20th week of 2022 patent applcation highlights part 22 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20220153234 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - The vehicle control apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus includes a cleaning unit capable of performing a first cleaning operation to clean a detecting surface part of a LiDAR using cleaning fluid, and a cleaning control ECU configured to execute a first light-degree cleaning process to let the first cleaning unit perform a first cleaning operation for a first light-degree cleaning time. The cleaning control ECU executes the first light-degree cleaning process when a first light-degree cleaning condition becomes satisfied within a first allowable period. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153235 | ON-BOARD SENSOR CLEANING APPARATUS AND ON-BOARD SENSOR CLEANING METHOD - The on-board sensor cleaning apparatus is applied to a vehicle having a front camera, a rear camera, a center display, and an electronic inner mirror. A surrounding image obtained through the front camera and the rear camera is displayed on the center display and the electronic inner mirror. The on-board sensor cleaning apparatus includes an ECU, a position information obtaining device, and a cleaning unit. The ECU obtains a visual check probability for an area which includes a position of the vehicle indicated by vehicle position information, from a database. The ECU sets an automatic cleaning start condition based on the obtained visual check probability. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153236 | Method and System for Protecting Operation of Train Under Air Pollution Environment - The present invention discloses a method and system for protecting the operation of a train under an air pollution environment. The method for protecting the operation of the train under the air pollution environment comprises: acquiring multiple groups of roof and underbody air quality detection data; solving comprehensive roof and underbody air evaluation indicator Q | 2022-05-19 |
20220153237 | Metered Dispensing System - An improved flow rate metering device that provides for the mixing and dispensing of two or more fluids to form final mixture, for example, for automatic washing of cars and trucks. More specifically, the invention is a system that mixes and ejects chemicals, creating a very precise mixture of one or more chemicals with a dilutant, such as water. The device also has the capability of monitoring an entire chemical dilution and release system, comprising multiple chemicals, and using software to document past and current usage rates, along with predicting future usage rates based upon both past usage rates and environmental conditions. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153238 | MOUNTING PLATFORM, BATTERY REPLACEMENT DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a mounting platform, comprising: a tray and a fixed plate, the tray is used for carrying a battery, and the tray is provided on the fixed plate and can move horizontally in a first direction relative to the fixed plate; a first guide fork is provided on one side of the fixed plate and the first guide fork can move horizontally in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a second guide fork is provided on one side of the tray, and the second guide fork can move horizontally in the second direction. Further provided is a control method, which is used for controlling the mounting platform above. The mounting platform can fit various models of vehicle batteries by providing the first guide fork and the second guide fork which can move in the second direction, thereby achieving universality of a battery replacement station. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153239 | Dump Trailer Support Assembly - A dump trailer support assembly for supporting a belly dump trailer when the belly dump trailer is not coupled to a tractor includes a box for positioning on a support surface beneath a belly dump trailer. A shaft is slidably integrated into the box such that the shaft can be slid upwardly or downwardly in the box. A support is coupled to the shaft for supporting a bottom of the belly dump trailer when the belly dump trailer is not attached to a tractor. Additionally, the support is comprised of a magnetized material to magnetically engage the bottom of the belly dump trailer and inhibit the belly dump trailer from sliding on the support. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153240 | PACKAGING FOR A BRAKE SYSTEM - An actuation device for a hydraulically operating brake system may include: a master cylinder in a housing and having at least one piston, to which a force can be applied by, e.g., a brake pedal; pressure supply device(s), at least one of which is a piston pump or double stroke piston pump having a piston and driven by an electromotive drive, the drive moving the piston directly or via a step-up gear; at least one valve assembly with magnetic valves; and at least one electronic control and regulating unit. The brake system has at least two hydraulic circuits, and a pressure change can be carried out in at least one wheel brake via the pressure supply device(s). A first housing or module, hydraulically connected to the housing, may contain the valve assembly and the at least one piston and pressure chamber of at least one of the pressure supply devices. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153241 | BRAKE SYSTEM - Brake system ( | 2022-05-19 |
20220153242 | System and Method for Controlling an Electronic Parking Brake - A system controlling an electronic parking brake of a vehicle includes an input device receiving an input pattern from an operator and a parking brake controller receiving the input pattern from the input device. The parking brake controller determines if the input pattern is a respective predetermined pattern for setting the electronic parking brake to one of a primary mode and a secondary mode. If the parking brake controller determines the input pattern is the predetermined pattern for setting the electronic parking brake to the secondary mode, the parking brake controller transmits an electronic control signal for releasing the electronic parking brake until a subsequent input pattern received by the input device is the predetermined pattern for setting the electronic parking brake to the primary mode. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153243 | ESTIMATION OF THE TEMPERATURE OF AN ELECTRIC MOTOR OF A VEHICLE BRAKE ACTUATOR AND CONTROL OF THE MOTOR - A vehicle wheel control device is configured to determine a first corrective coefficient of temperature of the motor from a ratio of an angular speed of the motor to the supply intensity of the motor depending on the supply voltage of the motor. The control device is configured to determine a second corrective coefficient of temperature of the motor from a ratio of the ohmic resistance of the motor to the constant of the motor depending on the temperature of the motor. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153244 | BRAKING CONTROL APPARATUS - A braking control apparatus is configured to control braking force to be generated by a braking device of a vehicle. The braking control apparatus includes a contact detector and a braking control unit. The contact detector is configured to detect a contact of the vehicle. The braking control unit is configured to perform a post-crash braking control that generates the braking force in response to that the contact detector detects the contact and thereby decelerates the vehicle, and cancel the post-crash braking control in a case where an amount of operation of an accelerator operation device of the vehicle is increased and decreased in a predetermined pattern, in which the accelerator operation device is configured to receive an accelerator operation to be performed by a driver who drives the vehicle. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153245 | BRAKE CONTROL APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to provide a brake control apparatus including a backup brake, which brake control apparatus makes it possible both to ensure deceleration, and to attain vehicle running stability. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153246 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD - The present invention obtains a control system and a control method capable of appropriately suppressing rear lift-up of a straddle-type vehicle. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153247 | ELECTRONICALLY SLIP-CONTROLLABLE POWER BRAKING SYSTEM - An electronically slip-controllable power braking system for a motor vehicle, in which a controllably drivable pressure generator supplies multiple brake circuits connected in parallel to one another with pressure medium under brake pressure. Each of the brake circuits are separable through existing first control valves from the pressure generator and include second control valves that are connected downstream from the first control valves to control the brake pressure in the wheel brakes, which are connected with the brake circuits. An electronic control unit in the brake circuits has three devices, the third device puts the first control valve of a brake circuit into a passage position if a leakage is established downstream from the second control valve in this brake circuit and if it is established that the pressure generated by the pressure generator has at least approximately reached or exceeded a pressure limit of the first control valve. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153248 | ELECTRO-PNEUMATIC BRAKE SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE WITH A PARK BRAKE SYSTEM USED AS A BACKUP DECELERATION SYSTEM - An electro-pneumatic brake system for an automotive vehicle comprising brake actuators each with a service brake chamber and a park brake chamber, a service brake system forming a pneumatic main deceleration system and comprising service brake lines configured to supply air pressure to the service brake chamber of the brake actuators, a park brake system forming a pneumatic immobilization system and a backup pneumatic deceleration system, and comprising park brake lines configured to supply air pressure to the park brake chamber of the brake actuators, wherein the park brake system comprises a pressure controller device configured to perform a wheel anti-locking function under a condition of the park brake system being used as a backup deceleration system, the pressure controller device being configured to control the air pressure supply in the park brake lines. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153249 | Braking System For Heavy Duty Vehicles And Related Methods - A braking system for heavy duty vehicles includes a primary active brake booster module having a primary reservoir, a primary actuator, and a master cylinder, the primary brake booster operably coupled with a rear axle, the rear axle including rear wheels coupled therewith. The braking system further includes a secondary active brake booster module having a secondary reservoir and a secondary actuator, the secondary brake booster operably coupled with a front axle, the front axle including front wheels coupled therewith. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153250 | ELECTRONIC BRAKE SYSTEM - Disclosed herein an electronic brake system includes a reservoir provided with spaces for storing oil, the spaces configured to be partitioned; a master cylinder connected to the reservoir, the master cylinder including first and second master chambers and first and second pistons provided in each master chamber, to discharge oil according to a pedal effort of a brake pedal; a hydraulic pressure supply device operated by an electrical signal to generate hydraulic pressure and including first and second pressure chambers and a hydraulic piston; a first hydraulic circuit configured to transmit hydraulic pressure discharged from the hydraulic pressure supply device to wheel cylinders of left front and right front wheels; and a second hydraulic circuit configured to transmit hydraulic pressure discharged from the hydraulic pressure supply device to wheel cylinders of left rear and right rear wheels; wherein hydraulic pressure returned from the wheel cylinders and hydraulic pressure returned from the second pressure chamber flow into the same reservoir chamber. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153251 | ELECTRIC BRAKE APPARATUS - An electric brake apparatus includes a brake mechanism, a parking mechanism, and a main ECU and rear electric brake ECUs. The main ECU performs re-holding control (re-clamping) of, after holding a braking force by the parking mechanism, releasing the holding of the braking force with the braking force applied or maintained and further applying the braking force, and then holding the braking force by the parking mechanism after that. In this case, the main ECU does not release the braking force on a rear right wheel until completing the re-holding control on a rear left wheel side. Alternatively, the main ECU does not release the braking force on the rear left wheel side until completing the re-holding control on the rear right wheel. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153252 | HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - A system may include a computer to obtain orientation information of a determined travel route for a vehicle system that includes a first power source and a second power source. The computer may determine one or more energy requirements of a hybrid propulsion system based on the orientation information. The computer may generate a trip plan to control a performance parameter(s) of a hybrid propulsion system and control a stable low temperature combustion. The computer may select at least one of the first power source or the second power source to deliver the one or more energy requirements. A method may include obtaining the orientation information, determining the one or more energy requirements, generating the trip plan, and selecting at least one of the first power source or the second power source. A vehicle system may include a hybrid power source, an electric motor(s), and a computer. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153253 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A vehicle can take a hybrid driving mode in which the vehicle drives by power output by a first motor generator in response to power supply from at least a second motor generator, and an engine driving mode in which the vehicle drives by power output by at least an engine. When a high load section requiring an assist by the first motor generator is detected in the route on which the vehicle is driving in the engine driving mode, a control device of the vehicle predicts the remaining capacity of the battery in the high load section, and based on the remaining capacity, the control device can control the battery in the high load section before reaching the high load section, based on the remaining capacity of the battery in the high load section, and switch to the hybrid driving mode before reaching the high load section. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153254 | CONTROL MODULE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR A VEHICLE POWERTRAIN - Aspects of the present invention relate to a control module ( | 2022-05-19 |
20220153255 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A DRIVE TRAIN FOR A WORKING MACHINE, DRIVE TRAIN FOR A WORKING MACHINE, AND WORKING MACHINE - The disclosure relates to a method for operating a drive train of a working machine, wherein a traction drive of the drive train is driven by an electric traction motor via a transmission and wherein, when a gear stage of the transmission is changed, a rotational speed of the traction motor is synchronised with the gear stage being engaged. The method according to the disclosure further includes a computational model of the traction motor that is used for the rotational speed synchronisation. The model, taking into account a moment of inertia of the traction motor, describes a torque to be delivered for the rotational speed synchronisation. The disclosure further relates to a corresponding drive train and to a working machine. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153256 | Method and Control Unit for Operating a Hybrid Vehicle - A method for operating a hybrid vehicle includes, depending on a presence of a control-side demand to engage a separating clutch ( | 2022-05-19 |
20220153257 | ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR POWERING ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE - The present application discloses an all-terrain vehicle and a method for powering the all-terrain vehicle. The all-terrain vehicle includes: a frame; at least one seat arranged on the frame; a first device; a second device being a micro-control unit, a required electric power of the first device being greater than a required electric power of the second device, and the first device having a lower stability requirement for a power supply voltage than the second device; and a power supply system arranged behind the at least one seat and comprising a first power source and a second power source. The first power source is configured to supply power to a first device. The second power source is configured to supply power to a second device of the all-terrain vehicle. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153258 | PREDICTIVE PARKING DUE TO WEATHER - Aspects of the disclosure provide a parking method and system for a vehicle. For example, the parking system can include a processor and an output circuit. As another example, the parking system can include the processor and a compelling unit. The processor can be configured to determine whether a first weather condition, such as snowing, raining, icing and hailing, at a first parking location meets a first criterion, and identify, when the first weather condition meets the first criterion, a second parking location at which a second weather condition meets a second criterion different from the first criterion. The output unit can be configured to output an alert to the vehicle parked at the first parking location indicating that the vehicle is to be moved to the second parking location. The compelling unit can be configured to compel the vehicle to move to the second parking location. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153259 | AUTONOMOUS PARKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLES - A method and system for autonomous parking are disclosed. The system employs Homography guided motion segmentation (HGMS) to determine the availability of a parking slot. A free parking slot is determined based on an occupancy status check and identified structures of parking lines. For example, motion analysis is performed on successive images captured by a camera unit to determine the occupancy status of a parking slot. Information of the free parking slot, for example, the dimensions and orientation, may be determined from identifying the structure of parking lines. This information is used by the system to guide a vehicle from its current location to the detected free parking slot. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153260 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - A controller detects partitioning lines OL and BL of a road and a road edge E based on an image taken by a camera, generates a pair of left and right virtual lines IL | 2022-05-19 |
20220153261 | Vehicle To Device Proximity Detection Using Location Comparison - Vehicle to device proximity detection using location comparison is disclosed herein. An example method includes establishing a geofence, the geofence extending around a perimeter of a vehicle or a fixed location, monitoring a vehicle location and a user device location, detecting occurrence of a triggering event, comparing the vehicle location, the user device location relative to one another and to the geofence, and executing a response, the response being conditioned upon the triggering event being exclusive or inclusive. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153262 | OBJECT DETECTION AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE USING A NEURAL NETWORK - Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to identify objects in view of a camera associated with a vehicle. In at least one embodiment, objects with which a vehicle may collide are identified, based on, for example, a difference between a size of an image of the objects detected at a first point in time and a size of an image of the objects detected at a subsequent point in time. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153263 | AUTOMATED DRIVING TRAJECTORY GENERATING DEVICE AND AUTOMATED DRIVING DEVICE - An automated driving trajectory generating device is configured to: recognize a mobile object which is located near a vehicle; calculate a host vehicle path for automated driving of the vehicle and a plurality of predicted paths of the mobile object based on a position of the vehicle on a map, a position of the mobile object on the map, and map information; calculate a predicted acceleration which is generated in the mobile object moving along a predicted path for each predicted path based on the plurality of predicted paths and a vehicle speed of the mobile object; identify a target path which is a predicted path used to generate the trajectory out of the plurality of predicted paths based on a result of comparison between the predicted acceleration and an acceleration threshold value; and generate the trajectory based on the host vehicle path and the target path. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153264 | Operational Risk Assessment for Autonomous Vehicle Control - Changes in the controlling of an autonomous vehicle are caused based on an operational risk determined for the autonomous vehicle. An operational risk monitor module of the autonomous vehicle uses information about objects detected within an environment in which the autonomous vehicle is located and predicted behaviors of those objects to assess the operational risk of the autonomous vehicle along a planned path. The operational risk is used to determine whether to cause a change in the controlling of the autonomous vehicle, for example, based on a comparison between the operational risk and a previously estimated operational risk or based on a determination that the operational risk exceeds a threshold. The operational risk monitor module transmits a signal to one or more control system modules of the autonomous vehicle to indicate to change the controlling of the autonomous vehicle based on the operational risk. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153265 | AUTONOMOUS CONTROLLER FOR LATERAL MOTION AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An autonomous controller for lateral motion includes a vehicle positioning module that calculates a lateral departure degree from the center of a virtual line after a line is lost using position information of a vehicle. The position information is derived by data obtained from the vehicle which is traveling. The controller also includes a driving route determination module that determines the virtual line connecting waypoints previously generated on a map for a section where the line is lost to connect an old line with a new line. A lateral control module then performs lateral autonomous control of the vehicle in a direction where the lateral departure degree is minimized to cause the vehicle to follow a driving route connecting waypoints set on the virtual line to travel. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153266 | VEHICLE ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD - An adaptive cruise control system for a vehicle, includes: a stop location determination system configured to determine a stop location where the vehicle will have to stop because of a possible event occurring ahead of the vehicle on a road where the latter is moving; a cross traffic location determination system configured to determine whether the determined stop location is a location where cross traffic can occur, called cross traffic location; and an adaptive control system configured to adapt at least one driving control of the vehicle, based on the determination that the determined stop location is a cross traffic location. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153267 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS - A driving assistance apparatus includes an estimator and a controller. The estimator estimates a first estimated vehicle speed and a second estimated vehicle speed when there are a first deceleration target and a second deceleration target in a course ahead of a vehicle, and when a driver of the vehicle releases an accelerator pedal. Wherein the first estimated vehicle speed is an estimated vehicle speed of the vehicle at a first target position corresponding to the first deceleration target, and the second estimated vehicle speed is an estimated vehicle speed of the vehicle at a second target position corresponding to the second deceleration target. The controller controls the vehicle to automatically decelerate toward the second target position when the first estimated vehicle speed is greater than a first predetermined value, and when the second estimated vehicle speed is less than a second predetermined value. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153268 | CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF MOTORCYCLE - The present invention obtains a controller and a control method capable of appropriately assisting with driving of a motorcycle by a rider. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153269 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A POWERTRAIN OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE - An apparatus and method are provided for controlling a powertrain of an autonomous vehicle. The apparatus includes an autonomous driving controller that controls autonomous driving of the vehicle and a transmission controller that determines whether the vehicle satisfies a pulse and glide (P&G) driving condition during the autonomous driving. The transmission controller alternately performs pulse driving and coasting in conjunction with the autonomous driving controller when the vehicle satisfies the P&G driving condition. The transmission controller causes a transmission to remain in a neutral state during the coasting. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153270 | TRAVEL ASSIST DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A travel assist device includes: a creation unit configured to create a traveling profile based on a total traveling distance; and an output unit configured to output an operation amount according to a target state amount, which is a target value of a state amount indicated by the traveling profile, to at least one of a driving device and a braking device. In a state in which a vehicle travels by the driving of at least one of the above devices based on the operation amount, the creation unit re-creates a traveling profile so that the acceleration of the vehicle does not exceed a predetermined limit value if the difference between an actual value of the state amount and the target state amount is equal to or larger than a judgment difference. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153271 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - A start control device, which is a control device, includes: a first adjustment processing unit configured to execute a first adjustment process of instructing at least one of a brake device and a drive device to increase a braking/driving force when the braking/driving force is negative and the vehicle is stopped; and a second adjustment processing unit configured to start a second adjustment process of instructing at least one of the brake device and the drive device to increase the braking/driving force at a speed lower than an increasing speed of the braking/driving force before end of the first adjustment process on condition that the braking/driving force has become greater than or equal to a determination braking/driving force by the increase in the braking/driving force accompanying the execution of the first adjustment process. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153272 | TRAVELING CONTROL APPARATUS, TRAVELING CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - A traveling control apparatus is mounted on a vehicle that includes an electric motor and an internal combustion engine as power sources. The traveling control apparatus includes an electronic control unit configured to create a speed profile obtained by predicting speed of the vehicle at each time, derive, based on at least the speed profile, a coefficient profile that is a coefficient at each time used at the time of predicting an amount of regenerative energy recoverable by regenerative braking of the electric motor, approximate the speed profile with a predetermined approximation model and estimate a predicted amount of regenerative energy based on an approximation result and the coefficient profile, and determine the power source used for traveling based on the predicted amount of regenerative energy. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153273 | Detection of phase and timing of traffic signal lights and driver assistance method and systems - The invention relates to a method and systems for detection of phase and timing of traffic signal lights and notifying drivers and controlling vehicle subsystems with driver assistance information generated through processing phase and timing information with location, speed and heading of vehicles. Phase and timing information is detected through analyzing data received from sensors installed on the traffic signal lights. Processing the detected traffic signal light phase and timing information with location, heading and speed information of vehicles, drivers can be notified to regulate the speed of vehicles according to the situation of the traffic signal lights. Additionally, providing the communication of adaptive cruise control, start-stop and autonomous driving systems of vehicles with the traffic signal lights, vehicles can be controlled by these systems according to the situation of the traffic signal lights. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153274 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WHEEL SLIP OF A VEHICLE - A method for controlling wheel slip of a vehicle. The vehicle comprises at least a first and a second motion support device, MSD, for providing torque to a common wheel of the vehicle. The method comprises receiving a wheel torque request. Based on the received wheel torque request, the method further comprises controlling the first MSD to provide torque to the wheel in a first mode of operation, and controlling the second MSD to provide torque to the wheel in a second mode of operation which is different from the first mode of operation. The controlling of the first MSD and the controlling of the second MSD are, at least temporarily, performed simultaneously. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153275 | Incorporating Human Communication into Driving Related Decisions - An autonomous driving system incorporating human communication into driving related decisions. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153276 | Method and processing unit for determining the size of an object | 2022-05-19 |
20220153277 | VIRTUAL SIM FOR VEHICLE - A method includes identifying a user; obtaining a user profile matched with the identification of the user, wherein the user profile includes SIM data associated with a carrier plan; assigning the SIM data associated with the carrier plan of the obtained user profile to a data communication module to virtually replicate the SIM data of the user; and reverting carrier settings of the data communication module to original settings based on the user no longer being identifiable. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153278 | Cognitive Heat Map: A Model for Driver Situational Awareness - A system includes a camera configured to capture image data of an environment, a monitoring system configured to generate a gaze sequences of a subject, and a computing device communicatively coupled to the camera and the monitoring system. The computing device is configured to receive the image data from the camera and the gaze sequences from the monitoring system, implement a machine learning model comprising a convolutional encoder-decoder neural network configured to process the image data and a side-channel configured to inject the gaze sequences into a decoder stage of the convolutional encoder-decoder neural network, generate, with the machine learning model, a gaze probability density heat map, and generate, with the machine learning model, an attended awareness heat map. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153279 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATION OF VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES - There is provided a system for adapting parameters of a vehicle for reduction of likelihood of an adverse event, comprising: hardware processor(s) executing a code for: performing, for each respective driver of multiple drivers: obtaining an indication of a vehicle driven by the respective driver, obtaining an indication of a certain advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) selected from multiple ADAS for installation in the vehicle, obtaining an environmental profile indicative of a prediction of an environment in which the vehicle with installed ADAS is predicted for driving therein at a future time interval, defining a simulation model in which the vehicle with installed ADAS is driving according to the environment profile, computing a risk of an adverse event during the future time interval by executing the simulation model, and selecting parameter(s) of the vehicle for adaptation thereof according to a predicted likelihood of reducing the risk of the adverse event. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153280 | VEHICLE TELEMATICS BASED DRIVING ASSESSMENT - Aspects of the disclosure relate to using vehicle telematics data to assess parameters associated with vehicle operation. In some instances, a driving assessment system may include a first computing device associated with a user in a vehicle and a second computing located remotely from the first computing device. The first computing device may collect, by way of one or more of an accelerometer and global positioning system (GPS), vehicle operational data and vehicle locational information associated with the vehicle and corresponding to a trip of the vehicle and may transmit such information to the second computing device. The second computing device may identify actionable and second order actionable trip data from the vehicle operational data and vehicle locational information and may calculate a behavior score for the trip. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153281 | INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, INFORMATION TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD - The present invention provides an information provision system that provides a user with information for coping with a problem by using an information terminal having a camera and a display, wherein the information terminal includes at least one processor with a memory comprising instructions cause the at least one processor to at least: identify a problem area in a captured image obtained by the camera; and display, on the display, a plurality of procedure screens indicating contents of a procedure for coping with the identified problem area, in accordance with an answer from the user, the plurality of procedure screens include a first procedure screen on which a plurality of answer items selectable by the user are displayed. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153282 | ATTENTION LEVEL DETERMINATION - Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a control system, a system, a method, a vehicle and a non-transitory computer readable medium for receiving user movement data indicative of movement of a user's head; receiving object movement data indicative of movement of an object, the object being associated with a non-driving task; determining one or more relative movement parameters indicative of the relative movement of the user's head with respect to the object based at least in part on the received user movement data and the object movement data; and determining an attention level of the user to the non-driving task in based at least in part on the determined relative movement parameter. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153283 | ENHANCED COMPONENT DIMENSIONING - Vehicle environment data about operation of a plurality of vehicles and vehicle component data for a vehicle component is input into a machine learning program to obtain a transfer function that correlates vehicle environment data to vehicle component data within a specified range of vehicle component parameters. A first event is identified by determining that a datum in the vehicle component data is outside the specified range. A predictive damage model of a vehicle component is updated based on the first event. A virtual parameter of a component model is adjusted based on output from the predictive damage model. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153284 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC COMPUTING DEVICE FOR CHECKING SENSOR DEVICES OF VEHICLES, IN PARTICULAR OF MOTOR VEHICLES - A method for testing sensor devices of vehicles, including acquiring, by central processor device, first data items which are made available by a first vehicle of the vehicles. The first data items have at least one property of a positionally fixed object, which is sensed by the sensor device of the first vehicle, and a location, determined by the first vehicle, of the object, on the earth; acquiring second data items, made available by a second of the vehicles, the processor device, The second data items have the at least one property of the positionally fixed object which is sensed the sensor device of the second vehicle and a location, determined by the second vehicle, of the object on the earth; and checking the sensor devices in accordance with the first data items and the second data items. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153285 | VEHICLE POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A vehicle power supply device acquires a state of a vehicle, controls a first switch disposed between an auxiliary power supply and a second load to be in a disconnected state in a case where the vehicle is in a predetermined state including ignition off, and controls the first switch to be in a connected state in a case where the vehicle is in a predetermined automatic driving state among automatic driving states including partial and conditional automatic driving. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153286 | Autonomous Vehicle System For Determining a Pullover Spot In Response To Detected Local Failure - The disclosure provides for a method for determining a pullover spot for a vehicle. The method includes using a computing device to detect information related to a system of the vehicle or an environment surrounding the vehicle using a sensor of a vehicle and determine a local failure of the vehicle based on the information. The computing device may then be used to determine that the vehicle should pullover before completing a current trip related to transporting a passenger or good by comparing vehicle requirements for the trip with the local failure and determine a pullover spot by identifying a first area for the vehicle to park in part based on a second area being available for a second vehicle to pick up the passenger or good. The computing device may operate the vehicle to the pullover spot and transmit a request for a second vehicle. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153287 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE VALUES OF PARAMETERS - A method for determining the values of parameters for a controller of a vehicle, wherein respective error measures are calculated for different sets of values and a set of values is selected based on the error measures. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153288 | SUSTAINED NEUTRAL OPERATION OF VEHICLES - A computer-implemented method includes determining a vehicle configuration indicative of a towing mode setting for the vehicle, which can include a neutral transmission gear setting, a battery conservation mode, or another towing mode setting. The method can include determining at least one vehicle operation characteristic that changes with time while the vehicle is in the towing mode setting, and performing, via a vehicle control module and based at least in part on the towing mode setting and the vehicle operation characteristic, one or more vehicle actions that include generating an alert signal indicative that vehicle damage may occur. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153289 | VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER- READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A dialog confirmation unit in a vehicle communication device calculates the deceleration of a vehicle on the basis of vehicle speeds, when the vehicle speed at an operation start time and the vehicle speed at a time when a certain time has elapsed since the operation start time have been obtained by a vehicle information acquisition unit. Next, the dialog confirmation unit calculates a change in distance on the basis of distances when a distance information acquisition unit has obtained the distance between the vehicle and an object in front at the operation start time and the distance at the time when a certain time has elapsed since the operation start time. Next, the dialog confirmation unit selects a dialog that corresponds to the deceleration and the change in distance, from among a plurality of dialogs. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153290 | VEHICLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - When a vehicle information acquisition unit continuously acquires an On signal of a blinker switch, when the absolute value of a steering angle of a handle is 90° or greater, and a vehicle speed is a threshold or greater, a dialogue confirmation unit of this vehicle communication device selects a dialogue that corresponds to the On signal, the steering angle, and the vehicle speed from dialogues of group A stored in a dialogue storage unit. Thereafter, when the steering angle or the vehicle speed changes, the dialogue confirmation unit selects the dialogue that corresponds to changes in the steering angle or the vehicle speed from among dialogues of group. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153291 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZING PREDICTED DRIVING RISK - Systems and methods of visualizing predicted driving risk are provided herein. Vehicle sensor data associated with a vehicle operator may be analyzed. Based on the analysis of the vehicle sensor data, one or more vehicle operation risks associated with the vehicle operator may be predicted. Each vehicle operation risk may be associated with a portion of a vehicle associated with the vehicle operator. Additionally, each vehicle operation risk may be assigned a priority level, e.g., based on predicted likelihood of occurrence, predicted danger of the vehicle operator, predicted damage to the vehicle, etc. A display overview of the vehicle may be presented to the vehicle operator. In the display overview of the vehicle portions of the vehicle associated with each of the predicted vehicle operation risks may be highlighted. The portions may be highlighted differently (using different colors, heavier/lighter shading, etc.) based on the priority level of their associated risks. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153292 | VEHICLE DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE - A vehicle driving support device issues an alert to notify a driver of a vehicle that there is a possibility of occurrence of a situation in which the vehicle is not able to travel along a lane. The vehicle driving support device issues an alert when an alert condition that a rate of increase in a lateral acceleration of the vehicle is equal to or larger than a predetermined rate of increase is satisfied. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153293 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING AN AUTOMATED VEHICLE - A method for operating an automated vehicle. The method includes: detecting surroundings of the vehicle; providing surroundings data of the detected surroundings; supplying the surroundings data to a situation detection unit including a defined number greater than one of situation detection elements; computationally modeling the surroundings of the vehicle with the aid of the situation detection elements; activating driver assistance systems using output data of the models of the situation detection elements; deciding, with the aid of a decision-making unit, which output data of the models of the situation detection elements are used for activating an actuator unit of the vehicle; and activating the actuator unit of the vehicle using the decided-upon output data. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153294 | METHODS FOR UPDATING AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM, AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEMS, AND ON-BOARD APPARATUSES - Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of autonomous driving, and in particular to methods for updating an autonomous driving system, autonomous driving systems, and on-board apparatuses. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the autonomous driving system, even when in a manual driving mode, also senses the surrounding environment of a vehicle, performs vehicle positioning, and plans a path for autonomous driving for the vehicle according to environment sensing information, positioning information, and data of vehicle sensors. However, the autonomous driving system does not issue an instruction to control the driving of the vehicle. Instead, it compares the path with a path along which a driver drives the vehicle in the manual driving mode to update a planning and control algorithm of the autonomous driving system. As such, the updated autonomous driving system better caters to the driving habits of the driver and improves the driving experience for the driver without compromising the reliability of planning and decision-making of autonomous driving. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153295 | OPERATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC TRAVELING VEHICLE - An operation management system includes an automatic traveling vehicle and a management server. The vehicle includes a first processor, and is configured to transport at least one of people or luggage. The management server includes a second processor, and is configured to communicate with the vehicle and manage the operation thereof. The first processor or second processor is configured to: determine whether there is a transport task in which the vehicle transports at least one of people or luggage; and, when there is no transport task, execute a task switching process of causing the vehicle to execute any one of a patrol task in which the vehicle performs a patrol of an operating area of the vehicle, a cleaning task in which the vehicle performs a cleaning of the operating area, and a patrol cleaning task in which the vehicle performs both the patrol and the cleaning. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153296 | TRAJECTORY PLANNING WITH OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLES - A computer-implement method for operating an ADV is disclosed. A first trajectory for the ADV to drive along is planned. The ADV is to autonomously drive along the first trajectory. An obstacle in an affected region of the ADV is detected based on sensor data obtained from a plurality of sensors mounted on the ADV. An expected residence time of the obstacle in the affected region is determined. Whether to plan a second trajectory or to wait for the obstacle to leave the affected region is determined based on the expected residence time of the obstacle in the affected region. A second trajectory for the ADV to drive along is planned and the ADV is to autonomously drive along the second trajectory, or the ADV is to wait for the obstacle to leave the affected region and to autonomously drive along the first trajectory afterwards. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153297 | FILTERING RETURN POINTS IN A POINT CLOUD BASED ON RADIAL VELOCITY MEASUREMENT - Aspects and implementations of the present disclosure relate to filtering of return points from a point cloud based on radial velocity measurements. An example method includes: receiving, by a sensing system of an autonomous vehicle (AV), data representative of a point cloud comprising a plurality of return points, each return point comprising a radial velocity value and position coordinates representative of a reflecting region that reflects a transmission signal emitted by the sensing system; applying, to each of the plurality of return points, at least one threshold condition related to the radial velocity value of a given return point to identify a subset of return points within the plurality of return points; removing the subset of return points from the point cloud to generate a filtered point cloud; and identifying objects represented by the remaining return points in the filtered point cloud. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153298 | Generating Motion Scenarios for Self-Driving Vehicles - Techniques for generating testing data for an autonomous vehicle (AV) are described herein. A system can obtain sensor data descriptive of a traffic scenario. The traffic scenario can include a subject vehicle and actors in an environment. Additionally, the system can generate a perturbed trajectory for a first actor in the environment based on perturbation values. Moreover, the system can generate simulated sensor data. The simulated sensor data can include data descriptive of the perturbed trajectory for the first actor in the environment. Furthermore, the system can provide the simulated sensor data as input to an AV control system. The AV control system can be configured to process the simulated sensor data to generate an updated trajectory for the subject vehicle in the environment. Subsequently, the system can evaluate an adversarial loss function based on the updated trajectory for the subject vehicle to generate an adversarial loss value. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153299 | COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMOBILE AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR RECEPTION DATA - An automobile computing system includes: a computing device configured to determine a target motion of an automobile in traveling along a path generated based on an output from an outside-vehicle information acquirer mounted on the automobile and configured to acquire information on an outside-vehicle environment, and to output a control signal for implementing the target motion to an actuator; and a security gateway device disposed between an external network and the computing device and configured to determine validity of access from an external communication device through a network based on a preset criterion, and determine whether access from the communication device is permitted or not. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153300 | ADJUSTING DRIVING PATTERN OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE - An approach for adjusting driving parameters of an AV (autonomous vehicle) based on the driving style of the passenger is disclosed. The approach utilizes existing driving patterns of the passenger and perform a dynamic comparison and correlation with safe driving patterns of the passengers themselves. Based on that evaluation, the approach would suggest the parameters for adjusting the AV driving style in order to ensure AV riding experience meets the expected level of safe and stress-less riding. Furthermore, the approach can dynamically adjust the driving style during the trip based on the reaction and feedback from the passenger. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153301 | Control Unit and Method for Detecting, Classifying and Predicting an Interaction Requirement of an Automatically Driven Vehicle - An electronic control unit for operating an automatically driven vehicle is designed to detect a present driving situation of the vehicle in which an interaction requirement of the vehicle with a server exists. The electronic control unit is further designed to assign an interaction class from a plurality of different interaction classes to the interaction requirement of the present driving situation. An interaction can be carried out with a server with respect to the present driving situation based on the assigned interaction class. The electronic control unit is additionally designed to predict that the automatically driven vehicle can enter a possible driving situation in a future time period in which an interaction requirement of the vehicle with a server exists. One or more measures can then be initiated in order to prevent the possible driving situation and/or in order to change the interaction requirement of the possible driving situation. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153302 | PREDICTIVE IMPAIRMENT MONITOR SYSTEM AND METHOD - A driver monitor system and method for predicting impairment of a user of a vehicle. The system includes video cameras, an input device for inputting a list of medications being taken by the driver. Processing circuitry predicts side effects of the medications based on the half-life of the medication, detecting eye gaze movement, eye lid position, and facial expression of the user using images from the video camera, predicting whether the user is transitioning into an impaired physical state that is a side effect of the medications, verifying the side effect of the medications, determining whether the user is fit to drive using the verified side effects of the medications, and outputting to the vehicle an instruction to operate the vehicle in a level of automation that makes up for the at least one side effect or to perform a safe pull over operation of the vehicle. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153303 | Methods and Systems for Determining a Maneuver to be Executed by an Autonomous Vehicle - A computer implemented method for determining a maneuver to be executed by an autonomous vehicle comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: determining a plurality of potential maneuvers; determining a subset of the potential maneuvers based on a pre-determined condition; determining a mask based on the subset; determining an output of a fully connected layer of a neural network; determining a dot product of the output of the fully connected layer and the mask; and determining the maneuver to be executed based on the dot product. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153304 | LOW IMPACT DETECTION FOR AUTOMATED DRIVING VEHICLES - A method helps to protect an occupant of a vehicle ( | 2022-05-19 |
20220153305 | DRIVE DEVICE FOR A SYSTEM FOR CHANGING MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION, USE AND SYSTEM FOR CHANGING MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION - A drive device for a transport means changing system, comprising: a drive train configured for use on the road; an interface configured for coupling to a passenger cabin and/or cargo cabin; comprising a work device which performs work activities, in particular maintenance, clearing, servicing and/or monitoring activities which are independent of transportation, wherein the drive device has a first operating mode in which it is coupled to at least one passenger cabin and/or cargo cabin and is configured to carry out autonomous transportation of passengers and/or cargo, and wherein the drive device has a second operating mode in which it is decoupled from a passenger cabin and/or cargo cabin and is configured for autonomous mobile performance of the work activities by the work device or by a coupled tool module. The present invention further relates to a corresponding use of a drive device and a corresponding transport means changing system. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153306 | Kurtosis Based Pruning for Sensor-Fusion Systems - This document describes Kurtosis based pruning for sensor-fusion systems. Kurtosis based pruning minimizes a total quantity of comparisons performed when fusing together large sets of data. Multiple candidate radar tracks may possibly align with one of multiple candidate visual tracks. For each candidate vision track, a weight or other evidence of matching is assigned to each candidate radar track. An inverse of matching errors between each candidate vision and each candidate radar track contributes to this evidence, which may be normalized to produce, for each candidate vision track, a distribution associated with all candidate radar tracks. A Kurtosis or shape of this distribution is calculated. Based on the Kurtosis values, some candidate radar tracks are selected for matching and other remaining candidate radar tracks are pruned. The Kurtosis aids in determining how many candidates to retain and how many to prune. In this way, Kurtosis based pruning can prevent combinatorial explosions due to large-scale matching. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153307 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPLETING TRAJECTORY PREDICTION FROM AGENT-AUGMENTED ENVIRONMENTS - A system and method for completing trajectory prediction from agent-augmented environments that include receiving image data associated with surrounding environment of an ego agent and processing an agent-augmented static representation of the surrounding environment of the ego agent based on the image data. The system and method also include processing a set of spatial graphs that correspond to an observation time horizon based on the agent-augmented static representation. The system and method further include predicting future trajectories of agents that are located within the surrounding environment of the ego agent based on the spatial graphs. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153308 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A MOTOR VEHICLE - The invention relates to a method for controlling a motor vehicle ( | 2022-05-19 |
20220153309 | Systems and Methods for Motion Forecasting and Planning for Autonomous Vehicles - Systems and methods are disclosed for motion forecasting and planning for autonomous vehicles. For example, a plurality of future traffic scenarios are determined by modeling a joint distribution of actor trajectories for a plurality of actors, as opposed to an approach that models actors individually. As another example, a diversity objective is evaluated that rewards sampling of the future traffic scenarios that require distinct reactions from the autonomous vehicle. An estimated probability for the plurality of future traffic scenarios can be determined and used to generate a contingency plan for motion of the autonomous vehicle. The contingency plan can include at least one initial short-term trajectory intended for immediate action of the AV and a plurality of subsequent long-term trajectories associated with the plurality of future traffic scenarios. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153310 | Automatic Annotation of Object Trajectories in Multiple Dimensions - Techniques for improving the performance of an autonomous vehicle (AV) by automatically annotating objects surrounding the AV are described herein. A system can obtain sensor data from a sensor coupled to the AV and generate an initial object trajectory for an object using the sensor data. Additionally, the system can determine a fixed value for the object size of the object based on the initial object trajectory. Moreover, the system can generate an updated initial object trajectory, wherein the object size corresponds to the fixed value. Furthermore, the system can determine, based on the sensor data and the updated initial object trajectory, a refined object trajectory. Subsequently, the system can generate a multi-dimensional label for the object based on the refined object trajectory. A motion plan for controlling the AV can be generated based on the multi-dimensional label. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153311 | Situation Handling And Learning For An Autonomous Vehicle Control System - An autonomous vehicle (AV) system includes an AV control system that resolves unique situations encountered while operating as a ride hail provider. The AV control system includes an artificial intelligence (AI) agent programmed to receive a situation data set as an input from vehicle sensors or from another AI agent. The situation data set can include a generic representation of information describing and characterizing the circumstances and details of the current situation. The system may access a knowledge library having catalogued prior situation data sets that describe situations encountered by the AV or other vehicles in a fleet. The AV control system may search the knowledge library for a similar situation encountered by a fleet vehicle. Once a similar situation is identified, the AV control system may identify one or more remedies that were executed to handle the prior situation, and execute the remedy to address the current situation. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153312 | MOBILE TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING ITEMS AND SERVICES - An apparatus and method for a mobile transport for delivering temperature-controlled contents includes a plurality of compartments coupled to a vehicle body where each compartment includes an interior space and a front panel defining a wall of the interior space. Each front panel is operable to open and reveal the interior space of its compartment in response to a predetermined condition. A temperature controller is configured to individually control a temperature setting within at least one of the plurality of compartments, and a germicidal controller is configured to provide a germicide to the interior space of each of the plurality of compartments. In operation, the mobile transport receives an order signal to pick up an item from a source, the order signal including the pickup location information, customer identification information, and delivery location information. After the item has been placed in the interior space of a compartment, the temperature controller sets the temperature setting for that compartment according to a type of the item. After arriving at the delivery location, the front panel of the compartment is opened in response to receiving an open request signal satisfying the predetermined condition, the open request signal including information relating to the customer identification information. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153313 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORECASTING REACTIONS OF OTHER ROAD USERS IN AUTONOMOUS DRIVING - A method of determining a trajectory for an autonomous vehicle (AV) is disclosed. When the AV's on-board system detects another actor near the AV, it will generate a virtual doppelganger that is co-located with the autonomous vehicle. The system will predict possible modalities for the other actor and, for each of the modalities, one or more possible trajectories for the other actor. The system then forecast candidate actions of the virtual doppelganger, each of which corresponds to one or more of the possible trajectories of the other actor. The computing system will then determine candidate trajectories of the autonomous vehicle, and it will select one of the candidate trajectories as a selected trajectory for the autonomous vehicle to follow. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153314 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC MOTION PREDICTIONS - Systems and methods for generating synthetic testing data for autonomous vehicles are provided. A computing system can obtain map data descriptive of an environment and object data descriptive of a plurality of objects within the environment. The computing system can generate context data including deep or latent features extracted from the map and object data by one or more machine-learned models. The computing system can process the context data with a machine-learned model to generate synthetic motion prediction for the plurality of objects. The synthetic motion predictions for the objects can include one or more synthesized states for the objects at future times. The computing system can provide, as an output, synthetic testing data that includes the plurality of synthetic motion predictions for the objects. The synthetic testing data can be used to test an autonomous vehicle control system in a simulation. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153315 | Systems and Methods for Actor Motion Forecasting within a Surrounding Environment of an Autonomous Vehicle - Systems and methods are provided for forecasting the motion of actors within a surrounding environment of an autonomous platform. For example, a computing system of an autonomous platform can use machine-learned model(s) to generate actor-specific graphs with past motions of actors and the local map topology. The computing system can project the actor-specific graphs of all actors to a global graph. The global graph can allow the computing system to determine which actors may interact with one another by propagating information over the global graph. The computing system can distribute the interactions determined using the global graph to the individual actor-specific graphs. The computing system can then predict a motion trajectory for an actor based on the associated actor-specific graph, which captures the actor-to-actor interactions and actor-to-map relations. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153316 | CABLEWAY SYSTEM THAT IS USED TO TRANSPORT OCCUPIED VEHICLES BETWEEN A PAIR OF TRANSFER STATIONS - A continuously moving cableway system for the transport of cars with passengers on board has two pairs of track cables, which extend between, two towers. Specially fitted open transport cabins, are moved along the track cables by at least one traction cable. Speed reducers located at ground level outside of the two towers. Access control, toll type, with rising arm barrier outside of the two towers. Security gates actioned by hydraulic jacks located at ground level outside of the two towers. Conveyor belts located at ground level between the two towers. Roller ramps, conveyor belt, security gates actioned by hydraulic jacks inside of the specially fitted open transport, cabins. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153317 | Combined Pumping / Gas Source Unit Configured For Use in a Tubular Transportation System - Disclosed is a combined pumping/gas source unit configured for use in a tubular transportation system for transporting one or more passengers or one or more cargos via a capsule along a predetermined route, where the tubular transportation system comprises a plurality of substantially evacuated tubes arranged along the predetermined route, each tube in the plurality of substantially evacuated tubes maintained at a pressure that is below atmospheric pressure. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153318 | Injection System and Method for Injecting Helium and/or Hydrogen in Critical Aerodynamic Areas Around a Capsule in a Tube Transportation System - Disclosed within is an injection system for injecting and maintaining a gaseous composition (helium and air) within a tube (e.g., a tubular transportation system for transporting one or more passengers or one or more cargos via a capsule), where the tube is pumped to a pressure that is below atmospheric pressure until the tube is substantially evacuated and where the capsule has an outside skin layer having injection nozzles. A source of helium gas located on board the capsule releases the helium outside of the capsule via the nozzles to relieve pressure buildup in a stagnation point at the front of the capsule or to reduce effects of a choking flow around the capsule or to relieve the effects of a shockwave at the rear of the capsule. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153319 | TRACTION COUPLING - A traction coupling including a coupling rod, a bearing block, and a coupling head supported by the coupling rod. The coupling rod extends in an axial direction from an attachment end to the coupling head, in a region of the attachment end, the coupling head is mounted in a pivotable manner on the bearing block in order to be attached to a rail vehicle. The traction coupling also including at least one lubricating device having at least one lubricant source and at least one lubricant line connected to the lubricant source for lubrication of joints and/or movement points in the traction coupling. The joints and/or movement points of various components of the following group of components of the traction coupling are lubricated with the lubricating device the coupling rod, the coupling head, and the bearing block. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153320 | INTERIOR AIR QUALITY MONITORING AND VENTILATION CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAIN - The present invention discloses an interior air quality monitoring and ventilation control method and system for a train. The interior air quality monitoring and ventilation control method for the train comprises: acquiring multiple groups of interior and exterior air quality detection data; acquiring interior and exterior air comprehensive evaluation index Q | 2022-05-19 |
20220153321 | RAILWAY VEHICLE BOGIE AND ASSOCIATED RAILWAY VEHICLE AND MACHINING PROCESS - A bogie is capable of being moved from a rest configuration to an active configuration in which the bogie carries at least one vertical load. The bogie includes a chassis, at least one pair of wheels, and a shaft extending along an axle axis for each pair of wheels. Each wheel has a wheel hub extending along a hub axis and an axle box attached to the chassis and receiving the associated hub. Each hub is rotatable relative to the associated axle box. For each hub, the hub axis forms a non-zero camber angle with the axle axis of the associated shaft when the bogie is in the rest configuration. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153322 | RAIL ROAD CAR TRUCK BOLSTER - A rail road car truck has a bolster having the form of a hollow beam that has a deep central portion and shallow ends. The bolster has a top flange, a bottom flange and internal and external webs extending between, intersecting and merging with the top and bottom flanges. A center plate bowl is located in the middle of the top flange, and brake rod passages are defined transversely through the bolster. In some embodiments, transverse ribs run underneath the center plate bowl. The ribs may be curved. The ribs may be flush with the brake rod openings in the various webs. There may be upwardly standing ribs running transversely across the bottom flange. Those lower ribs may terminate upwardly flush with the brake rod openings. Alternatively, the bottom portion of the bolster may by cast with a greater thickness, up to the bottom of the break rod openings. In other embodiments, the bolster may have partial or fully tubular brake rod opening liners or tubes that extend across the bolster beneath the center plate. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153323 | CONVEYANCE ARREST SYSTEM - A first conveyance arrest system includes a conveyance arrest cylinder comprising a piston rod mechanically coupled a trolley receiver. The trolley receiver engages a conveyance trolley, displaces the piston rod and pressurizes a working fluid within the conveyance arrest cylinder. The conveyance arrest cylinder comprises a port that vents pressurized fluid within the conveyance arrest cylinder and provides a vent resistance to fluid escaping the conveyance arrest cylinder. A second conveyance arrest system includes a conveyance trolley slideably coupled to a conveyance guide, and a conveyance arrest cylinder mechanically coupled to the conveyance trolley. The second conveyance arrest system also includes a conveyance stop configured to engage a stop engagement end of a piston rod and thereby pressurize fluid within the conveyance arrest cylinder in response to movement of the trolley toward the conveyance stop. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153324 | WIRELESS ONBOARD RAILROAD BEARING CONDITION MONITORING SYSTEM - Described herein is a system and method that can accurately determine the presence of defects in the wheelset of a railcar during active use of the railcar. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153325 | WIRELESS VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - A vehicle control system includes a controller configured to be operably deployed onboard a first propulsion-generating vehicle of a multi-vehicle system, and a wireless communication unit configured to be electrically coupled to the controller. The controller is configured to control the wireless communication unit to wirelessly communicate first vehicle control signals to a second propulsion-generating vehicle of the multi-vehicle system that is immediately adjacent and mechanically coupled to the first propulsion-generating vehicle, while the first propulsion-generating vehicle and the second propulsion-generating vehicle are in a non-cable-connected state. The controller also is configured to control the wireless communication unit to wirelessly communicate different, second vehicle control signals to a third propulsion-generating vehicle of the multi-vehicle system that is separated from the first and second propulsion-generating vehicles by at least one non-propulsion-generating vehicle in the multi-vehicle system. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153326 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ELEMENT CHARACTERISTIC OF A RAILROAD ELEMENT - The present invention provides a method for determining an element characteristic of at least one railroad element, comprising the steps of: providing a motion sensor ( | 2022-05-19 |
20220153327 | ROLLING STOCK SCHEDULING CREATION DEVICE, ROLLING STOCK SCHEDULING CREATION METHOD, AND ROLLING STOCK SCHEDULING CREATION PROGRAM - A rolling stock scheduling creation device that creates scheduling of railroad rolling stock and includes: a processor; and a memory storing data used by the processor, wherein the memory stores transportation plan information which is information on travel of a train using a rolling stock train-unit including the railroad rolling stock, rolling stock train-unit information which is information on an attribute and an inspection conducting schedule related to each rolling stock train-unit. The inspection capacity information is information indicating inspection capacity of an inspection facility associated with the rolling stock train-unit, and scheduling for the transportation plan information is created by applying the rolling stock train-unit information and selecting a train to which each rolling stock train-unit is allocatable, and obtaining inspection conducting schedule information on each rolling stock train-unit to reflect an inspection conducting schedule of each rolling stock train-unit designated in the inspection conducting schedule. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153328 | Multi-Level Delivery System and Associated Apparatus - Multi-level delivery systems and various apparatus associated therewith are presented. Multi-level delivery systems include a number of integrated, modular and interchangeable compactible elements that may work either alone or in conjunction with other such elements to allow for the deployment of a delivery system having a smaller overall spatial footprint when compared to comparable conventional delivery systems. Apparatus combining to form a delivery system may include one or more of: a compactible container cart, a compactible cart hauler or trailer and a propulsion means. These elements or apparatus may be deployed in any combination, either together as an integrated system or with compatible conventional apparatus. In combination, delivery systems maximize space efficiency, and allow for adaption to any environment and scale. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153329 | HANDLING SYSTEM FOR CONTAINER IN A VEHICLE AND A VEHICLE HAVING SUCH A SYSTEM - A handling system for a receptacle space in a vehicle for storage for containers. A linear guide is on an inner wall of the receptacle space. The linear guide guides at least one carrier element in the movement direction of the container, wherein the storage position of the container is provided having the rear wall thereof in the region of the rear wall of the receptacle space. The removal position is provided in the region of an insertion opening, arranged opposite the rear wall. The at least one carrier element is operatively connected to at least one spindle nut of a spindle drive. The container is thus moved linearly from a stowage and storage position to a removal position and vice versa. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153330 | ARMREST FOLDING MECHANISM AND BABY CARRIAGE - An armrest folding mechanism pivotally connected to an armrest and connected to a first connecting rod of a connecting seat for folding the armrest with the retraction of the second connecting rod relative to the first connecting rod, comprising: a locking member, including a locking end, a connecting end, and a first rack part located between them, the locking end is releasably fitted to the armrest, and a first toothed structure is arranged on the first rack part; a pushing member including a pushing end and a second rack part, a second toothed structure iptOs correspondingly arranged on the second rack part relative to the first toothed structure, the pushing end moves by the second connecting rod; an elastic element with a first end connected to connecting end and a second end abutting against the connecting seat; and a driving gear engaging with the first and second toothed structures. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153331 | STROLLER FRAME - The present application discloses a stroller frame switchable between an unfolded position and a folded position. The stroller frame includes an unfolding and folding mechanism, a front foot support, a rear foot support, a first connecting bar, and a second connecting bar. The unfolding and folding mechanism includes a supporting body and a movable body movable relative to the supporting body. The front foot support is pivotally connected to the supporting body. The rear foot support is pivotally connected to the supporting body, the rear foot support is pivotable relative to the front foot support. The first connecting bar is pivotally connected to the front foot support and the movable body, respectively. The second connecting bar is pivotally connected to the rear foot support and the movable body, respectively, and the second connecting bar is pivotable relative to the first connecting bar. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153332 | INFANT CARRIER TRANSPORT - Infant carriers are stably supported and transported by being positioned on a frame set on wheels. The frame may include an infant carrier holder with a floor with a ramp and sidewalls. The infant carrier holder may be integral with the frame or may be mounted to a mounting device that can be adjusted for mounting angle or height. A handle is provided to the frame at a position that is suitable for a person in a wheelchair to grasp the frame and move the transport. A handle suitable for a standing person to grasp the frame may optionally be provided. The transport permits a person that may have difficulty carrying or transporting an infant carrier to more easily transport the infant carrier in a standing or a seated position, the latter as may be the case with a wheelchair occupant. The transport may be fastened to the wheelchair. | 2022-05-19 |
20220153333 | STROLLER FRAME AND STROLLER - Stroller frame comprising at least one electric motor, for assistively driving the stroller frame, at least one wheel connecting device, in particular wheel axle, and at least one battery module connected or connectable to the wheel connecting device, which in the assembled state is arranged at least partly outside the wheel connecting device and is arranged at least predominantly below a level of an upper end of the wheel connecting device or is arranged at least partly below the wheel connecting device. | 2022-05-19 |