511 patents
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Utility
Vehicle acoustic dash panel seal and guide
6 Apr 21
An acoustic dash panel seal and assembly guide for a vehicle having a dash panel with a shaft aperture configured to receive a steering column shaft includes a guide portion having a converging wall that converges from a first end to an opposite second end, and a flange portion extending from the converging wall first end.
Thomas F Wentworth, Toon Shin Tan
Filed: 24 Apr 18
Design
Vehicle hood
6 Apr 21
Taylor A. Langhals
Filed: 13 Jan 20
Utility
Engine lambda dynamic control strategy for exhaust emission reduction
23 Mar 21
An emissions control system for a vehicle having an exhaust system with an exhaust gas conduit and a catalytic converter configured to receive exhaust gas from an engine is provided.
Amit Shrestha, Bei Jin, Jingjing Li, Fadi Estefanous, Lurun Zhong, Singalandapuram Mahedevan Boopathi, Mitchell Ober
Filed: 1 Mar 19
Utility
Phase change material heat exchanger for three fluids
23 Mar 21
A three fluid phase change material (PCM) heat exchanger for a vehicle comprises (i) an intake air channel having a first set of fins disposed therein and configured to receive and output intake air prior to combustion by an engine of the vehicle, (ii) a PCM layer surrounding the intake air channel and configured to cool the intake air, the PCM layer comprising a second set of fins, a PCM fluid that expands when freezing, and a set of elastomeric devices are configured to compress to compensate for the PCM fluid expansion during freezing, and (iii) a refrigerant channel surrounding the PCM layer and configured to circulate a refrigerant to cool the PCM layer to a solid, frozen state.
Eric M Lott
Filed: 16 Oct 18
Utility
Engine valve spring with damping
16 Mar 21
A valve spring for an engine valve of an internal combustion engine includes a body having a first end and an opposite second end and defining a plurality of coils having an outer surface, and a flocking material applied to at least a portion of the outer surface, the flocking material including a plurality of fibers configured to provide a passive vibro-acoustic damping to facilitate dynamic damping of the valve spring and reduce noise, vibration, and harshness.
Sven Walter Pruett
Filed: 4 Mar 20
Utility
On-board Time-independent Battery Usage Data Storage
11 Mar 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 exterior body
9 Mar 21
Frank Dionisopoulos, Nicholas Vardis
Filed: 1 Oct 19
Utility
Air induction system for a wheel based self inflation tire system
9 Mar 21
An air induction system for filtering a compressible fluid to an electromechanical component mounted on a wheel of a vehicle.
Tarek Abdel-Baset
Filed: 8 May 18
Design
Fog lamp bezel
2 Mar 21
Taylor A. Langhals, Brian H. Nielander, Mark T. Allen
Filed: 8 Jun 20
Design
Rear bumper
2 Mar 21
Taylor A. Langhals, Brian H. Nielander, Mark T. Allen
Filed: 8 Jun 20
Utility
Stretch forming die
2 Mar 21
A stamping press binder assembly for forming a finished stamped product from a blank includes an upper die for at least partially forming the finished stamped product, a stationary punch, an inner lower binder, and an outer lower binder.
Dajun Zhou, Changqing Du, Robert D Miller, Richard J Siemen
Filed: 19 Dec 18
Utility
Electric power take-off on a hybrid electric transmission
2 Mar 21
A power-take off (PTO) system for a vehicle having a powertrain comprising an engine and a hybrid electric transmission includes a PTO device configured to provide power to an accessory load of the vehicle, a housing for a gear clutch of the transmission, the housing being formed of steel, needle bearings for the gear clutch, and a gear defined by or attached to an outer surface of the housing, wherein at least one electric motor of the transmission is configured to drive the PTO device via the gear clutch and the gear while the engine is disconnected from the transmission or is shut off.
Tejinder Singh, James E Adams, Robert E Lee
Filed: 10 Sep 18
Utility
Techniques for precisely locating landmarks in monocular camera images with deep learning
2 Mar 21
Advanced driver assistance (ADAS) systems and methods for a vehicle comprise capturing an image using a monocular camera system of the vehicle and detecting a landmark in the image using a deep neural network (DNN) trained with labeled training data including generating a bounding box for the detected landmark, predicting a depth of pixels in the image using a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained with unlabeled training data captured by a stereo camera system, filtering noise by averaging predicted pixel depths for pixels in the region of the bounding box to obtain an average depth value for the detected landmark, determining a coordinate position of the detected landmark using its average depth value, and performing at least one ADAS feature using the determined coordinate position of the detected landmark.
Zijian Wang, Stephen Horton
Filed: 19 Dec 18
Utility
Vehicle with integrated portable wireless speaker system
23 Feb 21
A vehicle with an integrated portable audio system includes an interior body defining an interior passenger compartment and a docking station having a back wall, an upper wall, a lower wall, and side walls that define a receiving compartment.
Matthew A Berg, Coby S Clark
Filed: 23 Oct 19
Utility
Pre-condensing PCV system
23 Feb 21
A positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) system for an internal combustion engine having an air induction system configured to supply air to the includes a PCV line configured to fluidly couple between a crankcase of the engine and the air induction system, a condenser disposed on the PCV line and configured to condense water vapor and fuel vapor contained in blow-by gases received from the crankcase to separate the water vapor and fuel vapor from the blow-by gases and form a water/fuel mixture and a lean blow-by gas, and an oil separator disposed on the PCV line and configured to receive the lean blow-by gas from the condenser and separate oil therefrom to form a filtered blow-by gas for return to the air induction system.
Iain J Read, Timothy J Sullivan
Filed: 24 Sep 19
Utility
Techniques for using a simple neural network model and standard camera for image detection in autonomous driving
23 Feb 21
An advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) and corresponding method for a vehicle utilize a camera system configured to capture an image and a controller configured to receive the captured image, detect an object in the captured image using a simple neural network model, track the detected object using a tracking technique to obtain a tracked position, project a trajectory of the detected object using a trajectory projection technique to obtain a predicted position, determine a most likely position of the detected object based on at least one of the tracked and predicted positions, generate a two-dimensional (2D) birdview projection illustrating the detected object according to its determined most likely position, and control at least one ADAS feature of the vehicle using the generated 2D birdview projection.
Zijian Wang, Dalong Li, Ivan Roman
Filed: 19 Dec 18
Design
Automobile body
16 Feb 21
Taylor A. Langhals, Brian H. Nielander, Mark T. Allen
Filed: 19 May 20
Design
Front end
16 Feb 21
Everard J Scott, Michael Gillam, Gregory A. Howell
Filed: 22 Apr 20
Design
Automobile body
9 Feb 21
Taylor A. Langhals, Brian H. Nielander, Mark T. Allen
Filed: 19 May 20
Design
Air inlet bezel
9 Feb 21
Deyan Ninov, Michael Gillam, Gregory A Howell
Filed: 14 Dec 18