Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location inventions 09/07

20070225873 - Software system of electronic control unit for vehicle and design method thereof: A software system for use in an electronic control unit (ECU) is designed to facilitate its reuse without redesigning of triggers even when a target hardware is changed. The design of the software system includes a classification of trigger types into two categories, that is, a function trigger and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070225881 - Method for servicing a vehicle: A system and method for monitoring at least one characteristic of a vehicle is provided, wherein the method includes generating a data set that includes data responsive to the at least one characteristic. The method further includes comparing the data set against predetermined parametric data and creating trend data for... Agent: The Law Offices Of Steven Mchugh, LLC

20070225882 - Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method and vehicle slip suppressing apparatus: A vehicle control section is operable to control the vehicle based on information on a degree of risk in a risky point through which the vehicle is predicted to drive.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070225883 - Vehicle steering apparatus: A vehicle steering apparatus that is constructed so that it inhibits operation of a motor that adjusts the position of a steering wheel while a vehicle is moving, and releases the inhibition of the operation of that motor when the steering wheel is not being turned. This makes it impossible... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070225891 - Vehicle calibration and trajectory control system: A method and system are described for calibrating speed controls for a vehicle having a pair of drive means on opposite sides of the vehicle driven by independent speed controls and where relative speed of the drive means is used to direct the vehicle. In one aspect, angular motion of... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP 1 First Canadian Place

20070225872 - Method and system for associating a vehicle trailer to a vehicle: A system and method for associating a vehicle and vehicle trailer is described. The system comprises one or more sensors that transmit information wirelessly to a tractor display unit. The tractor display unit determines whether the sensor is associated with a trailer to which it is connected and filters out... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070225874 - Jet exhaust display: A graphics display system is provided. The graphics display system comprises a display element, a database adapted to store thrust profile data, and at least one processing unit coupled to the display element and the database. The at least one processing unit is adapted to process thrust profile data from... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070225875 - Flight sensor for electronic components for use in aircraft, method of controlling electronic components on board aircraft, and electronic component: A flight sensor for controlling electronic components in an aircraft includes a vibration sensor for converting structure-borne sound to electric vibration signals. A filtering device receives the vibration signals and determines the fraction thereof which is attributable to the aircraft engine, relative to the overall sound in the vibration signals.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070225876 - Method of changing the approach procedure of an aircraft: The invention relates to a method of changing the approach procedure of an aircraft comprising steps of selecting a new landing runway of the destination airport and of selecting a landing aid system or non-precision approach procedure associated with this runway. The selection steps comprise an automatic selection of a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070225877 - Method for maintaining geometry of ballasted railroad track: This invention includes a method for estimating the shape of a section of railroad track from so-called chord offsets measured along it without prior assumptions about the locations and orientations of arcs and tangents that together could define a shape to which the track might be made to conform. This... Agent: Gary M Cohen Strafford Building Number Three

20070225878 - Trip optimization system and method for a train: A control system for operating a diesel powered system having at least one diesel-fueled power generating unit, the system including a mission optimizer that determines at least one setting be used by the diesel-fueled power generating unit, a converter that receives at least one of information that is to be... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070225879 - System and method for monitoring and managing an environment: A network for monitoring and managing the occurrence of specified events in an environment requires a plurality of beacons. Specifically, the beacons are positioned at predetermined locations in the environment to emit respectively unique signals. Tags, with each tag having a distinctive identifier, are separately responsive to each beacon signal... Agent: Nydegger & Associates

20070225880 - Test interface for diagnosing communication faults in automobiles: A diagnostic test interface circuit and method for using the same are disclosed. The circuit isolates communication links at a junction box having one pin for each of the communication links. The circuit includes a bus, a plurality of switches, and a plurality of connection leads. The switches each have... Agent: The Law Offices Of Calvin B. Ward

20070225884 - Method and control structure for controlling a control angle and an output torque of a superposition angle actuator: A control method is for controlling a control angle and an output torque of a superposition angle actuator of a superimposed steering system of a motor vehicle. At least the control of the control angle occurs with the aid of a nonlinear compensation controller.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070225885 - Control unit for electric power steering apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to provide a control unit for an electric power steering apparatus for accurately detecting an abnormality of a steering angle sensor without forming the steering angle sensor as a double system or using an expensive position detection sensor. The object is achieved... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070225888 - Driveline lash estimation and clunk management using multivariable active driveline damping: Driveline lash and clunk are controlled in a powertrain system having multiple torque-generative and torque control devices using a multivariable feedback control approach to provide active driveline damping. Control parameters used by a state estimator are different, depending on whether the driveline lash is taken up or is currently slack.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070225887 - Method and apparatus for multivariate active driveline damping: A multivariate control method and system to control torque output from a powertrain system to a driveline is provided, to reduce driveline oscillations. The powertrain preferably comprises hybrid powertrain having a plurality of torque-generative devices connected to a transmission. Desired powertrain and driveline operating states are determined, as are a... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070225886 - Parameter state estimation: The state estimator provides parametric estimates for operating states not readily measurable with production powertrain and driveline hardware, such as real-time torque values of axles and dampers. This facilitates implementation of torque oscillation damping control schemes which use multivariable feedback. A control parameter is estimated for a powertrain system having... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070225889 - Jerk management using multivariable active driveline damping: A multivariable feedback control approach to actively dampen magnitude of jerks in a powertrain system using multiple torque-control devices is offered. To manage jerks, a desired axle torque is restricted when a torque reversal occurs. When the vehicle operator or the system executes a command that requires change in direction... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070225890 - Parking brake system equipped with a sensor: In an electronic parking brake system and to a method for controlling said system, to detect an undesired positional modification of an actuator (14) of the parking brake system during an inactive state of the controller (12), the latter is switched to an active state by a sensor (22). To... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070225892 - Control system for internal combustion engine: A control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of enhancing the accuracy of fuel control and ignition timing control even when there is a possibility that the reliability of a calculated intake air amount lowers, and enables reduction of manufacturing costs. An ECU of the control system... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070225893 - Apparatus and method for providing course information application: An apparatus and method for providing a course information application, including course information based on an event, are provided. The course information providing apparatus comprises a signal processing unit which receives and analyzes a course information application, which comprises at least one piece of event information and at least one... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070225895 - Method and system for detecting traffic information: A traffic information sensor system includes an image acquisition device to generate video images of a traffic scene. The system also includes an image detection device to extract traffic information from the video images in connection with the lane position information of the traffic scene. The system also includes an... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070225894 - Traffic information management system: A management center analyzes probe information uploaded from an in-vehicle terminal mounted in each of multiple probe cars to thereby generate road traffic information allowing specification of a unit road segment in a congested state. The generated road traffic information is transmitted via a broadcasting station and terrestrial digital broadcasting.... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070225896 - Systems and methods for compensation for a dynamic axle load transfer: The present invention proposes an improved method for at least partially compensating for the dynamic transfer of an axle load when part of a motor vehicle load dips over at least one front wheel. A demand for a drive moment is applied and thus a time-limited virtually maximum drive moment... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070225897 - Portable communicator: This communicator makes it possible for the user to do telephone, facsimile, and data communication at any location. On a pen input device, a space eye 2, a telephone control system, a facsimile control system, and a data transmission system are mounted. All of them are operated by an input... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070225901 - Travel control system for travel vehicle and travel vehicle: A travel control system for controlling a travel vehicle to advance from a first travel course toward a predetermined one of a plurality of second travel courses includes a destination information provider providing to the travel vehicle destination information indicating the predetermined one of the plurality of second travel courses... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070225899 - Method, system and service product for identification of objects: In the method of the invention objects can be identified on the basis of location and one or more characteristics in an improved way. The method is performed by means of a user device and a service product offering a service with which objects can be identified. In the method... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20070225898 - Point-of-sale gas pump with access to travel information service: An exemplary method facilities obtaining travel information. A request for travel information is received from a user by a point-of-sale gas pump at a service station or a wireless router operated in the vicinity of the pas pump. At least a location of a specified destination is received at a... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070225900 - Route determination and driver warning system: A system for determining a route and for warning a driver of a vehicle and corresponding methods are provided. The systems include storage units that store road segment passage restriction data and vehicle passage restriction data. The systems further include a working memory unit and a processing unit that determine... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070225902 - Navigation device displaying dynamic travel information: An in-car navigation device depicts dynamic travel information (congestions, weather, etc.) in the context of a schematic display of the actual roads that the information relates to. In one implementation, the schematic view is a linear representation of the route and that schematic linear representation is displayed at the same... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070225903 - Transit-coordinated local search: Various embodiments can provide helpful information to a user who is looking for a particular point of interest. In at least some embodiments, first and second searches are conducted. The first search uses a local search provider and produces results which describe one or more points of interest relative to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070225904 - Display based on location information: A method may include obtaining location information associated with a device, determining a focal point for a map based on the location information, displaying the focal point on the map, and decreasing a detail or a scale on the map as a radial distance from the focal point increases.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070225905 - Navigation system: A navigation system comprises: a GPS for detecting a current position; a DVD drive for reading a map from a DVD on which a plurality of partially overlapping maps are recorded; a Memory card for storing information to identify a portion overlapping with another map, in a map being used... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070225906 - Travel control system for travel vehicle: A travel control system for controlling a first travel vehicle which travels on a first travel course toward a junction between the first travel course and a second travel course and a second travel vehicle which travels on the second travel course toward the junction in a travel course network... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070225907 - Route guidance systems, methods, and programs: A route guidance systems, methods, and programs detect a current position of a vehicle and search for a route to a destination based on the vehicle position. The systems, methods, and programs set a recommended travel lane based on the searched route and determine whether the vehicle is in a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070225909 - Navigation apparatus: In a navigation apparatus in a vehicle, a user designates a validating route, which is stored in a memory device. A control unit invalidates a predetermined function of the navigation apparatus at a start-up, which is for the first time after an in-vehicle battery is connected or which results from... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070225908 - Mobile terminal and method for dmb-based navigation: A mobile terminal executes a navigation function by receiving Transport Protocol Experts Group (TPEG) traffic information through a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) network. This DMB-based mobile terminal receives and decodes TPEG data at a separate second processor different from a conventional first processor. Further, the DMB-based mobile terminal may execute... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070225910 - On-vehicle navigation system, route guide method, and computer-readable recording medium: The invention provides an on-vehicle navigation system, route guide method, and computer-readable recording medium capable of setting an optimum guide point corresponding to proposed actions set as destinations or way points, and performing route guidance based on the setting. The on-vehicle navigation system includes a function of searching for a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070225912 - Private, auditable vehicle positioning system and on-board unit for same: This invention relates to a system and method to generate a private, auditable, evidentiary quality record of the location-history of an asset or person. This invention addresses ten critical improvements over existing systems that are proposed or used for metering for payment services for tolling roads, parking or pay-as-you-drive insurance,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070225911 - User positional and venue information integration system and method: Systems and methods for integrating customer positional information with venue-specific information is provided. The systems and methods include an environment interface system, a feature set system, a user interface system, and a network providing two-way communication between these systems. Through the components of the system, user positional information is integrated... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070225913 - Traffic lane marking line recognition system for vehicle: A traffic lane marking line recognition system for vehicle includes an image compositing device which composites images photographed at different time points by a camera to elongate a traffic lane marking line such as a white line in the photographed image based on a detected travel speed of the vehicle.... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070225914 - Lane departure avoidance control: An a lane departure prevention system is described having a position detector for detecting positional information of a vehicle with respect to a lane of travel. A determining unit is included for comparing the positional information with a first threshold value indicating a predetermined positional relation with respect to the... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070219677 - Method and device for determining the lateral path of a moving body, in particular of an aircraft: Method and device for determining the lateral path of a moving body, in particular of an aircraft. The device (1) comprises means (7) for determining, from a first lateral path and a lateral distance dependent on the external visibility, a second lateral path corresponding to the lateral path of the... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070219681 - Method and apparatus for optimizing a train trip using signal information: One embodiment of the invention includes a system for operating a railway network comprising a first railway vehicle (400) during a trip along track segments (401/412/420). The system comprises a first element (65) for determining travel parameters of the first railway vehicle (400), a second element (65) for determining travel... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070219682 - Method, system and computer software code for trip optimization with train/track database augmentation: A system for providing at least one of train information and track characterization information for use in train performance, including a first element to determine a location of a train on a track segment and/or a time from a beginning of the trip. A track characterization element to provide track... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070219683 - System and method for optimized fuel efficiency and emission output of a diesel powered system: A method for determining the configuration of a diesel powered system having at least one diesel-fueled power generating unit, the method including a step for determining a minimum power required from the diesel powered system in order to accomplish a specified mission, and a step for determining an operating condition... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070219684 - Method of checking the operating characteristics of an electronic unit designed for a wheel of a vehicle: The invention relates to a method of checking the operating characteristics of an electronic unit (1) fitted on a wheel (2) of a vehicle (3) and adapted to transmit, to a central processing unit (7), data frames representative of operating parameters of said wheel according to a procedure for transmitting... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070219690 - Vehicle motion control system: A vehicle motion control system is provided. In a first state requiring understeer suppressing control, a controller determines, based on a yaw rate deviation, a first control amount of an actuator selected so as to generate an inward turning moment a vehicle. In a second state requiring spin suppressing control,... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070219689 - Work vehicle steering system with flow-metering curve selection and associated method: A steering system for a work vehicle adjusts the steering ratio in response to changes in the speed of the work vehicle.... Agent: Deere & Company

20070219691 - Steering apparatus for vehicle: A steering apparatus for a vehicle, which can reduce the steering load and allows accurate steering angle control, is provided. In the steering apparatus for a vehicle, an estimation unit estimates a mechanical impedance upon a driver's steering manipulation. A control unit controls the steering reaction force of a steering... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070219697 - Motor vehicle having a hybrid drive: A motor vehicle includes two drive units for generating driving torque, the driving units being operable jointly as well as individually for generating driving torque. A device is provided for defining a driver's intention, and a control unit is provided for processing the driver's intention and for generating a control... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070219700 - Curving tendency detection device in vehicle, and vehicle response control apparatus using same: A curving tendency detection device is provided to detecting a curving tendency (curving frequency and amount of curvature) in a vehicle roadway or a vehicle running state (behavior). Basically, the curving tendency detection device has a lateral acceleration differential value calculation section and a curving tendency estimation section. The lateral... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070219674 - Control of peak engine output in an engine with a knock suppression fluid: A method for a vehicle traveling on the road, comprising of receiving a fuel mixture, said mixture having at least some alcohol, separating said fuel mixture into at least a first and second mixture on board the vehicle, where said first mixture has a higher alcohol concentration than said second... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070219675 - Driving control system: A parameter storage section stores parameters to be used in electronic control units, in correlation with individual drivers. A driver identification section identifies a driver of a vehicle. A parameter retrieving section retrieves, from the parameter storage section, parameters correlated with the driver identified by the driver identification section, and... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070219673 - Master chassis automatic selection system and method: A master chassis automatic selection system and the method thereof, wherein one of a plurality of chassis connected to an Intelligent Chassis Management Bus is dynamically selected as a master chassis, to enable the dominant master chassis to control the other chassis connected to the Intelligent Chassis Management Bus, and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070219672 - System and method for determining the workload level of a driver: System and method for determining a workload level for a driver of a vehicle. The system includes a transceiver, a positioning unit, and a controller. The transceiver is capable of receiving data from a remote location. The data includes a remote workload level and a remote geographic position associated with... Agent: Continental Automotive Systems, Temic Automotive Of North America, Inc.

20070219676 - Integrated performance application: An electronic flight bag is disclosed which includes an electronic logbook module having an electronic logbook database. The electronic logbook module is configured to compile a list of deferred maintenance items including one or more MEL items. The electronic flight bag also includes an onboard performance tool module operatively connected... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20070219678 - Method of assisting in the navigation of an aircraft with an updating of the flight plan: The invention relates to a method of assisting in the navigation of an aircraft comprising a step for updating a flight plan according to a new clearance received on board by a ground/onboard communication system. The clearance comprises an action conditional on the flight plan linked to a floating point... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070219679 - Method of assisting in the navigation of an aircraft with an updating of the flight plan: The invention relates to a method of assisting in the navigation of an aircraft comprising a step for updating a flight plan according to a new clearance originating from an air traffic control authority and received on board by a ground/onboard communication system. The clearance comprises an action conditional on... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070219680 - Trip optimization system and method for a train: A system for operating a train having one or more locomotive consists with each locomotive consist comprising one or more locomotives, the system including a locator element to determine a location of the train, a track characterization element to provide information about a track, a sensor for measuring an operating... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070219686 - Vehicle event recorder systems and networks having integrated cellular wireless communications systems: Vehicle event recorder systems are arranged to be in constant communication with remote servers and administrators via mobile wireless cellular networks. Vehicle event recorders equipped with video cameras capture video and other data records of important events relating to vehicle use. These data are then transmitted over special communications networks... Agent: Smartdrive Systems, Inc.

20070219685 - Vehicle event recorders with integrated web server: Vehicle event recorders are arranged with integrated web servers to provide a simple user interface and control mechanism which may be address with commonly available hardware and software. A vehicle event recorder of these inventions couples to a network having a workstation node. The workstation having either of the many... Agent: Smartdrive Systems, Inc.

20070219687 - Device for controlling an automatic gearbox for the power-train of a motor vehicle an associated method: A device for controlling an automatic gearbox for the power train of a motor vehicle includes a first computing device for driving heat engine of the motor vehicle power train and a second computing device for driving the heat engine and the motor vehicle automatic gear box, which is connected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070219688 - Active lane assistant: In a method for monitoring the condition of a vehicle driver, the markings (3) of the lane in which the vehicle is moving are detected and a direction of travel which the vehicle has to follow in order to stay in the lane is determined. In this case, the vehicle... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20070219692 - Occupant protection system for a motor vehicle: An occupant protection system for a motor vehicle includes at least one crash sensor for measuring a motion variable. The occupant protection system includes an occupant protection device, controlled by an ignition signal, and a control device for determining the ignition signal subject to an average time value of the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070219694 - Method and device for controlling a drive system: The present invention generally relates to a method and a device for controlling a drive system, in particular a hydraulic traveling drive of a crane, a caterpillar, an industrial truck or a construction machine, which has at least one drive unit for an element to be driven. The invention on... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070219693 - System and method for automatically adjusting control gains on an earthmoving machine: System and method for automatically adjusting control gains on an earthmoving machine include a control system for controlling mechanisms that supply power to an earthmoving implement. The gains associated with the force to the implement are automatically adjusted depending on a blade load that may be determined by a calculation... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070219696 - Scooter shifter: The present invention provides a system and method for automatically adjusting a continuously variable transmission (CVT) in a motorized vehicle. A microprocessor processor in the vehicle receives data about the operating status of the vehicle from a plurality. Examples of vehicle data include vehicle speed, motor speed, throttle position, current... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20070219695 - Transmission neutral state management in vehicular safety and convenience systems: Transmission shift history is tracked using the current transmission state and the immediately preceding transmission state and the vehicle speed during a cycle of Neutral transmission state. Vehicular safety and convenience applications are extended to Neutral states of the transmission.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070219698 - Variable operation of vehicle transmissions using rough road sensing: A method for variable operation of a vehicle transmission using rough road sensing includes defining a first set of parameters to calibrate the vehicle transmission for a smooth road condition and a second set of parameters to calibrate the vehicle transmission for a rough road condition. The method includes sensing... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070219699 - Driving dynamics control system having an expanded braking function: In a method for stabilizing a vehicle in extreme driving situations, in particular when understeering while cornering, multiple wheels are decelerated in order to reduce the driving speed. A maximum cornering force of the wheels and thus a minimal curve radius may be achieved if in particular the rear wheels... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070219702 - Controlling device of hybrid vehicle: This invention relates to a hybrid vehicle controlling device and method of using the device, in which an engine torque proportion (which is transmitted from an engine to a driving shaft) of a total sum of torque transmitted to the driving shaft is calculated. An allowed surge torque value, which... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070219704 - Intake-air quantity control system of engine: In an intake-air quantity control system of an engine employing a variable valve operating device capable of controlling a cylinder intake-air quantity by variable control of an operating characteristic of an intake valve, in a normal intake-valve operating mode a target operating characteristic of the intake valve is determined based... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070219703 - Method for regulating an actual variable of an internal combustion engine: A method for regulating an actual output variable of an internal combustion engine to a reference variable. A maximum value for the reference variable is generated as a function of at least one physical variable in the exhaust system of the internal combustion engine and the reference variable is limited... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070219701 - Method of controlling compression-ignition internal combustion engine: A compression-ignition internal combustion engine includes a first tank (2) for storing a blended fuel that contains alcohol and liquid hydrocarbon at predetermined percentages and a second tank (4) for mixing the blended fuel supplied from the first tank (2) with water and storing a liquid mixture of the water... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070219706 - Method and apparatus for determining relevant point of interest information based upon route of user: Methods, apparatus, and systems for determining the relevance of points of interest for a user are described. An application server receives information about a user's location, and velocity, as well as other user preferences, and adjusts a search space and filters points of interest identifying those that are relevant to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070219705 - Method for estimating an aircraft distance taking into account air navigation constraints: This method uses for the estimation of a distance, a propagation distance transform considering only the paths which are both accessible to the aircraft taking account of its vertical flight profile and complying with air regulations. The propagated distance Dp is accompanied by a propagated altitude Ap which at all... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070219707 - Rating that represents the status along a specified driving route: A rating is calculated that represents the traffic conditions of a specified driving route that includes at least one road. The driving route is specified by selecting an initial road, selecting a road entry point from which to get on the initial road, selecting a road exit point on which... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP One Commerce Square

20070219709 - System and apparatus for drive assistance: A drive assistance system is provided for assisting an operation of a driver of a vehicle in a manner that does not cause disturbance for the driver, based on image information derived from an external apparatus such as roadside cameras or the like. The image information is provided for the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070219710 - Beacon docking system with visual guidance display: A method for parking an aircraft at an expected stopping position at an airport includes a step of receiving an electromagnetic call signal that is transmitted from the aircraft. The electromagnetic call signal includes data that is retrieved from a memory circuit disposed aboard the aircraft, and relates to the... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070219708 - Location-based caching for mobile devices: A location-based caching system provides the ability for a mobile communication device to dynamically provide content related to a user's location. Content may comprise a series of map segments that anticipate the route traveled by a user of the mobile device. Other related content may also be provided, for example,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070219712 - Lodging and real property in a geo-spatial mapping environment: A method, apparatus and system of lodging and real property in a geo-spatial mapping environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes associating a user with the real property in the geo-spatial environment when the user claims the real property, concurrently displaying a profile of the user and/or the... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP

20070219713 - Downloading map segment(s) to a cell phone based upon its gps coordinates and mobility: A wireless terminal displays its location and navigation information (map segment) on its display. The wireless terminal accesses a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver of the wireless terminal to determine its location coordinates. The wireless terminal determines a maximum data size for navigation information to be downloaded. The wireless terminal... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070219711 - System and method for navigating a facility: Systems and methods are described for enabling the monitoring and navigation of a complex of known rooms or facilities having known objects, attributes and/or people associated therewith, wherein different locations of the objects, attributes and/or people within the facilities are related and accessible over known, well-defined alternate paths. Sensor information... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070219715 - Bandwidth and memory conserving methods for a vehicle navigation system: The present invention is directed specifically to methods for reducing the bandwidth requirements for broadcasting traffic information to a vehicle navigation system. The traffic information broadcast to the system using the bandwidth conserving methods of the present invention generally includes traffic flow information and traffic incident information. In one embodiment,... Agent: Brian M Berliner, Esq O'melveny & Myers, LLP

20070219714 - Facility searching device, program, navigation device, and facility searching method: A facility searching technique easier to operate and having high degree of freedom. A facility searching device is constructed from a database on map information, a database relating to various kinds of facilities and including positional information of the facilities, display means for displaying, based on the map information, a... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070219717 - Safety navigation system applying wireless communication technology and method therefor: A safety navigation system applying wireless communication technology and a method therefor are provided, wherein road information transmitted by wireless communication technology is received and statistically analyzed to learn about road sections that are inconvenient for driving or cannot be passed through, so as to decelerate when driving on the... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070219716 - Navigation apparatus, route setup method, route setup program, and information recording medium having program recorded on it: When a spot to be a destination is designated by a user, a navigation apparatus 100 determines whether the version of a map file MPF recorded on a HD drive 105 matches the version of the spot searching file RF-k corresponding to the spot. If the versions of the two... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070219718 - Method for presenting a navigation route: A method for presenting a navigation route to a user of a vehicle includes generating a navigation route. An audio prompt is played through a predetermined component of a vehicle audio system, where the predetermined component spatially corresponds to a direction of an upcoming maneuver of the navigation route.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070219719 - Position detecting apparatus and method of detecting a position: CPU instructs RF controlling section to switch RF section from an inoperative mode to an operation mode and from the operation mode to the inoperative mode. When all of five pieces of sub-frame data have not been acquired, RF section is switched intermittently from the inoperative mode to the operation... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070219721 - Method for operating an environmental recognition system of a vehicle, in particular, a proximate region recognition or parking assistance system and asociated system: A method for operating an environmental recognition system of a vehicle, in particular, a proximate region recognition or parking assistance system, comprising sensors for detecting objects proximate the vehicle, wherein, during operation of the system, an object located in the detecting area of the sensors is recognized and the separation... Agent: Dreiss, Fuhlendorf, Steimle & Becker

20070219720 - Navigation and control system for autonomous vehicles: A navigation and control system including a sensor configured to locate objects in a predetermined field of view from a vehicle. The sensor has an emitter configured to repeatedly scan a beam into a two-dimensional sector of a plane defined with respect to a first predetermined axis of the vehicle,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070213888 - 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 communicably connected with each other via an in-vehicle network to communicate information... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070213890 - System and method for verifying the integrity of a train: A system for verifying the integrity of a train having a predetermined length including: a device for communicating and synchronising with a detector of a circuit, detecting the presence/absence of a train, an odometer providing an odometric reference at the start of occupation of the circuit and when the circuit... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070213895 - Vehicle diagnostic system capable of easily acquiring data ids for vehicle diagnosis: A vehicle diagnostic system is provided for readily specifying a malfunctioning portion of a vehicle. An on-vehicle electronic control unit (ECU) stores data ID retrieval tables consisting of a plurality of retrieval codes which are classified into three, i.e. function IDs indicative of function, forced driving IDs for allowing the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070213898 - 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 control unit so that bidirectional communication is... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070213899 - 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 a motorcycle is stopped and is traveling at a constant speed. An offset corrector corrects an x-direction acceleration and a z-direction acceleration on the... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070213904 - Acceleration estimation device and vehicle: In an acceleration estimation device for estimating acceleration of a vehicle, a Karman filter for a constant speed estimates x-direction acceleration offset and z-direction acceleration offset when a motorcycle is stopped and is traveling at constant speed. An offset storage stores an x-direction acceleration offset estimated value and a z-direction... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070213910 - Vehicle response during vehicle acceleration conditions: A vehicle control method for transitioning through transmission lash regions is described using a variety of information, such as, for example, gear ratio, clutch slippage, etc. Further, different adjustment of spark and throttle angle is used to provide a rapid torque response while still reducing effects of the lash. Finally,... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070213913 - Differential limiting control device for vehicle: A differential limiting control device for a vehicle calculates a yaw rate correspondence control amount according to deviation between actual yaw rate and target yaw rate when a vehicle turns, and also judges the vehicle's steering characteristic of the moment and magnitude relation between wheel speeds of right and left... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070213914 - Vehicle headway distance control apparatus and method: A vehicle headway distance control apparatus is provided with a first deceleration control system for controlling the deceleration of a vehicle according to a distance between the host vehicle and a preceding obstacle, and a second deceleration control system, which is different from the first deceleration control system and which... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070213915 - Vehicle headway maintenance assist system and method: A vehicle headway maintenance assist system is configured to perform a haptic notification control of an accelerator to prompt the driver to release the accelerator when the accelerator is being operated and to perform a deceleration control of the vehicle based on headway distance when the accelerator is being operated... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070213916 - Vehicle headway maintenance assist system and method: A vehicle headway maintenance assist system is provided that provides a haptic notification to an accelerator to alert the driver under prescribed conditions. The system changes a drive force/accelerator actuation relationship between an accelerator actuation amount and a target drive force or torque under the prescribed conditions. In particular, system... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070213886 - Method and system for driver handling skill recognition through driver's steering behavior: A driver handling skill recognition system and related algorithm that identifies a driver skill level. The system includes a steering wheel angle processor responsive to a steering wheel angle signal that provides normalized DFT coefficients. The system also includes at least one feed-forward artificial neural network (FF-ANN) responsive to the... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070213884 - Method of implementing pc game auto-play in vehicle applications: The system includes a controller, a portable media reader, and an input device. The controller is in communication with the portable media reader and the input device. The controller detects when a particular portable media is inserted into the portable media reader for a first time. When the controller detects... Agent: Visteon

20070213883 - Vehicle over speed indicator: A method is disclosed for providing an indication that a vehicle has exceeded a safe driving speed. The speed and position of an obstacle are combined with a driver reaction time to arrive at a safe maximum speed. The driver reaction time is predicted based not only on generic values... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070213885 - Vehicle stability monitoring system and method and article of manufacture for determining vehicle stability: A vehicle stability monitoring system and a method and an article of manufacture for determining vehicle stability are provided. The vehicle stability monitoring system includes a plurality of vehicle sensors generating a plurality of signals. The vehicle stability monitoring system further includes a computer operably communicating with the plurality of... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070213887 - Wireless locating and monitoring system: A wireless tracking device including a positioning system for determining a location of the device and a processor connected to the positioning system. The wireless tracking device further including a wireless radio connected to the processor for transmitting the location of the device across a wireless area network. A vehicle... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070213889 - Sensor fusion system and method for estimating position, speed and orientation of a vehicle, in particular an aircraft: such that upon using said corrected angular velocity {circumflex over (ω)}b=b+uω as input to a module for integrating the kinematic equations, the latter are stable in the ISS sense and the error in the estimation of the direction cosine matrix {circumflex over (B)} and of the Euler angles {circumflex over... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20070213891 - Method and system for adaptively controlling a hybrid vehicle: A method and system for adaptively controlling a hybrid vehicle comprises a recorder for recording a historical load or duty cycle of vehicle during or after operation of the vehicle. A classifier classifies the historical load in accordance with a load category. A controller assigns at least one of a... Agent: Deere & Company

20070213892 - Method and system for multi-mode coverage for an autonomous robot: A control system for a mobile robot (10) is provided to effectively cover a given area by operating in a plurality of modes, including an obstacle following mode (51) and a random bounce mode (49). In other embodiments, spot coverage, such as spiraling (45), or other modes are also used... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070213893 - Algorithm for early detection of wheel misalignment using on-vehicle instrumentation: A system and method for determining vehicle wheel misalignment. The method includes accumulating the hand-wheel position using a hand-wheel sensor over a predetermined sampling period, and then comparing the accumulated hand-wheel position to previously accumulated hand-wheel positions to provide an indication of wheel misalignment. Because a vehicle will typically be... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070213894 - Signal transferring system for vehicles: A signal transferring system for vehicles, which is mounted between a vehicle ECU (Electronic Control Unit) and a computer testing apparatus, comprising a transferring seat and an accessing carrier, wherein the transferring seat is disposed with a communication signal protocol converter and a signal processor, and the accessing carrier stored... Agent: Banger Shia

20070213897 - Intelligent vehicle fleet systems and methods: Methods and systems for intelligent vehicle fleets are disclosed. An intelligent vehicle may function as a mobile office reducing the need for users to perform work functions in a brick-and-mortar building. Methods or systems consistent with the invention may manage vehicle fleets, or provide intelligent vehicle subsystems, or acquire address... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070213896 - Method and apparatus for determining and storing excessive vehicle speed: The present invention is a data logger for collecting information about operation of vehicle for monitoring by a parent or supervisor. The data logger includes speed limits for highway and local streets. The data logger includes an algorithm estimating whether the vehicle is being operated on a highway or local... Agent: Law Office Of Brett N. Dorny

20070213900 - Method and apparatus for preventing rollover of a vehicle: A method and apparatus for preventing roll in a vehicle utilizing a detection device which determines an actual yaw rate of the vehicle, an evaluation unit which determines a setpoint value and a threshold value for the yaw rate, and a control device for controlling vehicle units that influence the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070213901 - Method and system for adaptively compensating open loop front-wheel steering control: An active front-wheel vehicle steering control system that employs open-loop control that includes an adaptive compensation sub-system that compensate for changes in vehicle dynamic parameters. The control system includes a dynamic parameter estimation sub-system that provides an estimated understeer coefficient based on a front-wheel steering angle signal, a vehicle lateral... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070213902 - Method and system for adaptively compensating closed-loop front-wheel steering control: An active front-wheel vehicle steering control system that employs closed-loop control includes an adaptive compensation sub-system that compensates for changes in vehicle dynamic parameters. The control system includes a dynamic parameter estimation sub-system that provides an estimated front cornering compliance and rear cornering compliance based on a steering wheel angle... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070213905 - Driver assistance system having a safety function: A driver assistance system for motor vehicles having two operating modes is described. In each operating mode different partial functions of the driver assistance system are activated. The driver assistance system also has a control element for activating an operating mode of the driver assistance system, so that an operating... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070213903 - Method and device for deciding to trigger and for triggering restraint systems of a motor vehicle: The invention provides a method for deciding on the triggering of and controlling restraint systems of a motor vehicle, including the method steps of determining the current position of the motor vehicle; determining position-relevant environmental data of the motor vehicle; determining position-relevant reference values of the motor vehicle; determining position-relevant... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070213906 - Work vehicle software application display management system and associated method: Software in the form of operating instructions may be stored on a computer-readable medium for use with a work vehicle. The operating instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to control display of various applications catergorized into multiple application groups on a display screen of the work vehicle.... Agent: Deere & Company

20070213908 - Electronically servo-assisted bicycle gearshift and related method: A method for electronically servo-assisting a bicycle gearshift, including the steps of: a) driving an actuator of a bicycle gearshift to displace a chain of the gearshift in an axial direction with respect to a gearshift group comprising at least two sprockets; b) receiving information on the desired alignment between... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070213907 - Motor vehicle and control method of the same: In response to the driver's brake OFF operation after a gearshift operation of a gearshift lever to a parking position, a motor MG2 is controlled to sequentially output a torque in a backward direction of a vehicle and a torque in a forward direction of the vehicle. Gears are accordingly... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070213909 - System and method for improved vehicle response during vehicle acceleration conditions: A vehicle control method for a vehicle having an internal combustion engine coupled to a torque converter, the torque converter having an input speed and an output speed, the torque converter coupled to a transmission, the transmission coupled to wheels on a road, the method comprising in response to a... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070213911 - Trailbraking: A system for trailbraking includes a velocity sensor providing a velocity output signal, a second sensor providing a second output signal and a trailbraking controller for receiving the velocity output signal and the second output signal. The trailbraking controller will provide an output control signal conditioned by the velocity output... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070213912 - Traction control using dynamic tire friction potential: A method for controlling slip of a driven wheel on low friction surfaces includes determining the current magnitude of static tire friction potential, current magnitude of maximum dynamic tire friction potential, and magnitude of tire torque demanded by an operator of the vehicle. A lower magnitude of commanded tire force... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20070213917 - Gas turbine speed detection: A gas turbine engine having at least a rotor shaft operatively connecting a compressor apparatus and a turbine apparatus, comprises an auxiliary gear box and a phonic wheel apparatus. The auxiliary gear box is drivingly connected to the rotor shaft and the phonic wheel apparatus includes an oil pump having... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20070213918 - Method for monitoring a fuel supply pertaining to an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a fuel supply device pertaining to an internal combustion engine. Said fuel supply device has a regulating device comprising a first regulator, which is provided with at least one integral part and which produces, in a first mode of operation, a regulating signal for a volume... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070213919 - Device and method for controlling engine: In a device for controlling an engine, comprising combustion noise suppressor for suppressing combustion noise of a combustion chamber and controller for controlling the combustion noise suppressor, the device further includes control amount setter for setting a control amount of the combustion noise suppressor so that target combustion noise characteristics... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070213920 - Fuel-saving management system: This invention relates to a fuel-saving management system that allows fuel-saving management and associated driver assistance to be conducted very smoothly. The constituent elements of this system include the following mounted on a vehicle: information detectors (11 to 15) for detecting various information on the driving state of the vehicle,... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070213921 - Power control apparatus, power control method: A battery requiring power generation determining unit is operable to determine first power required by the battery depending on a battery condition. An electric component using power determining unit is operable to determine second power used by the electric components. An feeding indispensable power determining unit is operable to determine... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070213922 - Traffic notification system for reporting traffic anomalies based on historical probe vehicle data: A system and method for determining and communicating a traffic anomaly at a point to at least one receiving vehicle includes a traffic information center and at least one probe device. Each probe device is configured to determine and store within an on-board database a current value of a condition... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070213924 - Navigation systems: Systems, methods, and programs, store map data including a roadway network, detect a current position of the vehicle, and detect or receive at lest one of a distance to another vehicle, a speed of another vehicle, and traffic congestion information. The systems, methods, and programs determine whether the vehicle is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070213923 - Method for vehicle communication: A method is disclosed for communication between a vehicle travelling along a route and a stationary system. The vehicle is equipped with a communication unit to communicate messages to the stationary system. The method includes dividing the route into a plurality of partial sections, defining for each partial section a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070213925 - Location specific information on wireless service coverage: An illustrative method provides information to a user on wireless communication coverage. A wireless availability server receives a user request for coverage information where the request includes specific geographic location data provided by the user. A determination is made if the location data is in the form of latitude and... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070213926 - Method for measuring tracks: The invention relates to a method for measuring tracks in relation to a measuring plan of the track which contains the actual position of the track, in relation to an absolute coordinate system. A measuring platform (2) is guided along the track (1), whereon an inertia platform (6) is arranged,... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070213927 - Navigation apparatus: A navigation apparatus includes an unregistered road detecting means for setting up a detection start point and a detection end point for an unregistered road on registered roads which are respectively located before and behind sections in which matching result data indicates a free state, respectively, the matching result data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070213929 - Computer readable medium storing a map data updating program and map data updating terminal: In order to quickly update map data in region units without generation of contradiction to adjacent non-updated regions after the updating, under map data updating, time and date of updating of update region of a terminal is obtained with designation of a region as the update object used as a... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070213928 - Method of searching telephone number: A method of searching telephone number suitable for a navigation apparatus is disclosed. First, the navigation apparatus downloads an e-map. The e-map includes a plurality of data points called points of interest (POI). Then, the telephone number of each point of interest in the e-map is collected to produce a... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070213931 - Agps module time synchronization method and device using system time information in mobile terminal: An Assisted Global Positioning System (AGPS) module time synchronization method and device using system time information in a mobile terminal that perform time synchronization using system frame information and a GPS module operation period in a process of searching for the position of a terminal using the AGPS module in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070213930 - Position estimation system: In a position estimation apparatus, an information acquisition/storage section 3 acquires, when a receiver 1 can track an artificial satellite, a current position obtained from the receiver 1 and an output value from each of pressure sensors 2R and 2L, and then stores at least a travel speed and a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070213932 - Computer programmed with gps signal processing programs: A computer is disclosed comprising a processor able to support multithreading and concurrently programmed in at least two threads with respective GPS signal processing programs which are each capable of processing GPS signal samples outputted from the same source.... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070213933 - Methods and systems for implementing an iterated extended kalman filter within a navigation system: A navigation system for a vehicle is described that includes an inertial measurement unit, a positioning unit, and a processing unit. The inertial measurement unit configured to provide a first set of data relating to operation of the vehicle and the positioning unit is configured to provide a second set... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070208466 - System and method to assist in the braking of an aircraft on a landing runway: P

20070208470 - Electronic control unit with a plurality of control circuits: In an ECU, a level adjusting unit communicable to first and second control circuits and a bus transceiver installed in the ECU receives first data and second data respectively transmitted from the first and second control circuits. The bus transceiver is communicable to a communication bus. When the first data... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070208475 - Vehicle occupant protection apparatus: A vehicle occupant protection apparatus includes an occupant protection device, a control unit, and a sensor module. The sensor module includes an acceleration sensor for detecting first acceleration caused by a collision and second acceleration caused by a fault diagnosis of the sensor module, a signal processing circuit for producing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070208476 - Industrial truck with acquirement of utilization data: An industrial truck with an electronic memory and/or a data transfer unit, an equipment for acquiring utilization data and a control unit, which is connected with the equipment for acquiring utilization data and the memory and/or the data transfer unit, characterised in that the control unit continuously generates an utilization... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20070208478 - Vehicle control apparatus and method: A vehicle control apparatus and method that control a vehicle equipped with a driving source and an automatic transmission connected to the driving source are provided. The vehicle control apparatus and method increase a driving force by at least one of the increase in output from the driving source and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070208479 - Vehicle driving force control apparatus and driving force control method: When a speed ratio, which is the ratio of the turbine speed to the engine speed, is equal to or less than 1, a driving torque converter dynamic characteristic model is used which is set based on a driving torque converter static characteristic in which the torque ratio decreases to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070208481 - Vehicle brake control device: A vehicle brake control device cuts off one or more of the first to fourth linear valves in order to prohibit completely supply of a current to the one or more of the first to fourth linear valves, in the case that a slip ratio of one or more wheels... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070208483 - Safety control system for electric vehicle: A method of controlling a motorized vehicle including monitoring a movement characteristic and a stability criterion of a vehicle, sensing a change in the movement characteristic of the vehicle, and if the stability criterion and the change in the movement characteristic are above respective predefined values, causing a change in... Agent: Dekel Patent Ltd., David Klein

20070208484 - Vehicle cruise control system and road condition estimating system: An object of the invention is to provide a vehicle automatic running control system, according to which the vehicle automatic control operation is carried out as long as possible, even when the vehicle is running on a punishing road. For that purpose, the system of the invention determines a degree... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070208485 - Vehicle travel controlling apparatus and method: A vehicle travel controlling apparatus and method in which a target vehicle speed for when a vehicle travels along a curve is calculated based on a radius of the curve, and the vehicle speed is controlled based on the calculated target vehicle speed. When an accelerator operation performed by a... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070208464 - System and method of interactively compiling a database for an in-vehicle display device: A system and method of interactively compiling a composite database for use by an in-vehicle display device includes a user computer, a communications network, a central computer, and a geometric component part model library. The system further includes an executable display design software program that populates the composite database. The... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, PC

20070208465 - Predicted path selection system and method for hazard coding in selectively constrained aircraft control systems: A surveillance system detects potential hazards and alerts the pilot to them the alerts can be modified to indicate proximity to the predicted path of the aircraft. An autopilot receives instructions from a flight management system (FMS) regarding a planned path and is subject to constraints preempting the planned path.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070208467 - Hybrid vehicle powertrain control method and apparatus: A method is provided for controlling a hybrid vehicle powertrain, including recording a starting and ending point of a desired route, determining an optimally fuel efficient route, and executing a powertrain control strategy based on the route. Real-time traffic data and topographical data are continuously evaluated, and the route and... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070208468 - Information display and method of displaying information for a vehicle: A vehicle information display (56) for a hybrid electric vehicle is provided. The display (56) includes an engine icon (60), a motor icon (62), a battery icon (64) and a vehicle drive wheels icon (66). To provide information to the vehicle operator regarding the operating state of the vehicle, power... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070208469 - Communication system for a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a communication system for a motor vehicle for transmitting an information relating to the operation of the motor vehicle from a transmitting control device to a receiving control device. The communication system comprises an interface for the input or output of the information relating to the... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070208471 - Electrically actuated vavle deactivation in response to vehicle electrical system conditions: A method for controlling at least valve to operate in at least a cylinder of an internal combustion engine coupled to a manifold, the method comprising of deactivating said valve in response to an operating condition of a vehicle electrical system, wherein during at least a first condition of the... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070208472 - Vehicle state analyzing system, vehicle, and vehicle state management system: A vehicle 10 which is provided with an optimum suspension/chassis state is run for a certain period of time under a predetermined condition, such as straight running, or the like, for storing the information related to the outputs of force sensors 14 in a first storage area as the reference... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070208474 - Safety device and method for a motor vehicle: A safety device for a motor vehicle and related method, in which a head restraint is provided on a seat backrest of a vehicle seat, as well as a control unit with an evaluation of data relevant to safety during driving. The control unit temporally activates a head restraint displacing... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070208473 - Safety device for a motor vehicle: A safety device for a motor vehicle has at least one closable opening of the interior, and a closing element driven by a servo drive for closing the opening. A control unit evaluates the data relevant to safety when the vehicle is in motion and activates the servo drive at... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070208477 - Industrial truck with a display unit for the operator: Industrial truck with a display unit for an operator and with a sending and receiving unit directed towards the load pick-up region, which can receive sent data from load goods and from load supports, and an analysing unit, which displays the received data in the display unit, wherein the analysing... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20070208480 - Gear-shifting optimization method and corresponding control unit: A method is disclosed for optimizing the gear-shifting sequence in a step-variable transmission fitted in a motor vehicle, in particular in an automated shift transmission, which has a plurality of gears, which can be engaged and disengaged by means of respective clutches, the method comprising the following steps: registering at... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070208482 - Intelligent braking system and method: A distance, speed and direction sensitive processor coupled to a brake controller. The processor executes instructions to compare actual vehicle performance with that of a deceleration profile and modulates the brake controller to bring vehicle performance into agreement with the profile. Distance information is provided by a radar sensor for... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070208486 - Control system for internal combustion engine: A control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of properly performing air-fuel ratio control and ignition timing control according to an actual amount of intake air, even when reliability of the results of detection of the operating condition of a variable intake mechanism is low. The control... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070208487 - Method for calibration of a positional sensor on a rotational actuator device for control of a gas exchange valve in an internal combustion engine: A method for calibrating a distance sensor of a rotary actuator device for controlling a charge cycle valve of an internal combustion engine. The rotary actuator device includes a controllable electric motor having an actuator element for actuating the charge cycle valve, two energy storage means acting in opposite drive... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070208488 - Method for calibration of a sensor on a rotational actuator device for control of a gas exchange valve in an internal combustion engine: A method for calibrating a distance sensor of a rotary actuator device for controlling a valve of an internal combustion engine. The rotary actuator includes an electric motor with an actuator element for actuating the valve, two energy storage means acting on the valve in opposite drive directions, and a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070208489 - Internal-combustion engine with means for determining the mass of fresh intake air, and associated method of determination: In an internal-combustion engine, comprising at least one cylinder, at least one intake pipe and at least one exhaust pipe associated to the cylinder, at least one intake valve and at least one exhaust valve, which control passage through said intake and exhaust pipes, there are provided first sensor means... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070208490 - Method for limiting the power output of an internal combustion engine: In a method for limiting the power output of an internal combustion engine, an air mass flow deviation of an actual air mass flow (mL(IST)) from a reference air mass flow (ML(REF)) is determined and, depending on the air mass flow deviation, a power output reduction is determined by which... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20070208491 - Wireless security and monitoring system for mechanized equipment: A proximity based security and monitoring system that does not require a mechanical interconnect between operator(s), passenger(s) and the vehicle. The system is based upon one or more transponders that can be mounted on the operator's and/or passenger's person. The transponder can include a predetermined security code required to start... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070208497 - Detecting anomalous road traffic conditions: Techniques are described for automatically detecting anomalous road traffic conditions and for providing information about the detected anomalies, such as for use in facilitating travel on roads of interest. Anomalous road traffic conditions may be identified using target traffic conditions for a particular road segment at a particular selected time,... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070208494 - Assessing road traffic flow conditions using data obtained from mobile data sources: Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads, as well as in some situations data from one or more other sources (such as physical sensors near to... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070208498 - Displaying road traffic condition information and user controls: Techniques are described for displaying or otherwise providing information to users regarding various types of road traffic condition information in various ways. The information may be provided, for example, as part of a user interface (or “UI”), which may in some situations further include one or more types of user-selectable... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070208492 - Dynamic time series prediction of future traffic conditions: Techniques are described for generating predictions of future traffic conditions at multiple future times, such as by using probabilistic techniques to assess various input data while repeatedly producing future time series predictions for each of numerous road segments (e.g., in a real-time manner based on changing current conditions for a... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070208495 - Filtering road traffic condition data obtained from mobile data sources: Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads, as well as in some situations data from one or more other sources (such as physical sensors near to... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070208493 - Identifying unrepresentative road traffic condition data obtained from mobile data sources: Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads, as well as in some situations data from one or more other sources (such as physical sensors near to... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070208499 - Method and apparatus for counting the bidirectional passage of vehicles in a wireless vehicular sensor network: Method and apparatus receiving reports from at least two wireless vehicular sensor nodes and stepping through a process of comparing filtered queues to determine the first and the second waveform in time, leading to counting the vehicles passing the magnetic sensors of the wireless vehicular sensor nodes.... Agent: Earle Jennings

20070208496 - Ob