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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20130120317 | CONTROL DEVICE OF A MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLES A control device of a multi-functional system for motor vehicles is provided. The control device may include a movable and touch-sensitive control element, an input unit electrically insulated from the control element, the input unit including a set of optical sensors a... | 05/16/2013 |
| 20130110309 | VEHICLE COLLISION AVOIDANCE AND MITIGATION SYSTEM A system which jointly reduces damage from an impending collision between multiple vehicles includes sensing devices, at least one processor, at least one memory, output devices, and communication devices. The sensing devices sense conditions near, around, in, or involv... | 05/02/2013 |
| 20130057244 | DUTY RATIO/VOLTAGE CONVERSION CIRCUIT A duty ratio/voltage conversion circuit that converts the duty ratio of an input signal into voltage level and outputs the voltage level includes: an input terminal to which the input signal is input; a first CR integrating circuit that integrates the input signal; a lo... | 03/07/2013 |
| 20120318654 | ROTARY KNOB ASSEMBLY A rotary knob assembly and methods for forming and controlling friction effecting features of the knob assembly are disclosed. The knob assembly includes a mounting structure and a knob. The knob is rotatably coupled to a bezel of the mounting structure. The knob includ... | 12/20/2012 |
| 20120318000 | VEHICLE WITH AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM A vehicle includes an air conditioning system for conditioning intake air flowing into a vehicle interior. The air conditioning system has a primary heat exchanger in thermal communication with a drive unit via a coolant circuit, a compressor, and a secondary heat excha... | 12/20/2012 |
| 20120315835 | AUTOMOTIVE HVAC SYSTEM WITH SUCTION SURFACES TO CONTROL LOCAL AIRFLOW An HVAC system provides airflow in a vehicle having a plurality of seating locations in a passenger cabin for respective passengers of the vehicle. The system includes a plurality of outlet vents and a plurality of suction returns disposed at various air return location... | 12/13/2012 |
| 20120308042 | Subwoofer Volume Level Control An automatic adjustment of subwoofer volume levels relative to the main audio system volume and more specifically, to an improved algorithm control method for sub varying volume which allows adjustment of only the low frequency tones from the subwoofer relative to the m... | 12/06/2012 |
| 20120304914 | Method And Apparatus For Stepper Motor Stall Detection A method of detecting a stall condition in a stepper motor with very little movement of an instrument pointer coupled to the stepper motor. The stepper motor rotates the instrument pointer in a first direction towards a pointer stop by a plurality of micro-steps. The st... | 12/06/2012 |
| 20120257763 | Sound Modification System And Method A sound modification system and a method of managing sound in a vehicle. The system includes an active noise reduction (ANR) controller, an engine sound enhancement (ESE) controller and a sound modification controller. When the vehicle is in a steady state driving condi... | 10/11/2012 |
| 20120250308 | Collimator Assembly A flat refractive collimator assembly including a light guide and a light source, for example, an LED. The sides of the light guide defines a collimating reflective surface having a paraboloidal shape with a collimating focal point placed on the axis of the light guide.... | 10/04/2012 |
| 20120242462 | External Haptic Generator For Portable Electronic Devices An external haptic generator for creating haptic feedback in portable electronic devices and more particularly, an external haptic generator in a vehicle providing a secure mount and creating haptic feedback in portable electronic devices that do not include haptic feed... | 09/27/2012 |
| 20120119723 | VOLTAGE CONVERSION APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL LOAD DRIVING APPARATUS A voltage conversion apparatus is disclosed in which a current passes through first and second loop circuits alternately in accordance with ON/OFF operation of a first switching element provided in the first circuit. The direction of a magnetic field through the first l... | 05/17/2012 |
| 20120105042 | SWITCHING APPARATUS A switching apparatus is disclosed that includes a first loop circuit configured to include a switching element, an inductive component and a capacitor; and a second loop circuit configured to share the inductive component with the first loop circuit, wherein the capaci... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20110273014 | VOLTAGE CONVERSION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL LOAD DRIVING DEVICE A voltage conversion device includes: first and second loop circuits having a common inductance element. Electric current alternately flows through the first or second loop circuit as a first switching element of the first loop circuit is turned on or off. A magnetic fi... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110261578 | Ventilating Unit With Moisture Absorber, Especially For A Motor Vehicle Headlight A ventilating unit with moisture absorber consists of an essentially vertically oriented bushing (1), provided with shoulders for engaging in an opening made in the bottom part (4) of the headlight cover and a bottom with an outlet opening, while on the bo... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20120007530 | NOISE REDUCTION ARRANGEMENT RELATED TO A THREE-PHASE BRUSHLESS MOTOR An object of the present invention is to effectively reduce noise generated when driving a three-phase brushless motor. A noise reduction arrangement applied to a three-phase brushless motor is disclosed, wherein respective current loops, which are generated when two sw... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110316765 | MATRIX ADDRESSED DISPLAY SYSTEM The present invention relates to the monitoring and correction of display errors in a matrix addressed display system. The display system comprises a graphics system, a display module and a display fault handling system including a memory. The display module has a matri... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110303402 | HEATER CORE Provided is a heater core which has a simple structure using a pipe connector formed by coupling a first plate and a second plate, thereby facilely manufacturing it, and also which can have a smaller size, since an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe are disposed to be adjace... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110228546 | Headlamp With Day/Night Front Vehicle Position A headlight for a motor vehicle with light unit for daytime and nighttime front navigation light and a supplemental distance light unit, in addition to an at least one optical module (3), with light source (2). The light sources (61, 62) of the supp... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110209976 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING CAPACITIVE SENSING IN THE PRESENCE OF CONDUCTIVE DECORATIVE MATERIALS A control panel is disclosed. The control panel includes an electrically conductive substrate having a front surface. A first dielectric layer is disposed on the front surface of the substrate. A first electrode layer is disposed on a front surface of the first dielectr... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110209091 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MEASURE BANDWIDTH IN HUMAN TO MACHINE INTERFACES The invention relates to a system and method of measuring bandwidth to determine whether there is a sufficient data rate available to enable or disable features and applications located in a vehicle. Based on the available bandwidth, the system activates or deactivates ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110200466 | Compact Structure For An Electric Compressor The invention relates to a system and method of providing a compressor mechanism having a front housing, center housing and rear housing. The center housing includes an integrated compressor bearing support and compressor base surface that divides the housing into canti... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110193694 | Hidden Offset Pointer Over Reconfigurable Display An operator configurable vehicle instrument panel with the ability to provide both analog and digital style outputs, and more particularly to an instrument panel configured to provide a digital style display in a first state and an analog state display in a second state... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110157911 | Light Pipe Illumination System A light pipe for illuminating a vehicle display having an arcuate tubular member made of an optically transmissive material with a first surface portion having a first radius of curvature diametrically opposite and a second surface portion having a second radius greater... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110136454 | Method Of Determining Station Status Of Non-Audible Tuner In Dual-Tuner System A system and method of visually providing the current status of selected frequencies of particular interest to the user of an entertainment system and in particular, of a vehicle entertainment system.... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110098922 | Path Predictive System And Method For Vehicles A system that uses a map database as a predictive sensor and more specifically to a system and method of using a map database as a path predictive vehicle sensor or input with the additional ability to identify system related point of interests, or detect and internally... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110074560 | Haptic Surface With Mechanical Buttons A haptic system including a plurality of mechanical buttons driven by a single haptic feedback driver. The mechanical buttons are integrated within the haptic surface and are configured to move with the haptic interface relative to said base. The haptic surface may incl... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110074559 | Mounting Apparatus For A Haptic Surface A haptic system including a compliant member which limits the direction of motion of an interface surface providing haptic feedback to motion along a single axis. The compliant member allows for easy assembly, reduced ports, lighter weight and improved longevity and per... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110026265 | Adaptive Projector System For Motor Vehicle Headlights An adaptive projection system for the headlights of motor vehicles consists of a reflector (6) with light source (11), a lens (10), and a diaphragm system with a fixed screening diaphragm in the shape of a cradle and with a movable optical diaphragm... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110010074 | Methods Of Controlling An Internal Combustion Engine Including Multiple Fuels And Multiple Injectors A method for controlling the start of combustion and peak burn rate of an internal combustion engine system on a cycle-to-cycle basis including multiple direct fuel injectors, multiple indirect fuel injectors, and multiple liquid fuels. The actual start of combustion an... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110003187 | Battery Unit For Hybrid Or Electric Vehicles A battery unit for hybrid or electric vehicles comprising a cell module including a plurality of storage cells, each accommodated in a prismatic cell casing with two large surfaces arranged parallel to each other and four narrow side surfaces. The prismatic cell casings... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100220493 | FRONT LIT DISPLAY UNIT A display unit illuminated from in front of a display area, the display unit including a display area for presenting visual information to a user of the unit, a lens element spaced apart from and extending across the display area, and a source of illumination at a perip... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100199212 | Operating Element For Display-Supported Technical Systems The invention relates to an operating element for technical systems in vehicles, comprising four separately operable key elements (8, 9, 10, 11) and a turnably supported roller (2), which can be moved by compression perpendicular to its axis of rotation (<... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100156782 | Hand Control Image For Replication A system and method for a display in the gaze-forward position of a vehicle operator, showing hand position relative to various control inputs or hand positions relative to a control surface. The hand replication system includes a control input device, a display display... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100154700 | Instrument Gauge And Pointer A pointer for an instrument panel having an enlarged central display area substantially free from obstruction from the pointer as it rotates about an axis located within the central display area.... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100151811 | Direct Conversion Pre-ADC Frequency Mixer A system for single path processing identical, substantially identical, close or interfering frequencies with a single analog-to-digital converter. The system receives a plurality of input signals at various frequencies and front end circuits filter out first and second... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100138787 | Vehicle Entertainment System With Multi-Source Presets A system and method for providing single-action multi-source presets for vehicle entertainment systems. The method includes the steps of engaging a single-action preset button that changes the active input source to a selected preprogrammed input source and performing a... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100110707 | Ultraviolet Lighted Instrument Panel And Display An instrument panel, gauge, or display that is selectively lighted with ultraviolet (UV) light.... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100110657 | Instrument Panel And Gauge With Ultraviolet Indicia An instrument panel including nanophosphor indicia which is not visible under normal lighting conditions and low light conditions, but emits visible light in response to UV light.... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100098267 | Method And Apparatus For Layered Audio A system and method for providing layered audio which allows a user to selectively and simultaneously listen to multiple audio sources for limited time periods and switch between these layered audio sources. The system allows a user to discernibly listen to two content ... | 04/22/2010 |
