Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location inventions 01/08

20080027588 - Apparatus for administrating communication among on-vehicle electronic control units: An apparatus is provided for managing communication among a plurality of process means respectively operating on given control programs realizing functions necessary for a vehicle. The plural process means includes a first process means issuing requesting messages for requesting a function and a second process means receiving the requesting message,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080027594 - Vehicle guidance system: A vehicle guidance system comprising: a measurement system; a processor arranged to receive information from the measurement system and convert said information into at least one time-to-contact based parameter; and a control system arranged to receive the at least one time-to-contact based parameter from the processor and use the at... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080027595 - Optimizing initial inclinations and raans of a satellite constellation: A method for minimizing the amount of propellant required to be carried onboard the satellites of an Earth orbiting satellite constellation to maintain the minimum angle of elevation between a selected geographical area of the Earth and at least one satellite of the constellation during the life of the constellation... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20080027596 - Airborne advisory for inadvertent approach to taxiway: A taxiway approach advisory system. The system may include a computer-readable memory containing runway information and a processor in data communication with the memory. The processor may include a component for ascertaining the altitude of an aircraft, a component for ascertaining the location of the aircraft, a component for accessing... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services Ab-2b

20080027597 - Control of a waterjet propelled vessel: A method for controlling a watercraft includes acquiring a desired heading of the watercraft, acquiring an actual heading of the watercraft at time T0, calculating a heading error by comparing the desired heading with the actual heading and determining a rate of change of the heading error. A P gain,... Agent: Harbin King & Klima

20080027600 - Systems and methods for intelligently establishing communication: Systems and methods are provided for intelligently establishing a communication session between a machine and off-board system. In one implementation, a system for intelligently establishes a communication session. The system includes a machine communicating with a network and an off-board system that transmits a request for data from the machine... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080027601 - Angular velocity calculating device, offset determination method for the same, and vehicle stopping detecting device: Minimum and maximum values of an angular velocity signal output from a gyro while a vehicle is stationary are detected. A range of the angular velocity signal is set that is used to determine when the vehicle is stationary. When the angular velocity signal output from the gyro exceeds the... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20080027609 - Electric power steering apparatus: An electric power steering apparatus has a steering mechanism SM having universal joints 4, 6 in a torque transmitting system, a steering toque detecting unit 14, a steering angle detecting unit 18, a torque fluctuation detecting unit 43 for detecting a torque fluctuation due to the crossing angle α in... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080027610 - System for controlling implement position: A system for controlling implement position including a method for controlling movement of an implement is disclosed. The method includes determining a first parameter configured to affect control of the implement with respect to a first timing. The method also includes determining a second parameter configured to affect control of... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080027613 - Automatic transmission shift point control system and method of use: An automatic transmission control system for controlling gear shifting in an automatic transmission in a motor vehicle having an automatic transmission in a motor vehicle in operative communication with a transmission control unit, the transmission control unit has adaptive gearshift logic that operates to compensate for variations in vehicle conditions... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080027614 - Method of controlling a continuously variable transmission: There is described a method of controlling a continuously variable ratio transmission of the type comprising a continuously variable ratio unit (“variator”) which has rotary input and output members though which the variator is coupled between an engine and a driven component, the variator receiving a primary control signal and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080027615 - Driving force distribution control device for vehicle: To maintain operating safety by driving force distribution control system when an abnormal state arises and to smoothly transition from a normal state to an abnormal state without sudden changes in vehicle behavior. The driving force distribution control part calculates the transfer torque for the transfer clutch for the center... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080027616 - Methods and systems for estimating compressor fouling impact to combined cycle power plants: A system and method for estimating the impact of compressor fouling in a combined cycle power block. The current performance of the combined cycle power block is determined and normalized to one or more reference conditions. A baseline performance of a gas turbine of the combined cycle power block is... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080027590 - Autonomous behaviors for a remote vehicle: A method for enhancing operational efficiency of a remote vehicle using a diagnostic behavior. The method comprises inputting and analyzing data received from a plurality of sensors to determine the existence of deviations from normal operation of the remote vehicle, updating parameters in a reference mobility model based on deviations... Agent: O''brien Jones, PLLC (w/irobot Corp.)

20080027591 - Method and system for controlling a remote vehicle: A system for controlling more than one remote vehicle. The system comprises an operator control unit allowing an operator to receive information from the remote vehicles and send commands to the remote vehicles via a touch-screen interface, the remote vehicles being capable of performing autonomous behaviors using information received from... Agent: O''brien Jones, PLLC (w/irobot Corp.)

20080027589 - Remote control apparatus: A remote control apparatus for drives an openable and closable in-vehicle device to close it remotely by means of an operation by a user carried out on an operation terminal, and, upon receiving a request for driving the in-vehicle device to close it, a driving operation is carried out to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080027592 - Avionic system and architecture with integrated power management: An avionic system includes computers (11a, . . . , 1n, 12a, . . . 12n, 13a . . . 13n) of the generic computer type that can be adapted by software programming to avionic functions for which at least some of these computers have means that combine electronic resources... Agent: Perman & Green

20080027593 - Control of a drogue body: A refueling drogue adapted to connect to a refueling hose extending from a refueling aircraft. The refueling drogue may include an active control system, wherein, in an exemplary embodiment, the active control system is adapted to regulate the position of the drogue to maintain a substantially fixed orientation relative to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080027598 - Electronic control device for remote control and teleoperation system using same: An ECU for a main remote control has a termination resistance having a first terminal connected to a high level signal line CANof a CAN cable and a second terminal connected to an external terminal of a connector. The CAN cable also has a low level signal line CAN connected... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080027599 - Autonomous vehicle and systems and methods for the operation thereof: Systems and methods for providing one-way rides by autonomous vehicles are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of the invention operates as a personal ski lift that includes an autonomous snowmobile or all terrain vehicle for providing a low-cost and flexible means to ascend ski-able terrain to bring a skier to a... Agent: Francis Edward Marino

20080027603 - Pc-based automobile owner's manual, diagnostics, and auto care: A computer built into an automobile displays the owner's manual for the car. The user requests more information about the automobile through the computer, and the additional information is displayed to the user. Information may include a description of a specific function or device of the car, service history, and/or... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Intel

20080027602 - System and method for deterring theft of vehicles and other products having integral computer means: A security system and method for deterring theft of a product, especially an automotive vehicle, is provided. In an embodiment, a secure storage device is provided that can be presented to a vehicle computer. The secure storage device includes a digital certificate associated with the vehicle and is operable to... Agent: Adams Patent & Trademark Agency

20080027604 - Vehicle maintenance event reporting method: A vehicle maintenance event reporting system and method that utilizes a vehicle email notification system in which triggers are used to initiate the generation and transmission of email messages that provide diverse types of dynamic vehicle information to the owner or other authorized subscriber. The email notifications are triggered by... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080027606 - Criteria-based alternative messaging for a vehicle email notification system: A criteria-based messaging method for use with a vehicle email notification system in which triggers are used to initiate the generation and transmission of email messages that provide diverse types of dynamic vehicle information to the owner or other authorized subscriber. The email notifications are triggered by different events, some... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080027605 - In-vehicle notification of failed message delivery: A method and system for in-vehicle notification of a failed message delivery for use with a vehicle email notification system in which triggers are used to initiate the generation and transmission of email messages that provide diverse types of dynamic vehicle information to the owner or other authorized subscriber. The... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080027607 - Assistance system for motor vehicles: An assistance system for motor vehicles, in particular an electronic rally-copilot, an over-taking assistant, or right-of-way assistant, includes at least one control unit, which selects data from at least three groups of global, local, and internal data. The selection is by way of a specification of a driver known by... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080027608 - Operating system for a vehicle: In the case of an operating system for a vehicle, having an arbitrarily operable operating component for a first function triggerable during the vehicle operation and for a second function triggerable upon and/or after the termination of the operation of the vehicle instead of the first function, information concerning the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080027611 - System and methods for sway control: Systems, methods and computer program code for the measurement and control of sway in load transportation systems are provided which include using Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) devices to measure and control the sway of suspended loads such as loads suspended from cranes.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080027612 - Motor vehicle having an automated transmission: A motor vehicle includes a clutch and an automated transmission between the engine and the drive wheels of the vehicle. A method for shift control in the motor vehicle when starting off or under way includes continuously performing computer simulations of the future driving of the vehicle, at least in... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080027617 - Method of engine surge discrimination: A method from discriminating between spurious and genuine surges in a gas turbine engine is provided which includes the steps of receiving an engine speed signal over a global engine surge investigation region that includes a plurality of operating regions (e.g. speed bands) in which engine surges can occur, identifying... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20080027618 - Strategy for fueling a diesel engine by selective use of fueling maps to provide hcci, hcci+cd, and cd combustion modes: A compression ignition engine (20) has a control system (26) for processing data, one or more combustion chambers (22), and fuel injectors (24) for injecting fuel into the chambers (22). The control system (26) controls fueling using a result of the processing of certain data, such as engine speed and... Agent: International Engine Intellectual Property Company

20080027619 - Crankshaft-synchronous detection of analog signals: Synchronization of the angle position of the crankshaft of a motor vehicle with the internal clock of a engine control device is often imprecise and complicated and is often fraught with difficulties, particularly with regard to the detection and processing of external sensor signals. The invention relates to a engine... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080027621 - Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine: A method and a device for controlling an internal combustion engine in which a combustion chamber quantity characterizing the combustion process is ascertained on the basis of input quantities. This takes place using a polytropic exponent. The polytropic exponent is ascertained on the basis of performance characteristics of the internal... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080027620 - Piston type aircraft engine: A propulsion assembly for propelling an aircraft is disclosed. The assembly includes a four stroke internal combustion engine, a propeller shaft that is operatively connected to the engine, and an electronic control unit that is connected to the engine and is configured to monitor and control at least one operating... Agent: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (brp)

20080027622 - Method of decoding a cam signal for an internal combustion engine: The CAM signal of a four-stroke internal combustion engine that also includes a CRANK signal having a sync feature is decoded by defining an observation window of predefined duration with respect a pulse transition of the CAM signal. The CAM signal is uniquely decoded during the observation window by monitoring... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080027623 - Procedure for the reduction of the torque of an internal combustion engine: In order to achieve at least a short-term reduction of the torque of an internal combustion engine (2), which comprises a range as widely adjustable as possible, causes a slight as possible thermal stress on the components of the attached exhaust gas system (5) and allows for a reduction of... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080027624 - Method for controlling an internal combustion engine: A method for controlling an internal combustion engine with a common-rail system, in which a fuel quantity is computed from a measured fuel pressure distribution and in which the computed fuel quantity is set as the controlling value for controlling an injection. The fuel quantity is computed by measuring the... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolf & Samson

20080027625 - Method for detecting preinjection: A method for detecting a preinjection in an internal combustion engine with a common-rail system, including individual accumulators, in which an individual accumulator pressure distribution is detected in a measurement interval and is used to determine an injection end of the main injection, in which a virtual injection start of... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson

20080027626 - Exhaust protecting device and protecting method for internal combustion engine: Fuel efficient devices and methods for protecting an exhaust system, and components thereof, when the exhaust gas temperature increases excessively are provided. The exhaust gas temperature is estimated in response to an internal resistance of an Air/Fuel ratio sensor element. The estimated temperature is corrected in a transition time based... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080027627 - Traffic lane marking line recognition system for vehicle: In the traffic lane marking line recognition system for vehicle having an image compositing device for compositing images photographed at different time points by a camera to elongate a traffic lane marking line in the photographed image, a fore-aft direction angle of the vehicle relative to the traffic lane marking... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080027628 - Electronic device and program for displaying map: When a guiding route is included in a display target region at a photograph display mode, route data of the guiding route is also read. Within the read route data, information of a region for editing a photograph is stored. This information includes a road kind (color information), coordinates of... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080027629 - Method and device for displaying a flight plan of an aircraft: e

20080027630 - Positioning system with switching function and switching function performing method thereof: A positioning system with a switching function includes a positioning information receiving module, a wireless signal receiving module, a transmission interface and a switching module. The positioning information receiving module is for receiving positioning information. A wireless signal receiving module is for receiving a wireless signal. The transmission interface is... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080027631 - Technique for effective navigation based on user preferences: In a navigation device in accordance with the invention, user profiles may be stored and used to navigate a user who may be driving in a vehicle, on foot, or in other mode of transportation. Each user profile corresponds to one of the user's personae. For example, the user business... Agent: Christie Parker & Hale, LLP

20080027632 - Storage and visualization of points of interest in a navigation system: A navigation system accepts driver input that extends the navigation capabilities of the navigation system, while permitting the driver to navigate using a digital map that indicates vehicle position. The driver input may identify a new point of interest, an icon for the new point of interest, and location information... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080027633 - Technique for effective navigation based on user preferences: In a navigation device in accordance with the invention, user profiles may be stored and used to navigate a user who may be driving in a vehicle, on foot, or in other mode of transportation. Each user profile corresponds to one of the user's personae. For example, the user business... Agent: Christie Parker & Hale, LLP

20080027634 - Technique for effective navigation based on user preferences: In a navigation device in accordance with the invention, user profiles may be stored and used to navigate a user who may be driving in a vehicle, on foot, or in other mode of transportation. Each user profile corresponds to one of the user's personae. For example, the user business... Agent: Christie Parker & Hale, LLP

20080027637 - Device and program product for controlling map display: An automobile navigation system determines whether or not the relevant vehicle is traveling and whether or not routing assistance is being provided. When the results of both the determinations are affirmative, a displayed map image is scrolled by an amount of scrolling corresponding to the size of a guided route... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080027638 - Navigation system: A navigation system includes: a search unit that executes a search for a route from a start point to a destination; a display unit at which the route determined through the search is displayed together with a roadmap; and a specification unit that specifies a range on the roadmap. If... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080027636 - Traffic navigation system: A vehicle navigation system is provided with a destination input section, a travel route information section, a historical data input section and an expected travel time reporting section. The travel destination input section is provided for entering a destination point. The travel route information section provides at least one potential... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080027635 - Vehicle navigation system: A vehicle navigation system includes a vehicle route information display device having a travel route information presenting section, a user input receiving section, an image downloading section and an image displaying section. The travel route information presenting section is configured to present a user with a travel route of a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080027639 - Method of anticipating a vehicle destination: A vehicle location sensor such as a GPS, an inertial navigation or dead reckoning system determines location data for a vehicle that travels from a known first destination to a second destination. This location data is processed by a route computer system, and associated vehicle driving patterns are stored in... Agent: Raggio & Dinnin, P.C.

20080027640 - Navigation apparatus, method, and program: A navigation apparatus, method, and program store map/road data including information on parking lots, provide position information on a position of the vehicle, and output guidance information. The apparatus, method, and program process the position information and the map/road data to generate guidance information, and make a first determination whether... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080027641 - Navigation device and route guide method: The invention provides a navigation device that displays a map image representing a map and a recommended route graphic representing a recommended route from a current location to a destination on the map image. The navigation device includes a self intersecting place detection unit that detects a place where the... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20080027642 - Method and system for collecting user update requests regarding geographic data to support automated analysis, processing and geographic data updates: A system and method provide functionality for collecting user update reports of geographic inconsistencies between geographic data and the real world to enable automated processing of updates to the geographic data. A user's input is collected and describes an anomaly, which is a geographic inconsistency between geographic data and the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080027644 - Portable vehicle navigation system: A navigation system includes an operator interface module (OIM) including a display and keypad. A computer module (computer module) includes a CPU, map database and the motion and position sensors. A docking station is fixedly mounted in each of a plurality of vehicles. The docking station includes an electrical connector... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv3)

20080027643 - Vehicle communication system with navigation: A vehicle communication system facilitates hands-free interaction with a mobile device in a vehicle or elsewhere. Users interact with the system by speaking to it. The system processes text and processes commands. The system supports Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free use. The system handles telephone calls, email, and SMS text... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080027645 - Method and apparatus for estimating behaviors of vehicle using gps signals: A method and an apparatus for estimating behaviors of a vehicle are provided. At least two GPS antennas are located along a longitudinal axis of a vehicle so that speed vectors at the positions where the GPS antennas are located can be determined based on GPS signals received by the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080027646 - Navigation system: A navigation system calculates an original navigation route between a start point and an end point of a travel based on an input from a map data input unit or the like, and provides a navigation guidance based on the original navigation route. When another vehicle in a front intersection... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080027647 - Collision avoidance system: A method for avoiding a collision and a collision avoidance system for a host vehicle comprising detecting means adapted to detect an intruder vehicle within a predetermined region around the host vehicle and collect data on the intruder vehicle; means for predicting a projected path of the intruder vehicle in... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080021598 - Control system for a vehicle: An operating system for a vehicle, including a display screen containing a plurality of representation regions for representing inputs of a menu structure with a plurality of levels, a manual actuating means for selecting and/or activating at least one input in a current level of the menu structure, and voice... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080021600 - Radio communications for vehicle speed adjustment: A method is provided comprising the following steps. A vehicle receives by radio from another vehicle an indication of speed of said another vehicle. The vehicle determines its own speed. A speed adjustment is automatically determined to be effected by said another vehicle so as to control relative speed of... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator-room 3j-219

20080021599 - Synthesized control input: A control system for regulating operation of a first vehicle system includes first and second sensors that respectively monitor first and second operating parameters of a plurality of operating parameters, and a module that receives signals generated by the first and second sensors. The module accesses a look-up table that... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080021601 - Method and device for detecting air turbulence in the environment of an aircraft: The device (1) comprises means (10) for determining a theoretical height corresponding to the difference between an extrapolated height of an isentropic trajectory and the current height of the aircraft, and means (16) for comparing this theoretical height with a height threshold indicating a risk of turbulence.... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080021603 - Belt slip diagnostic system for accesory and hybrid electric drives: A diagnostic system for a vehicle includes a first sensor that generates a first status signal, which is indicative of an engine speed of an engine. A second sensor generates a second status signal that is indicative of an actual accessory speed of an accessory. The accessory is coupled to... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080021604 - Maintenance interval determination and optimization tool and method: A Maintenance Interval Determination and Optimization Tool (MIDOT) provides optimized maintenance schedules for performing maintenance tasks on one or more components or systems based on component survival functions and economic analysis of non-safety tasks associated with maintenance schedules. MIDOT is used for specified platforms such as aircrafts. The MIDOT filters... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080021611 - Method and apparatus for controlling ride height and leveling of a vehicle having air suspension: A suspension system which upon detecting a fault such as a failed sensor, takes an inventory of the remaining operational components in the system and attempts to use the remaining operational components to keep the ride height and leveling system working. The system may open a cross-flow valve operating in... Agent: Antony C. Edwards

20080021610 - Method, apparatus and program for alarming abnormality in tire air-pressure: The present invention discloses a method for alarming abnormality in tire air-pressure informing decrease in tire air-pressure mounted on a vehicle, comprising a step of judging whether loads applied on respective tires are changed by the influence of air suspensions based on the difference of the heights of strokes between... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080021613 - Lane departure prevention system: A lane departure prevention system is provided with a lane departure tendency detection section, a yaw moment calculating section and a yaw moment control section. The lane departure tendency detection section detects a degree of a lane departure tendency of a host vehicle exhibiting a tendency of departing from its... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080021612 - Steering mechanism control system: A steering mechanism control system is provided with a steering angle ratio varying device, a steering angle determining section, a steering state determining section, a steering reaction force control device and a characteristic setting section. The steering angle ratio varying device controls a ratio of a steered angle of a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080021615 - Method for controlling vehicle airbag status during a vehicle dynamic situation: The present invention provides a method for controlling vehicle airbag status during a vehicle dynamic situation. The method initially includes estimating an occupant classification. This estimation may, for example, be based on the occupant's weight. Thereafter, a plurality of indicators which may signify an impending vehicle dynamic situation are evaluated.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080021616 - Occupant information detection system, occupant restraint system, and vehicle: A technology is provided which is effective for precisely detecting information about a vehicle occupant in a vehicle seat. In one form, an occupant restraint system to be installed in a vehicle is adapted to associate occupant surface profile information relating to a specific body region of a vehicle occupant,... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080021618 - Supervised and unsupervised seat folding: Supervised and unsupervised seat folding of the type wherein supervised or unsupervised seating folding is permitted as function of whether a user is within a particular proximity to a seat being folded. The proximity being determined according to any number of parameters, such as but not limited whether the user... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20080021622 - Automatic transmission, and apparatus and method of controlling the same: An automatic transmission includes at least an input section, an output section, first and second frictional engagement elements, and a controller. The input section receives an input torque from a drive unit. The first frictional engagement element has an engaged state allowing the output section to rotate at a first... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080021625 - Vehicle braking control device: A control unit extracts stop position candidates P1 to Pn from the white line data and three-dimensional object data recognized and acquires their positions L1 to Ln, and sets, as a target stop position Lt, one of the stop position candidates P1 to Pn that is the closest to the... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080021626 - System and method for determining when to update a surface estimation value indicative of a condition of a roadway surface: A system and a method for determining when to update a surface estimation value indicative of a condition of a roadway surface are provided. The method includes determining a front axle cornering force error value based on a predicted front axle cornering force value and a first front axle cornering... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080021602 - Electrically powered rail propulsion vehicle and method: A method of bridging a gap in an external electrical power supply line without stalling using an electrically powered rail propulsion vehicle includes using an electrically powered rail propulsion vehicle to propel a consist, the electrically powered rail propulsion vehicle configured to run as an emission-free pure electric unit from... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080021605 - Vehicle email notification using data from different sources: A vehicle email notification system and method that accesses data from the vehicle as well as from one or more other sources and combines the information into an email that is then sent to the owner or other authorized subscriber. The email notifications are triggered by different events, some of... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080021606 - Method for calculating the cumulative interruption of a driving period: In a method for calculating a cumulative interruption of a driving period, associated with the identity (10) of a vehicle driver, the cumulative interruption of a driving period (Σti) of a determined driver is calculated as the respective accumulated duration of driving period interruptions (ti2, ti4 , ti5). The frequent... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080021607 - System mounted on a vehicle, vehicle, diagnosis information collecting device and nagivation device: In a navigation system integrated with a diagnostic device, an arithmetic and control unit for diagnostic communication makes an inquiry to electronic control units, such as an engine control unit, a transmission control unit and a brake control unit connected a CAN, about data which is used for the diagnosis... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080021608 - Method and device for driver assistance: A method and a device for driver assistance are described, a warning signal being output as a function of the driver status and the lane change intention in the event of a lane change.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080021609 - Speed control system for walk behind powered equipment: A walk-behind self-propelled apparatus having a mobile structure and a handle assembly coupled to the mobile structure. The handle assembly includes a pair of grip portions. A ground engaging traction member is rotatably coupled to the mobile structure and imparts traction movement to the mobile structure for movement on the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080021614 - Controller for electric power steering apparatus: A computed SAT value SATa is computed, and an estimated SAT value SATb is estimated from lateral force. A grip loss level “g” is computed from difference between the computed self aligning torque value SATA and the estimated SAT value SATb. Torque correction value ΔT which becomes greater with an... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080021617 - Method for actuating a vehicle occupant protection device in a vehicle and a vehicle occupant protection system: A vehicle occupant protection system and a method for actuating a vehicle occupant protection device in a vehicle are provided. The distance from an obstacle is sensed, a braking deceleration which is necessary to avoid a collision is determined, and the determined braking deceleration is used to determine whether a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080021620 - Control of driveline geometry: A system for control of driveline geometry of a heavy vehicle includes a propeller shaft that is suspended in a center bearing unit, the position of which center bearing unit can be adjusted, wherein the adjustment is determined based on one or more measurements of one or more geometrical parameters... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20080021619 - Device for actuating an electric or mechanical closing device on a door and/or lid of a vehicle: The invention relates to a device for actuating an electric or electromechanical closing device (10) on a door (12) and/or a lid of a vehicle, said device comprising a sensor that reacts to an approach or contact. The aim of the invention is to provide a device that can clearly... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20080021621 - Riding type vehicle: A riding type vehicle includes an automatic transmission capable of executing a shift change by a clutch actuator and a shift actuator. A clutch is controlled by the clutch actuator and is a multiplate clutch. The multiplate clutch is provided with bias member configured to enlarge a partial clutch engagement... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080021624 - Method and control system for applying defined clamping forces: Disclosed are a method and a control system for applying defined clamping forces in a brake that is electrically operable by an actuator and includes a first friction surface (friction lining) and a second friction surface (brake disc). In the method, a correlation exists between the actuator position and the... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20080021623 - Redundant brake control system for a vehicle: A brake control system for a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle, includes a service brake for braking the wheels of the vehicle. To increase operating safety, the service brake is equipped with an electronically actuatable brake unit for each wheel for actuating the brake of the respective wheel. Two... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080021627 - Method and computer program at a vehicle for adjusting the distance to a vehicle ahead: In a method for adjusting a desired distance or a desired time window between a first vehicle and a vehicle that is ahead of the first vehicle, the first vehicle has a cruise control provided with an adjusting device that is operated by an operator, such as a button or... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20080021628 - Hybrid electric vehicle energy management system: A vehicle location sensor such as a GPS, an inertial navigation or dead reckoning system determines location data for a vehicle that travels from a known first destination to a second destination. This location data is processed by a route computer system, and associated vehicle driving patterns are stored in... Agent: Raggio & Dinnin, P.C.

20080021629 - Vehicle control system: A method is provided for controlling an engine having an intake manifold and an outlet control device coupled to the manifold for controlling flow exiting the manifold and entering at least one cylinder of the engine. The engine further includes an inlet control device for controlling flow entering the manifold.... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20080021630 - Vehicle control system: A method for controlling an engine having at least one cylinder, the engine coupled to a vehicle, the engine also having an intake manifold and an outlet control device for controlling flow from the intake manifold into the cylinder, the engine further having an inlet control device for controlling flow... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20080021631 - Method and apparatus for detecting the presence of a prescribed heat exchanger: A method and apparatus for detecting the presence of a prescribed heat exchanger, such as a catalytically active radiator, in a motor vehicle are performed, during operation of the motor vehicle. The temperature of a heat-exchanger medium is observed together with further current operationally relevant parameters of the motor vehicle... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080021632 - Traffic condition report device, system thereof, method thereof, program for executing the method, and recording medium containing the program: The navigation device 100 includes: a storage section 160 for acquiring map information; a route processor for searching for a travel route of a vehicle to acquire an arrival position of the vehicle at a predetermined time; a traffic-jam condition recognizer for recognizing current traffic-jam information and predicted traffic-jam information... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080021634 - Latch apparatus for portable electronic devices: The latch apparatus for portable display devices has a pin portion and an actuator. The latch apparatus has an opening into which the pin portion is inserted to secure the display device in a device mount. The actuator applies force to release the pin to remove the display device from... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080021633 - Navigation system and navigation apparatus: A communication control module of a navigation apparatus determines that a short message that a communication module has received is from a mobile telephone that corresponds to identification data stored in advance in a RAM, and outputs a remote operation signal to a power source module. The navigation module acquires... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080021635 - Method for establishing optimized paths of movement of vehicles: A method and apparatus for planning vehicle trajectories or routing in which a first optimized route between a starting point and a destination is established with regard to a first, relatively coarse node grid, using known techniques. In order to further refine route selection, a second relatively finer node grid... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080021636 - Landmark information system for an aircraft: A landmark information system in an aircraft, by which landmark information system data relating to informing, instructing and entertaining passengers may be visually presented. An aircraft equipped with a landmark information system is also provided. The landmark information system comprises an aircraft window with at least one pane and a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080021637 - Method and system to configure and utilize geographical zones: A method to define a geographical zone is disclosed. The geographical zone can be utilized to regulate a movable entity and the actions within the geographical zone. The geographical zone can be defined by allowing a user to define and load to a transponder a plurality of waypoints, each waypoint... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080021638 - Navigation system: A service-area road that is a road in a service area such as a rest area or parking area of an expressway is determined to be a road on which a vehicle travels on when the following three conditions are satisfied. A first condition is satisfied when the vehicle travels... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080021640 - Apparatus and method for providing personalized route guidance using a navigation game: An apparatus and method for providing personalized route guidance using a navigation game are provided. A user can learn in advance the route for a destination through the navigation game in a terminal with a navigation function. Driving habit data for the user is stored in a database through the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080021641 - Navigation system and the operating method thereof: The present invention relates in general to a navigation system, more particularly, to a navigation system and an operating method thereof, in which the navigation system shows the configuration of a complicated intersection a driver is about to enter, and displays where to turn and a progression rate of the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080021639 - Route guidance device: Includes a map information storage unit (4) having map information stored therein; an input unit (6) for inputting a destination; a route information control unit (7) for acquiring supplementary route information corresponding to the destination from outside; a supplementary route information storage unit (10) for storing supplementary route information; a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080021643 - Driving support apparatus and vehicle navigation apparatus: A driving support apparatus in a vehicle includes a control circuit as well as a current position detection unit, a database, and other units. The driving support apparatus provides a guidance of an exit method from a one way road when the vehicle is detected to have entered the one... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080021642 - Smart storage and transmission of navigation information: A method of formatting navigation information is disclosed. The method can establish various different regions on a map. These regions can include varying levels of detail. Some of the regions can include more details than other regions. The regions can have different shapes and sizes, and in some cases, the... Agent: Plumsea Law Group, LLC

20080021644 - Electronic map display system: A navigation system is provided that includes a storage unit, a processing unit, and an optical output unit. The storage unit includes a first storage portion for storing type definition data for a plurality of object types, the type definition data defining a graphical representation of an object type in... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080021646 - High altitude parachute navigation flight computer: A navigational computer design for high altitude and other similar navigational needs includes a processor, which receives as input signals from navigational and navigational related sensors such as a GPS, compass, inertial measurement unit and sensors. Processor utilizes the navigational information to provide a display to the user indicating present... Agent: Bourque & Associates, P.A.

20080021645 - Methods and apparatus to analyze and present location information: Method and apparatus to analyze and present location information in an easy-to-digest manner are disclosed. In one embodiment, each piece of location information can include a piece of location-designating information and a piece of location-related information. Location-designating information is primarily for identifying location. Location-related information is information related to location-designating... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20080021648 - 3 and 4 dimensional display of forecast hazards linked to the movement of the subject along a future path in space and time: The present invention comprises a new method and system for presentation of forecast hazards to vehicles that allows the incremental advance of the time of the display showing the movement of the vehicle in 3 dimensions as an overlay on the movement of hazards to the vehicle also in 3... Agent: Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20080021647 - Avoidance method and system for an aircraft: The invention relates to an avoidance method and system for an aircraft, said avoidance system (1) comprising an anti-collision system (3), calculation means (4) for automatic determination of avoidance instructions, on an alarm, from avoidance information received from the anti-collision system (3) and an avoidance aid system (6, 21), connected... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080015744 - Remoted controlled vehicle system: A novel system and method for providing remote control of a vehicle is disclosed. The system comprises an antenna, a central processing unit, a speed sensor, a speed control device, and optionally, a transmission disengagement device. By sending a remote control signal to the vehicle, the vehicle can be slowed... Agent: Manuel F. De La Cerra

20080015747 - Outboard motor conversion unit: In an outboard motor conversion unit, it is configured to have a boat-side conversion unit that detects displacement generated at a movable member due to manual manipulation of a mechanical operation mechanism and converts the detected displacement into an electric signal, actuators connected to a steering mechanism, a shift mechanism... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080015748 - System for monitoring, controlling, and reporting vehicle operation through onboard diagnostic port: Systems and methods are disclosed to extract, monitor, analyze, and send data from a vehicle interface module (VIM) coupled to one or more vehicular electronic devices; transmitting vehicle and geographic location data to a handheld or vehicle-mounted computer or navigation device and forwarding the data to a web server over... Agent: Bao Tran Tran & Associates

20080015754 - System for estimating and compensating for lateral disturbances using controlled steering and braking: A method for compensating for a lateral force disturbance acting on a vehicle including the steps of estimating a magnitude of the lateral force disturbance, determining whether the magnitude or a rate of change of the magnitude exceeds a predetermined threshold value and, when the predetermined threshold value is exceeded,... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080015759 - Control system for an agricultural vehicle: A control system is described for a hydrostatic transmission of an agricultural vehicle comprising a variable displacement hydrostatic pump and a hydrostatic motor. The control system comprises means for determining the prevailing transmission ratio and a controller for applying a demand signal to set the desired ratio of the hydrostatic... Agent: Cnh America LLC

20080015760 - Power output apparatus and motor vehicle: In a power output apparatus of the invention, an engine EG1 is connected with a motor MG1 and is connected with an engine EG2 via a clutch C1. A driveshaft 65 is connected to the engine EG2 via a clutch C2 and is linked with a motor MG2. On a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080015763 - Apparatus and method for evaluating a degree of a safety in traveling of a vehicle: The apparatus acquires acceleration data in time series at a fixed position of a tire while a vehicle having the tire is traveling on a road surface, obtains a spectrum of the acceleration by subjecting the acquired time series acceleration data to frequency analysis, and detects a peak value of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080015764 - Lateral acceleration sensor breakdown detection device: A lateral G sensor breakdown detection device configured to carry out a breakdown determination control that determines that the lateral G sensor has a breakdown when the difference between the actual lateral G acting on a four wheel drive vehicle measured by the lateral G detection sensor installed on the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080015765 - Traveling safety device for vehicle: A traveling safety device for a vehicle of the present invention includes a brake device, a brake operation detecting device, a storage device, a present vehicle position detecting device, a vehicle state detecting device, a road shape recognizing device, a proper vehicle state setting device, a comparing device, a brake... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080015768 - Driving force control unit for a vehicle: The driving force control unit for a vehicle comprises a plurality of control modes for controlling a driving force, each of control modes having each driving force characteristic, a vehicle driving condition detecting unit for detecting a vehicle driving condition, a selector for selecting one control mode from the control... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080015743 - Method and system for assisting the driver of a motor vehicle in identifying road bumps: A system and method for assisting the driver of a vehicle in identifying obstacles for the vehicle as is described. Objects located outside the vehicle are detected with the aid of object detector. If objects are detected, information is given to the driver and/or to defined components of the vehicle.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080015745 - Individual transport control and communication system: An automated transportation system includes a plurality of vehicles adapted to travel along a pathway, and a monitoring system located within each vehicle and adapted to monitor a location and a speed between an associated vehicle and the pathway. The automated transportation system also includes a transmitter located within each... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20080015746 - System of automatic control of maneuver of motor crafts, related method, and craft provided with the system: The present invention concerns a system of automatic control of manoeuvre of motor crafts that allows, in a reliable and efficient way, to simplify piloting of multi-motor crafts, particularly in manoeuvres within restricted spaces such as for instance, but not exclusively, during phases of mooring, anchoring, or refuelling. In particular,... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080015750 - Mehod for determining a torque on a steering train of a vehicle with dynamic drive system: The present invention relates to a method for determining a torque on a steering train. The method comprises the method steps: determining angular signals through a position sensor of an electric motor which supports the rotational movement of the steering train, determining of measuring and control variables of a dynamic... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080015752 - Method for adapting steering characteristics of a motor vehicle: The present invention relates to a method for adapting the steering characteristics of a motor vehicle with an electric power steering system. This has the following process steps: Determining of steering angle signals of the steering train utilising at least one steering angle sensor in the steering train, Determining measuring... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080015749 - Method for determining a torque on a steering train: The present invention relates to a method for determining the torque introduced into a drive train. The method comprises the process steps: determining of angular signals with the help of two sensors between which a region of the steering train is located which is subjected to a torque, evaluating the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080015751 - Safety method of a steering system: The present invention relates to a safety method for monitoring a steering system of a motor vehicle with electric steering support for detecting instabilities and potentially dangerous malfunctions. This has the following method steps: Determining at least one measuring and control quantity of a steering train, Determining at least one... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080015753 - Adaptive energy absorption system for a vehicle seat: An adaptive energy absorption system for a vehicle seat is disclosed, utilizing an adaptive energy absorber or variable profile energy absorber (VPEA) for mitigating occupant injury due to extreme vehicle movement (e.g., during a vehicle shock event), and/or for mitigating vibration experienced by an occupant of the vehicle seat during... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080015755 - Vehicle integrated-control apparatus and vehicle integrated-control method: The invention relates to a vehicle integrated-control apparatus and method that sets a final control target by coordinating a control target primarily set based on an input of a driver with instruction values from the control systems; and that causes a drive control system to control a drive source and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080015756 - Track-guided transport system: A track-guided transport system having at least one track made up of bearing and track-guidance elements on which at least one transport vehicle is guided as main vehicle, which has device(s) for self-automated movement along the track, and to which energy is transmitted from a primary circuit which has a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080015757 - Method for multi-operating mode control of an automated transmission for a motor vehicle, in particular for idle speed running with activated brake and corresponding device: A method for controlling an automated transmission for a power train of a motor vehicle produces a first setpoint signal of a variable that is applicable to the vehicle wheels and that includes dynamic and static components formed taking into consideration input representative data of the motor vehicle characteristics, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080015758 - Process for monitoring the direction of frictional drive from a vehicle transmission at near-zero vehicle speed: A process for monitoring a direction of drive from an automatic or automated vehicle transmission at near-zero vehicle speed via an engaged gear. A desired direction of drive of the transmission is determined from an engaged gear at the time the vehicle begins motion. An actual direction of drive is... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080015761 - Electric braking device for vehicles: The invention relates to an electric braking device for a vehicle. The inventive device comprises: front wheel (4a, 4b) and/or rear wheel (4c, 4d) braking modules which are not powered when the vehicle is in the standby state; at least one on-board computer (1); at least one user control module... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080015762 - Integrated sensing system: A vehicle control system includes a housed sensor cluster generating a plurality of signals. An integrated controller includes a sensor signal compensation unit and a kinematics unit, wherein the sensor signal compensation unit receives at least one of the plurality of signals and compensates for an offset within the signal... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080015766 - Antiskid control - combined paired/individual wheel control logic: An anti-skid brake control system for a multi-wheeled vehicle includes both a paired function and an individual function. The paired function controls the wheels of the vehicle in unison. The individual function controls the wheels of the vehicle individually. A paired/individual logic circuit alternatively activates and deactivates the paired function... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080015767 - Driving force control unit for a vehicle: The driving force control unit comprises a plurality of control modes for controlling a driving force, each of control modes having each driving force characteristic; a vehicle driving condition detecting unit for detecting a vehicle driving condition; a selector for selecting one control mode from the plurality of control modes;... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080015769 - Fault determination device and method of negative pressure generation device: An ECU determines the presence/absence of a fault of a negative pressure generation device that has an ejector that generates a negative pressure that is greater than the negative pressure that is to be extracted from an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine, and a VSV that causes the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080015770 - Map data providing method: A map data providing method for providing map data to be used in a navigation system includes: dividing an area over which the map data are available into a plurality of blocks by using each of a plurality of division patterns set so that blocks resulting from divisions with the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080015772 - Drive-assist information providing system for driver of vehicle: A drive-assist information providing system is installed beforehand in a vehicle. The system provides drive-assist information to the driver when the vehicle is running, or temporarily halting, on one lane of a road within a predetermined assist zone. The system includes a first obtaining unit for obtaining a current position... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080015771 - Information transfer arrangement and method for vehicles: An arrangement and method for displaying and transferring information between a vehicle and at least one transmitter separate from the vehicle includes an antenna mounted on the vehicle for receiving RF wireless signals emitted by each transmitter, a location determining device for determining the vehicle's location, a display arranged on... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080015773 - Position locating system, terminal device, control method for terminal device, control program for terminal device, and computer-readable record medium storing control program for terminal device therein: A terminal device 50 includes aid-information acquisition device to acquire aid information 154 from an information providing apparatus, an information-providing-apparatus-sort judgment device to judge the type of information providing apparatus on the basis of positioning charge information 154a contained in the aid information 154, a positioning-basis-information generation device to generate... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080015774 - Routing method and system: A method of route determination for mobile elements in a network comprising a plurality of paths each having a predetermined path capacity. The method comprises the steps of registering centrally a plurality of route requests from a corresponding plurality of mobile elements each of said requests defining a journey between... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080015775 - Road exit modeling using aerial image: To improve map accuracy by a new method that represents a road exit, there is provided a map generating apparatus for drawing a road map from digital data of a road map and a photographic image of a region that includes a region depicted by the road map, in which:... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080015776 - Combined parallel and sequential detection for gps signal acquisition: A two part signal acquisition process includes a parallel signal detection process and signal verification/false alarm rejection process. A massively parallel architecture of acquisition correlators search a large region of the time-frequency uncertainty during the parallel signal detection process to identify the most likely detections for each search dwell. Concurrent... Agent: David S. Sarisky, Esq. Fulwider Patton Lee & Utecht, LLP

20080015777 - Method and distance detecting device for detecting the projected distance between a distance measuring device and an obstacle: The invention relates to method and a device for determining the projected distance between a distance measuring device and a nearest point on the surface of an obstacle, the projected distance between said point and the distance measuring device being fundamentally the shortest in relation to all points of the... Agent: Dreiss, Fuhlendorf, Steimle & Becker

20080015778 - Vehicle motion control device: A vehicle motion control device is provided which can pre-determine an obstacle ahead of the vehicle and adequately reflect the vehicle operator's maneuver and intention in consideration of various travel information throughout an avoidance travel, thereby allowing each vehicle behavior controller to naturally provide adequate control for the vehicle to... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080009983 - Flight control system for aircraft and test for testing such a flight control system: P

20080009984 - Path guidance method for autonomous mobile device: A path guidance method for autonomous mobile device, by which a directional wireless reception unit, arranged on the autonomous mobile device, is enabled to receive a radio wave guidance signal issued by a call unit while the direction pointing to the call unit can be determined with respect to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080009991 - Automated vehicular device control apparatus: An automated vehicular device control apparatus includes a position detector, instruction input switches for executing an automated operation, and a control unit. The control unit uses the position detector for detecting the position of the self-vehicle when the control unit recognizes an input of an instruction for executing the automated... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080009990 - Drive assist system: When moving a vehicle forward to park, a swept path during a period of parking operation is stored in memory. The vehicle is parked as forward parking, in which the front of the vehicle faces the dead end of a parking space of a side-by-side parking lot. In starting the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080009988 - Location determinative method for controlling an engine to automatically regulate vehicle cabin temperature: A location determinative method and system for controlling an engine to automatically regulate cabin temperature within a parked vehicle that is equipped with a heating/cooling apparatus, the method including determining the current location of the vehicle using a satellite navigation system, retrieving from memory location-specific parameters of engine operation and... Agent: Invention Protection Associates, LLC

20080009992 - Control device of variable damping force damper: A control device of a variable damping force damper for controlling a damping force of a damper used in a vehicle suspension system comprises: relative displacement detection means for detecting a value corresponding to a relative displacement between a vehicle body and a wheel in a vertical direction; relative speed... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080009993 - Rudder angle sensor: There is provided a rudder angle sensor that is attached to a steering shaft for measuring an absolute angle of the steering shaft and includes: a coarse signal measuring mechanism and a fine signal measuring mechanism which measure a rotation angle of the steering shaft which rotates a predetermined number... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080009995 - Transmission slip control: A method of managing slip in a transmission that is driven by a prime mover includes determining whether a slip condition of the transmission is present based on a slip value and reducing a torque output of the prime mover based on a torque reduction value when the slip condition... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080009982 - Feature enabler unit: An enabling unit for activating a feature in an electronic control unit on a vehicle includes a port for communicating with an electronic control unit included on the vehicle. A processor, which communicates with the port, includes a message for enabling a dormant feature included on the electronic control unit.... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080009985 - Semi-autonomous guidance system for a vehicle: A system (and corresponding method) by which a number of trailing vehicles follows (more or less in line, one behind the other) a lead vehicle, and so forms a convoy, with each of the trailing vehicles receiving a guidance signal from the vehicle ahead of it in order to determine... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080009986 - Integrated sensing system: A vehicle control system includes a housed sensor cluster generating a plurality of signals. An integrated controller includes a sensor signal compensation unit and a kinematics unit, wherein the sensor signal compensation unit receives at least one of the plurality of signals and compensates for an offset within the signal... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080009987 - Apparatus for detecting and identifying component failure in a fuel system: A detector for detecting the operational status of one or more fuel pumps in a fuel system of a vehicle, the system comprising an accumulator volume for storing high pressure fuel, one or more injectors arranged in fluid communication with the accumulator volume and one or more high pressure fuel... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080009989 - Operating system for a seat: A vehicle seat system includes a vehicle seat, a main controller, a plurality of hub controllers connected to the main controller, and a plurality of seat devices operatively coupled to the seat. Each seat device is connected to a corresponding one of the hub controllers and operatively coupled to the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080009994 - Vehicular sensor device and vehicular stabilizing system using vehicular sensor device: An object is to simplify the structure of electric wirings, and to facilitate installation. A vehicular motion quantity sensor and a steering angle sensor are installed in the same casing or mechanically connected directly with the casing. Therefore, it is possible to put together electrical wiring harnesses for transmitting the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080009996 - Vehicle deceleration control device: A vehicle deceleration control device is provided that can determine an appropriate supplemental braking force when a braking force is applied according to an accelerator operation state. An engine braking-equivalent braking force is varied according to an initial accelerator angle when an accelerator returns and according to an accelerator return... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080009997 - Method for regulating the mixture of a multicylinder otto engine comprising cylinder-specific individual catalytic converters and a joint main catalytic converter mounted down-stream of the individual catalytic converters: According to one embodiment of the inventive method, half the cylinders of an in-line cylinder arrangement or the entire internal combustion engine are forcibly excited cylinder-specifically in opposite direction to the other half of the cylinders in order to balance the cylinder-specific total torque. According to another embodiment of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080009998 - Method and system for continuously controlling an internal combustion engine on an engine bench testing unit: The present invention relates to a system and a method for continuous operation of an internal-combustion engine (2), comprising at least an actuator connected to a working device of the engine, an electronic circuit board or card (3) comprising a programmable logic FPGA component, means (9, 10) for synchronizing the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080009999 - Fuel injection controller: A fuel injection controller performs minute injection amount learning for learning an injection characteristic of an injector related to a minute amount injection such as a pilot injection by performing n-times of injections of fuel amounts obtained by equally dividing a fuel injection amount required during idle rotation speed control.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080010000 - Procedure for the operation of an internal combustion engine: Procedure and device for the operation of a gasoline engine with direct gasoline injection and with a variable valve-train assembly in a mode of operation with self-ignition, in which when a deviation by the actual values of physical parameters characterizing a combustion from set point values occurs in a work... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080010001 - Automatic vehicle stop control method: A stop control method which is intended for a heat engine of a vehicle that is equipped with a reversible electric machine. According to the invention, a decision is made to stop the heat engine as a function of: (i) steady conditions which are essentially stable prior to a stopping... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20080010002 - System for providing traffic information: A system for providing traffic information to a plurality of mobile users connected to a network. The system comprises a plurality of traffic monitors, each comprising at least a traffic detector and a transmitter, the traffic detector generating a signal in response to vehicular traffic and the transmitter transmitting the... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080010003 - Method and system for collecting traffic information using thermal sensing: A method and system for collecting traffic data are disclosed. From a satellite or aircraft located at an altitude above a geographic area, a thermal image of the geographic area is obtained. Using a geographic database, the thermal image is matched to the positions of roads in the geographic area.... Agent: Navteq North America, LLC

20080010005 - Methods and systems for aircraft departure enhanced situational awareness and recovery: A method for providing an enterprise with a situational awareness for conditions related to aircraft departure is described. The method includes receiving data related to one or more events that have the potential to affect conditions related to an aircraft's departure from a plurality of enterprise related systems, correlating the... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080010004 - Methods and systems for real-time enhanced situational awareness: A system and method of automatically advising an individual, in real-time, of all available facts related to a current situation. The method is facilitated by a system, which automatically retrieves data related to a situation from a plurality of aviation enterprise systems, processes the data retrieved in real time and... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080010006 - Method and apparatus for trip routing with configurable constraints: A method of analyzing a path by defining a plurality of contiguous geographical regions, each to have a uniform value of a characteristic affecting travel through the region and evaluating the path from a point in an origin region through an intermediate region to a point in a destination region.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080010007 - Navigation device, method, and program: In a navigation device, a destination waypoint is set by a user through an input section (13), and, when guidance to the destination waypoint is started, a control section (11) stores positional information on the destination waypoint into a destination waypoint history table (21) of a storage section (12) at... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080010010 - Navigation system: The invention discloses a navigation system comprising a mobile communication apparatus and an agent. The mobile communication apparatus comprises a first receiver, a first processor, an input device, a first communication device, and a display. The agent comprises a storage device, a second communication device, and a second processor. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080010009 - Positional information use apparatus: A vehicular swept path processor and a map matching processor calculate a current position of a subject vehicle. A gyro sensor and a steering sensor output detection signals. A POI recognition processor makes a determination as to whether the vehicle stopped off at a POI or not based on the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080010008 - System and method of delivering vector based images to mobile devices: A method of preparing map data in a vector form for delivery to a wireless device is provided. The method being operative on a server and comprising the steps of receiving a request for a map, determining X,Y co-ordinates of a location center, determining an area of interest that contains... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080010011 - Method for storing off-board navigation destination locations: A method for verifying and storing location coordinates includes receiving a verification request at a call center, the verification request including location coordinates. The method further includes determining routability of received location coordinates, and transmitting location information from the call center to an off-board navigation device based on the determination.... Agent: Anthony Luke Simon General Motors Corporation

20080010012 - Vehicle navigation system with a display correction and display correction method thereof: A vehicle navigation system with a display correction and the display correction method thereof, which first extracts a current display location and corresponding road links, next extracts a next vehicle location and selects all road links ranging within 25 meters from the next vehicle location to generate a first set... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080010013 - Guidance system: The invention concerns a guidance system and a method for guiding passengers in an elevator system. The elevator system comprises a number of elevators, means for receiving and allocating passengers' destination call data, and data transfer means for implementing data transfer between the elevator system and the guidance system. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080010014 - Modular navigation system for media player: The present invention is distinguished in that the display apparatus and operating element configuration are situated separately in a mobile multimedia playback device (1). The present invention allows a combination of the two separate device and service species “navigation” and “personal multimedia” by expanding the area of use of multimedia... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080010015 - Bundle location specified in terms of gps coordinates: Provided is a method for determining the actual physical location of a software application by integrating a software application, or bundle, with GPS technology. A software developer or provider creates a software bundle and defines geographical limits for the bundle. The bundle periodically queries a GPS locator associated with the... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20080010016 - Distribution center processing of vehicles and cargo: The efficiency with which loads carried by vehicles can be off-loaded is improved by allowing vehicle personnel or companies shipping goods by vehicle to directly schedule personnel and other resources needed for off-loading automatically without human intervention. During off-loading, information related to the off-loading is captured by dock personnel using... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080010017 - Method for elaborating navigation parameters and vertical of a place: