511 patents
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Utility
Water separating air induction system
26 Oct 21
A hood air intake and water separation system includes a first separation chamber having a first inlet fluidly coupled to a hood intake vent of the vehicle, a first outlet, and at least one first drain opening.
Nicholas O Kaltsounis, Chad J Vermeulen
Filed: 22 Jan 20
Utility
Pivoting center display for minimizing airbag interaction
26 Oct 21
A system and method for deploying an airbag includes an instrument panel and an airbag assembly disposed within the instrument panel.
Rajkumar Rajagopalan, Gunasekar Pillai, Roopesh Saxena, Karthik Chitoor, Jason A Hartwell, Ravishankar Pattan
Filed: 8 Oct 19
Design
Center cap for vehicle wheel
19 Oct 21
Tome Jovanoski, Chris Craffey
Filed: 25 Mar 20
Design
Automobile body
12 Oct 21
Kohl J. Kohrman, Lou L. Gasevski, Mark C. Trostle
Filed: 13 Jan 20
Utility
Vehicle interior trim assembly
12 Oct 21
A vehicle trim piece assembly for an interior of a vehicle includes a mount and a trim piece coupled to the mount.
Michael P Schoemann, Richard Power, Brian Begg
Filed: 15 Oct 19
Utility
Automotive wireless mesh communication
12 Oct 21
Techniques for establishing and controlling information sharing via a dynamic wireless mesh network for a group of vehicles comprise determining a set of communication parameters for the group of vehicles and, based on the set of communication parameters, establishing the dynamic wireless mesh network for the group of vehicles, wherein each vehicle in the group of vehicles is a node in the dynamic wireless mesh network, determining a set of routing rules for the dynamic wireless mesh network, controlling information sharing between the group of vehicles through the dynamic wireless mesh network using the set of routing rules, and selectively adjusting the set of routing rules in response to changes in the set of communication parameters.
Gunmeet Sandhu, David M Caranci, Craig D Conkling, Venkatesh Natarajan, Steven G Malson, Michael J Minewiser
Filed: 15 Jul 19
Utility
Systems and methods of level 2 autonomous vehicle driving on multiply digitized roads
5 Oct 21
Autonomous driving techniques comprise determining a Form of Way (FOW) classification of a road along which a vehicle is traveling and when the determined FOW classification is FOW 1 or FOW 9, permitting level 2 autonomous driving of the vehicle.
Michael E O'Boyle, Gerald L Sielagoski
Filed: 11 Jun 19
Utility
Systems and methods for providing simultaneous coolant stagnation and cooled exhaust gas recirculation
21 Sep 21
Systems and methods for simultaneously performing engine coolant stagnation and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooler cooling in an engine include providing a coolant circuit configured to flow coolant through both a block of the engine and an EGR cooler of a cooled EGR (CEGR) system of the engine, a main pump on the coolant circuit that is driven by an electric motor or a crankshaft of the engine to pump coolant through a block of the engine, and a secondary pump on the coolant circuit that, when energized, is configured to pump coolant through the coolant circuit, and, during a cold start of the engine, de-energizing the electric motor or disconnecting the main pump from the engine crankshaft to stagnate coolant in the engine block and energizing the secondary pump to flow coolant through the EGR cooler of the CEGR system.
Gregory P Prior, Daniel E Hornback, Emily Perkins-Harbin, Shreyas Dhond
Filed: 23 Jun 20
Utility
Multi-strike ignition during variable valve lift camshaft profile switching
21 Sep 21
An ignition control system and method for an engine having a two-step variable valve lift (VVL) system utilizes an ignition control system comprising a plurality of spark plugs each configured to generate one or more ignition strikes during a combustion event in a respective cylinder of the engine and a controller configured to detect a low-to-high or high-to-low lift mode transition of the VVL system and, in response to detecting the low-to-high or high-to-low lift mode transition of the VVL system, command the ignition control system to perform multi-strike ignition for at least one combustion event, wherein commanding the multi-strike ignition mitigates or eliminates at least one of engine torque variations and increased engine emissions resulting from poor combustion quality caused by residual exhaust components within the cylinder from a previous combustion event prior to the low-to-high or high-to-low lift mode transition of the VVL system.
William P Attard, Nikhil Patil, Tyler Tutton
Filed: 13 Oct 20
Utility
Feedforward artificial neural network for off-nominal spark control
21 Sep 21
Engine combustion phasing control techniques utilize a trained feedforward artificial neural network (ANN) to model both base and maximum brake torque (MBT) spark timing based on six inputs: intake and exhaust camshaft positions, mass and temperature of an air charge being provided to each cylinder of the engine, engine speed, engine coolant temperature.
Shuonan Xu, Ethan A Bayer, William Attard, David A Lawrence, Nandanshri Bagadi
Filed: 15 Jul 20
Utility
Vehicle load ramp system
14 Sep 21
A multi-configurable load ramp for a vehicle includes an outer ramp member, an inner ramp member pivotably coupled to the outer ramp member and movable between a deployed position extending from the outer ramp member, and a folded position where the inner ramp member is disposed nestingly within outer ramp member, and a vehicle attachment device coupled to one of the inner and outer ramp members.
Daniel Teodorof, Andrew Partin, Bryan J Macek, Paul A Gardiner, Chad J Vermeulen, Kushal Pradhan, Kyle Neighbors, Jeffery E Long, James B Hunter, James J Metcalf, Charles R Kaiser, Jacob L Carpenter, Jereme A Berube
Filed: 21 Feb 19
Utility
Break-away transmission mount
14 Sep 21
A mount to couple a transmission to a vehicle body includes a first body with at least one first body connector, and a second body with at least one coupler connected to the first body and which includes a damping material arranged to damp vibrations between the first body and second body.
Michael J Martinez, Devon J Trombley, Brian D Dwyer, Maathew Kamps, Mitchell G Marozzi
Filed: 31 Jan 20
Utility
On-board time-independent battery usage data storage
7 Sep 21
Time domain battery usage data of a battery of an electrified powertrain of a vehicle in terms of average SOC, DOD and a set including average current flow rate and average battery temperature for each charge-discharge full cycle and half cycle of the battery during a use period are used to identify a location in a 3-D storage matrix (of fixed size and predetermined discretization levels for each dimension) in memory of an electronic control unit and a count in that location incremented.
Sandeep Makam, Abdullah-al Mamun, Konstantinos Siokos, Lurun Zhong
Filed: 5 Sep 19
Design
Automobile interior
7 Sep 21
Everard Scott, Stephen P. Leu, Ryan C. Nagode, Jeffrey C. Gale
Filed: 4 Mar 20
Utility
Vehicle body panel reinforcement
7 Sep 21
A vehicle structure includes a body panel, a first spring anchor, a second spring anchor; and an elongated spring having a first end disposed at a first spring anchor and a second end disposed at a second spring anchor.
Raymond Bradley Mondora, Neil R Kauppila, Jordan MacIntire
Filed: 18 Sep 19
Utility
Vehicle having hinge assembly
7 Sep 21
A vehicle includes a vehicle body, a tailgate and a hinge assembly.
James S Ulewicz, Wayne Reed
Filed: 18 Jun 19
Utility
Clip having two interlocking parts improving retention force
7 Sep 21
The clip retention assembly includes a base for attaching to a surface.
Michael W Sulkowski, Joseph A Casilio, Sami R Oweis
Filed: 29 Aug 19
Design
Wheel
31 Aug 21
Laura M. Jonason, Jeffrey C. Gale
Filed: 13 Feb 19
Utility
Seat and a release and slide assembly for a seat
31 Aug 21
An assembly for a vehicle seat includes a seat track including a mount, a lead screw carried by the mount, a drive nut rotatable relative to the lead screw to move axially along the lead screw when the drive nut is rotated relative to the lead screw, a slide coupled to the drive nut for movement with the drive nut, and a retainer.
Richard T Stuedemann
Filed: 20 May 19
Utility
Power tailgate motor mount cartridge assembly
24 Aug 21
A power tailgate assembly for a vehicle includes a tailgate configured to rotatably couple to the vehicle, the tailgate having an inner panel, an outer panel, a bottom panel, and first and second side panels defining an inner cavity.
Randy T Gerken, Gary Bastian, Frederick F Bender, Paul S Van Norman
Filed: 13 Dec 18