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Patent number: 12168439Abstract: A vehicle control device that autonomously controls a vehicle so as not to cause rapid deceleration that leads to a deterioration in ride quality. The vehicle control device controls first and second deceleration, means that reduce a speed at a deceleration rate large than a deceleration rate of the first deceleration means. The vehicle control device includes a blind spot area detecting unit that detects a blind spot area of a sensor that recognizes an external environment, and a blind spot object estimating unit that estimates a blind spot object that is a virtual moving body hidden in the blind spot area. When a vehicle approaches the blind spot area at a speed reduced by the first deceleration means, the vehicle is decelerated by the second deceleration means when a type of a moving body detected by the sensor is different from a type of the blind spot object.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Ryoh Inaba, Trongmun Jiralerspong, Hidehiro Toyoda
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Patent number: 12168474Abstract: A working vehicle includes an inertia detector to measure inertia information of a vehicle body, a rear axle supporting a rear wheel, and a transmission case rotatably supporting the rear wheel. The inertia detector overlaps with at least a portion of the transmission case in a plan view and is capable of accurately measuring inertia information when a vehicle body changes attitude.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Kumiko Kobayashi, Kunihiko Nishino, Yasuaki Morioka, Shunsuke Miyashita, Yuki Kubota, Misako Kawai, Shigeo Shoen
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Patent number: 12168484Abstract: A railborne driver assistance device for supporting or automating the lateral control of a vehicle includes a first processing unit configured to control a steering torque intervention by establishing a steering angle with a stationary control accuracy of an electrically supported steering system. A second processing unit is configured to adjust the stationary control accuracy of the steering angle via the output of an accuracy request signal to the first processing unit in such a way that there is a scaling of the control accuracy between a lower and an upper threshold value. The second processing unit includes a control unit having an integrator with an input and an output, wherein the output of the integrator is connected to the input in a closed-loop manner with a weighting dependent on the accuracy request signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Stefan Feick, Philipp Keßler, Michael Simon
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Patent number: 12168486Abstract: A steering holding determination device configured to determine whether a driver holds a steering member, the steering holding determination device including: a predicted value calculation unit configured to calculate a predicted value of at least one of one or more state quantities related to steering of the steering member and one or more state quantities related to turning of a wheel; and a steering holding determination unit configured to determine whether the driver holds the steering member with reference to the predicted value calculated by the predicted value calculation unit and a variance of the predicted value.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu Fujimoto, Tatsuru Niihara, Yoshinori Kohno, Hiroki Sato, Shigeharu Shibahata, Daisuke Tsuga
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Patent number: 12168436Abstract: A vehicle motion control apparatus includes a control unit which controls a steering apparatus and a brake apparatus provided in a vehicle. The control unit acquires a normative motion state amount necessary for the vehicle to trace a target traveling path, acquires a target motion state amount necessary for generating a yaw moment to cancel unstable behavior of the vehicle, and acquires a target steering angle for generating a steering angle moment and a target brake force for generating a brake moment, to obtain a necessary yaw moment generated by the vehicle. The control unit outputs a first control command for obtaining the target steering angle to the steering apparatus and outputs a second control command for obtaining the target brake force to the brake apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Hidetoshi Arima, Satoshi Kashiwamura
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Patent number: 12167164Abstract: An embodiment apparatus for recording a video in a parked vehicle includes an impact detection module configured to detect an impact applied to the parked vehicle parked in a neutral state (N-state) parking mode, wherein, in the N-state parking mode, an engine is in an ignition-off state and a gear shift lever is in a neutral state, a control module configured to determine, based on an air pressure of a tire or a wavelength of a radar reception signal, whether the parked vehicle is moving, in response to detection of the impact, and a camera module configured to record a video of surroundings of the parked vehicle, in response to a determination that the parked vehicle is moving.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Dong Cheol Jo
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Patent number: 12162466Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to control a vehicle based on signal blending are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes programmable circuitry at least determine a first yaw rate signal based on first signal data output by a yaw rate sensor of a vehicle, determine a second yaw rate signal based on second signal data output by a steering wheel angle sensor of the vehicle, determine a blended yaw rate signal based on the first yaw rate signal and the second yaw rate signal, and adjust a torque to be applied by a motor of the vehicle based on the blended yaw rate signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ashrit Das, Joshua Guerra, Benjamin James Northrup, Lodewijk Maarten Erik Wijffels, Ziyu Ke, Ronald Loyd Chadwick, Yijun Li