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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170755 | Methods and systems for improved detection of minispare tires A method of detecting a minispare tire in a vehicle having a vehicle control system. The method includes detecting a rotational velocity of each of a plurality of wheels of the vehicle; determining whether a minispare tire is mounted on the vehicle based on the rota... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160781 | Vehicular control system and control method A vehicular control system which includes a user parameter input module, an external parameter input module, a plurality of objective functions, a policy setting module, and a policy node. The user parameter input module Inputs a user parameter. The external paramet... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155843 | Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control system using the same A vehicle control apparatus is provided, which comprises a mode setting unit and a control adjusting unit which are mounted in a vehicle. The vehicle is provided with control units that control behavior of a subject to be controlled which is mounted on a vehicle by ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8135517 | Torque control method of a road vehicle A control method of the torque of a road vehicle having a powertrain system provided with an engine and a driveline which transmits the torque generated by the engine to the road surface; the method contemplates the steps of: determining a target torque; modeling th... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131431 | Method for controlling cooling of an auxiliary brake In a method for controlling cooling of an auxiliary brake on a vehicle, the auxiliary brake is cooled by a cooling member. The method comprises the steps of: determining if the vehicle is travelling down a slope or is to be driven down a slope, and activating the co... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131430 | Vehicle with control of elements with negative torque for the regulation of its own dynamics A vehicle includes a device for controlling negative torque having a central control unit; an internal combustion engine; a device for braking the wheels; an input for a resistive torque; at least one element with negative torque (generator, alternator, air conditio... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126614 | Selective anti-lock braking system Automatic mechanical transmission system for a vehicle with antilock braking which is configured to selectively decouple the drive train of the vehicle from the wheels of the vehicle. The system includes a first sensor for sensing at least one operational state of t... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8103414 | Adaptive vehicle configuration Methods, including service methods, program products and systems are provided for sensing vehicle loads and responsively and automatically configuring a vehicle. Vehicle-mounted load sensors sense vehicle loads, a vehicle processing means calculating a load imparted... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8086377 | Suspension control apparatus The present invention provides a suspension control apparatus capable of an excellent vibration control by a model thereof designed to incorporate nonlinearity and a time-lag element of a control damper. The present invention employs the backstepping method which is... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082081 | Vehicle control system A vehicle control system controls vibrations that are generated at a plurality of portions of a vehicle. An engine/drive system ECU and a brake system ECU store the same vehicle vibration model that is separated into a vehicle body vibration model, a chassis vibrati... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078363 | On-vehicle electronic device control system An on-vehicle electronic device control system includes a base-device-layer on which base-inputting-devices and base-driven-devices are disposed and plural control layers on which plural control units are disposed. Each of the control units has a lower-to-higher-lay... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8060282 | Vehicle component control methods and systems based on vehicle stability Control system for controlling at least one part of a vehicle includes sensor systems mounted on the vehicle, each providing a measurement of a state of the sensor system or a state of the mounting location of the sensor system and generating a signal representative... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8046138 | Braking control apparatus for vehicle A braking control apparatus for a vehicle includes four wheel braking apparatuses for applying a braking torque to wheels, a first hydraulic pressure generating apparatus generating a hydraulic pressure, a vacuum booster generating an assist force for assisting a br... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8024091 | Vehicle control device An FB distribution rule 20 determines an actual vehicle actuator operation control input and a vehicle model operation control input such that a difference between a reference state amount determined by a vehicle model 16 and an actual state amount of ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010257 | Electronic control units for controlling in-vehicle devices using time-dependent data and vehicle control system integrating such units for real-time distributed control An electronic control unit is incorporated as one of a plurality of electronic controllers composing a system for controlling in-vehicle devices on a distributed and mutually-synchronized control manner in a vehicle. The plurality of electronic control units are com... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010258 | Torque control device for power system A torque control device for a power system and facilitates the addition of a new torque control actuator. A target torque signal according to a target torque for the power system is distributed to each actuator in a predetermined distribution priority order. A signa... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000861 | Braking control apparatus for vehicle A braking control apparatus for a vehicle includes four wheel braking apparatuses for applying a braking torque to wheels, a first hydraulic pressure generating apparatus generating a hydraulic pressure, a vacuum booster generating an assist force for assisting a br... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7970516 | Vehicle control system A vehicle control system estimates the vibration states of tires by using a vehicle vibration model that is separated into a vehicle body vibration model, a chassis vibration model, and a tire vibration model with high precision. The tire vibration model in the vehi... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7912610 | Control apparatus for vehicle having cooperative control unit A control apparatus for a vehicle including an inertia force sensor for detecting an inertia force generated in the vehicle and a cooperative control unit connected to the inertia force sensor and connected also to a braking/driving force control unit and a steering... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7761208 | Vehicle behavior control device An adjustment unit identifies a front-rear driving force distribution control unit and a braking force control unit, and calculates based on the current vehicle state, a target yaw moment required for each of the front-rear driving force distribution control unit an... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7739014 | Integrated control system for stability control of yaw, roll and lateral motion of a driving vehicle using an integrated sensing system to determine a final linear lateral velocity A method of controlling a vehicle includes determining a front lateral tire force, a rear lateral tire force, and determining a lineal sideslip angle from the front lateral tire force and the rear lateral tire force. The method also includes determining a load trans... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739013 | Vehicular electronic control apparatus and method for controlling vehicle A vehicular electronic control apparatus includes a vehicle control section and a unit control section. The vehicle control section controls a function dependent on a vehicle equipment. The unit control section that controls a function of a unit provided in a vehicl... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7729831 | Concrete placement vehicle control system and method A concrete placement vehicle. The concrete placement vehicle includes a concrete mixing and placement system, at least one vehicle sensor configured to monitor a characteristic of the concrete placement vehicle and at least one concrete system sensor configured to m... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725230 | Method and computer system for operating at least two interconnected control units A method and a computer system for operating at least two interconnected control units. The control units access sensor data and each execute at least one computer program for controlling operational sequences, in particular in a vehicle. The control units exchange ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720586 | Driving support apparatus and driving support method A driving support apparatus supports a driver in driving a vehicle. The driving support apparatus determines a state of the vehicle by collecting information concerning an operating condition of the vehicle, determines a plurality of optimum operations of the vehicl... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7702442 | Control device for vehicle A control device for a vehicle is equipped with a vehicle model motion determining device for determining a motion of a vehicle (a vehicle model motion) on a vehicle model expressing the dynamic characteristics of a vehicle on the basis of drive manipulated variable... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698039 | Mobile communication system The present invention makes improvements in a mobile communication system that performs a communication via a communication network provided in a mobile body to execute a data transfer. The present system comprises a plurality of nodes, a path control device which r... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7689337 | Cooperative vehicle control system A method of cooperative vehicle control in which a high level controller includes a high level algorithm that manages the overall control strategy of the vehicle and decides which vehicle subsystems to control, with what timing and with what authority. Depending on ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7668636 | Control system of vehicle A brake-related ECU (46) terminates control on the basis of a control stop signal sent from a body-related ECU (40) connected with the brake-related ECU by a CAN 1, an engine revolving speed supplied from an engine ECU (42) connected with... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7643922 | Turning behavior control device for vehicle A turning behavior control device for vehicle has a left and right wheel driving force adjustment mechanism for adjusting a difference in driving force between right and left, a braking force adjustment mechanism for adjusting a difference in braking force between t... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7634342 | Method for deploying a torque reduction and torque limitation command through per wheel torque control of a controllable 4-wheel-drive system A method for deploying torque commands from a vehicle stability assist control system to a four wheel drive system in a vehicle that includes utilizing a firewall within a four wheel drive system electronic control unit to analyze commands sent from a vehicle stabil... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7630807 | Vehicle control system A vehicle control system which can ensure high reliability, real-time processing, and expandability with a simplified ECU configuration and a low cost by backing up an error through coordination in the entire system without increasing a degree of redundancy of indiv... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7613557 | Vehicle control system A vehicle control system for controlling a vehicle having a body, a pair of front wheels, and a pair of rear wheels, including a body-height adjusting device which adjusts four body heights each of which is defined as a relative-position relationship between corresp... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7561951 | Occupant control system integrated with vehicle dynamics controls A control system for an automotive vehicle that includes a plurality of dynamics sensors (14) for generating a plurality of dynamic condition signals and also a plurality of environment sensors (16) for generating a plurality of environment signals is ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7551999 | Vehicle-mounted communication system and connector device with communication-controlling capability An object of the present invention is to provide flexibility in modifying or updating a communication system and the like of a vehicle-mounted network, thus reducing processing loads on electrical components modules and the like. In the present invention, a connecto... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7522983 | Vehicle integrated control system An integrated control system includes subsystem with a driving system control subsystem controlling a driving system, a brake system control subsystem controlling a brake system, and a steering system control subsystem controlling a steering system, a subsystem stab... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7512469 | Method and system for controlling behaviors of vehicle A system for controlling behaviors of a vehicle is provided. The system comprises a first transmission device (for example, an ABS ECU), a second transmission device (for example, an engine ECU), and a reception/processing unit (i.e., a superior control unit). The f... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7499782 | System for real-time control performed on time-dependent data transmitted/received in vehicle In a vehicle control system which requires a plurality of ECUs (electronic control units) to control in real time states of the vehicle using time-dependent data transmitted and received among the ECUs. The time-dependent data reflecting the vehicle states is detect... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496438 | In-vehicle equipment system Front-mounted in-vehicle equipment arranged to a front part of a vehicle internal space, rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment arranged to a rear part of the vehicle internal space, and a connection adapted to connect the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment and the rear-... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7483778 | Redundant array of control devices An array of control devices having a plurality of control devices (1-3, 20-23) which are interconnected via a first data bus (4), in a means of transportation, control devices (1-3; 20-23) which are of redundant confi... | 01/27/2009 |
