Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location inventions 03/08

20080077283 - Vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and vehicle control program: A vehicle control system includes a route setting unit for setting a route from a start point to a destination; an information obtaining unit for obtaining from a memory position information of at least one base point and at least one control point existing in the route set by the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080077285 - Methods and systems for improved throttle control and coupling control for locomotive and associated train: A multi-mode control system for a locomotive includes a throttle control device having notch settings corresponding to, for a first, long haul mode, control signals for providing respective tractive effort or power from the locomotive, a master controller in communication with the throttle control device and adapted to receive said... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080077290 - Fleet operations quality management system: A low-cost fleet operations quality management system for use with one or more vehicles which includes a data recording unit and separate memory subsystem mounted on each vehicle, a remotely located data collection station to collect, store and pre-process data from multiple vehicles, a centralized data storage and retrieval system... Agent: Brainstorm Consulting, LLC

20080077292 - Keyfob with digital file storage and vehicular system for the use thereof: A keyfob is provided for use in a vehicle having a processor. The keyfob comprises a housing, a battery disposed within the housing, and control circuitry disposed within the housing and coupled to the battery. A memory coupled to the control circuitry is disposed within the housing and is configured... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080077291 - On-board interactive electronic system for a vehicle: An on-board interactive electronic system for a vehicle including an operating module with a plurality of operating elements for selecting a parameter of a plurality of parameters or a specific value of the parameter. The value and the parameter may be addressed by operating at least one operating element of... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080077297 - Control apparatus and method for vehicle, program for implementing the control method with computer and storage medium for storing the program: A control apparatus for a vehicle having an engine and an automatic transmission includes a rotational speed detection unit that detects the engine speed; a temperature detection unit that detects the temperature of automatic transmission fluid; an calculation unit that calculates a degree of agitation of the automatic transmission fluid... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080077298 - Driving position adjusting system: A driving position adjusting system automatically adjusts a driving position in a second vehicle appropriately to a target user based on a driving position in a first vehicle adjusted by the target user. The driving position adjusting system includes a storage device, a detection device, an estimation device, a transmission... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080077300 - Method and apparatus for estimating landscape services: Landscape services can be estimated by: (1) placing location transmitters around the perimeter of a parcel to be serviced, (2) transmitting location data to a receiver associated with a processing unit, and (3) using the processing unit to estimate a variable based on the area of the parcel defined by... Agent: Brouse Mcdowell Lpa

20080077299 - Work vehicle access monitoring and control system: An access control system for a work vehicle that has an engine and a location is provided, the system including location sensor that indicates the vehicle's location and an electronic control unit coupled to the sensor that receives the location signal and selectively disables the engine based upon the vehicle's... Agent: Cnh America LLC

20080077301 - Shift control device for vehicle and vehicle incorporating same: A vehicle is provided with a shift control device including a rolling angular velocity sensor for detecting a rolling angular velocity of a component of the vehicle, and a steering-angle angular velocity sensor for detecting a steering-angle angular velocity of a handlebar of the vehicle. The shift control device is... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080077302 - Brake force detecting device: A brake force detecting device for detecting strain in a caliper bracket. The brake force detecting device includes a sensor plate fixed to the outside surface of a brake load receiving portion of the caliper bracket in the circumferential direction of a brake disc and a strain gauge attached to... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080077284 - System for position and velocity sense of an aircraft: A system for determining the position and/or velocity of an autonomous aircraft in a low-cost, low-weight manner independent of external technological dependencies such as satellites or beacons is claimed. The solution comprises a combination of traditional technologies (IMUs, altitude sensing, control systems, visual sensing technology, etc.) coupled with algorithms to... Agent: Mathew J. Temmerman

20080077286 - Electric-power supply system, and vehicle: A first hybrid vehicle (10A) is connected to a house-side connector (40). A second hybrid vehicle (10B) is connected to the first hybrid vehicle (10A), and they are connected in parallel within the first hybrid vehicle (10A) with respect to a house load (20). When a commercial system power source... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080077287 - Split serial-parallel hybrid dual-power drive system: A split serial-parallel hybrid dual-power drive system, comprised of two or more than two separation drive systems allowing independent operation to respectively drive the load, or all loads driven individually are incorporated in a common frame to drive land, surface, underwater transportation means or aircraft, industrial machines and equipment or... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080077288 - Split serial-parallel hybrid dual-power drive system: A split serial-parallel hybrid dual-power drive system, comprised of two or more than two separation drive systems allowing independent operation to respectively drive the load, or all loads driven individually are incorporated in a common frame to drive land, surface, underwater transportation means or aircraft, industrial machines and equipment or... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080077289 - Rollover determination apparatus: A disclosed rollover determination apparatus mounted on a vehicle for determining whether or not the present vehicle has a possibility of rolling over is configured to change its rollover determination criterion when a vehicle behavior control for controlling rotations of wheels is activated, so that it is not determined that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080077293 - System and method for extending the range of run-flat tires: A method and system for extending the range of run-flat tires by providing ride height control. When the vehicle has a damaged tire or tires the ride height of an appropriate suspension system(s) is capable of being adjusted to achieve a level attitude for the vehicle thus preventing destructive loads... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20080077294 - Method and device for the assisted parking of a motor vehicle: A method and a device for the assisted parking of a motor vehicle into a parking space are provided. The method comprises the following method steps: approaching the parking space; measuring the parking space using sensors situated on the motor vehicle; calculating a setpoint parking path and indicating the setpoint... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080077295 - Stabilizing system and method for directionally stabilizing a vehicle by reference to a lateral force coefficient: A system and a method for directionally stabilizing a vehicle with the aid of a steering system used for influencing a steering angle of the vehicle steered wheels and a stabilizing system which controls the steering system for increasing the vehicle directional stability is provided. The stabilizing system is characterized... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080077296 - Collision prediction apparatus: A collision prediction ECU of a collision prediction apparatus estimates a state of presence of a detected front obstacle. At this time, the collision prediction ECU estimates the state of presence on the basis of road shape data supplied from a navigation ECU of a navigation apparatus. Further, the collision... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080077303 - Engine controller: Respective positive terminal electric potentials of exhaust gas sensors are sequentially selectively inputted to an analog input terminal of a multi-channel AD converter through a multiplexer. An offset voltage is applied to respective negative terminals of the exhaust gas sensors. This offset voltage is inputted to another input terminal of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080077304 - Control device of internal combustion engine: The control device of the internal combustion engine has a variable valve train capable of variable-controlling opening/closing time or lift amount of at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve, and a turbo charger. The control device comprises: an internal EGR scavenging ratio arithmetic operation unit to,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080077305 - Fuel injection amount control apparatus for internal combustion engine: An object is to prevent deterioration in both exhaust emission and fuel efficiency by suitably combining OTP boosting with power boosting. An electronic control unit (ECU) 30 of the present invention is arranged to control a fuel injection amount of an injector 7 to an engine 1 according to an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080077306 - Device and method for correcting the injection behavior of an injector: A device for correcting the injection behavior of at least one injector includes an apparatus for storing information relating to the at least one injector and means for controlling the at least one injector. The device takes the stored information into account in the correction, the information having been ascertained... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080077307 - Discrete variable valve lift diagnostic control system: A diagnostic control system for an internal combustion engine including a discrete variable valve lift (DVVL) system includes a first module that determines a knock threshold value based on engine operating parameters and an engine knock sensor that generates a knock signal. A second module monitors a portion of the... Agent: Christopher Devries General Motors Corporation

20080077308 - Procedure for starting an internal combustion engine: In order to make a start-up of an internal combustion engine as quick as possible, whereby an electrical power output, which is as small as possible, is required, it is proposed to at least periodically activate a direct starting control device for the generation of a combustion torque and an... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080077311 - Engine control system and method: A vehicle engine is controlled based on a distance between the vehicle and an object other than the vehicle. In at least one embodiment, a system for controlling an engine in a vehicle is provided. The system includes an environment sensor arrangement configured to sense a distance between the vehicle... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20080077313 - Method and apparatus for decoding traffic information and method for encoding traffic information: A method and apparatus for receiving or providing traffic information are disclosed. The method for receiving the traffic information according to an embodiment includes receiving the traffic information, determining whether version information of the received traffic information is identical to version information of previously stored traffic information, and decoding the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080077309 - Method and apparatus for enabling commuter groups: A commuter groups service (CGS) allows commuters to join commuter groups so that they are able to socialize while commuting. Through the commuter groups, the users may share commuting routes, traffic updates, road conditions, and other information. Group members may arrange car pools, short term riding arrangements, and may anonymously... Agent: John C. Gorecki, Esq.

20080077310 - Methods of managing communications for an in-vehicle telematics system: A method of managing communications for an in-vehicle telematics system includes substantially simultaneously receiving requests for communicating first and second audio signals via a vehicle audio system. The signals respectively correspond to interactive voice services (provided via a menu dialogue) from a first in-vehicle system and to a first audio... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080077314 - Navigation device: Systems and methods store request frequencies arranged by time period, each request frequency indicating a frequency at which traffic information distribution is to be requested from an information distribution center. The systems and methods determine a request timing based on a current time and the stored request frequencies and determine... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080077312 - System, method, and apparatus, for mobile radar assisted traffic enforcement: An invention is provided for mobile radar assisted traffic enforcement. In one embodiment, a traffic control vehicle is disclosed that includes a driving station capable of providing directional and speed control for the traffic control vehicle. The traffic control vehicle also includes a positioning system device, such as a GPS... Agent: Patent Venture Group

20080077315 - Automatic update system, automatic updating method, and program therefor: An automatic update system is provided that is capable of constantly maintaining a current historical database with high accuracy status by automatically updating the historical database. The automatic update system includes: a raw data saving unit for obtaining position information of a vehicle and saving the information in a raw... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080077316 - Traffic state predicting apparatus: A traffic state predicting apparatus, which predicts congestion states of parts of a link based on limited information (the travel time for the link), comprises storage means that stores link data including a link length of each link forming part of a road on a map and parameters including, for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080077318 - Navigation device for a vehicle, method for producing data for a search, and method for searching for a guided route: Navigation devices for vehicles, methods for producing data for searches, and methods for searching for guided routes are disclosed. Generally, a name of a first street is received, a search for second streets which are connected to an end point of the first street directly or via road links is... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20080077317 - System and method for automatically providing vehicle navigation information: Users are provided with the option of having destination information, such as a street address and/or destination phone number, obtained from online mapping services, transmitted to their vehicle's navigation system. In certain embodiments, the user may logon to an online vehicle server to provide information necessary to identify their respective... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080077319 - Navigation system using intersection information: A navigation method and system for determining a desired geographic location. An intersection is first inputted by road names after which all intersections within a predetermined geographic area are identified which correspond to the inputted intersection. In the event that the number of identified intersections exceeds a predetermined threshold, additional... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080077320 - Mobile unit and system having integrated mapping, communications and tracking: A handheld device and system, in which such device and system include at least one mapping module, at least one tracking module interoperative with said at least one mapping module, at least one communications module interoperative with each of said at least one tracking module and said at least one... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP

20080077321 - Observed-object detection apparatus and observed-object detection method: An information provision apparatus (1) comprises an observed-object detection apparatus (11) and an information output unit (41), and outputs from the information output unit (41) information on an observed object detected by the observed-object detection apparatus (11). The observed-object detection apparatus (11) comprises: a line-of-sight detector (21) for detecting a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080077322 - On-vehicle navigation apparatus and subject vehicle position correction method: An on-vehicle navigation apparatus comprises a subject vehicle position detection unit that detects a position of a subject vehicle and a direction along which the subject vehicle is advancing, a road marker line detection unit that detects a road marker line in an image of a road captured with a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080077323 - Navigation system with radio transmitter: The invention pertains to a portable navigation system (1) for a motor vehicle with a radio receiver (6), wherein the navigation system (1) comprises a device (3) for generating acoustic navigating instructions, wherein the navigation system (1) features a transmitting device (4) for generating radio signals (5), and wherein the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080077324 - Move guidance device, portable move guidance device, move guidance system, move guidance method, move guidance program and recording medium on which the program is recorded: Based on a transfer request from a portable terminal though an input operation or communication, a two-dimensional code is generated, the code containing information of a scale rate of map information for guidance displayed on the in-vehicle terminal and a current position of a vehicle. The two-dimensional code is displayed... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080077325 - Systems and methods for a hybrid transition matrix: Systems and methods for improved state estimates using filter algorithms are provided. In one embodiment, a method for navigating a vehicle comprises executing a filter algorithm having a state transition matrix that calculates an update to a state vector based on a state vector for a previous instance in time;... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080077326 - Method and system for locating and monitoring first responders: The present invention is directed to methods and systems for locating and monitoring the status of people and moveable assets, such as first responders, including firefighters and other public service personnel, and their equipment both indoors and out. The invention can provide for locating and monitoring the status of people... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080077328 - 2d-coil collision sensor system: A collision sensing system for a vehicle (10) includes a two-dimensional coil sensor (14) that is attached to a vehicle structure (19) A controller (20) is in communication with the two-dimensional coil sensor (14) and detects a collision event in response to movement of the vehicle structure (19) relative to... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080077327 - Radar collison warning system for rooftop mounted cargo: Rooftop cargo racks, otherwise simply known as roof-racks, provide an option for transporting cargo that does not use space inside a vehicle. However, despite the usefulness of roof-racks, once cargo is secured to a roof-rack on a vehicle there is the added potential for a collision between the cargo and... Agent: Timothy J. Martin, P.C.

20080071428 - Critical event reporting: A fleet management system for remotely monitoring a vehicle is disclosed in one embodiment. The fleet management system includes a data receiver and a display. The data receiver is configured to wirelessly receive information from the vehicle. That information includes a location for the vehicle. The display is configured to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080071429 - Systems and methods of remotely controlling a materials handling vehicle: A supplemental control system for a materials handling vehicle comprises a wearable control device, and a corresponding receiver on the materials handling vehicle. The wearable control device is donned by an operator interacting with the materials handling vehicle, and comprises a wireless transmitter and a travel control communicably coupled to... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20080071430 - Airborne electronics housing assembly: An aircraft electronics housing assembly maintains the electronics unit at given ambient conditions despite changes in conditions outside the housing during the aircraft flight cycle.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20080071431 - Precision approach control: An aircraft control system for operations close to the ground includes a camera having a rangefinder for measuring the azimuth, elevation and slant range from a fixed point on the aircraft relative to a selected target point on a surface below the aircraft, a navigation system for measuring the latitude... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20080071433 - Inferring the altitude of computing devices using multivariate pattern recognition of telemetry signals: A method for inferring an altitude of a computing device, involving monitoring variable data associated with a plurality of variables measured within the computing device, inferring the altitude of the computing device using the measured plurality of variables in a multivariate correlation function, and controlling operation of the computing device... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080071439 - Automatically identifying volvo communication protocols method and apparatus: A diagnostic tool and method are provided that can determine the communication protocol being used by diagnostic systems in a vehicle. The tool can automatically communicate with onboard computer of the diagnostic system in a first communication protocol and if unsuccessful, then can communicate with the diagnostic system in a... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080071440 - Method and system of power management for a vehicle communication interface: A method and system of power management for a vehicle communication interface that provides a connection between a diagnostic tool and the vehicle is provided. Power for the vehicle communication interface may be provided by the vehicle or the diagnostic tool depending on the configuration of the interface and tool.... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080071444 - Device having a camera and method thereof: A device is disclosed that comprises a passenger vehicle having a camera wirelessly communicating with a wireless router 121. The device communicates wirelessly to provide information using Internet Protocol (IP). The wireless connection is compliant with a standard, such as 802.11x, G3, G4, or 802.16x, and is part of a... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080071449 - Adjustment method for vehicle automatic transmission: The adjustment method includes an estimation step in which valve characteristics of the linear solenoid valves fitted to the hydraulic control circuit are measured, and estimated linear valve characteristics of the linear solenoid valves in isolation state are estimated based on the measured valve characteristics using predetermined correlations; and a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080071448 - Dual wire internal mode switch assembly: A range selection system for a vehicle including an automatic transmission and an internal mode switch (IMS) assembly. The range selection system includes a rotatable core, a first set of switches that induce a first current based on a rotational position of the core and a second set of switches... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080071450 - Method and control unit for controlling a friction clutch between an internal combustion engine and a change speed transmission: A method controls a friction clutch disposed between an internal combustion engine and a change speed transmission. The friction clutch is controlled in such a way that it transmits an average coupling torque of the internal combustion engine and does not transmit periodically occurring peak values of the coupling torque.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080071454 - Electric parking brake system and method for controlling the electric parking brake system: In an electric parking brake system including a tension control unit that controls the friction member pushing force in a brake by controlling the tension of a cable, the target tension is set to a larger value when a vehicle is maintained at a standstill on a downhill slope than... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080071455 - Electric parking brake system and method for controlling the electric parking brake system: An electric parking brake system is provided with a brake that includes a rotating body which has a friction face and which rotates together with a wheel, a friction member which is fitted to a non-rotating body so as to be movable relative to the non-rotating body, and a pushing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080071456 - Electric parking brake system and method for controlling the electric parking brake system: During the standstill state maintenance control executed by an electric parking brake system, the moving force-based target tension Frefb is determined based on the inclination angle of a vehicle and the shift position each time the predetermined program is executed, and the tentative target tension Fref(n) in the current routine... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080071457 - Electric parking brake system and method for controlling the electric parking brake system: In an electric parking brake system, the moving force-based target tension is set based on the inclination angle of a vehicle and the shift position, and the slack compensation amount is determined based on the inclination angle of the vehicle and the shift position. The control target tension is set... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080071458 - Electric parking brake system and method for controlling the electric parking brake system: In an electric parking brake system, a first position (Park) is tentatively determined and also finally determined before the initial check is completed. Even when a second position is tentatively determined before the initial check is completed, the second position is finally determined after the initial check is completed. Then,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080071452 - Method and system for determining the velocity of an automobile: A method and system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, provide a means to accurately determine the velocity of a vehicle. An initial estimation of the velocity of the vehicle is calculated based on rates of rotation of a plurality of wheels on the vehicles. If any of... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080071460 - Traffic light prediction system: A traffic system that helps a driver to save fuel by avoiding red light or by minimized fuel supply before stopping a red light. It predicts the colors of a traffic light and automatically control the speed of the vehicle. The system comprising three kinds of moving sections representing three... Agent: Guixian Lu

20080071432 - Method to reduce carbon brake wear through residual brake force: The method for reducing aircraft carbon brake wear involves monitoring the commanded initiation of braking, and setting a residual brake clamping force to a predetermined minimum residual brake clamping force, which is maintained following the commanded initiation of braking to prevent release of braking during taxiing of the aircraft. The... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080071434 - Method and device for modifying a flight plan and notably a takeoff procedure for an aircraft: The present invention relates to a method and its associated device for preparing an initial flight plan. The initial flight plan includes an initial takeoff procedure comprising a takeoff runway associated with an SID procedure, signifying instrument departure procedure with one or more routes described by waypoints. The method according... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080071435 - Model train control system: A system which operates a digitally controlled model railroad transmitting a first command from a first client program to a resident external controlling interface through a first communications transport. A second command is transmitted from a second client program to the resident external controlling interface through a second communications transport.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080071437 - Control unit for controlling an engine stop of a hybrid vehicle: A hybrid vehicle control system for cutting off fuel to an internal combustion engine of hybrid vehicle while providing smooth transitions from a hybrid drive mode to an electric drive mode is provided. The hybrid vehicle control system includes an integrated controller configured to receive inputs corresponding to vehicle speed... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080071436 - Energy management system for motor-assisted user-propelled vehicles: An energy management system for a motor-assisted user-propelled vehicle comprising a motor capable of assisting in propelling the vehicle and a rechargeable power supply for supplying energy to the motor. The system comprises: a user input for providing a desired value for each of at least one control parameter related... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080071438 - Failure mode operation for an electric vehicle: An electric vehicle is described herein which includes a microprocessor based interface module which is used to control electric motors coupled to drive wheels. The interface module is configured to include a backup communications link to allow an operator to control the vehicle in situations where control information is unavailable... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080071441 - Abnormality detecting device of vehicle: An ECU executes a program including the steps of detecting an engine speed, determining whether the engine speed is at least a threshold value or not, detecting a VVT advance angle calculation count after restarting the engine, determining whether a VVT advance angle calculation count is at least a threshold... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080071443 - Event logging method and device: A method of logging information about events for an internal combustion engine having an ignition circuit, and an event logging device arranged to implement the method. The method comprises incrementing a current value of a counter (50) at a predetermined rate when the ignition circuit is turned on, detecting that... Agent: John H. Allie, Krieg Devault LLP Suite 2800

20080071442 - Method and apparatus for global relief management: A system and method includes providing a database having a plurality of damage characterization data and a geographical location associated with each. A first and a second portable communication unit are associated, respectively, with a first subscribing party and a second subscribing party. A sharing privilege list identifies, for the... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080071445 - Steering angular velocity computing device and method: A steering angular velocity computing device has a steering angle detector, a timer, and a steering angular velocity computing unit. The steering angle detector detects a change in a steering angle, the timer measures a required time from a time at the steering angle changed until a time at the... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080071446 - Method for controlling a safety-relevant component of a motor vehicle and motor vehicle comprising a preventively activated safety system: The invention relates to a method for controlling at least one safety-related component of a motor vehicle, in particular of a passenger car, as a function of vehicle movement dynamics of the motor vehicle which are detected by means of sensors, the actuation of the safety-related component being carried out... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080071447 - Vehicle-mounted communication system and connector device with communication-controlling capability: An object of the present invention is to provide flexibility in modifying or updating a communication system and the like of a vehicle-mounted network, thus reducing processing loads on electrical components modules and the like. In the present invention, a connector device with communication-controlling capability takes charge of controlling a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080071451 - Vehicle drive force distribution control system: A controller (8) controlling a drive force distributed to each wheel (1-4) of a vehicle sets dynamic drive force target values (Fxf**, Fx3**, Fx4**) to the wheels, and determines a variation amount target ratio related to variation amounts (ΔM, ΔFx, ΔFy) of a vehicle yaw moment (M), a vehicle front/aft... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080071453 - Retarder controlling device and method: There is provided a retarder control device which is simple in constitution and can reliably apply braking. An engine rotational speed detector detects an engine rotational speed, gear step detection means detects a gear step of a transmission, an accelerator operation detector detects the operated state of an accelerator, and... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080071459 - Method and device for controlling the braking system of a motor vehicle: A process and device for controlling the brake system of a motor vehicle with all-wheel drive are described. The process and the device include an electronic control unit which controls at least one coupling unit for engaging and disengaging an all-wheel drive, so that at least one wheel can be... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080071461 - Variable rate ignition: Variable rate ignition method and system that take advantage of knowledge and analysis of environmental conditions and/or operational conditions. A variable ignition rate for igniting the engine permits an optimal use of the igniters and thereby prolongs their life as well as its associated maintenance schedule. Operating costs and durability... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20080071462 - Procedure for the operation of an internal combustion engine: Procedure for the transition of an internal combustion engine, particularly a gasoline engine with direct gasoline injection and with a partially variable valve-train assembly, from an initial mode of operation into a target mode of operation, whereby the initial mode of operation and the target mode of operation are either... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080071464 - Control apparatus and control method for internal combustion engine: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine for a vehicle includes a coolant temperature increase device, an operation control device, and an ignition timing retard control device. The coolant temperature increase device increases a coolant temperature. The operation control device executes an engine control in response to an instruction... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080071463 - Variable valve timing controller for internal combustion engine: A motor current (driving current of motor) is estimated based on a target motor speed, an actual motor speed, and an engine speed. When the estimated motor current exceeds the upper limit value equivalent to a heat generation limiting current, the motor current is restricted by restricting a variation (motor... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080071465 - Determining road traffic conditions using data from multiple data sources: Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads and/or from one or more other sources (such as physical sensors near to or embedded in the roads). The... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080071466 - Representative road traffic flow information based on historical data: Techniques are described for automatically analyzing historical information about road traffic flow in order to generate representative information regarding current or future road traffic flow, and for using such generated representative traffic flow information. Representative traffic flow information may be generated for a variety of types of useful measures of... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080071467 - Collection, monitoring, analyzing and reporting of traffic data via vehicle sensor devices placed at multiple remote locations: Traffic management reports are created by providing vehicle sensor devices at different location in a region. Each device captures data of vehicles that pass the device. The vehicle data is communicated to a central computer database. At the central computer database, a user interface selects one or more criteria from... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080071468 - Method for releasing navigation data stored on a storage medium: A method for releasing navigation data stored in a storage medium includes the following steps: a) providing at least one list, which includes at least one, preferably a plurality of, temporary codes; b) the user inputting a temporary code into the navigation system; c) the navigation system checking the validity... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080071469 - Method and system for predicting a future position of a vehicle using numerical integration: A method and system for predicting a future position of a horizon time Th of an automotive vehicle. The method determines the position of the vehicle at time T0 using GPS and the speed, acceleration and angle of the steering wheel at time T0 from appropriate sensors on the vehicle.... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20080071470 - Management system for moving machine: Information on current positions of a construction machine and a service car is transmitted from terminals 18, 28 of the construction machine and the service car, and the information is accumulated in a construction machine position information accumulation means 823 and a service car position information accumulation means 825. A... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080071472 - Control information output device: A control information output device assumes not only a destination but also a travel route based on accumulated travel route information. Moreover, after a travel is started, if it is found that an assumed travel route is incorrect, assumption of the destination and assumption of the travel route are performed... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080071471 - Navigation apparatus, navigation system and route search method: This navigation apparatus includes a road setting unit that sets a road to be traversed between a departure point and a destination, the road being constituted by links for each of which a predetermined link cost is set, a replacement unit that replaces the links constituting the road to be... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080071473 - Navigation system including auxiliary display: The present invention is related to a vehicle navigation system including a main display providing navigation information comprising at least one of a vehicle location, a vehicle speed, a vehicle direction and a driving route for guiding a driver to a desired destination. The navigation system further includes an auxiliary... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080071474 - Vehicle navigation apparatus and method: A vehicle navigation apparatus includes an imaging device, a guidance point determining device, an object detecting device and a traveling guiding device. The imaging device takes an image of a periphery adjacent to a subject vehicle. The guidance point determining device determines the subject vehicle to be located at a... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080071475 - Navigation apparatus and navigation processing method: A navigation apparatus includes: a section that calculates, in accordance with a predetermined calculation method, a current speed of a mobile object at predetermined intervals, based on the mobile object's initial speed detected at the start of the calculation; a section that calculates a travel distance the mobile object has... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080071476 - Vehicle dynamics conditioning method on mems based integrated ins/gps vehicle navigation system: A method of compensating performance of low-cost MEMS (microelectro mechanical systems) inertial sensors in an integrated INS/GPS navigation system for automotive application is disclosed. The proposed method includes velocity and inertial sensor output conditions featured in ground vehicle dynamics. Using the conventional Kalman filter based INS/GPS system, implementation of the... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates Suite 310

20080065271 - System and method for wireless communication between an aircraft and a passenger boarding bridge: A method of aligning one end of a passenger boarding bridge with a doorway of an aircraft includes a step of parking the aircraft within a parking space that is defined adjacent to the passenger boarding bridge. Human intelligible information visually displayed proximate the parking space is determined, the human-intelligible... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080065281 - Method and a system for diagnosing an aircraft from measurements performed on the aircraft: A method of diagnosing an aircraft by analyzing at least one spectrum obtained from measurements taken on the aircraft, in particular from vibration measurements, in which the spectrum (spectra) to be analyzed is/are input to a calculation module (23) together with at least one first reference spectrum, the calculation module... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080065282 - System and method of multi-generation positive train control system: A method of scheduling the movement of trains as a function of the predicted crew behavior and predicted rail conditions.... Agent: Patrick D. Mcpherson Duane Morris LLP

20080065289 - Method and apparatus for reading and erasing diagnostic trouble codes from a vehicle: A method and apparatus is provided that allows a technician to retrieve diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) and remove any duplicates. The diagnostic tool can retrieve DTCs from the various diagnostic systems in the vehicle, remove any duplicates and display a unique list of DTCs. The diagnostic tool can also erase... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080065288 - Vehicle diagnosis system and method: A method of diagnosing a vehicle fault includes receiving information on a vehicle from a customer regarding an actual vehicle fault and accessing data regarding the actual vehicle fault from the vehicle. A diagnostic program is initiated based on identifying vehicle information, the information received from the customer, and the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080065292 - Security strategies for an active front steer system: A vehicle active front steering (AFS) control system is described herein. The AFS system utilizes variable gear ratio and lead steer control methodologies. The AFS system utilizes independent and supervisory control systems to control the AFS system parameters in accordance with designated security metrics, to lower the time to lock... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080065294 - Mechanical and electrical locking coordination security strategy for an active front steer system: A system as described herein relates generally to automotive active front steering control systems having a main processor and a redundant sub-processor. The system provides a way of controlling the electrical and mechanical locking of an actuator motor in a variable gear ratio active front steering system. The method enables... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080065296 - Method for displacing a movable part and sliding roof system for carrying out such a method: A device and a sliding roof system for displacing a movable part (16), in which the part (16) is displaceable in a setpoint displacement range (60) between two end positions (62, 64) with a motor-driven drive unit (24), and the displacement position of the part (16) can be sensed using... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080065297 - Implement control system based on input position and velocity: A hydraulic control system for a machine having a work implement is disclosed. The hydraulic control system has a fluid actuator configured to move the work implement. The control system also has an operator interface device configured to generate at least one signal in response to a movement of the... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080065299 - Internal mode switch bit pattern for clutch-to-clutch transmissions: A method for determining a position of a range indication device for an automatic transmission is provided. The method includes: receiving N bits corresponding to a state of N circuits, respectively, wherein the N bits are related to a position of a range indication device and wherein the position includes... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080065301 - System and method for boosting torque output of a drive train: A method and system for boosting a torque output of a drive train comprises a torque sensor for detecting an engine torque of an engine having a baseline torque versus engine speed curve. A data processor determines if the detected engine torque is within a first torque range, if the... Agent: Darin E. Bartholomew Patent Department

20080065305 - Traction control system and sensor unit thereof: The invention provides a traction control system and sensor unit thereof which easily and highly accurately senses accelerations generated vertically, longitudinally and laterally in a wheel to control the drive of the vehicle. A sensor unit provided with an acceleration sensor sensing accelerations generated in association with rotation in the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080065273 - Method and device for adaptive control: A method for controlling a system having embedded message elements includes dynamically altering a predetermined meaning of an embedded message element as a function of a system state.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080065272 - Method for authorizing external devices: A method of authorizing external devices that can be optionally connected with a data bus of a motor vehicle is provided. At least a first code can be entered by an operator in an external device that can be connected with the data bus, and is sent by the external... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080065275 - Method and system for controlling manned and unmanned aircraft using speech recognition tools: A system and method is provided for controlling an aircraft. At least one transceiver is provided to receive a voice instruction from an air traffic controller, and transmit a voice response to the air traffic controller. A response logic unit can be provided to interpret the received voice instruction from... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080065277 - Remote login of a personal computer: A system for remotely logging into a personal computer includes a controller coupled to the personal computer and a remote control device. The controller memorizes a login password for the personal computer. The remote control device transmits a login signal to which the controller responds by sending the memorized login... Agent: Edward W Callan

20080065276 - Remotely logging into a personal computer: A system for remotely logging into a personal computer includes a controller coupled to the personal computer. The controller causes a login password for the personal computer to be memorized in a memory of the personal computer. The controller responds to a login signal from a remote control device by... Agent: Edward W Callan

20080065274 - Vehicle remote control apparatus and system: A vehicle remote control apparatus for causing a vehicle to perform a requested operation in response to a remote operation request from a vehicle user includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about vehicle condition of the vehicle, and an operation instruction transmission controlling unit configured to compare a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080065278 - Mechanical flight control auxiliary power assist system: A mechanical flight control system for a rotary-wing aircraft is disclosed. The flight control system comprises an upstream portion, a downstream portion, and a booster means for connecting the upstream portion to the downstream portion. The booster means may comprise dual concentric valve actuators and/or a variety of system load... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, PLLC

20080065279 - Method and device for assisting a pilot of a follower aircraft during a patrol flight: m

20080065280 - Method and device for assisting in the piloting of an aircraft flying along a path with rectilinear segments:

20080065283 - Model train control system: A system which operates a digitally controlled model railroad transmitting a first command from a first client program to a resident external controlling interface through a first communications transport. A second command is transmitted from a second client program to the resident external controlling interface through a second communications transport.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080065284 - Model train control system: A system which operates a digitally controlled model railroad transmitting a first command from a first client program to a resident external controlling interface through a first communications transport. A second command is transmitted from a second client program to the resident external controlling interface through a second communications transport.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080065285 - Control system and method for electric vehicle: An electric traction vehicle is described herein which may be used to provide power to off-board electric power-consuming systems or devices. The electric traction vehicle may provide 250 kilowatts or more of three phase AC power to an off-board electric power consuming system. The electric traction vehicle may also include... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080065286 - Method and system for guiding a vehicle with vision-based adjustment: A preliminary guidance data is determined for the vehicle during an evaluation time window. A vision module collects vision data from a vision module during the evaluation time window. Vision guidance data is determined from the collected vision data. A vision quality estimator estimates vision quality data for at least... Agent: Deere & Company

20080065287 - Method and system for guiding a vehicle with vision-based adjustment: Preliminary guidance data is determined for the vehicle during an evaluation time window. A vision module collects vision data from a vision module during the evaluation time window. Vision guidance data is determined from the collected vision data. A vision quality estimator estimates vision quality data for at least one... Agent: Deere & Company

20080065290 - Component monitoring system: Vehicular tire monitoring system includes an energy providing system arranged on the tire, and a sensor system arranged on the tire and coupled to the energy providing system to be provided with energy by the energy providing system. The sensor system obtains data about at least one property of the... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080065291 - Gesture-based control of vehicular components: System and method for controlling a component in a vehicle includes an image receiving system for receiving images including an occupant of the vehicle and which is arranged to recognize gestures in the received images, e.g., hand gestures, and a control system coupled to the image receiving system for controlling... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080065293 - Method for driver support: A method for driver support in a vehicle in which a driver assistance system monitors a driving situation of the vehicle. Support takes place after a confirmation or after the absence of an abort instruction, a dialogue about the extent of support the driver wishes being conducted between the driver... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080065295 - Acceleration sensor in a control unit: An acceleration sensor in a control unit for activating occupant protection devices contains a logic component for transferring a signal characterizing an acceleration to a processor in the control unit. This logic component is used for checking the signal of the acceleration sensor, the output stages being enabled as a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080065298 - Slewing controller, slewing control method, and construction machine: In an excavator equipped with an offset boom, an offset command value generating means 56 of a rotation control device 50 offsets a second boom 62 arranged on a distal end side in a rotation direction relative to a first boom arranged on a proximal end side when an acceleration... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080065300 - Method for broadening the function of a transmission brake: A method for controlling and regulating a transmission brake which, for the purpose of synchronization, determines a target rotational speed of a shaft that is to be synchronized on the basis of an actual rotational speed of a transmission shaft, and controls a transmission brake such that the determined target... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080065303 - Method for automatically actuating interwheel differential locks in vehicles, particularly in mobile machinery and emergency vehicles: A method for the activation of differential locks for vehicles, especially for such vehicles as may be used in construction work and field operations. The differential locks are always open, if the driving situation is such that a blocking operation is assuredly not required and, conversely in all other situations,... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080065302 - Method for producing a control setpoint adapted to a slope and/or load situation for a motor vehicle engine-transmission unit transmission device and corresponding device: A device for controlling an automated transmission of a motor vehicle engine-transmission unit adapted to deliver a torque setpoint signal to be applied to wheels of the motor vehicle including two static and dynamic components produced based on input data delivered by an input unit. The input data includes a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080065304 - Motor vehicle: A motor vehicle, in particular a passenger motor vehicle, has a drive train which has a drive assembly, at least one gear mechanism and a plurality of drive axles. The drive train has at least one transverse lock for locking a rotational speed equalization between wheels of one drive axle... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080065306 - Marine engine: A marine engine is arranged such that it compares a detected ion current value with a predetermined sea water-ingress current value, which is indicative of sea water being present in the combustion chamber at the time of combustion.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080065309 - Method for operating an internal combustion engine: In a method for controlling an actuating device of a valve element of an intake system and/or an exhaust gas system of the internal combustion using an actuating variable, a periodic compensation signal is applied, at least intermittently, to the actuating device. The compensation signal generates a periodic counterforce at... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080065307 - Variable valve timing controller for internal combustion engine: An ECU outputs a signal indicative of a target motor speed calculated based on a deviation between a target camshaft phase and an actual camshaft phase to an EDU. The EDU performs a feedback control of the output current (motor current) of the EDU so that the deviation is decreased,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080065308 - Variable valve timing controller for internal combustion engine: A motor current is estimated based on a target motor speed, an actual motor speed, and an engine speed. When the estimated motor current exceeds a predetermined value equivalent to a heat limiting current value, a variation (motor speed F/B amount) of the target motor speed outputted to an EDU... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080065310 - Manifold pressure control for a variable event valvetrain: A method for improving engine intake manifold pressure control of an internal combustion engine is described. According to one aspect of the description, the manifold pressure may be controlled to reduce fuel consumption and engine emissions during at least some operating conditions.... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20080065311 - System and method for exchanging positioning information between vehicles in order to estimate road traffic: The present invention discloses a method, system and computer program embarked in a vehicle, for estimating traffic conditions based on positioning information exchanged with other vehicles using wireless communication. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: receiving positioning information repeatedly broadcast by at least one vehicle,... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080065312 - Guidance method for temporarily deviating a vehicle initially following a predefined path: The present invention relates to a guidance method for temporarily deviating a vehicle initially following a predefined path. The method is characterized in that the modalities according to which the vehicle leaves the predefined path, accompanied by conditions based on which it rejoins it, are sent to the guided vehicle... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080065313 - Automobile fuel-saving mechanism: The present invention provides an auto fuel-saving mechanism, which enables a fuel-saving computer to be linked between an auto engine computer and an inlet sensor. The signals sensed by inlet sensor can be properly processed by the fuel-saving computer for decrement and then input to the auto engine computer. After... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080065315 - Associating location information with forensic data: Associating location information with forensic data is disclosed. A location information module may include an antenna, a controller and a display. The location information module may be included in or be removably coupled to a forensic device, and may be removably coupled with a computing device or other device. The... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080065316 - Navigation apparatus: Map data in which the roads or the facilities are correlated with location data, facility image data corresponding to facility images, road map data corresponding to road maps, switch image data corresponding to switch images, etc. are stored in a HDD. Also, an image display program for causing a CPU... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080065314 - System and method for reducing route previews to reduce driver workload: A method and computer-readable medium for generating and presenting a preview of a driving route reduces driver workload. In an example, the method determines that the driving route comprises more than the predetermined number of driving instructions and creates a route preview wherein the number of instructions does not exceed... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080065317 - Navigation system for a vessel: A component navigational system comprising a video interface unit and multiple purpose-built printed circuit boards that are presented in a card cage unit. A number of the printed circuit boards will be further connected to input sensors for measuring various parameters while other printed circuit boards will be connected to... Agent: Gardere Wynne-houston

20080065318 - Travel time determination: The present invention relates to travel time determination, for example, determining a predicted travel time between locations based on historical data. One aspect of the invention is directed toward a method for determining a predicted amount of time required to travel from one location to another that includes dividing a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080065320 - System for providing a user-customizable cartridge for use with a wireless computing device: A system for providing a user-customizable cartridge for use with a wireless computing device is provided. An access module is configured to retrieve a template for a cartridge script. A toolkit is configured to build a scenario based on user instructions. A zone interface is configured to describe geolocational data... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080065319 - Wireless device, program products and methods of using a wireless device to deliver services: In at least one embodiment, a mobile device detects proximity to a point on a route and determines whether an audio track is associated with the point. In response to detecting that the mobile device is proximate to the point and a determination that an audio track is associated with... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080065321 - Map-based browser: A map is presented by a browser, and breaking news content such as still photos, videos, etc. is placed on areas of the map to which the news pertains. A user can click on an area of the map for additional information, and can zoom in to a finer granularity.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080065323 - Map display control apparatus, program product therefor, and method for controlling an in-vehicle navigation apparatus: An in-vehicle navigation apparatus is equipped with (i) an HDD for recording map data for display and, further, (ii) an external memory, which is not an HDD and in which the map data recorded in the HDD can be copied. The navigation apparatus performs the following: when the main power... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080065322 - Motor vehicle and navigation arrangement for a motor vehicle: A navigation arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a first motor vehicle having a navigation system for ascertaining a suggested route for the first motor vehicle and at least one second motor vehicle having a navigation system for ascertaining a suggested route for the second motor vehicle, and an Internet... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080065324 - Running route acquiring system and arrival notifying system for touring bus: The latitude/longitude and time acquired at prescribed sampling time intervals by a touring bus 1 which runs a predetermined running route are wireless-transmitted. A user 6 specifies a getting-on/off point on the basis of the latitude/longitude and time provided by the touring bus and acquires a running route inclusive of... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080065325 - Method of generating improved map data for use in navigation devices: An end-user can input a correction to a map error, directly on the device. The device is then able to use the correction without external processing of the correction. Hence, it is no longer necessary for an end-user to simply report errors to the map vendor over a web link... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tomtom International

20080065326 - Mobile terminal device and program: A control unit obtains a current position of a mobile phone by using a GPS receiver during the operation of the navigation function, while detecting a style of a device body based on detection of an opening/closing sensor. The control unit determines whether to perform route guidance or to perform... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080065327 - Navigation device for use in automotive vehicle: In a navigation device for use in an automotive vehicle, whether a present position of the vehicle is on an old road included in stored map data or on a new road not included in the stored map data is detected. When the vehicle enters onto the new road from... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080065328 - Method and system for collision avoidance: A method for collision avoidance for a host vehicle includes the following steps; receiving input data relating to a set of objects external to the host vehicle, wherein an object position (r,φ), and an object velocity ({dot over (r)}) are associated with each object by a sensor system arranged on... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20080059006 - Providing component-specific performance characterization data for an assembly or subsystem: A method for fabricating a motor vehicle including an engine and automatic transmission includes generating first data containing information representing a performance characteristic of a solenoid and a serialized solenoid number, affixing to the solenoid a first barcode matrix containing the first data, installing the solenoid and clutch in the... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20080059005 - System and method for selective on-board processing of machine data: A method for selective on-board processing of machine data includes receiving operation data associated with a machine and collecting the received operation data in an on-board processing unit of the machine. Required data associated with a data analysis task of the on-board processing unit may be identified and the received... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080059008 - Systems and methods for detecting and alerting mis-setting of barometric altimeter setting during a transition altitude: Systems and methods for producing an advisory if barometric altitude transition setting needs adjusting in an aircraft. In one embodiment, the method determines transition altitude, receives an uncorrected altitude, compares the uncorrected altitude to the transition altitude and to corrected altitude, and outputs a barometric altitude transition setting advisory based... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services Ab-2b

20080059009 - Systems and methods for interplanetary navigation: Systems and methods for interplanetary space navigation are provided. In one embodiment, a system for navigating a spacecraft in outer space is provided. The system comprises means for broadcasting navigation signals to a spacecraft traveling in outer space, each navigation signal comprising a spread-spectrum signal that includes information on the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080059010 - Systems and methods for broadcasting an unknown airport advisory: Systems and methods for advising a flight crew member that an enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS), for example, may continue to provide terrain alerts, cautions, warnings, or the like because an intended landing site for the aircraft is not recognized within a database of airports. An unknown airport advisory... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services Ab-2b

20080059013 - Method, apparatus, signals, and medium for managing power in a hybrid vehicle: A method and apparatus for managing power in a hybrid vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle includes an engine, an electric motor, and an energy storage element coupled to the motor. The method involves receiving a request to supply operating power to drive the vehicle and responding to the request by... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska Intellectual Property Law Attorneys

20080059012 - Tuned battery pack damper for a hybrid electric vehicle: A tuned mass damper system and vibration damper method for a hybrid electric road vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle has a powertrain with an engine, at least one electric machine and a battery. The battery mass forms a part of a vehicle vibration absorber that attenuates vibrations induced by road... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20080059016 - Distributed arithmetic logic unit security check: A vehicle diagnostic system is provided. The system includes: a first control module that includes a first processor and that controls a first vehicle subsystem; and second control module that controls a second vehicle subsystem and that validates the functionality of the first processor of the first control module wherein... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080059017 - Vehicle speed sensor diagnostic system and method: A diagnostic system for a vehicle speed sensor is provided. The system includes: an upshift module that selecively Initiates an upshift of a transmission based on a vehicle speed sensor (VSS) signal; a speed drop detection module that monitors at least one of engine speed and input speed for a... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080059020 - Data recorder for vehicle: A data recorder for vehicle compares a difference between previously acquired data and presently acquired data with a data threshold value which is set to every abnormal occurrence for a time-series data recorded temporarily in RAM, and determines whether the data is recorded in a data recording device, when various... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080059019 - Method and system for on-board automotive audio recorder: A recording system coupled to an on-board diagnostic system is provided. The recording system includes at least one sensor device for detecting signals undetected by the on-board diagnostic system; a recording device module for generating and storing audio data associated with the undetected signals; and a processor coupled to the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080059024 - Automatic control apparatus: An automatic control system stores information of an executed automatic control in a memory, and lists records of automatic controls that are cancellable based on an instruction from a user of the automatic control system. When the user selects the record of the executed automatic control in the list, the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080059023 - Electric braking apparatus and vehicle having thereof: An electric braking apparatus which first moves a piston in a detaching direction or passes a current to move the piston in the detaching direction in order to detect a pad contacting position. Furthermore, while the piston moves in the detaching direction, pad non-contact judgment is performed. After a pad... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080059021 - Integrated control system for stability control of yaw, roll and lateral motion of a driving vehicle using an integrated sensing system to determine longitudinal velocity: A method of controlling a vehicle includes determining an acceleration-based longitudinal velocity, determining a wheel speed-based longitudinal velocity from a plurality of wheel speed sensors, combining the acceleration-based longitudinal velocity and the wheel speed-based longitudinal velocity to obtain a final longitudinal velocity and controlling vehicle with the final longitudinal velocity.... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080059022 - Vehicle control apparatus: A vehicle control apparatus includes a motor unit, a power accumulating device, a charging power control section, a vehicle state detecting section, a braking/driving force control section, a turning determination section and a charging power correction section. The motor unit is configured to generate an independent driving/braking force for at... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080059025 - Vehicle state estimation system: A vibration model storage unit stores a vibration model which is made up of an unsprung part, a sprung part, a damper, a tire and a suspension spring, an actual relative distance detection unit detects an actual relative distance of the unsprung part to the sprung part, and a deviation... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080059026 - Vehicle steering control system: A vehicle steering control system is provided in which a power steering mechanism provides adequate assistance to a steering reactive force even when a steering angle correction mechanism is actuated in addition to a vehicle operator's steering operation, thereby maintaining a feeling of stable steering without causing the operator to... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080059027 - Methods and apparatus for classification of occupancy using wavelet transforms: Improved methods and apparatus for classifying occupancy of a position use wavelet transforms, such as Gabor filters, for processing images obtained in conjunction therewith. For example, a computer system comprises an algorithm that utilizes a wavelet transform for processing of imagery associated with a position in order to classify occupancy... Agent: Martin J. Jaquez, Esq. Jaquez & Associates

20080059032 - Method for a shift control of a drivetrain of a motor vehicle: A method for a shift control of a drivetrain of a motor vehicle includes providing the drivetrain of the motor vehicle as a hybrid drivetrain wherein an electric machine is connected to an input shaft of an automated stepped shift transmission and wherein an internal combustion engine is connected to... Agent: Manfred Beck, P.A.

20080059033 - Vehicle and traveling state determination method of vehicle: When an accelerator opening Acc is smaller than a flat road threshold Aref1, an ECO indicator is illuminated, and when the accelerator opening Acc is equal to or larger than a climbing road threshold Aref2 larger than the flat road threshold Aref1, the ECO indicator is extinguished (S120 and S220),... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080059034 - Integrated control system for stability control of yaw, roll and lateral motion of a driving vehicle using an integrated sensing system to determine a sideslip angle: A method of controlling a vehicle includes determining a desired sideslip angle in the moving road plane, determining an actual sideslip angle in the moving road plane, a desired yaw rate in the moving road plane, and an actual yaw rate in the moving road plane. A controller controls the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080059035 - Fuel economy control system and control strategy: An alternative fuel vehicle having a fuel economy control module with associated logic that allows the vehicle to operate in a fuel economy mode based on a desired fuel economy preference. The fuel economy control logic is in electrical communication with a vehicle system controller (VSC) and may be integrally... Agent: Randy Tung Tung & Associates

20080059037 - Vehicle control system: A vehicle control system controls the speed of a vehicle according to actual road conditions and state of the vehicle. The control system acquires a present value of lateral acceleration occurring in a direction lateral to a controlled vehicle when the controlled vehicle avoids a collision with an obstacle or... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080059039 - Method and apparatus for pressure reducing valve to reduce fuel pressure in a common rail: It is a objective of the present invention to provide a control apparatus which is capable of compensating a delay time for opening a pressure reducing valve since an electronic control unit sends a command signal for driving the pressure reducing valve so as to discharge high pressure fuel in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080059038 - Vehicle characteristics storing apparatus and method: A vehicle characteristics storing apparatus includes a learning correction calculation unit for learning variation in characteristics and performance by chronological aging of an actuator/device, a correction value rewriting judgment unit for judging whether a calculated correction value is written in a control memory included in the actuator/device again or not,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080059007 - System and method for autonomously convoying vehicles: Systems, methods, and apparatuses providing for navigation of a convoy of autonomous vehicles including a lead vehicle and at least one following vehicle wherein a master which sets the free parameters of a navigation strategy may be any one of the vehicles including the following vehicles. It is possible to... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080059011 - Model train control system: A system which operates a digitally controlled model railroad transmitting a first command from a first client program to a resident external controlling interface through a first communications transport. A second command is transmitted from a second client program to the resident external controlling interface through a second communications transport.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080059014 - System and method for braking in an electric vehicle: An electric traction system for an electric vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and a generator coupled to the engine, a power bus coupled to the generator, a power storage unit coupled to the power bus, a drive controller coupled to an electric motor and to the power bus, and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080059015 - Software architecture for high-speed traversal of prescribed routes: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for high-speed navigation. The present invention preferably encompasses systems, methods, and apparatuses that provide for autonomous high-speed navigation of terrain by an un-manned robot. By preferably employing a pre-planned route, path, and speed; extensive sensor-based information collection about the local environment; and information about vehicle pose,... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080059018 - Fault-tolerant vehicle stability control: A system and method for providing a fault tolerant vehicle dynamics control (VDC) is described. The system includes a fault tolerance module that receives an indication of a fault in at least one of the actuators of the VDC and selects a fault compensation mode to maintain the stability of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080059028 - Arrangement for triggering a vehicle safety device: An arrangement for triggering a motor vehicle safety device. The arrangement incorporates a proximity sensor (1) which is configured to provide a proximity signal related to the distance to an object and/or the relative speed between the object and the sensor (1). The arrangement also includes an accelerometer (2) and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080059029 - Method of discriminating between rotating wheels and nonrotating wheels of a vehicle while said vehicle is being driven: The invention relates to a method of discriminating, while a vehicle (1) is being driven, between the rotating wheels (2-5) and the nonrotating wheels (15) of said vehicle, each wheel being fitted with an electronic module (6-9, 16), said method consisting in transmitting identification request signals to the electronic modules... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080059030 - Control system and method for a concrete vehicle: A concrete vehicle is described herein which includes a chassis, a concrete handling system, a vehicle subsystem control system, and a wireless communication system configured to communicate with an off-board electronic device. The subsystem control system includes status information for a plurality of vehicle parameters. The wireless communication system is... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080059031 - Control system for vehicle: There is provided a control system for a vehicle, which is capable of obtaining an appropriate engine braking force, to thereby prolong the service life of a foot brake. In the vehicle V equipped with a transmission 90, the control system 1 for controlling at least one of a valve... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080059036 - Vehicle speed control system: A vehicle speed control system includes: a unit for computing a first target velocity based on map information; a unit for computing a second target velocity based on a road profile obtained from other information than the map information (such as lane recognition using a camera); a unit for comparing... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080059041 - Method for detecting assembled state of gas sensors and apparatus for detecting assembled state of gas sensors: A vehicle including plural gas sensors assembled in plural exhaust systems, detecting an oxygen concentration in an exhaust gas, where an air-fuel ratio feedback control is carried out together with an engine control unit. Each gas sensor detects signal of oxygen concentration corresponding to a group of cylinders. The method... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080059040 - System for evaluating regeneration of pollution management means integrated in a motor vehicle engine exhaust line: The invention concerns a system for evaluation regeneration of pollution management means (1) integrated in an exhaust line (2) of a motor vehicle engine, characterized in that it comprises means (4) for determining the thermal power input by the exhaust gas upstream of the pollution management means during the regeneration... Agent: Nicolas E. Seckel Patent Attorney

20080059045 - Data processor for processing pieces of data being successively sampled at intervals: In a data processor for processing pieces of input data successively sampled, a memory unit and a plurality of data transferring units for transferring data are provided. Each of the plurality of data transferring units has an upper limit number of data items successively transferable when activated. An activating unit... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080059044 - In-cylinder pressure detection device and method for internal combustion engine, and engine control unit: An in-cylinder pressure detection device for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of detecting an in-cylinder pressure accurately without being adversely affected by changes in the atmospheric pressure even when the atmospheric pressure changes. An in-cylinder pressure sensor detects pressure within a cylinder as a detected in-cylinder pressure. An... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080059042 - Plant control device and control method using modulation algorithm: There is provided a control method for sufficiently compensating the non-linear characteristic for a plant having a strong non-linear characteristic and satisfying the follow-up and stability for a plant having a large control amount fluctuation. There is provided a plant control device using modulation algorithm. The control device includes: means... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080059043 - Method for controlling boost pressure in an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a method for controlling boost pressure in an internal combustion engine, using a boost pressure control device by means of which from the control deviation between a setpoint boost pressure and an actual boost pressure a manipulated variable is generated which has a D portion supplied... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080059047 - Fuel injection control device: A fuel injection control device of an internal combustion engine capable of using multiple kinds of fuel includes an ECU with a ROM for storing multiple reference fuel injection quantity maps corresponding to mixture concentrations of the multiple kinds of fuels. A control program of the CPU stores which of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080059046 - Fuel system performance monitor: A system for monitoring performance of a fuel system in a vehicle includes a plurality of sensing modules that periodically sense data from a plurality of control systems in the vehicle during a predetermined evaluation period. The system includes a control module that analyzes the data after the evaluation period,... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20080059048 - Method for operating an internal combustion engine: To enable operation of an internal combustion engine even without the signals of a phase sensor while nonetheless enabling an emergency driving function in the case of a disturbance of a crankshaft signal acquired by a crankshaft sensor, a cylinder pressure is acquired using a cylinder pressure sensor and it... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080059049 - Humidity based control system for an internal combustion engine: A humidity based control system for an internal combustion engine includes a calculation module and a calibration module. The calculation module determines a humidity of air used in a combustion process of the internal combustion engine. The control module selectively controls spark timing and exhaust dilution in the internal combustion... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080059050 - Road congestion detection by distributed vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining traffic condition comprising the steps of determining periodically a position data of a host vehicle 1, wherein the position data includes a time stamp, position, velocity and driving direction of the host vehicle 1, receiving periodically position data of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080059051 - System and method for collecting and distributing traffic information: In a center apparatus, a feature space projection processing unit performs a feature space projection process for probe data corresponding to a road section which are stored in a current probe data storage unit to extract the feature data, and a change point detecting unit; an event section partitioning unit... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080059052 - System, method, and computer program product for optimizing cruise altitudes for groups of aircraft: Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer program products for optimizing cruise altitudes for multiple aircraft. The embodiments may be used for optimizing cruise altitudes of multiple aircraft on multiple flight paths and/or system capacity by an operator and/or an air navigation service provider. According to exemplary embodiments, a first set... Agent: Robert R. Richardson, P.s.

20080059053 - Turnaround methods: A method for reducing the turnaround time of an aircraft having at least one self-propelled undercarriage wheel comprising the step of: moving the aircraft to a required location using at least one self-propelled undercarriage wheel; wherein thrust equipment, (e.g. turbines) are turned on only when needed for takeoff or prior... Agent: Borealis Technical Limited

20080059054 - Drive recorder for vehicle: A drive recorder stores information regarding a dangerous location where a vehicle collision or a dangerous driving situation occurred in the past. When it is determined that the vehicle approaches the dangerous location based on a position signal from a GPS receiver for detecting the present position of the vehicle,... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080059055 - Method of generating improved map data for use in navigation devices: An end-user can input a correction to a map error, directly on the device. The device is then able to use the correction without external processing of the correction. Hence, it is no longer necessary for an end-user to simply report errors to the map vendor over a web link,... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tomtom International

20080059056 - Method for realtime scaling of the vehicle routing problem: An absolutely optimal routing or a quasi-optimal routing is computed for a first plurality of resources m to be routed to a second plurality of resource destinations n, depending on a count of m and n. Three different algorithms are used. For the case where the count is m≦6 and... Agent: Raytheon Company Leonard A. Alkov, Esq.

20080059057 - Vehicle on-board unit: A vehicle on-board unit is configured and arranged to report an estimated time of arrival and an accuracy indicator for an estimated time of arrival from historical estimated time of arrival information. The vehicle on-board unit basically has a destination input section, a historical data input section and an estimated... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080059058 - Method for changing the path followed by an aircraft, the aircarft initially following a predefined path, the method allowing a possible return of the aircraft to the predefined path: The present invention relates to a method for changing the path followed by an aircraft, the aircraft initially following a predefined path on the basis of a sequence of waypoints, the method allowing a subsequent return of the aircraft to the predefined path in the same direction or in the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080059059 - Generalized high performance navigation system: A generalized high performance navigation system is provided using low earth orbit (LEO) satellites. In one embodiment, a method of performing navigation includes receiving a LEO signal from a LEO satellite. The method also includes decoding a navigation signal from the LEO signal. The method further includes receiving first and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20080059060 - Method for executing user navigational events triggered through geolocational data describing zones of influence: A method for executing user navigational events triggered through geolocational data describing zones of influence is provided. Data is stored in a cartridge script loadable into a user device. Zones of influence are defined by describing by points of static geolocational data. User navigational events are defined and each user... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080059061 - Travel guide and schedule-based routing device and method: A navigational aid device is provided that includes a GPS module, a processor, and memory. The device is configured to automatically determine a route to a destination and to account for, in its determination of a route, a plurality of modes of public, private, or both public and private transportation.... Agent: Garmin Ltd. C/o Garmin International, Inc.

20080059062 - Vehicle position detecting system and method: An information processing station having map data is provided at an external position outside of a vehicle. In-vehicle equipment determines a vehicular travel path of the vehicle, and transmits the determined vehicular travel path to the information processing station. The information processing station executes map matching processing of matching the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080059063 - Geographic database including data indicating wireless coverage and method and system for use thereof: Wireless coverage data are associated with a geographic database that contains data that represent a road network in a geographic region. The wireless coverage data indicate areas within the geographic region in which navigation-related services or data from a navigation services provider are available wirelessly, or conversely, areas within the... Agent: Navteq North America, LLC

20080059064 - Location-aware fitness training device, methods, and program products that support real-time interactive communication and automated route generation: In at least one embodiment, a server receives user input describing a route of an activity. A graphical representation of the route is served to a user device in association with a toolset including at least one of a set including an annotation tool, a rating tool, and a review... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080059067 - Gps navigation system and method thereof: A system and method of GPS navigation are used for guiding a group of mobile platforms. Through an initiation negotiation process, primarily platforms and the secondary platforms are selected from the mobile platforms to form a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. Each of the secondary platforms are connected to one of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080059065 - Method and system for navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle in an urban environment: A method and system for navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in an urban environment are provided. The method comprises capturing a first set of Global Positioning System (GPS)-tagged images in an initial fly-over of the urban environment at a first altitude, with each of the GPS-tagged images being... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080059066 - Positioning system and control method thereof: A positioning system includes a positioning module, an application program, a control program, a first transmission interface, a second transmission interface and a switch module. The positioning module is for providing positioning information. The application program is for controlling the positioning module to receive the positioning information from the positioning... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080059068 - Method and system for autonomous vehicle navigation: A method and system are provided for autonomous vehicle navigation. In the method and system, one or more Global Positioning System (GPS) sensors, one or more inertial sensors, and one or more image sensors are provided on an autonomous vehicle. During operation of the autonomous vehicle, one or more GPS... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080059069 - System and method for detecting an object in the path of a vehicle: Correlation-based motion sensor modules similar to those used in optical mice are applied to systems and methods for detecting an object in the path of a vehicle. A system for detecting an object in the path of a vehicle includes at least two correlation-based motion sensor modules and a detection... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.