Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location inventions 11/07

20070276549 - Driving force control apparatus of vehicle: In a driving force control apparatus of a vehicle of the present invention, a calculation portion of a meter_ECU outputs a mode selected by a mode selection switch or a temporary switch to a calculation portion as a request mode and has a multi-information display 12 display the mode selected... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070276550 - Security configuration in or for a vehicle and motor vehicle: A security configuration in or for a motor vehicle, which includes a bodywork part, such as a door, and a window pane arranged in the bodywork part. The security configuration includes a touch-sensitive keypad integrated in or mounted to the window pane. The keypad has a plurality of touch sensors,... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070276554 - Computerised flight manual and method for dynamic control of such a flight manual: s

20070276555 - Data integrity improvements of rail car identification process in localities having adjacent railway tracks: A system of identifying rolling stock within a rail yard when additional rolling stock may be present on an adjacent track, the system including identification markers attached on opposite sides of a rolling stock, an identification marker reader located proximate a track upon which the rolling is upon operable to... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070276557 - Clutch engagement control apparatus and method for hybrid vehicle: An apparatus and method for controlling operation of a clutch in a hybrid vehicle. A basic transmission torque capacity target value is calculated based on a vehicle driving operation and a vehicle running condition. A target value for the output side rpm of a clutch is calculated from the basic... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070276568 - Seat position control device for vehicle: A seat position control device for a vehicle includes a lateral direction actuator for moving a position of a seat of the vehicle in a lateral direction of the vehicle, a turning direction actuator for moving the position of the seat of the vehicle in a turning direction of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070276570 - Multiple speed transmission having fuel economy mode: An method of operating a multiple speed (gear ratio) mechanical transmission and engine combination to optimize (reduce) fuel consumption comprises the steps of determining a fuel efficiency map for an engine, providing a multiple speed mechanical transmission controller having data and program storage capabilities, providing data regarding the fuel efficiency... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070276574 - Brake control system for vehicle: An object of the invention is to provide a brake control system for a vehicle, according to which a comfortable feeling for a vehicle deceleration is obtained. An index of evaluating a vehicle distance change is calculated based on a relative vehicle speed, wherein the index has a characteristic feature... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070276576 - Road slope detecting apparatus and method for vehicle: A road slope determining apparatus for a vehicle includes a slope measuring device that measures a slope of a road on which the vehicle is traveling; a distance measuring device that measures a distance traveled by the vehicle; and a determining apparatus that determines, based on the measured slope and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070276577 - Vehicle driving assist system: A vehicle driving assist system is provided that calculates a risk potential indicative of a degree of convergence between the host vehicle and the preceding obstacle. A first driving assistance control system controls at least one of an actuation reaction force exerted by a driver-operated driving operation device and a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070276551 - Method for actuating headlights of a motor vehicle: A method is provided for actuating the headlights of a motor vehicle with a manual mode, in which the headlights can be transferred into a first illuminating state by manually actuating a selector lever in a first actuating direction and by actuating the selector lever in a second actuating direction... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070276552 - Underwater crawler vehicle having search and identification capabilities and methods of use: Apparatus for inspecting a submerged object and methods of use are provided, wherein a crawler vehicle includes a vortex generator, traction system and sensor system. Data from the sensor system is communicated to an onboard console for real-time review or transmission via a communication link to a remote site for... Agent: Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20070276553 - Method for selecting aircraft access point into a lateral free eveolution area: This method facilitates the joining, by an aircraft, of a secure zone, without constraint of deployment in the horizontal plane, in particular when the latter is threatened by a risk of collision with the ground or by a risk of penetration into a forbidden zone which cannot be resolved by... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070276556 - System and method for starting a combustion engine of a hybrid vehicle: A system and method for starting an ICE of a hybrid vehicle, the hybrid vehicle having a generator with a rotor rotating at an angular speed and a clutch provided between the ICE and the rotor. The method includes steps of disengaging the clutch so that the rotor and the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070276558 - Navigation system for position self control robot and floor materials for providing absolute coordinates used thereof: A navigation system for a position self control robot including a main body having a locomotion unit is provided. The navigation system includes two-dimensional (2D) barcodes, a barcode reader, and a control unit. The 2D barcodes are formed at predetermined intervals on a floor having a predetermined size and respectively... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070276559 - Diagnostic apparatus and method: Provided is a diagnostic apparatus easily applied to diagnosis of a small lot product, etc. When measurement data on a measurement object is inputted sequentially, a filter section (408) performs filtering of the measurement data. When new measurement data is employed as diagnosis object data, a statistic processing section (420)... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070276560 - Interactive symptomatic recording system and method utilizing symptomatic memory: The Internet provides communication between a plurality of service sites and a plurality of equipment sites at which equipment needing periodic service and emergency service are operated. Each piece of equipment includes a sensor array and a manual actuator that is activated when an abnormal mode of operation of the... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20070276561 - Vehicle environmental regulatory compliance system and method of verifying regulatory compliance of a vehicle: A vehicle environmental regulatory compliance system and method of verifying regulatory compliance of a vehicle includes providing a vehicle unit having an adapter that is configured to connect with a vehicle diagnostic port of a vehicle diagnostic system. The vehicle unit further includes a vehicle wireless transceiver and a memory.... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20070276562 - Determination of the absolute angular position of a steering wheel by binary sequences discrimination: The invention relates to a method for determining the absolute angular position θ of a steering wheel (2) of a motor vehicle with respect to the chassis thereof comprising an initial procedure for determining whether a detected binary sequence is non-repetitive and, if yes, to test whether an estimate makes... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070276563 - Marine vessel running controlling apparatus, and marine vessel employing the same: A marine vessel running controlling apparatus includes a steering angle acquiring unit which acquires the steering angle of a steering mechanism provided in a marine vessel, and a control unit which controls a lift force difference generating unit for generating a lift force difference between a port side and a... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070276564 - Method for determining estimated vehicle dynamics parameters: A method for determining estimated vehicle dynamics parameters using a vehicle parameter estimator, a vehicle condition detector and a rich steering input detector for estimating vehicle understeer coefficient and front and rear cornering compliances in real time. The vehicle parameter estimator receives a front wheel steering angle signal, a rear... Agent: MillerIPGroup, PLC General Motors Corporation

20070276566 - Device for determining a tendency to tilt: The invention relates to a device for determining a tendency to tilt about the longitudinal axis and a tendency to turn about the vertical axis of a vehicle. The detection system is characterized by a lateral acceleration sensor producing a lateral acceleration signal, a yaw rate sensor producing a yaw... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20070276565 - Restraint system with impact recognition, taking into account environmental influences: A safety device for vehicles having first sensor arrangement for acquiring the vehicle impact and for outputting first sensor signals, a control device for outputting triggering signals dependent on the first sensor signals, and a restraint system that is triggered dependent on the first sensor signals, second sensor arrangement being... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070276567 - Method for monitoringthe adjustment movement of a component driven by a drive device: A method for monitoring the adjustment movement of a component, in particular a window pane or a sunroof in motor vehicles, which is driven by a drive device and can be adjusted in a translatory or rotary fashion. A plurality of input signals which can be derived from the drive... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070276569 - Method and apparatus to control an electro-mechanical transmission during shifting event: A method and system for executing a shift from a first fixed gear to a second fixed gear in a powertrain system comprising a two-mode, compound-split, electro-mechanical transmission operative to receive a speed input from an engine is described. It includes deactivating an off-going clutch, and generating a time-based profile... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070276571 - Device and method for controlling torque applied to wheels of a vehicle: A motor vehicle power train control device capable of furnishing set signals of torque applied to wheels of the motor vehicle. The control device includes a mechanism to generate a signal representing a limitation of variation in speed of a heat engine integrated in a power train capable of reducing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070276572 - Wirelessly controlled motorized vehicle system: A wirelessly controlled motorized vehicle system may be utilized to facilitate operation of a motorized vehicle. The wirelessly controlled motorized vehicle system may comprise a motorized vehicle and a wireless communications system. The motorized vehicle may comprise a drive system operable to operate the motorized vehicle and a controller in... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070276573 - 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 application device with pneumatic or electromotive actuation, located in the brake caliper and used for applying the brake. The... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070276575 - Boundary adaptation scheme for spool valve pressure control: A method for adapting a closing boundary for a proportional spool valve includes generating or detecting a pressure command signal. Next a pressure error is obtained by subtracting an actual wheel brake pressure from its pressure command. Then a modified pressure error is calculated a modified pressure error is calculated... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20070276578 - Compensating for blade tip clearance deterioration in active clearance control: A method to compensate for blade tip clearance deterioration between rotating blade tips and a surrounding shroud in an aircraft gas turbine engine includes determining one or more variables based on at least one or more moving averages of one or more engine operating parameters respectively averaged over a fixed... Agent: Steven J. Rosen Patent Attorney

20070276579 - Engine controller with an atmospheric pressure correction function: An engine controller of the present invention is comprised of: a determining section for determining a state where an engine is not driven; a braking torque obtaining section for obtaining a braking toque acting on the vehicle; a vehicle speed sensing section for sensing a vehicle speed; an atmospheric pressure... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070276580 - Deterioration signal generation device for gas sensor: A deterioration signal generation device for a gas sensor for simulating a deterioration signal output by a gas sensor in a deteriorated state, the gas sensor detecting the fuel-air ratio of exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine based on the concentration of particular components in the exhaust gas, the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070276581 - Alerting a vehicle operator to traffic movement: Methods, systems and computer program products for alerting a vehicle operator to traffic movement. The methods include identifying a zone around a host vehicle and identifying a target vehicle in the zone. The speed and location of the target vehicle are monitored. An alert is generated in the host vehicle... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070276582 - 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 plurality of fuel savings settings, and a controller coupled to a data interface in the vehicle and the HMI interface... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20070276584 - Method and device for demonstrating features of a vehicle navigation system: A demonstration method and module for demonstrating various features of a vehicle navigation system without activating the system at a back-end facility, such as a remote call center. The demonstration module comes with a variety of pre-established navigation demonstrations, each of which is designed for a particular geographic area. The... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070276586 - Method of setting a navigation terminal for a destination and an apparatus therefor: Disclosed is a method of setting a navigation terminal for a destination using voice recognition, which includes the steps of causing the navigation terminal to produce a guidance voice for requesting a voice input of the destination, causing the navigation terminal to receive the voice input, causing the navigation terminal... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070276585 - Navigation apparatus, vehicle lending system, and vehicle lending method: A navigation apparatus of the invention includes a display portion that displays a guidance screen and a removably installed recording medium, the navigation apparatus being provided in a vehicle and guiding the vehicle along a guidance path. When candidate site data created in an external apparatus has been stored on... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070276583 - power management apparatus and methods for portable data terminals: In accordance with at least one embodiment, a portable data terminal generally comprising a battery: a central controller, a GPS system, and an auxiliary processor. The central controller that has a sleep state wherein at least some of the functionality of the central controller is limited to conserve battery power.... Agent: Hand Held Products, Inc.

20070276588 - Data-providing service system: A data-providing service system of the present invention provides a user with data of an apparatus having a navigation function which outputs current position information. The data-providing service system provides a content provider such as restaurant, amusement, tourism guidance, hotel, music service and the like with content information, receives the... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070276587 - System and method for internet connected service providing heterogeneous mobile systems with situational location relevant content: Situational location dependent information is transmitted from a server data processing system to a receiving data processing system. The server data processing system communicates with the receiving data processing system in a manner by pushing content when appropriate. A candidate delivery event associated with a current positional attribute of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070276589 - Method of selectively applying carbon nanotube catalyst: A routing guide system has memory means provided outside a mobile body for storing data of images at a plurality of guide points. The routing guide system also has distance measuring means for measuring the distance from the current position of the mobile body to the next guide point. The... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070276590 - Beacon-augmented pose estimation: A beacon-augmented pose estimation system includes positionable beacons that can determine their own 3-D geospatial coordinates and transmit those coordinates back to the pose object. An imaging sensor images the field-of-view of the pose object to provide 2-D image coordinates for any of the beacons in the FOV. A pose... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, LLC.

20070276591 - Apparatus, method and medium detecting landmarks with a mobile device: An apparatus, method and medium detecting landmarks with a mobile device. The apparatus includes a storage unit to store rules of landmarks that correspond to connection relations among items representing a user's living patterns, an analysis unit to statistically analyze the collected log information representing a current living pattern of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070276592 - Method for deep mapping: A method of capturing deep mapping information regarding points of interest includes capturing the location of the point of interest and adding the location to a deep mapping information record, entering specifics regarding the points of interest into the deep mapping information record, marking the deep mapping information record as... Agent: Frank Liebenow

20070276593 - Navigation system: A navigation system for use in a vehicle receives a GPS signal for having a GPS time data that rolls over at an interval of 19.7 years with a start time of 0 a.m. Jan. 6, 1980 from a GPS satellite, and acquires map generation date information that specifies map... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070276594 - In-transit two-way route communication between a handheld positioning device and a service provider: A system, method, and article for in-transit communication and exchange of routing data between a service provider and a vehicle's onboard computer, facilitating the exchange and updating of information on a positioning device, such as a global positioning satellite positioning device.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070276595 - Method of selective ride-sharing among multiple users along an optimized travel route: A computer-implementable method and system for identifying the preferred commuting route to be used for a given route requirement subject to travel and personal preference criteria. The method and system uses computerized mapping software programs that match stored travel and user preferences to a given route by matching end points... Agent: Dennis R. Haszko Patent Law Office Of D.r.haszko

20070276597 - Navigation apparatus and route guiding method: A navigation server 1, a map DB 102, a route searching part 104 for searching a guiding route between a departure place and a destination, a shape-simplified road map generating part 106 for generating shape-simplified road map data in which a road shape of the guiding route is simplified, a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070276596 - Route guidance system: A route guidance system comprising an in-vehicle device (10) and a central route advisory system (30) in which the in-vehicle device comprises an audio emitter (18) and a visual display unit (24, 26) adapted to provide audio and visual instructions to a user to perform manoeuvres required to complete an... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070276598 - Refractivity retrieval via direct measurement of gnss bending angle: A method and system for taking direct measurements of GNSS signal's arrival angle to remotely measure the atmospheric variables used for weather prediction. More specifically, an improved method and system for obtaining and processing accurate information regarding the weather and other atmospheric changes by measuring the total refractive bending angle... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20070276599 - Lane marker recognition apparatus: Data on a lane marker are extracted based on a centerline position, centerline shape, and width of a lane, which are projected for the present cycle. Data on a lane centerline are generated by adjusting x-axis components of the extracted data. A centerline position and centerline shape is calculated with... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070276600 - Intersection collision warning system: A system for detecting a collision in an intersection. The system includes a plurality of vehicle detection sensors, a base station and a warning signal apparatus. The plurality of vehicle detection sensors are positioned preceding the intersection for detecting and transmitting velocity and position data of at least two vehicles.... Agent: Dunlap Codding & Rogers, P.C.

20070271008 - Manual and computerized flight control system with natural feedback: A system and method for a controlling an aircraft with flight control surfaces that are controlled both manually and by a computing device is disclosed. The present invention improves overall flight control operation by reducing the mechanical flight control surface components while providing sufficient back-up control capability in the event... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070271012 - Vision guidance system and method for identifying the position of crop rows in a field: A system and method of identifying a position of a crop row in a field, where an image of two or more crop rows is transmitted to a vision data processor. The vision data processor defines a candidate scan line profile for a corresponding heading and pitch of associated with... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070271013 - Vision guidance system and method for identifying the position of crop rows in a field: A system and method of identifying a position of a crop row in a field, where an image of two or more crop rows is transmitted to a vision data processor. A preferential scan line profile in a search space about a candidate scan line profile is determined, and the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070271017 - Weight dependent trailering switch: A system and method for changing the shift pattern of a vehicle based on the weight of a trailer the vehicle is towing. The system can include a switch on the steering column or dashboard that can be engaged in predetermined increments, such as 1,000 pounds, to selectively change the... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070271020 - Motor vehicle speed detection and control system: A system disposed within a motor vehicle configured to measure the geographic coordinates of the vehicle in order to calculate and adjust and maintain the current speed of the vehicle to correspond to the speed limit the determined geographic coordinate. The system further includes a database that contains roadmaps and... Agent: Raymond M. Galasso Galasso & Associates Lp

20070271009 - System and method for monitoring passenger oxygen saturation levels and estimating oxygen usage requirements: A device performs oxygen flight planning calculations for estimating oxygen usage. The device includes a storage device, an input device for inputting a known flight parameter value into the storage device, and an output device for outputting the known flight parameter value input by the input device. A logic device... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20070271010 - Method and device for consolidation by software synchronisation in flight control computers: This invention relates to a method for synchronising two asynchronous control and monitoring units of a computer, wherein each of these units comprises a computation unit, which method comprises: a computation of independent local Boolean signals, each having a Boolean inertia greater than the temporal uncertainties, due to the latencies... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070271011 - Indoor map building apparatus, method, and medium for mobile robot: An indoor map building apparatus, method, and medium for a mobile robot are provided. The indoor map building apparatus includes a beacon which transmits/receives signals for determining the location of the mobile robot, a beacon location fixing module which moves the beacon to a predetermined location in an indoor space... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070271014 - Vehicle diagnostic and prognostic methods and systems: Method for predicting failures in vehicular components includes mounting sensors on the vehicle which provide data affected by the operation of the components, obtaining data from the sensors, detecting patterns in the obtained data on the vehicle, analyzing the detected patterns to predict failure of any component, and informing the... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20070271015 - Vehicle monitoring system: To manage a fleet of vehicles efficiently, data is obtained concerning vehicle condition; some of this data is recorded in a data packet format on a vehicle and transmitted by radio from the vehicles to a base station, and under some circumstances, transmitted by the internet to a central data... Agent: Vincent L. Carney Law Office

20070271016 - Apparatus for triggering restraint devices: An apparatus for triggering restraint devices includes crash sensors inside and outside of a control unit. The apparatus checks a crash signal of the crash sensors using a plausibility signal. To check the crash signal, the apparatus receives the plausibility signal from a vehicle sensor outside of the control unit,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070271018 - Driving dynamic control or regulating system and method for a two-track, two-axle motor vehicle: A system and method are provided for controlling or automatically controlling the driving dynamics of a two-track, two-axle motor vehicle having only one driven axle, which, for the rolling moment support, has a system for changing the distribution of the wheel contact forces to the left and right wheel respectively... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070271019 - Method of managing the braking of an aircraft by predicting its movements on an airport: The invention relates to a method of managing the braking of an aircraft while taxiing on an airport, the method comprising, on the basis of characteristics for a sequence of movements of the aircraft along at least one given path to be followed by the aircraft on the airport, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070271021 - Method for compensating for gradient influence when determining a reference velocity: Disclosed is a method and a computer program product for compensating for gradient influence when determining a reference velocity. The method includes determining a controller nominal torque (MRnominal) in a vehicle controller (1) from at least one actual wheel speed (vwheel-actual) and one predefined nominal wheel speed (Vwheel-nominal), determining a... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20070271022 - Onboard controller system: A system and method for safely slowing or stopping a vehicle by selectively replacing a genuine engine control signal with a spoofed engine control signal to slow or stop a vehicle in a gradual or stepped manor. The operator is allowed control of the vehicle (e.g. genuine engine control signal)... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC

20070271023 - Airfoil prognosis for turbine engines: A method and control for predicting the remaining useful life of an airfoil for a gas turbine engine includes the steps of monitoring conditions of the blade such as flutter, leaning, etc. A measured amount of deflection of the airfoil is compared to tabulated data to predict an expected crack... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20070271024 - Gas turbine output learning circuit and combustion control device for gas turbine having the same: A gas turbine output learning circuit is configured to compute a current combustion gas temperature TIT at an inlet of a gas turbine by linear interpolation by use of two characteristic curves A and B respectively representing relations between a pressure ratio and an exhaust gas temperature in the cases... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070271025 - Ignition timing controlling device and method: A method of controlling ignition timing of an engine. In the control method, final ignition timing for performing ignition is calculated by adding a variation component to a set ignition timing. According to the final ignition timing, an indicated average effective pressure of an in-cylinder pressure detected when ignition is... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070271026 - Engine control apparatus: Basic target torque TRQ2 and TRQ3 are set based on the engine speed Ne and the throttle opening-degree θacc and with reference to the normal mode map Mp1 and the power mode map Mp3 respectively. The correction factor RATIO1 is an addition rate which is set based on an accelerator... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070271027 - Diagnostic tool for sensing oxygen sensor heater operation: A diagnostic testing system for a vehicle comprising an oxygen sensor having a heating element for heating the oxygen sensor to its minimum operational temperature, an analyzer having a user interface, a communications link between the analyzer and the vehicle to obtain data from the oxygen sensor, and a diagnostic... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070271028 - Method and apparatus for vehicle safety surveillance: This invention addresses the problem of the safety surveillance of a vehicle parked in a place where the host of the vehicle is absent. When a vehicle is parked, it may be damaged either maliciously or accidentally. This invention describes a method and apparatus that automatically detect any compromise to... Agent: Zicheng Liu

20070271029 - Hierarchical floating car data network: A hierarchical floating car data network comprises a central server, an egress point network, and a participating vehicle network. The egress point network is in communication with the central server. The egress point network comprises a plurality of egress points. The participating vehicle network comprises a plurality of participating vehicles.... Agent: Innovation Partners

20070271030 - Navigation device and method for sequential map display: A method and device are disclosed for providing a navigation device particularly suited for walking routes. In one embodiment, the method includes determining, in a navigation device, a number of maps for traveling along a route based upon an initial position and an input end position; inputting the end position;... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tomtom

20070271031 - Method and apparatus for notifying departure time using schedule information: A method and an apparatus for notifying a departure time using schedule information for providing accurate prediction of a departure time for user's convenience is disclosed. The method includes registering a schedule including route setup information such as an origin, a destination, and a desired arrival time; receiving real time... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070271032 - Methods and systems for data link front end filters for sporadic updates: Systems and methods having front end filters for data links for improved tracking of moving objects are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes sensing at least one characteristic of a moveable object using a sensor of an acquisition system, and sensing at least one characteristic of the moveable object... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070271033 - System and method for networking a plurality of nodes: A system and method for networking a plurality of nodes is disclosed. A network of data devices having data representations of connectivity, network node position, and/or position topologies is also disclosed, wherein the network may be self-configuring and the network nodes spatially addressable. In another embodiment, a unique form of... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070271034 - Adaptive route planning for gps-based navigation: Disclosed herein is a method of route planning for global positioning system (GPS) based navigation systems. The method identifies route segments used in a GPS based navigation system and records an actual historical time of travel for at least one route segment traveled by users of the GPS based navigation... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070271035 - Navigation system for a motor vehicle, method for operating a navigation system and motor vehicle including a navigation system: In a navigation system for a motor vehicle, the navigation system includes an off-board navigation system that is spatially separate from the motor vehicle, a wireless communication connection between the off-board navigation system and the motor vehicle to transmit a suggested route for the motor vehicle and/or a map display... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070271036 - Map data providing device: Vehicular swept path data and electronic map data representing a road map are compared with each other to compute correction information that represents the amount of deviation of the electronic map data from the vehicular swept path data with respect to each predetermined block. The electronic map data is corrected... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070271037 - Systems and methods for improved inertial navigation: A method for producing inertial measurement data is provided. The method comprises receiving raw inertial measurement data from one or more inertial sensors; receiving raw position data based on signals from a global navigation satellite system; processing the raw inertial measurement data and the raw position data with a filter... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070265737 - Method of adjusting a motor vehicle electronic stability program: The invention relates to a method of adjusting an electronic stability program (ESP) for a motor vehicle. This method comprises various steps, including in particular: establishing the curve of the consumption values (Cesp) as a function of time, said curve being representative of the differences (dCM) of the measured yaw... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070265736 - Noise estimating device and noise estimating method: A noise estimating device includes a plurality of sensors and an estimating section. The sensors are configured and arranged to be positioned in a plurality of prescribed locations on a vehicle body of a vehicle. The sensors are configured and arranged to detect vibrations of the vehicle body. The estimating... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070265740 - Obstacle and cliff avoiding system and method thereof: An obstacle and cliff avoiding system is disclosed, which is substantially a movable chassis having at least a displacement sensor arranged thereon. In a preferred embodiment, each displacement sensor is tilted by a specific angle with respect to a surface detected thereby while being driven to move in circle by... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070265748 - Electronic control system for vehicle and control method thereof: The present invention relates to an electronic control system for a vehicle and a control method thereof, wherein communication is made between a main controller and at least one local controller to control a brake apparatus and a suspension apparatus in consideration of information of the controllers, thereby further improving... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070265749 - 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 operator mode selection input.... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070265735 - System and method of intelligent agent management using an overseer agent for use in vehicle diagnostics: A system and method of intelligent agent management within a vehicle intelligent agent system includes a host system, an overseer agent, and an agent that are all in communication via a communications network. The system includes an executable overseer agent management program that uses the identification code of the agent... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20070265734 - Traffic information system: A traffic information system has a consumer component and a plurality of modules forming a network and for connecting to consumer components. The consumer component is disposed at a vehicle and is for receiving outside information and transmitting vehicle information. The consumer components have a component communication device, an interface,... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20070265738 - Seat system adapted for motor vehicle: A seat system, adapted for a motor vehicle, includes a portable device taken along with a user for sending at least identification information, an on-vehicle front seat, an on-vehicle actuator for actuating the front seat, a keyless control unit and a seat control unit. The keyless control unit communicates with... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070265739 - Automatic fore-aft detection for an aircraft: An automatic fore/aft detection procedure as described herein may be implemented in connection with an aircraft brake control system that utilizes wheel-mounted accelerometers that detect landing gear acceleration for purposes of antiskid control. The fore/aft detection procedure automatically determines that the aircraft is moving in a forward direction based upon... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (boeing)

20070265741 - Position estimation apparatus, position estimation method and program recording medium: The present invention provides a position estimation apparatus capable of determining whether an estimated value deviates from an actual value and trying a process to correct the estimated value if the estimated value is determined to be incorrect. The position estimation apparatus employs a position prediction unit configured to produce... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070265743 - Inspection apparatus: An inspection apparatus includes a discrimination function determination unit which determines whether or not a discrimination function forms an area including a discrimination sample. The discrimination function is used in non-parametric one-class discrimination. The discrimination sample is discriminated into a class as a single area in an input space where... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070265742 - Method for the diagnosis of, and control device for controlling a motor vehicle: A method for diagnosing a motor vehicle and a control device for controlling a motor vehicle, a plurality of characteristic values, which are used for controlling the motor vehicle, being adapted. The adapted characteristic values are compared in each case to a threshold value, and an error message is generated... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070265744 - Vehicle information system and method: A method for use in a vehicle information system that includes identifying a user of a vehicle, wirelessly receiving content data in a vehicle from a data center, where the content includes at least one of multimedia content and navigation content, and delivering the content to the user. Also, a... Agent: Docket Clerk, Dm/eds

20070265745 - Control systems: A control system for a vehicle subsystem (10) comprises a controller (12) arranged to control operation of the subsystem (10), a user input (16) connected to the system controller (12) and arranged to be operated by a user, and a sensor comprising a transmitter (22) associated with user input (16)... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20070265746 - System and method for controlling vehicle hydraulic system: A control system for controlling energization of a plurality of valves in a vehicle hydraulic system. The control system includes a plurality of sensors for measuring various dynamic conditions and operational aspects of the vehicle, a signal processing circuit coupled to the plurality of sensors for determining a desired energization... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070265747 - Vehicle electronic control unit: Power is supplied to an ECU (20) from an on-vehicle battery (41). When an ignition switch (42) is switched from the OFF state to the ON state upon vehicle engine start, the ECU (20) is switched from the power saving mode to the normal mode and a CPU (31) executes... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070265751 - Control device of electric power steering device for vehicles in which steered wheels are driven: When the steered wheels are driven, there is a problem of the torque steering that the steering is disturbed by the difference in the driving forces between a pair of left and right steered wheels. Before such a problem, there is a problem that, since the vehicle is apt to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070265752 - Motor vehicle steering system: A motor vehicle steering system steers vehicle wheels in response to the operation of an operation member for steering a vehicle. The system includes a rutted road judging unit which judges whether the vehicle is driving on a rutted road or not, and a steering enhancement control unit which enhances... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070265750 - 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 rotation amount of a steering output shaft,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070265753 - Vehicle safety system: A safety system for a vehicle includes a window actuator connected to a window system of the vehicle for moving a window to an open position, a door lock actuator connected to a door lock system of the vehicle for moving the door lock system to the unlocked position, a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070265755 - accessory mounting system for mounting a plurality of accessories to the windshield of a vehicle: An accessory mounting system suitable for mounting a plurality of accessories at a windshield portion within the interior cabin of a vehicle includes a housing adapted for releasable mounting to a receiving structure on the interior surface of the windshield of the vehicle, and at least two accessories housed by... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20070265754 - Method for automatically adjusting seats in vehicles based upon cargo size: A computer implemented method, a computer program product and a data processing system for adjusting cargo space within a vehicle is provided. An identity tag for an item is scanned using a reader and transmitted to a vehicle, where it is received. Dimension information for the item is retrieved. A... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070265757 - Transmission power control method and mobile terminal apparatus: A base station creates and transmits power control data to a mobile terminal at each prescribed time slot based on signals received from the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal controls the transmission power of signals to the base station based on the power control data. During this transmission power... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070265756 - Wheel speed sensing system for electronic stability control: A control system for controlling a safety system of an automotive vehicle having a transmission and a differential. The system includes left and right wheel speed sensors associated with respective vehicle wheels and generating left and right wheel speed signals, and a transmission output shaft speed sensor generating a transmission... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070265758 - Turning control apparatus for vehicle: The turning control apparatus for a vehicle has a driving torque controlling mechanism adjusting driving torque of left and right wheels. The apparatus includes a maximum-yaw momentum value calculating means having means for estimating an outside-wheel gripping capacity, which is capacity of adhesive friction between the outside-wheel and a road... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070265759 - Method and system for utilizing topographical awareness in an adaptive cruise control: A system for an adaptive cruise control system to regulate vehicle fuel consumption. A velocity of a vehicle is monitored in response to receiving a user input to engage the adaptive cruise control system. The velocity is regulated within a velocity bound range in response to monitoring the velocity of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070265760 - Driving assistance apparatus, vehicle and method for vehicle cruise control: The invention relates to a driving assistance apparatus (19) for cruise control for a vehicle (10, 27). It is proposed that the driving assistance apparatus have receiving means (25) for reception of a danger alarm (54, 70), which is transmitted without the use of wires at least outside the vehicle... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20070265761 - Electric power generation system and method: The electric power generation system is to be used with a gas turbine engine. It preferably includes a continuously variable transmission connected between the low-pressure spool of the engine and an electric generator, preferably to step-up the speed therebetween and drive the generator at a substantially constant speed.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20070265762 - Motor vehicle and control method of motor vehicle: When a vehicle power demand is less than a threshold value, which is set to or around a lower limit of a relatively efficient drive range of an engine and when an engine drive demand is set ON because of requirement for heating by an air conditioning system, the drive... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070265763 - Air-fuel ratio control system and method for internal combustion engine, and engine control unit: An air-fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of accurately estimating an exhaust gas state parameter according to the properties of fuel, thereby making it possible to properly control the air-fuel ratio of a mixture. The air-fuel ratio control system 1 estimates an exhaust gas... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070265764 - Controller of internal combustion engine: Tooth portions are formed at unit angles on a rotor connected with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine. A toothless portion is formed on the rotor by irregularly changing the regular arrangement of the tooth portions. A controller of the engine estimates times necessary for rotation of unit angles... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070265765 - Security software layer protection for engine start: An engine start security control system for a vehicle having a transmission that is driven by an engine includes a first module that generates a first engine start flag based on an internal mode switch (IMS) signal and a second module that generates a second engine start flag based on... Agent: Christopher Devries General Motors Corporation

20070265767 - Intervehicle communication system: A driving support system for use in a vehicle uses a headlight controller for directing a headlight beam on a road surface in an intersection when the vehicle stops at the intersection. Another vehicle simultaneously approaching the intersection detects the beam of the surface with an image sensor and processor... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070265766 - Method and apparatus for providing traffic information using schedule registration information: A method for providing traffic information includes registering a schedule containing the request details of a request for traffic information, receiving real-time traffic data for a time duration in advance of a traffic information provision time, and creating traffic information using the real-time traffic data at the traffic information provision... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070265768 - Dash mounted or handheld audible-visual road advisory-information system device: A dash mounted or handheld audible-visual road advisory-information system device, for improving driver awareness and highway safety, that outputs amber alert warning notices and highway advisory information, and a summary of businesses and contact number, operating hours, and detailed summaries of business services, special sales and advertisements which are found-located... Agent: Robert Brown Jr.

20070265769 - Navigation device and method for storing and utilizing a last docked location: A method and device are disclosed for storing and utilizing a location at which a navigation device was last connected to a vehicle and/or was disconnected from a vehicle. In one embodiment, the method includes storing a positional location at which a navigation device was last connected to a vehicle;... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tomtom

20070265770 - Mobile terminal apparatus, mobile terminal apparatus control method, mobile terminal apparatus control program, and recording medium for recording the mobile terminal apparatus control program: A mobile terminal apparatus, control method for a mobile terminal apparatus, control program for a mobile terminal apparatus, and a recording medium on which the control program for the mobile terminal apparatus are provided so that when utilizing a plurality of types of travel, by switching application programs to correspond... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070265772 - Portable navigation device: A method and a navigation device to display a multiple page menu comprising configuration options for activation of a first or a second operational mode depending on various parameters including speed, usage of menu items, and usage of navigation device in either of the first and second operational modes, and... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tomtom

20070265771 - Portable video device combined with global positioning system: A portable video device in combination with a positioning system includes a main body, a DVD system chip, a GPS receiving module, a memory card reader, a DVD device, and a display. The main body includes a GPS slot allowing the GPS receiving module to plug in. The DVD system... Agent: Hdsl

20070265774 - Method and device for map switching: A method and navigation device are disclosed for map switching. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving information of a current position and displaying map information including the current position on a navigation device; determining relative map information coverage for the current position; and switching the displayed map information to... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tomtom

20070265773 - User friendly method of computer generating maps for regional delivery services: The manager or host of the computer generating mapping method compiles and stores a list of most of the landmarks within the geographic area within which the deliveries are to be made. The new user is prompted to choose from the stored list all of the landmarks with which he... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070265775 - Dual-mode location position system: The dual mode positioning system comprises multiple wireless network devices, one of the multiple wireless network devices including a GPS receiver. DSS is coupled to the multiple wireless network devices and an operation mode switch is also coupled to the multiple wireless network devices including a GPS receiver. A satellite... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20070265777 - On-vehicle road configuration identifying device: A road configuration identifying device properly identifies the road configuration around a user's vehicle. A reliability level indicating whether the traveling paths of other vehicles in an area behind the user's vehicle which are detected by a radar positioning system, which are obtained by tracking other vehicles using an other... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070265776 - Airborne system for preventing collisions of an aircraft with the terrain: This Terrain Awareness and Warning System produces a new “Too Low Terrain” predictive alert of “Caution” type when the crew of the aircraft has the possibility of resolving a detected risk of collision with the terrain without interrupting the current maneuver to stabilize at a safety altitude by a leveling-off... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070260362 - Method of identifying predictive lateral load transfer ratio for vehicle rollover prevention and warning systems: A method for controlling stability of a vehicle includes the steps of determining a predictive lateral load transfer ratio of the vehicle by evaluating vehicle performance factors over a period of time, and controlling operation of the vehicle based on the predictive lateral load transfer ratio.... Agent: Eaton Corporation Eaton Center

20070260361 - System and method for selective review of event data: Systems and methods for computer assisted cueing and selective reviewing of driving data in order to save time in the data review process are provided. The method allows identifying essential portions of the data, selecting the essential portions, reviewing the selected data and retrieving additional data leading to the event... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070260363 - System and method for wireless delivery of event data: Driving events are captured at an event detector in a vehicle and stored in an associated data storage area. The output of a sensor in the vehicle is monitored, and the stored driving event data is sent to an evaluation server over a wireless communication network when a data transfer... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070260377 - Vehicular power unit supporting apparatus: A vehicle power unit supporting apparatus 60 is configured so that a transversely-mounted power unit 50 of a configuration in which a power source 51 and a speed reduction gear 52 are arranged in a vehicle width direction and are connected to each other, is accommodated in a power unit... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070260388 - Four-wheel drive vehicle running control device: The running control device according to the present invention has an operation stability control unit which calculates a control lateral acceleration from the actual lateral acceleration measured by the lateral acceleration sensor and the estimated lateral acceleration calculated by the estimated lateral acceleration calculation unit and which carries out a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070260360 - On-board vehicle terminal and associated logistics management system: A vehicle terminal for a logistics management system, having a display unit (7), a vehicle computer (6) for detection and processing of relevant data, a communication unit (8) for data interchange with an associated disposition center (2), which transmits job data records to the vehicle terminal, with the vehicle terminal... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070260366 - Method and device for determining the air turbulence likely to be encountered by an aircraft: The device (1) which is provided on a second aircraft comprises a means (12) for using a turbulence indication from a first aircraft to make a prediction of the impact of the turbulence on this second aircraft if it is located in a particular position, and a means (13, 14)... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070260365 - Method and device for measuring the orientation of an aircraft nose landing gear: A device (1) comprises an inertial reference station (7) for measuring the aircraft heading, an inertial reference unit (9) which is mountible on the wheel of a nose landing gear by means of a fixing system and is used for measuring the heading of said landing gear in a non-steering... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070260364 - System and method for distributively displaying terminal procedure data: A display system and method for an aircraft selectively distributes and displays terminal procedure data. The system includes a processor and a display device. The processor is adapted to receive terminal procedure data representative of an airport terminal procedure that is normally illustrated on a terminal procedure chart and is... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070260368 - Method and apparatus for planning linked train movements: A scheduling system and method for identifying and planning for the linked movement of two or more trains.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070260369 - Method and apparatus for planning the movement of trains using dynamic analysis: A method of planning the movement of plural trains through a rail network using a database of dynamic planning attributes reflecting the current conditions of the train and rail network.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070260367 - Method of planning the movement of trains using route protection: A method of planning the movement of plural trains over a train network utilizing route protection for the route immediately ahead of a train to avoid undesirable changes to the planned route of the train.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070260370 - Steering logic for self-propelled mower: Steering logic for a self-propelled vehicle having a plurality of wheels includes the steps of receiving translational velocity and angular velocity commands, determining the resultant velocity and steer angle of each wheel, and determining the wheel offset correction for each wheel based on the scrub radius of each wheel and... Agent: Deere & Company

20070260371 - Methods for cleaning lines on a game playing surface: A method for clearing lines on a playing surface is provided. The method includes automatic direction of a cleaning device along the lines to clean the lines. The method also preferably includes calibrating the means of measuring the distances moved by the cleaning device along the surface. Associated software is... Agent: David W. Young

20070260373 - Dynamic vehicle durability testing and simulation: A dynamic vehicle tester providing integrated testing and simulation for determining characteristics of a unit under test. Changes occurred on the unit under test are dynamically obtained, considered and incorporated in generating test conditions to be applied to the unit under test. Additionally, durability testing is conducted using such techniques... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20070260372 - Dynamic vehicle suspension system testing and simulation: A dynamic vehicle tester providing integrated testing and simulation for determining characteristics of a unit under test. Changes occurred on the unit under test are dynamically obtained, considered and incorporated in generating test conditions to be applied to the unit under test. In particular, testing of a vehicle suspension system... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20070260374 - Aircraft-engine trend monitoring system: Methods and systems for aircraft engine trend monitoring include periodically recording the outputs of engine-condition sensors and analyzing the results to examine piston-engine performance trends and predict the need for engine maintenance. Various analyses can be performed, separately or in parallel, including comparing the current parameter values with values recorded... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20070260375 - Real-time vehicle management and monitoring system: Embodiments relate to a real-time vehicle management and monitoring system and method. The system comprises at least a vehicle subsystem, a control subsystem, a dispatch subsystem, a maintenance subsystem, and a rider subsystem. As illustrated, the vehicle subsystem comprises a vehicle, a production tracking device, a global positioning system device,... Agent: Cherskov & Flaynik Lawyers

20070260376 - Vehicle drive control system and sensor unit and tire: There is provided a vehicle drive control system performing the stability control of a vehicle by highly accurately and easily sensing accelerations generated in each tire and sensing a tire ground contact pattern, a sensor unit thereof and a tire. Using a sensor unit 100 mounted in each tire 2... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070260378 - Apparatus for detecting subsurface objects with a reach-in arm: An apparatus for detecting objects on or beneath a surface of a medium having a reach-in arm, the base of the reach in arm connected to a platform, and the distal end of the reach-in arm connected to a sensor. The sensor detects objects on or beneath the surface of... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070260380 - Control system and method for capturing partial bucket loads in automated loading cycle: An automated bucket loading control method includes determining a bucket tilt parameter for a bucket of the machine which corresponds with a partial bucket load, and capturing a partial bucket load by controllably tilting the bucket in a pile of material according to the determined bucket tilt parameter. A control... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20070260379 - Method of operating a machine for conditioning a work material: A machine, such as a scraper machine, is configured to transport a work material from a first work area to a second work area, and includes a substance condition sensor configured to sense the relative amount of a desired substance, such as water, during real time operation of the machine.... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20070260381 - Synchronous shift execution for hybrid transmission: An apparatus and method are provided to execute synchronous shifting in a powertrain system having multiple torque-generative devices each operable to independently supply motive torque to the transmission device. The exemplary transmission device comprises a two-mode, compound-split, hybrid electromechanical transmission. Operation includes operating in an initial fixed gear ratio, operating... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070260383 - 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 architecture contains three vehicle state observers (i.e., models) each based on inputs from only two of the three sensors (yaw rate, lateral acceleration and... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc. Legal Staff

20070260387 - Computer program for stability enhancing system for prime mover and auxilairy vehicle: A computer readable medium for instructing the steps of a method for providing stability, control and management of a prime mover connected to an auxiliary vehicle is disclosed. A plurality of computer instructions is stored on a computer readable medium and executed by a processor to perform the steps of... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20070260382 - Control system for a vehicle: A control system having an electronically controllable drive train. A coordination level is assigned to a system control device in which set point values are generated from state variables of the vehicle and from driver's wishes and actuation signals for actuating actuators are generated therefrom. An execution level is subordinate... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070260385 - Stability enhancing system for tow-vehicle and trailer assembly combination with two processors: A system for providing enhanced stability, control, and management of a tow-vehicle with a connected trailer assembly combination by using an electronic stability enhancing system and two processors is disclosed. The first processor on the tow-vehicle and second processor on the trailer include memory with computer instructions for communicating with... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20070260386 - Stability enhancing system for tow-vehicle towing trailer-assembly with trailer sensors: A system for providing enhanced stability, control, and management for a tow-vehicle towing a trailer assembly with trailer sensors is disclosed. The system includes a tow-vehicle with an electronic stability enhancing system in communication with a processor with memory and computer instructions. The system includes sensors located on the tow-vehicle... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20070260384 - Vehicle stability system with multiple sensitivities: A system and method for providing stability control for a commercial vehicle. The system may include multiple selectable control tuning modes or sensitivities for defining when the system may intervene to provide corrective action to aid vehicle stability. The control tuning modes may be representative of different vehicle configurations/conditions and... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070260389 - Redundant torque security path: An engine control system includes a torque request control module to determine a first engine torque request. An artificial neural network (ANN) torque request module determines a second engine torque request using an ANN model. A torque security check module that selectively generates a malfunction signal based on the difference... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070260391 - Method and a device for performing a check on the state of health of a turbine engine of a twin-engined rotorcraft: The present invention relates to a method and to a device (D) enabling a health check to be performed on at least a first turbine engine (M1) of a rotorcraft, the rotorcraft being provided with first and second turbine engines (M1 and M2) controlled respectively by first and second control... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070260390 - System and method for turbine engine fault detection using discrete event system modeling: A system and method is provided for fault detection in a turbine engine. The fault detection system and method uses discrete event system modeling to provide improved fault diagnosis and prognosis. The fault detection system and method receives sensor taken at multiple dynamic events occurring in different time windows. An... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070260392 - Management of traffic signals at road intersection to avoid blocking vehicles: A computer controlled system for managing traffic signals at the intersection of at least two traffic lanes to avoid collisions between motor vehicles in intersecting lanes. An implementation for controlling traffic signals at the intersection to permit vehicles in each of the intersection traffic lanes a time period to pass... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070260393 - Method and process for enabling advertising via landmark based directions: A method, system, and computer program product that enables a direction service to automatically inform the requester or user of the directions of advertisement associated with the various businesses and/or landmarks situated on a directional map generated by the service. The service provider of the navigational service enhances the directional... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070260394 - Programmable robotic apparatus: A robotic apparatus for traversing a selected area autonomously that senses orientation relative to “environmental” signals. The robotic apparatus is provided in two models, a master that can record directive and “environmental signal” readings, or that can record received location information, to provide at least one command recorded on a... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20070260395 - Navigation system: A navigation system includes: a detection unit that detects a vehicle to be in a stationary state or in a traveling state; a display monitor at which a roadmap is displayed; and a manual route specification unit that allows a road traced on the display monitor to be specified as... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070260396 - Gps navigation enhanced system: The present invention relates to a GPS navigation system by enhancing the current navigation device. More particularly, a map-containing navigation device and a GPS receiver can be separately positioned in the GPS navigation system of the present invention. A virtual machine of the GPS receiver is utilized to operate the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070260398 - Portable navigation device with accelerometer: A portable navigation device comprises an accelerometer, a GPS receiver, and a calibration module. The calibration module generates calibration parameters that enable acceleration data from the accelerometer to be accurately converted into speed and heading data and integrated over time to give distance data. The calibration parameters are calculated from... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tomtom

20070260397 - Positioning device, method of controlling positioning device, positioning control program, and computer-readable recording medium having positioning control program recorded thereon: A positioning device includes a moving amount determination section which determines a moving amount of the device in a period between a preceding positioning time and a present positioning time; a moving amount evaluation section which determines whether or not the moving amount is within a predetermined allowable moving range;... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070260399 - Method and apparatus for generating and distributing satellite tracking information: A method and apparatus for generating and distributing satellite tracking data to a remote receiver is disclosed. The method for includes extracting from satellite-tracking data initial model parameters representing a current orbit of at least one satellite-positioning-system satellite, computing an orbit model using the initial model parameters, wherein a duration... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070255466 - Daming adjusting/controlling system for wireless adjustment of shock-absorbers for vehicle: A damping adjusting/controlling system is provided for a vehicle having two front shock-absorbers and two rear shock-absorbers. Each shock-absorber includes a piston rod having a central rod mounted therein. The damping adjusting/controlling system includes two front motors and two rear motors for driving the central rods of the front and... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070255469 - Driver feeling adjusting apparatus: A driver feeling adjusting apparatus includes a seat that is fixed to a vehicle and on which a driver is seated, a movable portion that is provided in the seat and that can be displaced in a vehicle lateral direction or a yaw direction, and a control unit that displaces... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070255470 - Method for controlling an agricultural machine system: For controlling an agricultural machine system while it works a territory, which a route (R) is created for the machine system, which includes working tracks (FN) along which the machine system is driven while the territory (S) is being worked, and which includes headland tracks (FV), along which the machine... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070255474 - Lane departure prevention apparatus and method: A lane departure prevention apparatus includes a control section configured to carry out a lane departure prevention control to prevent a vehicle from departing from a lane, and to finish the lane departure prevention control by using a predetermined finish parameter; a vehicle-state detecting section configured to detect a state... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070255476 - Vehicle control device, and method of controlling a vehicle: An ECU executes a program that includes the step of setting a target deceleration of an operation vehicle on the basis of the amount of operation of a brake pedal, the step of dividing the target deceleration into a first deceleration caused by the braking force of brake devices and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070255479 - Cruise control device: A cruise control device has an activation device embodied as a key button. By activating the activation device it is possible to transfer the cruise control device, from a switched off operating state to a switched on standby operating state, and by a further activation of the activation device it... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070255478 - Running control apparatus for vehicle: A running control apparatus for a vehicle controls a state of running using a driving source for generating a driving force of the vehicle. The apparatus includes an accelerator pedal measuring device for measuring a degree of depression of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle; and a vehicle speed measuring... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070255481 - Headway maintenance system and method: A headway maintenance assist system is provided with a correction section in which a drive force/accelerator actuation relationship between an accelerator actuation amount and a target drive force is changed to a drive force/accelerator relationship that is different than an ordinary drive force/accelerator relationship so that the driver more readily... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070255462 - Driving force control device of vehicle: The present invention provides a driving force control device which can set driving force characteristics which conform to tastes of drivers using one vehicle thus giving the easy-to-drive feeling to the drivers. An E/G_ECU possesses three modes 1 to 3 as control modes and selects one mode from these modes... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070255463 - Power output apparatus, motor vehicle equipped with power output apparatus, and control method of power output apparatus: When the current input and output charge levels of a battery are out of allowable input and output ranges, the drive control of the invention uses an operation curve under battery restriction, which sets the higher rotation speed in a low power range and has a smaller variation in rotation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070255464 - Car intelligence: The purpose of the current is to develop an intelligent vehicle that allows multiple drivers to drive the vehicle and provides customized settings and services for each of them. This is done by making the user profiles for multiple drivers in the vehicle and each driver will be recognized with... Agent: Amita Singh

20070255465 - Vehicle and suspension system for negotiating low traction situations: A method for controlling a vehicle having a suspension, the method comprising during longitudinal oscillations of the vehicle, adjusting a suspension member to vary a normal force between the vehicle and the surface, where said suspension adjustment is based on said longitudinal oscillations.... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070255467 - Method for determining a rolling condition via frequency analysis of the rotation of the suspension stop: A method for determining at least one rolling condition of a motor vehicle wheel, which wheel being mounted on the chassis of the vehicle via a MacPherson strut integrating a suspension stop which includes a rotating component in relation to the chassis is described. The method envisages using a device... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070255468 - Vehicle window control system: A vehicle window control system is configured to move a window to a selected position or until a desired change in position has been achieved. The system includes an input device and a control device. The input device generates a signal indicative of a desired window movement. The switch analyzes... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070255471 - Torque estimator for a ma