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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170769 | Vehicle speed control system A vehicle speed control system includes a road shape recognition unit which recognizes a road shape, a target speed setting unit which sets a target speed according to the road shape, a speed control unit which controls the host vehicle's speed according to the targ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165774 | Cruise control interaction with deceleration fuel cutoff A vehicle control system includes a sensor that generates a vehicle speed signal. A cruise control system generates a cruise control signal to maintain a vehicle at a target speed. A control module compares the vehicle speed signal to the target speed signal. The co... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165773 | Destination arrival estimates auto-notification based on cellular systems The present, in one embodiment, is directed to a method for determining vehicular speeds over various travel routes that includes the steps: (a) for a plurality of mobile communication devices, determining a respective first geogra... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160797 | Control apparatus and control method of a vehicle An HV_ECU executes a program including a step of calculating an estimated gradient, a step of performing rate limit processing on a change in the estimated gradient when on a hill and an absolute value of the vehicle speed is equal to or below V(0), a step of... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160798 | Method and device for regulating the velocity of a vehicle A method and a device are described for regulating the velocity of a vehicle, which include a hysteresis function and prevent an unwanted activation and deactivation of the engine brake. For this purpose, a setpoint velocity (V-setpoint) of the vehicle is predefined... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155855 | Vehicle motion control apparatus A vehicle motion control apparatus includes a motion controlling process operating a pump for supplying brake fluid between a pressure difference control valve and a pressure increasing control valve and controlling the pressure difference control valve and the pres... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8140241 | Driving action estimating device, driving support device, vehicle evaluating system, driver model creating device, and driving action determining device A driver model with higher precision is created as an evaluation standard for a driving condition in a normal condition. By detecting biometric information of a driver, whether a driver is in a usual condition or not is recognized. Then, data of driving conditions a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140240 | Engine speed controller with total system integration for on-board vehicle power applications The present invention provides a system and method for controlling the speed of a vehicle engine utilizing total system integration and an on-board power system for electrical power generation and distribution, which ensure that control of multiple components can be... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135531 | Predictive vehicle controller Due to time delays, vehicle speed may become difficult to control. A predictive speed controller is configured to receive a desired speed request for a vehicle and simulate vehicle responses according to the desired speed request. A compensation value is derived fro... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131443 | Acceleration control system An acceleration control system controls acceleration of a vehicle to match the driver's feeling. In this control, the vehicle is controlled so that acceleration remains constant at the initial stage and then a differentiated value of a square power of a vehicle spee... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131442 | Method for operating a cruise control system for a vehicle A method for operating a cruise control system for a vehicle. The method can identify certain low speed environments, like parking lots, where usage of the cruise control system is usually inappropriate and can disable the system accordingly. According to one embodi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116958 | System and method for controlling driving force of hybrid electric vehicle The present invention provides a system and method for controlling a driving force of a hybrid electric vehicle which can reduce clutch engagement shock generated during transition from an electric operation mode to an internal combustion engine running mode. For th... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112214 | Model based vehicle overspeed algorithm A system for limiting the speed of a vehicle includes a first module that generates a first torque signal based on a vehicle speed, a second module that generates a second torque signal based on a difference between a predetermined vehicle speed limit and the vehicl... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103423 | Apparatus for and method of controlling traveling of vehicle An adaptive cruise traveling control system is configured to control a speed of a host vehicle at a basic speed-control mode at which a set vehicle speed is set as a desired vehicle speed for an adaptive cruise traveling control function. The adaptive cruise traveli... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099221 | Method and system for controlling an engine and transmission using a dual request closed loop request A method and control module for operating a vehicle powertrain in response to a cruise control includes a primary closed loop control module generating a primary closed loop control signal and a primary torque request signal based on the primary closed loop control ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8078381 | Vehicle speed control apparatus in accordance with curvature of vehicle trajectory In order to fit a driver's driving feeling, a vehicle speed control system includes a unit that calculates the instantaneous curvature and a unit that controls vehicle speed. The system reduces the vehicle speed when the instantaneous curvature tends to increase, an... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078379 | Traffic light prediction system A traffic system that helps a driver to save fuel by avoiding red light or by minimized fuel supply before stopping a red light. It predicts the colors of a traffic light and automatically control the speed of the vehicle. The system comprising three kinds of moving... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078380 | Control device for vehicle automatic running An electronic throttle control system has a throttle valve to be operated by an electric motor, and an electronic control unit for calculating a target opening degree of the throttle valve depending on a first preset vehicle speed desired by a vehicle driver, so tha... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073609 | Slippage condition response system A slippage condition response system for a machine is disclosed. The response system may have a sensing system configured to sense a parameter indicative of a slippage condition of the machine. Additionally, the response system may have a locator configured to sense... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055427 | Method and apparatus for speed-limit following cruise control A method is provided for automatically transitioning a cruise control speed from a current speed zone to a next speed zone. A location at which the speed zone limit changes from the current speed limit to the next speed limit forward of a driven vehicle is determine... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8041493 | Cruise control device and method for controlling the running of a vehicle A cruise control device and method for controlling a vehicle such that the driver can set the speed setting at will, and the speed of the vehicle is controlled to match the speed setting. The speed limit for the road on which the vehicle is traveling is detected, an... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041492 | Engine load management for power machines Controlling a drive system for a power machine having an engine is discussed. The method includes receiving a control signal and calculating a base output value based on the control signal. The base output value is compensated for a load applied to the engine. A sig... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8005602 | Vehicle speed control device, method of determining target speed by using the device, and program executing the method The present invention relates to a vehicle speed control device for controlling a speed of a vehicle. The vehicle speed control device includes a current location error estimation section for extracting area attribute information from the map information, for produc... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996139 | Motor vehicle and control method of motor vehicle During a starting operation or a low-speed drive of a vehicle on a slope, the drive control of the invention sets a gradient-corresponding rotation speed Nθ as a rotation speed of an engine to output a required driving force against a longitudinal vehicle gradient ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7970525 | Method for determining the speed of a motor vehicle The invention relates to a method for determining the vehicle speed of a motor vehicle, wherein a provisional first speed value is determined for high speeds and a provisional second speed value is determined for low speeds and the vehicle speed is determined as a f... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957884 | Running control apparatus for vehicle A running control apparatus for a vehicle controls a state of running using a driving source for generating a driving force of the vehicle. The apparatus includes an accelerator pedal measuring device for measuring a degree of depression of an accelerator pedal of t... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957882 | Onboard controller system A system and method for safely slowing or stopping a vehicle by selectively replacing a genuine engine control signal with a spoofed engine control signal to slow or stop a vehicle in a gradual or stepped manor. The operator is allowed control of the vehicle (e.g. g... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957883 | Handheld information device and control method thereof A handheld information device, including: a display part to display one or more control menus; and a controller to calculate a velocity of a vehicle, and to control the display part to display an enlarged control menu relatively increased in size than a predetermine... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7925413 | Vehicle control system A vehicle control system controls the speed of a vehicle according to actual road conditions and state of the vehicle. The control system acquires a present value of lateral acceleration occurring in a direction lateral to a controlled vehicle when the controlled ve... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7894971 | Vehicle control apparatus A vehicle control apparatus is used to control a driving force to be given to a vehicle. A driving force calculating device calculates the driving force to be given to the vehicle, on the basis of a deviation between a vehicle speed of the vehicle and a target speed... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7853390 | Acceleration control system An acceleration control system stores a target acceleration calculation equation acquired by transforming an equation that expresses that a product of the differentiation of the square power of the speed and the environmental factor αenv represents a sen... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7813861 | Cruise control device A cruise control device has an activation device embodied as a key button. By activating the activation device it is possible to transfer the cruise control device, from a switched off operating state to a switched on standby operating state, and by a further activa... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7801658 | Cruise control device and method for vehicles The output torque of an in-vehicle engine is controlled based on the larger one of a pedal torque set by a pedal torque setting section in accordance with an operation amount of an accelerator pedal and a cruise torque for cruise control set by a cruise torque setti... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7783406 | System for controlling speed of a vehicle A device, system and method for controlling speed of a vehicle are provided. The device includes a locational information module for determining location information and speed; a storage module for storing at least one geographic map including at least one route and... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7778758 | Cruise control system for a vehicle This invention provides a vehicle cruise control system which, during recognition of a shape of a road extending in a frontward direction of host vehicle, can calculate the road shape rapidly and accurately from a positional relationship with respect to the host veh... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7751962 | Vehicle travel controlling apparatus and method A vehicle travel controlling apparatus and method in which a target vehicle speed for when a vehicle travels along a curve is calculated based on a radius of the curve, and the vehicle speed is controlled based on the calculated target vehicle speed. When an acceler... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7715971 | Vehicle and control method of vehicle In the vehicle of the invention, when the driver releases a depressed accelerator pedal, the drive control sets a vehicle speed V at the moment to a target vehicle speed V* (step S440). An engine and a motor for outputting driving power are controlled to driv... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7706953 | Speed stabilizer for automatically turning conventional cruise controls on/off in dense low speed traffic to save fuel The stabilizer works with any conventional cruise control (CC) and permits automatic CC in slower heavy traffic as it eliminates laborious frequent manual actuation of CC control buttons otherwise needed in such heavy traffic. More frequent automatic CC operation at... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7693641 | Vehicle speed control system A vehicle speed control system for controlling a vehicle on a chassis dynamometer is comprised of a controller which is arranged to receive a vehicle speed command, to obtain an anticipated vehicle speed command from the vehicle speed command taking account of a del... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693642 | Anti-overspeed system for vehicle and associated method An anti-overspeed system is adapted to prevent overspeeding of an engine of a vehicle. The anti-overspeed system has an anti-overspeed hydraulic circuit operably connected to the engine and a controller for controlling the hydraulic circuit in a manner that prevents... | 04/06/2010 |
