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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120010779 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT A BRAKE TEST ON TRAILER VEHICLES AND/OR SEMITRAILER VEHICLES A method carries out a brake test on trailer vehicles and/or semitrailer vehicles. The method senses a semitrailer or trailer which has been newly hitched to the towing vehicle, initializes an on-board brake test for the semitrailer brake system or trailer brake system,... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110313614 | INTEGRATED AEROELASTICITY MEASUREMENT FOR VEHICLE HEALTH MANAGEMENT Systems and methods for aeroelasticity measurement and vehicle structural health analysis and monitoring are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer based system to monitor structural integrity of an aircraft comprises a processor and a memory module coupled to the pro... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313616 | VEHICLE FAILURE DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE A vehicle failure is diagnosed based on data recorded in an electronic control unit (ECU) of a vehicle. Driving data pertaining to multiple parameters which are stored in the electronic control unit of the vehicle for when a vehicle failure occurs are compared with refe... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304448 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A VIN storage electronic control unit stores a vehicle identification number (VIN). A standby RAM that holds data constantly with an electric power supplied by a battery stores failure diagnosis related information and a rewriting history flag. When the VIN storage elec... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304447 | DRIVE RECORDER The drive recorder disclosed in the present specification comprises a data collection portion for collecting image data and other driving condition data of a vehicle; and a control portion for designating a data compression system, a file format, and a hierarchy of a fo... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110282544 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DECREASE IN TIRE AIR PRESSURE AND PROGRAM FOR DETECTING DECREASE IN TIRE AIR PRESSURE An apparatus for detecting a decrease in air pressure of a tire attached to a vehicle. The apparatus includes a rotation speed detection means for periodically detecting rotation speeds of tires of respective wheels of the vehicle; a rotation wheel speed ratio calculati... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282543 | SEAT BELT MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE A method of monitoring the status of rear seat belts includes the following steps namely attaching wireless belt sensors including a belt portion to a seat belt and an anchor portion to a seat belt anchor; and installing a monitor into the vehicle; and turning on the be... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276223 | ANTISKID CONTROL UNIT AND DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE BRAKING SYSTEM A wheel speed transducer including a magnetic device associated with a wheel and a sensor device associated with the axle of the wheel provides data indicative of the velocity of the wheel. A processor located at the axle receives the wheel speed data and processes it t... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276222 | IMPLEMENT INTERFACE DISPLAY A power machine having an operator interface is disclosed. The power machine has a frame, an engine supported by the frame, and a cab supported that defines an operator compartment. The power machine provides an auxiliary power source capable of providing auxiliary powe... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110270484 | Real-Time Prognostic and Health Management System, Program Product, and Associate Methods Embodiments of the present invention provide a prognostics and health management (PHM) system for one or more electronic, electro-mechanical, pneudraulic and mechanical devices of an aircraft, and associated diagnostic methods and computer program products. The system i... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264325 | IMPAIRED OPERATION DETECTION METHOD An impaired operation detection method is basically performed by sensing a yaw rate of a vehicle over a time period. Then time points are identified in which the yaw rate changes direction. A linear rate of change in the yaw rate is determined between two of the time po... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110257839 | AVIATION FIELD SERVICE REPORT NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING An aircraft service information handling system comprises an input module operable to collect field service narrative data. A natural language data extraction module extracts problem data and related solution data from the narrative data, and a database module populates... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110257838 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRY CLUTCH TEMPERATURE PREDICTION IN A DCT A clutch temperature prediction module for a dual clutch transmission (DCT) includes at least one clutch slip power module that determines a first clutch slip power of a first clutch and a second clutch slip power of a second clutch. A temperature calculation module rec... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110257835 | Method for data communication between a vehicle and fuel pump A method for data communication between a vehicle and fuel pump includes storing vehicle operating data on an onboard recorder in the vehicle, and transmitting the vehicle operating data from the onboard recorder to the fuel pump. The vehicle operating data includes veh... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110254676 | DRIVE RECORDER A drive recorder of the invention includes a trigger judgment circuit that calculates, with respect to acceleration data of a vehicle, first and second moving averages as moving averages of two different time series, and that generates a trigger signal according to a re... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110251754 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING HISTORY OF REFUELING OF VEHICLE USING FLEX FUELS A vehicle refueling recording system includes a sensor that senses a fuel composition of fuel in a fuel tank of a flex fuel vehicle. A refuel detecting module detects a plurality of refueling events. A refueling history module stores a plurality of data sets in response... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110251752 | VEHICLE TELEMETRY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING AND TRAINING DRIVERS There is described a system and method for establishing a performance of at least one of a vehicle and an operator of the vehicle over a given period. In particular, the method comprises: recording measured vehicle parameters at a continuous rate over a given period, th... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110245999 | AIRCRAFT HEALTH MONITORING AND DESIGN FOR CONDITION A system and method for automatically varying the flight envelope of an aircraft based upon the material health of the aircraft and the flight environment is provided. The system includes a plurality of structural health monitoring and load sensors that determine the ap... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246019 | Energy Maps And Method Of Making An energy map for a motor vehicle and a method of making the energy map are disclosed. The energy map includes energy information related to energy consumption and energy recharging of various power sources along various roadway segments. A probe vehicle is used to meas... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238262 | VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT A vehicle communication system including a master ECU and multiple slave ECUs is disclosed. Each slave ECU initializes its storage medium if an abnormality occurs in the storage medium, and transmits a stored vehicle common information element. Some of the multiple slav... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110234391 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR WEAR DIAGNOSIS OF A MOTOR VEHICLE In a method and a device for wear diagnosis of a motor vehicle, driving events and driving conditions occurring during driving operation are detected, the detected driving events and driving conditions are assigned in each case a wear index value using a table which is ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238257 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING VEHICLE ENERGY CONSUMPTION A method is provided for generating projected vehicle energy consumption information for a second vehicle using statistical information describing a driving history of a driver of a first vehicle. Statistical information is determined from collected vehicle performance ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110224868 | System for Determining Driving Pattern Suitability for Electric Vehicles In a method of evaluating vehicle suitability for a driver, data relating to driving habits of the driver over a period of time are recorded into a digital memory. A driving behavior profile of the driver based on the data is determined with a computer processor. A comp... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110224869 | SIDE COLLISION DETERMINATION APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE AND HIGH VOLTAGE POWER SUPPLY SHUTT-OFF APPARATUS A side collision determination apparatus for a vehicle that includes a side surface including a right side surface and a left side surface, includes: a first acceleration sensor and a second acceleration sensor each of which is mounted on a sensor-mounted position of ea... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110224867 | DATA UPDATE PROCESSING METHOD AND VEHICLE OPERATION CONTROL DEVICE To reliably perform updating of maximum values and minimum values of measurement data with a simple procedure without incurring an increase in the computational load of an arithmetic processing element such as a microcomputer. When processing is started, a most recent m... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110218705 | TROUBLE NOTIFICATION APPARATUS AND IN-VEHICLE APPARATUS An in-vehicle apparatus, used in a vehicle having a speed limit release mode, is configured to stop sending trouble occurrence information to an information collection center when the speed limit release mode is being turned on. Stopping of the information sending allow... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110213526 | EVENT DATA RECORDER SYSTEM AND METHOD An event data recorder (EDR) system includes an event identification module, a parameter selection module, and an event recorder module. The event identification module identifies occurrences of a first event and second event of M predetermined events based on operating... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110208387 | System and On-Board Unit For Integrating Functions of Vehicle Devices An on-board unit, which is in the form of a tachograph, and includes at least one position-finding device and/or at least one radio communication device which can be coupled to the on-board unit for the purpose of use by the on-board unit or are included by the latter. ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110196572 | GENERATION OF REFERENCE VALUE FOR VEHICLE FAILURE DIAGNOSIS Data during normal driving is generated using travel data during the occurrence of a failure or the like, the travel data being accumulated into ordinary vehicles traveling in a city or other places on a daily basis. A failure diagnosis of a vehicle is performed by comp... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110190978 | DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION COLLECTION APPARATUS A diagnostic information collection apparatus includes: multiple abnormality detection sections corresponding to respective diagnostic objects in a vehicle to detect an abnormality; and a memory. Each abnormality detection section includes: an abnormality occurrence det... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110190979 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSING THE OPERATING STATE OF AN ASSISTED STARTING SYSTEM OF A MOTOR VEHICLE A method of diagnosing an operating state of an assisted starting system of a motor vehicle equipped with a controlled parking brake, the method including calculating at least one item of vehicle information, generating at least one item of validity information associat... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110184607 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXPOSING AND RECORDING EMBEDDED AVIONICS DATA A method of exposing and recording embedded avionics data using dynamically assigned labels assigns a first plurality of data labels to aircraft controller parameters designated for at least one aircraft sub-controller. A second plurality of data labels are dynamically ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110172877 | MASS, DRAG COEFFICIENT AND INCLINATION DETERMINATION USING ACCELEROMETER SENSOR A method and system of determining a vehicle's driving characteristics such as the vehicle mass, drag force coefficients and driving surface inclination. The vehicle's mass, drag force coefficients and inclination are determined using signals input from the vehicle's ac... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110172878 | BRAKE SYSTEM FUNCTIONAL INTEGRITY DETECTION A method is provided for detecting a level of functional integrity of a braking system. The method includes applying a brake actuator, sensing via a first sensor the displacement of the braking actuator, and sensing via a second sensor the hydraulic pressure in the brak... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110172879 | VEHICLE REPAIR/REPLACEMENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE ABNORMALITY CAUSE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM When repair/replacement information is acquired by a repair/replacement information acquisition device, feature quantities of vehicle state information acquired by an vehicle state information acquisition device are detected, and a content of repair or parts replacement... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110166743 | Vehicular information storage apparatus and vehicle diagnosis system In cases that one of conditions registered in a record data classification table is satisfied, the accordance with a condition for recording in a nonvolatile record data database is determined. A cycle record data element according with a record content corresponding to... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110160954 | Apparatus for informing destination apparatus of malfunctions occurring in communication with source apparatus and system incorporating the same therein In a system reporting a malfunction in connection of a first communication line and a desired source apparatus which is due to be connected to the first communication line. In a first memory section, information showing that the source apparatus is due to be present in ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110153152 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ENGINE OF VEHICLE USING HEIGHT INFORMATION Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling engine using height information capable of preventing an engine from stopping according to a position of a vehicle. An apparatus for controlling an engine of a vehicle using height information includes: a height information mana... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110153153 | Apparatus for Tracking and Recording Vital Signs and Task-Related Information of a Vehicle to Identify Operating Patterns An apparatus is provided for diagnosing the state of health of a vehicle and for providing the operator of the vehicle with a substantially real-time indication of the efficiency of the vehicle in performing an assigned task with respect to a predetermined goal. A proce... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110148615 | Method for Determining at Least One Operating State of a Hybrid Vehicle and a Hybrid Vehicle A method determines at least one operating state of a hybrid vehicle, wherein the at least one operating state is determined by way of at least one time duration. Furthermore, a hybrid vehicle is provided which has a unit for implementing the method.... | 06/23/2011 |
