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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7467830 | Managing wheel slip in a locomotive The present invention is directed to the termination of the occurrence of wheel slip/skid and prediction and prevention of the onset of wheel slip/skid in a locomotive. In one configuration, a lookup table of adhesion factors is used to predict the occurrence of whe... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7412318 | Motor vehicle state detecting system System for detecting stability/instability of behavior of a motor vehicle upon occurrence of tire slip or lock. State of the motor vehicle is determined on the basis of an alignment torque (Ta) applied from a road and a side slip angle (β). By taking advantage of s... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7407235 | Method for improving the control behavior of a controlled vehicle braking system The present invention relates to a method for improving the control behavior of a controlled automotive vehicle system, in particular an anti-lock brake system (ABS), a driving stability control system (ESP), or another brake system extended by other functionalities... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7363138 | Wheel slip detection and torque management A method of controlling traction in a vehicle having at least one non-driven wheel speed sensor. Actual vehicle acceleration and a wheel speed difference are detected. At least one of the actual vehicle acceleration and the wheel speed difference is compared to at l... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353096 | Diagnosis monitoring device for yaw rate sensor A yaw rate sensor failure diagnosing device judges whether the yaw rate sensor is failure or not. In particular, when the vehicle is in the steady turn state, the failure is judged by comparing a yaw rate value from the yaw rate sensor with a yaw rate value calculat... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349775 | Motor vehicle state detecting system System for detecting stability/instability of behavior of a motor vehicle upon occurrence of tire slip or lock. State of the motor vehicle is determined on the basis of an alignment torque (Ta) applied from a road and a side slip angle (β). By taking advantage of s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7325883 | Hydraulic braking system featuring selectively-coupled pump suction circuits An automotive braking system controls the flow of pressurized brake fluid from a tandem master cylinder to several wheel brakes via a pair of braking circuits. Each circuit features a pressure relief line having, in series, a normally-closed valve, low-pressure accu... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325886 | Vehicular brake control system In a vehicular brake control system in which pressure upstream of a plurality of pressure increase control valves is variable, a brake control ECU sets a value of a current supplied to a solenoid coil in each of the pressure increase control valves in accordance wit... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7266437 | Temperature dependent trigger control for a traction control system A method a operating a traction control system using a traction controller (30) for an automotive vehicle (10) is provided. A slip target is first determined. Then, an operating temperature turning characteristic or slope of the slip curve may, in comb... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260458 | Steering device In a steering apparatus, in accordance with a grip limit control process (30b′), it is determined whether or not a grip degree ε estimated by a grip degree estimation arithmetically operating process (30a) is less than a predetermined ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255407 | Vehicle braking control device for braking force distribution A braking control device for a vehicle executes braking force distribution (BFD) biased to the front wheels, taking into account auxiliary braking control such as braking assist control (BAS) executed when an abrupt or full braking action is performed by the driver.... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7244001 | Motor vehicle wheel antiskid and antilock device using the braking circuit A braking system comprises one or more brake cylinders (100, 200, 300, 400) each associated with one or more wheels, a fluid supply (10), and a brake control (14) for commanding the feeding of fluid to the cylinder or cylinders via one or more b... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241249 | Driving condition control method and system In a driving condition control system, a sensing unit is configured to sense a first physical quantity indicative of a rotation of the first rotatable axle assembly and a second physical quantity indicative of a rotation of the second rotatable axle assembly. A corr... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236872 | Speed sensor instability detection A speed sensor instability detection and correction system for use with a vehicle includes a speed sensor output variation extractor monitoring and recording change in output of a speed sensor over time. A speed sensor output variation comparison module detects spee... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7232191 | Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle stability An apparatus for controlling vehicle stability includes a pressure calculator calculating a brake pressure. In one embodiment, the calculated brake pressure is calculated based on a yaw rate signal input from a yaw rate sensor. In other embodiments, the calculated b... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7225072 | System for controlling the stability of a vehicle using several predictive algorithms and a selection process System for controlling the stability of a vehicle, the system comprising means for imparting a longitudinal force to the tire and means for calculating a slip GOpt by determining the values of the coefficient of friction μi, for each slip G | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216753 | Vehicle drive apparatus A vehicle drive apparatus (10) for dividing torque between primary and secondary drive axles (16, 18) of a motor vehicle and including a hydraulically actuated clutch pack (26) that transfers torque to a secondary drive axle (18) of an au... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7165644 | Method and apparatus of controlling an automotive vehicle using brake-steer as a function of steering wheel torque A method of controlling an automotive vehicle having a turning radius includes determining a hand wheel torque and applying brake-steer as a function of hand wheel torque. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7142100 | Wheel position indicator A wheel position indication system for a vehicle comprising a steerable wheel, a wheel position indicator and a controller. The wheel position indicator has an on state and an off state. The wheel position indicator provides a visual indication of the position of th... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7128377 | System and method for adaptive brake application and initial skid detection The adaptive brake application and initial skid detection system allows rapid brake application and prevents deep initial skids. Brake pressure is compared with a predetermined threshold brake pressure. Wheel velocity error signals are also generated to mediated/ind... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126293 | Wheel slip correction system A wheel slip correction system for an electric traction motor propelled vehicle having a plurality of DC electric traction motors with series connected armature and field windings incorporates an apparatus connected in circuit with each motor for reducing motor arma... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7101313 | Motor vehicle powertrain control method for low traction conditions A driver-initiated low traction control method limits the drive torque of a motor vehicle during operation on low traction road surfaces. The low traction control mode is initiated by actuation of a switch or by moving a transmission range selector to a Low range wh... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099760 | Active wheel steering control A control system that employs closed-loop control for providing active vehicle rear-wheel steering, where the control system receives longitudinal wheel slip inputs to improve the vehicle directional stability. The longitudinal wheel slip inputs can be from one or m... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093913 | Traction control method for slipping wheels of at least one driving axle The present invention relates to a method for traction control of slipping wheels of at least one driving axle, which are driven by way of an open differential gear and can be interlocked by braking intervention to a defined, predeterminable degree for effecting a d... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7084602 | Predicting wheel slip and skid in a locomotive The present invention is directed to the termination of the occurrence of wheel slip/skid and prediction and prevention of the onset of wheel slip/skid in a locomotive. In one configuration, a lookup table of adhesion factors is used to predict the occurrence of whe... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7064507 | Managing wheel skid in a locomotive The present invention is directed to the termination of the occurrence of wheel slip/skid and prediction and prevention of the onset of wheel slip/skid in a locomotive. In one configuration, a lookup table of adhesion factors is used to predict the occurrence of whe... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065442 | Automatic slowdown control apparatus for a vehicle An automatic slowdown control apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed wherein automatic slowdown control can be ended appropriately and automatic slowdown is prevented from being performed excessively on a road of an ascending gradient. The automatic slowdown control a... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7055917 | Method and device for determining a force exercised by the ground on a wheel A device and method are provided for determining a longitudinal force (Fx) exerted on a wheel of a motor vehicle by a ground surface supporting the wheel, the vehicle including connections means which connect the wheel to a body of the vehicle. An actual force (FAX)... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7035726 | Steering characteristic control apparatus and method for a vehicle A steering characteristic control apparatus and method for a vehicle is disclosed which can carry out behavior control of the vehicle regarding a steering characteristic and so forth appropriately in accordance with the type of turning and the road surface situation... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7016778 | Method for controlling a vehicle The invention relates to a method for controlling a motor vehicle, in particular a traction-slip control system (TCS), wherein a diagonal axle twist is detected and evaluated as a regulating variable. ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6974195 | Method for increasing the maneuverability or driving stability of a vehicle during cornering A method for increasing the maneuverability and driving stability of an automotive vehicle during cornering, the rotational behavior or the wheel slip of the individual vehicle wheels is monitored, and the distribution of the brake force to the curve-outward wheels ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6964460 | Brake controller and method for controlling a brake system A control system for controlling a brake system of a braked vehicle during a turn, the vehicle having four wheels. The control system is configured to selectively modify a brake pressure applied to each of the wheels by the brake system. The control system is config... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961648 | System and method for desensitizing the activation criteria of a rollover control system A method of densensitizing includes determining a relative roll angle, determining when the vehicle is in a transitional maneuver, and when the vehicle is in a transitional maneuver, setting a roll signal for control to the relative roll angle, reducing control effo... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6945610 | Hydraulic braking system wherein electrically controllable assisting drive force is applied to master cylinder piston upon brake pedal operation A hydraulically operated braking system including a master cylinder (12; 300: 500; 600) having a pressurizing piston (34; 322, 324; 504, 506) operatively connected to a brake operating member (10), to pressurize a fluid in a pressurizing chamber... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6928355 | Vehicular antiskid control apparatus and antiskid control method If a condition for starting a yaw control during an antiskid control is met while the antiskid control is being executed on one of right and left front wheels during braking on a uneven friction-coeffient road surface, the reference value for making the determinatio... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6923514 | Electronic brake control system An Electronic Brake Control System having four channels and three wheel speed sensors. The wheel speed sensors include a pair or speed sensors for monitoring the speeds of the individual front wheels and a single speed sensors for monitoring the speed of both rear w... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6901319 | System and method for controlling a ground vehicle The present invention is a method for controlling a ground vehicle, for automated steering control of the vehicle or the like. The method of the present invention includes using a GPS receiver or the like and an inertial gyro or the like for providing automated stee... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6851766 | Traction control apparatus for vehicle A traction control apparatus for a vehicle sets an allowable slip ratio to a constant value that is rather great, when the shift position of a sub-transmission is in “H4”, or the shift position of the sub-transmission is in “L4” and the differe... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6783194 | Method and brake system for controlling the braking process in a motor vehicle A wheelslip is calculated from wheel speed, recorded by speed sensors (6), by a controller (8). A pre-set value for the wheelslip is regulated by means of a proportional controller. Parallel thereto, a set brake pressure for the wheel brakes (3)... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6766239 | Advanced wheel slip detection using suspension system information The present invention determines a longitudinal wheel speed of an individual wheel from an angular rate signal from a wheel rotation sensor. Vehicle suspension information or operating characteristics are input to a suspension system mathematical model to determine ... | 07/20/2004 |
