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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190343 | Gear actuator control systems and methods for dual clutch transmissions A control system for a dual clutch transmission (DCT) of a vehicle comprises a difference module, a summer module, and a position control module. The difference module determines a difference between a desired position for a gear actuator and a measurement of a curr... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8160796 | Securing driver requested torque An engine control system comprises a driver axle torque request module (DATRM) and a driver axle torque security module (DATSM). The DATRM determines a pedal torque request based on minimum and maximum scaling torques and a torque scalar. The DATRM determines a raw ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160728 | Methods of determining complete sensor requirements for autonomous mobility A method of determining complete sensor requirements for autonomous mobility of an autonomous system includes computing a time variation of each behavior of a set of behaviors of the autonomous system, determining mobility sensitivity to each behavior of the autonom... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155790 | Robot control apparatus A robot control apparatus includes: a drive unit (101) driving an actuator (115) based on a torque command value; a drive torque estimation unit (107) estimating a drive torque from a joint shaft angle; an external torque calculation unit (10... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150609 | Method of selecting route and terminal thereof A method of selecting a travel route including receiving message information formed in a hierarchical structure and including traffic information, receiving a first position value and a second position value corresponding to first and second positions, searching for... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145347 | Numerical control apparatus and numerical control method In a numerical control apparatus, a rotation-axis filtering processor subjects an angle change amount between interpolation points between rotation angles of a rotation axis to moving average filtering thereby smoothing the angle change amount between the interpolat... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145375 | System constraints method of determining minimum and maximum torque limits for an electro-mechanical powertrain system A powertrain including an electro-mechanical transmission mechanically-operatively coupled to an internal combustion engine and first and second electric machines to transmit power to an output member is disclosed. A method for controlling the electro-mechanical tra... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140230 | Apparatus and method for regulating active driveline damping in hybrid vehicle powertrain The present invention provides an improved method and apparatus for regulating active damping in a hybrid vehicle powertrain. The method includes: monitoring the damping command sent to the active damping system; determining a mean reference point, which may be a fi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135522 | Control device for vehicular drive system A vehicular drive system switchable between a continuously-variable and step-variable shifting states, and a control device for controlling the vehicular drive system so as to reduce a shifting shock of an automatic transmission included in the drive system, which t... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131419 | Web-enabled configurable quality data collection tool A method and system for configuring trigger parameters for captured test fleet vehicle data collection. The method includes selecting at least one vehicle identifier from a captured test fleet database, associating at least one trigger condition with the at least on... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8108096 | Diagnostic systems and methods for a torque sensor A system for a vehicle includes an engine torque module, a torque detection module, a torque estimation module, a torque monitoring module, and a diagnostic module. The engine torque module generates a first estimated torque signal based on engine signals and/or GPS... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8095255 | Control apparatus for hybrid vehicle In a hybrid vehicle provided with a power dividing mechanism comprising a clutch mechanism, an ECU performs speed-change control. In the control, the ECU performs an engage preparing process if it is necessary to engage clutch plates of the clutch mechanism with eac... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086384 | Stop determination apparatus, inclination determination apparatus, and electric parking brake controller A vehicle stop determination apparatus includes a vehicle speed sensor for detecting a speed of a vehicle, a G sensor for detecting a longitudinal acceleration of a vehicle, an inclination acceleration estimate section for calculating an estimated inclination accele... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078353 | Self monitoring braking system for vehicles A self monitoring vehicle braking system includes multiple sensors that gather data associated with the braking system. The data includes wheel speed, road inclination, moisture associated with a surface of the braking system, and audio associated with the road. A p... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073568 | Device utilizing a PID controller, control method thereof, and robot utilizing the controller A control method utilizing a PID controller includes detecting the position of an object and obtaining the position deviation by comparison with a predetermined position value, detecting the vibration of the object and obtaining a vibration value, adjusting the cont... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8046129 | Control of magnetorheological mount A system and method of controlling engine vibration mounted within a vehicle including at least one hydraulic mount, each mount including a fluid chamber. A pair of accelerometers sense relative acceleration across the mount between the engine and the frame and gene... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032298 | Method and apparatus for incorporating adaptive scroll operation for navigation system A method and apparatus for a navigation system achieves a smooth and, intuitive scrolling operation by checking available resources such as a computational power of the navigation system and map data stored in a video memory to determine an optimum scrolling operati... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8029224 | Substrate transfer apparatus, substrate transfer method, and storage medium A substrate transfer apparatus 100 includes a substrate transport means 4 having a transport base 5 and a plurality of retention arms 41a-41e for retaining substrates W, an optical sensor 62 that is used to def... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028591 | System and method for selective retrieval of support beads Systems and methods are provided that can include a storage and retrieval robot operating under program control to extract a selective number of support beads from a storage or retainment region, for dispensing to titer wells or other vessels for assays and other pu... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024103 | Method and device for monitoring an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine A method and a device are described for monitoring an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine, which allow a diagnosis of the oil supply to an exhaust gas turbocharger. In at least one operating state of the internal combustion engine, a variable t... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019540 | Method and apparatus for processing navigational signals in a satellite navigation system In a method and apparatus for processing a received navigation signal x′(t) of a satellite navigation system, the received navigation signal x′(t) contains at least four navigation codes. The navigation codes are modulated by a complex BOC signal and a defined s... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014937 | Method of creating a virtual traffic network A computer-implemented method of creating a virtual traffic network includes inputting map data representing a road system, inputting flow data related to traffic flow on the road system and integrating the map data and the flow data to produce a virtual traffic net... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010259 | Control apparatus of irradiating direction of vehicle lamp and initializing method thereof An irradiating direction control apparatus includes a storing portion for storing a design reference value of a vehicle and storing output voltages of vehicle height sensors when the vehicle is in a reference attitude as measured reference values, an operating porti... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8002694 | Master-slave manipulator system In a master-slave manipulator system, manipulation device can be manipulated intuitively even when clutch manipulation is performed. A master-slave manipulator system includes: mode switching device for switching between a master-slave mode, in which the slave manip... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005580 | Aircraft galley systems and methods for managing electric power for aircraft galley systems Aircraft power systems, aircraft galley systems, and methods and systems for managing power distribution to aircraft galley systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an aircraft system can include an aircraft power source and at least first and second galley ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000855 | Accumulated error time monitoring diagnostic control system A diagnostic system includes N dedicated diagnostic modules that each correspond with a respective one of multiple control systems. The N dedicated diagnostic modules each generate status signals indicating results of respective diagnostic tests. A diagnostic error ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7987035 | Method of operating a vehicle and apparatus comprising the same An engine management system and a method of operating the same within a vehicle. The system uses a plurality of software modules one of which communicates with the vehicle engine to communicate information and additionally communicates with at least one other softwa... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7976263 | Integrated wafer transfer mechanism An integrated high speed robotic mechanism is disclosed for improving transport equipment, integrating an object movement with other functionalities such as alignment or identification. The disclosed integrated robot assembly typically comprises an end effector for ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974782 | Navigation system Disclosed are a navigation system and/or a point information display method and a program. The navigation system consists mainly of: a stream receiver that receives broadcast streams; a data decoder that samples a data signal from the received streams and decodes th... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7967870 | Device for retrieving data from a radio frequency identification tag A device for retrieving data from radio frequency identification (RFID) tags is disclosed. The device includes a mobile base, a robotic arm, and a data reading device. The robotic arm is attached to the mobile base. The data reading device employed to collect the da... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970541 | Navigation device and map scroll processing method A navigation device that obtains the current position based on information from a satellite, and guides a travel path from the current position to the destination on a map image includes: a display unit that displays the map image; a touch sensor unit that is arrang... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970535 | Drive assist system When moving a vehicle forward to park, a swept path during a period of parking operation is stored in memory. The vehicle is parked as forward parking, in which the front of the vehicle faces the dead end of a parking space of a side-by-side parking lot. In starting... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965055 | Control device of work positioning apparatus A control device of a work positioning apparatus includes an operating limit line storage unit for storing position coordinates of an operating limit line, a speed reduction zone storage unit for storing a width of a speed reduction zone ranging from a reduction sta... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966122 | System and method for flight plan data capture A system and method for providing to a user a candidate list of flight plans that specify one or more planned routes of flight from one location to another location, such routes satisfying certain criteria. These criteria include ranking the candidate list of flight... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962263 | Adaptive nonlinear steering control system and method for work vehicles A steering control system and method for automated steering of work vehicles that adapts to nonlinearities and uncertainties of steering mechanisms including a tolerance control law, a dynamic control law, and a saturation control law selected and executed in real t... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962242 | Automated spatial flipping apparatus and system for photomasks and photomasks with pellicles A spatial photomask flipper provides up to four access gates for an unloading of a clamped photomask after its reorientation along a single photomask transfer axis. The clamping frames holding the photomask are secured by a locking control cam that prevents their in... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962282 | Link setting system suitable for map matching, method and program thereof In order to eliminate erroneous map matching, when a link is set on a road, the direction and distance the link is displaced are calculated in accordance with the width of the road and the width of a road paralleled to the road, or the positional relationship of bot... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957851 | System and method for utilization of transmitted digital flight data acquisition information to accomplish vibration balance solutions A system and method is provided for monitoring, collecting, storing, transmitting, calculating and uploading to a secure web server real-time balancing solutions for at least the N1 Low Pressure Compressor portion of a jet engine. The method comprises collecting a s... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957867 | Steering system of vehicle An electronic control unit reads a side slip angle of a vehicle body. Next, the electronic control unit reads a correction amount entered by a driver. Next, the electronic control unit calculates a target steering angle by subtracting a correction term from a rotati... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957862 | Electronic control apparatus for vehicle A plurality of electronic control units (ECU) are classified under a plurality of ECU groups. A relay is provided for each ECU group, and connected between each ECU in a corresponding group and a power supply. Connection is established between respective ECUs by a c... | 06/07/2011 |
