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7620504 Road-surface condition estimating device  
A driving-torque difference value, an inertial-force difference value of the vehicle, and an inertial-force change-amount difference value of the vehicle are calculated. Subsequently, a first...
7618100 Braking interlock for an electric brake system of an aircraft  
An electric brake system for an aircraft includes a power interlock mechanism that prevents inadvertent (uncommanded) application of brakes. The interlock removes operating power from the brake...
7617896 Control device for an electric vehicle  
An electric vehicle is provided with an electric motor and a transmission capable of being shifted by a shift mechanism from a neutral state to a start-up speed stage selected state in which a...
7617036 Method and system for determining the velocity of an automobile  
A method and system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, provide a means to accurately determine the velocity of a vehicle. An initial estimation of the velocity of the vehicle is...
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...
7613555 Vehicular rollover prevention control device  
A start threshold value for rollover prevention control is changed based upon a ratio between an actual lateral G and a reference lateral G. Accordingly, the ratio between the actual lateral G and...
7610133 Controller for electric power steering apparatus  
In a controller for an electric power steering apparatus, a target value calculation element, which calculates target values of the drive currents of a motor on the basis of a detected value of the...
7610126 Apparatus for determining the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle  
An apparatus for determining the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle, which comprises sensing devices adapted to detect the coordinates, with respect to a same reference system, of at least...
7603228 Haptic apparatus and coaching method for improving vehicle fuel economy  
An apparatus is disclosed that includes a haptic actuator operatively associated with a pedal assembly of the vehicle, a human-machine interface (HMI) for enabling the driver to select between a...
7603221 Slowing down process for a vehicle taking a bend  
An automatic slowing down system for a vehicle taking a bend includes a computer that integrates a series of instructions to process at least one of first, second and third signals according to...
7603215 Lane keep control apparatus and method for automotive vehicle  
In lane keep control apparatus and method for an automotive vehicle, a deviation tendency detecting section detects whether the vehicle has a tendency of a deviation from a traveling traffic lane...
7602279 Wheel lifted and grounded identification for an automotive vehicle  
A control system ( 18 ) for an automotive vehicle ( 10 ) has a first roll condition detector ( 64 A), a second roll condition detector ( 64 B), a third roll condition detector ( 64 C), and a...
7599779 Acceleration estimation device and vehicle  
In an acceleration estimation device for estimating acceleration of a vehicle, a Karman filter for constant speed estimates x-direction acceleration offset and z-direction acceleration offset when...
7599763 Vehicle stability control system  
A vehicle stability control system includes a base required driving force calculation unit, an estimated driving force estimation unit, and a required driving force correction unit. The base...
7593800 Turning control apparatus and method for automotive vehicle  
In a turning control apparatus and method for an automotive vehicle, a turning controller places a limitation on an automatic deceleration of the vehicle which is started when a turning state of...
7590481 Integrated vehicle control system using dynamically determined vehicle conditions  
A vehicle includes a control system that is used to control a vehicle system. The control system determines a roll condition in response to a yaw rate sensor and a pitch rate sensor without having...
7590474 Method and device for slope and/or pitch recognition of a vehicle  
In a method and a device for slope and/or pitch recognition in a vehicle ( 1, 1′, 1 ″) at least one speed and a transverse and/or longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle are determined and a...
7584042 Vehicle running control device  
There is provided a new and novel vehicle running control device for correcting a yaw angle of a vehicle toward the yaw direction intended by a driver, together with vehicle stability control,...
7580786 Vehicle and nonlinear control method for vehicle  
A method for controlling a vehicle using a nonlinear error-based control is provided. Various vehicle speed requests are arbitrated and a transfer function including an integrator is applied to the...
7580785 Vehicle dynamics control apparatus  
In a vehicle dynamics control apparatus capable of balancing a vehicle dynamics stability control system and a lane deviation prevention control system, a cooperative control section is provided to...
7580784 Method for estimating the longitudinal inclination of a roadway  
A method and device for determining a longitudinal inclination variable representing the longitudinal inclination of a roadway, using a sensor “means” present in a motor vehicle, in which ...
7577508 Mobility traction control system and method  
A system and method for vehicle mobility traction/ride control. The system includes a mode controller configured to output control signals to a variety of vehicle control subsystems in response to...
7575287 Vehicle brake system  
An improved vehicle brake system for controlling the frictional braking force and the regenerative braking force to be applied to a wheel of a vehicle. The brake system reduces the regenerative...
7571039 Vehicle yaw/roll stability control with semi-active suspension  
A rollover avoidance system for changing the damping characteristics of suspension dampers at each wheel of a vehicle so as to mitigate the potential for vehicle rollover. The system includes a...
7567865 Vehicle body motion realization method and apparatus  
Various state amounts of a vehicle body detected by various types of sensors are captured (step 102 ). A maximum frictional force F imax is calculated for each of wheels (steps 104 to 110 )....
7565235 Drive control apparatus for vehicle  
A drive control apparatus for a vehicle includes: a follow-up control device; a stop hold device that is capable of holding the vehicle in a stopped state by controlling a brake pressure; and a...
7565234 Automotive collision mitigation apparatus  
A collision mitigation controller drives a target brake to be controlled for assisting driver's collision-avoidance operation when a calculated collision time is less than an automatic brake a 1 ...
7565233 Method and arrangement for controlling air resistance  
A method for regulating during driving the air resistance to a leading and at least one following vehicle, whereby the distance of the leading vehicle from the following vehicle is detected and the...
7565232 Control electronics integrated in a brake, preferably a disc brake  
Control electronics integrated in a brake, preferably a disc brake, are provided in particular for utility vehicles. The disc brake includes a brake caliper covering a brake disc and a brake...
7562948 Deceleration control apparatus and method for automotive vehicle  
There is provided a deceleration control apparatus for an automotive vehicle, which has a control unit including a deceleration control block that causes deceleration of the vehicle in accordance...
7561953 Method and system of controlling a vehicle in the presence of a disturbance  
A system and method of controlling a towing vehicle adapted to be connected to a trailer at a hitch. The method includes sensing a plurality of vehicle conditions indicative of at least a movement...
7558662 Vehicular driving control apparatus and method  
In vehicular driving control apparatus and method, a steering assistance force provided for steerable road wheels of the vehicle in a direction at which a sideslip angle is decreased when a...
7558661 Adaptive maneuver based diagnostics for vehicle dynamics  
A vehicle stability control system diagnostic strategy, wherein the diagnostic strategy may be adaptively applied based upon the identified maneuver states of the vehicle. The diagnostic...
7557697 System to measure wheel liftoff  
The present invention is directed to a system for determining lift-off or wheel departure of one or more wheels associated with a vehicle from a road. The system includes a sensor that measures the...
7551997 Vehicle behavior control apparatus  
A control section includes a first turning direction estimating mechanism for estimating a first turning direction from a sign of the first yaw rate when an absolute value of the first yaw rate is...
7548807 Method for steering a vehicle with superimposed steering  
A method of steering a vehicle with a superimposed steering system, wherein a steering angle input by the driver and an additional angle (additional steering angle) is determined and wherein the...
7548806 Motion control system for vehicle  
In a motion control system for a vehicle having four wheels including at least two driving wheels which is driven by a driving power source, first rolling liability judging means (step 112 )...
7546194 Method of evaluating a movement of a motor vehicle  
The invention relates to a method of evaluating a movement of a motor vehicle, in particular of a vehicle movement influencing the safety of vehicle occupants, in which the acceleration of the...
7546193 Vehicle occupant protection apparatus and initiation method to use for vehicle occupant protection apparatus  
A vehicle occupant protection apparatus 1 including: a first acceleration sensor ( 2 ) for detecting acceleration of a front portion of a vehicle ( 10 ); a second acceleration sensor 3 for...
7542837 Determining the moment of activation of an automatic hold function  
A method for determining the moment of activation of an automatic hold function in vehicles. The optimum moment of activation may be determined precisely if the present vehicle speed is measured by...
7529612 Speedometer and motor vehicle arrangement  
A speedometer includes a function storage device, which has stored therein four conversion functions, a selector, which provides four options corresponding to the four conversion functions in the...
7529610 Brake interface module  
A brake interface module for an electronic air brake (EAB) or a magnet valve that incorporates positive train control digital commands with additional fail-safe, discrete train control spare inputs...
7529609 Absolute acceleration sensor for use within moving vehicles  
A communication system for a vehicle includes a vehicle speed sensor configured to emit a periodic function with a parameter correlated to the speed of the vehicle, an acceleration monitoring...
7529608 Vehicle drive control device  
A drive control device is provided with a determining section and a voltage increasing section. The determining section determines if the actual acceleration is deficient in comparison with the...
7529601 Vehicle integrated-control apparatus and vehicle integrated-control method  
One of the manager control units among multiple control units includes a first coordination portion that coordinates a control target value derived based on an instruction from a driver or a first...
7529600 Turning control device and method  
A target vehicle path is corrected in accordance with the environment surrounding a vehicle during parking assist or U-turn assist. To achieve the target vehicle path, target wheel speeds are set...
7525475 Driving assistance method for a vehicle  
A driving assistance method is provided for a vehicle in which the speed of the vehicle is controlled by means of a longitudinal guidance control system and the lateral guidance of the vehicle is...
7525417 Method and system for transitive turn signal and braking indication  
A method for managing observable information in a front of a vehicle and providing a representation of the information to a rear of the vehicle in the form of a local optical signal is disclosed....
7523000 Vehicle pre-collision countermeasure system  
A vehicle pre-collision countermeasure system is provided has a communication component, a rear collision predicting component and an acceleration countermeasure component. The communication...
7522986 Ride control system for articulated vehicles  
A ride control system for insuring safe operation of articulated vehicles by monitoring, detecting and suppressing erratic jackknifing, comprises a mechanism for monitoring among several inputs the...