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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8056667 | Autonomous parking strategy based on available parking space A method controls a parallel parking of a vehicle. A distance between the first object and the second object is remotely sensed. The distance is compared to a first predetermined distance and a second predetermined distance. An autonomous first steering strategy man... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7594556 | System for storing and retrieving a personal-transportation vehicle A preferred embodiment of a system for automatically transferring a personal-transportation vehicle, such as a power chair, between a first and a second position proximate a motor vehicle such as a minivan is provided. The system can be used to transfer the personal... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7510038 | Steering system with lane keeping integration A system for steering a vehicle including: an actuator disposed in a vehicle to apply torque to a steerable wheel; a driver input device receptive to driver commands for directing the vehicle; and a sensor for determining an intent of a driver and generating a signa... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7444206 | Robotic vacuum cleaner An autonomous robot, that is for example, suitable for operations such as vacuuming and surface cleaning includes a payload configured for vacuum cleaning, a drive system including a steering system, a navigation system, and a control system for integrating operatio... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440835 | Vehicle cruise control system A vehicle cruise control system is provided that comprises a vehicle speed detecting section, a cruise control section, and a cruising speed setting section. The vehicle speed detecting section is configured and arranged to detect a speed of a host vehicle. The crui... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7431115 | Robotic cart pulling vehicle A robotic cart pulling vehicle includes a positioning error reducing system for reducing accumulated error in the ded-reckoning navigational system. The positioning error reducing system including at least one of a low load transfer point of the cart attaching mecha... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428940 | Steerable transport trolley A transport trolley is disclosed and which includes parallel spaced forks, ground engaging rollers, and a steering system including a distance monitor, a driving system for steering the rollers, and an electronic control system operatively connected to the distance ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7378947 | Device and method for the active monitoring of the safety perimeter of a motor vehicle The invention relates to a device for the active monitoring of the safety perimeter of a motor vehicle, which is used to detect moving objects or static obstacles inside said safety perimeter. The inventive device includes a first sensor which covers a first detecti... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7378948 | Digital message display for vehicles The digital message display for vehicles detects a tailgater and automatically flashes a warning message, directed to the tailgater, on a message display that is located in the rear window of the vehicle in view of following traffic. In addition to the warning messa... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369942 | Vehicle traveling state determining apparatus The present invention provides a vehicle traveling state determining apparatus including a camera which picks up an image of a road surface in a direction in which a vehicle is traveling, and zigzag state detecting section for determining a zigzag amount on the basi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365676 | Sensor for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals The invention relates to a sensor comprising a housing, inside of which a transmitting antenna array that transmits electromagnetic transmission signals in a radiation area and a receiving antenna array that receives received signals reflected by at least one object... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365641 | Vehicle proximity alerting system and method A vehicle proximity alerting system and method is provided. The system includes: a sensor unit having a plurality of sensors for measuring distances from other vehicles; a system controlling unit for receiving measurement signals from the sensors, calculating distan... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364333 | Vehicle headlight system with variable beam shape In a vehicle headlight system with a light source (2) and at least one reflector (1) for shaping the light emitted by the light source into a high beam and a low beam, and with a shield (7) adjustable via an actuating element (9) between ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362259 | Radar antenna array For suppressing secondary lobes in pulsed radar systems, the antenna characteristics of the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna are designed so that the dominant secondary lobes appear mutually offset and their maximums and minimums are mutually suppresse... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350343 | System for automatically steering a utility vehicle A system for automatically steering a utility vehicle having an operating implement. The system comprises a controller that is in communication with a scanning sensor. The controller receives an output signal from the scanning sensor and generates a steering signal ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350613 | Transport with rotatable load and safety bumper A vehicle having (i) a rotatable platform for securing a load thereto, and (ii) an object detection system for detecting an object in the vehicle's path of travel. The sensitivity of the object detection system is variable so that it can be varied based on the rotat... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347597 | Safety light bar with a light fixture assembly A full functioning safety light bar and signal assembly for attachment to a vehicle hitch has a light system that uses a wiring harness assembly having one or more of the following lights: driving, brake/signal, flasher/emergency, reverse, marker, strobe, fog or ill... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349771 | Road shape recognition apparatus A front radar recognizes a still object. A process generates a still object map that shows a relative position between the still object and a subject vehicle. The process groups still objects in the still object map. In terms of each individual still object group, t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349144 | Exterior electrochromic reflective mirror element for a vehicular rearview mirror assembly An exterior electrochromic reflective mirror element for a vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly comprises an electrochromic cross-linked polymeric solid film disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate. The electrochromic cross-linked polymeric ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349779 | Automatic steering system Structure for converting a conventional manual steering system of an off-road vehicle to an automatic steering system utilizing remote signals. A stepper motor is connected through a belt or chain drive to a drive mounted on the upper end of a steering shaft. The st... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343996 | Vehicle comprising at least one sensor for detecting the surrounding area of the vehicle A vehicle is described, having at least one sensor for detecting the vehicle environment and having a motion-state actuator for acting on the motion state of the vehicle, the motion-state actuator being provided to act on the motion state of the vehicle in the event... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343231 | Computerized simultaneous laser marking and targeting system The complete automation of a remote marking process. It is completely computer controlled and made possible by laser printer type marking/pointer equipment. The concept of embedding digital information into a laser beam or other coherent information vector and attac... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7321818 | Cruise control system having a stop and go function A cruise control system for motor vehicles is described, having a sensor device for measuring the vehicle's operating parameters and for measuring the distance to an object located in front of the vehicle, and having a controller for controlling the vehicle's speed ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318493 | Hybrid remote control lawn mower A remote control lawn mower has two electric DC motors with gear boxes for forward/reverse/turning speed control, a gyro for fast straight line cuts, a brain comprising of microprocessors, a gas engine (typical rating being about 4.5 to 7.5 HP) to cut the grass, and... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7308961 | Vehicle cruise control device and method A maximum permissible acceleration is calculated so as to take into account vehicle stability, driver's comfort, road surface information and traffic information, driver's specific taste in acceleration and deceleration, and the like. An acceleration limiting proces... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7299900 | Braking device for an industrial truck A braking device for an industrial truck, comprising a hydraulic brake cylinder which is coupled to an actuating element and is connected with at least one hydraulic brake associated with a wheel of the industrial truck via a brake line wherein another hydraulic bra... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302321 | Information providing device, information providing system, and information providing program product An information providing device installed in a leader vehicle that leads a follower vehicle, for providing the follower vehicle with guidance prepared by the leader vehicle, the information providing device that includes a state detector configured to detect a state... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293619 | Front wheel motor driven-golf trolley A front-wheel motor powered golf trolley comprised of a compact backward tricycle-wheel arrangement and a lightweight stiff open truss chassis. Left and right front wheel assemblies, driven by common drive axle, motorized through silent motor speed reduction, pull t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292940 | Vehicle control system In a vehicle control system performing collision avoiding control when a collision with a preceding vehicle cannot be avoided by normal running condition control, driving safety is improved by prompting a driver to intervene in the vehicle's control in a reliable ma... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7280903 | Cruise control apparatus for vehicle In an adaptive cruise control (ACC) region where vehicle speed V is greater than a predetermined third vehicle speed #V3, a decrease amount of a target inter-vehicle distance per predetermined unit vehicle speed decrease amount in a state where the vehicle sp... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278505 | Control device for starting motion of mobile body A control device is mounted to one's own mobile body such as a vehicle for controlling its starting motion. A distance measuring part measures the distance to a front going vehicle and a speed control part controls the speed of the own vehicle such that the distance... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280211 | Method of adjusting monitor axis The invention relates to a method of adjusting a monitor having a radar and a camera and correcting the positions and orientations of their detection areas based on intensity of reflected light from a target object. A single target having a specified pattern of brig... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277792 | Vehicle guidance software, method and system The present invention relates to vehicle guidance software for use with an agricultural vehicle having a guidance system. The software includes a processing portion (24) for generating a set of guidance indicators from a set of waypoints. The software further... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275431 | Vehicle mounted system for detecting objects A method for object detection using vehicle-mounted sensors is provided, the sensing ranges of which sensors overlap at least partially. In this context, signals of at least two sensors having sensing ranges with essentially identical coverage, and additional signal... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274386 | Method for determining visibility To determine the visual range of, in particular, a driver in a motor vehicle, a contrast ((c(x1), c(x2)) is measured from at least two measuring positions (x1, x2) of a measuring device situated at different distances from... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274166 | Apparatus and method for correcting position of mobile robot An apparatus and a method for correcting a position of a mobile robot includes a position notifying unit, installed at a predetermined position, that generates and transmits a signal indicative of the predetermined position. The mobile robot includes a position sign... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272482 | Preceding-vehicle following control system A preceding-vehicle following control system for a host vehicle is comprised of a road information device (2, 3) for obtaining road information of a road ahead of the host vehicle, a preceding-vehicle detector (1) for obtaining preceding-vehicle inform... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271762 | Method for detecting an obstacle around a vehicle If the maximum time width Lt of the intensity of received light of reflected waves from a vehicle ahead is smaller than a reference time width, it is judged that the vehicle ahead is positioned in proximity to the detection limit distance of an obstacle detection de... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7265510 | Method and arrangement for signalizing a deactivation of a driver assistance system The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for signalizing the controlled deactivation of an assistance system during operation of motor vehicles (10) which are steerable by a steering manipulation device (36). The method is characterized... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266477 | Method and system for sensor signal fusion The first sensor collects a first group of first sensor readings of first fixed size dependent on a range of a first sensor and safeguarding requirements of a vehicle. A second sensor collects a second group of second sensor readings of second fixed size dependent o... | 09/04/2007 |
