134 patents
Utility
Rear Axle with Integrated Electric Motor
4 Jan 24
A truck, comprising a rear axle, comprising a motor housing extending laterally between rear wheels of the truck, and an electric motor and power transmission coaxially aligned in said motor housing and arranged for driving the rear wheels; and a suspension system, for suspending the rear axle to a chassis of the truck, said suspension system at least comprising a pair of springs and shock absorbers, and an anti-roll stabilizer and a guiding rod linkage for allowing movement in a vertical direction relative to the chassis; wherein the motor housing is limited by a minimum vertical ground clearance between the road surface and a bottom surface of the motor housing; wherein the motor housing comprises a reinforced central top section providing a guiding rod mount for pivotally mounting the guiding rod linkage to the rear axle; wherein the motor housing further comprises suspension yokes integrated into the housing and extending on either side of the motor housing near both axial ends, said suspension yokes providing spring mounts and shock absorber mounts for mounting said opposed pair of springs and shock absorbers, wherein the motor housing comprises a rear section outer surface provided with connectors, to provide input ports to the electric motor and wherein said connectors are provided in an orientation to guide one or more high voltage power cables adjacent the rear section outer surface in a vertical upward direction.
Robert Jacobus VREEDE
Filed: 16 Nov 21
Utility
Pulse Turbo Charging Exhaust System
28 Dec 23
Exhaust systems are described.
Greg BONSEN, Paul HANCOCK, Huateng YANG, Chang-Wook LEE, Olivier LEBASTARD
Filed: 23 Jun 22
Utility
Guiding Cable with Ribbed Insulation Cover
28 Dec 23
A truck with cable support, comprising a chassis, accommodating an electric power source for powering an electric motor, an E-axle, comprising said electric motor and arranged as a rear wheel driving axle of the truck, a suspension system, suspending the E-axle to the chassis and allowing movement of the E-axle in a vertical direction relative to the chassis, a power cable, electrically connecting the electric power source to the E-axle, and a support beam, forming a mechanical support structure to lead the power cable along a cable path extending between a chassis mount and an E-axle mount, wherein the support beam comprises one or more bending stiffness elements, forming a stiffness of the support beam that is highest in a middle section and that decreases towards the chassis mount and the E-axle mount, evenly distributing the bending stress in the support beam along the cable path when the E-axle moves relative to the chassis, to prevent local fatigue failure of the power cable.
Robert Jacobus VREEDE
Filed: 17 Nov 21
Utility
Exhaust After-treatment In Heavy-duty Motor Vehicles
7 Dec 23
Controlling exhaust after-treatment in a heavy-duty motor vehicle includes operating a diesel engine of a heavy-duty truck such that the diesel engine generates an exhaust gas flow that enters an exhaust after-treatment system of the heavy-duty truck, the exhaust after-treatment system including a selective catalytic reduction system, measuring a level of NOx gases in the exhaust gas flow downstream of the selective catalytic reduction system, and controlling a diesel exhaust fluid injector upstream of the selective catalytic reduction system to inject diesel exhaust fluid into the exhaust gas flow upstream of the selective catalytic reduction system at an injection rate that is based on the measured level of NOx gases.
Cynthia Chaffin Webb, John Lyle Lahti, Charles Wayne Reinhardt Swart
Filed: 1 Jun 22
Utility
Engine Pre Turbine Pressure Monitoring System
30 Nov 23
Luc Hubertus Josephina Worms, Maarten Robertus Ingmar Nieuwenhuijze
Filed: 26 Apr 23
Utility
Power Management System for Electrical Vehicles with Multiple Motors
9 Nov 23
It is aimed to provide a power management system for an electrically driven vehicle that comprises a powertrain of at least two electric motors that can be selectively geared into the powertrain and an electric power source for powering the at least two electric motors.
Johannes Theodorus Bernard Anna KESSELS
Filed: 16 Mar 21
Utility
Variable Geometry Turbine and Method for Calibrating a Variable Geometry Turbine
5 Oct 23
Joep WOLKEN, Bartholomeus VAN GRIMBERGEN, Kurt Jean-Marie DUBOIS
Filed: 13 Mar 23
Utility
Mounting Assembly for Movable Fairing
7 Sep 23
The disclosed technology relates to a moveable panel, such as a fairing, of a vehicle, such as a semi-truck.
Piotr Stegawski, Jeffrey Bobrowski
Filed: 30 Sep 22
Utility
Battery Pack Safety Monitor
17 Aug 23
A battery pack monitor includes a portable housing, a controller within the housing, and a memory communicatively connected to the controller.
Johannes Theodorus Bernard Anna Kessels, Philip Stephenson, Jeroen van den Oetelaar, Jorge Rafael Lozada Ramirez
Filed: 20 Apr 23
Utility
Winch Mounting Systems
10 Aug 23
A system includes a frame assembly having a first set of bolt holes arranged in a first pattern, a mounting plate having a second set of bolt holes arranged in a second pattern, wherein the second pattern is the same as the first pattern, a bumper having a third set of bolt holes arranged in a third pattern, wherein the third pattern is the same as the first pattern and the second pattern, and a winch coupled to the bumper.
Jacob Conley, Jeffrey Bouvier
Filed: 8 Feb 22
Utility
Cooling System for Fuel Cell
20 Jul 23
A truck or tractor semi-trailer combination interconnected via a fifth wheel, comprising a cabin and an air collection chamber, the air collection chamber provided between a rear end of the cabin and the semi-trailer and having a front wall substantially adjacent or identical to a cabin rear wall, and a rear wall distanced and substantially coplanar to the front wall, which air collection chamber is provided with an air accession structure and a heat exchanger, the air accession structure providing air access to the air collection chamber and towards the heat exchanger, said heat exchanger provided in the rear wall of the air collection chamber extending at least partly over a width of the truck and wherein said air accession structure comprises air accession side ports provided on the side walls of the air collection chamber designed to provide at least a passive air flow from the air accession side ports towards the heat exchanger.
Albertus Clemens Maria VAN DER KNAAP, Bernardus Johannes Maria WEIJENBORG, Rob Adrianus Johannes VAN DEN HEIJKANT, Date Willem Egbert RENTEMA
Filed: 15 Jun 21
Utility
Tractor-based Trailer Clearance and Positioning System and Method
25 May 23
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for automated determination of certain physical characteristics of a trailer in a tractor-trailer truck and positional arrangement between the trailer and tractor of the truck.
Stanley W DeLizo, Ian David O'Connor, August Avantaggio, Kyle Christopher Wynn Johnson
Filed: 24 Nov 21
Utility
Opportunistic Vehicle Air Brake System Pressurization Systems and Methods
11 May 23
Systems and methods for providing opportunistic vehicle air brake system pressurization are disclosed.
Jeremy David Walker, Ian Ramsay Hunt
Filed: 8 Nov 21
Utility
System and Method for Monitoring an Oxidation Catalyst
20 Apr 23
A lean-burn internal combustion engine and an exhaust aftertreatment system having an oxidation catalyst are described.
Trevor Joseph Ott, Cynthia Chaffin Webb, Charles Wayne Reinhardt Swart
Filed: 19 Oct 21
Utility
Thermoelectric Cooling and Heating System for Non-idling Vehicle
13 Apr 23
Examples of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for providing cooling and/or heating in a vehicle.
DAVID MIELKE
Filed: 8 Oct 21
Utility
Automated Dynamic Throttle Request Filtering
23 Mar 23
Dynamic throttle pedal filtering of a vehicle is provided.
Charles Wayne Reinhardt Swart, Vedran Curgus, Burton Edwin Waite, III, Victor Perez
Filed: 23 Sep 21
Utility
Predictive Ammonia Release Control
9 Mar 23
Embodiments are directed towards controlling uncontrolled release of ammonia from an engine of a vehicle.
Jorge Rafael Lozada Ramirez, Carl Anders Hergart, Cynthia Chaffin Webb, Christopher S. Balton
Filed: 1 Sep 22
Utility
Methods for Evaluating Diesel Exhaust Fluid Quality
2 Feb 23
The present disclosure describes methods for evaluating quality of DEF dosed to an EAS including a close coupled SCR unit a downstream SCR unit.
Charles Wayne Reinhardt SWART, Cynthia Chaffin WEBB, Maarten MEIJER, Varun RAMESH
Filed: 13 Oct 22
Utility
Error-resilient Over-the-air Software Updates for Vehicles
12 Jan 23
An on-board vehicle computer system receives a software update package from a remote computer system via a wireless communication network.
Adrian David, Alan Yip, Andrew Paul Harbach, Hilario Koyama
Filed: 16 Sep 22
Utility
Method for Controlling a Compression Release Brake Mechanism In a Combustion Engine
5 Jan 23
Niek Laurentius Adrianus HERMANS
Filed: 28 Jun 22